I don’t know whether you are indirectly calling me and others who have responded to you here dishonest, purposefully contrarian, and less than smart; or maybe that wasn’t your intention.
Regardless, speaking for myself, my feelings about TLoUP2 are consistent with those I’ve had for other games in the past, and I do believe my response to you above (#171060) was honest. Furthermore, my contentions with the game don’t have anything to do with SJW elements at all.
I don’t like elements in a game that exist solely to trigger emotions. In other words, I don’t like to be jerked around. Why would anyone? I avoided “A Plague Tale” because I knew that in the beginning of the game, there is a friendly dog, a named NPC technically, and it is pet-able. Then, still early in the game, the dog runs off and is killed. The dog exists, is friendly, has a name, and is pet-able, only to make the player feel loss — i.e, sad and upset. Its a cheap emotional trigger, and I hate that tactic. I strongly dislike having my emotions manipulated by video game developers, particularly to trigger negative ones (such as sadness, loss, anger, etc., ) for their own sake, having no relevance to the main story. In my response to you, I mentioned being forced to kill named dogs in TLoUP2 (if you manage to avoid all of them yourself, the game will still show you killing one in a cut scene). Killing those dogs has nothing to do with the story. For myself, that is a very consistent contention, and also honest.
I have another point of contention with the story that I described in detail in this thread, about the death of Abby’s father vs. Joel and the motivations involved.
While my personal, very specific, reasons for choosing not to play TLoUP2 might differ from the majority here, my ultimate conclusion is anything but “contrarian” on this website (contrarian means “opposing or rejecting popular opinion”); perhaps you were referring to a broader scope; however from what I’ve seen, the opinion of this game remains mixed, at best.
P.S. I watched the video by “videogamedunkey” and he said something at 4:44 that IMO is incredibly dishonest:
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The truth is I don’t know why people are mad at this game….”
(He says that immediately after describing why many people are mad at this game) … And then he continues:
“…’cause they don’t know why they’re mad.”
Oh contrare! Fans know exactly why they are mad at this game. I get it. It’s clear to me. If anyone else doesn’t know why, even after watching videos and reading posts describing the reasons, I don’t think they’ll ever understand. But to conclude that, because oneself doesn’t understand why other people are upset, means that “people who are mad don’t know why they’re mad” — now that is dishonest.
They know why. They’ve said why, over and over and over.
You just don’t understand the contentions, and that’s OK by me. I sincerely hope you enjoy the game, if you play it.
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