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[GribbleGrunger]

 

[angelic]

There'll be cheap copies of this everywhere in a month, so fuck the FOMO tax, just to get Ellie a new hat DLC or something. Plus Doom Eternal finally clicked for me, so I wont bother with the launch. There ends the tale of someone's opinion no one need give a shit about.

 

[Hostile_18]

There was talk of other modes in one of the reviews I watched. I wonder what they are? A hoard mode seems likely, no?

I would have thought something like that would be saved for Factions, when that comes out? It would be good though

 

[GribbleGrunger]

I would have thought something like that would be saved for Factions, when that comes out? It would be good though

Maybe, but the review definitely mentioned 'modes' and I doubt they were talking about difficulty levels.

 

[Valentino]

Just been on a Naughty Dog video binge watching Uncharted documentaries and Last of Us behind the scenes and I honestly honestly can't fathom how they can get such shit talk over a game that's just (again) been a critical hit. I will never never doubt Naughty Dog. They honestly give you the low down on how they make their games. And even though they recite time and time again how they make games they want to play (i love that mantra), I always feel like their games were made for me. In specific. The way they talk about their craft and explain why this mechanic is like this or why this is linear and here's the reason why it's paced like that - it makes sense. It makes sense because I'm not creating the game so I have no idea and reason to say how something should be in the game. Or what should have been. Or how the story should go. And the way I'm talking about them now seems to really bother some people. Look how many pages and threads Naughty Dog games get........ it's very telling. And come next Naughty Dog game, there'll be more ND controversy threads........and more doubt in Naughty Dog......and more scepticism. And it'll turn out they've made another amazingly crafted game. And we'll do this all over again.

 

[Sygma]

Neil Druckman goes BRRRRRRR

Ahah, still gonna play part 2 tho for the sake of the production values / story alone, just not at release

 

[DForce]

The 90 from Edge Magazine made Last of Us Part II's Metacritic drop to 95.

 

[GymWolf]

Personally I didn't think it was shit at all, I just didn't think anything it did was better or even as good as other titles that were already out at the point of its launch. But the story, writing, and characters were top tier IMO. I feel like that's the take I've seen from the majority that didn't really praise the game. I think straight up saying its garbage is quite harsh across the board.

The opposite for me, i thought the shooting was some of the meatiest in any tps ever made (same for the melee) but with a predictable cliche story with boring or annoying characters

 

[Caio]

The 90 from Edge Magazine made Last of Us Part II's Metacritic drop to 95.

They waited the last minute to calculate the score in order to lower the Meta, with a 9 so that does not raise any suspicion. Good job Edge !

""
Edge Magazine
Jun 5, 2013
They gave 100/100 to The Last of Us :
""
Naughty Dog has delivered the most riveting, emotionally resonant story-driven epic of this console generation. At times it’s easy to feel like big-budget development has too much on the line to allow stubbornly artful ideas to flourish, but then a game like The Last Of Us emerges through the crumbled blacktop like a climbing vine, green as a burnished emerald.""

So they found the way to lower the score, even though Part II surpass the Original in every possible way.

 

[GymWolf]

This chick never played a dead space or from software games if she puke only with shamblers and clickers

 

[Evilms]

The 90 from Edge Magazine made Last of Us Part II's Metacritic drop to 95.

Metacritic is a dishonest system, a lot of reviews are missing from other sites.

In the meantime it's still 96/100 on opencritic with more scores : 99 vs 92 reviews.

It was the same thing with god of war from 95 to 94 while it's still 95 on opencritic.

 

[eyesabitdull]

I'm out here in asia and its coming out in 7 hours at midnight. IM SO HYPE.

No office work tomorrow, so ill be up all night playing

 

[GymWolf]

I’m charging my Pulse headphones I’ve had since they launched. The headphone app has a bunch of game profiles. Haven’t checked to see if they have TLoU2 on there or not.

I was hoping for more bonus content on PSN. So far I purchased the avatar set. There’s 3 themes out there too. Pre-Ordered the art book yesterday. Weekend plans are set.

Did you have to keep the app opened in the background to use the games profiles? Or you just load the profile in the headphones and that's it?

