no because games like dead rising try to do something totally different. it wouldn't make sense for dead rising to have the same game mechanics as tlou. and it would be horrible if all games would copy tlou now.

but if there will be games which try to copy it they have to be damn good to look not like shit. so maybe for those games my standard is very high now.

The only standards it raised for me is storytelling. TLOU easily has the best storytelling of any game, imo. I love amazing stories in games. As for gameplay I think TLOU is great aswell but it didn't do anything innovative to really raise standards.

No. Last of Us doesn't really excel in anything outside of the voice acting and that fantastic intro. Good game, but the Mass Effect series is the only thing that comes close to making other games this gen feel dated. 

On a side note, the motion performances are probably the finest video games have seen, it certainly sets a standard in that respect. 

No but TLoU was an amazing game

It is one special game, no doubt. But I don't think that there is a "standard" for gaming, the experiences are so different. It did, however, raise the standard for the survival horror genre and post-apocalyptic fiction in gaming.

I'm still in the middle of it (I want to play it right now, but I agreed to only play it with my girlfriend because she enjoys watching it or occasionally getting mauled by a clicker), and I can see where the OP is coming from.

From what I played so far, the game offers so much polish and so much thought into its game play systems that it does raise the standard for what a video game could be. From the way supplies are handled to the finite nature of many weapons to the mix and match of stealth versus action peppered with exploration to give the player a few scenic valleys between those peaks, the entire experience so far is incredibly engaging. And I've yet to rave about the story, graphics or performances.

Even so (and I'm still a ways from finishing), I haven't seen anything that is so groundbreaking that it makes other games unplayable. I'd probably liken it to something like Half Life 2 (which now is outdated in certain aspects of mechanics but for its time was a marvel). Even at its release, it didn't do anything absolutely ground breaking. Sure the physics were awesome, but the real draw was the overall polish and consideration the developers put into making their game one in which people could truly immerse themselves in. But 9 years later, people are still playing Mario and CoD and that's not going to stop now that TLOU raised the bar. We gamers need variety and sometimes simple fun is the name of the game.

Yes. I tried playing Hitman Absolution last night and almost puked. Had to turn it off.

It's a re-skinned Uncharted, nothing has change for me at all.

If this were true for me then I would have been ruined for gaming life by Bioshock.

Last of Us is great but it isn't that great imho.

I have always been fussy when it comes to my games. Probably the reason why I think most games are complete crap lol