What it sounds like is that Naughty Dog could have taken the post-apocalyptic thing and done it stereo-typically and gone for tropes of the genre (decimated wasteland, zombies, gratuitous violence), but they've crafted something unique and fresh that will impact people when they finally get to play it. Everything is pointing in the right direction for TLoU.
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Can't wait!