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The Last of Us Part II Preview Thread
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oh interesting. I guess the combat is a lot harder so it's necessary? The dog stuff with the scent trail seems pretty crucial anyway.
heres a choice quote from Eurogamer:
"The story will eventually speak for itself in the full context of the game, but as for the extended gameplay section we've played, it shows that in terms of gorgeous, terrifying spectacle and scrappy, panicked survival, The Last of Us is still unrivalled."
"The story will eventually speak for itself in the full context of the game, but as for the extended gameplay section we've played, it shows that in terms of gorgeous, terrifying spectacle and scrappy, panicked survival, The Last of Us is still unrivalled."
The Last of Us: Part II - Final Impressions
Eirik shares his likes and dislikes after taking one last look at Naughty Dog's upcoming post-apocalyptic adventure.
They were pretty gruesome in Part 1 as well. Especially if as Joel, you were caught by a boomer.
Yeah but they basically cut the black the moment it did get really gruesome. You obviously know the Bloater basically just rips Joel's jaw off, but you never really see it.
I'm sure the game will turn out great, especially since most of these people have completed the game, but game previews always skew positive.
I expected the AI to be pretty dumb. I just don't think current hardware allows for anything better.The Last of Us: Part II - Final Impressions
Eirik shares his likes and dislikes after taking one last look at Naughty Dog's upcoming post-apocalyptic adventure.www.gamereactor.eu
Huber in the easy allies preview is a bit down on the AI which can still be easily exploited
From Metro:
"The Last Of Us Part 2 isn't open world but there are large open-ended areas and the hospital is a particularly big one for combat. All you're trying to do is get to an elevator at the back of the ground floor but it's entirely up to you how you get there. You'll need to be stealthy whatever you do, but whether that means killing people in secret or simply avoiding them is your choice."
Exactly what I wanted to hear. Cannot wait.
"The Last Of Us Part 2 isn't open world but there are large open-ended areas and the hospital is a particularly big one for combat. All you're trying to do is get to an elevator at the back of the ground floor but it's entirely up to you how you get there. You'll need to be stealthy whatever you do, but whether that means killing people in secret or simply avoiding them is your choice."
Exactly what I wanted to hear. Cannot wait.
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The Last of Us 2’s beautiful world is filled with death and uses its human cost to make every choice count
Ellie’s journey asks no easy questions and makes you fight for answers
Easy Allies previews say that you can't turn it off even on the hardest difficulty available.
That is fantastic, wish they would have let us done that in the first game as well.
There was plently of moments in that game were I wanted to just stealth through but couldn't.
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Geek Preview: The Last Of Us Part II | Geek Culture
Get ready to immerse yourself back into the world of Ellie and Joel as we took The Last of Us Part II for a spin in a special preview.
geekculture.co
The Last of Us Part II impressions — Tracking Nora to a hospital
Sony has been dribbling out news about The Last of Us Part II, and today it has opened the door for reviewers to give their first impressions about a scene.
venturebeat.com
Oh, wow I wish you could turn at least enemy locations off and leave the scent trail on.
Ok so, some previews talk about better Ai, then few others said enemies are stupid and easy to exploit. I guess i need to hear from Era early impressions if the game really is easier than first one on harder difficulties.
This preview makes it sound like the best classic stealth (ie observing patrols, carefully timing your evasion) in yearsHere's ours. Our reviewer has finished the entire game on Survival (hardest available) difficulty and talks about how that affects gameplay for this preview. No spoilers.
We Cranked The Last of Us 2 to ‘Survivor’ Difficulty, It Left None - PowerUp!
Thanks to insanely early review code, I have a full Survivor playthrough of The Last of Us 2 under my belt. Naughty Dog's much anticipated much-delayed offering is done. It's dusted. I can lay down my DualShock and wonder what's causing these weird buttock pains. I'm guessing it was the hanging...powerup-gaming.com
Sure I guess. But not using something and not having the ability to use it are two different experiences.
How is the UI text size and the like? Some games have really tiny text which I guess is because developers are using big ass 4k tvs. Not everyone has that.
Sorry, if it's in the previews already but I dont wanna read any yet.
I played on normal in TLOU and will do the same in TLOU2, I ain't every good at video games so that will be hard enough for me. I didn't use that vision shit in the first game and won't in this game either, which I guess helps with difficulty. People said FF7:R was easy on normal and I still found it hard enough haha, I might on PS5 play at higher difficulty though for TLOU2 but besides that, the game sounds great!
Not sure if I'll do hard or survivor yet. Survivor is my preferred difficulty in the first game, but if it's significantly harder here I might just stick with hard.
Interesting that enemy encounters are really frequent. After Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy, I assumed ND was de-emphasizing combat in their games in relation to the other elements, but it sounds like it's the biggest core of the game here. I'm not surprised it's so dynamic, I'm replaying the first currently and that one has a lot fewer options and much smaller levels and I'm still finding encounters to play out completely differently compared to the last times I've gone through the game.
Interesting that enemy encounters are really frequent. After Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy, I assumed ND was de-emphasizing combat in their games in relation to the other elements, but it sounds like it's the biggest core of the game here. I'm not surprised it's so dynamic, I'm replaying the first currently and that one has a lot fewer options and much smaller levels and I'm still finding encounters to play out completely differently compared to the last times I've gone through the game.
Yeah i hope so. Gamereactor played on normal, so on that difficulty obviously won't be quite challenging.
It's just the listen mode on in Survival is bummer so far. Everything else sounds stellar.
He talks about it at 5:30.
Makes me wonder if it might be essential somewhere in the game
The Verge says one of the many accessibility options is being able to make the UI larger, you can also use the touchpad to zoom in on the screen like a smartphone.