| theprof00 said: imo, TLOU is the best story driven game of all time. Comparing any game to TLOU is going to create a lot of contrast. That's like comparing any adventure game to Ocarina, or comparing anything to dark souls, or metroid prime, or mario 3. It's like, OK it's not one of the top best games of all time, but how does that not make it a masterpiece? The word is defined as an artist's best piece, or a work of extreme craftsmanship. It fits both of those criteria. |
Well, as I've mentioned, these are my reasons for not considering it a masterpiece. If other people have other reasons then that's fine but I don't think we can simply ignore the story telling when judging. After all, this IS a story driven game and much has been made of the acting. This is something I haven't touched upon but I suppose I should have ... I was just trying to be fair, I suppose ... but: The acting isn't great either. Apart from peripheral characters, the acting is somewhat run of the mill. Christopher Judge has never been what I would consider an Oscar potential, just a half decent actor in select roles, rather like Arnold Schwarzenegger. There isn't much for him to get his teeth into when playing Kratos either, leading to a half decent actor having to keep his acting two dimensional throughout. Sunny Suljic gives us the usual run of the mill child acting; something befitting a Disney movie or sitcom. Neither are convincing to the point of 'moving'. I didn't care about the characters throughout my playthrough and never once felt anything. Atreus could have died and I would not of felt a thing, and I'm not exaggerating there. You are not going to see video after video of people's reactions to scenes as you did in TLOU, and that's because of good actors taking the medium seriously and nailing a brilliant script.
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