CritialGaming said:
Am I the only person who's lost their interest in TLoU2? That trailer just felt like another revenge movie where the bad guys kill (daughter, girlfriend, wife, mother, etc etc) and the hero goes on a murder spree.
It's become a huge MEH for me. I mean the gameplay will probably still be really great. But I dunno I just feel removed from the story now.
I haven't lost interest, but yeah, it feels incredibly typical. My hope is that what we're seeing is either a red herring, or a lead-in to something more interesting. I also try to remind myself that the first game was pretty typical too, what with old man who lost his daughter but learns to love again due to precocious youth. With Naughty Dog it's usually not what they say, it's how they say it.
This needs to follow up on the ending of the first game and what Joel did, and I'll be horribly disappointed if they just ignore that in favour of 'Ellie wants revenge, Ellie gets revenge, the end'. I also feel it would've been really pointless for Naughty Dog to have put so much emphasis on this Dina character and the actress who plays her if she just functions as a character who gets fridged, so to speak, in the first hour.
Maybe this whole revenge plot is meant to get Ellie out of the compound, at which point Tommy finds out exactly what transpired between Joel and the fireflies/Marlene, Joel flees or is run out of town, prompting him to track down Ellie to keep her away from Tommy or anyone else who knows the truth. And then the drama can just flow from there. And not that Naughty Dog are totally original writers or anything, but if the plot of this game is simply 'Dina dies, Ellie goes on revenge quest' then that would be the most generic plot of any of their games. And it's not like this game will be the movie
Mandy or anything.
In summation: I hope there's more than meets the eye here.
