The Last Of Us nearly completely rips off "The Road"

So despite it being a complete ripoff, you still have to list the differences? What now?

Lionheart08

Yeah i know and i'm pretty excited for Last of Us :)

So basically it's standard deviation on a classic story, that you are fanboy raging into calling a rip-off? I'd say you are more unoriginal than the game is. hensothor

[QUOTE="Dead-Memories"]

i've seen the film and am currently reading through the novel again, you are completely wrong. the road portrays its narrative through despondency and the most bare bonesdialogue i've ever read, there isn't even quotations to go along with the dialogue in the novel, serving to detach the reader from the characters and embed them in unity with the world around them. In ND's game, the characters are their own entities with presumably distinct attitudes and emotions.

The road had maybe one or two legitimate action scenes and took a whole different approach to the end-world aesthetic. The Last of Us seems to focus more on the action and character interaction.

The Road refer ed to the two protagonists as The Man and The Boy, that is how minimal the novel's approach to enhancing and developing its characters. The Road is a beautiful novel, but certainly not for everyone, a "presumed" video game adaption in the form of ND's new game, as you suggest, is completely ludicrous.

Stop looking for ways of bashing this game, or at least don't try to bring a venerable novel to this fanboy nonsense.

texasgoldrush

I still stand by the reason for McCarthy's omission of traditional dialogue diction is to allow the characters themselves to be UNITED as one with the environement and setting for storytelling purposes, this was done to wondrous effect. I could also argue to your "proposed" relationship between the father and son, but alas, I am not here to teach you how to read fiction.

regardless, your claims are complete nonsense.

An unoriginal story in a game? Say it ain't so!

Also, I must have missed the chapter in The Road where they fought off the popcorn heads.

Oh , a troll topic. Nice.

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"][QUOTE="Dead-Memories"]

i've seen the film and am currently reading through the novel again, you are completely wrong. the road portrays its narrative through despondency and the most bare bonesdialogue i've ever read, there isn't even quotations to go along with the dialogue in the novel, serving to detach the reader from the characters and embed them in unity with the world around them. In ND's game, the characters are their own entities with presumably distinct attitudes and emotions.

The road had maybe one or two legitimate action scenes and took a whole different approach to the end-world aesthetic. The Last of Us seems to focus more on the action and character interaction.

The Road refer ed to the two protagonists as The Man and The Boy, that is how minimal the novel's approach to enhancing and developing its characters. The Road is a beautiful novel, but certainly not for everyone, a "presumed" video game adaption in the form of ND's new game, as you suggest, is completely ludicrous.

Stop looking for ways of bashing this game, or at least don't try to bring a venerable novel to this fanboy nonsense.

Dead-Memories

Oh , a troll topic. Nice.

Inotian

The aesthetics and visuals are completely different. The Road was bleak compared to how much colour is in this game. biggest_loser

[QUOTE="Inotian"]

Oh , a troll topic. Nice.

Ace6301

The Road is not even game. Nice damage control.... :lol:

it hasn't been 24 hours and people are already **** about something do you want cheese with your whine?

The Road is not even game. Nice damage control.... :lol:

Gue1

Who cares, it looks ****ing incredible.

[QUOTE="Gue1"]

The Road is not even game. Nice damage control.... :lol:

texasgoldrush

the story is not the same, the characters aren't the same, there weren't any Zombies on The Road let alone any kind of interactivity. They both share an apocalyptic setting and that's all you have in favor of your argument because they aren't even in the same type of media.

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"][QUOTE="Gue1"]

The Road is not even game. Nice damage control.... :lol:

Gue1

the story is not the same, the characters aren't the same, there weren't any Zombies on The Road let alone any kind of interactivity. They both share an apocalyptic setting and that's all you have in favor of your argument because they aren't even in the same type of media.

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"][QUOTE="Gue1"]

The Road is not even game. Nice damage control.... :lol:

Gue1

the story is not the same, the characters aren't the same, there weren't any Zombies on The Road let alone any kind of interactivity. They both share an apocalyptic setting and that's all you have in favor of your argument because they aren't even in the same type of media.

Besides , if no-one cared that Uncharted "rip-offed" Indiana Jones, or how Mass Effect is basically Star Wars in a new skin, do you really think people would care about TLOU being a 'Rip off' of The Road ?

