Naughty Dog: "We want to change the f***ing industry" with The Last of Us (with a focus on storytelling)

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Reasonable said:

Slimebeast said:
Call of Duty already changed (destroyed) the industry enough by copying Hollywood and the cinematic experience. In this console generation nearly all big budget games already turned from being games into being interactive movies. And now these guys are cheered for dumbing down gaming even more.

The CoD problem is two way and arguably more than two way in the other direction. - I'd argue half the problem with movies such as Transformers is they are becoming too much like games - all action as a substitute for interaction and way too little character and depth.  In short I don't think cinema is dumbing down games so much as games are helping contribute to dumbing down cinema.

Cinema was simply the medium that started to get dumbed down to appeal to the lowest common action orientated denominator first and gaming is simply following faster and activily contributing.

I'd also note Hollywood and US "entertainment" cinema does not equal the totality.

Hopefully ND are thinking a lot less of CoD and/or Transformers and a whole lot more like Alien or Let The Right One In (in terms of depth of characterisation and narrative context).

I also wish when a developer wants to try something people wouldn't argue with the same boring all generalities.  They aren't trying to make every game story lead nor is that their goal.  They want their game to be that way and they want to offer better than the medium has historically in that regard.  Is it really necessary to start panicing for all other genres every time there is a focus by a single developer in a single area?

Well, that's how it is this gen.

We get cinematic games and people panics. We get motion controls and people panics. Everybody panics.

 

OT: *panics*