ND's Bruce Straley Thinks Tearaway & Papers Please Should Have Won Award For Innovation Over TLOU

ND's Bruce Straley Thinks Tearaway & Papers Please Should Have Won Award For Innovation Over TLOU.

[Irishguy95]

Yeah, but nobody votes for innovation.

The last of Us wasn't like Uncharted -> Fanboys believe it is now innovative.

[psman012]

I am a huge fan of TLOU, and I would agree that it really isn't that innovative. They have a basic crafting system (like...VERY basic), the shooting mechanics were similar to Uncharted, the cover system was great but it's nothing new...it's all in the way that Naughty Dog put these great mechanics AND MORE together in a big old melting pot and made an unforgettable journey out of it. But that's just my opinion.

On my fourth play through now!

[No FanS Land]

The game uses every of its mechanics perfectly, and it is very polished, but it is still a common game. And it is also very linear.

[Milruka]

Game wasn't policed, It wasn't even in 720p.

[goldwyncq]

@ No FanS Land

Not that there's anything wrong with being linear.

[Why o why]

Other games should of won the innovative award over tlou yes but how many sites have a standalone innovation award. I seldom hear people who enjoyed tlou claiming it was the most innovative game of last year, just that it was the best overall game of last year.

At no point did the goty have to be the most innovative to be shortlisted.

[LordMaim]

@Milruka: I'm assuming you mean polished rather than policed. And if you believe that game wasn't polished, then no game is. The game rendered natively in 720p with post-processing AA.

@Why o why: Completely agree. Games should always try to innovate, to avoid stagnation, but innovation on its own doesn't necessarily mean a better game. Just like mutations usually result in offspring that dies, rather than a stronger generation. Think about games like Dark Void which was the best worst game ever made. So much missed potential, but enough innovation to be worth playing. No one would ever call it GOTY, however.

An expert chef can make a much better dish than you could with the same ingredients. Naughty Dog may not have reinvented the wheel with The Last of Us, but they sure as hell made a better one.

[Allsystemgamer]

Uh they don't argue it's innovative. They argue that it has a near perfect blend of common mechanics mixed with a great telling of a common story. Get your facts straight. Xbox hasn't had anything innovative in a very very very long time

[Rachel_Alucard]

At least he didn't say Gone Home

[DanielGearSolid]

Amen

[memots]

lol Gone Home

[LAWSON72]

I still dont understand how anyone could think of TLOU as innovative. It was great but innovative...WTF.

It is more of a facepalm than seeing Bioshock Infinite win shooter of the year

[MadLad]

Couldn't agree more.

[BlackPrince 42]

Gameplay wise it wasn't innovative. Very very good, but not innovative.

I suppose you could argue there was some innovative storytelling techniques used though. Certainly in regards to the last couple of chapters.

[Megaton]

Tearaway is an amazing game.

[LordMaim]

Tearaway is proof that MM has more creativity in it's studio than any I've ever seen. It continuously amazes me that such unconventional gaming projects are given the finances and freedom to bring them to completion.

Seeing this comment right next to the one below it, each delivered with absolute certainty... All I can say is you gotta love the internet. No, seriously!

[LinkOnABoat]

Tearaway was terrible. MM need to stick to LBP. XD

[WeAreLegion]

You didn't play Tearaway. That's the only possible way your comment would make sense.

[Inception]

All of my friends love it, even friends who always prefer 3DS over Vita love it too. It surprised me when people like Linkonaboat said Tearaway was terrible. But just like you said, the only reason why he said that because he never play it.

[captainexplosion]

MM does need to stick to LBP. Tearaway was really good, but LBP is one of the greatest platforming series of alltime.

[SoulSercher620]

I'm pretty sure you didn't play LBP either.

[dafegamer]

Drunk post?

[solidjun5]

former account: Fanboybeatdown. He'll just create a new one.

[Tedakin]

There is nothing innovative about TLOU. It's a great game. Great graphics and all that. But I'll never understand why it's considered so groundbreaking. It had standard shooting, climbing stealth gameplay, which was for the most part right out of Uncharted. Great characterizations. The story was completely cliched and taken from several other sources. Yes it was a 9.5/10 game, but I just can't figure why everyone acts like it's the Holy Grail of gaming.

[AusRogo]

Because the story and characters were done so well, and i actually gave a shit about what was happening. It was intense and scary as hell. Havent felt like that since Dead Space. It was MY holy grail last gen. I agree it wasnt innovative but it most definetly stands out.

[fluxmulder]

Because of the hype. People are starting to open their eyes now. 6 months ago, I would have never seen comment like yours on here. Now they are cropping up more and more.

[fenome]

Has nothing to do with hype, some people found it an extraordinary experience. If you didn't then you didn't, cool, that's your experience with the game. I don't see why all of a sudden it's the cool thing to hate on though, guess the resolution wars got the brats feeling privileged. Haters gonna hate, it is what it is..

