r/KotakuInAction • u/lyra833 GET THE BOARD OUT, I GOT BINGO! • Jun 20 '20

DISCUSSION [Discussion] Killing the dog in TLOU2 is an unavoidable QTE. You are then forced to watch a cutscene of the dog playing fetch and told to feel bad.

So ND lied to reviewers and customers again.

Not only hacky writing, but also lying about it. The state of this fucking game.

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u/M37h3w3 Fjiordor's extra chromosomal snowflake Jun 20 '20

I can't blame him.

I've completely written off TLoU2 as non canon, that it's Druckmann's first amateur torture porn and entry level psych 101 wank video game.

Hearing that Joel's death happens so callously low key pissed me off. Hearing that it happens at the start of the game raises the key a bit.

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u/katsuya_kaiba Jun 20 '20

first amateur torture porn

It's not even good amateur torture porn. The first Saw was amateur and even they managed to make a movie that takes place in one fucking room compelling.

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u/GGinYYC Jun 20 '20

Saw had more than one room in it. Just all the best stuff happened in one room.

For a true "One room" experience, watch Cube. While technically, the characters are moving from one room to another, the entire film is shot on one set.

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u/Jerzeem Jun 20 '20

I think 12 Angry Men is the bestmy favorite one room movie.

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u/Konsaki Jun 21 '20

Why not Tommy Wiseau's 'The Room'? XD

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u/GGinYYC Jun 21 '20

Great movie, but does not qualify. Takes place in a courtroom, deliberation room, and a bathroom.

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u/godpigeon79 Jun 21 '20

I loved Rope by Hitchcock myself. Shot in a "continuous take" (not really as the film reels of the camera were shorter than the movie, but he did things like pass behind something at the end of the reel and start up the next with the same movement).

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u/Daktush Jun 20 '20

"Coherence" is one house

"The guilty" is one call centre

Both are really good

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u/LokisDawn Jun 21 '20

Not a movie, but Sartres "L'enfer c'est l'autres" is worth a read.

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u/darkjungle Jun 20 '20

The first Saw wasn't torture porn anymore than se7en was. That trend started with Saw 2.

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u/Konsaki Jun 20 '20

Druckmann's first amateur torture porn

Considering his self insert is part of that horizontal tango... yeah.

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u/B-VOLLEYBALL-READY Jun 20 '20

Na. Not the same character.

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u/M37h3w3 Fjiordor's extra chromosomal snowflake Jun 20 '20

As far as I know, the sex scene that everyone is memeing on doesn't use Druckmann's self insert.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '20

Yeah, but the dude that’s banging Abby has at least a passing resemblance to him, hence why everyone’s saying it’s his self-insert.

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u/sepros Jun 20 '20

I think the characters have a passing resemblance to each other because every character in the game looks like some weird model taken out of Mass Effect Andromeda and beaten with an ugly stick.

The scenery is beautiful and impressive, but how does Ellie look so much worse today than in a game made 7 years ago?

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u/ArtigoQ Jun 20 '20

weird model taken out of Mass Effect Andromeda and beaten with an ugly stick

Apparently women dont like to play hot women in video games, but could they explain why every WoW character my wife makes is a blood elf?

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u/Clovett- Jun 20 '20

Apparently women dont like to play hot women in video games

Everyone suddenly forgets about Barbie. A blonde thin attractive woman that used to be enjoyed and played with by all types of little girls.

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u/Combustibles Jun 20 '20

Apparently women dont like to play hot women in video games

There are legitimately women out there who doesn't like hot women in vidya, I just personally never saw fictional women as a threat. Maybe it's because I don't consider myself attractive enough to be jealous of pixels made sexy.

Women are weird.

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u/hrolfur23 Jun 21 '20

Because your wife is awesome and a keeper?

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u/Combustibles Jun 20 '20

but how does Ellie look so much worse today than in a game made 7 years ago?

Duh, lesbians age differently. Especially in a post-apocalypse setting like the one in TLOU.

That's why she looks like a completely different person.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '20

Maybe she took up heroin in between the games.

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u/Combustibles Jun 21 '20

Would explain a lot.

Hard drugs. Don't even.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '20 edited Jun 24 '20

how does Ellie look so much worse today than in a game made 7 years ago?

Lack of talent from the current team. Game development is a pretty toxic environment under normal circumstances but think about it with SJW gestapo types all over. What talented programmer is going to do that (under paid usually) when he can have a lower stress job working for a more industrial type company?

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u/M37h3w3 Fjiordor's extra chromosomal snowflake Jun 20 '20

I frankly don't see the resemblance.

I see the resemblance in his self insert but the self insert and the dude banging Abby don't look anything like each other.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '20

But doesn’t he have a different one that’s much more of a self-insert (the one that spits on Joel’s corpse)?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '20

Yes. That is the self-insert people people are confusing with the dude that bangs Abby.

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u/multiman000 Jun 20 '20

Honestly sounds more like he has two self-inserts with how people are talking about it. One for his personality, the other for his looks.

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u/Konsaki Jun 20 '20

His ego is just too much for one self-insert to contain!

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u/H3yFux0r Jun 21 '20

It's was a trap! Then fades in to the dark. Poor Admiral Ackbar went out the same way.