Comments | rionaleonhart: That's Not For You To Decide.

rionaleonhart

That's Not For You To Decide.

Jan 20, 2014 21:16

If you've played The Last of Us and you haven't yet watched this video of the motion capture for an alternative ending, you absolutely must. I found it very moving.

It's very strange to go back to the Uncharted games after playing The Last of Us. The games share many elements, but they're utterly different in tone. In The Last of Us, killing ( Read more... )

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milliebee January 21 2014, 00:00:12 UTC

I haven't played Uncharted, but your explanation of sudonarrative dissonance is brilliant. I've encountered the same thing across other games, and it's always a mixture of incredibly funny and deeply unnerving when it happens.

rionaleonhart January 21 2014, 09:27:50 UTC

'We need to show the Sanctum that being l'Cie doesn't make us monsters!' Yes, that might be easier if you hadn't killed fifty of their soldiers. It's strange that this never really hit me before I played The Last of Us, but seeing one's murderous actions treated with appropriate gravity makes 'la la la kill all these people it's fine' seem deeply weird in retrospect.

milliebee January 22 2014, 19:44:15 UTC

I thought it was depicted fairly well in this parody comic of FFVII (kind of NSFW, animals humping), where Kunsel appears as one of the SOLDIERs that Avalanche fight in the Shinra building ... and consequently gets his head cut off in the next page.

Thinking that you're killing actual people is weird. Thinking that those could be characters you know is downright horrifying.

littlemoose January 21 2014, 22:08:26 UTC

This is so weird, I've literally just finished the first Uncharted game (and am now going to jump on the sequels like they're gold dust) and loved it, but did think that the sheer number of people you gunned down with no acknowledgement was pretty crazy. Clearly I need to play these other games too (I just got a PS3 at Christmas, so I'm on the lookout for recs, so far I have played Uncharted, Flower and Journey, which I loved, and Little Big Planet 2, which I didn't... XD

(Long time no natter! *smish*)

rionaleonhart January 21 2014, 22:25:39 UTC

It's been ages! Hello!

AND I AM SO EXCITED THAT YOU'RE PLAYING UNCHARTED. I really hope you enjoy the sequels! The original Uncharted is a solid enough game, but I love Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3 much, much more. (If you have a PS3, you should definitely play The Last of Us. And I think you'd enjoy Portal 2. And Red Dead Redemption is also excellent. But, yes, jump on those Uncharted sequels first.)

(If you have any thoughts about the Uncharted games you'd like to express, incidentally, I would be extremely open to hearing them!)

gargantsurprise January 23 2014, 16:33:34 UTC

I haven't commented here in about ten thousand billion years, the perils of switching to Dreamwidths and plurks and tumblrs and such, but I do still look in fairly regularly because darn it if you don't always have such entertaining posts. The one you made recently concerning interpretations (and what does or does not qualify as a misrepresentation) was really great, and I almost commented but thought 'it's been a long time, that might be awkward!', and then you mentioned that you're playing Radiant Historia and THAT'S exciting because I personally think it's a really charming game with a lot of great features, and now THIS post and fine, darn it, I will leave a comment ( ... )

rionaleonhart January 23 2014, 18:46:40 UTC

I don't know what about this entry is drawing out the people I haven't heard from in ten thousand billion years, but I am delighted. Hello! I've missed you!

But it's definitely worth noting that in Final Fantasy X, when you defeat Guado while fleeing the Macalania Temple and such, your enemies are depicted as falling down and then fading from the field. No pyreflies are shown, which I absolutely take to mean that you are defeating these humanoids rather than outright killing them.

That's a very interesting point! Come to think of it, though, don't humans and Guado only turn into pyreflies when they're sent? Fiends dissolve into pyreflies on death because they were formed of pyreflies to begin with. I, er, think. It's been a while since I last played Final Fantasy X.

Of course, even if you are killing the humanoid enemies, they may well go on to do that thing where they trot around after death for decades, totally fine. I don't understand Spira ( ... )

gargantsurprise January 23 2014, 20:23:26 UTC

Oh no, that's correct, isn't it! About pyreflies, that is. So it might very well be that you are killing them after all, ahhh, all my careful consideration is foiled again hahaha. But no, of course you're right, Seymour didn't have any pyreflies there either and he was most certainly dead...

SO I HAVE REALLY CONTRIBUTED NOTHING AT ALL, but yes! The person you added on Dreamwidth was indeed myself, although I have to admit I don't really update a great deal on either journal website these days. If I were to update it'd be more likely there, though, so! I will gladly add you in return \o\!