Is The Last of Us a timeless classic?

[AlfredoTurkey]

Lawlight said:

AlfredoTurkey said:
Timeless games are games where the mechanics don't age poorly 20 years down the line. Will gameplay be to the point in 20 years where we look back and play a game like The Last of Us, and still have fun? I really don't know.

 

I don't think people look back at OoT and think that the gameplay is great now.

 

Exactly. And that's why this "timeless" thing is being used all wrong. The word timeless originally meant that regardless of times passing, said thing is still great. OOT's gameplay is not great anymore. It was mind blowing then, but if it were released today, in it's original form, people would laugh.

Timeless is something more akin to say, Tetris, Pac-man or SMB. Timeless games are games which when played decades later, are still just as enjoyable. Timeless is NOT something that we look back at in awe over it's revolutionary design (OOT is a great example of this). Those games aren't timeless. They're revolutionary.