PS3 Why don't people like The Last Of Us?

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I'm specifically talking about the first one, since we all know the kind of dumpster fire the sequel was.

I honestly thought it was a masterpiece worthy of replaying again and again, but I have met no shortage of people (specially here, on RGT) that hate it passionately.

Just... Why? I'm not dismissing you -- I'm genuinely curious about it.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Same reason a lot of people dislike cinematic games in general. The gameplay looks boring. A decent amount of people are gameplay > story.

Fatigue and/or popularity may or may not play into it because TLoU has gotten a lot more than most of Sony’s legacy franchises, leading to contrarians.

And of course there’s everything about the creator that caused him to be a boogeyman on one side of the internet, which has caused some people to lump it in with the sequel in a rather desperate attempt to be like “SEE?! This game was ALWAYS trash!”

 

[TruxtonTatsujin TruxtonTatsujin]

I don't like games that try too hard to be movies, that's pretty much it. There's a lot better ways you can use video games to tell a story, you don't have to mimic an inferior medium. I should probably also mention I'm just not big into movies in general. I basically only watch them these days when I'm dragged into seeing them with friends and family.

 

[Graw]

I've never played it and don't really know much about it other than apparently people like the story or something. I see it a lot on steam. What little bit I have seen of it doesn't really look all that appealing to me and I don't really have much interest in trying it.

 

[BrawlMan]

I don't hate TLOUS, but I sure as hell don't give a damn about it. I'll give credit where its due with the writing and characters, but the gameplay doesn't interest me that much. It's RE4 with a stealth system. Plus, I have long been over dark and gritty 3rd person shooters from 7th generation. Not that I was the biggest fan of the majority of them to begin with.

I do find the game to be over hyped and overrated to the detriment of other games that did similar subject matter(s), before it even became a mere thought in the director's head. Not helping are the large amount of critics putting down others games for not being like either title, or downplaying past games' accomplishments that achieved the same goal, but not having their heads up their ass about it.

Give me Resident Evil, House of the Dead, Shadows of the Damned, and most games in general any day of the week either both games.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I've only played the first one, and while I enjoyed it well enough, I feel it got a bit overhyped for me when I went in.

 

[Jeff]

Because video games are supposed to be for fun, and to play with. Not watching a boring cinematic TV Movie.

 

[NOTthatHARD]

The first one is good (not great) but the second one is ........ well ......... really BAD, like nauseatingly BAD.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Not sure what else I can add. I played the original when it came out and loved it. Not because the gameplay was amazing. It was kind of just another Uncharted game. But my investment in the story and characters helped set it apart. So much so that the first season of the TV show even brought me back into the franchise a little after TLOU 2 completely knocked me out. It's a little funny, because being invested in the characters is what made TLOU 2 so... bad, to me.

But yeah, Sony kind of started using that third-person cinematic action game as a template for the last decade+, so the gameplay for the first game is only going to feel more generic as time passes. It's part of why I find Horizon Zero Dawn & Ghost of Tsushima so boring.

 

[Frickinfrik]

Because some people don’t like games trying to be like movies.

 

[petran79]

the opposite happened. Players adored tlous1, but hated tlou2.
do not let sales fool you, sequel was a dumbster fire.

 

[bjork]

I only played about 90 minutes of it but it was enough for me to put it down and not come back. Not really sure what didn't click. Maybe it's just an Insomniac thing for me, I don't really care for Uncharted either, so it might boil down to their way of storytelling. Not 100% sure.

 

[redux007]

I'm specifically talking about the first one, since we all know the kind of dumpster fire the sequel was.

I honestly thought it was a masterpiece worthy of replaying again and again, but I have met no shortage of people (specially here, on RGT) that hate it passionately.

Just... Why? I'm not dismissing you -- I'm genuinely curious about it.

It didn't leave enough of an impression on me to hate it. I thought the ending was cool, but like a lot of Zombie movies/games there's no justification for what you see happening. It's all contrived and comes off lame in a lot of ways as a result. The actual game's mechanics were alright. But, there was still some annoying stuff. Needing to "buy" the ability to aim your gun and consistently stealth kill enemies wasn't the best decision for a tech tree.