Your hate boners for Last of Us are funny to see.
I get that Sony's fanbase (much like Nintendo's, much like FROM's, much like anything popular) is grating, but are we trying to pretend Naughty Dog doesn't produce well above average graphics/animations? Because you saw some clipping?
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But it's because they have money and time!" Ok, no shit?
Same is true for R*, Ubisoft, DICE, and whatever other big studio can afford to hire the best professionals in the industry and a wave of 3rd worlders contractors to create assets, and then have them go on for years of development.
I'll concede that when you hear Druckmann & co. talk about their game, it sounds like they're writing Ivan's Childhood or some shit, when it's just "American Post-Apocalypse Story #9865", but i mean, it's marketing.
They're selling the game (Sony i mean) as a
prestige experience, they did the same with Dad of War, trying to spin THE Meathead's franchise, as a thinking man's reflection on fatherhood and masculinity.