So I just played TLOU for the first time..

[Eddie_Raja]

BraLoD said:

Eddie_Raja said:

EXACTLY.   My best friend doubted it could be that good, and I didn't blaim him.  A few hours in he messaged me to tell me the hype was 100% legit.

 

So few games live completely up to their name, and this one did.

TLoU made this stigma of a super hyped game being a letdown due to people hyping it too much turn to dust.

I also got to play it wanting to avoid expecting too much 'cause it just couldn't be that good, and yup, it was, even better.

It's a pretty damn nice feeling, getting cautious, then understanding the hype was real and then also getting the feel it should be even stronger, 'cause it was even better than how highly it was already being said.

Things like this are pretty rare, and to be honest TLoU was the strongest ever IMO, one in a lifetime experience.

I believe USA Today said TLoU was "The Citizen Kain monent of gaming."  It's hard to take me serious when I say this, but I completely agree.  Citizen Kain is so revered because it was really the first movie to be good by today's standards - no gimmicks, no BS - Just a good story with good acting.

The same is true for The Last of Us -  all of last generation games were trying to be "Cinimatic" and yet this usually came at the expense of gameplay.  TLoU finally managed to tell a story better than the grand majority of movies/TV and yet the gameplay was excellent.  MGS4 and Demon's Souls will always be my favorite games of all time, but objectively speaking TLoU of was the game of the generation.