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

Of course someone named that would call other people pathetic.
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Watching a streamer now, who adores the first game and has avoided spoilers, so it's going to be interesting. 30 minutes in, and it's like Life is Strange 2 so far.
This games makes me genuinely feel bad for the fans of the first game, to basically have the characters they've grown to love and explore with, torn to bits by some new character, literally braining the past games protagonist.
 
This games makes me genuinely feel bad for the fans of the first game, to basically have the characters they've grown to love and explore with, torn to bits by some new character, literally braining the past games protagonist.
I just want someone to make a fucking reaction compilation of streamer reactions to Abby's fucking pec tits and just the cringey sex scene in general.

Oh my God, I would have a fucking field day with that, my face would ache from all the laughter.
 
Its might not be the end for Naughty Dog, but Druckman's career is most certainly over. He has fucked up to an exceptional degree and will not work in the AAA sphere again. He's alienated everyone he's worked with and is now getting dragged around like Sony's bitch, doing damage control for them. I would say basically his aspirations are crushed and no studio would ever trust him creatively again.
It depends how connected he is. He could bounce around to Bioware, Ubisoft, and others for a little while.

Oh and he has a bunch of porno VHS tapes?? This is so weird. And one of them is called "Smash Brandi's Cooch". Real clever Naughty Dog.
I don't get the reference.

Actually the person who was so excited to kill him was Anita (though Neil probably was happy about it too)
Isn't Anita cancelled for being a TERF? I thought that maybe that's why Abby is unlikable, but they wouldn't have had be trans or a Mary Sue if that was the case. Maybe it was done to please Anita, but when she was cancelled it was too late to change it.

Of course it's gonna "win" GOTY. Those award shows are just as bought and paid for as the reviews are. They're exactly like the Hollywood award shows in that regard.
And unlike Hollywood where it's all speculation, we have the IGF (thanks gamergate) and Kim Kardashian's Hollywood as proof (the video I wanted to post has been deleted, but a bland phone game that was a retitle of an older game won GOTY).

The irony of ironies is that this game won't last a month in people's memories.
I think it will be remembered like Mass Effect Andromeda, Baulder's Gate Dragonspear, and other shitty woke games as an example of how to fuck up a franchise with virtue signalling.

Okay. Serious question. How many is this actually going to sell?

I foresee a large initial peak as preorders and NPCs shell out, then a fall off as people realise the leaks were accurate and that this is a stupid game with a stupid plot, and then crawling along until it hits bargain bins, upon where there'll be another peak as a meme game.

Total sales, about 12 million, the vast majority of which in the first week.
I think it's going to have the exact same results as Mass Effect Andromeda. I don't remember if it had high sales early on, but it will end being dumped in local goodwills. All the while, Sony will make sweeping statement about how "this is the fastest selling console exclusive!*"
*in a pandemic year post console announcement.

When in the holy heck will writers get it through their thick skulls that "subverting expectations" just for the sake of it does NOT automatically make your story a "deep, compelling, and thematically rich work of art"?
Growing up reading TV tropes and know it all film critics sarcastically pointing out cliches and tropes. By "subverting expectations", they expect to be seen as clever and unique, but they fail to realize (or simply don't care) that zigging instead of zagging is not a substitute for effort or cleverness.

So, there's Abby, the collectable card, and now Manny. Is everyone who isn't Joel or Ellie a Druckmann insert? Even Chris Chan didn't have that many.

OK so let me get this straight, anime tiddies = bad and censored by Sony ethics department but man tranny doggystyle ryona fetish guro porn game = "10/10 masterpiece, show that skittle titties, gurl!" from the ethics department
What the fuck kind of world are we living in? Absolute clownery.
I know I say this every time that picture is posted, but it always makes me smile that Sony censored the navel.

I'm still 100+ pages behind, and this post is getting long. So if something was already said, sorry for the repeat.
 
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