BronzeOracle
Sage
I just finished playing The Last of Us on PS4 - it made me glad we chose a PS4 over Xbox One. Woah what an incredible game, a powerful story and voice acting with beautiful visuals and design! The violence is heavy but it is integral to the whole theme of the story. My wife was watching a lot of the cut scenes, something she rarely does in a game, and we both were surprised by the ending, it was very unorthodox and it got us talking a lot afterwards and reading up some online articles/blogs on the protagonist's actions. What came across was that the ending was true to the protagonist's character, his experiences and fundamental spine.
Its rare that a computer game makes me think about human nature and what drives us - other dramatic stories like Mass Effect did not do this for me. It also made me think about the protagonists in the novel I am writing - their spines, their flaws, and the need to be honest in portraying these in conveying the theme rather making them overly heroic and therefore perhaps less human.
I also loved the tropes in the story and how the story was structured dramatically. So I clicked with glee on the TVtropes site hoping to read through the story tropes in the game but unfortunately they were completely swamped by the more numerous gameplay tropes!
Its rare that a computer game makes me think about human nature and what drives us - other dramatic stories like Mass Effect did not do this for me. It also made me think about the protagonists in the novel I am writing - their spines, their flaws, and the need to be honest in portraying these in conveying the theme rather making them overly heroic and therefore perhaps less human.
I also loved the tropes in the story and how the story was structured dramatically. So I clicked with glee on the TVtropes site hoping to read through the story tropes in the game but unfortunately they were completely swamped by the more numerous gameplay tropes!