Last Of Us. Whats the fuss? Spoilers

[HoloDust]

Hynad said:

HoloDust said:

pezus said:

"But again, games like Bioshock, Metro 2033 have way more atmosphere and much better storytelling. "

Just no...

Metro...seriously? Bioshock could be seen as on par, but that's really mostly through the gameplay. 

Also, TLoU does look at least on par with UC3. 

Not surprised that you'd make this thread, though.

First Bioshock is one of best environmental storytelling games in last 15 years, which is order of magnitude harder to make properly than usual cinematic approach. Honestly, considering how much that game improved old, worn-out FPS genre, I would consider it much more important than anything else that came since, even though, subjectively, there are games I enjoyed more.

The Last of Us does environmental storytelling as much as Bioshock, but it also couples it with traditional cut-scenes. I enjoyed Bioshock Infinite quite a lot, but its characters aren't nearly as well fleshed out as the ones in TLoU. Story is good overall, but most of what is important in it happens during the last few hours.
The rest isn't nearly as engaging emotionally as what you find during the whole of TLoU.

I was talking about Bioshock 1. Game that proved that there are still developers who are willing to make exceptional stories in incredible settings (and what a story and setting that was) in ways that are very unique to games, without reaching unnecessary into bag of Hollywood solutions.