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The Last of Us |OT| It Cant Be For Nothing (Spoilers)
- Thread starter Pranay
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Ya, I really can't handle another "Ubisoft Pointless Activities 2" game after Far Cry 3.
And Assassin's Creed 1 is my most hated AAA game of the generation and the most overrated game of the generation. It has an 81 on Metacritic, deserves somewhere around a 30-40.
I jump back and forth between thinking that Assassin's Creed or Skyrim is the most overrated game of the gen depending on what day of the week it is.
inFamous 2 disagrees.
Mine will always be the first Dead Space. Judging by some of the reactions I've had from people before, it seems to be quite a controversial choice.
Those are pretty nasty and I'll put Bayonetta up there as well.
How? It released on a Tuesday. You know, the norm.
Bayonetta and Vanquish are the two best action games of the gen. Nope.
Did you play Bayonetta on PS3?
June 7th, the day of E3.
Burgess_101
Member
Bayonetta and Vanquish are the two best action games of the gen. Nope.
I love Vanquish. Just wasn't feelin Scott Bayo.
Friday is the norm here
Yeah shouldve put (for us Yanks) in there.
iNvid02
Member
Socom 4 disagrees as well, that was so fucking unfortunate
I understand the case for Infamous 2, but I think The Last of Us is the perfect storm of early review embargo, game shipping to stores over a week early in some places, E3 week, Friday instead of Tuesday, and the general level of anticipation all add up to the "Worst Release Date Ever".
I may be biased, though, because I've never played any of the Infamous games and I couldn't possibly care less about them if I tried to.
I may be biased, though, because I've never played any of the Infamous games and I couldn't possibly care less about them if I tried to.
You aren't missing out on anything. I dont even know how Infamous 2's release date could be any sort of comparison to the clusterfuck release date Last of Us has.
And Duke, I've seen four or more people with that avatar on here. Go back to being grandpa.
DeadRockstar
Member
I actually don't really mind a release date that I have E3 to distract me from. One of the easiest waits for a game I'm looking forward to honestly.
A spoiler could have ruined it, but I haven't seen a single one and the game should be with me tomorrow.
A spoiler could have ruined it, but I haven't seen a single one and the game should be with me tomorrow.
Dragon1893
Member
I'm at the post office to grab mine, no way I'm waiting till tomorrow.
Liquidsnake
Banned
Its hard sitting here at work.
I have 8.5 hours to go. I had so much fun last night.
I have 8.5 hours to go. I had so much fun last night.
The perfect Dark
Banned
The wait is made that much harder when people have been posting photos of the box in their hand all week long.
I doubt the anticipation of Infamous 2 was anywhere nearly this brutal...
Ravensmash
Member
Yeah, that's definitely a shame.
I have used Simply Games for the last two impulse preorders though and they've dispatched within a very short time. Fingers crossed I get it tomorrow.
Multiplayer - is there any real link to the story content or would I be fine giving that a quick spin before finishing the single player?
DeadRockstar
Member
I won't argue with that. I rented the game at some point and didn't finish it. I'm hopeful for Second Son though.
Quickly tried it out on Survival and wow it's hard if you're not careful. A few punches or shots and your dead. They even counter your punches and then you have to do the same, and while I hit a guy with 2-3 punches, another one came and grabbed me, throwing me to the floor.
Still haven't had a chance of trying out multiplayer.
Still haven't had a chance of trying out multiplayer.
Burgess_101
Member
Mine was despatched today from SimplyGames so It should be here tomorrow.
Quickly tried it out on Survival and wow it's hard if you're not careful. A few punches or shots and your dead. They even counter your punches and then you have to do the same, and while I hit a guy with 2-3 punches, another one came and grabbed me, throwing me to the floor.
Still haven't had a chance of trying out multiplayer.
I'm usually a wuss when it comes to difficulty modes in games, but this sounds intriguing to me. Might have to give it a shot.
lolez2matt
Member
A local store just posted here on facebook that they will start selling it at 5 pm. UGGGGG And I don´t have money until friday!! :/
CyberChulo
Member
Anybody know where they may be selling early in NYC or Chinatown?
