HBO:n ilmeisesti moderni ja progressiivinen TV-sarja The Last of Us starttaa HBO Maxilla tammikuun puolivälissä. Muutoksia lähdemateriaaliin eli peleihin verrattuna on tehty, ja väkivaltaa varsinkin on vähennetty. Näin tarinan painoarvo lisääntyy.
Asiasta kertoi The Last of Usin iso heppu Neil Druckmann Games Radarille.
"We need a certain amount of action, or violence, that we could use for mechanics so you could connect with Joel and get into a flow state. Then you would really feel like you're connected with this on-screen avatar and you're seeing the world through his eyes.
But that doesn't exist in a passive medium. One of the things that I loved hearing from co-creator Craig Mazin and HBO very early on was, 'Let's take out all the violence except for the very essential.' That allowed the violence to have even more impact than in the game, because when you hold on showing the threat and you're seeing people's reaction to a threat, that makes it scarier. And when we do reveal the infected and the Clickers, you get to see what brought down humanity and why everyone is so scared."