No need to reinvent the wheel for the sake of the people who have seen the other two threads. I'll post it wherever I feel it's relevant -- namely, whenever people suggest TLoU is a shooter, interactive movie, or something less than a game. Because it's a game, and an incredible one, for that matter.
Trying to play other games after TLoU
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Whipped Spartan
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It's a case where no game quite scratches the itch TLoU does. The worst part is when you get near the end and you realize you're on the final stretch.
Took me until now to hit 35% I am purposely taking breaks in between. Did same with walking dead. Just need to savor it.
Alcoholica
Neo Member
OP i feel your blues my man. After finishing TLoU i tried jumping into Mirrors Edge which i was so pumped for and just couldnt do it. I've slowly been chipping away at it but man i need another story driven intense game to fill the hole. On NG+ playthrough of it ao i guess its helping the balance haha.
OP get Hotline Miami. It rocks thought its similar in that there is alot of killing lol.
Anyways just ignore the hate TLoU gets. Its something else. People always talk about Half-Life 2, Portal games, ICO and such that are some mind blowing shit. I've played those and TLoU shits all over them.
Anyways just ignore the hate TLoU gets. Its something else. People always talk about Half-Life 2, Portal games, ICO and such that are some mind blowing shit. I've played those and TLoU shits all over them.
Rickenslacker
Banned
That's a great write-up and all fair and good, I've just been so burned on what I perceive as similar zeitgeisty stuff time and time again that I'm drawing the line with TLOU. Maybe I'll give it a shot way later in the year or further than that, but I'm not going to let myself be drawn in by release window high again. I'll be glad to eat crow if it eventually ends up seeming like an experience unlike most, but I just have serious doubts about it going in knowing my tastes with how people commonly gush about the hot topic of the time.
JordanLMiller
Member
I feel the same way, but it's a bit easier to ignore this time around after watching the way gaf reacted to UC2.
This is what I'm talking about by the way:
Just let it go in one ear and out the other.
w1gglyjones
Member
You want to play a game with good gameplay that also tugs on the heart strings?
Like someone else mentioned about, Valkyrie Profile... I prefer the DS game, VP: Covenant of the Plume
El Pescado
Member
I know. I bought The Last of Us, Project X Zone, Game and Wario, and a bunch of 3DS eShop games and haven't been able to start any of them because every second of free time is Animal Crossing.
That's the way I felt about Ellie and Joel tbh. I didn't have any issues with Joel he was your typical cliche post apocalyptic survivor but Ellie....I wanted to put a bullet in her myself every time she opened her mouth.
15-20 hours.
mullet2000
Member
I'll really never understand the "I played this great game, now I can't enjoy others games" mentality.
I played The Last Of Us. I loved it. Doesn't mean I have issues playing other great games...
The Last of Us was great. But's it's just a game guys. It's not a life-changing event.
I played The Last Of Us. I loved it. Doesn't mean I have issues playing other great games...
The Last of Us was great. But's it's just a game guys. It's not a life-changing event.
Depends but probably around 15 hours.
If you've played TLoU and didn't like it, that's perfectly fine.
If you've played TLoU, didn't like it, and you can't possibly imagine how someone else, with a different taste than yours, could possibly love this game, you lack fucking imagination and empathy.
And that doesn't even cover the part where you decide to go there and mock people for having too much fun with a game.
Assuming someone like that hasn't played the game IS in this case giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I don't mean 'you' personally, obviously.
And yeah, this reasoning applies to other games too. Nothing wrong with not liking something, but claiming people are having a better time than they should have is a forum equivalent of coming to a party where everyone seems to be having fun, deciding you don't like it, so you're gonna take a shit on the carpet.
It took me 20+ hours but I don't rush through games
Took me about 17 hours on normal mode.
Anywhere between 13 - 20 hours seems about right though. Some people rush through, while some take their time.
Ugh, TT's The Walking Dead is a terrible suggestion for a follow-up to TLoU. TWD barely has gameplay at all, and what threadbare interaction is there is slow, repetitive and cumbersome. To go from the harrowing suspense, improvised tactics and emergent design of TLoU to the "walk over here, move a cursor over there" of TWD is just... No.
I really think Shattered Memories is the better choice, even if its world and enemy encounters aren't as interesting as TLoU. The grounded sense of surveying your surroundings with the flashlight and such is the main parallel, and the story is excellent.
I really think Shattered Memories is the better choice, even if its world and enemy encounters aren't as interesting as TLoU. The grounded sense of surveying your surroundings with the flashlight and such is the main parallel, and the story is excellent.
This is exactly what I did. I had a similar issue after playing MGS 1 back on PSOne, took months to find other games worth my time. Right now I've decided to pick up Rymdkapsel and Thomas Was Alone.
Infinite has a diferent style and tone. Its more stylized and exagerated right down to story, characters and dialogue. Doesnt mean its worse than TLoU. Not at all
Uno Venova
Banned
I just find it funny that one single poster starting a thread can get comments like this relating to all of 'gaf'.
