Attacking an actress because you disagree with the direction the media she starred in took is the absolute peak of degeneracy.

You shouldn't feed gremlins after midnight aka don't give them attention as that's what they crave...

This is absolutely ridiculous. People used to complain that female armors made no sense as they exposed vital parts just for looks. Now the GoW developers make proper armors and some losers complain online. Pathetic.

Vincent is 100% right.

Honestly anyone called “Geralt of Goonia” already gives off such incel vibes I wouldn’t even give him the time of day. It’s honestly pathetic how much of these creeps need to have their d*** in their hand whilst they play a game.

Yes because kratos is the very definition of "sex on legs"!
I bet most people complaining are ugly neck breads who would climax if a female smiled at them in real life.
Not to mention the actress looks very little like those shots of her in armor.

I read that in his Fisk voice 😂 Also love that he's a gamer himself. All round great guy.

There’s no making these types happy. Best to ignore them and reinforce the irrelevance they are so desperate to avoid

I think she's beautiful tbh

Why give him the time of day. Its an obvious troll account from a " real brave man" that needs to hide his identity because he"s " so big and strong".

Something seriously wrong with alot of gamers. I guess a huge amount of them are still sweaty single overweight socially inept creeps who live on their consoles/PCs 100 plus hours per week
And social media has just given them a voice .

Sad

I'm not a God of War fan and I probably won't play this, at least at launch (I haven't beaten 2018 or Rag), but this kind of stuff infuriates me. Ok, so DAW is in her early 40s. So what? She's incredibly attractive and looks like she could kick some ass. Why does a female protagonist have to cap at 30 years old?

The generation younger than me is the Tide Pod generation and it really shows.

@Hi569 Exactly she's definitely not ugly or even close!
Definitely an attractive women I'd imagine moreso in reality!

Wait, where was the "hate" in the original post D'Onofrio replied to?

Finding the design of the armor sets "unattractive" is not hateful. Disliking the appearance of a character model, even if more or less resembling the appearance of the actress playing said character, is not hateful. And seeing some kind of intent in these design choices is not hateful either.

Where is the hate then?

And before someone tells me there are other comments full of hateful attacks, let's stay on the subject of the article : D'Onofrio's reply. He didn't reply to someone calling Woll any kind of hateful names, he replied to someone voicing their dislike of the appearance of game assets and interpreting design choices.

We've seriously reached a point where these people are going to whine that the stunning Deborah Ann Woll isn't attractive enough now....?

Vincent D'Onofrio is a legend and the entire cast of Daredevil is top tier.
These trolls should just hide where they can't be seen or heard.

@Olmaz This is also truth, the acress definetly got a lot of hate, which is stupid.

But disregarding anyone who doesnt like the armor or the way the character model looks as bigots and incels is equally as bad and dangerous.

@RBMango People definetly do lol and it is ridiculous, but in this case its the opposite if i understand it correctly, the complain is that the ingame model is quite ugly compared to the real life actress.

I personally dont mind either way, shes supposed to be a warrior, not victoria secret model.

With obvservations like that, no wonder the K-man always looks so grumpy!

And besides he was dashing enough to woo someone as pretty as Laufey!

Someone please hack and expose these creeps so we can judge them on their looks.

I find myself in a bit of a bind, as I think this will be the first GOW game I don't bother playing, as the gameplay and setting look terribly uninspiring to me.

But at the same time, I really would like to support the team as the online discourse is utterly despicable. This ***** has become unbearable as these pathetic dweebs have become emboldened. I would say I'm ashamed to share the same hobby as them if I thought for a moment that these microbes had any genuine passion for games.

@Andee

And besides he was dashing enough to woo someone as pretty as Laufey!

Well it certainly wasn't his personality! 😂

@BusyOlf I hardly think that's necessary - everyone knows what they'll look like. No one hates women that much if you look like Brad Pitt

@AdamNovice I still don't see anything hateful. Finding a character not attractive, for whatever reason, is not hateful.

@Quintumply Why do you give persons like “Geralt of Goonia” a stage at all? Just to push out another article on an emotional topic? You knew that everyone here will complain about this story, it’s just one more of these same stupid little internet wars.

PushSquare is better than that.

I've loved Deborah Ann Woll since first seeing her on True Blood. The internet is just full of disgusting incels whose #1 hobby is hating women.

@Olmaz It may not be "hateful," per se, but it's incredibly immature and lizard brain to assume that a game has no value because you don't think the protagonist is "hot" enough. It's not like they cast Quasimodo as Laufey. Calling on people to boycott a game because the protagonist isn't showing enough skin is next level moronic.

@Olmaz there might not be 'hate' directed at her specifically but trying to rally people to bankrupt a studio because they didn't make the main character attractive enough could only be borne of hateful emotions in my opinion. It is an extreme reaction to something minor and subjective

I thought the armor looks pretty cool design wise. But somehow that giant purple orb body armor reminds me of Power Rangers Megazord haha.

