i must have watched that intro about 20 times now, with every lets play avaliable on youtube, i love to see peoples reaction to this, especially when they start out trying to be funny and suddenly go really quiet.

I almost did, I could feel it starting. Then I realized that I was only feeling that way because it was exclusive.

Nope. Very different games, I know. I Loved TLOU intro but after you play it for the first time, playing it again isn't half as good. You pretty much press forward and watch the cutscenes. Fighting a spiderwater horse on a titans back then beating a God to death is still incredible 3 years later. 

Meh. Take a prologue like this to a decent literary agent and I can bet you it'll get cut before your work is released.

First of all it was more emotionally manipulative than shocking. Telling some traumatic event from the hero's life in the prologue and skipping ten or twenty years is a cliched pattern by now. It's supposed to showcase a major personality-defining event and avoid annoying flashbacks but instead it falls flat on its face because it makes the future character a parody of its almighty trauma. Secondly it's too detached from the main storyline. What happened to, you know, starting a tale with the characters we should care about instead of these people who only show up briefly and then vanish? Again, prologues can be interesting foreshadowing devices if they're done right, but most of times, it doesn't really happen.

It takes an incredibly fine skill to enable you to rain shit in your story and not let it stink. The kind of skill that's still far away from any gaming developer. Specially if these developers, or better yet, their fans, try to make up their beloved games live up to the standards set on other kinds of media.

So-this gen made you shed a tear only once in 6 years but twice within the last 6 month.

U are getting old and meak?

Climbing a Titan and slaying it was someting Sony Japan accomplished last gen. Epic moments. Even Castlevania tried to rip it but couldn't replicate those Epic SOTC moments.

I think I've stopped giving any credibility to anything you had to say after the second post I've read from you on the forums

Thank you for your reply. Your intelligence really shows through your disconcerting arguments.

Just asking...have you played Lost Odyssey and Ni No Kuni? Those games are made by geniuses who know how to get you to crack, just like The Last of Us.

Yours was nothing but mindless bashing.