i’m tired of TLOU

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i love games as much as the next person but man is TLOU getting milked by sony, i mean it originally came out on the PS3 and we’re 2 game generation in and it’s still getting milked. Ik the reason why (money) but like why? there are so many other ips that deserve the same amount of love. For example we still don’t have bloodborne on ps5 but we have 30 different versions of TLOU. honestly i’m tired of it gaming is becoming a circle and is being homogenized in front of our eyes.
 
They completely dropped the ball with the second one, I admit (and it was THE game that made me get a PS4)... But they really built a a strong case for themselves with the first one and the comics.

I have heard rather optimistic things about the TV show as well, but I couldn't stomach it. They changed way too many things for the sake of... whatever the hell was going on at the office, and it ended up coming across as foreign and strange, like a stranger disguised as a friend.

They probably should "cool it" by now, but they won't for as long as it remains a money-maker.
 
Rule of thumb - if you find something uninteresting, banish it from your mind. Franchise milking is only going to get worse from here - companies don't give a shit, neither should you.

Despite adoring TLoU2 - miserable descent into emotional suffering that it is - I haven't watched the show and have no interest in doing so either (despite Pedro Pascal being in it, even - love that guy's work) because I already got what I wanted out of that story from the games;
The remasters and re-releases are superfluous as fuck, but that's just kind of what Sony does these days for some reason and it's not limited to just TLoU - there are three versions of Horizon Zero Dawn out there for example, one of the blandest games I've played in years - though they certainly overdid it with that series, no argument there.

Ever since the MCU, the general corporate approach to the management of successful franchises has become "All of it! Everywhere! Right now!" and I just don't think that's a good idea.
Hell, Disney apparently managed to burn out enthusiasm for Star Wars with that approach - something I would have assumed impossible, given how dedicated that fanbase used to be for decades.

Flood people with too much for too long and you end up sabotaging the long-term appeal of whatever you're trying to sell - or am in the minority with that assumption?
 
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Every goodwill I had for The Last of Us 1 vanished with TLOU2's Drama, overexposure, horrible writing, Neil Druckmann being extremely PRETENTIOUS and Sony keep pushing and Re-Re-Releasing it! (while ignoring all their Legacy Francises)

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Sony's Skyrim!
 
Absolutely. TLOU1 is a competent game with a well written story, but the shitshow with TLOU2, the incessant Skyrim-like re-releases, and Neil Druckmann's absolute insufferable attitude completely soured me on it too.
Also, don't forget that while he tries to take all credit for creating the series, he actually fired the lady who wrote TLOU1 before making the sequel. Probably felt intimidated by an actually competent writer.
 
Every goodwill I had for The Last of Us 1 vanished with TLOU2's Drama, overexposure, horrible writing, Neil Druckmann being extremely PRETENTIOUS and Sony keep pushing and Re-Re-Releasing it! (while ignoring all their Legacy Francises)

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Sony's Skyrim!

sonys skyrim is the best description of it
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Rule of thumb - if you find something uninteresting, banish it from your mind. Franchise milking is only going to get worse from here - companies don't give a shit, neither should you.

Despite adoring TLoU2 - miserable descent into emotional suffering that it is - I haven't watched the show and have no interest in doing so either (despite Pedro Pascal being in it, even - love that guy's work) because I already got what I wanted out of that story from the games;
The remasters and re-releases are superfluous as fuck, but that's just kind of what Sony does these days for some reason and it's not limited to just TLoU - there are three versions of Horizon Zero Dawn out there for example, one of the blandest games I've played in years - though they certainly overdid it with that series, no argument there.

Ever since the MCU, the general corporate approach to the management of successful franchises has become "All of it! Everywhere! Right now!" and I just don't think that's a good idea.
Hell, Disney apparently managed to burn out enthusiasm for Star Wars with that approach - something I would have assumed impossible, given how dedicated that fanbase used to be for decades.

Flood people with too much for too long and you end up sabotaging the long-term appeal of whatever you're trying to sell - or am in the minority with that assumption?

i definitely feel like these mega corporations are sabotaging themselves with the remake , remaster, re re heat whatever you wanna call it. Audiences are js getting tired of it. it js saddens me a lil bit to see how everything is becoming so homogenized
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They completely dropped the ball with the second one, I admit (and it was THE game that made me get a PS4)... But they really built a a strong case for themselves with the first one and the comics.

