torok on 26 November 2014
It depends. It must be pretty well designed to work. And even in pretty good games, like RE4, the mission suck but the game is good enough to compensate it.
I don't consider TLOU a escort mission game. Ok, you are theorically escorting Ellie, but she is invisible to enemies and only very rarely she will be attacked, and even then you have almost 2 minutes to save her. You can drink a damn coffee and return in time.
