Guilty_AI
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Bruce Straley agrees that Ghost of Tsushima should be GOTY instead of TLoUII.
Explosive Zombie
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Your whole post I'm cool with besides this part. Who decides what's good is the question? Besides this I'm more on your terms than not.
Corpsepyre
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Tsushima's a very good, polished game, and Sucker Punch are ace devs, but it's story and characters didn't resonate with me the way TLOU's did. It's a perfectly solid open-world action game, but it's strange how it was pushed to GOTY status by 'gamers', and the positive review bombs right after TLOU2's release didn't exactly help the conversation.
MasterDerico
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"i'm not a virgin since i was thirteen, i've been with enough girls in my life...
...to see through the bullshit behind modern feminism"
...to see through the bullshit behind modern feminism"
Vick
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I'm 29, in my country referring to women "girls" till their 40s makes them happy."i'm not a virgin since i was thirteen, i've been with enough girls in my life...
...to see through the bullshit behind modern feminism"
EverydayBeast
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Mentality SONY is rolling with game of the year awards they’re animals.
Imru’ al-Qays
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I think even fans of TLoU2 have to acknowledge that is significantly worse than the first game, and that Straley's departure has something to do with that.
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MasterDerico
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What I didn't understand is that you need a hot dog to lose your virginity...or..!?
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Hell no. TLOU 2 is miles better than the original. Im glad Straley left, he was too fucking soft.
I respect him, but he wasn't built to tell truly dark stories.
The game is fucking called THE LAST OF US - Its supposed to be depressing.
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STARSBarry
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This is why I love TLOU2 fans, they know the game is shit so lash out in super basic ways without any real argument as anything more complex is beyond them, when presented with criticism of the game.
Its like people who watch nothing but transformers trying to explain why the new star wars is the greatest thing ever.
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The hell are you even talking about?
My post was about Straley being too soft to ever make a game like TLOU 2.
I can devalue and shit on any argument anyone makes against this game pretty easily.
I have yet to see a single, sane, well informed opinion as to what makes this game "terrible". Or the writing "bad". Not one.
People have no fucking idea what good writing is.
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Vick
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I know, it's fucking three hours long, but this video does a pretty good job in explaining why are objectivity and reason to decide it's not good.
And it's not something over-analysed/nobody noticed, watching gamers playing pivotal moments shows how totally disconnected they were, no matter the "gender" nor "status", no one wanted to fucking fight Ellie as Abby in the theatre.. outside of mentally persons i guess.
Not sure why Druckmann would want players committing suicide by allowing Ellie to kill them. And i mean, it would be even kinda cool as an experiment i guess, an arthouse sort of thing.. but in the sequel of what at the time was the most critically acclaimed game even made? Something even movie directors looked upon (this is a thing, believe me, JJ Abrams said Uncharted 2 opening was "the best opening of anything cinematic – TV, film, game – that he’s ever seen")?
Another example from my playthrough. I've been using Abby for who knows how long, i'm meeting with Manny again, he's in trouble because of a sniper (someone i'll have to fight, a sequence straight from the first one which is known for how fucking much players hated that sniper) but as long as he says "This sniper's a fucking pro" and i realize he's Tommy, i have the biggest, glorious sadist smile on my face.
And when he fucking
blows Manny's head off
Bullshit. If it really was, what about that happy ending which deprived the game of any sense?
"But Ellie's now alone, it's not an happy ending beca.." GTFO, it's an happy ending. Which made the whole game a fucking joke.
Ellie killing Abby to THEN realize it was the wrong thing to do, because she still felt like shit and actually even worse, that would be good.. but then "goodbye sequel, and the entire premise of replacing Joel and Ellie with a woman (in male body to keep Joel gameplay) and a non-binary child".
You're delusional.
Dude, i'm an eterosexual male. Losing verginity = penis inside vagina.
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I don't quite get what youre trying to say but let me just say this. As soon as you bring up "non binary child", your entire argument goes to the fucking trash can.
The game isn't supposed to be happy. Its not simply a "revenge" story. Have you never watched a movie where the main character wanted revenge and DIDNT get it? This is not a new phenomenon.
People fucking die in The Last of Us. Joel died. He was not a good guy. He was not a hero. He deserved the golf stick to the dome. He died to give motivation for the 2 new characters. You are supposed to be pissed off. You are supposed to hate Abby at first. Thats the point. ANY form of art that can draw out such emotion in its viewer is undeniably a success. You were attached to a character because of his good writing. Nothing im saying right now is even up for debate.
If you cant sympathize with her POV then you are just heartless, overly soft and emotional and just ... slow. Because she had every fucking reason to want him killed brutally. The man killed her father and doomed the world to eternnal hell. What the hell is so hard to understand? You people get too tied up in fictional characters, and let EMOTIONS to fictional characters cloud your judgement of great writing.
EVERY single video analysis has the same retarded ass arguments.
