that little detail was very impressive, especially when you fight Ellie as Abby, that part I really liked. in that fight you see Ellie crafting items and setting traps.
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Muscular woman=gender confusion and or trans from what I gathered from some neogaf posters.....
Starting Day 3 with Abby.
The whole Lev plot twist felt so unnecessary and forced down your throat. Yikes.
I like Lev as a character, the connection the kid establishes with Abby is neat and well made, but that whole conversation with her sister setting up her rogue reasons because "I'm transgender and to signal I'm a man I'll shave my head" it's just...
I even like Abby as a character, she's a little way too buffed yeah, but her personality as a character so far is cool, but I feel like the second part of the game just drags too much. I'm basically advancing in the game so I can reach that specific part and see what happens.
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Going by the lore in the game, such as it were (I'm not saying it makes sense, but these are well-established rules of how things work within the game world), it takes just a little while for someone to turn into a runner. Some two years to turn into a clicker. If you're particularly large and healthy, you may end up as a bloater. In the end though, you'll be pushing spores somewhere, these are not like typical zombies who are basically immortal.
Maybe so, but it's not like this is something new, it was established way back in the first game. And it fits with the narrative of a cordyceps infection (it doesn't make ants or other insects permanent zombies, just long enough for the fungus to spread - seems quite logical that for larger creatures they'd also remain "alive" a bit longer).
Again, we're still talking about a fantasy world, but at any rate - yes, you do see Sam turning. But would he, as a kid, remain alive for long given the progression of the infection? And smaller children still, wouldn't they probably end up dead really quickly?
Nah mine is also like that and all my surround settings on my Pro and system are set correctly. There is definitely something wrong with those sound settings in the menu when using proper 5.1 surround sound.
I disagree. In a world where everyone would have lost relatives and friends, the revenge aspect seems contrived, especially in terms of both characters travelling such large distances and managing to convince others to come along with them. This would have made more sense if the game wasn’t so serious in tone, and made more mythic — which is something that’s would have helped with all the blatant imagery, cruxifixctions, thorn in sides etc—As well.
The problem with the story was bringing on Haley Gross, it was her that ruined the story. She filled Neil's head with so much bullshit. I feel like she didn't even play the first game and he took on all her ideas.Finished the game and the story turned out to be a huge letdown by the end, seriously.
Not the way I was thinking it would end.
Going into spoiler territory here.
Killing Joel should have happened later in the game, not in the beginning.
How they decided to kill the best character right at the beginning of the game was such a bad bad decision. I know it was an attempt to serve as a catalyst for the unfolding events, but shit, when you do this and finish the story the way they did, there's some serious bad writing happening there.
Seriously, this is not nothing against Ellie, playing with her, the whole SJW / LGBT flag, nothing like that, it's simply because those two together shine when they're on the same segments. Their interactions are beautiful and each Joel's appearance along with Ellie it's a bless in this fucking messed up story that completely derailed comparing with the first part.
Call me a madman or a person with a dark perspective, but this game would have ended with a bang if Ellie, unable to kill Abby, because she stills has some humanity left on her (after all her revenge quest), suicides herself because she's tired of living in a shitty world. She misses her most beloved person and the one that truly cared for her - Joel. And to find some peace, she decides that's what she needs to do. Because let's face it, after his death, all she thinks about it's revenge, she doesn't even think for a single time "Hey I'm still immune, maybe there's someone out there that can developed a cure?". She doesn't give a damn about the fucking world she lives in. That's even more evident after the farm sequence when she decides to leave Dina, because she feels she needs to avenge Joel.
That end sequence, with the zooming-in on the guitar, if you saw her hanging by the tree I swear to god I would applaud the courage to do an ending like that and possibly cry like a baby.
Since none of that happened (Abby and Lev live, and she doesn't get her revenge) you're left with an empty ending basically. It doesn't offer any closure. What happened to Ellie? Well, she's all alone as far as we know and that's it.
The only idea that they try to pass on is that her punishment is exactly that, being left alone, which is kind of curious considering the DLC for the first game was called Left Behind.
Another thing that bothered me was all these new factions that the story decided to introduce. Wolves, Scars, Rattlers, specially the last two they just seemed to appear out of thin air, and honestly, they were not necessary to the story. The only reason they added them was because they decided to extend the game too much if you ask me.
Which is weird, because they decided to have two character's that play exactly the same. When you want to do narratives with two characters you should have gameplay variety at some level and it simply does not exist here.
One tool here, one tool there, the gameplay is exactly the same with Ellie or Abby, and even thought the gameplay is super tight and works well, it is not innovative at all.
The survival aspect can be phenomenal at times, but most of the times you always use the same strategies.
Leaving the non-spoiler territory: this is cleary one of the most brutal games I have ever played, graphically it's amazing, I'll give them that.
But the story, specially the story, and the lack of gameplay variety, make this a 7/10 for me. And I'm being nice here.
GOTY? Sorry, but no, not even in top 5 for me. They fucked up the story pretty bad.
PS: I find it extremely awkward that in a game that tries to depict a post-apocalyptic world (in the most possible realistic way), where you have zombie like creatures, a ton of letters of parents talking about their children...you don't even see an infected children.
Yeah, and they tried the hardest for that, to make it an event. They threw everything at it, including the kitchen sink, which is why it feels so hollow by the end. They should have spent more time on the characters and story, less on the bombast.
Yeah the game's definitely lacking with new infected types. Even dogs are a much bigger deal in terms of combat encounters than shamblers.
And the shamblers are basically pimped out bloaters. I feel like they were hesitant to add a bunch of new types since it might mess with the more grounded lore but I mean they added that Rat King thing which was straight out of Resident Evil, they should've just said "Fuck it" and went nuts with the monsters. But maybe next time. I can actually see the infected encounters becoming a bit stale in Part III if they don't add several more types.
Have you got a source that says the changed the narrative of the game? Only thing I've read is that they changed the ending.
You know the risks, your existence and your hate is proof of Drukmann genius.
What risks did Druckmann took with the narrative? The only one that comes to mind is how he and his team butchered the narrative of the game.
And we all know that's not a risk that you should be willing to take.
Risking would be either having Ellie kill Abby or having Ellie suicide herself by the end. You spend an entire journey for revenge just to have a split second "Oh my god I'm so innocent now, everything is beautiful" moment to forget everything that happened. You kill Joel early in the game for this shit? Fucking ridiculous.
