>>720006259
Personally it was very jarring seeing Ellie running around all over the place in front of the fucking enemy NPC's (weather they were human or not) and not alert anyone or anything was a deal breaker.
Second is the forced walking/talking segments, literally can't skip the dialogue, if MGS: Rising did it then every game should let the player have that kind of ability to skip whatever bullshit the characters are spewing.

How to respond?

>>714584335
I've only ever played the second game on Youtube (parts of it at least), but I did beat the first game twice, once in hard and second in grounded.
The first game had decent pacing and good story telling as well as suburb voice acting, gameplay was functional but nothing revolutionary or did it set any kind of standard for 3rd person shooters, it did what it was supposed to do and it worked, I loved the multiplayer way more than I cared for the single player until Naughty Dog implemented microtransactions and P2W elements, ruined the meta completely.
The minute Naughty Dog turned Ellie gay is when I fucking knew it was over, the studio that I grew up with and loved is gone, it freaking sucks that they will constantly use the phrase "From The Studio that brought You Crash, Uncharted" which is bullshit.
Funny, going on 6 years and they still haven't actually came out with a product, we know there is one coming out but the past ND that I know would have came out with a banger and then some.

>>714062146
Pretty much every product that features a girl boss bitch type fails.
Besides, it's coming out in 2026, there is no chance in hell that a new IP from one of the most hated dev studios is going to do good against RE9, GTAVI, Gears: E-Day, 007, Duskbloods, Nioh 3, Onimusha and Pragmata.
And that's not counting the games that might come out in 2026 like Witcher 4 and Okami.
>>714062286
If that's the case then they would have released a new Last of Us by now.
The Naughty Dog that we all knew and grew up with would come out with banger after banger, their last game was in 2020.
Besides, I have yet to see anybody excited for their new game.