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spemanig said:
CosmicSex said:

I disagree.  Having played the game, it is obvious that even though Joels story is the adhesive, the last of us is a game about people in different situations dealing with the world they live in.   TLOU is the story of Joels survivin' in that world.  All other charachter have their own unique stories but ultimately everyone is living in a world ravaged by the fungus.   One of the great parts of the story is that you could tell that everyone Joel encounterd had a unique story.  The DLC dives into this and lets us explore Ellie's deeper story.   And that was just one character. 

Joels story is the adhesive that holds all of these complex backgrounds together, but each story in itself is very compelling.  Even David's story... or rather especially David's.  Also Marlene's story and Tess; not to mention Tommy and his family... heck even Ish could get a whole game.


What? No it isn't. It most definitely is only about Joel, and to a lesser extent, Ellie. It's not about Joel surviving anything. It's about Joel dealing with the loss of his daughter. That's it. Of course they're are others living in that world. It would be inauthentic story telling to not flesh out those characters as they interact with him. Every good story with supporting characters does this. That doesn't somehow make the setting more important. It merely makes the setting more credible. If the setting was WW2 Germany instead of a zombie apocolypse, the characters would be just as fleshed out. Not of that makes a sequel more credible.

Aside from your usual preferences, that's just not correct. The Walking Dead is exactly about the stories people experience, but that never means that Rick's story is the only interesting one.