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The Last of Us
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ZyyzYzzy
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LiquidDeath
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Many of you sound like people who read the first tome of A Song of Ice and Fire, heard about the Red Wedding and decided to not buy or read tome 2 (though that might be a good choice for a number of other reasons)
It is an age old narrative device to have plot points that infuriate the audience. Normally though, if you discover it while reading/watching/playing/spectating you are captive and/or invested enough to curse the author, but still go further and see the story to its conclusion. If the story is good, when the dust settles, you come to see that the crisis/destruction/twist you hated allowed for new themes/characters/events to flourish and that it was worth it in the end. With spoilers, you are robbed of this emotional roller-coaster and since you get the negative reaction without the investment, its easier to opt out and not get to see if it was worth it in the end. And again, even with a full synopsis, it's almost impossible to know, because the empathy that is built over time is not there in cliffs notes or in a handful of cut scenes taken from a 15 hours narrative.
Yawn.
GoT is some of the best writing in the last several decades. The build up to the Red Wedding is more intricate than every story Neil has written in his entire life. It wasn't a cheap trick to "subvert expectations" or a ploy to see if alienated readers would stick around. It certainly wasn't some ham fisted political statement. It was a planned event to move a much larger narrative forward that had a real payoff for even those who were angered by the scene. We already know for a fact that this game contains none of those redeeming qualities.
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I mean it's either a tranny or it's a woman with the body of Channing Tatum and the face of Channing Tatum.
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Merrith
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The fact that the Finger Poke of Doom can be used as a response all on its own 20+ years later is tremendous.
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Regime
LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...
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That spoiler site cracked me up. Fuckin Knight Rider and Eastern Euros.
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Arbitrary
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I just finished up reading The Death of WCW a couple days ago and it was fresh in my mind.
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Many of you sound like people who read the first tome of A Song of Ice and Fire, heard about the Red Wedding and decided to not buy or read tome 2 (though that might be a good choice for a number of other reasons
It is an age old narrative device to have plot points that infuriate the audience. Normally though, if you discover it while reading/watching/playing/spectating you are captive and/or invested enough to curse the author, but still go further and see the story to its conclusion. If the story is good, when the dust settles, you come to see that the crisis/destruction/twist you hated allowed for new themes/characters/events to flourish and that it was worth it in the end. With spoilers, you are robbed of this emotional roller-coaster and since you get the negative reaction without the investment, its easier to opt out and not get to see if it was worth it in the end. And again, even with a full synopsis, it's almost impossible to know, because the empathy that is built over time is not there in cliffs notes or in a handful of cut scenes taken from a 15 hours narrative.
No, you just have shitty taste
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Ukerric
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No, but not every studio gets a Jason Schreier horror story in Kotaku about it (before he went away).
Mist
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Sure, but this doesn't work in a video game where the player is an active participant, rather than just a member of the audience.
Mist
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Arbitrary
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Noodleface
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Sony says major The Last of Us Part 2 leak didn’t come from employee [Updated]
No spoilers here, but details about character relationships, fates are out there.
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He was still mega over with the fans and his merch sales were through the roof. There was no reason to end his streak.
Unless you were Kevin Nash of course and just got the book.
