The Last of Us Franchise - Because it's apparently a franchise now. This thread has been double-DMCA’d by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

[Table Country]

Sadly, it will be watched because the average consumer is a fucking lemming. I'd love this to flop but I see all of the media blitz doing it's usual bullshit and the general consumer doesn't know or care what a Last of Us is, so it's not like they will go with a preconcieved idea of what it should be.

If fucking Avatar 2 was watched in mass, so will this.

I dunno, TLoU is pretty normie in terms of its appeal and I imagine even the most senile boomer is at least vaguely aware that there is a thing that exists called The Last of Us that their millennial grandkids like.

 

[ShitLurker]

I dunno, TLoU is pretty normie in terms of its appeal and I imagine even the most senile boomer is at least vaguely aware that there is a thing that exists called The Last of Us that their millennial grandkids like.

Yes, but the majority of the audience will not have experienced the source material. As long as they don't fuck up the prologue, they will have people hooked for most of the season just from that. And these consumers don't know or care about the racebending or how the cordiceps are made into another standard zombie. It's perfectly serviceable goyslop and there is nothing like it being based on Lord of the Rings to make people be critical. So sadly, I expect it to be a hit and Cuckman to get an even bigger ego.

I can see it going downhill once Joel in one happens since I know they will fuck up making Joel be bad enough to justify it. Hell, Cuck may get network pushback once it turns out Joel is the favorite character and la goblina isn't catching that many hearts due to how weird she looks.

 

[The handsome tard]

Repost of an earlier screed that makes you more right than you'll ever know:

3 letters: ESG. In case you aren't aware, ESG stands for Environmental, Social, & Governance - a coercively imposed Orwellian dictum presumed to apply to every major corporation in the U.S. and abroad, prescribing their accepted politics and pinko policies with a huge emphasis on rainbow flags and philanthropy. If by philanthropy, you mean forced-as-fuck, gun-to-your-temple, "donate to BLM and assorted other pet money laundering schemes causes of ours whether you're affiliated with the Commie Chinks or not, or lose billions of Bezo-bucks".

These consolidated corporate cunt-flaps who all agree in principle on the adoption of ESG represent a seismic Scrooge-McDuckian money pile, and in a functional context, that means ESG functions as a kind of fiscal safety net. Making a movie that unintentionally (or intentionally) alienates your intended audience? Fuck it - flash a few rainbow flags in the ad campaign, and all of a sudden, you've got a Starbucks promotion and are making millions more with half the viewership. Running an age-old newspaper with more circulation issues than MovieBob's feet? No problem! ESG it the fuck up and encourage a billionaire buyout so some ass canoe from a coastal corporation can have his very own Bolshevik bullying pulpit. It isn't "get woke, go broke" - if anything, it's the complete opposite!

I recall Razorfist talked about that somewhat recently but, yeah, good to be reminded that he was right on the money. So there is a good chance that these people get away with it because they have a wokeness pimp ready to rain down the cash on them that compensates if not outright surpasses any losses brought by loss of viewership.

Pretty sure if you ask where the hell ESG is getting all this money, you will get accused of anti-semitism

 

[chickenTendiemerchant]

The zombie genre is pretty much dead and with the chink flu still in people's minds I can't for the life of me understand why anybody would think this show is a good idea.

Agree that the zombie genre is dead, but the Station Eleven show came out during coof quarantine and it did decently well in spite of not coming from a tremendously popular source material. That story is even more pandemic related than TLoU.

It's still going to flop, but it won't be from covid pearlclutching

 

[ZMOT]

Yes, but the majority of the audience will not have experienced the source material. As long as they don't fuck up the prologue, they will have people hooked for most of the season just from that. And these consumers don't know or care about the racebending or how the cordiceps are made into another standard zombie. It's perfectly serviceable goyslop and there is nothing like it being based on Lord of the Rings to make people be critical. So sadly, I expect it to be a hit and Cuckman to get an even bigger ego.

I can see it going downhill once Joel in one happens since I know they will fuck up making Joel be bad enough to justify it. Hell, Cuck may get network pushback once it turns out Joel is the favorite character and la goblina isn't catching that many hearts due to how weird she looks.

we'll see. cuckman for all his fault's isn't that stupid, I fully expect him to paint joel as a retarded villain from day 1, because what those people absolutely can not stand is grey morality and nuance.
which means the series won't have the same effect as the original game. if it does (and does well because of it) the joel-in-one and the retarded MUH REVENGE message will be GOT season 8 all over again.

