Trying to play other games after TLoU

Cloudy said:
Tried it today and the "gameplay" is super clunky. I can't believe they couldn't have made a more intuitive interface....
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You play the first Jak and Daxter OP? It's viewed as one of Naughty Dog's earlier titles now right after they did Crash but it still holds up really well as a 3D platformer that is not really that heavy on a story at all.

It is also cool to see how a studio like ND changed over the years, they grew up with a lot of the fans of their games if that makes any sense.
 
Neiteio said:
If you add up all the cutscenes in TLoU, it's around 90 minutes (I literally checked this the other night in the cutscene viewer). That's an hour and a half out of what was a 20-hour experience for me each playthrough.
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Twenty . . . hours? It took me nine hours less with my forty deaths, but alright. Regardless, I can't help but notice that you totally ignored my pointing out that you can also kill 900+ enemies in TLoU. Hmmmm . . .

I didn't die much, because I stuck to stealth as much as possible, but even then I felt like I was tight on ammo much of the time. I think most people will find that with the exception of the high-capacity machine guns you get at the very end, you're usually carrying less than 20 bullets per gun. And most ammo drops have one to three bullets, as I'm sure someone could easily verify with the guide.
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Either you're exaggerating or you fired at a ton of walls. You remind me of those people who complain about running out of ammo in RE2.
 
Neiteio said:
"Editing" is not something this game lacks. Nor smarts. The level layouts are multi-tiered affairs with numerous rooms and many ways in and out, with plenty of places to hide and fixtures to circumnavigate as you stay out of sight. I'm hard-pressed to think of any "standard TPS" with layouts as versatile as this. The enemies are smartly placed and fan out in ways that canvass the entire area, but they telegraph themselves well enough that an observant player can approach them like a puzzle and stay 10 steps ahead. The experience is richly rewarding, and feels nothing like a shooter, let alone a "standard" one.
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but what you're describing is attention to detail to a very conventional kind of game. all of these things are finessing for what is a very standard and proven thing at this point. if you want to give it credit for being a better tps than something like gears of war, then yes, it definitely is. but essentially it is built on the same foundation.
 
Sorry OP, I'm not sure I'd be able to recommend anything. I know you enjoyed the game a ton, but did you enjoy the actual gameplay more than any other game you've played? If so, then I cannot help you, as my suggestions are games that, in my opinion, are much better in the gameplay department.

Basically I'd say find a game that excels in departments that TLOU lacks in. As far as presentation goes, it will be quite tough....but gameplay, there are many many games.
 
Cloudy said:
I knew
he was infected the moment he was acting all subdued
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Yes, that too. Still an amazing game. However, doesn't ruin future games for me. It's like saying I watched The Sopranos and now I can no longer enjoy television. So stupid.
 
I'm with you OP. I'm bouncing around right now, but nothing is holding me.

I was so engrossed in those characters and in the story. I want more of it.
 
OP, the best bet would probably be to go in a different direction entirely. Animal Crossing would be a good choice. Playing some indie games might also do the trick. Its unfortunate that this kind of game release is so rare.
 
The man sat on his couch, gently sobbing. The controller had fallen to the floor minutes ago. The credits had long since stopped but the emotions were still coming in waves, gently crashing against the shore of his mind. Eventually, he mustered up the courage to carry on, just like Joel and Ellie would do. He moved to the shelf where he meticulously organized his game collection, half-dry tears still present on his face. He knew what he had to do. One by one, he opened the cases, removed the disk, and snapped them in half. He paused when he reached Halo: CE, a game from his youth which brought him countless hours of joy with his now deceased brother, but he hesitated only for a moment. There was only room for one game in his collection now. His only regret was that he had not been able to play the game sooner.

He would have to wait until his wife came home before he could do anything more. She had once filled his life with joy, but now there was a hole in his life that nobody could fill. The connection he felt with Ellie, who looked absolutely nothing like Ellen Page was like no other he had ever experienced in his life, and he knew that nothing would ever be the same again. He wondered if he should get in contact with a lawyer to draw up the divorce papers.
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
The man sat on his couch, gently sobbing. The controller had fallen to the floor minutes ago. The credits had long since stopped but the emotions were still coming in waves, gently crashing against the shore of his mind. Eventually, he mustered up the courage to carry on, just like Joel and Ellie would do. He moved to the shelf where he meticulously organized his game collection, half-dry tears still present on his face. He knew what he had to do. One by one, he opened the cases, removed the disk, and snapped them in half. He paused when he reached Halo: CE, a game from his youth which brought him countless hours of joy with his now deceased brother, but he hesitated only for a moment. There was only room for one game in his collection now. His only regret was that he had not been able to play the game sooner.

