Show Us The Last Of Us E3 2012 Trailer In The Remake And I'll Buy Two Copies
TheGamer staff is divided over the upcoming remake of The Last of Us. While some are excited to see one of the best games ever made with a fresh coat of paint and updated gameplay, others see the ‘improvements’ as a lateral move at best, and at worst, an exploitation of TLOU fans and their wallets. As you can see, we talk about important things here.
I’m somewhere in the middle on this issue. An enlightened centrist, if you will; everyone’s favorite thing. On the one hand, the last thing this industry needs is hundreds of its best designers and artists telling the same story over and over for more than a decade. But on the other hand, it’s clear that The Last of Us did not live up to its potential when it first released in 2013. As much as I’d rather see Naughty Dog use its talented developers to make something new, there’s a part of me that still wants to see The Last of Us as it was originally envisioned - The Last of Us we were promised at E3 2012.
Between the reveal at Summer Game Fest and the promotional tweets on Naughty Dog’s Twitter page, all the marketing for The Last of Us Part 1 has focused on the graphical enhancements and changes to the characters’ faces. Just to be clear: I’m disgusted by this. The Last of Us was astonishing to look at in 2013 and it’s still a beautiful game, it was not in need of an update. We should not clap like trained seals over the prospect of buying a version of TLOU that looks like TLOU2, and there’s no artistic value to changing the faces of the characters. Would you like to see a shot-for-shot remake of your favorite movie with different actors? I doubt it.
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On the other hand, we’ve yet to see
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