The last of us dlc ellie and riley kiss movie#

If I want to just shut off my brain and play something quick then Overwatch, and if I want a game with a good story I’d play TLoU or God of War. If I wanted a story with 8272 different endings, I’d go and play the Witcher. The beautiful thing about games is that they can be anything.

The last of us dlc ellie and riley kiss movie#

If you want the player to be not involved, you already have the movie medium to present your story to an audience.įor instance Silent Hill 2 had 6 different endings depending on your actions and choices throughout the game.TLoU isn’t an RPG. As much interactive involvement from the player as possible. Of course this is often not possible because the more branching storylines, the longer it takes to develop a story.īut that should be where videogames should evolve towards. So this was other anon's opinion: 'I disagree about letting the player choose Ellie's fate at the end because it's Joel's story, not the players.'ĭA but the more you can make it the player's choice to steer a story in a game the better.

This is a game trailer, not solo a gameplay trailer. And yet, when it’s gay characters then suddenly it’s for publicity sake? The more they show it, the more it’ll be normalized. Game trailers have the main hero kissing his LI all the time (looking at you Bioware games) and yet no one complains how distracting those kissing scenes are. This is my issue here with this line of thought. They wouldn’t hide it if they were showing a trailer with Joel and new a woman. They’re not going to hide anything because of homophobes. Yes show gameplay and yes set the story, but leave these personal character moments for the player to discover.Why should that kiss be regulated to a deeper impact? Anyone who’s played the DLC would already know she’s gay. Showing such an impactful moment from the game in public just for publicity reasons spoils that. You want to make the journey with the character on your own, you want to have the feeling that you discover everything together with them, their experiences, their disadvantages.

Games like The Last of Us because of their solo campaign are more personal experiences than other types of games. I assume it could have had a deeper impact when people first saw the kiss while they were actually playing the game. Guest wrote:Was it a wrong idea to put it in the trailer?