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Despite online rage, The Last of Us: Part II "has one of the highest completion rates of any" PS-4 game
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Halo is Back
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Pretty sad that so many people don't even complete SP games
Venom Snake
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How many players follow their own criteria and how many succumb to artificially inflated online dramas?
While this may prove many different things, one thing is clear: the vast majority of people are not interested in what Internet forums or tweeter warriors think about stuff, whether they are right or not. A 10/10 score on a well-known/favourite gaming site or a widely recognized brand still means so much more to them.
Therefore, phenomena like review bombings on Metacritic are infantile and meaningless, and to the point where you genuinely feel sorry for all these bitter souls.
While this may prove many different things, one thing is clear: the vast majority of people are not interested in what Internet forums or tweeter warriors think about stuff, whether they are right or not. A 10/10 score on a well-known/favourite gaming site or a widely recognized brand still means so much more to them.
Therefore, phenomena like review bombings on Metacritic are infantile and meaningless, and to the point where you genuinely feel sorry for all these bitter souls.
midasmulligan
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Compared to open world games? Don’t know if I’d say it’s apples-to-apples comparing the completion rate of a 12-15 linear game with those open world games that are 2-3 times as large. I imagine most people wanted to see what all the fuss was about regarding the second half of the game, given that reviews pointed towards up a particularly dramatic twist in the last couple of hours . Just as easily an “aw fuck it why not “ as an emotionally gripping narrative from what I saw.
Dorohedoro
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Seriously, what in the world... lol.
THEAP99
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Spider-Man. Most exclusives actually lolCan you elaborate and try to deny what I said?
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More proof:
The Last Of Us Part 2 Is On Sale For Its Lowest Price Yet On Amazon
The Last of Us Part 2 released for the PS4 in June, and if you've held off this long, you can snag it at a nice discount right now.www.gamespot.com
Grab The Last Of Us 2 For $48.49 For A Limited Time
Just a week after its release, The Last of Us 2 is on sale for more than $10 off, which is the first discount we've seen for the PS4 exclusive.
Which other Sony exclusive got discounted this soon? No one.
And why?
I'll let you think.
thismeinteil
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So, where's the sales update?
Dorohedoro
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*Jesus
namekuseijin
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it's full of commies
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SLoWMoTIoN
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You are confusing rage with making fun of something.
Grand Theft Scratchy
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A large open world game with an added multiplayer mode would have a lower completion rate than a linear single-player game. But probably most of the 42% of people who didn't complete Naughty Dog's most anticipated sequel didn't end up liking it either. Still, this was a highly-anticipated PS4 exclusive so I would have thought this exclusive with "one of the highest completion rates" would be much higher (70-80 percent).
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Scotty W
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Haven’t we had enough threads for this game yet, both pro and con? And yet, we rarely see a good Super Mario RPG thread.
Arachnid
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Bloodbornes platnium was rough. I'll never forget those fucked defiled chalices.
Last of Us 2 was consciously made easier though. If I remember correctly, the devs wanted the platinum to be realistically attainable by handicapped fans so they made it pretty easy. Spider-man was just an easy game in general (even on the hardest difficulty). Agreed on Horizon and GoW though. It's a good push IMO. I never liked the insane timesink/grind plats.
Cha
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Tbh, I finished the game because I was just hoping for things to get better. The first game was so solid. Well written, directed and well paced. It's the main reason I kept playing tlou2 until the end.
The wife, who was more optimistic during her playtrough, eventually just wanted the game to end. It was the story and the weird pacing made the game tedious around halfway for her.
With that said though, the gameplay is freakin great! Feels so good to play. Animations blend so seemlessly. The gameplay was the second reason we kept playing. We aren't usually fond of violent shooty action games, but tlou suits us just fine. At least it in that regard it was a pleasure to play.
The wife, who was more optimistic during her playtrough, eventually just wanted the game to end. It was the story and the weird pacing made the game tedious around halfway for her.
With that said though, the gameplay is freakin great! Feels so good to play. Animations blend so seemlessly. The gameplay was the second reason we kept playing. We aren't usually fond of violent shooty action games, but tlou suits us just fine. At least it in that regard it was a pleasure to play.
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Mercenary09
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You'd be surprised to know that most other games have a much higher percentage that don't finish them. The fact that 58% have finished TLOU2 is great.
existensmaximum
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Well, didn't most of the rage come from people who never actually played the game and never had any intention of doing so?
In my opinion they almost couldn't have made a better sequel (some minor flaws, but which game doesn't have them?), it's probably the game of this generation, a technological masterpiece and a benchmark for many years to come.
Just.. Insanely well-made, impressive, inmersive and great. I was genuinely blown away and now I'm so spoiled it's hard to appreciate other games.
This game and the first one are two of the only games that ever made me feel genuine emotions playing them.
In my opinion they almost couldn't have made a better sequel (some minor flaws, but which game doesn't have them?), it's probably the game of this generation, a technological masterpiece and a benchmark for many years to come.
Just.. Insanely well-made, impressive, inmersive and great. I was genuinely blown away and now I'm so spoiled it's hard to appreciate other games.
This game and the first one are two of the only games that ever made me feel genuine emotions playing them.
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Esca
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These are my feelings exactly. Thank you for writing it out so well
Mercenary09
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That's exactly where most of it came from. Heck the game had like 30,000 0/10 user reviews on Metacritic the moment reviews were allowed to be posted. None of those people even played the game. Just a bunch of babies.
Esca
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in all fairness why would anyone waste their time after playing the first mission
TEAAAA!!!!!