And it's crazy to say Deborah Ann Woll isn't attractive. The in-game model looks very similar to her.

@Redefaul The whole game? We've barely seen anything at all.

Don't spread fake news, it's a really bad look for this site. Not that I agree with them, but the vast majority of people are complaining that she is made less attractive in the game, compared to her being very attractive in real life. I have to wonder if you've misunderstood a very simple (if flawed) argument, or are spreading misinformation on purpose? Not reporting from a fair and neutral perspective is not reporting at all.

@Pat_trick Sure, but those will be two different sets of people. The people complaining about her covering up will not be the same people complaining that she does not show enough cleavage.
There are bad eggs on every side.

The irony of this drama is that I did find Vincent D'Onofrio devastatingly handsome in DareDevil so I'd listen to anything he'd say as long as he was bald enough to say it. Attraction isn't always what people assume, I find Laufey attractive too, I just find it odd how people bring looks into a game when half of the time they see the character from behind and I saw all of Vincent on screen. But I brought Vincent's looks into my comment too and in a long post I made recently about how enamored I was in his performance as Fisk/how to me DareDevil was a love story about two people (Fisk/and his woman) and how a man in a mask had his bones fractured when he tried to come between it and them so I guess we're all susceptible of a little judgement. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, mine were firmly fixed on Fisk/Vincent.

• From said post, I wasn't kidding.

'DareDevil to me then becomes the enemy because he tried to use the law of the land (his law) to drive a wedge between their love, I don't believe in using people as pawns. So for me DareDevil isn't the story of a man who is blinded and becomes a hero, it's a story of love between two people and of the man who tried to come between it. If that man had multiple fractures because of his efforts? then good, love hurts and so does provoking a wild beast'.

'I think also Fisk had an honesty about him. When she asked what he sensed from that white rabbit painting 'it makes me feel alone', that painting then became a kind of Rorschach test, it and she allowed him to really express and evoke a genuine response. Over time that same painting became a symbol for his devotion to her, it gave him not only a new perspective but a reason for everything'.

The pointlessness of Hollywood opinions on anything.

These men who always worry about how women look in games need to get grip with reality

She bears a striking resemblance to my girlfriend. And so suffice to say, I think she's beautiful.

@Olmaz it is hateful people do this only female characters not ever males we know why so males can goon over here I suppose to playing games for art and entertainment not for pleasure that what other industry is for u want pretty woman

People need to have their eyes checked. Am I looking at the right Deborah Ann Woll? I’m wondering to myself why Faye would be hanging out with a guy like Kratos. 😂

@ducklagom Yeah, I'm looking at her in the image they have on the page, and I'm thinking "Is this what ugly looks like nowadays?"

@LifeGirl I think there’s some overlap here, though. The same people who complain that anyone who isn’t Nordic-looking shouldn’t be in GoW because it’s not “realistic” often seem perfectly happy to ignore realism when it suits them. They pick and choose which aspects of “realism” matter depending on whether they support their agenda.

How is Deborah Ann not attractive? I wonder of they ever saw a real woman in their life.

It’s a dull, crap and uninspiring character from what I’ve seen.

Those sorts of social media amounts represent a tiny minority though, and don’t represent my position, but boy oh boy….

Aren’t they just a convenient deflector for those who produce mediocre products.

Noting attempts to use such minority accounts to try and shut down those who rightly criticised Wolverine pre-release.

These people have a symbiotic relationship with those trolls.

'In No Way Do I Agree': Vincent D'Onofrio Defends God of War Laufey Star from Online Opinions they dont like"

Fixed. Not everything is hate

The name “Geralt of Goonia” tells you all you need to know about that shallow as a puppy’s piss puddle crybaby. And the call to “boycott this game” is really just “I’m too immature to cope so I’m not buying it”. Well done you. I’m sure the sales figures will be just fine without you.

"Geralt of Goonia" - 40yr old virgin with 8k followers? Most likely all bots and like minded morons. Why are you "reporting" on this *****? By giving these knuckle draggers air time just fuels them.

Not that I think she’s particularly unattractive, but I would rather play a game featuring an ugly character with incredibly well written dialogue than a hot or handsome one where their every conversation is poorly worded. That’s so much more immersion breaking than some minor perceived imperfection in a character’s face/hair/bone structure/whatever.

@ducklagom I like that you have your own Laufey in your life and I have my own Fisk in mine. That's the juxtaposition between attraction and in seeing what others might not. I think that's the reality of love, it's just there and requires no real justification between those two people. It's a tricky topic and I think those who are quick to judge need more experience with the real thing, that's not a slight at anyone.

Humans are complex enough as it is, example being that I too have a Laufey in my life and don't limit myself to one gender/Person, but again it's all personal preference. Going so far as to attack someone over the internet about anything is pointless to me so this whole thing is just another something I slot into the 'I'm glad I never had social-media' box, except now I do want to know what else Vincent talks about. That's I suppose the lure for people on those always available platforms? Instead I'll just go back to gaming.

