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1) The Last of Us: Part II. VIOLENCE! LESBIANS! Deal with it, motherfuckers, 'cause this is now officially my most anticipated game of all time! Where the original was a sort of allegory for the challenges of fatherhood, this one is a sort of coming-of-age story about the original protagonist's daughter and functions as an allegory for those sorts of challenges. Obviously I can relate to the latter a lot more.
I'm someone who happens to be from a small, rural community in the U.S. and really appreciated that that was the sort of feel that this year's trailer had; the Appalachian sort of vibe. It was captured in a lot of ways, not least of which the intoxicating music! The writing is better than that in most movies and the dance scene...well it just made me feel validated and happy in a way that other AAA games just really haven't. That was special to me. I know it's going to keep on being controversial. These things always are. There will be a boycott campaign organized on Reddit and/or 4chan because lesbians, scary, I know, and the developers and publisher will likely take a commercial hit for taking this narrative risk as a result. I'm sorry that that's the case, but you know, the post-apocalyptic survival quest type of feel that The Last of Us has as a franchise really does actually kind of capture how my teenage years felt spiritually. Most of small town America is lapsing into poverty in a way that feels post-apocalyptic and being oriented toward other females, particularly in that sort of social context, didn't help matters for me.
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Wait, really? Wow, people are dumb. Since the Left Behind DLC it was known that Ellie was a lesbian.
