It's a good movie, but not a great game (Gaming)

by cheapLEY , Monday, October 12, 2015, 22:17 (3329 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

It's decent, but nowhere near as effective as actually playing the game. I was never a fan of the Uncharted series, but I think ND tapped into something special with the way they told story through gameplay in TLoU. The cutscenes are really just the tip of the iceberg. There is something about being those characters and being responsible for each other that gets lost when you just watch everything. I think it is the player's active participation in the story that allows it to connect with so many people the way it does. So in this specific example, I'd say TLoU is what it is specifically because it is a game. A movie version could be great too, but it would be a very different animal.

Oh, I absolutely agree that TLoU works the way it does because it's a game. I previously stated it would be better as a movie, but I've come around to thinking the opposite. It COULD work as a movie, sure, but, as you said, it'd have to be different. Actually BEING those characters makes it work in a pretty powerful way.

I'm not sure that I would call it "fun" to play, though. That is definitely a game that I played to advance the story, and not because the moment to moment gameplay was fun.