He would have to wait until his wife came home before he could do anything more. She had once filled his life with joy, but now there was a hole in his life that nobody could fill. The connection he felt with Ellie, who looked absolutely nothing like Ellen Page was like no other he had ever experienced in his life, and he knew that nothing would ever be the same again. He wondered if he should get in contact with a lawyer to draw up the divorce papers.
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I remember in 2007 Bioshock ruined Halo 3 campaign for me, so I guess I can relate. The solution was to play something far removed. A different genre will help.

It's easy to get wrapped up in a compelling game, but there's always something worth playing out there!

Looking forward to playing TLOU at some stage to see if it truly is as good as people say.
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
The man sat on his couch, gently sobbing. The controller had fallen to the floor minutes ago. The credits had long since stopped but the emotions were still coming in waves, gently crashing against the shore of his mind. Eventually, he mustered up the courage to carry on, just like Joel and Ellie would do. He moved to the shelf where he meticulously organized his game collection, half-dry tears still present on his face. He knew what he had to do. One by one, he opened the cases, removed the disk, and snapped them in half. He paused when he reached Halo: CE, a game from his youth which brought him countless hours of joy with his now deceased brother, but he hesitated only for a moment. There was only room for one game in his collection now. His only regret was that he had not been able to play the game sooner.

He would have to wait until his wife came home before he could do anything more. She had once filled his life with joy, but now there was a hole in his life that nobody could fill. The connection he felt with Ellie, who looked absolutely nothing like Ellen Page was like no other he had ever experienced in his life, and he knew that nothing would ever be the same again. He wondered if he should get in contact with a lawyer to draw up the divorce papers.
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excellent
 
TheRedSnifit said:
Twenty . . . hours? It took me nine hours less with my forty deaths, but alright. Regardless, I can't help but notice that you totally ignored my pointing out that you can also kill 900+ enemies in TLoU. Hmmmm . . .
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Most people in the OT seem to clock 14-20 hours. Some crazy people take ~50.

As for kills, your "Total Kills," which include gun kills, was 541. Where are you getting the 900+ figure from?

Relative to the game's length, and given the copious downtime between encounters, and how enemies are picked off one at a time, it never felt like a shoot-em-up. Not even remotely so.

Either you're exaggerating or you fired at a ton of walls. You remind me of those people who complain about running out of ammo in RE2.
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I never complained. I pointed out the fact that most ammo drops are 1-3 bullets, and I usually had less than 20 bullets in my guns at a time. And this was with me sneaking around and such. Perhaps the game drops more ammo if you use guns more? Regardless, my point is this game is hardly a standard TPS. It approaches confrontation with a different mentality, doling out supplies and staging the encounters in a more calculated and deliberate manner. It's one of many reasons TLoU is so refreshing.

jdl said:
but what you're describing is attention to detail to a very conventional kind of game. all of these things are finessing for what is a very standard and proven thing at this point. if you want to give it credit for being a better tps than something like gears of war, then yes, it definitely is. but essentially it is built on the same foundation.
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TLoU is more a stealth game than a shooter. It has more in common with the tactical action of MGS than the shooting of Gears of War. More of a focus on resource management, as well.
 
XCom. It's a better game.

Again, like some of the others here. I enjoyed TLoU. Great game. Possibly GOTY 2013, but this best ever talk is madness.
Despite it taking gaming to the next level in terms of narrative, story telling, character development, horror, mood, suspense and graphics (on consoles), at the end of the day, it's just another 3rd person tunnel/rollercoaster game.
(Still, I played it compulsively till the credits rolled).
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
The man sat on his couch, gently sobbing. The controller had fallen to the floor minutes ago. The credits had long since stopped but the emotions were still coming in waves, gently crashing against the shore of his mind. Eventually, he mustered up the courage to carry on, just like Joel and Ellie would do. He moved to the shelf where he meticulously organized his game collection, half-dry tears still present on his face. He knew what he had to do. One by one, he opened the cases, removed the disk, and snapped them in half. He paused when he reached Halo: CE, a game from his youth which brought him countless hours of joy with his now deceased brother, but he hesitated only for a moment. There was only room for one game in his collection now. His only regret was that he had not been able to play the game sooner.

He would have to wait until his wife came home before he could do anything more. She had once filled his life with joy, but now there was a hole in his life that nobody could fill. The connection he felt with Ellie, who looked absolutely nothing like Ellen Page was like no other he had ever experienced in his life, and he knew that nothing would ever be the same again. He wondered if he should get in contact with a lawyer to draw up the divorce papers.
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This is incredible! Thank you.
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
The man sat on his couch, gently sobbing. The controller had fallen to the floor minutes ago. The credits had long since stopped but the emotions were still coming in waves, gently crashing against the shore of his mind. Eventually, he mustered up the courage to carry on, just like Joel and Ellie would do. He moved to the shelf where he meticulously organized his game collection, half-dry tears still present on his face. He knew what he had to do. One by one, he opened the cases, removed the disk, and snapped them in half. He paused when he reached Halo: CE, a game from his youth which brought him countless hours of joy with his now deceased brother, but he hesitated only for a moment. There was only room for one game in his collection now. His only regret was that he had not been able to play the game sooner.

