Forum Overview :: The Last Of Us :: So far Druckmann admits to getting off at causing players grief

[quote name="Do NOT shoot the Torah!"]uh <i>what the fuck:</i> [quote name="In his own words"]I saw a video of a lynching when I was much younger. It was like an actual... like a news thing. And then, feeling intense hatred for the people that committed the lynching and thinking, like, "Oh, man if I could hurt these people in some horrible ways then I could". I was like, 'Oh, we can make the player feel that'. We can make you experience this thirst for revenge. This thirst for retribution and having you, like, commit the acts of finding it and then showing you the other side and make you regret it. To make you feel dirty for everything you've done in the game, making you realize "I'm actually the villain of the story.[/quote] You see, of course, the lesbian-trans-love-murder octahedron is really about <i>empathy</i>. Things that jumped out to me: - Kid watching capital punishment footage - Desire to punish (borderline personality) - Revenge fantasies - Wants the end user to be humiliated [quote]Far be it for me to suggest Druckmann is displaying his fetishes and not making a work of A-R-T. But I would bet my stimulus check that he is a member of the local S&M club.[/quote] Guaranteed pred. He had a keynote talking about how important it is that women are represented in games as sexless hags. Another "good guy feminist" that likely has Elephant Man sized skeletons in the closet. [/quote]