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You Know Ellie, We Really Are [The Last of Us Part I + II]
Zavian
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Last of Us Remake has been released for PS5
https://youtu.be/hsA1opqN_ZU
The Last of Us Part II is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. Set five years after the events of The Last of Us (2013), players enter the role of 19-year-old Ellie, who comes into conflict with a mysterious cult in a post-apocalyptic United States. The game contains survival horror elements and is played from the third-person perspective. Players can use firearms, improvised weapons, and stealth to defend against enemies and cannibalistic creatures infected by a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus.
Accessibility Options: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/the-last-of-us-part-ii-ps4/accessibility/
Reviews: https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/the-last-of-us-part-ii
Release Date: June 19th, 2020
Recommendations:
- Use a wireless headset if available as sound plays a key role. If using Platinum or Gold headsets, Naughty Dog recommends using the Uncharted 4 preset.
- Difficulty does not affect trophies!
*Mushroom People may not be friendly
USE SPOILER TAGS FOR SPOILERS!
https://youtu.be/hsA1opqN_ZUThe Last of Us Part II is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. Set five years after the events of The Last of Us (2013), players enter the role of 19-year-old Ellie, who comes into conflict with a mysterious cult in a post-apocalyptic United States. The game contains survival horror elements and is played from the third-person perspective. Players can use firearms, improvised weapons, and stealth to defend against enemies and cannibalistic creatures infected by a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus.
Accessibility Options: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/the-last-of-us-part-ii-ps4/accessibility/
Reviews: https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/the-last-of-us-part-ii
Release Date: June 19th, 2020
Recommendations:
- Use a wireless headset if available as sound plays a key role. If using Platinum or Gold headsets, Naughty Dog recommends using the Uncharted 4 preset.
- Difficulty does not affect trophies!
*Mushroom People may not be friendly
USE SPOILER TAGS FOR SPOILERS!
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I mean sure if you wanted the ending to go the anti-genre route like DAWN OF THE DEAD or THE MIST. I feel like there was no way this story wasn't going to get a second act after the first one.
However, I can not imagine they aren't going to give us more Tales In The Mushroom Kingdom; it's a fertile world they've got set up.
EDIT: Holy hell. The graphical fidelity is off the charts.
I feel like this is something I would much rather watch somebody play than actually play myself.
That’s the conclusion I came to and just accepted I did t like playing the actual game. Story, writing, characters—all great! But everything felt awkward and a lot of the stealth sequences felt padded and unnecessary.
I’m watching an LP of the first game, trying to get through quickly so I can start part 2. But I’m perfectly happy to experience the game this way.
I did not realize the previous game was seven years ago. Is that right?
As is Naughty Dog tradition, I feel like my desire to hunt down collectibles is constantly at odds with narrative pressure, but at least I found the TURN THE FUCKING HINTS OFF option.
And yeah, the accessibility stuff is incredible.
Plan was to play through Left Behind (bought it when it originally came out but never played it), but I'm not sure if I can hold off on zooming down to pick up the 2nd one, especially given all the massive spoiler warnings I'm seeing here and there.
PSN:Furlion
Probably for the best, as ND trophies are historically dogshit.
But it may actually be something they plan to implement once the multiplayer portion is released, assuming a multiplayer component is still in development.
Also: (this is not a spoiler, but spoiler speculation)
I guess the bigger impacts really don't occur in gameplay so there's no reason to not watch the first one; I feel though - and I have no data to back this up - that the story means more having experienced it for myself.
Like incredibly disingenuous false advertising.
I wonder if they will have a functioning monorail.
How so? I feel like the plot was pretty straight forward.
I actually take that back. Rewatched the story trailer and it makes it seem like the comment is made by one person but its totally different. It's just out of context like all movie trailers.
I am roughly at the point
How much longer do I have in the game?
The final act.
EDIT: Shit my bad. You've got another act in there. You've got about 1/3 of the game left.
This spoiler refers to TLOU2
First of all this group marches through all of Washington, Idaho, and into Wyoming in a post apocalyptic world, in winter, just to kill one guy.
Did you know that the original game was supposed to have Tess follow after Joel and Ellie after a supposed betrayal and Tess was hunting them down for revenge? But the team sidelined that plot because they thought it was to ridiculous and dumb for someone to waste so much time and energy on a petty revenge quest against one person in this kind of world.
So Joel saves Abby's life, and she tortures him anyway. A girl busts in and they beat her, pin her to the ground making her face him so she can watch Abby deliver the final blow and bash Joel's head in. And then.... for "reasons" they inexplicably leave Tommy and Ellie alive. The only two people that even knew they were there, and they left them alive. They knew that Joel lived in a large, heavily populated, heavily armed, fully functioning has goddamn electricity city that is just right down the hill, and they let the only two witnesses live after traveling all that way just to brutally murder someone.
You can obviously assume they are firefly leftovers, so their motives are clear. So I don't care about Abby's backstory at this point, her cartoonishly evil introduction has wasted that opportunity.
What's more is her laughable gall to say "I let you live and you squandered it!" when she confronts them at the theater. Like, yes. You let Joel's brother and this girl live, after brutally murdering someone in front of her. WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
Did none of these people who were wearing uniforms with the name of where they come from on them even stop and think that it's going to be obvious who would come from out of nowhere and single out Joel specifically to kill? Did they really think his own brother wouldn't know? That Ellie wouldn't know? That no one would come after them?
The entire setup is just all so ridiculous. And such a waste.
I think they would have been much better off putting Joel's death into a different scenario. One a little further into the game so that we can have more time with Abby. Tease out a little bit of her back story here and there. Make her meeting with Joel and his group a by chance occurrence.
Because the best outcome for the audience I believe, is if you engineer it so that your players realize that Abby's father was the surgeon Joel killed at the same moment that Abby realizes who Joel is. Have Abby and Joel alone together in that moment and let her murder of him be an on the spot in the heat of the moment kind of thing, where she gives into anger and revenge.
It would also make Ellie's revenge killings more impactful if the people in Abby's group she kills weren't actually complicit in Joel's death the way they are in the beginning of this game.
I honestly don't know how I'm going to feel about 2. I was hella late to the party on the first game and like I said, kinda bounced off it, so I don't have the same connection to it a lot of people do. The rumors I've been hearing is that this game seems to be an absolute downer in the worst kinda way. But I'm also not that familiar with the game and characters so I dunno if I'll be as disappointed as a lot of other people seem to be.
And yeah I've heard the story in this one might get a little funky but I'm enjoying the setup so far.
I think I remember that most people agreed that the first one the harder difficulty gave you a better experience while still keeping things fair enough.
I'm playing on Hard, and it feels substantially more difficult than the equivalent in TLOU1. Human Enemy AI/Tactics are very dynamic and they pretty much never miss a shot, which coupled with very few supplies means that fights can take a rapid turn for the worse.
That said, you can change difficulty whenever, though I'm not sure if that can adjust the appearance of supplies on the fly.
I wish the game had done better by her. It's such a wasted opportunity.
Have you already beaten the game?
Yes. But what I'm mainly referring to happens within the first couple of hours of the game. It's a really dumb way to handle her character and I'm pretty annoyed by it.
PSN: Bizazedo
CFN: Bizazedo (I don't think I suck, add me).
Also our copy arrived on schedule, ahead of the delayed schedule, horray!
...Lady Raven gotta continue working though.
He got about to the halfway mark and was just fed up with the game and done, and was just rushing through to finish just to finish it. He was already not enjoying it.