Media "Game of the Year" Discussion Thread

[Brainiac]

It's a valid reason to pick up a PS3/PS4 to play this game.

Yeah I will be getting a PS4 for Uncharted, I might as well get TLOU too

 

[Henry Morgan*]

Both games look amazing, I'd have to give a slight edge to AK for my most anticipated of 2015, but I'm really looking forward to MGSV too

Both games look great, I haven't been following AK, I barely know anything about it. But I know I'll play it eventually! two good reasons to get a PS4

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Yeah I will be getting a PS4 for Uncharted, I might as well get TLOU too

God of War? They haven't announced it yet, but we can't have a playstation without Kratos. I imagine we'll hear some news next year.

 

[Brainiac]

God of War? They haven't announced it yet, but we can't have a playstation without Kratos. I imagine we'll hear some news next year.

I don't know I have God of War Ascension CE still sealed, I bought it for the statue and have yet to play it, I would have to borrow my brothers PS3 but have yet to bother

 

[BurningRage]

TLOU is game of the decade this far. It definitely was the highest point of last gen.

Nope....

 

[darthviper107]

Last of Us was definitely the best game of the last generation

 

[Snake Plissken]

Nope....

You need to get out of Nintendo kiddie games and play real games dude

Last of Us was definitely the best game of the last generation

It's not even up for debate.

 

[BurningRage]

You need to get out of Nintendo kiddie games and play real games dude





It's not even up for debate.

I have Last of Us. Arkham City and Uncharted 2 were better. Funny that a grown man collecting dolls calling me kiddie.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I have Last of Us. Arkham City and Uncharted 2 were better. Funny that a grown man collecting dolls calling me kiddie.

Okay you're not a kid, you're a kid with poor taste.

 

[BurningRage]

I have bad taste because I don't think it was the greatest game of all time. Whatever.

 

[Solidus]

I really don't understand the guys who rip TLOU. It had a great story, great gameplay, and the enemy AI was some of the best I've seen. The game also never glitched-out on me, like it did for some people on YouTube.

 

[Henry Morgan*]

I don't think it was the greatest game of all time

You are not the only one


I know people that go as far as to think its the worst thing that ever happened to mankind because ripped off "The Road"


And a lot of critics hate it too

I hate The Last of Us more than ever, when I really think about what it represents to the gaming industry. Screw this game. I hate its dishonesty, and its pretensions of moral superiority. I hate that it’s going to win Game of the Year awards instead of Grand Theft Auto V simply because it makes for a better game industry mascot. Anybody can whip up politically correct female tropes and make all the bad guys white males — even if they begin with something as sickening as Mankind. It’s just a thin coat of paint, and suddenly extreme misogyny turns into the “industry changing” icon.

It’s the perfection of a foolproof formula which other lazy developers will feel enticed to copy. Call me a dreamer, but I’d still like to see interesting female characters that have three dimensions, not paper cutouts like Alyx Vance from Half-Life 2, born out of fear of criticism from bitchy protest groups and liberal art professors

Now that is real hate I wouldn't go as far as to HATE this game... there are worst things out there.

 

[Solidus]

What a load of horse ****.

 

[Henry Morgan*]

This just like MGS2 fans vs. MGS2 haters... such arguments lead nowhere other's opinions don't matter to me. I still play MGS2 and I love it

 

[darthviper107]

Sounds like a bitter gamergate *******

 

[Henry Morgan*]

Seriously thought, I'll never understand how the people that conceived "Mankind" can end up making something like TLOU. The original concept couldn't be more different to the final game

 

[darthviper107]

I can see why that would change--what they ended up with was dark as it is, having a topic like having to kill all the women to stop a virus is pretty heavy, not to mention the controversy that would cause, even if it's handled well.
Plus, there's a logic problem in that, since the human race would die out without women.

 

[Brainiac]

mmmmm..... adorkable

I see Alien Isolation is pulling ahead in the polls... very good
Dragon Age is catching up though

 

[Henry Morgan*]

I can see why that would change--what they ended up with was dark as it is, having a topic like having to kill all the women to stop a virus is pretty heavy, not to mention the controversy that would cause, even if it's handled well.
Plus, there's a logic problem in that, since the human race would die out without women.

Yeah, they changed their original idea for something much safer. I don't know exactly how it went but I bet the girls working at ND didn't like "Mankind" one bit. Its just weird... who would think such a game as "Mankind" could be fun or entertaining ? Its just my opinion but I think Mankind is all kinds of wrong, I'm glad that didn't happen

Plus, with all the neofeminists on the internet that game could have been career suicide for them

mmmmm..... adorkable

I see Alien Isolation is pulling ahead in the polls... very good
Dragon Age is catching up though

Alien Isolation deserves it

 

[Solidus]

It doesn't even sound like "Mankind" was a bad concept to begin with. But, it was probably too similar to "Y: The Last Man", so maybe that's why ND had to forgo it.

But, TLOU ended up fantastic. It didn't have a very original post-apocalyptic setting, but the storyline about the trials and tribulation of Joel and Ellie, and how their relationship evolved over time, was something I've never seen attempted in a video game before. It did a great service to its characters. In fact, forget the infected and the post-apocalyptic world; TLOU, at it's core, was a very "human story", and I think anyone who doesn't see that, it grossly missing the entire point of this game.

That said, I don't have the time to read random editorials from Internet cretins, who need to rip this game apart for annoying sociopolitics.