This has been making the rounds on the internet of late and I want to discuss this. 

First off, I think the gaming media are some of the most pretentious, double standards two sided scum in all of media journalism. They are all currently talking about this trailer and saying how its too violent and how thats something bad....

Now whats the point in having M ratings for games if they get to pick and choose what should go into a game or not go into it. Even worse, we are in a world where on international TV we have someone literally beating a guy to death with a baseball bat and the persons eyes popping out. But thats ok?

We are in a world that brandishes nudity and extreme sexualization in 8 outta 10 music videos that gets released and thats ok?

what gives? Someones hand got bashed in with a hammer? Like seriously?

what do you guys think of this? or is it that i just  have a higher tolerance for violence than most? Truth is that i don't even have a stomach for it. Hnece why i stay away from all those crash videos or shooting crap on youtube and facebook that my gf seems to love.

It was violent but I didnt think it outside the realm of TLOU

the violence how it was presented in the TLoU2 trailer was positively sickening and I think that's good, but I don't think that's good to have in a trailer - most horror-film trailers for example don't show off a whole gore/torture scene or sth like that

on the youtube livestream they had a warning that mature content would be shown in the conference, but I think it would have been a good idea to show another warning at the start of a trailer that portraits violence as realistically as this

I don't mind the violence personally but I agree with Lafiel above.

They're establishing the TLoU universe is full of cruel and desperate people where violence has become the norm in a world that's fallen apart. There are games that don't have this theme that sites like Polygon can turn to.

I think the violence is too meta honestly

Whats next, horor games are too vilent, porn movies have too much sex... :D

and you seem offended that others are offended, doesn't that make you a pussy² ?

It was definitely intense, but appropriate for the setting. You mention The Walking Dead and there was definitely plenty of backlash for that scene as well, with several sources thinking they went too far and it was in bad taste.

Anyway, I was fine with it in the trailer, but wouldn't want TLOU to turn into torture and gore porn. I doubt that's the last we'll see of it in the game, though. The sequel's theme is supposed to be 'Hate' and will probably focus more on the brutality of the world and be more brazen about it than the first game's more discrete references.

Looking at the wounds in the trailer it's possible they've built an advanced damage and dismemberment system for the game, in which case they won't let it go to waste.

I guess I can relate with that. I can't recall ever wathing a trailer that showcased the violence within the content like that.

I just don't feel as big a deal as has been made of this should have been made of it considering all the other stuff thats out there and people seem to be ok with.