The Last of Us: Monsters are not the Focus

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Slimebeast said:

Christhor said:

Slimebeast said:

Porcupine_I said:

 "There's going to be horrific things happening in this game, but that's not the focus of it. The monsters aren't the focus of it, it's the relationship between Joel and Ellie."

I wish they could leave filmmaking to Hollywood.

I hate what's happening to HD gaming. If I buy a game I want to play a good video game, not being forced to artificially press some buttons to be allowed to watch scenes from a movie.

The vast majority of video games focus on gameplay rather than story. Can't you play one of those games, and stop complaining about diversity in gaming?

It's not diversity when all big games in this generation go for this ultra-directed cinematic presentation and simplistic gameplay. Games becoming interactive movies without people even realising it.

Even Skyrim is polluted by this phenomenon.

I don't see how a Wii or DS would fix this problem.  Very few games advance gameplay in truly important ways that haven't ever happened before.  It doesn't really shock me that games use movies as inspiration and even incorporate them.  Look at movies, they use music as do games, another art form.  You could even go so far as to think of games as the next step, a progression in artistic expression.  I don't see why it's that bad when you have stuff like Mario Galaxy at the other side of the spectrum, focusing mostly on just gameplay.    You can have great movie like elements without sacrificing gameplay.