The point is simply to be post apocalyptic and to have the idea that rebuilding is hampered by an ongoing pandemic - again, a theme I can't see as non-resonant today. And honestly the idea that that makes it somehow implicitly right wing is just bad. It's a bad idea.
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As I've mentioned, it actually allows some of the implicit racism of other types of survival stories like Westerns to be filtered out, because the "frontier" is our world that we have now, or had at a specific moment in 2013, ripped out of time forever
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I guess my point is maybe somewhat personal too in that I actually fcking hate zombies, as a genre, and yet The Last of Us 2 and 1 are my number one and two games of all time, so there's some cognitive dissonance
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I don't hate zombies for ideological reasons though and I think a lot of those critiques are better applied to specific works. I just specifically find the idea of a mindless opponent that doesn't use tactics to be extremely boring for any sort of action-adventure
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It’s fun in the context of mixing up the gameplay. You’ve got a co-ordinated faction of enemies to take down one minute, and then you’ve got fast-moving suicidal berserker mutants the next. It’s especially fun and engaging when the two meet up together
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I'm just saying, I think the real reason for "but we are the walking dead!" is that "we" are always more interesting than the walking dead Which TLOU has baked into the title - it's about "Us" not Them
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I was thinking about the idea of a TLoU prequel/midquel that takes place entirely in the very first years after the outbreak and collapse, sort of an origin story for Joel becoming the ruthless killer he is by TLoU 1 It would be called "The First of Them"
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A "Fear the Walking Dead" to The Last of Us' "The Walking Dead".
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Yes but The Last of Us has a much better title for riffing on
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It's a shame these games are so good because if I wanted to dunk on them I could just say ""The Last of Us"? I certainly hope it is!"
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Ray Romano had the whole bit about how he desperately tried to get them to pick a different name for his sitcom because Everybody Loves Raymond was an open invitation for critics to own him constantly
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