I am really curious at this point to experience the game because I can't recall ever having been shocked by video game violence.
I am not into horror or getting scared or just yucky movies. I can only remember having a "wow, really" or I am shocked moment in regards to movies once. And that was in the New Zeland movie "Once we were warriors". It was when he beat the crap out of his wife, the thing that got to me (I was 21 i think) was, is that what abuse of women really is like?
I was floored at the brutality of that situation, especially after they had a long family party scene where everybody gets along and are happy and having fun.
He suddenly flips and beats the crap out of here (dont remember why, maybe because they where out of beer or something). Its still a scene I keep remember to this day, 26 years later.
For games its the same thing, I think it was Call of Duty Modern Warfare on PS3, the section where you shoot at stuff from a C-130 with a 25mm gatling gun and look at the action through a green ir screen, like they had showed on CNN etc. That felt and looked so real to me and it was another moment.
But Last of Us 2 or Uncharted where guarrs are talking about BBQ etc, never faced me, I believe its because it does not convince me that its not a game and its not relatable situation for me. Not that I beat up on girlfriends or kill people from planes, but those situations managed to tug at the right strings for some reason.
Sorry way of topic, I think, but not expecting Last of us 2 to do any such impression.
I think that makes me the villain...
But are we not the villain in certain situations? I doubt anybody is able to be good(the hero) 100% of the time, but what is a villain. Somebody that breaks up with his gf due to meeting somebody else.
Somebody like Quisling or the Pol Pot? What kind of villain behaviour is crossing the line and what is ok? The people that waterboards prisoners?