Not only the guns, every bit about the sound design is the best in the industry. People can argue about AI, bugs and whatever they want, but the sound design is the best in any videogame to date. Not even a competition there.
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Not only the guns, every bit about the sound design is the best in the industry. People can argue about AI, bugs and whatever they want, but the sound design is the best in any videogame to date. Not even a competition there.
I've definitely one-shot clickers with the bow. Maybe the window to hit them is small?
Man, the online part isn't working for me. Yesterday it froze during the "connecting" bar at the start, couldn't even quit the game with my controller, had the reset the PS3. The second time it worked, tried a match, but when the loading of the map was done I "lost connection with the host". It tried to play a match 4 times, every time I lost the connection before the match started....I gave up and thought, I'll try it again tomorrow. Today it froze again while the connection bar was filling up. Tried it a second time, locked up again....also the music in the online menu is very choppy.
I really want to try out the online mode but I can't get it to work. Anyone else got this problem?
I really want to try out the online mode but I can't get it to work. Anyone else got this problem?
Game had an amazing opening.
After about 2 hours after that I was getting this feeling of, wow they peaked with that opening and I don't know if they can follow up on that.
Then at about the 3 hour mark it just goes crazy and snowballs and gets better and better.
I was legit worried there for a couple hours that I was being let down by the hype but it really does pick up again and become amazing.
Even the art, I don't know if it was planned or not but the art seems to be improving over time with better more detailed textures and lighting.
This could be my Resident Evil 4 of this gen, hopefully its half as replayable for me as RE4 was.
After about 2 hours after that I was getting this feeling of, wow they peaked with that opening and I don't know if they can follow up on that.
Then at about the 3 hour mark it just goes crazy and snowballs and gets better and better.
I was legit worried there for a couple hours that I was being let down by the hype but it really does pick up again and become amazing.
Even the art, I don't know if it was planned or not but the art seems to be improving over time with better more detailed textures and lighting.
This could be my Resident Evil 4 of this gen, hopefully its half as replayable for me as RE4 was.
Yep. Pretty sure the game is selling very well. I went to Best Buy on Saturday and there was like 3 copies left.
Definitely. Lots of subtle and not so subtle inspiration from all the right post-apocalyptic stories and it all works so well.
PoweredBySoy
Banned
The audio in this game is like no other. It truly is. Everything that comes out of the speakers in this game needs to win some kind of award.
JordoftheDead
Member
I rang a Gametraders in Melbourne today to see if they had any of the Joel or Ellie editions in (they often order in special editions from other retailers) and not only did they not have any Special Editions but they had sold out of every standard copy in the store.
base shagohod
Member
This video game is really good, guys.
Finished last night and enjoyed almost every minute of it.. There were some combat parts that I didn't really feel like doing, but overall this game is damn good.
I legit teared up at
Don't know if I feel like getting into the multiplayer though.. Might try it out this week.
Finished last night and enjoyed almost every minute of it.. There were some combat parts that I didn't really feel like doing, but overall this game is damn good.
I legit teared up at
the opening sequence. A game has never done that to me and movies hardly ever do. Some heavy stuff.
Don't know if I feel like getting into the multiplayer though.. Might try it out this week.
You finished the first quarter of the game.
Not sure, I did one shot clickers too but most of the time it's 2 hits for me. I've tried moving into right in front of a standing clicker in the
house where only about 5 non agro clickers are standing all around
Yea, it's a pretty major achievement I think. To see films like The Road and No Country and decide you want to build a game that feels like that. Takes some serious stones. And it certainly does that, the ending screams McCarthy.
It's funny, the scene in The Road in the house with the crazy basement, which I imagine is the basic inspiration for the stealth design, was very different in the book.
Thanks. So I still have long way to go
More_Badass
Member
Any tips for the Winter section where you
? I've died like six times already
have to hold your ground in the room with David
Run around knifin' fools.
More_Badass
Member
Yeah a long way to go and if you think the game has been good already, you haven't seen anything yet
Right after the cutscene where they
chitchat around the fire
medpack in a locker
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
The Road is one of my favorite books of all time. I will have to rewatch the movie, I netflixed it a while back. I remember liking it, but not near as much as the book.
