I'll admit that all of the fervour surrounding TLoU made me not want to play Naughty Dog games for years. I've got people pushing me to play Uncharted 2, but I've put it pretty low on my list of priorities because I'm mostly afraid that I won't like it. I haven't liked a lot of games that seem to be praised a lot lately, so I guess that's my odd irrational fear. Or maybe I'm growing out of bigger games, so who knows.
I gave an unplayed copy of TLoU to someone else to get another game instead, so I probably won't be playing that game for years. I don't really want to play it since I feel like I know everything about it. It's similar for a lot of games that get a ton of buzz on social media or a lot of news threads on GAF. I don't feel inclined to play those games right away. It's why I've stopped paying so much attention to game news. I've realized that it makes the event of playing the game boring for me.
Those games were, and are still, difficult to get away from with respect to opinions, articles, and forum posts waxing poetic about them. I generally like playing a game and feel like I have a more balanced impression of it whenever I play an import copy of a game or whenever I play it without looking at a thread or forum specifically-tailored for the game. So when there are reams and reams of posts, articles, and forum threads about a game, I feel like my opinion might shift a little because I'm learning about the game from other people too much instead of trying to evaluate it on my own. Everyone's told me how AMAZING TLoU is and talked about the gameplay, the characters, the feelings evoked based on the game's themes, why it's so great, for example. Thus there isn't much inclination to play it on my part.
Do play them, man. Especially Uncharted 3 as well. They're all worth playing. I think Uncharted 2 is
good but it doesn't beat Uncharted 1 in terms of characterization and "charm" to me. Uncharted 1 is the first Naughty Dog title (I've played the Crash series before that and a little of Jak and Daxter) to pull me in due to the character banter. It
does get repetitive in regards to the Gears-like cover shoot-bang, but what game doesn't?
Same with the Last of Us, the Last of Us is attempting to do the same thing but it just doesn't have the "charm" to make me care about Ellie (especially when Joel doesn't until some "moment" in the game makes me suddenly 180 on it. Kinda like Squall suddenly falls in love with Rinoa on the Ragnarok in FF8) and the gameplay isn't "great" enough to be "game"-y like Uncharted to where it burned me out far faster than Uncharted did.
ivysaur12 got banned on GAF? Surprised. Of course, I used to have a huge crush on him as he's a stunningly hot gay dude who works at ABC and also has a hardon for defending fraternities from any and all criticism.
Possibly self-asked? I dunno if it's perma, but Ivy
did say the TV cancellation thread was probably going to be his last "OP" one and he was going to lurk TV-GAF due to his rise in position(s) in the TV-writing side of the TV industry a few weeks back. It's possible he wants to just cut all ties so he doesn't get burned like Gary Whitta.
Probably in that rape consent thread, I saw him post a bunch there earlier
Oh, or that...
My Little Sony Pony. My favorite is Rainbow Bish.
Not Derpy Bish?
