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Naughty Dog: violence fits the narrative in The Last of Us
By
Eddie Makuch, News Editor
Community strategist Arne Meyer explains that action game’s desolate post-apocalyptic setting justifies violence, though there will be scenes where players can avoid lethal encounters.
Gamers may recall the E3 2012 demo for The Last of Us (below), in which series protagonist Joel ends a blood-soaked scene by blasting a foe’s head off in close range with a shotgun. This scene, and the game’s other violent encounters, are appropriate because they fit the game’s narrative, according to Naughty Dog community strategist Arne Meyer.
“It’s really important to understand that this is twenty years after a pandemic has destroyed civilization. Outside of [government-controlled quarantine areas] it’s pretty much every man for himself. And that’s what we want to explore in the narrative and the gameplay for The Last of Us. What will humans be like when they are pushed to the limit?” Meyer explained to GameSpot.
“Are they going to take a route of cooperation and rebuild society? Or is it really going to be every man for themselves and they have no morality left; no ethics left to what they do? So that’s the part that violence plays into it. There’s going to be some people who are really out for themselves that will stop at nothing. They’ve lost every sense of what it means to be human and compassionate; they’ve lost all of that. And when you look at the violence, that’s the context. There are going to be people who are pushed to that limit.”
Though The Last of Us will be stuffed with scenes of violence, certain scenarios in the game allow users to bypass these bloody encounters altogether.
"There is liberty in the narrative so that you don’t have to kill someone or encounter someone. We do have the opportunity for you to go around, and not even do any combat. There are going to be areas where you can completely avoid combat if you want."
The Last of Us is Naughty Dog's first non-Uncharted game since 2005. It is due out in 2013 exclusively on PlayStation 3. For more on the game, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.
By
Eddie Makuch, News Editor
Eddie Makuch (Mack-ooh) is a News Editor at GameSpot. He works out of the company's Boston office in Somerville, Mass., and loves extra chunky peanut butter.
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I swear if you play this game without combat your just a real boring-ass person in real life.
1 Like ffs its a survival apok. game, how could it have NO VIOLENCE, what the F is wrong with you people....
watch the news, or a real fight match, we ARE a violent race and we need to vent that violence so we won't go koko crazy and vent it in the wrong place (home, work, on friends, in school)
grow the F up and if you don't want to see violence DON"T PLAY GAMES JUST FING DON"T DO IT ITS THAT EASY U GOD DAMN RETARDS
HULK SMASH ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG >:(
1 Like Normally i'd avoid the violent route.. (Splinter Cell, MGS, Syphon Filter)
But Naughty Dog just make everything that damn epic it'd be a waste.. Looking forward to smashing some heads into cabinets personally!
1 Like I wish you had the option to avoid killing altogether, and were actually rewarded for avoiding it, like with the Metal Gear Solid games. But, this isn't MGS, still at least the violence in this game serves a purpose ans sets the tone.
i was pretty sure that this was supposed to be released towards the end of this year, they've changed the release date of this game more than a couple of times. PRETTY FRUSTRATING!
1 Like The ending will reveal that Dr. Cortex is the one responsible for creating all of these monsters.
4 Like Naughty Dog... i sure miss crash bandicoot... I hope The Last of Us will have more sequels, prequels to it...
1 Like I predict people hating on Naughty Dog just too look cool, in the future. You know its gonna happen.
@Albelnox0 Yes, gamers these days carry a lot of hate around with them. Maybe playing video games too much is starting to have an effect after all.
I didn't play uncharted because there is no violent in the game but if this contains blood and blasting, then i will definitely get it :) we don't want more kids' games, that when u shoot the enemy, he jumps or just fall in the ground. It has to be like real life with blood and blasting heads. It will be better if u can cut the enemy's hand or leg too like gears of war :)
@Kravyn81 I think u r either too young for mature games or u r too soft and don't like killing (Don't worry u r not really killing them, it is just a video game ;p )
@Spartan_1004 @Kravyn81 Ok come to my home and I will shoot any part of your body with a shotgun and we will c what will remain from your parts :p
shotgun can cut u into pieces from short distance dude
@CIA_BOSS @Kravyn81 So a mature games let you act like a savage. In The Last of Us why would you cut off people's body parts? This isn't Ninja Gaiden, if you slash at a guy you are going to run into bone. And in most games from the distance you are shooting enemies their heads ae going to explode. Wanting a real game is fine but don't just call it real because you want it more bloody.
"...in which series protagonist Joel..." // Series? Series protagonist? Have I missed a couple of games? // I never thought for a second that the violence in this game would be an issue. Yeah it's pretty graphic, but it's relevant. It's not like they're having fun with it and coming up with the most inventive ways of killing enemies.
Well, there'd better be a good amount of rural life OUTSIDE the Boston/Pittsburgh/etc. Cuz obviously any dev will use the city for action/mayhem and there will be guns everywhere -_-
Meyer's words sound so obvious/cliche but it bears repeating due to them maybe taking some heat from violence? 0_o
Still lots to see in this game, but this article has me feeling less confident about The Last of Us.
im definitely gonna get that game no matter how violent it is. rest the game and all characters and enemies are back to life @_@
violence is simply required in such game sh*t hit the fan and you need every bullet or piece of bread / canned food you can get to survive in real life people would tear each other a part to get what they want in lawles areas in such conditions.
6 Like Uncharted 1 = awesome
Uncharted 2 = epic
Uncharted 3 = mother efing epic
last of us = just with that few minutes trailer is too much epic win i cant wait to gt that game
1 Like I certainly hope I'm able to go the quiet route if I desire. One of the most maddening things to me about Uncharted was often I'd be told "better not be seen" only to be literally forced into a gun battle, no matter how stealthy I was. This was even more prevalent in Uncharted 2. Allow the less gung ho players like myself some freedom and I'll forever love this game
2 Like @foxrock66 I like to run 'n' gun as much as the next psychopath, but I also like to have stealth options available because run 'n' gun isn't always the smartest resort. And believe it or not, there are people out there that prefer stealth/avoidance over confrontation all the time; that gets old. There is just as much skill involved in avoiding combat completely as there is getting off headshots. It's more rewarding to me as a player to get through a level without the AI even knowing I was there.
1 Like Am I the only one tired of game companies apologizing for their demos/previews? Now they're doing it with this, but just a few months ago they had to make a statement over the Hitman trailer with the nuns who aren't even nuns and for some reason the devs behind Tomb Raider had to apologize, which made no sense. And then the whole nonsense about making an extended ME3 ending, which didn't lend anything extra to the narrative and was cheaply tacked on (even though the ending wasn't all bad to begin with). It's like game companies/devs are scared of any sort of criticism.
Abandon this crap and buy back the Crash Bandicoot IP. We have enough generic zombie games.
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2 Like Its the end of the world, The strong will prey on the weak in desperate times. Some dont like violence, ok i can respect that but this isnt the kind of games for that, with no cops around the place will become a battleground overtime, its human nature....
Well, 'appropriate' is definitely a misrepresentation, no doubts there, but either way I am just glad that Post-Apocalypse scenarios are so remote in likelihood.
So you're saying it's not OK if I shoot someone's head off with a shotgun? That's news to me.
Crash Bandicoot is a classic 3D platformer game that made it'd debut in 1996, most likely before you were even born judging from your narrow-minded comment.
It's people like you that are killing the gaming community.
@Harrydapro Actually I was 16 yrs old in 1996 and played some Crash but most of the time i was busy chasing girls and getting drunk with them.
I have zero interest in such games, like crash, mario, zelda and everything that looks kiddy and cartooney
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