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

[Adamska]

Wow, so the sequel went full woke for no reason other than tard noises after Sony experienced years of that killing the fucking profit? And in an environment where buying ability is down due to a pandemic?

Play a stupid game, win a stupid prize. Have fun killing one of the better new IP ideas out there. If you were smart you'd abandon the game and start fresh, but you won't be.

 

[Fuzhou]

The Last of Us deserved better than this, it breaks my heart.

The game wasn't even that good, you pansy. Play a real game.

 

[YourMommasBackstory]

Watch this take, if you don't like the game you are just being a pussy:

Ah yes, because people are shocked by scene of beating young girls just because they are pussies. Not because a lot of people see beating a women, let alone a very young one, as a big no-no, not because it might remind about real abuse experience to some people, not because Ellie is a girl we saved from creeps in first game.

 

[CWCissey]

Ah yes, because people are shocked by scene of beating young girls just because they are pussies. Not because a lot of people see beating a women, let alone a very young one, as a big no-no, not because it might remind about real abuse experience to some people, not because Ellie is a girl we saved from creeps in first game.

Also Toucan Sam is pregnant.

 

[737 MAX Stan Account]

Wasn't the first game supposed about zombies or something? I never played it since I know how to use my time wisely.

 

[ZehnBoat]

Ah yes, because people are shocked by scene of beating young girls just because they are pussies. Not because a lot of people see beating a women, let alone a very young one, as a big no-no, not because it might remind about real abuse experience to some people, not because Ellie is a girl we saved from creeps in first game.

woman is scared in Society Man movie: INCEL ARMIES, THIS MOVIE SAYS TO KILL WAMMINZ!!!

woman is beaten to death in The UWU Of Us: guys, it's just a woman being killed, lol get over it

can we get 4chan or someone to twist that scene into some secret russian anti-sjw thing?
"wow, media where i can watch a woman get mercilessly beaten? sign me up"

 

[Wanston]

Ah yes, because people are shocked by scene of beating young girls just because they are pussies. Not because a lot of people see beating a women, let alone a very young one, as a big no-no, not because it might remind about real abuse experience to some people, not because Ellie is a girl we saved from creeps in first game.

Young lesbians, nonetheless. Because gay people are constantly assaulted every time they leave the house, seeing sweet smol bean LGBT icon Ellen Page lookalike and her girlfriend getting their faces bashed should be extremely harrowing for queer representation. But apparently it's fine because its an extremely buff """"girl"""" doing the bashing! Slay queen!!

 

[Flynt's Missing Pecker]

Saying Abby is trans is painting ND into a rather uncomfortable corner. If they confirm she is, trannys will lose their shit. If they confirm she isn’t, trannys will lose their shit. Either way, making her look like a dude has backfired spectacularly.

 

[YourMommasBackstory]

Young lesbians, nonetheless. Because gay people are constantly assaulted every time they leave the house, seeing sweet smol bean LGBT icon Ellen Page lookalike and her girlfriend getting their faces bashed should be extremely harrowing for queer representation. But apparently it's fine because its an extremely buff """"girl"""" doing the bashing! Slay queen!!

I hope in third game they’ll add a band of drag queens.
for realism, of course.

 

[ZehnBoat]

Young lesbians, nonetheless. Because gay people are constantly assaulted every time they leave the house, seeing sweet smol bean LGBT icon Ellen Page lookalike and her girlfriend getting their faces bashed should be extremely harrowing for queer representation. But apparently it's fine because its an extremely buff """"girl"""" doing the bashing! Slay queen!!

the moment is symbolic of the fact that trannies took over the LGBT and made it about themselves

 

[Kulee Baba]

Yeah, you could do that I suppose, but it would be unwise for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, 'The Novel' has always been considered the art-form best suited to an exploration of the human condition, it's sort of considered it's raison d'etre, so people are willing to explore those kinds of dark themes when crafted by a master wordsmith like McCarthy. Even literature's bastard child, Cinema, has raised itself to the status of an art-form that we will watch for edification as much as entertainment.
No matter how often you see articles (mostly written in reference to TLOS) that claim gaming has now reached those lofty heights, games are still mostly considered by their audience to be a good way to indulge in a little escapism and unwind after a shitty day at work by shooting some zombies in the face, rather then their shit-stain boss.
Druckman may have let too many of those articles go to his head and I question just how many people are eager to actually see him fellate himself into believing that he's gaming's Cormac McCarthy.

Secondly. In these soft-apocalyptic times of the coof, do people really want this shit? The most popular entertainment during the great depression was Chaplin and The Marx Brothers. I think Sony have seriously miscalculated the popular mood by pushing this up. Right now people want to watch YouTube video's of Italians singing to each other from their balconies, not being bulldozed into mass graves, so if TLOU2 turns out to be 'feels-bad,man' the game, I can see a lot of people passing on it to watch the new Loony Tunes on Netflix instead.

