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[Fess]

The only time I've seen religion being pulled off well in a piece of literature in when the entire story/premise from the ground up behaves in a matter-of-factly kind of way towards religiosity. This has only happened when the producers are actually practicing what they preach, they live by it, and they display it in a mundane kind of way--pros and cons and and weird cultural values and all. Its actually fascinating to read a good story written by someone with different values.

Druckmann is a mainstream social media zionist and his posse are liberal globalists with a paint coating of spiritualism; if they have any at all.

So in conclusion: This game's 'Religious theme' is going to fall flat on its face.

Never read anything like that but I agree on the conclusion. I just have trouble seeing this studio do anything interesting with this theme that hasn’t been told before, they don’t do roleplaying so they have to go with a linear fits-everyone story. It’ll likely be something like this:
1. Believer struggle to keep the faith, break down, gets it back in the end.
2. Non-believer mock religion but finds out that there might be something else out there in the end.
3. Religion versus science. Can higher beings exist? Can science verify it or prove that it’s all bs.
4. Religious war and extremists, player tries to get all parts to coexist in peace despite different viewpoints.
5. Corruption within a seemingly okay religion, dark secrets will be unveiled, highest priest is pure evil and the end boss.

Do I hear a yawn? No? Maybe it was myself

 

[VulcanRaven]

I actually wish more games would do misdirecting like that. Just like Kojima did with MGS2 too.

 

[Hypereides]

Not sure what the point was with this interview. Sounds like Neil was looking for confirmation bias in his mistakes. Also, seemingly trying to align himself on equal footing with Garland, even though the mediums they work with aren't comparable. Seems like he's too stubborn to acknowledge his missteps and seeks affirmation.

Death threats are absolute idiocy, and should utterly be fully ignored, but its ridiculous to dismiss the rest of legitimate criticism due to them. That's myopic and foolish.

Druckman is one of the worst things to happen to video games.

Putting him in charge of Naughty dog is probably the worst thing to have happened to the studio. He's chipping away at their prestige and good name at the expense of his vain "high brow art". Ultimately, the ones that will pay the price will be Sony and ND.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

The fake trailer was an amazing idea.
If only people were t so butthurt and ruin it weeks before release for everyone

I told the store that the fake check I purchased the game with was an amazing idea and they shouldn't get so butthurt about having their financial expectations subverted.