I never understood this, do i need to open the app everytime and loading the profile or when you do it the first time it remains loaded until you change it with another profile?

 

[Evilms]

They waited the last minute to calculate the score in order to lower the Meta, with a 9 so that does not raise any suspicion. Good job Edge !

""
Edge Magazine
Jun 5, 2013
They gave 100/100 to The Last of Us :
""
Naughty Dog has delivered the most riveting, emotionally resonant story-driven epic of this console generation. At times it’s easy to feel like big-budget development has too much on the line to allow stubbornly artful ideas to flourish, but then a game like The Last Of Us emerges through the crumbled blacktop like a climbing vine, green as a burnished emerald.""

So they found the way to lower the score, even though Part II surpass the Original in every possible way.

The funny thing is that the majority of testers agree that 2nd game is better than the 1st tlou in all aspects.

so 9/10 for the 2 whereas they gave 10/10 to the first one, that means everything : no coherence

 

[Caio]

The funny thing is that the majority of testers agree that 2nd game is better than the 1st tlou in all aspects.

so 9/10 for the 2 whereas they gave 10/10 to the first one, that means everything : no coherence

Yeah, it doesn't make sense at all.

 

[chamber79]

Does anyone know how much space the game needs, just wondering how much should i uninstall?

 

[toker818]

Am starting to really wonder if reviewers are paid off i mean rd2 97 got alot of hate by players, Mario odyssey 97 got shitted and the last of us will be super controversial

 

[PanzerAzel]

Does anyone know how much space the game needs, just wondering how much should i uninstall?

Preload was like 75 gigs or so. A lot.

 

[Woffls]

Am starting to really wonder if reviewers are paid off i mean rd2 97 got alot of hate by players, Mario odyssey 97 got shitted and the last of us will be super controversial

Not paid off, just able to abandon critical thinking in favour of rhetoric and meta.

 

[Mazojin]

Preload was like 75 gigs or so. A lot.

That's good to know. I was actually deciding whether or not to get an external hard drive for my PS4 since I'm pretty much out of memory right now.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Am starting to really wonder if reviewers are paid off i mean rd2 97 got alot of hate by players, Mario odyssey 97 got shitted and the last of us will be super controversial

Well you don’t have long to find out for yourself I suppose.

 

[Dodkrake]

Got my collectors edition today. Super busy day, can only play 2 or 3h today, but just in time for weekend!

 

[HotPocket69]

Preload was like 75 gigs or so. A lot.

And for physical copies, remember it’s on two discs like RDR2

 

[FranXico]

Skill UP has every right to his opinion but his opinion is not anymore honest than somebody who loves the game. Some people act like only the negative ones are honest.

I would like to know how does he feel about his review being used as a weapon by console warriors.
I imagine he doesn't feel flattered.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Did you have to keep the app opened in the background to use the games profiles? Or you just load the profile in the headphones and that's it?

I never understood this, do i need to open the app everytime and loading the profile or when you do it the first time it remains loaded until you change it with another profile?

It basically loads a layout to your headphones. Think of it like the app loads it’s settings to your headphones. You can close the app after you load the profile you want.

You have to download the app regardless. There’s nothing bad about it. You don’t have to keep it open because it’ll close the moment you start a game.

 

[Slothbeing1209]

The 90 from Edge Magazine made Last of Us Part II's Metacritic drop to 95.

Sad. I was hoping they make it to 97 .

 

[mejin]

The 90 from Edge Magazine made Last of Us Part II's Metacritic drop to 95.

TLoU Part 2 was robbed.

 

[Jon Neu]

RDR2 still king.

 

[ToadMan]

The 90 from Edge Magazine made Last of Us Part II's Metacritic drop to 95.

A 90 from edge?

That's like a 12/10 from most review holes - should've pushed the score up not down lol.

 

[THEAP99]

Please lord don’t let this drop down past 95

 

[Swadedtx]

Why does the movement look the exact same where you crouch and can move backwards? I could excuse it for last gen but the gameplay looks garbage and I bet the AI is trash. I bet these reviews are just sjw reviews, I have a feeling this isn't a Terminator, Aliens, or X-men with great powerful iconic women. Instead it will be like the previous Star Wars trilogy "dont touch my hand" (because I'm a woman) it'll be a batwoman story that chooses to just throw relationship crap out to send a message instead of making a good story.

