{"id":199,"date":"2018-02-03T23:20:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T04:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fms321.danielhdavis.com\/video-games\/tearjerker\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T03:12:00","slug":"tearjerker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/2018\/02\/03\/tearjerker\/","title":{"rendered":"Tearjerker"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gaming console I grew up on was the PS2. It’s fitting then that two of the best video games of all time in\u00a0Uncharted\u00a02: Among Thieves<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Last of Us\u00a0<\/em>were released exclusively on the Playstation. I loved the\u00a0Uncharted\u00a0<\/em>series, but was never able to make the time investment during high school to play\u00a0The Last Of Us,\u00a0<\/em>which was released on the PS3 and remastered on the PS4.<\/p>\n

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The Last of Us\u00a0<\/em>is a post-apocalyptic horror game and unlike the trend of the last 10 years,\u00a0The Last of Us\u00a0<\/em>does what other games couldn’t through it’s visual and sound components, as well as its in-depth character development. I felt the visual graphics are insanely well-made. The attention to detail gives the impression of how if the developers and creators were heavily invested, then the people playing were going to be heavily invested as well, albeit emotionally speaking.<\/p>\n

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From the start, you’re emotionally invested in the characters and the game doesn’t hesitate to rip your heart out. As Henry Jenkins said, “The tone of voice and body language can powerfully express specific emotional states.”\u00a0When Joel’s daughter who is around 8-12 years old is killed, the graphics were able to depict the anguish and despair on Joel’s face. You could feel some sort of empathy with the character even though is all made up and taking place in a virtual world. So I think that factor of emotional attachment is something that we haven’t really discussed in class that much. \u00a0The emotional atmosphere of The Last of Us\u00a0<\/em>was not really existent in the\u00a0Uncharted\u00a0<\/i>series until the fourth game, A Thief’s End<\/em>\u00a0was released in 2016, more than three years after\u00a0The Last of Us\u00a0<\/em>came out.<\/p>\n

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The musical component of the game is pretty melancholy and suspenseful and keeps you on your toes, which is fitting especially when I couldn’t hear the clickers until they already killed me from behind. You know stuff is about to go down, but you don’t know exactly what is going to happen. That suspense keeps the player engaged.<\/p>\n

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The environment and setting in the game were illustrated as overrun and dilapidated, giving you a sense of ill foreboding about what was going to occur next. You want to get through the game as quick as possible, but the cutscenes succeed in making you stick around. Regardless, while\u00a0most games are meant to entertain the gamers for brief periods of time,\u00a0The Last of Us<\/em> combines the perfect blend of cinematic cut scenes with open-world exploration in combination with a linear storyline.<\/p>\n

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The gaming console I grew up on was the PS2. It’s fitting then that two of the best video games of all time in\u00a0Uncharted\u00a02: Among Thieves\u00a0and\u00a0The Last of Us\u00a0were released exclusively on the Playstation. I loved the\u00a0Uncharted\u00a0series, but was never able to make the time investment during high school to play\u00a0The Last Of Us,\u00a0which was …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"item_id":"c55ad807a985c93a082de93bf06c255d","pf_source_link":"","item_date":"Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:12:23 +0000","item_author":"admin","item_link":"http:\/\/fms321.danielhdavis.com\/video-games\/tearjerker\/","item_feat_img":"","item_wp_date":"Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:12:23 +0000","item_tags":"","source_publication_name":"","source_publication_url":"","nomination_count":"1","sortable_item_date":"1517515943","item_description":"","pf_word_count":"602","pf_forward_to_origin":"no-forward","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[56,13,57,58,55],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-round-1","tag-first-time-playing","tag-free-choice","tag-ps4","tag-the-last-of-us","tag-video-games"],"nominators":{"1":{"user_id":1,"nomination_datetime":"2018-02-03 21:38:43","nomination_unixtime":1517711923}},"archiveOrgStatus":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xw5i-3d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/313"}],"feed":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/pf\/v1\/feeds\/146"}],"nominator":[{"embeddable":false,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/user\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"attributes":{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true},"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"attributes":{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true},"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}