The Last of Us (Naughty Dog): Hold One Second

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Cool to see it's a Naughty Dog game, though now I think the chances are incredibly slim that this will a played from the first-person, which is a slight disappointment, as I was hoping for an open-world, first- person, survival horror game.
 
Rodney McKay said:
Not all zombies are slow. I'd say it's more common to have fast zombies than slow ones at this point. L4D, Walking Dead, etc.
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Typical zombies were always slow. When you broaden the definition of zombies to fast zombies, mutated zombies and fungus looking zombies that look and behave nothing like the original concept then you're trying too hard to fit something in a category it doesn't belong.
 
Metalmurphy said:
I think she might be the one:
http://twitter.com/#!/TheVulcanSalute


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Teen Titans lady
 
Riddick said:
Instead of insulting people you might want to explain yourself.
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Explain what? That there is a very well known variety of "fast" zombies (and fat xombies, and exploding zombies, etc) in a multitude of current games/media? I would explain it, but I'm sure you know it, I'm just not sure why you are pretending otherwise, hence my comment "you can't be this dense."
 
Combichristoffersen said:
Gameplay can be great for all I know, but I just couldn't give two shits about zombies and post-apocalyptic settings even if you paid me to. Will be waiting for Uncharted 4 instead.
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I'm the same. Unless there is some amazing game mechanic I'm not interested. Also, this will probably have the same annoying AI from U3 where the enemies are constantly rushing you and its all mediocre melee combat. Just speculating of course.
 
I was kind of hoping this would be a post-apocalyptic game in the vein of Survivors but I guess it's impossible to have a post-apocalyptic game without some kind of mutants, aliens or zombies.
 
Saw the trailer before reading impressions here. I thought it was Zombieland minus humour starring Ellen Paige and Sam Fisher. With an unhealthy mix of Enslaved thrown in.

Thematically it looks unappealing to me. After Uncharted 3 I'll be waiting on this one, maybe try a demo too. I'm not buying trailer hype because I was spot on when I thought Dead Island looked rubbish and it was.

That said, the game looks great visually, and Naughty Dog at least know how to code so it won't be bug-ridden. I just hope previews show the game up to be more interesting in terms of themes and gameplay than it seems to me now.

If the survival elements mirror Metal Gear Solid 3, then I will definitely get excited. For now though, I'm firmly on the fence.
 
Shurs said:
Cool to see it's a Naughty Dog game, though now I think the chances are incredibly slim that this will a played from the first-person, which is a slight disappointment, as I was hoping for an open-world, firs- person, survival horror game.
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its an FPS zombie game bro..dont worry...i heard they sell like hotcakes
 
I'm pumped. This is right up my alley.

Also, someone here was saying that kind of vegetation takes 50 years to grow, but I doubt it's that much. Maybe 20-30 years max. You need for the main character to have experienced a normal life, and for him to communicate this to the young girl, who's clearly supposed to either have been very very young when the disaster hit, or not born at all yet.
 
Unless it is Lost in Blue with Zombies, its just another Zombie-Action-Game for me. A monster counts as zombie this days, if it is was an human before, still looks very human-like, acts like an animal and gets its biggest strength thru fighting as a horde.
 
Riddick said:
Typical zombies were always slow. When you broaden the definition of zombies to fast zombies, mutated zombies and fungus looking zombies that look and behave nothing like the original concept then you're trying too hard to fit something in a category it doesn't belong.
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But they don't behave nothing like the original concept. They are formerly human, have lost their free will, and are trying kill people. How fast they move may have been at the core of the definition for a while, but now it's more incidental.

This is not an example of expanding a category into meaninglessness.
 
When Uncharted came, people said it was Tomb Raider with a bloke. But it was so much more. It was a narrative driven, grounded, hollywood esque, cinematic tour de force. More so with the sequel mind, but the foundations were laid.

If ND took on zombie, with a clear scope of the competition and past zombie games, I have no doubt it will be the best of its kind, offering a unique and more powerful version of anything we've seen before in the genre.