Just a warning that this game doesn't actually look good. The fact that they waisted time making sure blind people can play it makes me feel like you can beat this game in 2 days with no problem.

 

[Evilms]

It's the 7/10 of ign japan that must have lowered the score to 95/100 and not the 9/10 of EDGE after metacritic remains crap they don't list all the tests

 

[GymWolf]

It basically loads a layout to your headphones. Think of it like the app loads it’s settings to your headphones. You can close the app after you load the profile you want.

You have to download the app regardless. There’s nothing bad about it. You don’t have to keep it open because it’ll close the moment you start a game.

i already have the app, i just load the profile for a game every time i use the headphones, but it seems not necessary, thanks for the advice.

 

[Bryank75]

It was getting too close to the scores they reserve only for Zelda, Mario and Rockstar games.... I guess.

 

[saintjules]

1 day to go

 

[Balducci30]

Please lord don’t let this drop down past 95

why do people care this much about the Metacritic score again?

 

[Evilms]

rockstar games deserve their scores

the proof GTA V is the BGE, 7 years old and still in the charts, still played online, more than 130 million sales

the same can't be said for nintendo games, which are good but overrated like always.

 

[TTOOLL]

I just wanna see users' score. It's gonna be fun.

 

[saintjules]

why do people care this much about the Metacritic score again?

I always looked at that as a flawed system, specifically the user ratings. Putting a game to 0 just because you feel a certain way about it gives false readings and it doesn't help the reader understand your true, pros and cons about it.

 

[Clear]

The funny thing is that the majority of testers agree that 2nd game is better than the 1st tlou in all aspects.

so 9/10 for the 2 whereas they gave 10/10 to the first one, that means everything : no coherence

Gotta accept that scoring is always relative to current expectations at the time of review, not absolute quality.

There is no conceivable way that it can work otherwise without every game's review score being continuously reevaluated and revised.

 

[Woggleman]

My headphones are in route to my house and should be here today so that is good news.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Please lord don’t let this drop down past 95

 

[Hobbygaming]

RDR2 still king.

TLOU Part II seems like more of my kind of game but both are great and I am glad to be able to play both

 

[Hobbygaming]

I just wanna see users' score. It's gonna be fun.

It's going to be filled with "SJW huehuehue" 0/10

 

[GribbleGrunger]

Eurogamer has a video out of a playthrough of TLOU2. Is it released in some regions? I very much doubt Sony or Neil would appreciate the first part of the game being available to see. I'm not looking at it!

 

[Valentino]

How does 2 discs work? I've never experienced this. So when it arrives tomorrow there will be 2 discs in the box and what? Do I have to change the disc half way through the game? So confused

 

[FranXico]

Metacritic is a dishonest system, a lot of reviews are missing from other sites.

In the meantime it's still 96/100 on opencritic with more scores : 99 vs 92 reviews.

It was the same thing with god of war from 95 to 94 while it's still 95 on opencritic.

Metacritic uses a weighed average, so it's not a surprise that 90 from Edge lowered it there. I have been using OpenCritic instead for ages.

 

[GribbleGrunger]

How does 2 discs work? I've never experienced this. So when it arrives tomorrow there will be 2 discs in the box and what? Do I have to change the disc half way through the game? So confused

No, you'll install the game on your Drive.

 

[saintjules]

How does 2 discs work? I've never experienced this. So when it arrives tomorrow there will be 2 discs in the box and what? Do I have to change the disc half way through the game? So confused

You install the 'Data' disc first and then use the Game Disc after installation. You won't need the Data disc again unless you delete the data off the HDD and have plans to reinstall in the future.

 

[Jayjayhd34]

Eurogamer has a video out of a playthrough of TLOU2. Is it released in some regions? I very much doubt Sony or Neil would appreciate the first part of the game being available to see. I'm not looking at it!

Yes its released in Australia over hour ago.