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The Last of Us 2 Is 'Hands Down the Most Ambitious Game Naughty Dog Has Ever Made' - 'You Are Not Ready For TLOU 2' Says Troy Baker.
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IbizaPocholo
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The Last Of Us’ Joel Is More Villain Than Hero, Says Troy Baker
Whatever he is, he's the best.
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Punished Miku
Gold Member
Seems like the obvious path forward for Naughty Dog after Uncharted 4 is to make more levels like that giant mud level with the car. Basically they'll just keep scaling up their level of quality until they hit open world for the first time. Probably similar to RDR2.
joe_zazen
Member
So over games that try to give me the feels while expecting me to murder thousands of realistic humans. Maybe they’ll have a toggle for cartoon gfx for people like me who get physically ill seeing a ball peen hammer busting up a human limb with super realistic graphics.
maybe the game can be used to test for psychopathy, like if you are really into this torture porn, maybe you shouldn't be around other humans irl.
maybe the game can be used to test for psychopathy, like if you are really into this torture porn, maybe you shouldn't be around other humans irl.
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Member
The first game was trash. There's nothing in the gameplay mechanics that's worthy of all the praise this game got back in the day. The story was somewhat enjoyable. This and GTA4 were the most overrated, overhyped games i had ever played.
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SLoWMoTIoN
Unconfirmed Member
Can't wait to play the greatest lesbian walking simulator game of all time
featuring time travel, multiple rape, death after death, purgatory, witches and despair!
SlashBringingHasher
Banned
more like movie
hipster hollywood rejects
hipster hollywood rejects
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
If someone makes the OT for this game can it be called : "The Last of Us part II |OT| It seems like teen spirit"?
MightySquirrel
Banned
"this game is so good it will get you totally woke"
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Nothing screams more hipster than hating everything popular.
joe_zazen
Member
I dont see hate as a hipster thing it. beards and tight pants, sure.
The most hateful demo i see is 60+ year old men who have drinking problems. Those fuckers are hateful.
Not sure where the its a "movie" comes from, I must have played something different. I could see something like Uncharted being a game play by numbers but I felt like their quite a bit game play in there, and the Clickers made to me what is kind of boring about stealth kind of bearable. I think the criticism of being a little too cute i.e. woke is not far off the mark though - I feel like that is the one thing that turns me off from wanting to get it. (the game play of 2 looks outstanding though, nothing even close to that by any other developer)
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Those are the NUhipsters.
Original was, they like a thing, thing gets popular, no longer like thing. Hate on anything “popular and cool.”
joe_zazen
Member
Good point.
Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
I hope they commit to the bit with the lesbianism and have actual sex scenes, complete with nudity.
joe_zazen
Member
It is a linear narrative that the player has zero effect upon, and the narrative is what carries the game. Nobody would care about tlou if it wasn't for the story.
There aren't many games where watching a youtube cutscene compilation will give you the gist of a game, but tlou is one of them.
mejin
Member
lol
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I can't imagine what this will look like on the PS5.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
You are in the minority though. Even I have a PS4.
rəddəM
Member
Me too. Everytime I boot a ND game my OG CUH-1000 PS4 goes into Mirage 2000 mode to let me know some serious sauce is being processed and rendered.
Every other game is ok levels of fan noise.
rəddəM
Member
The game is probably 95% done by know and it was announced and demonstrated running on PS4 Pro so yeah... It's a PS4 exclusive until PS5 releases.
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
Players don't construct narratives. Because anything meaningful can only be something that was already built before-hand by the developers.
So called "Emergent gameplay" is not narrative. Its just a sequence of events that only becomes an anecdote in its retelling. Dialogue isn't being created. NPC characterization that motivates the character and gives meaning to the story isn't created.
At best you get branch points between a limited series of pre-scripted outcomes. Which makes the game no less linear or constrained by the true authorial voice of the creator. Its just gives the player the illusion of control, and the more possibilities feeding into it, the less convincing the illusion.
Mass Effect 3's ending being the classic reality-check. Players expected some infinite variety of outcome when it was inevitably not going to be possible without blowing the entirety of the budget building dozens of variant endings.
The point is that you may as well put all your effort into telling the best story you can tell. Because frankly, not all paths and endings are going to be equally good, and most players aren't going to bother replaying to see every alternative - making them actually subtractive to their experience.
