It takes about 3.8 GB and I'm currently downloading it the downside is that it can't be downloaded on the background. To access the download you do it in game in the extras/downloads section in the main menu.
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The Last of Us |OT| It Cant Be For Nothing (Spoilers)
- Thread starter Pranay
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Spoilers regarding the ending:
Nah, it is very common for scientists/doctors to be overconfident and think they can do no wrong - in fact, some insist that their graduate students fit data to the professor's hypothesis rather than admit that their precious hypothesis is just plain wrong ;p. I really doubt that dissecting Ellie's brain would lead to a vaccine any time soon if ever. It was just one doctor in piss poor conditions, who likens himself to Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. Marlene is just deluding herself into thinking it will 100% lead to a cure so she can get past the guilt of killing Ellie. For scientific discovery, wouldn't it make much more sense to keep Ellie alive for a variety of different testing, have her procreate and see if her children are immune, etc.. Of course the more logical step of not killing Ellie immediately would not make an exciting conclusion.
I wonder when Naughty Dog makes a sequel if it will be a prequel, concurrent, or take place after? The title could be "Second to the Last of Us"...........
I started on normal, became so bored I wanted to quit, then busted it down to easy; not something I ever normally do. I'm not a big stealth fan, but I love Manhunt, which has somewhat similar gameplay to TLoU. But where Manhunt's simple mechanics clicked, those of TLoU didn't. I just couldn't engage with it.
Liked the
Ellie segments
But that just applies to the bread-and-butter action. The subtler elements of the gameplay in which the game uses interactivity to tell its story are pure gold. Glad I gave it a chance and kept playing, because the payoff was absolutely worth it.
Yeah, you know what? I take all my criticisms of this game back. This actually feels like a proper work of literature, with a perfect ending. Somehow all the parts of the game click and deliver a beautiful narrative with deep characterisation and interconnecting themes. I thought the game was going to end at the
, so much so that I was actually waiting for the credits to start rolling, but ND gave me an even better ending, one that is now forever imprinted in my memory. A massive 10/10 title, probably the first game that has a plot that doesn't feel like a junior high essay. Journey is still my favourite game of all time, but this is a close second. Absolutely magnificent. To the spoiler thread I go
giraffes
I'm only halfway through, but I'm already amazed how good and different this game is. I never thought another game could rival or surpass Uncharted 2 in my book, but TLOU is well on its way to doing that.
The shooting feels so meaningful when you have to resort to it, I hope other developers take note! I don't think it's just because you care for the characters but for the fact that the mechanics are spot on without being punishing. I keep thinking of other games I'd wish to play with gunplay like that. A wild west game could be an awesome fit.
The shooting feels so meaningful when you have to resort to it, I hope other developers take note! I don't think it's just because you care for the characters but for the fact that the mechanics are spot on without being punishing. I keep thinking of other games I'd wish to play with gunplay like that. A wild west game could be an awesome fit.
SolidSnakex
Member
Posting this in here since some have been curious about the sales
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=65922406&postcount=46
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=65922406&postcount=46
GlamFM
Banned
Naughty Dog wasn't lying about the length, holy shit. Still in Summer, just gotseparated from Henry and Ellie in the sewer and now I'm in a room with a shitload of infected
The game starts now...
EdibleExplosives
Member
I'm sure I remember someone from Naughty Dog saying the Walking Dead comic was one of their inspirations for the game.
I anyone else having problems playing this game for more than an hour or two at a time? I'm really bad at stealth, and I have to do some parts over and over and the stress is so draining. I'm really enjoying the experience, but this game is going to take me a while to finish.
Sometimes it's possible to blast your way through a level, sometimes you need to create a diversion and either get them while they're distracted or run/sneak past them. That's how I played it. Started at 11am on Saturday and didn't put it down until 3am on Sunday morning. Picked it up again around 7pm and finished it within an hour. Pretty unusual playing behaviour for me as I usually play games in smaller chucks over the space of a week. This game was such so captivating. There was a point where I kept dying over and over. Went to bed since it was late, woke up, had something to eat andtried it again. This time I nailed it first time.
GlamFM
Banned
I´ve played this game in 2 hour chunks over 6 nights.
Too stressful for longer stretches.
chickdigger802
Banned
yeah been playing this a few hours at a time, and too busy on weekdays for that so tis is gonna take me a while lol.
You know, the most impressive and kinda disappointing part of the game is the super well crafted environments. It compels you to explore... but all you do find is mat, some ammo, and a teeny bit of lore. I just wish there was more stuff to do in the environments in terms of interactivity or something.
Naughty dog would make a kickass adventure game for sure.
