SPOILERS The Last Of Us P2 SPOILERS

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goopy20 said:

Groundking said:
Can't say I'm too hopeful about the future of ND. It's never good when you get rid of key tallent (Amy Hennig) then ending up at a point where you have huge staff turnover and it's hard to see how they don't end up with very messy development processes. Games are almost never good when there's development hell add in all the woke nonsense being stuffed into it and I can see lots of poor games being released :( It's not like we've not seen this story before (think Mass Effect, for example)

Amy left ND 6 years ago lol. Besides she has been replaced with Halley Gross a writer who's worked on big stuff like HBO's Westworld. I have no idea why anyone would think TLOU2 isn't going to deliver. IGN was completely in awe when they played it and my guess is that the story will be one of the most shocking and memorable in gaming history. 

 Nobody is debating the critical success. And we all know it will sell millions.

But will it sell as much as the first? More? Unlikely. Spoilers and word of mouth is going to have some effect on the games legs. Social media will be a divisive political spectrum shitstorm. 

This is a game made for western audiences (NA/Europe). At least half of which identify as conservative. Who happen to be majority white and Christian. Not just European descent, the 70 million+ Hispanics in USA are also devout Christians. Then all of Mexico which is a growing gaming market. The growing population Muslim’s in Europe have similar views on the controversial aspects. Any of these dominant groups that own a PlayStation will be in some fashion pissed off.

Then you have good ol neutral gamers who will simply be pissed at key characters dying.
Point: Know your demographic. ND put their own agenda above the very people they are trying to sell to.