Everyone I know that’s played TLOU2 has described it as a harrowing, emotionally draining experience, including the ones that enjoyed it.  

Unlike the game itself (despite popular misconception among the people who didn’t play it), Kotaku’s review of TLOU2 was life-draining.

I was too stressed the fuck out to even think about the mechanics of this fight. I was running for my life and taking every chance I could to shoot it or throw bombs at it. It felt like an accomplishment after it finally went down, when I had no idea how long it was gonna take or if I was gonna have enough supplies to…

When I fought the Rat King, I thought I killed the little spawned thing (I guess I mistook a stagger for dying) shortly after it spawned. Years of MMO playing taught me to kill the add first. So when I killed the Rat King I started looting the area to replenish my ammo think everything was safe. Abbey even did that…

I mean, it’s not really supposed to be a tactical, dynamic fight, it’s supposed to be a mad scramble just to stay alive while you unload every single bullet and pipe bomb you have into the thing. The game stocks you up plenty beforehand and there’s ammo littered everywhere in the environment where the fight takes…

You are reaching incredibly far if you equate Sony trying to shut down leaks of the game before it’s release to “silence ANY discussion of the game that wasn’t praise worthy”. That is an insane false equivalency. They didn’t want the game leaked... it’s as simple as that. Honestly, seems reasonable to want that. I…

By that same logic bringing up Sony legal going after leaks is a red herring in an article about Naughty Dog developers getting death threats.

That’s hyperbolic on the review part, and for the leaks, a majority were of channels posting stolen footage. You really can’t blame them for wanting that taken down, especially how many online twisted and outright lied about the content of the game with incomplete context. 

Oh you mean the guy who tortured people, and lied to her face?

Such a great role model.  

Love the concept art and am absolutely blown away at how it translated in-game. Game is entirely too gorgeous.

What are you talking about? Ellie’s murderer? Ellie survives the game. You switch to playing the person who killed Joel. And she has damn good reason to have killed Joel.

Alright, finished ‘er—here’s some spoiler free thoughts on #thelastofuspart2 a game which is ostensibly a game an exploration of trauma and circular emotional and physical abuse, both on the micro and macro scale.

I’m sorry (no I’m not), but I fucking love this game. I'm a very empathetic person, and I love that this game can make me feel what Ellie's feeling so *strongly*.

I’m predicting Tommy DLC for TLOU2. Just like with Ada in RE4. We get to play as Tommy and see from his perspective what he did lol.

I mean, that actually sounds like a fantastic narrative choice to me. Death and investment are not exclusive. Arbitrarily extending lifespans to avoid a conclusion has killed more character interest than a good death ever has. 

I refuse to play any game that lets a character I like die. I read spoilers of all games, and if a character I think is a good guy dies* then I refuse to play it. I do the same for movies and tv shows.

I started at the top of the metacritic reviews and 2 out of the first 5 English language reviewers that gave it a perfect score were women. I’m not going to go through them all obviously, but it seems praise for the game isn’t solely coming from male reviewers. 

Do you think Cyberpunk is going to be sunshine and rainbows? Lol.

You haven’t even played the game and you hope its a “HUGE commercial flop,” that people actually lose their jobs, based on one contrarian review? You do realize it’s being universally praised pretty much everywhere else, particularly for its story, which is described as being far more nuanced than this review implies.

LOL yeah right, Resident Evil 3 remake focused on an outbreak and it sold really well, if you’ve seen how excited people are on Reddit about this game you’d know it’s going to sell like crazy, people like automatically assume everyone else thinks exactly like you do, pandemic media is doing gangbusters right now so…