You know, the most impressive and kinda disappointing part of the game is the super well crafted environments. It compels you to explore... but all you do find is mat, some ammo, and a teeny bit of lore. I just wish there was more stuff to do in the environments in terms of interactivity or something.
Naughty dog would make a kickass adventure game for sure.
Magic Mushroom
Member
Loved this anecdote from a guy on another gaming forum I visit:
Love reading stuff like that. I had one where I was climbing a staircase when an enemy came down to investigate. I fired an arrow in him, but it didn't kill him. So while he was stumbling, I pressed the meleet attack button, which led to Joel grabbing him and throwing him down the stairs. So good.
Love reading stuff like that. I had one where I was climbing a staircase when an enemy came down to investigate. I fired an arrow in him, but it didn't kill him. So while he was stumbling, I pressed the meleet attack button, which led to Joel grabbing him and throwing him down the stairs. So good.
Same happened to me but i was coming down the stairs. he pretty much may as well have shouted "This is Sparta" by the way he booted him down like a sack of shit.
Had some brilliant moments in winter:
Ellie's a killing beast with that bow. The outside the lodge was so fun stabbing dudes and getting them with the bow. Then after I stabbed what I thought was the last dude someone else started shooting at me and I immediately pulled my reticle for the rifle and got a headshot. Never felt so satisfied with a section in this game.
Also, is it just me or do her arrows 'break' more than with Joel? I used it a bunch in these areas to get through but only got like 1 out of the 9 arrows back, unfortunately.
Also, is it just me or do her arrows 'break' more than with Joel? I used it a bunch in these areas to get through but only got like 1 out of the 9 arrows back, unfortunately.
Was my favourite part of the whole game. So fun.
Jimnymebob
Member
I realised that on multiplayer last night. I tried to set one down at the corner near the top of this slope and as I was running off I saw it sliding down after me.
I finished the game on Saturday, I absolutely loved it. It's probably the best game I've ever played. There's just so little that I can fault it for.
Ellie's role in encounters was a huge surprise for me. For a large chunk of the early game even though there were other characters it basically felt like I was doing most of the work. The eye opening point for me was also in the hotel, I had alerted some people and was in the middle of a fight. One of them got behind me and started choking me out and as I was mashing the square button like a mad man, Ellie curses at the guy, jumps on his back and starts stabbing him to get him off of me. After that I started to notice more and more of her, I remember an enemy walked by and didn't see us so I thought "awesome, I'm just going to walk up behind him and choke him out" but before I could even get to him Ellie had already taken care of it. On a smaller scale, just the ways she throws bricks/bottles or yells out the location of an enemy always leaves me surprised and thankful.
CoffeeExpress
Member
One issue I find with the game is that sometimes the game tells you that you can go either stealthy or guns blazing. that's great, but I find alot of the time being stealthy isn't an option because often there is a door/crate/whatever blocking the exit which alerts all the enemies to my presence forcing me into a fire-fight..
EdibleExplosives
Member
chickdigger802
Banned
So... was replaying some of bioshock infinite last night and realized something... for a zombie world thingy... its quite odd that food/hunger isn't a key gameplay thing. It wouldn't even be that hard to implement (to balance is another question) with how you have a bag and you already spend all day looting around the envronment.
I think you're inserting a level of nuance that isn't there.
The Fireflies aren't presented as the world's crazies — kind of the opposite. There's no reason to believe "the doctor is one of those who would have grad students falsify research! Marlene's gone off the deep end!" etc, but there is PLENTY of reason to believe that Joel has lost it. Now, I'm not saying he should've just shook Marlene's hand and gone on his merry way (but outside a game context, I don't think killing a dozen good men is perhaps the right answer either). I think insisting that Ellie be woken up and explained the situation and given time to consider it would be the most moral choice, but that isn't an option.
Marlene saying to Joel that Ellie would want this to happen, and that he KNOWS it is the most important line. His reaction is to shoot Marlene while she put down her gun. The message that Joel is the one who's lost it is pretty clear. I think people arguing against that are just trying to convince themselves that the ending is happy one.
Marlene saying to Joel that Ellie would want this to happen, and that he KNOWS it is the most important line. His reaction is to shoot Marlene while she put down her gun. The message that Joel is the one who's lost it is pretty clear. I think people arguing against that are just trying to convince themselves that the ending is happy one.
I agree with Duffyside, and I'm bookmarking his explanation of the ending for future reference. It was how I interpreted things and he summarized it well.
Thanks, dude.
There's food in the game, it just doesn't separate hunger with health.
SuperSonic1305
Member
I like how Joel actually reacts to the notes you pick up. This game is too much. There are single rooms/buildings that put entire other games to shame in terms of detail.
chickdigger802
Banned
oooh yeah. seems so random that i don't even notice, just loot everything that flashes lol.
