Maybe a month ago (so when the sandwich was still “coming soon”) I was in a Popeyes and the man in front of me in line saw the “coming soon” sign up on the menu board. He shook his head and scoffed. “’Coming soon.’ [turns to me] Have you had the sandwich?” I said yes. (I got one easily, a couple of weeks before it…

You can order without pickles. It even has the option to select without pickles prominently displayed on the mobile order version. The pickles are great though as is the sandwich. Not "destroy my personal property" or "get murdered" great, but maybe "wait 15 minutes while I play on my phone" great.

I totally agree, and I think that’s because the writing is on a level above almost every other video game ever made. It’s the only game I’ve ever played that I feel the script could rival well-respected Hollywood fare.

It’s what I expect after 60+ years of watching fools make fools of themselves. The Internet just makes sure we don’t miss a second of things. No matter how much we want to.

WHAT!?!  I could have gotten one of these when I was in Windsor last week?  Son of a...

No, Popeyes in the US has not previously had a chicken sandwich on the menu. Po Boys and such, but not a chicken sandwich made of breast meat.

One thing I love about ‘The Last of Us’ is how that wonderful storytelling kind of lulls you into forgetting the kind of game you’re playing. You watch a scene of Joel Ellie coming to a new town, talking about what they’re seeing and you just enjoy the way this relationship is unfolding. And then you hear that…

And if any of them feel hard done by, consider that in the ancient times, if you were part of the ruling class that so many of them identify with, when there was trouble, not only would you be expected to raise an army out of your own pocket, but you would also have to be at the front of it, dressed up in nice bright…

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I’ll keep saying it as long as it takes to sink in: however fun the Marvel movies are, in the real world there is one and only one superpower.

I disgree. Influence and importance isn’t calculated just by how many people have experienced it. Take for example Blade Runner, the movie has changed the look of sci-fi and has influenced countless of movies, games, anime etc. But it wasn’t succesfull, both movies bombed at the theaters and many people have seen it…

As others have said throughout the comments, this list isn’t about that, though. It’s about overall influence on the industry, which The Last of Us has in spades over Infinite, which didn’t say anything that the first game didn’t already say, but in much worse game. TLoU changes the entire discourse about games as…

It’s one of those games I keep thinking about even years later. Slowly uncovering that game world was done so well and hunting giant robots was extremely satisfying

Last of Us is definitely more important than Infinite because of the impact it had on the discourse of viability of video games as an effective and emotional storytelling medium.

I love that ending. You don’t have to think Joel did the right thing (and probably he didn’t) to identify and empathize with his decision. That’s real love. It is often profoundly selfish, and thoroughly anti-utilitarian.

The beauty of it too is that a lot of stories in various forms want to put the hero to that…

I feel like it does get respect, even coming out around all these other titles...just not from AVClub because the person reviewing it didn’t care for it.

It’s a victim of coming out in the same year as Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey and Nier. 

Horizon: Zero Dawn came out in 2017 and I think it deserves more credit than it gets. It basically perfected the Ubisoft formula of big open map you're forced to explore and open. The story also got increasingly more interesting as it goes and it uses a lot of the same "light RPG" mechanics that other open world games…

I also use Last of Us as an example of compelling narrative in video games. The reason it works better than almost any other postapocalyptic setting (where writers often use near-identical plot devices) is the strength of its characters. When you realise, for instance, what’s really going on inside the head of Bill…

Yeah, I was turned off storyline-wise by the aforementioned bothsidesism in Bioshock Infinite, and I still cried both times that I saw the giraffes in The Last of Us. I still played them both as much as I could (didn’t spring for multiplayer for TLOU, quit trying for the Platinum on the final fight in BI).

I really like the story of Bioshock Infinite, but to put it on the list because of storytelling and THEN put it above The Last of Us is just wrong.  I use The Last of Us as my go to example for video games as art in storytelling.  If you don’t have an emotional reaction from the first 15 minutes of that game (if you…