@shadiezz2012 said:
@Rotondi: what i don't understand is that you seem like very smart guy but it's strange that i keep see you troll the game in the articles
why are you doing that ?!
On Topic: what i recall is that before the last of us come out fanboys were saying every one will forget about this game in a month and it won't sell sh1t (which is now over 7 million sold) and after a month they said wait few more months and now they are saying it's only one year old game give it another year
in this gen a game get backlash just after 2-3months after the hype is gone .....i keep say alot of hate for dark souls 2 BTW
yet this game is still going strong after over a year and the fact that Users matescore is 90+% on every Metascore site (which is rare those days from gamers ) prove that it lived up to it hype for most who played it not just the critcs
Last of Us has always been an interesting topic for me. I do get carried away and exaggerate points when I'm trying to have some fun, however I think there is a lot of great counter-arguments to why The Last of Us is not that great. Like many people have the opinion that The Last of Us is incredible, my opinion is different and there is a lot of fun in trying to convince the other side why your opinion is better.
Naughty Dog made The Last of Us, so I'm not so sure who the heck said this game wouldn't live up the hype or wouldn't sell. Practically everybody has been nuts over this game since its initial reveal. I was even nuts for this game when it was first revealed. So I think when you refer to some people who said this game wouldn't live up to the hype, you're talking about an extreme, extreme minority of people who had absolutely no idea what they were talking about. Sony fans are nuts for Uncharted, so obviously The Last of Us would be a hit.
The Last of Us defines modern gaming. It is the ideal single-player game that the majority of people who play games today WANT to play, this includes critics. There is no reason why The Last of Us wouldn't have scored as high as it did. Then there's me. The Last of Us is not my ideal game. It did not feel original and I felt the story was lame. But, I have complete respect for the people that enjoy this game. I'm just here to talk about my opinion that's all. It's fun having an opinion that not many people have. It's fun trying to convince people that The Last of Us may not be the 2nd coming of Christ. I also don't think many of the highly acclaimed movies of the last decade are that good either. Like Salinger once said, "People are always clapping at the wrong things."
It blows my mind that in today's gaming world, a game like Wonderful 101 doesn't sell anything and something like Call of Duty sells a god amount of copies. So I don't care what metascore The Last of Us got. The majority of gamers today would rather play a brainless shooter or a brainless action game than something like FTL. The majority of gamers today also put far too much stock in graphics, an aspect of gaming that matters so little. I take the fact that the majority of video game critics gave a high score to The Last of Us with a grain of salt since the majority opinion on video games is often very far from what I find enjoyable and fun.
That's not to say I always disagree with the majority.
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