@LittleTom @beardalaxy @ChristiJunior Oh, I can answer that - its to retcon the ending so that The Lame of Us 2 is canon and to not pay royalities to the female writer of the OG game.

Never forget that Neil Cuckman hates skilled female writers.

@SIC_Guy @ChristiJunior @LittleTom amy hennig didn't write last of us, it was neil druckmann and bruce straley. i believe bruce left naughty dog due to creative differences while last of us 2 was being written and, surprise surprise, the parts he wrote for last of us 2 are the best parts (which was more or less the "epilogue" to the last of us). apparently he wasn't credited for writing in the tv show at all, which made him pretty upset.

amy hennig was the writer for uncharted, had a full script for uncharted 4 that got canned when she left (perhaps even got forced out by neil/bruce) and then neil/bruce rewrote the entire thing.

bruce now has a new studio that he wants to be "inclusive and equitable" lmao.

naughty dog just fucking sucks and i truly believe that the original last of us game was lightning in a bottle.

@beardalaxy @ChristiJunior @LittleTom Oh, well fuck me then - I'm only 1/2 correct and its on the WORST part.

Geez Neil, I knew your game sucked but now it REALLY sucks.

@SIC_Guy @ChristiJunior @LittleTom more like 3/5 right since it is probable that amy hennig was pushed out of the company. why tf would you write an entire game and then just leave?

uncharted 4 was kinda ass too imo. not like, in a bad game way, but it is definitely the weakest in the series and you can TELL it was written by the same people who wrote last of us. the tone is wildly different from the other games. there is a lot of ludonarrative dissonance in there (which is a term i didn't even know before the game came out lmao) and it really makes nathan out to be a legitimately bad person instead of just a whimsical treasure hunter if you're looking at the subtext.

not to mention, nathan was originally supposed to have a son in the original epilogue, but some random playtester asked "why can't he have a daughter?" so neil fucking changed it. what great story integrity you have there champ.

@beardalaxy @ChristiJunior @LittleTom *sigh*

I'm so glad my most "modern" PSN exclusive is Dragon's Crown Pro.

@LittleTom @ChristiJunior oh so you see, the remaster was actually good. the ps4 version of the game. very good. more or less just the original with better textures, higher resolution, and smoother frame rate.

this is the ps5 half-remake that they poured way too much effort into only for it to come out looking shittier. like they actually remade tons of stuff from scratch, even going as far as completely redoing all of the facial animation (which was hand-animated based on reference). and for what reason? literally why?

they should have just ported over the ps4 version with even further enhanced visuals or something but no, they had to "utilize the power of the ps5" or some shit probably.

the definitive way to play this game is the ps4 version on a ps4 pro or ps5 and it is a real shame that the PC port had to be this bastardized version of it.

the good news is that naughty dog had to can their multiplayer-only live service last of us game but whatever they come out with next will probably be complete shite too so it's more of like a bronze lining on a shit cloud.

@beardalaxy @ChristiJunior Yeah by remaster I meant the re-remaster, that's the thing is the ps4 remaster was already perfectly good.