| VGKing said: So you have no emotions? You don't like games that make you care about these characters? You prefer games that just put out generic hints of a story in the world for you to try and piece it together? Now THAT sounds boring. I like Dark Souls. I really do. It's not because of the story, it doesn't have one, its because of the gameplay. The Last of Us did everything right. Story/Gameplay/Emotion. If something like weird AI bothers you then you probalby shouldn't be playing video games. You see people outside the gams industry saying that video games can't create emotion like Movies/TV Shows do. The Last of Us proves them wrong. Now, stop judging a game before you play it. It doesn't appeal to you. Boo Hoo. That's your loss. |
lmao. From "the plot is too predictable" to "you have no emotions" -- that's a reasonable jump to make.
Claiming that Dark Souls doesn't have a story pretty much caps off any interest I might have had in discussing stories in games with you.
The Last of Us certainly "creates" emotion. It manufactures emotion the way a kid puts together a LEGO set, following all of the instructions brick-by-brick until he has the exact same model as everyone else who bought the set.
Of course I should know better than to feel anything less than absolute reverence for the most-hyped game of the year. God forbid the story and gameplay might be uninteresting to me, I should stop playing video games because I'm clearly a robot with no emotions.
There's a difference between weird AI and bad AI. The Last of Us is an example of the latter. And yes, bad AI does bother me, and I think I have a right to be bothered by it.
Unfortunately I have neither unlimited time nor unlimited funds, so I cannot personally experience every game that comes out. I pick and choose which ones I want to play. In order to get through this selection process, I have to form an opinion of a game before I play it. I know I must be blowing your mind with this concept. I have reasons for not being interested in playing The Last of Us, and I have laid them out here. Come the end of the year when the game is sweeping all of the GOTY awards because of my feels bro, I will again have to point to these reasons when people tell me I have to play this game, and I expect much the same reactions.