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TimFL
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No. I lost interest even before the controversial second half. The only reason I pulled through is for the easy platinum and so I never have to touch it again. It was one of the games I uninstalled the fastest after platinum, seconded by Ghost of Tsushima.
Shmunter
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Forever fascinated how the amazing immersive environments & journey aren’t enough for some even if the story is not resonating. That aspect is simply unmatched.
For me, it hit on all accounts. There are no videogames that can compare to the narrative presented here.
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bender
What time is it?
Was hoping someone had play some Smashing Pumpkins on the in game guitar but alas it was not to be.
And then Ellie realized the folly of revenge while standing on a mountain of corpses she'd murdered in her quest to avenge Joel.
And then Ellie realized the folly of revenge while standing on a mountain of corpses she'd murdered in her quest to avenge Joel.
TimFL
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I don‘t criticize the gameplay or graphics, that made the game bearable. I also don‘t criticize the second half (the gameplay was better there anyways). The story was dead to me the second the Joel scene happened.
I would love to get a good MP mode for the game so I can revisit it. But the SP, at least in terms of story, is void to me. Sadly this is a SP game, the replayability equals null if all you have is story missions.
Yoboman
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Yes?Yeah, that didn't stop people from having an opinion. Im sure you only give opinions on things you have experience with
GymWolf
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Yeah i guess it's like watching a bad drama on showtime...
Hobbygaming
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12-15 hours?? Try 25-40 and it took me well over 40 hours
Hobbygaming
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Nice spin
bellome
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I dropped it to play GoT, but I want to finish it before jumping into the next Gen.
Tlou is one of my favourite games ever, 15h in Tlou2 and I am mostly bored. Too much focus on human interaction and love affairs instead of the cordyceps outbreak. Maybe the game will turn into another direction later, I hope.
I am leaving the topic to avoid spoilers
Tlou is one of my favourite games ever, 15h in Tlou2 and I am mostly bored. Too much focus on human interaction and love affairs instead of the cordyceps outbreak. Maybe the game will turn into another direction later, I hope.
I am leaving the topic to avoid spoilers
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thelastword
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Goes to show just how entitled and influential some of us think we are, but it's all just silly acting behind a keyboard that amounts to nothing, nobody cares beyond your bandana squad. Some people even esteemed themselves to be fighting for a cause, a life and death situation if you will, a problem that was threatening the world's existence and our mortality at an alarming rate.....Some people are so serious about this thing, I have never seen such lunacy before in gaming circles.....Man I'm so glad LOU2 defied all of these odds, well in retrospect, a very loud and bitter but small crowd outside was all this noise was.....In the end, talent always wins, that's the cold hard truth...
Come to think of it, I think there is a "rage against the machine" for pretty much every thing out there, everything under the sun. Some people are even against some people's right to breathe, speech etc.....I really don't know how we got there. Well maybe social media has empowered many a flat footed soldier behind keyboards....The rage online and even now offline as they become more emboldened is seething....
On social media and online forums, people take a hissy fit because;
I dont like how Tidus looks in FF12 remake
I dont like how Jill looks in RE3
An issue between two workers at a studio, let's shutter it down and threaten lives
Abby is buff, how can I play this...Ohh no di Ellie just kiss that big nosed girl. Just absolute mindless, trivial and inconsequential drivel really
People working hard for a living, let's shutter that down, lets go smoke weed and hang out all day on social media, let's instead look for acceptance and an ego boost by trying to fight and go against any target we see, for likes or emojis from our inner circles, our fud klux klan that comfort our bruised and fragile ego's, that we are fighting for a good cause.
There's more, but for said hobbyists to go to the lengths they did to fight against the best studio and probably the best game this gen, regardless of what they prefer, I have never seen such desperation and degeneracy. The console war, was just some light back and forth, humorous stuff, some light jabs here and there, funny banter between opposed factions who still all loved games, but now it has become bitter and personal. People are trying to affect people's lives, get them fired, shutter studios because it's not aligned to their own console choice.
Kerotan
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Incoming salty
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake
- God of War
- Spider-Man (PS4)
- Days Gone
- Death Stranding
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Detroit Become Human
We don't know the completion rate for the first because there were different trophies for completing it on different difficulties. So they will obviously overlap. So you don't have a point here.
TheInfamousKira
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Honestly, you can't just equate this with one side, though. Full disclosure, as previously stated, despite my issues with the pacing of the narrative and some plot points (I really would have preferred a trilogy, with the actual Part II being the hypothetical Part III) I enjoy the game. A lot. But...
I feel like A LOT of the vitriol is a direct result of the SJW scene taking up torches and pitchforks against the industry in years past. Everyone knows "it's just a game," no one (who is sane) is losing their shit because of choices fictional people in a fictional world made, but the liberal media has been running a narrative that (similar to race, religion, and gender) that a large majority of people (in this case, gamers) are toxic and need to be broken down and built back up in a more Progressive way. Nothing radicalizes folks quicker than being told by a group of strangers that they're essentially evil for taking part in something that they've enjoyed/been enriched by for years.
TLOU was a fantastic game, and it garnered fans Left, Right, up, down and center. A lot of folks feel like the lean into leftist politics, the Twitter antics, and the youtube DMCA escapades were Naughty Dog (specifically Druckman) essentially saying "not only do I align myself with these viewpoints, I actively admonish those that DON'T. Which comes back around to what a lot of people have said before: just keep your ideologies out of games. You can reference the Bible without having to preach six sermons and make me pay 60 bucks to hear about how much of an evil sinner I am.
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Shodan09
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People were told they weren't allowed to hate on it if they hadn't finished so...
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