SneakyStephan
Banned
mentalfloss
Banned
Won't this game just be forgotten in a couple years like Uncharted 2 was?
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
That is in fact what he is saying, and you are actively encouraged to use stealth.
RustyNails
Member
TLoU blues
Biggest mistake I did was go watch Man of Steel directly after finishing the game. All I remember from the movie now is baby superman's penis and lots of explosions. But TLoU is so fucking heavy, I just start gazing off into the horizon whenever I think about it.
Biggest mistake I did was go watch Man of Steel directly after finishing the game. All I remember from the movie now is baby superman's penis and lots of explosions. But TLoU is so fucking heavy, I just start gazing off into the horizon whenever I think about it.
Not necessarily tugging on heart strings. Just something with great character interaction and good gameplay. Something you get addicted to...
I already played the game.
I loved the game, i think it's great.
It's my GOTY so far.
It's mostly due to the increasing hyperbole surrounding it, that i fear i may end up getting sick of it by the end of the year, a reaction which, by the way, i consider completely silly and irrational.
The game is what it is, despite the characterization people make of it, and yet... it has a clear influence on my opinion of it.
I hate that.
Various Artists
Banned
That's mind of the way I am with the souls games. They get brought up in every thread.
Well, that gaf fellow tends to show up in every thread, simultaneously defending and criticizing whatever is being discussed.
Heh, I call this Dark Souls syndrome. It's when you play a game that's fantastic at some things and now you find other games that aren't fantastic at those things boring. The reason I call it Dark Souls syndrome is because playing Skyrim or even The Witcher 2 after playing Dark Souls is like having your head dunked into a bucket of cold water because the combat is such a downgrade, even when those other games may excel at other things. However, it undoubtedly applies to any other game that really excels at one aspect like Devil May Cry 3 or (Apparently) The Last of Us.
Best advice is to switch genres completely. Hotline Miami, Super Meat Boy, and Super Mario Galaxy 2 are good suggestions; they're very focused on gameplay that is nothing like The Last of Us, and they don't focus at all on the things that are weaker than The Last of Us.
Best advice is to switch genres completely. Hotline Miami, Super Meat Boy, and Super Mario Galaxy 2 are good suggestions; they're very focused on gameplay that is nothing like The Last of Us, and they don't focus at all on the things that are weaker than The Last of Us.
Jinfash
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May I suggest taking up bodybuilding and starting a bodybuilding.com forum account?
18 hours for me.
I know that feeling OP. The Last of Us is so good that a lot of other games feel sort of lacking in comparison. I'm only managing to get by by playing something completely different on every level (Medieval 2: Total War). The regular AAA fair I can't bring myself to play right now though. I'm strongly considering playthrough #3 on Last of Us...it's still very much on my mind.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Tomb Raider's pretty fantastic. Although I agree with NieR and Resident Evil 4 HD.
Im sure it was due to her potty mouth (which would be understandable) but thats believable in that scenario. Else there was something wrong as the player gets attached to both players unlike other games where the connections arent there with players or the characters lack emotion or seem flat in character.
Uno Venova
Banned
I know that, but only one thread starter, then it becomes what 'gaf' thinks.
Some TLoU fans are already doing a great job of making the rest of us look like a brainwashed cult of loonies, lets not shit the entire point and click adventure genre while we are at it :/
I suggested it because its very character driven. And what it does, it does it very well.
lol
csquared587
Member
Everyone saying Rogue Legacy, I agree 100%. Its the first game I am playing since beat and really enjoying TLOU, and it is an amazing experience so far. Its so far away from TLOU in genre in style, but it is almost just as good of an experience.
Boss Man
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I don't usually do this, but I actually am interested in TLOU and am not in the mood for another Uncharted just yet so I've been waiting. When I see impressions I take them seriously, but sometimes I have to make sure the post isn't coming from somewhere else. What's up with this:
The Last of Us' autosave has a glitch. Read if you're playing. [Apparently fixed]
(6-14-2013)
What's up with all the negativity around The Last of Us now?
(6-14-2013)
Halfway through the year...what's your GOTY so far?
(6-30-2013)
Why can't the industry give us more games like TLoU?
(Today)
You don't say...
TheRedSnifit
Member
Go play RE4, or the new Fire Emblem, or Mario Galaxy 2, or Half Life 2, or . . .
TLoU isn't the best game ever. Far from it, in fact.
TLoU isn't the best game ever. Far from it, in fact.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Just as tense as LoU and has an extremely memorable female companion.
She just might not be the kind of female companion you're used to in a videogame.
Game isn't overly long either. Maybe 12-15 hours on your first playthrough It's split into 8 "levels", not including the tutorials which show you everything you need to play the game. On Normal or Easy it's challenging but not overly so too.
edit: and this is on the bottom of the page so you won't read this
or you will be put off by the grafics