Personally, this game has a special spot on my shelf. I'm in my 30s and I've played a LOT of frickin' games dude, 6 months don't change nothin' about that.

[fluxmulder]

It has everything to do with hype. People believed so badly in this game as the Holy Grail before it came out, and that carried over post-release. Once the sheen wears off though, the flaws become apparent, and people start pointing them out. We are seeing that now. The length of time it takes varies. Apparently, it took about half a year for this game.

For me, it was the lack of fun. The gameplay did absolutely nothing for me. I had no desire to replay this game after I was finished.

[fenome]

To each their own, if you weren't feeling it then cool, why the need to be the peoples voice though?

I'm on my fifth playthrough right now gettin' ready for that DLC to drop. This is one of the most immersive experiences I've had in storytelling. Books are always the most because you create the mental pictures as you go, but they crafted this story beautifully. Not just in the cutscenes either, just the subtle banter as you walked along, or even the jokes Ellie told along the way.

I'm anxious to to see what this team does next, especially now that they can drop the constraints of old hardware and have total creative freedom

[goldwyncq]

Tearaway should have won the award for innovation. Some games break the fourth wall but Tearaway is probably the only game in existence where there is NO fourth wall at all.

[Concertoine]

Besides banjo kazooie ;)

[persona4chie]

Tearaway may have been innovative but the last of us was a whole other beast, plus in a lot of cases its hard for handheld games to compete with console games they are capable of way to much over handhelds the last of us was just over all better

[ElementX]

I didn't care for Papers Please

[cellur111]

The puppeteer should have won something, that game was great.

[denero1]

This post I agree with puppeteer got screwed

[REDBEARD]

The Last of Us, while a great game, is severely overrated. I am glad its getting awards but, damn, it shouldn't win in every category. Hell, it might win for best family friendly game or best Nintendo game, lol.

[fenome]

You obviously haven't played it if you think this is family friendly or Nintendo. Decapitations, suicide, children being shot, people burned alive, and FUCK is every other word. lol

EDIT:
Forgot to mention cannibalism

[REDBEARD]

Wow! it was an obvious joke. Are people that stupid?

Because The Last of Us is so good it is getting the other awards from the other categories...get it.

Jeez

[CrossingEden]

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[fenome]

Actually, I read stuff like this every day, and the person usually means it..

I don't care if you liked the game or not, I just took you literaly. Now I feel retarded. Lmao

@CrossingEden

You really just popped your only bubble wasting all that time on a facepalm dude? Maybe you should just give yourself a hug or go rub one out in the corner instead, I bet you'd have better luck that way. Keep trying though buddy, your almost there..

[WeAreLegion]

I'd give it to Tearaway. Though TLOU was definitely my GOTY.

[KrisButtar]

Innovation is the introduction of something new, a new idea, method, or device.

I wouldn't give it to TLOU. I haven't played it but everything I have seen has been done before. I would give it to something new before I gave it to something improved

Edit:

[denero1]

tlou did something no game has did in awhile it made me actually feel something

usually only movies could pull that type of emotion from me
so i can't say tlou doesn't deserve all the awards its getting

I'm trying to think back to a game that left me feeling anything tlou even beats uncharted by miles

[shotgun_ps3]

I think the innovation comes from the character animation and general performance. There have been games before were the characters have been able to emote but TLoU was the first game I've ever played were there was general emotion pouring out the characters. From the opening to Joel and Ellie's relationship to winter, there was a degree of innovation there that's not been seen in any other game. Granted PP and Tearaway's gameplay is truly innovative but TLoU did something I never though we should see last gen. It made me feel for the characters through performance.

[captainexplosion]

People are acting like they don't know how award shows work. The Last of us was the most acclaimed movie of the year and voters are fans of it so they are going to vote for it for awards it doesn't deserve. Hugo won best visual effects and it didn't deserve it. The Hurt Locker won best sound effects over Avatar. Its just how it works.

[captainexplosion]

I liked Tearaway and think it was closer to innovative than TLoU but I don't understand why people think it was so innovative. The style was cool but I was surprised that MM didn't try to separate the art direction more from LBP. The more innovative features were probably the paper cutting, photography, and the online paper craft, but none of them were implemented well. The camera was terrible. Collecting was poorly done. And the combat was boring. The back touchpad functionality was awesome but I wouldn't really call it original. The way the story was told and the ending was neat though. MM is the most creative studio on the planet but I didn't think Tearaway was as innovative as LBP.

[SSJBen]

Exactly.

Awards are nice to be awarded to those who put so much effort into creating a game, it's not an easy task. But awards lose their credibility when they aren't given out properly.

Tearaway was on a whole other level when it comes to innovation, people who doesn't think so hasn't played it. Plain and simple.

[KILLERAPP]

In a way is not super innovated individually, the shooting, the cover system, the story telling is from Uncharted but they refine the gameplay styles so much and made them so much better. That when everything was brought together in a way is innovated not in a grand scale. But the everything in the game was done in such a way that it made it look unique from every other game this year.