Very good points. First off I'd say an adaptation's job is to carry the basic plot but most importantly the key themes of the novel and bring it over to whatever medium you're adapting it to. You also have to be aware of how the vision translates from medium to medium. Forgetting that last part is the reason we've been treated to most bad adaptations. I am 100% sure Blood Meridian is a book that cannot be turned into a movie, but the basic story and main themes could still land as a video game. Now why is that? Because fiction detailing sadistic gory torment, or playing a game where 3D Models simulate sadistic gory torment, is nowhere near as revolting as seeing real living actors realistically simulating such violence against innocent people.

It creates very little emotional effect for me to see a random human character die in a video game. A video game like Red Dead Redemption 2 or TLOU2 will show extreme depictions of grisly murders, it's not disturbing because they're not real humans, my mind cannot be fooled into thinking that I witness actual death or violence when playing a game. Now compare that to say Jessica Alba getting beaten to a pulp in The Killer Inside Me. That scene creates real emotional discomfort because it displays what feels like actual violence against a defenseless woman.

Back to Blood Meridian, many big Hollywood producers have attempted to turn the book into a movie. They've all failed in preproduction because someone always realizes a movie where each major character is a piece of shit who deserves to be killed and has visuals like dead babies hung on branches would be so revolting that only a small group of viewers who could not "suspend their disbelief" could sit thru it. It just wouldn't work unless heavily watered down which kills the point. I think it could be a game because the imagery could be shown in a game in gruesome detail and yet the emotional disconnect could allow the player to have the strength to endure and even enjoy the beauty within it, and that's what makes Blood Meridian so strong.

As for TLOU2's timing, I think Sony probably would have had Naughty Dawg work on another Uncharted if they knew the shit that would happen in 2020. But this game has had 4 years development. And they want this to come out before the Playstation 5 so their audience feels that Sony delivers more than Microsoft ever could. I'm going to be shocked if either console actually comes out this year.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

Saying Abby is trans is painting ND into a rather uncomfortable corner. If they confirm she is, trannys will lose their shit. If they confirm she isn’t, trannys will lose their shit. Either way, making her look like a dude has backfired spectacularly.

Almost like it was a fool's errand to try and please the unpleasable.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

Let's somehow ignore ALL of the woke LGBTQ+ aspects of this.

The climax of this game is the player beating the shit out of two 19-year-old girls, one of which is pregnant, and while not finishing them off you still leave their broken bleeding bodies in some basement somewhere with no guarantee of medical assistance.

This sounds like a good idea even without the woke elements?

Sounds like an incel's violent masturbation fantasy.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I think Druckman progressed the studio to the point of irrelevance.

I'm going to look forward to the Internet Historian video on this.

Naughty Dog isn't their golden child anymore. Santa monica can make God of War, insomniac makes Spiderman, and Guerrilla makes Horizon Zero Dawn. Every one of these is a third person action game. if needed any one of these studios could make the next Uncharted. TLOU isn't coming back from this I think the series is finished after this.

 

[Ruin]

Ok so supposedly giga troon beating Ellie isn't the final cutscene but the end of disk one and disk two picks up with us as Ellie again hunting down Big Mclargehuge.

That's slightly better I guess? The game still has huge problems the least of which is all the female characters looking like super mutants.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Ok so supposedly giga troon beating Ellie isn't the final cutscene but the end of disk one and disk two picks up with us as Ellie again hunting down Big Mclargehuge.

Got a source on this? Because it's huge if true.

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

Ok so supposedly giga troon beating Ellie isn't the final cutscene but the end of disk one and disk two picks up with us as Ellie again hunting down Big Mclargehuge.

That's slightly better I guess? The game still has huge problems the least of which is all the female characters looking like super mutants.

Sounds fake, no one makes multi-disk games amymore. If anything, it'll be "episodic" and I don't see it coming faster than like two and a half years.

 

[madeinabyss31]

Saying Abby is trans is painting ND into a rather uncomfortable corner. If they confirm she is, trannys will lose their shit. If they confirm she isn’t, trannys will lose their shit. Either way, making her look like a dude has backfired spectacularly.

The strangest thing is....they seem to have done this to mostly the young characters. Which gets my conspiracy brain about brain washing our children going.

I believe they have already come out and stated they made the characters look the way they did to help trans relate to them (Seriously, when will companies get it through their heads that trans make up less than 1% of the population and their customers?)

 

[Dom Cruise]

The game wasn't even that good, you pansy. Play a real game.

It was good though or at least solid.

I don't know what exactly gamers expect when they can't look at the first Last of Us and admit that it's at least a solid game.

Hopefully 2 will make cynical gamers appreciate the first game more.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Sounds fake, no one makes multi-disk games amymore. If anything, it'll be "episodic" and I don't see it coming faster than like two and a half years.

There was RDR 2 but that's only because the game was fucking huge and needed a separate disk for the data.

Somehow I doubt TLOU 2 is even going to cover enough data to justify two disks.