God of War Kratos Gets Blades of Chaos Behind The Scenes (Motion Capture) 

It would never be an Oscar, as the Academy only does films (and are fairly pretentious about it), they don't do TV shows even. But you're right that games are starting to need something more than the glorified advertisement that is the Video Game Awards. In the UK, video games are eligible for BAFTA awards in their own entirely separate awards program, and it's legit. BAFTA is the same body that does their film and TV awards. This game actually won for Best Game of the year over there when it came out.

heard of the game awards

That's why the Game Awards was created. But even with that, people will still call it's rigged abd stuff... I will just appreciate what I like.

I feel kinda sorry for such a good story-telling and acting masterpiece couldn’t reach more audiences just because ppl will just see “it’s just a game” and not been taken seriously as a form of art. Both 4 and 5 are so fing amazing

he diserve it i agree

Games are mediums of 'interactive' storytelling. Movies can *never* compete with that.

@@Carnage7209 I was just saying this the other day, "gaming is the best and most emmersive storytelling experience"

Reminds me of the first game when he said to Ares that he basically turned him into a monster and Ares replied that he had no idea what a monster is

@@sgtjonmcc i agree. It’s so much easier for me to emotionally bond with a game character than a movie character. I can’t even remember the last time I get teary for a movie character

@@Carnage7209 agree. One of the recent emotional moments i had in gaming was Mafia: Definitive Edition, the scene where Tommy proposes to Sarah. After the major mess up, shootout and chase, you get scene that is mostly silent, only few words are spoken by characters, but you feel every bit of emotion there. And the game makes you not just see or hear, but FEEL, understand on a deeper level why Tommy fell in love with Sarah: because she simply accepts his darkest side, while also not being soft pushover. Basically it shows that she will correct his course if needed, but without fundamentally and painfully changing him at his core. And no movie could achieve that, because at the moment player is tired and frustrated from previous long shootout and chase, and from set goal not being achieved, we are confused not knowing WTF went wrong and how it will be resolved, and Sarah's reaction to Tommy's state is what decides our feeling to her. Will she add to said frustration by starting drama? Will she simply leave or "shut down", turning frustration to anger and/or sorrow? Or will she make that one little room the only safe place for Tommy to be in? And i'm glad writers steered off the beaten path of using those types of scene for drama (which is one of the oldest cliche's in stories) and instead used it for comfort.

Why did he started crying at the end?

@@sparklingwota8560 To act as a character you have to BE the character. When someone is THAT deep into playing a character, the emotions comes naturally.

​@@sparklingwota8560 Method acting. Using personal experiences to enhance the portrayal of a character. This was a traumatic moment for Kratos, so like he said he went there "tore the scab off" and mentally relived some of his own trauma to enhance the moment.

@@sparklingwota8560 He brought up his personal experiences as a father. He speaks about how he thinks he has failed as a father in the past.

@@sparklingwota8560 Similar to how kratos was a distant father to Atreus, Cristopher Judge also felt that he was a distant father so he used that as a way to be able to act better making this scene as real as possible almost to the point where he's not even acting anymore

Indeed

Did he do the voice acting for previous roles too?

@@TheMr82k no

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It's crazy when you realize they're people. People that choose to portray other people. And I think what gives life to these performances is that they pour so much of themselves into these characters to give them life. And you lose yourself a little when you do that.

@@HyperspaceCafe "you lose yourself a little" thats soo fucking apt

@@HyperspaceCafe I realized not that long ago from seeing making of stuff like this that acting is not about pretending to be someone else and faking emotions. Acting is about using personal experience to bring those emotions out. In this scene and from what Christopher Judge says, he was thinking of his kids and his father role during that scene. Thinking of his choice of work that puts him away from his kids for long periods of times but a work he does to give them a better life as well. He's not faking those emotions.

@@chamoo232 indeed. As an actor (though certainly not one of this level) I can tell you that's right. You always bring bits of yourself to the character, real bits that do affect you in the way they're supposed to. I can't blame people for thinking method acting is stupid when there's stupid actors just doing asshole-y stuff pretending it's method acting. But true method actores like Judge know, you gotta be honest and bring your true feelings into the performance. People know when it's real, and they especially know when it's fake.