More_Badass
Member
No...after that, when
you enter the room with the dead guy in it and you craft nail bombs. David's like it's a dead end, we have to fight. That part
JordoftheDead
Member
I loved the book, but really didn't love the film.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I Fell Back To The Hallway, Long Sightlines, Bottleneck Funnels Them To you
So, I played nonstop yesterday after putting it off all weekend (thanks FFXIV). Oh wow this game on pretty much all fronts. The sound design, the lighting, the visuals are all amazing. Combat is equally great, though it's pissed me off a few times after replaying a certain section. This game is pretty unforgiving if you mess up.
I think the stealth combat is probably my favorite in any ND game, and pretty much any game this gen. It just works as intended and the game pretty much favors it over a traditional run-and-gun method that most games go for.
The story is just as exciting and amazing. It's been some time since I've sat for hours on end playing a story-driven game. I usually tend to take breaks after a few hours, but I plowed through 3/4 of the game in one sitting. It's phenominal story telling that's well paced. I only wish I could have finished it last night.
Story point:
I think the stealth combat is probably my favorite in any ND game, and pretty much any game this gen. It just works as intended and the game pretty much favors it over a traditional run-and-gun method that most games go for.
The story is just as exciting and amazing. It's been some time since I've sat for hours on end playing a story-driven game. I usually tend to take breaks after a few hours, but I plowed through 3/4 of the game in one sitting. It's phenominal story telling that's well paced. I only wish I could have finished it last night.
Story point:
Just made it to Winter and I'm wanting to get back to Joel soon. That scene at the college, I'm just surprised that he's still alive after that whole incident.
Metalmurphy
Member
I am well aware this game has bugs, I had an enemy spawn right on top one that I had killed. The alerting however, can be due to multiple things so saying "happened to other people" doesn't really mean much. How do you know it wasn't another enemy that spotted you for example? Or even people assuming that's just the body direction that matters when infact, it's the head.
I just completed the game/
16 hours and 46 minutes to complete it.
I'm still taking in everything I experienced. On one hand I'm not sure if I'll ever replay this game again. The beginning section was quite boring, and there are quite a few encounters that are just plain out frustrating, and would be a pain to experience again. Also the exploration felt lackluster. Mainly in part because the environment itself just didn't lend itself to exploration all to well. Also I think atmosphere wise, it's really missing an extra UMPH. Certain levels excelled really greatly, but then there are other levels that just felt to samey, and been there done that from previous levels.
That said, even with all my cons, I found this game to be magnificent. The performance of Troy Baker, and Ashley Johnson will be a cornerstone for what video games can achieve in voice acting, and general performance. An the narrative, while predictable a lot of the times, was something that constantly pulled you in and something that you always wanted to see more of.
At the end of the day, this game excels more so in this factor than any other game before which is: Heart.
I'm still processing a lot of what I've experienced in this long, and at times draining journey, but I still feel that I played something unique and special. A masterpiece? No. But a great foundation for Naughty Dog to potentially create one with a sequel.
16 hours and 46 minutes to complete it.
I'm still taking in everything I experienced. On one hand I'm not sure if I'll ever replay this game again. The beginning section was quite boring, and there are quite a few encounters that are just plain out frustrating, and would be a pain to experience again. Also the exploration felt lackluster. Mainly in part because the environment itself just didn't lend itself to exploration all to well. Also I think atmosphere wise, it's really missing an extra UMPH. Certain levels excelled really greatly, but then there are other levels that just felt to samey, and been there done that from previous levels.
That said, even with all my cons, I found this game to be magnificent. The performance of Troy Baker, and Ashley Johnson will be a cornerstone for what video games can achieve in voice acting, and general performance. An the narrative, while predictable a lot of the times, was something that constantly pulled you in and something that you always wanted to see more of.
At the end of the day, this game excels more so in this factor than any other game before which is: Heart.
I'm still processing a lot of what I've experienced in this long, and at times draining journey, but I still feel that I played something unique and special. A masterpiece? No. But a great foundation for Naughty Dog to potentially create one with a sequel.
I'm not going to lie the more I think about it, the more I wish the game was more condensed. There's just to many long stretches of exploration, mixed with long stretches of combat. I honestly felt it never really found a middle ground there.
Also, I might get flack for this, but I think I would've prefered to watch this as a film than play it as a game.