Stay out of writing.
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RoadHazard
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Where did he say that? Just because he liked that post? Maybe he just liked it because he thinks GoT is also a good game.
You guys need to let this shit go.
TLoU2 is a masterpiece.
You guys need to let this shit go.
TLoU2 is a masterpiece.
Chris_Rivera
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Gotta agree with Bruce. Lou2 was all over the place and inconsistent with character logic, but a super well made game. I don’t think it’s attempts at realism or appeals to wokeness earn it anything special.
GoT was beautiful and thoughtful, had exceptional gameplay and uniqueness. Certainly deserving.
GoT was beautiful and thoughtful, had exceptional gameplay and uniqueness. Certainly deserving.
At this point I just want the multiplayer mode/game.
I can't see how Ellie, Joel or Tommy can be rehabbed after being destroyed by TLOU2's story. I DON'T want more of Abbey or Lev.
But at the same time, I don't know how I'd feel about a TLOU3 without Ellie, even if she was an unlikeable bint in TLOU2. That would be like Batman without Bruce Wayne, or something. You're not "the man", you're just wearing his clothes.
I can't see how Ellie, Joel or Tommy can be rehabbed after being destroyed by TLOU2's story. I DON'T want more of Abbey or Lev.
But at the same time, I don't know how I'd feel about a TLOU3 without Ellie, even if she was an unlikeable bint in TLOU2. That would be like Batman without Bruce Wayne, or something. You're not "the man", you're just wearing his clothes.
Whitecrow
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"I have 200 IQ and I have the absolute truth, and you are all wrong."
Yeah, of course, we will take you seriously : )
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MiguelItUp
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Remember, any opinion towards TLOU2 that isn't some kind of glowing praise apparently means you hate it. As a result you're going to be berated with comments regarding how your opinion sucks, you're full of bad takes, don't know what you're talking about, etc. 
For someone that thought the game was fine, I just want it all to be buried and done with.
For someone that thought the game was fine, I just want it all to be buried and done with.
Papacheeks
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Not to derail, but I believe Neil Druckman's new position leaves the studio open for someone like Bruce to come back and take the reigns. Which it seems he's better at in making more heartfelt stories.
MrS
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Tell em brother.
Vick
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Man.. please.
The point being?
Even a single line can do a better job than the entire TLoUII on this regard:
Done.
Just like Abby deserved to be beheaded at the end of this one, then.
Because unlike Joel, who actually did what he did to save a little girl and his motivations were fucking brilliantly exposed and SHARED by the players through the entire first game, Abby by pursuing her revenge (which makes her wrong to begin with) by torturing and killing a man who just saved her life, was responsible for the death of all her friends. And she herself killed the rest of her friends to save.. a literal stranger.
Again, you're delusional, have no taste, and a not very promising psychological picture based on what you're saying.
Then again, i guess i'm the human and you the weird psycho since you weren't able to sympathize with Joel after the entirety of the first game?
And yes, i found sympathizing with her, an awfully written character, extremely difficult because of something called suspension of disbelief.
If they had the real balls to make her an actual deranged character, a well written proper villain with actual humanity, without trying so hard by resorting to all those pathetic and cringy tricks to make us feel for her, i would think differently.
You know who i sympathized with, and was actually sorry for? Owen. And even Lev... which was nothing special in terms of writing anyway.
The same world which was shown in the entire game as literal hell anyway?
Maybe this will come as a surprise for you, and i can't find the source at the moment (if someone can please post it) but i read that fucking Druckmann himself at the end of the first game killed all doctors, every time.
And you out of intelligent arguments.
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MasterDerico
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SafeOrAlone
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1. "GOTY" is only good for subjective discussion. Voting is well and good, but it makes no difference to me.
2. It does seem like a butthurt move by Straley, what can you say? Maybe it's not but generally I think that is the social cue most people will take away from this, given the context of the tweet as well as the general situation.
3. I prefer TLOU pt 2 over GoT, personally speaking. The combat encounters are great.
2. It does seem like a butthurt move by Straley, what can you say? Maybe it's not but generally I think that is the social cue most people will take away from this, given the context of the tweet as well as the general situation.
3. I prefer TLOU pt 2 over GoT, personally speaking. The combat encounters are great.
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Kev Kev
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who gives a shit anymore. the industry is going full retard and completely politicized now. i dont trust any game reviews, developers, publishers, scores, award shows... fuck em all. the only way to go is wait for months after release and then get some opinions from a bunch of random youtube videos.
Birgitte2004-2
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Are you really pretending that the criticisms of TLOU2 are "real arguments" and "complex"? You hate the game, and that's fine, but let's not pretend that the arguments against TLOU2's quality are highly deep and philosophical in nature. Every criticism I've seen is no deeper than "I don't like it, so nobody else is allowed to either".
bender
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The world is stunningly beautiful. The story is interesting and the performances are solid. It's standout game play element are the duels. It has a few neat open world activities in hot spring memories and haiku writing. Other than that, it feels like just about any other open world game in terms of combat (non-Duels), sense of exploration (poor), traversal, crafting and collectables.
