Bioshock Infinite or The Last Of Us

Bioshock hands down.

when i played the last of us i just felt as though i already played it in the walking dead. although the last of us was much better.

but better then bioshock, no way.





Im a big bright shining star...(whips it out)... yeah..

The Last of Us. Solid gameplay, consistent characters and by the end I felt more for them than I did toward the beginning. NaughtyDog has always been great on the visuals but I was surprised at how slowly and naturally Joel & Ellie became attached to each other. Guess I expected more Uncharted with zombies. Also, playing as Ellie for that chapter (and again at the end) was a great idea. Made me feel for her more than I did while just playing as Joel. I would play Left Behind but I hear it's too short for the price. Maybe someday.

Pretty much the opposite for me with Bioshock Infinite. Loved the premise and the setting, but that's pretty much it. It's a shame b/c Infinite had the potential to be game of the decade but it implemented a bunch of interesting ideas in a terribly dull way. Too much like every other FPS game that I've played. The characters and story weren't consistent, it brought me out of the game and I never connected with Booker & Elizabeth. They were plot devices with names; the exact opposite of how I felt about Joel & Ellie. Their conversations and interactions during the actual gameplay felt natural and never out of place. On the other hand, I was very aware that Troy and Courtnee were in a recording both everytime their characters interacted. They sounded like exposition-bots with no rhyme or reason to where they were going next.

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While I love the Hell out of both games and they both deserve the status of "landmark games", I gotta go with BioShock Infinite. I like the characters more and the creators tackle soo many different ideas so deftly.

The Last of Us is a more intimate look at the reasoning for living even after trauma, but it wasn't as expansive in tackling themes or concepts that BioShock Infinite did. I love the feeling of dread and horror throughout the Last of Us, but I felt that BioShock Infinite was able to go through a pantheon of different emotions, different highs and lows, with such ease.

I also think enemies like the Handymen, the Zealots, and the Motorized Patriots are more creative and change up the gameplay more than say the clickers in The Last of Us.

Both are great games, but I felt that Irrational Games really delivered something that even topped the original BioShock.


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Bioshock Infinite is the most contrived, boring garbage i've ever had the displeasure of playing. TLOU is the greatest video game of all time. No contest.

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To me, there's really no appropriate comparison.

Bioshock I was a craven, gutless game that uses the brutal past of the U.S. as window dressing for a nonsensical multiple universe hodge podge. I absolutely hated the racist insinuation that slaves we're a flip of a coin away from being terrorist child murderers, especially considering that civil rights in the U.S. was achieved generally through non-violent means on the part of the discriminated (perhaps irrational could have plumbed the U.S. history a little deeper). If the gameplay was redeeming, i'd go easier on it, but BI is just a shoot everyone in the face kind of game. A shame too, since some talented and expensive work went into it. I hate it.

TLOU isn't without it's faults either, but these seem to be from rushed production. Some glitches, AI silliness and what not. I think they actually did a good job of integrating the gameplay with the narrative, which is hard to do in some games. It was a strong emotional and mature story as well, something I wasn't expecting considering these are the people who did Uncharted. I'd easily give the nod to TLOU.

TLOU was amazing but Infinite is a flat out masterpiece.

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