Nothing compares to the feeling of 6th grade me watching this on my homeroom computer right after the Microsoft conference. 343 can't hold a candle to what Bungie accomplished with their trilogy. I thought Infinite might bring back some of that excitement but alas.
Unless it's something I REALLY need at launch, there's no way I'm paying that. $60 is enough as it is. I'll gladly wait for sales and play something else in the meantime.
@bigboss1911: that isnt why those (massively succesful) things failed though. Subverting expectations is arguably the best things about them, they went "bad" when they weren't consistent in characterization, especially GoT.
So far in TLOU2 does not make this sin.
Those things being successful is kinda irrelevant. Star Wars will always be a big draw and GOT had the audience because it was (up until that point) a very well written show. Throwing your audience for a curve ball can work if the writing underneath is good, like MGS 2 or Spec Ops The Line. Everything I've seen of TLOU 2 would definitely qualify as trying to subvert expectations, but the payoff or justification for it just isn't there.
All the discourse around this game has just taught me that people like to throw around "good/bad and better/worse writing" as objective facts when it really comes down to what they like.
Like, it feels like it has lost all meaning as a critique especially since people basically never elaborate.
Ellie massacres probably hundreds of people to get revenge on Abby, then at the very end, for no reason at all, "rEveNge iS BAAAD", and just lets her sail away. If someone want's to take a stab at explaining how that's good writing I'm all ears.
This whole trend of stories "sUbvErtIng eXpeCtations" is getting old really fast. GOT tried it and failed, Last Jedi tried it and failed. This game tried it and failed. It looks and sounds like a technical masterpiece but Neil Druckmann obviously can't handle writing a story by himself.
Making my way through the Uncharted games again (via PS4 collection). I don't remember exactly loving it when it first came out, but Drake's Fortune has aged TERRIBLY. By the end it felt like a chore to finish it. Everything from the animations, motion capture, awkward mechanics and voice acting acting feels so incredibly cartoony compared to later games. It really looks and plays like a crappy indie game compared to Among Thieves.
Bad storytelling aside, I'm not interested in having Druckmann's woke agenda shoved down my throat. According him I guess that makes me a phobic piece of shit.
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