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You haven't heard [The Last of Us]
manwiththemachinegun
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No topic on this for the past 15 pages or so, so unless there's another official thread, I figured I'd make a new one.
Inspired by City of Thieves, I Am Legend, No Country for Old Men, The Road, and The Walking Dead, the Last of Us is a PS3 exclusive, post apocalyptic action adventure game. A cross species outbreak of Cordyceps Unilateralis, a very real and nasty parasitic fungus, has left the world in ruins. Humanity has been reduced to a handful of survivors, either living in the lawless, infected wasteland or within small, military policed communities. Joel, a grizzled survivor and Ellie, a teen forced to grow up quickly, must travel across America in search of... something. Many story details are still unknown at this point. What you should know.
A focus on the emotional aftermath of the end of civilized society, much like the Telltale Walking Dead game.
A gritty and appropriate use of violence (no Han Solo quips after slaughtering a pack if bandits).
Enemy AI that reacts to the player.
Holy cow this game looks good.
Official release date is June 14th, 2013
New Story Trailer from 2012 Spike VGA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGY9uXAoI-8
First Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLGxubfC1Ik
Gameplay trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZYkj0glnqs
Pre-Order stuff:
Sights and Sounds Pack - Pre-Order Anywhere
The official soundtrack of the game
A PS3 dynamic theme featuring the cover art
Two avatars for your PSN profile – Winter Joel and Winter Ellie
Survival Pack - Pre-Order at GameStop (will get Sights and Sounds Pack as well)
Bonus experience points for multiplayer
A multiplayer melee attack booster
Some extra starting in-game cash
Special customizable character items for multiplayer
Two special bonus skins for Joel and Ellie which will be unlocked after your complete the single player campaign
Inspired by City of Thieves, I Am Legend, No Country for Old Men, The Road, and The Walking Dead, the Last of Us is a PS3 exclusive, post apocalyptic action adventure game. A cross species outbreak of Cordyceps Unilateralis, a very real and nasty parasitic fungus, has left the world in ruins. Humanity has been reduced to a handful of survivors, either living in the lawless, infected wasteland or within small, military policed communities. Joel, a grizzled survivor and Ellie, a teen forced to grow up quickly, must travel across America in search of... something. Many story details are still unknown at this point. What you should know.
A focus on the emotional aftermath of the end of civilized society, much like the Telltale Walking Dead game.
A gritty and appropriate use of violence (no Han Solo quips after slaughtering a pack if bandits).
Enemy AI that reacts to the player.
Holy cow this game looks good.
Official release date is June 14th, 2013
New Story Trailer from 2012 Spike VGA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGY9uXAoI-8First Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLGxubfC1IkGameplay trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZYkj0glnqsPre-Order stuff:
Sights and Sounds Pack - Pre-Order Anywhere
The official soundtrack of the game
A PS3 dynamic theme featuring the cover art
Two avatars for your PSN profile – Winter Joel and Winter Ellie
Survival Pack - Pre-Order at GameStop (will get Sights and Sounds Pack as well)
Bonus experience points for multiplayer
A multiplayer melee attack booster
Some extra starting in-game cash
Special customizable character items for multiplayer
Two special bonus skins for Joel and Ellie which will be unlocked after your complete the single player campaign
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That kind of stealth announces that there will be Multiplayer, but they haven't described it yet and don't intend to right away.
Anyway, if early reaction is anything to go by, this may very well be a GOTY 2013 contender. After the success of The Walking Dead game, I can't wait.
A little disappointed to hear about multiplayer in the game, though.
Looking forward to seeing how the world deals with fungus zombies.
Considering Uncharted's MP, at least it won't be terrible.
No matter how good this game may or may not be, I can see one area where The Walking Dead has a leg up is choice. If I didn't have a say in the proceedings I wouldn't be anywhere near as involved in The Walking Dead's story.
On the other hand ND is very good at humanizing their characters through getting great voice actors and mo-cap, and their moment-to-moment dialogue is usually pretty good too.
Basically, I'm not expecting the same sort of connection, but that doesn't mean the character won't be excellent. I love the scene with Bill where she just starts wailing on him and threatening him, and Joel has to calm her down and tell her to shut up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HA2cuwYSIqs
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I thought it was just dudes. But nope, it's got scary fungal zombies in it. So that's terrifying.
I'm glad Naughty Dog had the same thought.
You know what's better? The infection in the game is based entirely on a real fungus that attacks insects, primarily ants. It can control them to climb the stem of a plant and then bursts through their skull to release its spores ready to infect another insect. And that infects humans in the world of The Last of Us. CANNOT WAIT.
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Boom!
joke question right?
no, controlling the behaviour of an ant is different and less difficult than controlling the behaviour of a human.
Would the 'eating away at the insides' bit be within the realms of possibility though? And it wouldn't need to control the person. Just be like in the game where it would drive the person insane.
Can't rabies do that to humans? Hell, can't the flu in untreated and extreme cases?
Coulda sworn I had read somewhere about a plant that did something similar as a way to ward off predators. Humans victims complained of massive headaches and blackouts.
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Fallout 4, coming soon!
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Cordyceps at least is keyed to particular species. The video shows it fucking up a whole bunch of different insects, but I don't think there's anything to suggest a version that fucks with humans is real so much as that the idea of it is scary as fuck and works for an apocalyptic scenario.
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There are, like, a bajilion human parasites, yes.
Because you also need to buy Ni No Kuni?
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like alcohol?
Mostly the same as before, some new examples of some, very, very brutal execution moves though. Including a rather sickening sloooow decapitation. Seriously, look at that guy's face.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/xoeccq/the-last-of-us-development-series-episode-2--wasteland-beautiful
I was also really happy to learn the main female character is voiced by Annie Wersching AKA Renee Walker on 24.