No, they don't. You don't know shit about the country I'm from. The US is a gigantic country with a pretty massive population, and the fact that you feel the need to bolster your bullshit by saying that the US is basically a hivemind is absurd.

Just wanted to add in that reading someone talking about Bartell's makes me feel a pang of nostalgia for living in Washington.

Man, somebody woke up on the hideously pompous side of the bed.

I've never wondered that. I've been too busy wondering why some people lump 300 million people in to one group labelled "Americans" and then assume that they all do the same things.

The stars are aligned here, though. The company that owns Naughty Dog is producing it, the writer of the game is writing it, a director who made his name first in action-horror movies (Evil Dead trilogy) and then big, great setpiece action movies (Spiderman and Spiderman 2), and a plot that is already perfect for film.

They'll have to work on that, sure, but it's not like nobody has ever managed to make you feel for characters in a short span of time. Two-and-a-half hours (three, if they're feeling particularly James Cameron-y) is more than enough time to tell the story. Will things be cut? Absolutely. But that's okay. Even the…

I'm confused as to why you don't think these games lend themselves to straight adaptation. They're incredibly theatrical games already, and a lot of the story is told in cutscenes.

Precisely. They came out within like 6 months of each other, and both starred very similar looking heroines, one named Ellie, and one played by someone named Ellen.

But you literally said that you've seen franchises ruined by movie adaptations.

I can't think of a single game that was rendered unplayable by the movie adaptation.

Hollywood =/= movies. Not every movie is made by Hollywood.

There's gonna come a time where people are going to start getting video game movies. A game like The Last of Us, which is so plot driven, is exactly the right kind of game to finally bridge the gap.

She did have an actual point, though. Her one comment was in a Reddit AMA, saying that she'd be flattered that Ellie looked like her, if not for the fact that she was actually in a game, likeness and all. Things like that are just enough to confuse the person standing in a Target, saying, "Oh, The Last of Us, that's…

Oh, but Gerard Butler is so awful. I want someone who can do the character justice.

Thank god, I thought it was just me. I can't read a word of this.

And dismissing someone as a man-hater because they comment on men is wrong. But there are feminists who hate men, and those ones seem to be very outspoken about it.

I'm not saying you do, but it's hard to deny that extremists do exist, and do have clout. Those two quotes I used? They weren't just random people on the internet; the first one was Andrea Dworkin from her book Ice and Fire, and the second one was Robin Morgan, the editor of Ms. Magazine. And those aren't even the…

God damnit, who let grandpa onto Kotaku?!

Hey all, not trying to make waves here, but I want to address a little bit of something. There are feminists who are very anti-male, who believe that men cannot be feminists, and believe men are wholly inferior to women. You see this a lot on a certain social networking site (you know the one - it's kinda like one of…

Hi everyone, video games on all platforms are really cool and fun. Okay, cool. I'm done here.