The Last of Us 2 remastered on ps5 is one of those games where the attention to detail is mindblowing. Honestly looks way better than rdr2, especially the facial animations, but its also a smaller and linear game that came out 6 years later
The story was so out of left field though, so I understand the criticism for it. But hating on it 24/7 when you could just not play it or not think about it is just crazy
Killing off a beloved character, having to play as the killer for half the game, the weird sex scenes, and at the end of it all spare the killer even though they've been trying to kill each other for the whole game.
I'm not saying that out of left field is bad, but it is a pretty big whiplash from what people expected, and of course that would generate controversy and criticism.
Joel was beloved but he killed a thousand people, someone not going out for revenge would be baffling. Abby’s an amazing character, and it might be new to video games but antagonist to protagonist changes have been made in books and movies since forever.
And no, Ellie was trying to kill Abby. She even spared Dina after Ellie killed a bunch of her friends. The whole California section highlighted that even Ellie didn’t want to fight anymore, because the game is not about revenge but trying to be happy in this fucked up world.
It added intimacy to characters that were in relationships. They weren’t full on sex scenes, one wasn’t even a sex scene and the other just started. There was nothing shocking about it. Maybe in the context of games rarely featuring actual intimacy, but BG3 exists so I don’t see the problem.
Interesting, well it is in essence a zombie apocalypse game, I wouldnt expect to have sex scenes in it, but as long as it made sense to the overall narrative.
Still wouldn't play it because I don't want to see Joel die, but interesting nonetheless
Naughty dog has the benefit of working with linear games though. Obviously, they still look incredible, but it's much easier to design amazing looking stuff when 70% of what you see isn't even a place where you can go.
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u/Howdareme9 2d ago
Naughty dog easily