Naughty Dog: Ellie’s Popularity in The Last of Us “Says a lot About Whether Games can Sell With a Female Protagonist” *spoilers*

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RenCutypoison said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Learning to like a sisters boyfriend isnt character development. Lightening was a female protagonist that was forced upon people. They did not properly think through her role. Snow was a jackass plain and simple. He's the "I want to be a superhero look at me go!" type without any natural likeability in the world, place in the typical plastic positioning. He was my most hated character. Its like they took a ken doll, kept the attitude, yet made him scruffy. Lightening was always an aggressor in the game, but it felt like she was being forced upon me. She did not strike me as the mysterious type, nor the badass they made her out to be. If this was real life she probably would've been knocked down quite easily, but this is based off of an anime, so lets humor it for a second. Hope was a weakling in the beginning of the game but ends up being one of the most trustworthy and powerful characters by the end.

Coming to like your sister's boyfriend is hard. I know it, I have 6 sisters.

It's real, at least. Lightning wasn't a failed character to me, and I do hate the mysterious type. Cloud was more a failure to me 

 

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"I took my mentor's identity because I suck" made him the least hero of all heroes' history. He's just a weakling pretending to be someone else, and, BTW, If you do are a weakling that pretend to be a veteran IRL, you get beaten up by real veterans.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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And I liked Snow, that took the typical wannabe hero and turned it into a realistic character, with a realistic developpement. No, he is not as likeable as badasses. But at least is he human.

If you watch the Final Fantasy move, played Crisis core and played VII eventually you understand Zack feels Cloud is the best of him and pretty  much Zack is looking down on him through it all. Zack was better but Cloud learns to be something great when at first he was just worthless. Snow had no development...do you know what character development is?