Presuppositions that anything not purely video is gameplay. TLOU is a decent movie. It's normie tier shit for the lowest common denominator. It almost feels like it's made for toddlers. It's for people who don't want to play videogames but will happily pay for $60 for a movie.
Might want to consider that as an angle of discussion. Movie entry value has steadily decreased, so now we can charge 200-300% by inserting it into your proprietary hardware of choice.
Flicking through a video of the full game, there is pretty much no gameplay for 40 minutes when the first time you really have to use any brain cells as the chest high walls appear with some enemies. That's before we consider the pushing forward in the
Made in China® environments, doing the walkie talkie sequences and running forward through the QTE events throughout the game. It has surrendered so much to the "experience" that there's no reason to take it seriously as a video game.
Maybe as a comparison I think HL2 is complete garbage. I think we can mostly thank that game for the crap that came after. I got done with "playing" Max Payne 3 for the first time last week. It was horrible to get through and the thought of doing it again makes me feel ill.
Not sure where else to go with this now. If you want a bit of rhetoric back at you; I don't see any reason to take people who think TLOU was a good game seriously about anything. Might want to consider investing in a UHD player and some movies that are cheaper and less troublesome to EXPERIENCE, you don't need to hold in the "Play" button to watch them.
Most games are shit these days. But especially the "top rated" on the non-Nintendo consoles. We have went full circle where the Nintendo titles are actually made for people with half a brain, and Sony seems to be targeted toward 40+ males who want to escape. I know because I've worked with the type of people now buying their games*. A strange contrast to maybe 20 years ago which I think the top rated still would've tried to capture the origins of the medium. Exceptions would've been the big RPGs from Japan maybe. But who cares.
You've wasted my brain cells. How does someone really realise TLOU is shit? Some hypotheticals. Think about being aware of what you're actually doing moment to moment while watching it? Imagine you're streaming the game to a friend and every minute he's whispering in your ear, "Has the game started yet?". Figure it out. I'm going to post this.