Neil Druckman tries to mobilise TLOU 2 fans to vote for it for player choice in The Game Awards Player vote category

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Seems we can’t have anything nice in this industry. Always has to be drama attached. Leakers that spoil things generally are bottom feeders too. Take the latest example -


They are either so in love with hearing themselves talk, or they just have to be “first” with something. If it’s just speculation stuff like a new Silent Hill or whatever, not that big a deal. But spilling info dumps on stuff that’s still clearly under embargo makes them look like pompous asses.
Is that a big "reveal" though? I mean, ok? It's 39 hours long? It tells me nothing about the actual storyline, so I don't really care. I think some devs have said stuff like this ahead of game releases themselves.
 

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Is that a big "reveal" though? I mean, ok? It's 39 hours long? It tells me nothing about the actual storyline, so I don't really care. I think some devs have said stuff like this ahead of game releases themselves.
39 hours for main story is a pretty good length for an RPG. Plus however much content is provided by the side content. Seems fine, I dunno why this would upset people.
 
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39 hours for main story is a pretty good length for an RPG. Plus however much content is provided by the side content. Seems fine, I dunno why this would upset people.
I mean, Skyrim had like, what, 20-30 hours of main story? And like 400 hours of other stuff.


If you don't also mention all the other stuff, bringing up just the main story length is useless lol.
 

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I mean, Skyrim had like, what, 20-30 hours of main story? And like 400 hours of other stuff.


If you don't also mention all the other stuff, bringing up just the main story length is useless lol.
Skyrim has a perpetual side quest system in which it would randomly keep creating basic repetitive shit for you to do, so technically it's got infinite content.
 

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39 hours for main story is a pretty good length for an RPG. Plus however much content is provided by the side content. Seems fine, I dunno why this would upset people.
Well if it's side content then I wouldn't count that as "main story". So if that's included then yeah, 40+ hours of content, including side content seems typical. I assumed that was JUST main story stuff, which would be pretty impressive considering.
 

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Well if it's side content then I wouldn't count that as "main story". So if that's included then yeah, 40+ hours of content, including side content seems typical. I assumed that was JUST main story stuff, which would be pretty impressive considering.
Washington Post says that they got through the "main" game in 15 hours. But I dunno how accurate that is considering I can find the link anymore. But they also said they rushed through it and didn't come close to touching the extras.

Honestly even if the game only takes 25-30 hours to 100% that's fine by me. I don't need a 100+ hour game.
 

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Who would have thunk that a creator of a game would urge fans to vote for it on a contest. This is not something that has ever happened before.

Come on, Hobble. TLoU2 is garbage, but you're being juvenile.
So is Neil Druckman by getting pissy about haters and making this about showing the haters, when his game is likely to win quite a few awards and is nominated for more than almost any other game.


Your intent for this topic was basically this, wasn't it;

"Look guys! Here's that guy [we] love to hate! He did something! Come on, let's hate on him again together!"?

Or is there some other newsworthy merit hidden here that I'm oblivious to? I'm sure that I could find other directors making similar retweets about their games in these kinds of public polls, care to make topics about them doing it too?
Dunno how many would make it about proving some kind of show o spite proving their haters wrong rather than showing how loved their game is. Funny how that goes that Druckman made it about fighting a nebulous enemy rather than actually just supporting the game.


Even as someone who was hardly impressed by Druckman's latest work I find the extreme hatred and demonization directed his way to be really bizarre. He just made a cliche story and killed off the popular character we all knew was gonna die. Get over it, guys.
A lot of it is about the more zealous defenders of the game who can't take it being criticised so everyone who does they try to frame as being homophobic or hating strong women not people pointing out the poor quality of the writing or issue with elements of the world.
 

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Skyrim has a perpetual side quest system in which it would randomly keep creating basic repetitive shit for you to do, so technically it's got infinite content.
Yeah but just doing every unique quest outside of those "go kill dragon here" ones should still be like 400ish hours on top of that system.
 

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The framing of this being "To prove the haters wrong" not "To show how support for the game you love".
Yeah, you'd think TLoU2 and Neil Druckmann were bombarded by a ludicrous amount of hate and antisemitism, or something. And that one of the actors received death threats for playing a character fans didn't like. What reason would HE have to bring up this thing that totally didn't occur and get some small satisfaction from winning an award?
 

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And now the tweet this entire thread was based on has been deleted, eliminating even the tiniest reason for any of us to even pretend to give a shit about your paranoid lunacy. You happy now?

I'm an old enough fart here to remember the days of yore when there was a rule against low content threads. Can we please bring that back? Shit like this is exactly why I don't visit nearly as much as I used to.
 

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And now the tweet this entire thread was based on has been deleted, eliminating even the tiniest reason for any of us to even pretend to give a shit about your paranoid lunacy.
You can delete the tweet, but Druckmann is still out there, lurking in the depths, waiting for his next victim. Surely this is a reason to remain paranoid.
 

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What’s so unusual about the creator of a game going out to drum up support among its fan base to give it a chance at winning the vote on a people’s choice award system? It would be way weirder if he didn’t do this.