Can't believe they managed to keep this secret.
 
Shurs said:
Cool to see it's a Naughty Dog game, though now I think the chances are incredibly slim that this will a played from the first-person, which is a slight disappointment, as I was hoping for an open-world, firs- person, survival horror game.
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I'd be disappointed if it was first-person. I dislike first-person games. :/
Takes away from the character for character driven games that Naughty Dog seems to be doing now as the character's animation on screen really adds to their personality.
 
I really hope ND just do something a bit "different" here in terms of gameplay. For example, have some of the hostile encounters resemble Big Daddy fights in Bioshock - moments that you dread, that are personal. Sprinkle the tension throughout; build up the encounter; make them deep, mechanically speaking, rather than just 'shoot heavy enemy repeatedly in the face'.

And GOD FORBID it has fucked aiming.

In ND, I trust.
 
RandomVince said:
Saw the trailer before reading impressions here. I thought it was Zombieland minus humour starring Ellen Paige and Sam Fisher. With an unhealthy mix of Enslaved thrown in.

Thematically it looks unappealing to me. After Uncharted 3 I'll be waiting on this one, maybe try a demo too. I'm not buying trailer hype because I was spot on when I thought Dead Island looked rubbish and it was.

That said, the game looks great visually, and Naughty Dog at least know how to code so it won't be bug-ridden. I just hope previews show the game up to be more interesting in terms of themes and gameplay than it seems to me now.

If the survival elements mirror Metal Gear Solid 3, then I will definitely get excited. For now though, I'm firmly on the fence.
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Pretty much agree. I'm fairly tired of the zombie/survival setting, and Uncharted 3 was disappointing to me in a number of ways. Since it's Naughty Dog I'll definitely give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment, at least until I see some actual gameplay.
 
Just watched the trailer. I don't even really like any of the uncharted games but i'm now really hyped for this. Please ND go for a survival game and not your typical shooter. If this is just an atmospheric post apocalyptic survival game ala i am legend this will be amazing.

They already have the visuals and animations down. God damn i can't wait to see what they can do on the PS4.

Riddick said:
Zombies are slow, they don't act like zombies. They sound like monsters or zombies or anything sinister in movies or games. So yeah, you're wrong.
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Zombies aren't real you can make them however you damn well like. Thank fuck they went for fast zombies though. Slow zombies are boring as fuck and i just never feel threatened in movies or games based on them (except maybe the original dawn of the dead).

That's why games like resident evil have to keep adding in so much new shit. The normal slow zombies are so easy to mow down you need to add other stuff to make anyhting threatening at all.
 
AdventureRacing said:
Just watched the trailer. I don't even really like any of the uncharted games but i'm now really hyped for this. Please ND go for a survival game and not your typical shooter. If this is just an atmospheric post apocalyptic survival game ala i am legend this will be amazing.

They already have the visuals and animations down. God damn i can't wait to see what they can do on the PS4.



Zombies aren't real you can make them however you damn well like. Thank fuck they went for fast zombies though. Slow zombies are boring as fuck and i just never feel threatened in movies or games based on them (except maybe the original dawn of the dead).

That's why games like resident evil have to keep adding in so much new shit. The normal slow zombies are so easy to mow down you need to add other stuff to make anyhting threatening at all.
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The Last of Us is a genre-defining experience that blends survival and action elements to tell a character driven story about a population decimated by a modern plague. Abandoned cities are being reclaimed by nature and the remaining survivors are killing each other for food, weapons and whatever they can get their hands on. Joel, a ruthless survivor, and Ellie, a brave teenage girl who is wise beyond her years, must work together to survive their journey across what remains of the United States.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJt-mlLk10k
 
Riddick said:
Typical zombies were always slow. When you broaden the definition of zombies to fast zombies, mutated zombies and fungus looking zombies that look and behave nothing like the original concept then you're trying too hard to fit something in a category it doesn't belong.
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You seem to have too narrow of a definition of what a zombie is. Things that were once people but now are mindless and want to attack/eat normal people is a zombie.

