So to start off I assume everyone is familiar with the rivalry bettween Pixar and Dreamworks animation, and their history of dualing titles Antz/A Bug's Life, Shrek/Monster's inc Finding Nemo/Shark Tail etc 

Well it seems like Gaming has two studios that look to be starting their own

First off there is the fact that early drafts of Uncharted featured an underwater city much like rapture , well the two studios seem to be steping it up a notch with The Last of Us and Bioshock: Infinite

Both titles feature a dystopian setting, that the players must navigate, where sosiaty is breaking down and mob rule has risen to power

Both feature humans as their primary enemies and have non zombie "mutant" enemies

Both star a main character who is a middle aged male with a chekered past, Bioshock has Booker DeWitt an ex Pinkerton agent who was disgraced and kicked out for his extream methods, TLOU has Joel a smugler who has tortured and killed to survive.

Both games feature a young female sidekick that can hold their own in a fight, that is controlled by AI, who both yearn to escape their homes. TLOU has Ellie a young orphan girl who knows nothing about the world outside the military  quarantine zone she grew up in, Bioshock has Elizibeth a young girl who knows nothing about the world outside the tower she has been held captive in on Columbia.

The player characters have both been hired to rescue the female character from their homes in mysterious circumstances.

Both games will require the two main characters to use their different abilities to navigate the enviroment and solve puzzles.

and nether game will feature co-op and both games feature different human factions all have different goals

Discuss

P.S. This is not an attack on either game or studio

So Capcom is Disney(???) in this version of comparing game companies with film studios. 

Uh

Hrm

No I think this probably has more to do with the fact that "Two people traveling together, who are all that either has in the world" is one of the oldest and most powerful storytelling tropes in the world.

It's like Cormac McCarthy's The Road, only you're helping to escort a young woman because studios don't think gamers could identify with devoting oneself to one's son.

No both Leon and Ashley both have longer lighter colored hair, they are nothing alike 

Or Hell, take the main character and his son, Carl, from the Walking Dead books. Same concept.

Pretty rare for the protecting figure to be a woman, I guess.

Oh that's another thing nether of the pairs of main characters are related, good point now it's clear they are nothing like the road (despite the road being one of the main insperations for TLOU) totally different in fact

I think it would be fair given target demographics. Even if the games are nominally for "adults," they would still be younger adults, more likely to identify with romance than with the parental end of a relationship with a child

Ellie is definitely more of a daughter figure than a romantic figure.

RE4, unless I misremember, was about popping wheelies on motorcycles and ramping off of Spaniard's heads. I may not have that right, but I am pretty sure.

You two are totally a married couple.