I don't think I like this game, and I'm jealous of those who do. Seems like you're all having a great time.
I think it mostly comes down to the amount of combat encounters and how the A.I plays them out. Maybe it's different on higher difficulties, but it all seems very Uncharted-esque. Walk into an area with waist-high boxes and lane dividers, expect a gunfight. You can sneak by the brain-dead enemies with relative ease (they don't even have Batman's 'panic' mode as you slowly pick them off - they just walk up to a corpse, say 'Fuck' and shake up their patrol a little), and some areas won't let you progress if they're still alive and in combat with you (Ellie: "We can't, there's too many of them!").
Late Winter Spoiler:
I definitely don't have a problem with those fungies. They're fun to fight and I love the concept.
Late Fall Spoiler:
I think it mostly comes down to the amount of combat encounters and how the A.I plays them out. Maybe it's different on higher difficulties, but it all seems very Uncharted-esque. Walk into an area with waist-high boxes and lane dividers, expect a gunfight. You can sneak by the brain-dead enemies with relative ease (they don't even have Batman's 'panic' mode as you slowly pick them off - they just walk up to a corpse, say 'Fuck' and shake up their patrol a little), and some areas won't let you progress if they're still alive and in combat with you (Ellie: "We can't, there's too many of them!").
Late Winter Spoiler:
I really wish enemies worked more like David instead as opposed to Uncharted's gunfight mercenaries. I was shocked to see someone finally have the mildest survival instincts and crouch to try to get the jump on me. It would have brought variety to the far-too-frequent gunfights versus humans, at least, which don't have the benefit of 'classes' like the fungies.
Late Fall Spoiler:
Not gameplay related, by Joel's abdominal wound really bugged me. Most people would die from that, especially after the amount of shock and trauma he experienced after all of his tumbles and general blood loss shortly afterwards. I had to wonder why they decided to go with something so ridiculously extreme instead of having him break a few limbs and getting a concussion from the fall (for the immediate 'oh no loss of control' factor). General exaggerated videogame HP bullshit aside, this was the only time (so far - we're up to Spring now) I had been taken aback by the amount of physical trauma they expected Joel to live through. Telltale's The Walking Dead took injury more seriously, and I respect them for that.
For you. Don't make broad statement like this please.
BigDaddyFatSack
Banned
I finished this game lat night around 11:50pm... Honestly, I would say it's a nice rental. Don't get me wrong, it's a great fucking game, but throughout the whole game, I just felt uneasy and depressed the whole time and I wouldn't want to feel that way when I just want to relax and unwind.
How is the multiplayer by the way?
Killing the doctor got to me the most. If it was me, I would've let the doctor do their own things, extract the mutated fungi's DNA make-up, study it and compare it to ordinary fungi's make-up, and create gene therapy treatments for everyone. OR at least come CLOSE to finding the cure rather than killing the minds that drove the research. What. the. fuck. Joel.
But, this story isn't about me. It's about Joel and Ellie. Brilliant job, ND.
But, this story isn't about me. It's about Joel and Ellie. Brilliant job, ND.
How is the multiplayer by the way?
Are you joking? It's clearly not an objective statement, don't be an asshole.
I actually read through all the the notes/documents/manuals in the game which is bizarre because with games like Resident Evil I'd usually only read the first 2/3 documents I pick up and just not bother reading the rest of them. Each document in TLoU was quite fascinating and - like you said - it was great hearing Joel's response after you read it.
blainethemono
Member
I ended up copying the documentary to an external hard drive because I have an 80gb too and I don't have much space on it either. I think it was a .divx file, played fine in VLC and MPC
chickdigger802
Banned
Wait there are seasons? I'm like 40ish % through and didn't notice any season changes... but i live in GA so the fuck do i know about seasons.
Dakota47
Member
Don't be a dick.
wow. what's with people on this board being assholes as of late?
sometimes i game
Member
I'm surprised at how much of a talking point the doctors became. Seemed pretty black and white to me. Joel would obviously want them dead. They are just as much reason Ellie would die as anyone else in the game. One even tries to attack, are you supposed to trust the others won't when you go to pick Ellie up?
Not really. Sorry but I'm always specifying it's only my personal opinion in my posts. General statements presented as facts piss me off.
EdibleExplosives
Member
Except it was clearly obvious they weren't presenting that as a fact. There's no need to put 'imo' after every post when it's usually obvious.
All posts are made by one guy pressing the submit reply button, thus making it pretty clear that it is in fact their opinion, not some general fact.
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Deleted member 57681
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You must be one pissed off dude.