He would have to wait until his wife came home before he could do anything more. She had once filled his life with joy, but now there was a hole in his life that nobody could fill. The connection he felt with Ellie, who looked absolutely nothing like Ellen Page was like no other he had ever experienced in his life, and he knew that nothing would ever be the same again. He wondered if he should get in contact with a lawyer to draw up the divorce papers.
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Holy shit & LOL.
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
The man sat on his couch, gently sobbing. The controller had fallen to the floor minutes ago. The credits had long since stopped but the emotions were still coming in waves, gently crashing against the shore of his mind. Eventually, he mustered up the courage to carry on, just like Joel and Ellie would do. He moved to the shelf where he meticulously organized his game collection, half-dry tears still present on his face. He knew what he had to do. One by one, he opened the cases, removed the disk, and snapped them in half. He paused when he reached Halo: CE, a game from his youth which brought him countless hours of joy with his now deceased brother, but he hesitated only for a moment. There was only room for one game in his collection now. His only regret was that he had not been able to play the game sooner.

He would have to wait until his wife came home before he could do anything more. She had once filled his life with joy, but now there was a hole in his life that nobody could fill. The connection he felt with Ellie, who looked absolutely nothing like Ellen Page was like no other he had ever experienced in his life, and he knew that nothing would ever be the same again. He wondered if he should get in contact with a lawyer to draw up the divorce papers.
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Now we need Sunhi to make the gif. version.
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
The man sat on his couch, gently sobbing. The controller had fallen to the floor minutes ago. The credits had long since stopped but the emotions were still coming in waves, gently crashing against the shore of his mind. Eventually, he mustered up the courage to carry on, just like Joel and Ellie would do. He moved to the shelf where he meticulously organized his game collection, half-dry tears still present on his face. He knew what he had to do. One by one, he opened the cases, removed the disk, and snapped them in half. He paused when he reached Halo: CE, a game from his youth which brought him countless hours of joy with his now deceased brother, but he hesitated only for a moment. There was only room for one game in his collection now. His only regret was that he had not been able to play the game sooner.

He would have to wait until his wife came home before he could do anything more. She had once filled his life with joy, but now there was a hole in his life that nobody could fill. The connection he felt with Ellie, who looked absolutely nothing like Ellen Page was like no other he had ever experienced in his life, and he knew that nothing would ever be the same again. He wondered if he should get in contact with a lawyer to draw up the divorce papers.
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Gahaha
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
The man sat on his couch, gently sobbing. The controller had fallen to the floor minutes ago. The credits had long since stopped but the emotions were still coming in waves, gently crashing against the shore of his mind. Eventually, he mustered up the courage to carry on, just like Joel and Ellie would do. He moved to the shelf where he meticulously organized his game collection, half-dry tears still present on his face. He knew what he had to do. One by one, he opened the cases, removed the disk, and snapped them in half. He paused when he reached Halo: CE, a game from his youth which brought him countless hours of joy with his now deceased brother, but he hesitated only for a moment. There was only room for one game in his collection now. His only regret was that he had not been able to play the game sooner.

He would have to wait until his wife came home before he could do anything more. She had once filled his life with joy, but now there was a hole in his life that nobody could fill. The connection he felt with Ellie, who looked absolutely nothing like Ellen Page was like no other he had ever experienced in his life, and he knew that nothing would ever be the same again. He wondered if he should get in contact with a lawyer to draw up the divorce papers.
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ThoseDeafMutes said:
The man sat on his couch, gently sobbing. The controller had fallen to the floor minutes ago. The credits had long since stopped but the emotions were still coming in waves, gently crashing against the shore of his mind. Eventually, he mustered up the courage to carry on, just like Joel and Ellie would do. He moved to the shelf where he meticulously organized his game collection, half-dry tears still present on his face. He knew what he had to do. One by one, he opened the cases, removed the disk, and snapped them in half. He paused when he reached Halo: CE, a game from his youth which brought him countless hours of joy with his now deceased brother, but he hesitated only for a moment. There was only room for one game in his collection now. His only regret was that he had not been able to play the game sooner.

He would have to wait until his wife came home before he could do anything more. She had once filled his life with joy, but now there was a hole in his life that nobody could fill. The connection he felt with Ellie, who looked absolutely nothing like Ellen Page was like no other he had ever experienced in his life, and he knew that nothing would ever be the same again. He wondered if he should get in contact with a lawyer to draw up the divorce papers.
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This would make a great commercial and/or parody. Mega64 maybe?
 
