Brooks wrote:Seemed like a bad product, I have avoided it.
Escape wrote:Brooks wrote:Seemed like a bad product, I have avoided it.
I avoided it because it set out its narrative stall with YOU KILLED HER DAD! I tried to av... BUT YOU KILLED HER DAD!
I reloaded my save twice in an effort not to, so that hammered home its choose-your-own-adventure-no-not-that-page nature. People said ‘Ah, but you don't control films — you just go along appreciating their writing’ (or mostly not), but the agency's appeal as a mechanism for reflection and reward has been at gaming's heart since year dot.
I need at least two choices for a game to ask me to feel good or bad about something I've done. Otherwise it's clearly exploiting time-honoured agency as an implied given, feeling itself as a horrorwank Dan Houser, and then slapping that down on our plates as a projection of something we didn't order wanting applause.
I DIDN'T KILL HER DAD!
Minnesänger wrote:Can’t believe Escape killed her dad.
stonechalice wrote:This game just never ceases to amaze me. It's got the most cinematic combat scenarios I've ever seen in a game. Stunning...
https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastofus/comments/ihac3x/probably_the_smoothest_combat_sequence_ill_ever/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Moot_Geeza wrote:What was the controversy, out of interest? It's a full Simon Bates [18] in terms of content, which is unusual for a videogame (usually a PEGI 18 is akin to a BBFC 15 but this went the extra mile). With the fuss the Tomb Raider trailer created a few years ago I can easily imagine a furore about certain scenes in this, but was there more to it? Or was it just a Mass Effect 3 WE DON'T LIKE YOUR ENDING OURS IS BETTER toys/pram thing?
stonechalice wrote:This game just never ceases to amaze me. It's got the most cinematic combat scenarios I've ever seen in a game. Stunning...
https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastofus/comments/ihac3x/probably_the_smoothest_combat_sequence_ill_ever/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Yeah that is true she didnt take out Tommy and Ellie.Cupatay wrote:I do think the torture was a step to far that maybe wasn't needed but that doesn't mean I don't buy Abbies redemption. Yes your right about her saying good when she was about to kill a pregnant Dinah but again this is directly after all her close friends including a heavily pregnant one has been murdered, Christ even her dog had it from Ellie and Tommy. Other than the killing of Joel I didn't think she enjoyed killing any more than Ellie or Joel did in the lead up. I didn't notice it anyway. Remember she let Tommy and Ellie live early on and again at the end with Dina and Ellie. Her relationship with Lev and Levs story were also a high point for me.
stonechalice wrote:Really? Most of Ellie's decisions were beyond moronic.
Yep me too. Don't forget she had PTSD from the incident toodigi wrote:stonechalice wrote:Really? Most of Ellie's decisions were beyond moronic.
If I saw someone beat my dad to death with a golf club I'd murder everyone in my way to punish the person who did it!
Moot_Geeza wrote:Minnesänger wrote:Can’t believe Escape killed her dad.
Escape wrote:Humanity was writ large in the first game to promote contemplation of loss. Here's some folk you might like. Yeah, well they're dead now! Decently handled, with some lovely apocalypse-calm levels. Dandy.
But Drucko's desired reaction relies on you indulging the forcefed murder of Abby's dad, where you're supposed to think Oh shit — I killed 'im!. So if you waded in with the flamethrower to cries of 'Ave it, ya bastards! you can enjoy whatever this game has to offer. Nothing wrong with that. But going back to my first line, at that stage of the game I just wanted to talk these surgeons...
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But really it's still DOOM. Only that had a neat story about hellbeasts coming to Mars. (I guess Venus would've been a busman's.)
DOOM didn't frame its events as consequence of an illusionary choice expecting me to praise, through feigned insertion, interactivity as the wind beneath its narrative wings.
Moot_Geeza wrote:Minnesänger wrote:Can’t believe Escape killed her dad.
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