When I watched the reveal my thought was only, damn this looks amazing. She looks great. This is gonna be another masterpice from Sony.
After that later on I found out its the girl from True Blood, I was like, "yeah, she is much more pretty in real life, she is really beautiful and they could have made her more "sexy"" BUT
she is fu.. giant and warrior, so I give them that, she is not a model in the game & still, she looks good but also tough. Which I think is good mix.
Dont take me wrong, I hate the new feminist style of "women" in games, that ugly indian look in many games is pure disgust for me, but in this case I dont really mind that much. She is very good looking even she is much more in real life.
Luckly it seems most people dont really care, since preorders are so good.

Who gives a Sh.... about a guy who calls himself "goonia" 😂

Two things can be true at once:

1. People who are legitimately attacking her need to stop, that’s morally wrong.

2. It’s disingenuous to pretend that the game did not obviously take this very attractive actress and downgrade her looks. Not even just from real life but even the previous game.

So, don’t be mean and insult the actress. She’s beautiful.

Also, don’t pretend your eyes are lying to you when it comes to what they’ve done to change her appearance. You’re not “owning the chuds” by disagreeing with them, you just come across as a political actor.

No one attacked her looks.

They said the developers made her LESS attractive in the game. They did HER a disservice. As so many developers have done with other incredibly attractive women who got weirdly unnecessary downgrades when put into games.

The Kingpin is defending the actress when she was never attacked. Talk about a strawman argument. He should be defending the actress from the developers.

She looks great in the game. People just cherry picking still frames to paint a false narrative. You know, like the one used for this article. I see it all the time outside of video games too. People doing things like posting a picture of someone mid word when their mouth looks funny then trying to imply they're ugly. I guarantee the only people complaining about her looks in the game are also the same ones who support losers like the current POTUS.

You know whoever send that tweet would lose their mind to date her in real life, she is a beautiful woman who plays DnD.

I don't see anyone saying Deborah isn't attractive. Or nice. Or Kind. Or talented. They are saying the rendering of her is unattractive. Because it is. That's the devs fault, not hers. We already know this Western AAA play book. They take attractive woman and make them very average in video games.

So lemme get this straight... The supremely masculine, alpha, in no way homoesexual gamer dudes out there are bemoaning the fact they're getting a game starring a beautiful actress because they'd much prefer to play as an insanely ripped, jacked pile of man meat? And wanting to play as that giant beefcake makes them more straight than you can comprehend, right? Are these the same sort of men who say pleasing a woman is gay?

These chuds are complete disgraces to civil society. Why even pay any attention to them, honestly? Discussing "the discourse" only feeds them. Any sane person knows it's not worth discussing. Just stop covering these non-stories.

You're missing the point. We just want her to wear a matching armor with Kratos.

Joke aside, Woll is dead gorgeous, and nobody's denying it. The in-game model however doesn't look right. Just like Ubisoft did in Star wars outlaws.

The complaints I always see about the appearance of Laufey are not about the appearance of the actress. It is that the studio made the actress look unattractive in the game.

I'm all for an attractive female lead but if a game doesn't present it that's fine with me especially when one is fully invested in the lore of the game's universe. So I for one am looking forward to playing this game in 2027.

It's appalling that people should act this way just because the female lead is "not goonable". For the record, Laufey in GoW is far from unattractive.

To the "They're not talking about the actress! They're talking about how they made her look in the game!!!" people. She looks perfectly fine in the game. Like I've already said, people have cherry picked still frames to paint a completely false narrative. There are also plenty of still frames where she looks great. Stop defending this "she looks ugly in the game!!!" bs.

These fools really do forget that the Internet is forever. It is so profoundly disturbing when guys like this do that. It’s a public display of (sorry, mods) sexual depravity. They’re involving every reader in their fetish and sexuality and I don’t think they realize just how creepy, sad, impotent, and deranged it is.

Psyched for this game! She’s very pretty and badass imo.

What a weird world we live in where someone with that username is taken seriously by a legend such as D'Onofrio.

I honestly think it's a waste of time to center an entire article around just one online idiot, but it does point to a larger issue of various games becoming the point of hate campaigns by online lowlifes. These people don't have anything going on in their lives so they need a constant stream of things to get angry at in order to feel alive. They can't make it actual real world issues of course because that would require more braincells to form opinions on and they're just looking for a quick fix. The anger at Laufrey has been forced out because it stars a female character who isn't overly sexualized, and some chuds have it built up in their minds that that automatically makes a game "woke." Games like Wolverine and Dragon Age the Veilguard had plenty of valid issues that needed to be addressed but those criticisms got lumped up in the white noise from a crowd that just enjoyed hating things, risking that developers would learn less from their mistakes.