 

[Thiletonomics]

The NY Times interviewed Drunkmann and Mazin, in regards to the show. Some quotes of note include:

In the games, the outbreak takes place in 2013, whereas in the show it’s 2003. Given that most of the story takes place 20 years later, after the world falls apart, I’m guessing the idea was to place the show in the present day?

MAZIN I have this thing about watching shows where a graphic comes up and says, “2053: London.” And I’m like, “I don’t know what 2053 is.” The notion that there’s this twist of fate, and 2023, instead of looking like this, it looks like this — there’s an immediacy to that. I probably inflated its importance in my mind, but it helped me.

Gamers are generally of the opinion that game adaptations are pretty horrible. You both seem to agree, and I’m wondering why you think they’ve been such a failure.
MAZIN There’s a lot of cringe out there.
DRUCKMANN Sometimes the source material is just not strong enough for a direct adaptation. So all you’re left with is a name that has some value to it, but really you’re starting from scratch. Other times it’s that the people in charge are not gamers. They don’t understand what made this thing special. They hang on to really superficial things and they think, for example, plenty of players want to see that one gameplay moment or this one gun from the game.
MAZIN Terrific video games are terrific because of their gameplay, but conceptually they may already be copies of something. A copy of “Aliens.” A copy of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” You adapt that and you have a copy of a copy and can just feel a lack of freshness to it.

Are you anxious about how fans of the game will react to changes?

MAZIN My job was to be connected with my own fandom and to think about myself as representative of a lot of people, and to ask what would be important to me, what would hurt if it weren’t in the show. I believe that most fans are going to react positively to it, because we made it with love. But if people don’t, I get that too. It’s part of being deeply connected to something.

DRUCKMANN My fear, and this just gets into a general conversation around fandom, is that our cast or anybody from our crew will get attacked or insulted as we make certain changes. After “The Last of Us II,” nothing anybody says online can get to me anymore. But I hate when anybody else gets it.

You’re referring to the online harassment, including death threats, surrounding, among other things, the gender and sexuality of certain characters in the “Last of Us” games, which is also explored in the show.

DRUCKMANN I’ve learned to just accept it and not to give it too much weight. I tend to not be driven by fear. If anything, I lean the opposite. When there’s a certain backlash to an idea, I’m like, then it’s an idea worth exploring.

Sounds a lot like smoke blown out of their asses, in the usual Drunkmann fashion.

And so much for "faithful re-creation".

 

[ShitLurker]

we'll see. cuckman for all his fault's isn't that stupid, I fully expect him to paint joel as a retarded villain from day 1, because what those people absolutely can not stand is grey morality and nuance.
which means the series won't have the same effect as the original game. if it does (and does well because of it) the joel-in-one and the retarded MUH REVENGE message will be GOT season 8 all over again.

Cuckman will TRY, but as long as they adapt the main beats of the story and Pascal does a solid performance, he will fail horribly at making Joel a villian. Just the prologue with Sarah already makes most people to empathize a lot with Joel, women get their "I can fix him" instinct triggered and actual men will have their "must protect but failed" instinct triggered, bug people will think what they are told but that's not new. Seeing how Sarah was blacked, they can't really play any racial angle with Joel that would make sense, most they can do is being antihomo when they reach.... the gay guy, but that won't ruin the impression for many people since at the end even if he screams faggot every time he looks at them, they end up collaborating and separating in good enough terms. Only way to make Joel is bad kind of stick is making the fireflies be saints on earth, highly competent, highly capable, and with absolute proof that they will have a cure AND use it justly, but I'm sure that the writing team will fuck it up horribly to achieve that, specially since they butt heads with fireflies quite a few times. Add to that a few good moments with goblin Ellie and people will just sympathize more with Joel.