Rickenslacker said:
I'm already sick of it. Knowing how I feel about these types of shooters having been disappointed with Naughty Dog's Uncharted efforts and the splooging people had over Bioshock Infinite, I knew not to fall into the hype for TLOU. It's just getting kind of overbearing hearing about it in every other thread already.
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Then why did you waltz your happy behind into a thread with the last of us in its title?


On Topic: Rogues Legacy.
 
After finishing TLoU I was feeling like smashing some more zombies so I got back into ZombiU. As a launch title it's not on the same level of polish, but it keeps you more tense than TLoU does because basically every enemy is a clicker who can see, and if they get you you lose all your items and experience (though you can get the items back by finding & killing the now zombified character).

It's legitimately terrifying at some parts, and the voice acting & story are pretty good. It's also the game that's generally held up as the best argument for the Wii U gamepad; it uses it for a bunch of gimmicks and sniping, but shines when you have to go into your backpack and look away from the screen while things can still get you. TLoU tries the same thing and shows just why the gamepad is necessary to pull this trick off.
 
LiveFromKyoto said:
After finishing TLoU I was feeling like smashing some more zombies so I got back into ZombiU. As a launch title it's not on the same level of polish, but it keeps you more tense than TLoU does because basically every enemy is a clicker who can see, and if they get you you lose all your items and experience (though you can get the items back by finding & killing the now zombified character).

It's legitimately terrifying at some parts, and the voice acting & story are pretty good. It's also the game that's generally held up as the best argument for the Wii U gamepad; it uses it for a bunch of gimmicks and sniping, but shines when you have to go into your backpack and look away from the screen while things can still get you. TLoU tries the same thing and shows just why the gamepad is necessary to pull this trick off.
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Honestly, TLoU would've been perfect for WiiU. The GamePad would've added extra kick to the real-time crafting system, especially if they added some extra steps for a more hands-on manual crafting approach.
 
Nothing really story driven. You'd rather go for a good, simple gameplay to change focus. Your hunger for "cinematic" games will grow back.
 
Neiteio said:
I thought ThoseDeafMutes was going to conclude his story by having the man snap his wife in two, lol.
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Yeah. Cleave his wife's head open with an axe or something. It's what Joel would do!

Neiteio said:
Honestly, TLoU would've been perfect for WiiU. The GamePad would've added extra kick to the real-time crafting system, especially if they added some extra steps for a more hands-on manual crafting approach.
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I kind of wonder what ND will do with Uncharted 4? Will they feel pressure to make it a more serious story or make Drake less of a genial killer?
 
luxarific said:
I kind of wonder what ND will do with Uncharted 4? Will they feel pressure to make it a more serious story or make Drake less of a genial killer?
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I think they tried to reign in Drake's disturbing quips in UC3. For one, snapping necks didn't result in him happily chirping, "THERE GOES YOUR NECK." It was an improvement, but yeah, the sheer body count in the Uncharted series feels weird next to Drake's happy-go-lucky personality, lol.

That being said, the Uncharted series is pulp adventure, a whole different genre from TLoU, with a whole different tone. I don't think they should feel compelled to model UC4 after TLoU.
 
I mentioned it in another thread, but I decided to follow the game up with Star Fox Adventures. I do not recommend this path to anyone.
 
TheRedSnifit said:
Twenty . . . hours? It took me nine hours less with my forty deaths, but alright. Regardless, I can't help but notice that you totally ignored my pointing out that you can also kill 900+ enemies in TLoU. Hmmmm . . .



Either you're exaggerating or you fired at a ton of walls. You remind me of those people who complain about running out of ammo in RE2.
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9 hours? I don't think you even tried to enjoy the game.
 
NoirVisage said:
Then why did you waltz your happy behind into a thread with the last of us in its title?
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Because it's not the OT and it's not like I can have an ignore list for phrases in threads. Idle browsing basically, I haven't really offered any input on the game in other threads and wouldn't have said anything here until I saw a view reflecting something similar enough to me to respond to.
 
Lysander518 said:
9 hours? I don't think you even tried to enjoy the game.
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11 hours. And that's plenty of time to enjoy the game. I beat it in 15, but that was because I was bullshitting a lot of the time

I'd really like to play it again, but the game had too many boring parts to replay. I think this was a one time play kind of game. I should probably check out the mp since it's apparently pretty good.
 
The Mango Sentinel said:
11 hours. And that's plenty of time to enjoy the game. I beat it in 15, but that was because I was bullshitting a lot of the time

I'd really like to play it again, but the game had too many boring parts to replay. I think this was a one time play kind of game. I should probably check out the mp since it's apparently pretty good.
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are you saying you don't want to move pallets around for ellie again
 
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