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Punished_Blinx posted...

I'm super curious how the TV audience will find all of it. Overall it won't have the 'video game protagonist' baggage so I think it'll go down fine even if basically everything plays out the same. Will be one hell of an episode when that moment is finally reached.

I think the biggest issue with TLOU2 was how the story was paced and I think it'll be a lot easier to manage in a TV show too. I don't think they quite figured out how to roll out the opposing perspectives within a video game and perhaps ruined some things by trying to create the twist and keeping it a secret.

In retrospect I wonder how things would have ended up if Abby was the marketed character and Ellie was the secret.

I think that was ND's biggest problem. They absolutely marketed it wrong. I don't really care about misleading trailers, but they really went ahead and threw a big wrench at you. I think there could have been a bunch of ways to do this same story and do it way better, than how it ended up being almost an exercise of excoriating you for playing the game. It's like all Ellie does is get reprimanded and shamed and given garbage while Abby goes her own way and fuck everyone and I'm my own person. But through the circumstances the game gives, you really still just feel bad for Ellie the entire time. I couldn't honestly feel really anything for Abby in the end, at all. They tried, but I knew they did and it wasn't organic enough unlike Ellie whom I had a game and a dlc to understand