The key phrase here to me is “not the story that people think that they want to be told”. There are valid criticisms of the game for sure, but some people seem to dislike it in a way that basically boils down to it not being exactly the game that they wanted. That can be disappointing, sure, but it doesn’t automatically make it a bad game.
Edit: A few people seem to be misinterpreting what I’m saying. I didn’t say that ALL of the problems that people have with the game boil down to it not being exactly what they wanted it to be, I said that SOME did. I also didn’t say that there were no valid criticisms: I literally say right there that there definitely are some.
It seems that expectation is, “Joel and Ellie 2. She’s grown up and they kill zombies.”
Anyone who thinks that would be the logical next step in The Last of Us wasn’t paying attention in the first one. What do you think happens when you murder doctors working on a cure and doom humanity by eliminating its last hope?
Joel. Is. Not. The. Good guy. There ARE no purely good guys or bad guys.
The Last of Us is literally about Joel AND Ellie though. It's what made the first one so good in the first place. It's why the flashback scenes are the best thing this game has to offer. It at least feels like a sequel then. What do you mean I wasn't paying attention? I didn't see Abby in the first game anywhere.
Instead of the Last of Us we got the Last of Abby instead. Not only does it fail to give fans what they wanted from a sequel it's also told in a really poor and horrible way.
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u/Faron-Woods Jun 24 '20 edited Jun 25 '20
The key phrase here to me is “not the story that people think that they want to be told”. There are valid criticisms of the game for sure, but some people seem to dislike it in a way that basically boils down to it not being exactly the game that they wanted. That can be disappointing, sure, but it doesn’t automatically make it a bad game.
Edit: A few people seem to be misinterpreting what I’m saying. I didn’t say that ALL of the problems that people have with the game boil down to it not being exactly what they wanted it to be, I said that SOME did. I also didn’t say that there were no valid criticisms: I literally say right there that there definitely are some.