Why Is Everyone Excited For HBO's The Last Of Us Trailer?

thegamer.com:

The Last of Us trailer is finally here, and if there's one thing I love, it's adverts for a story that's already been remade twice. This time it has Pedro Pascal though! Exciting. Regular readers of TheGamer might assume I have a special kind of bitter distaste for The Last of Us - I was one of the loudest voices against the remaster, writing in numerous ways about how the game was a waste of time, money, and resources, as well as being flagrantly mis-sold to us as a gameplay upgrade. The AI was a little smarter in ways we barely noticed, that’s it. It was not TLOU with TLOU2 gameplay, it did not redesign the obvious combat arenas, and it was not the E3 trailer. It was the same game with the same story. We didn't need it a third time, and we certainly don't need it a fourth.

I do not have a particular problem with The Last of Us, contrary to what you may think. Instead I think it is a wonderful game with a brilliant sequel, undercut only by its indulgent length and abject nihilism, not to mention the sequel's rocky Israel-Palestine politics. Those are issues for another day though, as today I want to talk about the TV show. I should state from the off that I do not consider this to be a pointless adaptation. For all gaming can sometimes be very regressive and profit-driven, I maintain that it's art, and as art should be open to adaptation. I want to see Red Dead Redemption the musical, I want poetry about Mass Effect. When gaming borrows from film (or film from gaming) the adaptations are usually janky and soulless, but games have had notable success adapting or being inspired by books - The Witcher as a direct adaptation and BioShock as more of a thematically inspired riff on Atlas Shrugged are two strong examples.

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