Yeah man, the pretentious shit you're talking about come from when actors portray characters that are sad or broken in some way when in reality the human playing them has been pampered their whole life and hasnt been through any hardship. It's like when people who havent been through shit enter the rap game

As good as that would have been I think if anything happens to Atreus that'll be what brings it out and it'll mean that much more just cause it hasnt happened yet.

I don't think we're ready to see Kratos shed a tear. Not yet. I think it should happen, and when it does it'll be perfect, but he's so hard. So cold. So stone-carved. I feel like this broke one of the seals. If he shed a tear here, it may have been impactful, but not nearly as much as it will be when we see what finally does kind of "break" him.

@@whatcouldbeupdog agreed, IF he sheds a tear in the future, it has to be the most epic, non-expected moment ever. Other than that, i would be fine if he never sheds a tear.

@@whatcouldbeupdog so technically Shrek in Shrek 4

@@janseanmarwyn4703 precisely

What did you do? What kind of past man? Not everyone has a past we don't forgive ourselves. Bro I'm sorry bad stuff happened with you but from what I know people don't have such a bad past (mostly).

@@sanyammalhan like when your child got really sick and needs tons of money for treatment and you gotta borrow money from people you don't wanna contact again?

@@Citizen2047 oh that. That's sad

@@sanyammalhan You gotta dig up past traumatic events, deal with them head on to make sure mistakes done unto you, won't repeat for your children.

Your words cut deep

I shed a tear too...I'm 37 my son is 2...amazing experience, amazing game.

@@newtonheath8458 Cry again after playing GoW Ragnarok. Trust me, you will.

@@Morgoth__BauglirGod of war ragnarok made me feel more blood thirsty than sad. I wanted to destroy the entirety of Asgard from the instant I saw what the all-fucker did to Brok

That moment of silence was so amazing, you could understand how Kratos was feeling, the anxiety, how nervous he was, all with simple camera takes and amazing acting!

The first time I played I almost cried when the boy got sick, then he went home and got the blades and I was so excited

@@CornholioPuppetMaster you almost cried?? i couldn't hold back, when he got on the boat to head home, the setup was too dark, and i knew what he was going to do. i was crying tears of excitement, of anticipation and nostalgia. (not straight up ugly sobbing, but i just couldn't stop tears the scene was so emotional)

Also the music.

Indeed...

mercy?

Chaos* you're thinking of Bloodborne hahahaha

Bloodborne reference?

Lol. Oops. Sorry. Didn’t even catch that. I’ve been playing too much Bloodborne

@@bigezesleze It's Blades of Chaos or Blades of Exile hasn't been confirmed which yet, honest mistake

I agree completely. Lessons taught are ultimately far more valuable for a father to pass down than any material thing you could give them. Every father should ask himself, "Do I want my kids to simply have more, or to BE more?"

When he mentions that it is an apology as well he’s referring to his time on the Stargate TV series. He was working insane hours for many years(that series went for about 10 seasons) and missed a lot of their growing up. He mentions it in another part of the documentary. He also mentions that this was an experience he wanted to share with his kids. It’s something they could celebrate with him. He’s a great actor. I loved him as T’ilk in Stargate and he was perfect as Kratos.

@@makasete30 That's great context, thank you. I never got into the SG series, but new he was on there for quite some time. I can sympathize with the extreme emotion of being away from your children/family due to work. One of the many reasons I decided to leave the military was because my son was scared of me when I got back from my most recent deployment. And I do also think he was the perfect choice to voice act Kratos.

well, he did play the previous GoW games so he's kinda have been part of the franchise, but as a consumer (until know)

That scene more than anything in the game drove home the resolution that Kratos has become an entirely different man/god than he was before. The "I am your monster no longer" followed by the build up of him walking somewhat menacingly towards Athena, only to have that subverted by him walking right through her and letting it go... All I can say is, old Kratos could NEVER

But he didn't have emotions over the blades of chaos. Christopher Judge was thinking of his own shortcomings as a father, he said so in Raising Kratos. You should check it out.

It wasn't because of the Blades of Chaos. He literally said it's because of his decisions and mistakes he's made as a father. The pure emotion in the moment of the scene is about how Kratos has made mistakes that led to his son, Atreus, to fall ill. Christopher Judge immerses himself in that moment and thinks about if it was his own children in that position because of HIS actions. That's why he sheds a tear.