Herr Edgy
Member
Clear
Game choices can be no more nor no less real than real life choices. Consequences are more often than not out of your control. I'd rather have a game with dead ends to explore than have a game with complete linearity. I'd rather have a character comment on a quest choice I took than just follow its linear script. You are insinuating that anything that features player agency is not worth having since it's 'not real'/scripted as well.
I believe that games don't require the player to make meaningful choices when it comes to story. I also believe, however, that game's narratives are more than just a piece of script on a paper or a sequence of cut scenes. Xenoblade, one my favorite games, features 10 hours of cut scenes. Its story is fundamentally linear. The area progression is fundamentally linear. Still, it's one of the most immersive experiences I've had due to the game being constructed in a way that gives room for thought. No matter if it's for a side quest, a world building element or side character's story; it gives me the ability to experience and learn by myself. No one forces me to make the connection that this NPC I met in hour 30 of the game is related to that other NPC I met 3 hours into the game. Their stories or characterizations don't matter in the long run, yet me figuring out their connection based on their dialogue and discovering the relationships, routines and lifes of NPCs helps me establish a connection to the game's world and narrative.
Watching Xenoblade's cut scenes will give you most of the game's story. It will not give you much on its _world_, however.
The Last of Us does none of these things. And that's why I'm not excited.
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GermanZepp
Member
I hope the game has good level desing, not so linear not so open just the perfect amount.
Eiknarf
Banned
One of the actions that drew me in while playing the original was when Joel would grab an antagonist from behind the head and smash their faces into a wall.
Women are exactly the same as men now, so will Ellie be doing those cool moves? Is a 19 year old female equally as strong as a 45ish year old man ?
Women are exactly the same as men now, so will Ellie be doing those cool moves? Is a 19 year old female equally as strong as a 45ish year old man ?
Iced Arcade
Member
Beyond hyped for this game but honesty I'm kind of debating waiting to first experience the game on next gen. The first lay through is always the best.
bitbydeath
Member
Yeah, that’s going to be a dilemma for a lot of games next year.
Slings and Arrows
Banned
You beat me to it and this never gets old. Gears 2 was the worst in the series as well
Ozymandias013
Banned
Maybe it could be,but what someone who works on it want him to say,of course he will hype his own game.The game will be good,but I'm never impressed when someone in any different industry hypes his own project.
Airbus Jr
Banned
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
And I'll fear no evil because I'm blind to it all
And my mind and my gun they comfort me
Because I know I'll kill my enemies when they come
Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell on this earth forevermore
Still, I walk beside the still waters, and they restore my soul
But I can't walk on the path of the right because I'm wrong
Well, I came upon a man at the top of a hill
Called himself the saviour of the human race
Said he come to save the world from destruction and pain
But I said, "how can you save the world from itself?"
[Outro]
'Cause I walk through the valley of the shadow of death!
And I'll fear no evil because I'm blind!
And I walk beside the still waters, and they restore my soul
But I know when I die my soul is damned
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
People get so salty whenever TLOU is mentioned.
People consider it one of the best games ever made.
It's one of the most anticipated games this generation.
If the gameplay was so bad, then the multiplayer would have been dead along time ago, but people still enjoy playing it today.
People hating it isn't going to change this. Just makes you guys look salty lol.
People consider it one of the best games ever made.
It's one of the most anticipated games this generation.
If the gameplay was so bad, then the multiplayer would have been dead along time ago, but people still enjoy playing it today.
People hating it isn't going to change this. Just makes you guys look salty lol.
G-Bus
Banned
Never beat the first. Tried a few times because I keep reading how awsome the game was and the whole time it felt average.
Only thing im excited about with this was how good it looked. That animation. So good. Hope they made it work. The backlash if it's downgraded will be something.
Lesbians got you lot this salty. It's like the opposite of resetera at times here. It's a bit sad. That attitude will hold this forum back.
Only thing im excited about with this was how good it looked. That animation. So good. Hope they made it work. The backlash if it's downgraded will be something.
Lesbians got you lot this salty. It's like the opposite of resetera at times here. It's a bit sad. That attitude will hold this forum back.
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Constant Flux
Member
I expect it to be a solid title, but I think I'll be ready for it.
Not that I even beat the first or play most single player games to begin with...
Not that I even beat the first or play most single player games to begin with...
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