For many of those outside the industry or who don't count playing games among their hobbies, it can be easy to see video games as vacuous, violent, and repetitive. Of course, this may have been more true a decade or so ago, before the medium became as mainstream as it is today and attitudes began to shift more profoundly. Game stories are making their way to wider audiences and showing skeptics that there can be more to the pastime than shooting and explosions. The upcoming TV adaption of The Last of Us is a classic example of this cross-platform transition, and might bring even more people into the realm of video games after its release.