I have heard rather optimistic things about the TV show as well, but I couldn't stomach it. They changed way too many things for the sake of... whatever the hell was going on at the office, and it ended up coming across as foreign and strange, like a stranger disguised as a friend.

They probably should "cool it" by now, but they won't for as long as it remains a money-maker.

the show was kinda the reason for this post, i saw how js dead the show seemed with the newer season. The first season actually made me go and replay the first game but after that i started to realize the js sameness of gaming
 
i love games as much as the next person but man is TLOU getting milked by sony, i mean it originally came out on the PS3 and we’re 2 game generation in and it’s still getting milked. Ik the reason why (money) but like why? there are so many other ips that deserve the same amount of love. For example we still don’t have bloodborne on ps5 but we have 30 different versions of TLOU. honestly i’m tired of it gaming is becoming a circle and is being homogenized in front of our eyes.
Honestly I’m more mad that they’re only milking a duology and not idk, MAKING NEW GAMES? Like I’m baffled, Sony has a milkable goldmine and yet there’s no The Last of Us 3. That’s the biggest crime here, and I’m not even a TLoU fan.
 
Never played it and never will. Ive been disappointed by Naughty Dog since Uncharted 3

don’t remind me of the heartbreak that was uncharted 3
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Honestly I’m more mad that they’re only milking a duology and not idk, MAKING NEW GAMES? Like I’m baffled, Sony has a milkable goldmine and yet there’s no The Last of Us 3. That’s the biggest crime here, and I’m not even a TLoU fan.

you hit the nail on the head , stop milking this duopoly and milk like twisted metal or rayman or something
 
I liked TLOU1 when it first came out well enough, but a lot of the baggage regarding TLOU2 caused me to pretty well check out from the series. I do think this idea of remastering or remaking a game that's only a few years old is pretty silly though.
 
I played the Last of Us back on ps3 and never really got into it. So obviously I never got into the second game. I'm surprised they keep remastering the games. I guess they want to match Skyrim with all of its ports.
 
Just ignore it, the best thing to do about such practices is to not encourage them by giving them money. If you had bought the game before, either pirate the remake on your PC or play the original which isn't that much different anyways.
As for new games, we can only wait and talk on social medias about how bad AAA companies are at doing their job. Good thing there are countless recent and old games we haven't beaten yet to occupy us during the wait for new games.
 
I never played TLOU. They always seemed to be more like movies with game intermissions, which is what most big Sony games these days seem like to me. I might be wrong about that, though.
 
all i know about last of us is that they made a tv show about it recently. I genuinely thought they cast a girl with down syndrome as the female lead but apparently she's just ugly so I can make fun of her without feeling bad.
 
Never played it. It always looked stupid and everything I've heard or read about it just reaffirms this.
 
Never played any game, but the TV show was OK. Not amazing, but I expected a low grade zombie apocalypse à la Walking Dead (and frankly anything with zombies taking itself as seriously as Walking Dead should be shot in the head twice). This was different than I expected. The monsters designs are awesome. It's not as good as The Strain (because nematodes FTW) but it was quite grueling and well done.

Basically, if monsters are cool I'll watch the show. I don't care about the drama as long as it doesn't ruin the pacing and the horror element too much. Walking Dead and Games of Throne kinda fucked up the genres by bringing The Young and The Restless drama in nerdy genres. Hopefully we still have Raimi and Del Toro and their spiritual progeny to make good shows.
 
I enjoyed the first one but the second one had the stupidest most shallow "revenge is bad" narrative I've ever seen in anything. I'm not interesting in the show, I don't really like the games even that much so why watch a watered down version of that.
 
Basically, if monsters are cool I'll watch the show. I don't care about the drama as long as it doesn't ruin the pacing and the horror element too much. Walking Dead and Games of Throne kinda fucked up the genres by bringing The Young and The Restless drama in nerdy genres. Hopefully we still have Raimi and Del Toro and their spiritual progeny to make good shows.
We’ll always have the real diamonds in the rough
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Never touched it *Gets glared by everyone and their grans* i honestly couldn't care for it in gameplay terms, and regarding story i only know about the ending and what happens to Joel in the sequel, but yup, i get your burnout, and Sony has the gall to whine about not having games, maybe if you don't make a remake of the remaster of the port
 

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