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The Last of Us: Remastered |OT| Game of the Years
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Forsaken82
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Here you go:
#thisiswhathappenswhenurebuildAI5mthsb4release
Am I the only one bothered by the arm clipping through the trailer?
Green Yoshi
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BigTnaples
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Nope, everyone else thinks its awesome.
off duty ninja
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MisterShine
Member
I'm really sad the dlc isn't folded into the game appropriately.. one of the better decisions Human Revolution DC made.
Ah well.
Ah well.
Thanks for telling me it was a spoiler, dude. All I saw was two girls jumping up and down.
It doesn't mean shit out of context.
I just had the best idea ever: LEGO The Last of Us. Do it, ND & TT! They gotta include the legojoelbanderas.gif in a cutscene!
off duty ninja
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Summer Haze
Banned
And what do you see now?
I wouldn't worry about it, seriously. I'm the type of person who is extremely sensitive to spoilers, and I wouldn't call that GIF a spoiler. To me, that would be the same as posting a GIF/screenshot of Joel and Tess together. There is zero context to that GIF.
Iron-and-Wine
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off duty ninja
Member
That one is pretty hilarious to me. You can actually see her prying the other kids' hands and fingers off of it.
It seems to me like the only people complaining about spoilers are the ones that have already played the game, which always rubs me the wrong way. I'm not very respective of spoiler culture, in general, I think people take it way too far.
Hype seems deflated in this thread now.
We need some energy back in this thread.
Wow. What is this?
SolidSnakex
Member
As others have explained, it wouldn't work to fold it in to the game. (Major Left Behind and TLoU main game spoilers ahead)
A big part of the Winter shift is wondering whether or not Joel is alive. If the DLC were folded into the game then you'd know the answer right away and there'd be no mystery about that part since LB takes place during the Fall to Winter transition. It'd also obviously spoil the fact that Ellie is infected.
Lunar: Silver Star Story is hard as fuck at the end, total grind-a-thon. Save it for last. Or at least Silver Star Story Complete on PS1 was, that's the only version I've played.
Amazing game, though!
off duty ninja
Member
That's fantastic! The only change I would make would be to have the heads explode into the lego bits (or whatever they're called)
Summer Haze
Banned
Oh, I think I misunderstood your comment. I thought you were sarcastically thanking him for spoiling the game for you. Which is why I asked what you saw different about the GIF. Silly me.
Also, what do you mean by the part I bolded?
fluffydelusions
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less than week hype!
Yeah I know. Its SS Complete though which I dont think is any different from the Sega CD version in terms of difficulty. The hang up in that game is the fact that all enemies level up with you, so the game doesnt get easier whatsoever the stronger you get. Its tough as balls for sure, but it's such a great looking and fun game though for a good while. I havent played it for 15 years so we will see. I'll be using a guide so hopefully that will help a bit.
I think that people who are trying to avoid spoilers would better serve themselves by just removing themselves from the conversation. Like Raptor did.
It's often baffling to see people who are far more sensitive to spoilers than most begrudgingly stick around for page after page of discussion, just complaining about spoilers.
I'm just talking specifically about people that freak out at every little minor detail as if it was an ending spoiler. I'm also just speaking in general, not about this thread. I see it happen all the time.
Now I'm complaining about people complaining about spoilers, this has gotten too meta for me.
SketchTheArtist
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Great video sir, really good watch!
He talked about other panels available at the end, the one the art director gave called ART DIRECTION: MORE THAN JUST DOING A SEARCH ON GOOGLE. Is that one available somewhere, couldn't find it on the site.
WeAreStarStuff
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I don't remember this being in the PS3 version? My home theater is ready for this!
It's only like $60.
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Great post on why it shouldn't be folded into the main story. I actually didn't think about it that way, but it makes a ton of sense now.
Keep forgetting there will be people playing it for the first time.
The game is designed well enough to give you contextual, aural, and environmental cues to feel out the location of the enemies with your own senses and perception. It builds masterful amounts of tension.
Other games would use Listen Mode as a crutch, because they aren't designed well enough, The Last of Us just includes it as an optional cheat feature.
Pretty much this.
That ambient humming build up is really all you need to know if you're getting to close to alerting someone or something.
Listen mode also arguably kills a large chunk of tension which is such a massive part of the whole experience when approaching a possible combat situation. I've never used it and never will.
I've always viewed it as either training wheels, or *gasp* "Pussy Mode"
Correct, they are completely separate.
This is awesome.
Summer Haze
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I couldn't agree more. Frankly, I don;t understand why anyone who hasn't played this game yet would be in this thread, or any other TLOUR thread/article on the internet.
HueyFreeman
Banned
I actually agree that TLOU is the GOTG for the PS360 era, but I also have friends who played it who really liked it but don't feel the same way. Anyway coming into it thinking "no matter how high your expectations, it's basically impossible to be disappointed"... will almost certainly be disappointed.
But isn't that the way it would really be? You basically become dependent on all the other cues the game has built for you, including listening to their audio, finding good vantage positions to map them out, and... risk. Risk is an essential component of any stealth encounter, as risk is essentially the main emotion you're trying to conjure in the player. So there is some gambling involved... which makes it awesome.
I don't think having listen mode off/hard mode is necessarily the definitive way to first experience the game though, contrary to popular thread belief. Some people are going to find that difficult and alienating on 1st playthrough, so it will depend on the individual player to some degree.
Couldn't have described it better myself. I turned off Listen Mode before even starting my first play through and I believe the game was 1000x better for it.
There is no real reason to use Listen Mode in this game - it was pretty much entirely made as a crutch for "casuals"
Summer Haze
Banned
Because being able to see your enemies exact positions through walls, in real time, is pretty fucking cheating, imo.
And because of this.
GavinUK86
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Because wall hax.
I played it through the first time on Normal with it on and it felt fine. Second playthrough on Hard was far, far better with it turnt off. Like people said, without it, it creates a better atmosphere.
Yeah. That had focus test's late in development and a common complaint was players kept getting killed by an enemy off screen that they never knew was there lol. Idiots.
Gray Matter
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I think you might be right, I remember naughty dog talking about listen mode the first time they showed the game publicly, but there wasn't any footage of it actually being used. Just description from the media.
KINGofCRA5H
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It really stands out how OP listen mode is when you play Multiplayer.
Summer Haze
Banned
Lol, exactly. At the very least it should have been a small sound wave effect/visually indicator coming from the general area of the enemy, not a completely outline of their real time position. Thank goodness it's optional.
off duty ninja
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Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
Those baseball gifs are pissing me off. Horrible people ugh.
I need some TLOUR footage to cheer me up!
I need some TLOUR footage to cheer me up!
Glorious Ownage
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I'll admit I'm a little dissapointed after seeing the new footage. I was hoping for something more akin to the Tomb Raider remaster. Oh well...I'm really only in it to get back into the excellent multiplayer
Gray Matter
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Eh, maybe if you use the perk that enhances it, but to me it's fair. Plus, there are other perks to negate the effect of listen mode.
Haha. I know it sounds a little harsh, but it's such a large crutch that I just don't see any other way to describe it.
Im sure someone can come up with a better analogy but I see it equivalent to something like infinite bullet time in Max Payne or a GPS/arrow pointing out every single green star or star coin in a Mario game.