Oh, I know exactly why the majority of folks are hating on it bud, and I personally don't have any time or respect for those people. If they can't accept the characters as they are (who frankly reflect people that exist in the real world), then that's their problem and the game simply wasn't made for them. I ignore most reviews/comments nowadays anyway (wasn't even aware a minority also had a problem with UC4), because I prefer to experience things for myself and make up my own damn mind, but the "controversy" surrounding TLOU2 has unfortunately been unavoidable. Like you said... everyone's just being overly loud and obnoxious for the sake of it at the moment, so any genuine criticisms are being drowned out - although I have seen a couple that accuse a particular part of the trailer being misleading, which is fair, but also nothing new when it comes to ND as they often like to throw us off and I personally don't mind that. Good to know we're both on the same page regarding all this anyway.Yep I was having anger issues as the days went on.. but I just prefer physical whenever possible.
I could be really long-winded about about the 'controversy' and hate the game is getting.. but I'll try not to be. It all started for Naughty Dog with with a Neil Druckman interview about TLOU and also Uncharted 4 when people were taking issue with something he said. He said when developing the last of us he had a secret agenda.. that he wanted to create a role model female character that his daughter could play as. He wanted to a create a female heroine that wasn't overly sexualised.. and of course it's eventually revealed she's also lesbian in Left Behind. This 'agenda' annoyed a lot of gamers because quite frankly a lot of hardcore gamers are socially inept shut-ins who take a lot of joy in playing as overly sexualised females - designs that today remain more prominent in Japanese games while the western studios have started to try and avoid and it create more 'normal' looking women.
I'm not tarring everyone with the same brush here but a lot of the hate base are anime/japanese game fanatics.. who are resisitng the 'woke agenda' Naughty Dog is embracing with a more diverse cast of characters. When it came to Uncharted 4 they started crying about the character of Nadine and specifically the 'unrealistic' fight she has with both Sam and Nate - a WOMAN of COLOR beating up two white men. So it also started to descend into racism as well sexist attitudes. Since that point and the reveal of the leaks from TLOU2 a certain character has them even more triggered. Certain actions by the character and of course.. people also tend to believe that they come to OWN characters themselves andtreat them as sacred. When the fates of characters don't suit them.. they start spazzing out about how they've been WRONGED by the storyteller.
Right now it's just loud and obnoxious. There may be legit criticisms about the game and its story and execution but we won't really hear many voices like that for a while unti the intial wave of rage calms down.
Again I'm not saying everyone with an anime avatar is a raging racist bigot trump supporter lol just seeing the very obvious trend of these pockets of the internet with the pitchforks out for sure. It's also very obvious most of these people aren't even playing the game themselves.. playing and watching a stream of it are two different things.
HELL YEAH! Part 1 is definitely one of the greatest gaming experiences I've ever had
I should be getting it next week! 
Oh, I know exactly why the majority of folks are hating on it bud, and I personally don't have any time or respect for those people. If they can't accept the characters as they are (who frankly reflect people that exist in the real world), then that's their problem and the game simply wasn't made for them. I ignore most reviews/comments nowadays anyway (wasn't even aware a minority also had a problem with UC4), because I prefer to experience things for myself and make up my own damn mind, but the "controversy" surrounding TLOU2 has unfortunately been unavoidable. Like you said... everyone's just being overly loud and obnoxious for the sake of it at the moment, so any genuine criticisms are being drowned out - although I have seen a couple that accuse a particular part of the trailer being misleading, which is fair, but also nothing new when it comes to ND as they often like to throw us off and I personally don't mind that. Good to know we're both on the same page regarding all this anyway.
Well I took your advise and ordered the first one Remastered edition and I'll start playing it and see if I like it enough to get this one.
Good to finally see someone give legitimate reasons as to why they didn't enjoy the game, rather than just bashing it for the sake of looking "edgy" on the internet. Sorry to hear you were disappointed bud.
Who are these insiders and "people involved with the game" you're referring to?
Welp... Naughty Dog's long-awaited follow-up is now the fastest-selling PS4 exclusive ever. Selling more than 4 million copies in its first week!
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Correction... the first THREE days!!Welp... Naughty Dog's long-awaited follow-up is now the fastest-selling PS4 exclusive ever. Selling more than 4 million copies in its first week!
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