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darkshadow23 on 24 June 2013
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the_dengle said:
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.


How can you say all of this without even playing the game? First you mark the story off as "just another zombie game". Then you say the AI is bad. You haven't played the game yourself. You've only watched someone else play it, if that. How about you go watch someone play a few games you enjoy on youtube for 20 hours and see how much fun that is? I'd say not so much. Games are to be played, not viewed on youtube.