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Bought the Last of Us 2 so I can have a hot take on all the controversy surrounding it. Im in the minority because I thought the ending to the original was kinda fucking stupid, so I'm probably not going to trip too hard if things go left.
What's the controversy? I haven't paid much attention to it's release but noticed I also haven't heard much praises towards the game which is odd.
3 things:
Heavy rumors that there was a lot of infighting between the development team vs management over work hours and delays to the point where the dev team is hoping that the game bombs
And...
Fans are pissed that the story writers might be agenda pushing with some injections of sjw rhetoric in the game, most notably the game is hella lesbian. Personally I feel some of the cornball virgin side of the gaming community comes out when you see a mob of people complain about that stuff.
And finally...
There's also rumors that Sony or Naughty Dog paid off the press to give the game 10/10 scores, plus there were embargos that they can't talk about the last 12 hours of the game. Plus Sony had youtube remove a lot of videos that discussed leaks.
Basically a shit show.