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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8922744" data-attributes="member: 6788736">Yeah. It's just... every time it deviates from the game (Bill and Frank, no Spores) I compare those changes to the game. Then every time it tries to mirror the game (Ep1 in the car escape from the house), Im again brought back to comparing it to the game.Im having a real hard time watching it, and not constantly contrasting it to the game. It's almost an academic experience, rather than an entertainment experience.That's entirely on me, on not on the show. Im trying to just enjoy it 'as is' but just keep getting jarred out.I feel like Joel is less 'Evil' in the TV version (in the game he casually engages in torture early on, and doesnt blink when Tess flat out murders several people in cold blood) in an effort to make him more sympathetic. In the game he's implied to have engaged in many a cold-blooded murder himself, and expressly engages in torture and murder a few times later on as well.The changes to the infected are OK, but I miss seeing them crying and sobbing (it really brought on the horror that -unlike in other Zombie genres, the person is still 'in there' - just mind controlled by a fungus that is slowly agonizingly consuming them from the inside out, while forcing them to live in the filth and in the dark and kill people).I like it (and I like the Zombie genre in general) but It's going to take me a while to dwell on how much, and be able to view it as it's own thing (separate from the game).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 8922744, member: 6788736"] Yeah. It's just... every time it deviates from the game (Bill and Frank, no Spores) I compare those changes to the game. Then every time it tries to mirror the game (Ep1 in the car escape from the house), Im again brought back to comparing it to the game. Im having a real hard time watching it, and not constantly contrasting it to the game. It's almost an academic experience, rather than an entertainment experience. That's entirely on me, on not on the show. Im trying to just enjoy it 'as is' but just keep getting jarred out. I feel like Joel is less 'Evil' in the TV version (in the game he casually engages in torture early on, and doesnt blink when Tess flat out murders several people in cold blood) in an effort to make him more sympathetic. In the game he's implied to have engaged in many a cold-blooded murder himself, and expressly engages in torture and murder a few times later on as well. The changes to the infected are OK, but I miss seeing them crying and sobbing (it really brought on the horror that -unlike in other Zombie genres, the person is still 'in there' - just mind controlled by a fungus that is slowly agonizingly consuming them from the inside out, while forcing them to live in the filth and in the dark and kill people). I like it (and I like the Zombie genre in general) but It's going to take me a while to dwell on how much, and be able to view it as it's own thing (separate from the game). [/QUOTE]

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