As long as you cover the bigger beats of the game, it's unavoidable, and it sounds they are sticking to them because they also happen to be the moments people give a shit about in the game. It might be the reason why they want to speedrun through the first game to stop people getting too much time to get invested in Joel for the golfing session, but I just don't see that landing. Basically, like you say in your final line, they are heading straight to their GOT season 8 moment and it will still confound them why they end up with that reaction. He will be double confounded when the roid demon doesn't get much fanfare, because I'm fucking intrigued on how they are going to cast it, I'm hoping they go full tranny savage.

 

[Tinnitus]

Cuckman will TRY, but as long as they adapt the main beats of the story and Pascal does a solid performance, he will fail horribly at making Joel a villian. Just the prologue with Sarah already makes most people to empathize a lot with Joel, women get their "I can fix him" instinct triggered and actual men will have their "must protect but failed" instinct triggered, bug people will think what they are told but that's not new. Seeing how Sarah was blacked, they can't really play any racial angle with Joel that would make sense, most they can do is being antihomo when they reach.... the gay guy,

Sarah being raised by her dad is something single moms (and men who won custody over their children) can relate to.

If anything they'll hate the Fungus Goblin for not appreciating what Joel did for her.

 

[Miller]

The NY Times interviewed Drunkmann and Mazin, in regards to the show. Some quotes of note include:

Gamers are generally of the opinion that game adaptations are pretty horrible. You both seem to agree, and I’m wondering why you think they’ve been such a failure.
DRUCKMANN Sometimes the source material is just not strong enough for a direct adaptation. So all you’re left with is a name that has some value to it, but really you’re starting from scratch.

Fuck you... lol. The adaptations are bad because the people in charge believe that they know better than the original creators.

 

[ChefKiss]

MAZIN Terrific video games are terrific because of their gameplay, but conceptually they may already be copies of something. A copy of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” You adapt that and you have a copy of a copy and can just feel a lack of freshness to it.

Druckmann and his cadre really hate Amy Hennig's work dont they? Or is he just malding because he didnt have control over the Uncharted film?

 

[The handsome tard]

Drunkmann says a very similar sounding statement about the show, that reminds me of his statement about the game after the leaks...

And obvious shill fest is obvious:

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Repeat after me, children

"Critic scores dont mean jack fucking shit. Its basically marketing at this point."

Sadly, it will be watched because the average consumer is a fucking lemming. I'd love this to flop but I see all of the media blitz doing it's usual bullshit and the general consumer doesn't know or care what a Last of Us is, so it's not like they will go with a preconcieved idea of what it should be.

If fucking Avatar 2 was watched in mass, so will this.

Then we will hear the usual "how did the entertainment industry ended up like this?!" when the easy and most true answer is "You. It was all thanks to you".

I dont mean you as in us. We know and we didnt contribute towards this. It is very clear who "you" I am referring to.

The NY Times interviewed Drunkmann and Mazin, in regards to the show. Some quotes of note include:









Sounds a lot like smoke blown out of their asses, in the usual Drunkmann fashion.

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And so much for "faithful re-creation".

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I legit respect more Uwe fucking Boll and his shitty adaptations over Cuckmann's.

At least Uwe Boll's adaptations are so bad they are good and his Postal movie is a legit decent take at adapting the source material.

Cuckmann's creations bring nothing but misery.

 

[Xerxes IX]

And yet it won't matter unless people watch it. Not that these fart huffing hugboxers who use brown people as human shields to justify making actual garbage give a shit about it so long as they're praised.

It worked so well for TLOU part 2. There's lesbians! And a troon! Never mind that the game is about our strong lesbian protagonist getting beaten down and vilified for wanting revenge on the new Real Protagonist, Druckmann's roided out waifu, who in turn is 100% justified for wanting revenge on Joel who's retconned as an absolute monster.

 

[ZMOT]

I legit respect more Uwe fucking Boll and his shitty adaptations over Cuckmann's.

At least Uwe Boll's adaptations are so bad they are good and his Postal movie is a legit decent take at adapting the source material.

