@SpiderLuke said:
It's OK. I'm glad I experienced it. I hated it the first half through, but the second half got really fun. I thought it was the dumbest overrated piece of garbage the first half of the game, and then I really liked it. After finishing it the slower pace of the beginning made sense after going back on it as a whole.
You shouldn't let things become overrated or underrated for you personally. Inflating the HYPE leads to disappointment for any product albeit book, music, tv show, movie, or game.
Imagine if you had just played TLOU and not hearing anything, perhaps you wouldn't have went in with a chip on your shoulder about how overrated it was. I suppose it's good that the second half of the game was good enough for you to overcome the bias of overrated opinions generated by others.
I try to play games in a bubble, as if I'm living on an island and mystery games were sent to me. It's so much better for my personal experience.
It's a shame that good games in particular are sometimes judged by what other people thought of the product they got to play before you did.
I have liked and disliked many games/other forms of media in my past. However, I have never held the ratings of others as a reason I didn't like the product. I try to judge the product by what is in front of me, not what others said and made me imagine.
I used to let HYPE ruin products for me. "Tommy said the new Movie is amazing, BEST MOVIE EVER!!" Then, when I see the film I see that it is indeed good, but not ANY where remotely near THE BEST!!! as Tommy proclaimed. I then wonder what I would have thought of the film without Tommy's proclamation echoing around in my mind. I imagine discovering it the way Tommy did and I might have enjoyed it more. With the Last of us, which was "overrated my thousands and millions of people"? Imagine that Tommy HYPE problem a thousandfold echoing in your mind. The experience was essentially ruined as I went in with preconceived notions on what a "Best Movie ever" might entail as you were playing The Last of Us whilst thinking' "It was the dumbest overrated piece of garbage" for a game.
Long story short, when Naughty Dog created TLOU, they made a game they hoped others liked. It's unfair that random other people's opinions can inflate our own personal experiences of what the game should include or be like.
That is also why I follow developers and try to buy my fave developers games day one. I don't follow brand, but devs and I can usually be apart of that first wave of killer games. Same thing I do for certain authors, musicians, and directors (film makers).
Enjoy these products with a blank slate.
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