Alright. First things first, full disclosure - I absolutely got rid of all the side bar tracker business because the only thing I am reliable with on this blog is forgetting to update it. I have been working on stuff, though probably not as much as I should be. However, given that instead I've been simply enjoying my summer and no longer feel the rage or impetus to murder everyone and everything (like I did in, say, May), I'm not gonna beat myself up over it too badly. But since I have been doing stuff, I could actually update this blog with some interesting facts or with some indication of things I should probably begin working on for a later progress check, but I don't really feel like it.
Instead, I'm going to talk about whether or not I want to try and play The Last of Us.
No, really.
The urge to play this primarily hit me today. I played the demo way back when, and while I was moderately interested in it (probably because it was set in a house, which to me is a very important aspect of gameplay: just how invasive can I be?), I promptly forgot about the game soon after. When it finally did come out - and Brian of course got it, because he owns everything - I think I was in the middle of my Skyrim frenzy and paid absolutely zero attention to anything about the game except the fact that they clearly ripped off Ellen Page's face for the main character. I'd heard it was good, and that the story was pretty interesting, but... eh. I don't really enjoy playing as male characters, and while I'm pretty sure you have an option to switch between PCs in Last of Us (don't quote me on that, though), I just wasn't particularly interested.
It wasn't until this past week at Comic Con when I started realizing just how into this game people are. Or, rather, how much the game is into itself. Apparently, not only has it produced an official art book, it also was the subject of a live performance of the cut scenes by the voice actors (including the actress who looks like Amy D), and also is currently in discussion for movie rights. What the heck. It all sounds like more of an old fashioned sellout than any kind of legitimate franchise move (I can understand it with something that's been around since the dawn of Playstation like Tomb Raider has, but really? All this for a one shot game?), but maybe that's what kind of interests me. I want to see if this dumb thing is actually worth the hype so that, if it's not, I can complain about it with accurate references.
No, really. I am that much of a pain in the neck.
It just seems like this could go one of two ways. Either I play it and I fall desperately, madly in love with it and want to bear its virtual children, or I go "wtf, no" and then I get to crush people's hopes and dreams. I suppose I should really continue trying to play Dragon Age, except this one part keeps pissing me off and I stopped playing it about four weeks ago because I was just that mad over five minutes of gameplay. I hold onto these things, okay?
So basically what I'm saying is that I'm a terrible person who likes to complain about things and holds an unreasonable grudge about inanimate objects. So I'm probably going to play Last of Us.
Though really, I also said that about Watchdogs. Look how that ended up - 3 hours of gameplay and a bored!quit. Oh yeah.
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