SlasherJPC
Banned
Played about another hour or so. 2 hours and 47 mins now and 28% according to my save file. Once you hit the demo area the game starts to really let you create items, dangerous situations with the enemies, and the story just had a somewhat minor revelation. I feel the game has now just truly started from a gameplay aspect as before it was very linear, no creating items, not alot of enemies, and no fear. Fear has now kicked into high gear in some of these encounters and playing on hard I was stuck at a few for awhile. One thing I can say about the combat is that I'm so into it when melee-ing, I'm actually flinging my controller around as if I'm actually hitting the enemies with my controller movements... that says something about how into the melee combat I am cause I NEVER DO THAT.
More impressions to follow as I continue on.
More impressions to follow as I continue on.
A little less than three hours in and you're basically 30% through? That's actually somewhat disappointing.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Honestly no joke. I caught myself doing it a few times.
Yes...I agree. Also I'm taking my time, not rushing, playing on hard. It's literally hard for me to move forward without trying to soak it all in. My hope is the ratio to progress changes up a bit percentage wise at least.
DeadRockstar
Member
A guy with the username slasher_thrasher is into the melee violence. I don't know whether to be excited or run away.
My Uncharted 2 save was 61% at 3 hours and 40 minutes. That was at like Chapter 10 of 28(?).
I don't think Naughty Dog calculates that percentage properly. Might have something to do with collectibles, or something. I don't think that percentage represents your completion of the storyline.
Whatever the case, I can definitely see a correlation between Uncharted 2 and The Last of Us not giving you entirely accurate completion percentages.
SlasherJPC
Banned
The perfect Dark
Banned
4 hours and 30 % here :/
More_Badass
Member
Yeah if most people are saying 15 to 20 hours, then 30% is between 4.5 to 6 hours. It must be collectibles.
So three hours to hit its stride? That really is a slow burn. I wonder if that's why all those negative impressions were like the AI is bad, areas are linear. They were judging the game by those early hours. I got no problem with linear areas, especially in the beginning while the story, characters, mechanics are being established. I've read enough stories, seen enough short clips, to know that the AI is awesome. And I love slow areas, being able to explorem take my time, and just soak in the atmosphere
You don't HAVE to kill everyone. YOu can completely sneak by enemy encounter situations if you choose so. Though there are some that you can't. But I know there are quite a few where you can completely skip if you stealth by.
Nope, you download a file and it says it's locked when you try and run it.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Yeah it seems the case so far. I think from a gameplay perspective from what I've played so far, the 10/10 isn't warranted... for a perfect score I either want to see genre defining gameplay, or the best of the best of it's type. I can't really speak for it either though since I have yet to beat it, but I'm more willing to bet the 10's are coming from the latter thought and not genre defining aspect. I'm still not convinced either wether the game deserves the 10's or not and don't think I will till I beat it. Though my thoughts on the intro and opening hours are as I stated. Great opening, slow to get into the meat of the game but still great. Now hoping things really just go forward more and more. Also my brain has literally argued with myself how real some of these character models look sometimes. They really hit it out of the park with the life like visuals and performance.
I imagine the 10's are coming from the sheer breadth of the narrative, the writing, the incredible acting, and so on and so forth. What naughty dog does best.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Yep the last encounter with humans, I did just that. Killed like one dude, snuck by and away for the rest.
Yep and I will see that throughout the course of the game. Just need to play more. No doubt Naughty Dog is a beast when it comes to games.
Wow at the glowing TLoU writeup in Grantland:
That might reach more people than an IGN review. Good to see.
Edit: OK, it definitely won't reach as many people as IGN. But it will definitely reach a good amount of casuals.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9366466/tom-bissell-naughty-dog-latest-game-last-us
That might reach more people than an IGN review. Good to see.
Edit: OK, it definitely won't reach as many people as IGN. But it will definitely reach a good amount of casuals.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Personally I don't care how long a game is, I'm just trying to give input since big expectations are being set in this thread and it's good to get some feedback from various people so we can a better overall idea.
This review spoils part of the opening. Why must reviewers keep doing this?
Other than that, good review.
Tom Bissell is my God.