The dudes in RE4 are not zombies because they still have intelligence (can talk/use tools/etc.).

Going by the strict definition:
zom·bie/ˈzämbē/
Noun:
-Originally, a snake-deity of or deriving from West Africa and Haiti.
-A soulless corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, esp. in certain African and Caribbean religions.

If this is the definition you go by then I guess there really have been any games with zombies in them, except maybe Monkey Island.
 
This looks so fucking amazing. I cant wait for this.


EXGN said:
They had me at Naughty Dog.
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All I needed to know, and then I actually saw the game.

nib95 said:
When Uncharted came, people said it was Tomb Raider with a bloke. But it was so much more. It was a cinematic narrative driven, grounded, hollywood esque, cinematic tour de force. More so with the sequel mind, but the foundations were laid.

If ND took on zombie, with a clear scope of the competition and past zombie games, I have no doubt it will be the best of its kind, offering a unique and more powerful version of anything we've seen before in the genre.

Can't believe they managed to keep this secret.
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Agreed on all fronts. I personally believe that this game will be different from Uncharted, and may perhaps be the best of its kind. Im hoping for interesting gameplay mechanics and a mature theme. ND will deliver and prove everyone wrong again (too many haters itt).
 
I'm not sure how I feel about that game. It's great that ND is doing something else, I thought they'd be stuck with Uncharted forever (or at least until the PS4), so it's great that they're doing a new IP. But did they really have to make a game with zombies?

That said, ND has never made original games, they just make awesome games. I don't like survival horror games though :/ At least these zombies move fast.
 
Well, im not buying it unless its some kind of open world game.

Im sorry but a linear survival game? No thanks.

(nobody said its linear. But coming from Naughty Dog... and it has an all "Uncharted" feel to it...)

And if it somehow ends being Uncharted with "protect the girl!" missions?

I was really expecting some open world stuff, not linear, do whatever you want, survive as you can.
 
AdventureRacing said:
Zombies aren't real you can make them however you damn well like. Thank fuck they went for fast zombies though. Slow zombies are boring as fuck and i just never feel threatened in movies or games based on them (except maybe the original dawn of the dead).

That's why games like resident evil have to keep adding in so much new shit. The normal slow zombies are so easy to mow down you need to add other stuff to make anyhting threatening at all.
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So zombies is a different term for monsters? Btw in RE there was always a distinction between zombies and monsters, at least for me anyway. I never considered Nemesis a zombie for example.
 
cacildo said:
Well, im not buying it unless its some kind of open world game.

Im sorry but a linear survival game? No thanks.

(nobody said its linear. But coming from Naughty Dog... and it has an all "Uncharted" feel to it...)

And if it somehow ends being Uncharted with "protect the girl!" missions?

I was really expecting some open world stuff, not linear, do whatever you want, survive as you can.
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Wouldn't you more or less consider the first couple Resident Evils and Silent Hills to be linear?
 
Would be much more interested if these monsters weren't zombies/human based just because I'm so damn sick of them. As someone who only owns their ps3 for blu ray and uncharted I'm bummed this is their next set of games.
 
Riddick said:
So zombies is a different term for monsters? Btw in RE there was always a distinction between zombies and monsters, at least for me anyway. I never considered Nemesis a zombie for example.
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Nope only corpses reanimated by witchcraft is a REAL zombie. You're talking about creatures infected with a virus.
 
Like others here, I too was sold at ND. Explains the two Gaffers that visited ND and were NDA'ed up to the eyeballs!

Can't wait for E3 for more info on the game.


Quick prediction..........ND to show their first PS4 game at VGA's 2012.
 
LuchaShaq said:
Would be much more interested if these monsters weren't zombies/human based just because I'm so damn sick of them. As someone who only owns their ps3 for blu ray and uncharted I'm bummed this is their next set of games.
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Have you actually played too many zombie games, or are you just sick of them merely existing?
 
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