THEAP99
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It's basically just another Sony Ubisoft open world but with more polish. Congratulations. A B - minus rated game isn't goty worthy. Maybe if ghost of tsushima released in 2013 it would be. But today, nope.
EDMIX
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Agreed. Its basically a better Assassins Creed Japan lol I personally like the game, but man it has many issues and can get massively repetitive. Its story bored me to sleep and I only liked the side stories with the other cast of characters.
Don't even get me started with Ryuzo's character basically betraying the entire country for food despite running past Rivers valleys filled with fucking Fish Deer running and shit are you kidding me? I literally laughed out loud because this doesn't really make a lot of sense and I have to question how the fuck did anyone seriously write this with a straight face. I mean my god...you LITERALLY HAVE FISHING VILLAGES, his clan has bows and arrows yet can't kill deer, boar, bears and all the other fucking animals that clearly they can consume? The fuck?
THEAP99
" It's basically just another Sony Ubisoft open world but with more polish. Congratulations. A B - minus rated game isn't goty worthy. Maybe if ghost of tsushima released in 2013 it would be. But today, nope. " Agreed. I like the game, but its not doing much new and has lots of room for improvement. We wouldn't give most Assassins Creeds GOTY and i feel this game falls in that area.The Last Of Us 2 is simply a better game even before we talk about story.
Think about it.
Ghost Of Tsushima 2. If they added dogs that are actually able to SMELL YOU, AI that actually looks for you, have their heads move many directions looking for you like in The Last Of Us 2, actually vocally say the name of the person you just stealth killed looking for them as their ABSENCE CONFIRMS SOMETHING IS WRONG, someone telling me that being added in Ghost 2 is bad?
If you take those elements and add them to Ghost, you have a better game. Period. I like both games, but clearly 1 of theses games just has a deep level of quality that is very hard to top and elements that should be added in Ghost Of Tsushima 2 (or what ever they will call it) simply to make the world make more sense in terms of gameplay.
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yurinka
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Druckmann said in an interview that they made an effort to make their female characters not attractive for straight males. So Dina became uglier and with smaller boobs than her actress, and same happened with Abby (her actress is pretty too) but for her even took a separate actress -with a more body building type body- for body motion capture.
You know, because these 'feminists' think it's something problematic.
This is an option.
Another one would be to hire Bruce and Amy for the new San Diego studio who is rumored to be working on a new Uncharted. And to also hire former ND talent who may have left ND in the past because of working conditions or Druckmann, promising them that they won't crunch -or at least that they will have very little- on the new studio.
Is this real? If yes thanks God we had Bruce there.For those of you not familiar with the man:
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Danjin44
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I personally liked Ghost of Tsushima more than TLOU 2. With that being said neither is GoT or TLOU2 is my GOTY.
For me it was 13 Sentinels but these days GOTY is mostly about popularity contest and 13 Sentinels is not popular enough to win GOTY in VGA shows.
For me it was 13 Sentinels but these days GOTY is mostly about popularity contest and 13 Sentinels is not popular enough to win GOTY in VGA shows.
TheMay30thMan
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You can dislike the game. You don’t need to justify your opinion by making a collage of people saying stuff you agree with. No one cares.
Vick
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It's absolutely amazing how you're spinning reality with this post. It's the contrary, there's fucking hours long analysis posted and we are discussing our positions.
It's the "opposite side" the one saying "keep crying i'm right". Reason and discussions could only lead to TLoUII being criticized.
Maybe the premises of the Thread are not.. but i'm glad there's enough substance in it. If someone would actually bother to watch what i linked and read what i wrote.. at least.
Quite amazing leaving for last "line of dialogue" in describing a super-heavily-narrative-driven product. And outside of that single line, he's only spouting truths which i fully agree with.
Umbral
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I think I saw it twitch, keep going!
Thaedolus
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It’s better in every way except the narrative, which is still strong but not a completely tight picture/lightning in a bottle like the first game. Gameplay wise? Graphics wise? Performance? Literally anything else? It’s much better
deriks
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Real GOTYPeople arguing over which Sony exclusive should wear the GOTY crown.
Meanwhile this lady probably sold more copies of her game than both combined:
edit: should be fixed E Explosive Zombie
THEAP99
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Bruce still praised the story whether you like it or not. And nice job linking r/tlou2 posts.
May I ask for a source for this?
Thirty7ven
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Absolutely garbage tier opinion from what I can only assume to be coming from a teenage brain whose default mode is to turn off. It’s like the whole game flew by you, either that or you have zero knowledge about character development, personal arcs, catharsis or closure.
The second bit of about Joel in a female body diarrhea only cements the stupidity of the first point.
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