The 'What if' gaming thread

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But it is a bland and boring game. The gameplay is so unbelievably mediocre I have no idea how it keeps getting constant 10s. Nice game, sure, but nowhere near a 10.

It's not about the gameplay, which I do believe is more interesting than most 3rd person shooters I've played. The idea is to focus on the characters so that when things happen to them, good or bad, you feel the same way the characters do. For me, a pinnacle of gaming is when it literally has such an effect on me after something intense happens that I have to put my controller down, walk away from the game and take a moment to process what just happened and how I feel about it. The Last of Us made me do this four times. I've never had a game do that to me more than once and I have never felt a characters emotions like I do Joel and Ellie. The gameplay, be it something to write home about or not, is good enough that you want to keep playing to figure out what happens next. A game like that is all about making an impact with it's story, not about making the game so fun that you hardly care about what goes on when you aren't pressing buttons like say, Tomb Raider. The fact to that I replayed this game about 5 months after it came out and most of the things that hit me so hard still got to me at all is the sign of a good game. Anyone who can't play the game for the characters is playing it for the wrong reasons and needs to stop and take a deeper look at it before continuing.

Heh, a video game isn't about the gameplay.

10/10 made me laugh.