LogFAQs > #942060176

Let me put it this way.

If I bought this game and played it and still said "I think the story is still the drizzling shits and this is why" then the same people who said I can't give a proper opinion on it because I didn't play it would move the goal posts to "Well we can't take your opinion on it seriously because you watched the game before playing it!" It's a can't win for people who already want to discount negative opinions about this game. They'll come up with any excuse to delegitimize actual criticism.

That said, I don't want to play this game because I didn't like the gameplay of the first game and I don't think I'd like it anymore than the first, even with the improvements. But to further make a point, I loved the first game's story. But I fucking hated playing through it to get through those story points. It was miserable. I looked for how to get through certain parts after dying once because I just thought it was horrible to play through this game.

By that logic, shouldn't I have a more negative experience of the narrative since I played the game and hated the parts where I actually had to actively interact with it and having to play the game is so integral to your opinion of it? And yet I came out of it thinking the narrative was outstanding stuff. I think it's entirely possible to separate opinions on the narrative from the gameplay. Hell, I would have been a lot happier with TLOU1 if I didn't even have to play it at all and just watched it instead.

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