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The Last of Us Part II - Review Thread
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I literally couldn't sleep until 5AM and then I woke up at 8:45AM for this.
Horrific, incurable disease has been occurring to humanity fairly consistently pre-1950. In Africa, millions still die from malaria and TB.
The human race did not breakdown in these time periods.
Guess I shouldn't judge it without playing it but the whole idea of "remember when that dog was alive and its brains weren't bashed in, wasn't that great" sound painfully emotionally manipulative and bad.This is so on the nose it's crazy the game actually does it.
Hey, I don't want to get into arguments right now because I really don't care, but I don't like it when games make me feel bad. If you do, then great! Hope you enjoy this one. I know I won't, so there's no need for you to ask me to chill. I know it's just a game. I also know it's not a game for me.
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yup i agree with your post. verdict is still out so i don't want to come to any conclusions but cp2077 is one of those games where ridiculous levels of hype and expectations have been created over the years that it could easily crumble underneath it all. hoping cdpr deliver.
These reviews almost make me feel like it's a mistake not launching Ghost of Tsushima on PS5 lol. Like no way it'll compare to this.
I definitely did my share of exploration, but there were points I got caught up in the game and pushed ahead pretty quickly. Fully exploring everything will easily push a few more hours onto it
Maybe play the game rather than let one particular outlet tell you how to feel?
Sorry, did those diseases wipe out the majority of the population or turn them into mindless killers?
This is so on the nose it's crazy the game actually does it.
This reminds me of how I shot that doctor in the foot in the first game and everyone in the room acted like I slaughtered him in cold blood. It always felt a bit weird that the game encouraged you to make choices but ultimately they'd just run counter to the characters, creating a sort of dissonance.
But yeah I get that this game is probably an artistic masterpiece but it just ain't for me. If folks are getting mad at reviewers having similar reactions then they're kinda missing the point of what reviews are.
This is a much better description of your thoughts and I respect your opinions, although I certainly disagree with you on the gameplay part (although personally, I just don't care for uncharted). I advise you edit your previous post to avoid people thinking you're trolling, because you do share some good thoughts here.
Definitely. Mental health is taking an absolute battering worldwide right now, so putting off a game like this to a future date is totally reasonable. I've had Junji Ito's new work No Longer Human sitting on my shelf for 5 months, but 3 pages alone was so depressing/traumatic I had to put it down until I was in a better headspace (probably next year).
It could be that, but I think it's more likely they simply feel the violence is earned. Naughty Dog will not have tried to push this envelope without making sure it's meaningfully resonant and appropriate. That's not their (or at least Druckmann's) style.
I actually didn't think it would review this well tbh. After all the expectations it has to match, I felt like it was unreasonable to expect generation-toping scores. I think that alone says a lot. It's also equal for NDs top reviewed game currently (will likely go up or down 1 point though).
Delicious wonderful tears. The sales figures will probably take them over the edge
Kotaku and Polygon aren't factored in yet, though, and they're pretty negative.
... Yes, the Black Plague wiped out the majority of the population of Europe.
That criticism and scene was really interesting and I am 100% certain it's something ND will have considered very carefully in the sequel. The potential for "ludonarrative resonance vs dissonance" and how you can navigate/avoid that. This game seems almost two generations ahead of the original in terms of simulation and ambition, so it'll be interesting to see how they play it out. Totally fair that it's not for everyone, though.
Every review I've read said that the enemy AI is incredible. Where does that criticism come from?
Woohoo i hit the 95 on the mark.
My bodyyyyy is absolutely ready
not sure about my mind being ready lol but i can't fucking wait.
At this point I don't give a shit at the scores. The quotes out there have me hyped. This game is going to have LTTP threads for years just like the previous Masterpiece. My Goodness.
My bodyyyyy is absolutely ready
not sure about my mind being ready lol but i can't fucking wait.
At this point I don't give a shit at the scores. The quotes out there have me hyped. This game is going to have LTTP threads for years just like the previous Masterpiece. My Goodness.
I haven't really been interested in this game (despite loving the first) but those are some impressive scores. If it's Metacritic 96% after 76 reviews it's not likely to move more than a percent or two in each direction now, right?
Indeed, especially if the technical ambition causes issues on platforms like XBO.
Well, we'll find out in a few months, right!
At least both will get ps5 upgrades and bolster the launch line up. Ps4 didn't have the livery of God of war ascension, TLOU, beyond 2 souls, Ratchet into the nexus and GT6 getting ported.
I assume this is sarcastic, since they don't have scores?
This is so on the nose it's crazy the game actually does it.
People have a habit of morally glorifying heroes and protagonists who otherwise do abhorrent shit, or at least wanting to, eg Arthur Morgan and Drake are still good guys despite murdering countless people (including dozens of police officers in RDR2), and Daenerys was noble because she freed slaves, even though she was also a mass murdering Western coloniser.
Point is, given TLOU2 presents murder in an often times avoidable way (I believe you can go through the entire game without killing a single dog yourself), it makes sense that in cutscenes that choice may be taken away, because narratively the game is still trying to portray the ramifications and horror of Ellie's actions, violence and lust for revenge, and the limits to which they'll take her. In other words, she's not really a good guy, and these sorts of scenes are presumably designed to hammer that home or remind the player of that moral vacuum.
Unless I am reading it wrong, doesn't this basically say you kill a dog attacking you (Ellie) and then later on you play as the owner of the dog (someone from enemy faction)?
Probably the banned source.
The AI is in the same spot as other things - it's really customisable. "Very Light" is dumb as a box of rocks, but Moderate and above is a reasonable challenge
One of very few games where the high score was pretty much "expected". ND always deliver. Really can't wait to get stuck in to this next week.
And breathe! So relieved to see it score highly across the board. Going to be hard to finish Xenoblade with this waiting there to be played.
Holy fuck. Is that for real? It already surpassed the first game's number of perfect scores (which was insane on its own)?