This is one of a few games I will replay from time to time just like I rewatch favourite movies from time to time. Maybe one day I will get the PS4 remaster, but for now I'm content to stick with the PS3 original.

lol this was my exact reaction too.  Those doctors died horrible deaths once I got in there

Starts off slow? The chaos of the fungal apocalypse is the first thing that happens. Things take a bit of a downbeat direction for the first few 20 years later scenes segments, but the only slowness about it is that you're not re-introduced to the infected immediately, and clickers don't come along for quite a while. But I would disagree with it being a slow start.

Thing is, Joel may have actually have been right.  Ellie wasn't the first person to have mutated fungus in her head.

I called The Last of Us as the culmination of technology, art, and game design of human history. Nothing ever close to it lol, maybe only Naughty Dog could ever surpassed it.

Some portions of the story and some gameplay elements were a bit rough if you ask me.

And it can only be done in the form of a video game. Movies doesn't cut to well enough to get that kind of state of mind going. Yeah at a movie you can say"Go Joel! Go save Ellie!" but in a game you're basically like "I need to save Ellie! Run run, holy shit there's a guy, get the fuck out of the way! run run run, where the fuck is she?"

The praise is overblown for one reason. It's not innovative. Games like OOT, the reason they get so much praise is because they change AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY. This game was great, and I have no issue with the praise. But it shouldn't be put into OOT category because it didn't really change anything. It is more evolution than revolution.

After about 5 hours or so of game, Id just remove my inards before turning on the consolto avoid having them riped out every 30 minutes or so by te game. This game made me feel things I didnt even know one person could feel, the most imersive experience I ever had in any form of media. And the fact that it has one ending set in stone makes it even better, Im tired of these games with these chose your own adventure kind of endings, those arent realy endings cause if anythign couldve happened, nothing actualy happened. The fact that the directors owned theyre story and told everybody, this i the ending to the tale, now deal with it was amazing.

I was like that as well, I went balls to the walls, shooting and running, speeding trough everybody to get to her, I had to protect her, I was her only hope, it was a phenomenal experience.

They set the standard for story telling which can make all forms of media re-evaluate themselves.

And at the same time providing fantastic gameplay, setting, visuals, sound (the sound of making a nail bomb is still awesome) and immersion. If it isn't your thing then that's cool, but you can understand why it is generation defining for many many people.