IGN's Game of the Year

[DevilRising]

veritaz said:

DevilRising said:
People are so enthralled with the game.........honestly, if it had been a film, it would have been direct to dvd. It's okay, but nowhere near the hype.

That's a wierd thing to say, if any game was a movie it would not be as impressive. This game definitely deserves the hype though. I never expected it to be as good as it was even with all the hype surrounding it.

It's not a weird thing to say at all, considering that TLOU, just like the Uncharted games before it, is a game trying to be a movie. A playable, "interactive film". My point was, most of what I hear people talk about in relation to this game, including the friend who had me play it and showed it to me for hours, gushing over it, was "what an incredible story it has". The story didn't grip me as that incredible, sorry to say. And the gameplay, at least to me, was nothing spectacular either. I've played better games that do what TLOU was trying for, and while I wouldn't call it a BAD game by any means, I recognize it's value, I will stand by my opnion that it is terribly overhyped.

 

It isn't just "game of the year" in some people's eyes, it's been called "Game of Generation" by several outlets, and to me, that's a bit much.