Also, I might get flack for this, but I think I would've prefered to watch this as a film than play it as a game.
-Amon-
Member
I do not agree. Passing lots of time without anyone around gives a sense of loneliness and isolation that add to the experience and at the same time helps building tension for the encounters ahead. Every time you see something moving you expect for the worst, and that happens because you spent lot of time alone before.
So after 2 to 3 hours. I'm already feeling like the game suffers from Uncharted syndrome. The amount of killing I've done so far feels strongly dissonant from the narrative itself, I appreciate how Joel controls compared to Nathan Drake.. feels much closer to a every-man.. even if he's doing some crazy shit already.;p
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Yeah, I am only 60% through the game but I massively disagree.
This is one game, much like Bioshock 1 and Infinite, that I think NEED's to be interactive to function.
This game is all about the atmosphere, and feeling like you are making life and death decisions.
Watching them be made for you would ruin what as of now is an achievement.
Not to worry. This game is like the anti-uncharted syndrome.
Wait till you get to the Winter Chapter, and lets have a discussion than yeah?
At least this world the killing is more believable than in Uncharted. Everyone wants your shit to survive and they will kill you for it.
Also you do have the option to stealth / avoid a lot of these encounters. (not all, some rooms they force you to clear out).
It helps me to think of it in terms of how much times passes also, it may feel like they are encountering things every 10 min while playing but in narrative terms its more spread out and paced better.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
The sound design here is just on another level. I didnt know videogames could even sound this good! My draw dropped when I went through a metal crate whilst it was raining...it truly sounded like it was raining outside my window.
I think some of my annoyances just come with these scenarios.
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Low supplies, low ammo. You have to stealth, right? I'm not much of a stealth guy, really not my thing.
An certain scenarios in the Spring Chapter were just so damn frustrating. Especially the one's with the clickers and the 2 big one's, and the last scenario at the end.
Just so much dying. I died over 200 times in this game. I never felt safe, thus I never felt like I got to appreciate the world I was in.
That's why I hate death in games. It ruins the pacing, and you can't absorb the world any better. Instead, your main concern is about surviving until the next encounter.
That's why Bioshock remains one of my favorite games up till this day. Vita chambers took the concept of death to the way side, allowing you to absorb and appreciate the atmosphere and the world of rapture as much as possible.
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Low supplies, low ammo. You have to stealth, right? I'm not much of a stealth guy, really not my thing.
An certain scenarios in the Spring Chapter were just so damn frustrating. Especially the one's with the clickers and the 2 big one's, and the last scenario at the end.
Just so much dying. I died over 200 times in this game. I never felt safe, thus I never felt like I got to appreciate the world I was in.
That's why I hate death in games. It ruins the pacing, and you can't absorb the world any better. Instead, your main concern is about surviving until the next encounter.
That's why Bioshock remains one of my favorite games up till this day. Vita chambers took the concept of death to the way side, allowing you to absorb and appreciate the atmosphere and the world of rapture as much as possible.
Yeah I'll definitely give it that. Plus if you look in the context of Joel's characterization and what he's actually experienced in the story at this point, I'd imagine he's a pretty hardened individual.;p
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
This this this.
The audio in this game is insanity. Pure bliss.
One thing I have noticed, as a gun collector, gunshots in this game actually leave my ears ringing.(Surround headset) They do indeed sound more like actual gunshots than most games/ movies.
There I got nothing. Was kinda tough. I noticed enemies drop a lot of ammo, ended up picking their pockets for several minutes after I made it through. Make sure to keep at least a
molotov
floater thingy
But yeah, that was a doozy.
I've been playing on normal. Combat hasn't been too hard or too easy. Been mostly drowning in supplies however, which has made things maybe a little too comfortable.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Yes certainly is. Planning a Survivalist New Game+ playthrough when I am done on hard.
There are a few sections that are a bit hard, but nothing too bad. (So far at 60somthing% completion.)
It wasn't never targeted to be the next Metal Gear Solid though.
TheJollyCorner
Member
What a phenomenal experience this has been. Wow.
I'm 75% through. Just got into the Winter.
I don't want it to end.
I'm 75% through. Just got into the Winter.
I don't want it to end.
Playing on Hard here. Seems like a pretty good balance of challenging fights and resource management. Can't wait for Survivor though!