| hinch said: Well deserved. Great game. |
Almost my thoughts exactly.
It's hard to compare games of such wildly different genres, but TLOU2 is a very singular experience. I find myself still thinking about it. It's a thing of beauty, in technical terms as well as in the story and the themes.
The controversy was partly political, which I found to be unnecessary because the game really isn't as politically motivated as people seem to think. But if you get stuck on something like that, you will only see what you want to see.
The second point of contention was the story, which was designed to evoke feelings of hate and shock and such, so when it made people angry, it actually succeeded in what it was trying to do. However, there was a second and more important part to the experience, that was supposed to make you grow beyond that anger and hurt and see things from a broader perspective. Everyone did not connect with that second part.
In a funny way, the game realized one of its main themes by showing how depressingly strong the modern tribalistic mindset is and how it failed us yet again, both with accepting the story of the game and the political tussle surrounding it. Some of us are not willing to try and understand the opposing side, or muster any amount of empathy for them whatsoever. It's just us and them, always.
