A game the size of Grand Theft Auto or Skyrim with a dynamic world would require the game engine to handle much more than a game that only has to have a small, non-dynamic, constrained game. It's why people drool over Naughty Dog, even though making linear games pretty isn't that hard when you have that kind of budget.

Now, if Naughty Dog made an open world, exploration-based game with those kind of graphics, yeah, that would be commendable. Having minature areas with set loading points like Uncharted and TLOU is much less stressful on the game engine.

Perhaps people's reasons for not liking it are subjective, which is why you don't understand. Getting irritated about someone not liking a game as much as you is something I outgrew when I was 7.

Are you sure you played TLOU? It doesn't sound at all like the game I played. Perhaps you're not ignorant ... perhaps you're getting it mixed up with another game?

I disagree with him, too, but he's entitled to his opinion. However, I do get a little irritated when people keep bringing up "linear". Yes, TLOU is linear, but how linear? Corridor linear to the point that the map is literally a straight line linear a la FFXIII? Or wide linear where you have freedom to explore despite the game not being open world? Some of the areas in TLOU are pretty expansive, so the game falls in the category of wide linear.

Then why doesn't this apply to Halo 2, which is from an even older gen?

I played TLOU. I don't own it, and I won't pretend I do. I haven't played through all of it either. But from the amount that I played (and I played more than a decent amount), I can say it's focus on linear gameplay is less taxing on the engine. In a game like Skyrim, you have a huge world that is constantly being loaded and generated, with dynamic AI appearing almost at random. There is a lot of emphasis on environmental interaction, with wildlife being generated and entire mountains being scalable at once. In TLOU, you get a couple of streets or confined areas with set AI. Don't get me wrong, the game is a masterpiece in terms of story, but lets not pretend ND stumbled upon the Holy Grail of game engines.

I played TLOU. I don't own it, and I won't pretend I do. I haven't played through all of it either. But from the amount that I played (and I played more than a decent amount), I can say it's focus on linear gameplay is less taxing on the engine. In a game like Skyrim, you have a huge world that is constantly being loaded and generated, with dynamic AI appearing almost at random. There is a lot of emphasis on environmental interaction, with wildlife being generated and entire mountains being scalable at once. In TLOU, you get a couple of streets or confined areas with set AI. Don't get me wrong, the game is a masterpiece in terms of story, but lets not pretend ND stumbled upon the Holy Grail of game engines.

cuz its running two engines at once and we dont know the offical fps yet 

You want to talk about the technical demands of a game, yet you have no experience how these games are designed and what is taxing on the system in terms of development? Because it isn't something as arbitrary as gameplay e_e.

You should have played more because you're competely wrong. TLOU has the best gameplay of any game out there but it just happens to have the best story, best characters and best acting out there too. That's why it's a masterpiece and why it's the most awarded game that's ever been made.