How Can Someone Say "Game A" Is Better Than "Game B" If THEY Never Even Played Both? O.o

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Somini said:
You tell me. Every Nintendo fan on this site is sure The Last Of Us doesn't deserve the attention it's getting. Have you all played the game behind our backs during one of your meetings or something?

That's old news. I'm surprised you didn't hear about it. /s/

Anyway, there will always be those who troll whatever game wins the lion's share of the GOTY awards. Yet for 2013, the biggest GOTY meltdowns I've seen revolved around Zelda (GameSpot) and Mario (Eurogamer). Hmm.

Addressing the OP, I try not to compare the gameplay of a game I've never played. Almost any other aspect of a game, however, seems completely open to comparison. You can thank YouTube for that.

As for how I feel about The Last of Us without having played it: I respect Naughty Dog and have gone to great lengths to avoid TLOU spoilers, so that if I do decide to play through it, I would judge it fairly and my experience would not have been preemptively compromised. And since I've avoided spoilers, I don't have much of an opinion about the plot, except that it shares some pivitol themes with The Walking Dead and The Road. I happen to like both those things, so it's no problem.