| TheProphet said: So I'm playing Last of Us and enjoying it for the most part. The graphics are great. The game play is smooth and interesting. The music is nothing special, but sets the atmosphere well. My beef is with the limited understanding of reality by the game developers. The young girl in the gamee, Ellie is obscene, and disrespectful of her elders. And for somee reason, with next to no experience in life she is somehow endowed with a deeper understanding of life than Joel, the adult. An adult female at the beginning of the game is extremely violent which is such an unrealistic portrayal of women. Do the game developers think that they are being 'progressive' by living in a delusion. What do you think? Also, the game developers leave it up to Ellie, the young girl to decide whether there is a heaven or not. And of course she selfconfidentally says she doesn't think so. So according to the game deveelopers there is no point to life. Life is crap, we live and die, and that's it. This is the shallowest, unthoughtful point of view that I can imagine. There is no rational reason to believe this point of view. And there is no reason given to support this nihilism. So are game developers good at graphics and stupid at life. What do you think? |
This is a joke, right? Well, I'll take it like you're serious.
Let's break down the stupid, my friend!
We're gone to look at your reasons for why they have no understanding of reality(funny, that sounds like someone in this thread, someone who perhaps made this thread?)
1 - "Ellie is disrespectful to elders": Yeah, those kind of kids exist, they exist in quite a large amount. Most kids don't respect their elders that much. So, your first point is bunk.
2 - "Ellie has more knowledge and understanding then Joel": She was raised in the apocalypse, allowing her to soak in more of it and adapt, as humans are creatures who adapt to our world. A human born in a warn torn world will have better knowledge and understanding then an older person who was flung into this world.
3 - "A female is violent": Women, despite your sheltered mindset are as capable of being as violent and as cruel as men. Women have raped, murdered, tortured and destroyed. To think a character being violent and crude is not realistic, because they're female, is quite sexist.
4 - "Living in a delusion makes them progressive": Do you think someone who doesn't know much about real life should be criticizing how realistic this game is?
5 - "Ellie decides on her own there's no Heaven or Hell": One: People have and do come to this conclusion in real life, this isn't that absurd. They're called aetheists. Two: By giving her this character trait, they're showing that in this nightmarish land, she doesn't have much belief in things like Heaven or Hell, because she's grown up in a cold, painful world. Three: Just because you give a character an opinion or belief, this is not a reflection of the people who made the character.
6 - "What do you think?": I think this better be a joke, because I really feel sorry for you.