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"]Seriously. This game is far from original. If anyone has read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" or seen the movie version, you will know that this game is a complete ripoff. Just replace man and boy with man and girl (hell, the themes the characters present are pretty much the same, as with the child being born after the apocolypse), turn the environment from grey to green, replace cannibals with infected, and barring ending you got "The Road". And really, it will never approach the greatness of "The Road".clone01

i hope not. that movie suckedonebeelo

"It's almost identical to this other work of fiction except for all these differences you should ignore so I can make a stupid point"Ace6301

i hope not. that movie suckedonebeelo

[QUOTE="clone01"][QUOTE="texasgoldrush"]Seriously. This game is far from original. If anyone has read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" or seen the movie version, you will know that this game is a complete ripoff. Just replace man and boy with man and girl (hell, the themes the characters present are pretty much the same, as with the child being born after the apocolypse), turn the environment from grey to green, replace cannibals with infected, and barring ending you got "The Road". And really, it will never approach the greatness of "The Road".texasgoldrush

Hi, my name is Tali.

Because Adam Jensen chose the middle option, my descendents live on the Winter on Mars desktop wallpaper. They're the children of Cylons and humans.

So it's the same, yet you have to replace about five aspects of the game with other things. That makes complete sense.

crapshinrabanshou

Learn to read.texasgoldrush

You're willing to overlook all the "borrowings" and sometimes ridiculous laziness of the series you like.

While condemning a game little is known about, because it bears similarities to past media.

Of course, this is par for the course, considering what I've read of your posts and threads in the past.

Bottom line: no one gives a sh*t, and everything is derivative. Lol, if you think that any of the "themes" in the Mass Effect series originated in 2007.

So it's the same, yet you have to replace about five aspects of the game with other things. That makes complete sense.

15strong

[QUOTE="ferret-gamer"]Ive read The Road a long time ago so my memory is fuzzy, but i don't recall there being the whole controlled dystopian society thing going on that the girl grows up in and the guy smuggles stuff in. Also, The Road isn't exactly an original work itself. It didn't create the idea of zombies or survival.texasgoldrush

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"] Learn to read.shinrabanshou

You're willing to overlook all the "borrowings" and sometimes ridiculous laziness of the series you like.

While condemning a game little is known about, because it bears similarities to past media.

Of course, this is par for the course, considering what I've read of your posts and threads in the past.

Bottom line: no one gives a sh*t, and everything is derivative.

Yeah I remember when the zombies that were created from spores attacked the main characters of The Road, and when they were in a safe zone full of other people, and when they drove a car into other people and got into a gunfight.

Oh wait, none of those things happened? OP is just stupid? What a shocker.

Sooooo.... you are saying that the author actually created the concepts of survival? He had never heard of cannibals before or watched a post apocalyptic movie? He completely invented the idea of bunkers?

ferret-gamer

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"][QUOTE="ferret-gamer"]Ive read The Road a long time ago so my memory is fuzzy, but i don't recall there being the whole controlled dystopian society thing going on that the girl grows up in and the guy smuggles stuff in. Also, The Road isn't exactly an original work itself. It didn't create the idea of zombies or survival.ferret-gamer

Yeah I remember when the zombies that were created from spores attacked the main characters of The Road, and when they were in a safe zone full of other people, and when they drove a car into other people and got into a gunfight.

Oh wait, none of those things happened? OP is just stupid? What a shocker.

SPYDER0416

or are you just stupid because you keep ignoring that I call the CORE OF THE DAMN STORY pretty much the same.texasgoldrush

the last of us, after all, is uncharted with zombies. what's worse is that not only the protagonist is a pathological psycho, he seems to get high on killing people, like the end of the demo where he had a gun pointed at the last guy and could've just told him to run off, but instead he went and wasted a bullet on him. hell, the entire fight could've been avoided, but you started it. this isn't a survival game. in a survival game you'd have avoided the group, and if that was not possible, you'd try your best to avoid a fight, because you're worried about surviving and saving resources, not about taking down the bad guys.BrunoBRS

First, it is not uncharated with zombies. In fact, the first uncharted had zombie like creatures in it.

Second, you can in fact forgo the entire fight. Naughty Dog stated that you can sneak around them and avoid conflict.