Cuckmann's creations bring nothing but misery.

considering what uwe boll had to work with...

sure, they were schlocky b-movies, but I mean house of the dead, bloodrayne and far cry weren't the most lore heavy games. maybe alone in the dark and dungeon siege, but then for most normies it's just another horror/fantasy movie (and I even liked name of the king for what it was, not that there that many fantasy movies around in the 00's)

 

[The handsome tard]

considering what uwe boll had to work with...

sure, they were schlocky b-movies, but I mean house of the dead, bloodrayne and far cry weren't the most lore heavy games. maybe alone in the dark and dungeon siege, but then for most normies it's just another horror/fantasy movie (and I even liked name of the king for what it was, not that there that many fantasy movies around in the 00's)

Boll seems to feel more at home directing more trashy movies. His Postal movie was stupid and tasteless but, hey, have you played Postal ? At least you can tell he was roasting himself hard in one of the scenes so he was very self aware of his flaws as a director at that point. As for the german tax exploit, I say "hate the game, not the player. Boll only did mediocre movies with the tax payer money, as if the german government handled it any better behind closed doors"

I guess what Im trying to say is that Boll is better at making entertaining trash than something more refined that would require more talent. His original movies tend to be better (for his standards).

Also I gotta say, Boll is an old school troll and thats refresingly nostalgic. I want to see any of these wanna be directors that love the smell of their own farts ever poke fun at themselves like Boll had the guts to do. Oh yeah, they dont, because if they did, they wouldnt be known to smell their own farts.

How can someone not love this trashy shit? Its hilarious. Uwe was a troll with a budget

 

[Bennytehsmeghead]

And now, it turns out the lead actress playing Ellie is a godgundamned troon.

Remember when we thought Halo and the Resident Evil show was as woke and bad as it could get?

 

[Miller]

Gender fluid aka "I can't find a job because there are too many actresses in Hollywood, please notice me!"

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

Remember when we thought Halo and the Resident Evil show was as woke and bad as it could get?

I dunno, if this show manages to somehow write a line more wtf than RE's "zootopia porn" one, I'll be impressed (for the wrong reasons.) I mostly expect it to just be a bland, melodramatic slog.

 

[GatorAids]

considering what uwe boll had to work with...

sure, they were schlocky b-movies, but I mean house of the dead, bloodrayne and far cry weren't the most lore heavy games. maybe alone in the dark and dungeon siege, but then for most normies it's just another horror/fantasy movie (and I even liked name of the king for what it was, not that there that many fantasy movies around in the 00's)

Uwe Boll is more respectable than Druckmann will ever be just for beating the shit out of Lowtax. Also Rampage was a legitimately good movie, I wish Boll actually made more films he actually cared about. I'd respect Druckmann only if he pulled a Boll and challenged "da hayturs" to fights.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

Boll seems to feel more at home directing more trashy movies. His Postal movie was stupid and tasteless but, hey, have you played Postal ? At least you can tell he was roasting himself hard in one of the scenes so he was very self aware of his flaws as a director at that point. As for the german tax exploit, I say "hate the game, not the player. Boll only did mediocre movies with the tax payer money, as if the german government handled it any better behind closed doors"

I guess what Im trying to say is that Boll is better at making entertaining trash than something more refined that would require more talent. His original movies tend to be better (for his standards).

Also I gotta say, Boll is an old school troll and thats refresingly nostalgic. I want to see any of these wanna be directors that love the smell of their own farts ever poke fun at themselves like Boll had the guts to do. Oh yeah, they dont, because if they did, they wouldnt be known to smell their own farts.

How can someone not love this trashy shit? Its hilarious. Uwe was a troll with a budget

ok, after that I'm going to give Postal a watch

 

[PuffyGroundCloud]

Boll seems to feel more at home directing more trashy movies. His Postal movie was stupid and tasteless but, hey, have you played Postal ? At least you can tell he was roasting himself hard in one of the scenes so he was very self aware of his flaws as a director at that point. As for the german tax exploit, I say "hate the game, not the player. Boll only did mediocre movies with the tax payer money, as if the german government handled it any better behind closed doors"

I guess what Im trying to say is that Boll is better at making entertaining trash than something more refined that would require more talent. His original movies tend to be better (for his standards).

Also I gotta say, Boll is an old school troll and thats refresingly nostalgic. I want to see any of these wanna be directors that love the smell of their own farts ever poke fun at themselves like Boll had the guts to do. Oh yeah, they dont, because if they did, they wouldnt be known to smell their own farts.

How can someone not love this trashy shit? Its hilarious. Uwe was a troll with a budget

Uwe also beat the shit out of Lowtax
and he make Star Wars better too