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The Last of Us Part II - Review Thread
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If that's your takeaway you're looking past almost everything positive to let this concern you. Cancel the preorder; you don't need to play this.
Yeah the game is preloaded on my PS4, found it on the dashboard today.
There's a group of assclowns, that have been down voting and spreading misinformation about the game for the past month or so. That's why all PlayStation channels disabled the like/dislike button.
With every 10/10 review and every million sold they lose more of what little voice they had. So as of now they are left with down voting anything positive about the game, that's their last grasp to try and alter the trajectory of the game of the generation. After the game is released next week, you'll hear virtually nothing from them again . Complete failure
No, that was his message. I was talking about a much longer period, on the second short paragraph in particular. Deus Ex, Metal Gear Solid, Soul Reaver, Monkey's Island... Those games and others, as you know, broke a barrier that's still being pushed today. We (or the oldest among us) remember those, as new generations will surely come to cherish those who followed in their steps.
But... you play Ellie's story, you're not creating an avatar following a template storyline with choices based on your morality.
I think it's interesting the game is so intense it gets to people and question whether they want to keep playing through that story or not. It's bold and risky, tbh.
I'd defend a dog doing those acts over a human doing the same any day. Animals are precious, innocent creatures that act on instinct. I don't value them over human life, but I absolutely hold them to a completely different standard.
This has been discussed a lot. The gist is this:
- the game has upbeat and positive aspects, too. Naughty Dog are masters of pacing and wouldn't make something 100%, wall-to-wall traumatic
- but clearly it's a HIGHLY emotive and impactful game which will weigh heavily and features a lot of violence
- most reviews say the effect and violence is well written, earned and justified; a minority say it isn't (that's not to say their perspective isn't valid)
- but if you're in a place where you do not need mental strain or emotional challenge, do not play the game right now
I'm just here to find out the length, then I'm putting the thread on ignore. Can someone help me out?
TLOU was never about identification, I think people are heavily confused about this. It was always a playable story, and a fateful one at that. This is not an RPG.
People can absolutely be extremely weird in their priorities about dogs in real life.
I hope the PS5 will play this on launch (If this will be BC capable) as that would get me to actually buy a PS5 then. Congrats on the scores and happy gaming to all those that will play it shortly!
Having my interest peaked and looked at some youtuube break downs of the movie....wow yeah its on my list but Ill see if I ever get to it...
I was one of those people who thought the leaks and "outrage" would affect reviews but I'm glad to see it hasn't. These are some amazing scores, higher than I predicted. Good stuff!
I see the 'download' option in my library, but when I click on it, nothing happens for me yet
Reviews are exactly as expected.
I highly doubt this will top Uncharted 4 for me (Naughty Dog's true GOAT), but I'm still pretty excited despite me not loving the original one as much as most people did.
I highly doubt this will top Uncharted 4 for me (Naughty Dog's true GOAT), but I'm still pretty excited despite me not loving the original one as much as most people did.
Yikes... You are literately justifying poor working conditions and crunch because it got good reviews... I am just baffled someone can be so callous to say that seriously and then to be dismissive towards the devs themselves...
No game, film, TV show etc, no matter how good is worth poor working conditions and terrible crunch, that is failing of the management and shouldn't be treated as good or something to "repeatedly achieve". This could have been made without it and been just as good.
I am genuinely disgusted by the post.
Digital Foundry already did a test when the preview embargo ended, it's locked at 30 in both consoles.
I love Waypoint, I really do, Rob in particular, but similar to RDR2 they planted their flag against this game a long time ago if you listen regularly.
the first 3 hours have leaked online, now that you've seen the reviews if you want to avoid spoilers, turn your filters back on and dip till next week.
Thanks. Gotta check that out on the 4k tv but it looks very good. Foliage density and texture quality were my main concerns as well as performance but it seems the base ps4 is good enough in every way, pretty much untouched. I guess resolution and better performance maybe is the only thing that varies in the end
Btw, any review with new footage? Any combat/animation breakdown?
Oh my bad. I totally didn't watch a video of 3 stalk and publicly lynch a guy with a shotgun on camera. Silly mistake.
Cool that both Blessing and Steimer on Kinda Funny said they didn't want a TLOU sequel and felt it simply wasn't needed, but after having played it they now feel it not only completely earns its existence, but is one of the best sequels they've ever experienced.
No matter what the intent was, people can feel how they feel when they play the game. It's not a particular fault with the game or the player, just that there is always going to be some dissonance between gameplay and narrative.
They say it's very solid 30 on both. Slight dips now and then, but not at all noteworthy.
That is music to my ears because I definitely fell in that category. The first is obviously <---- one of my favorite games ever and really felt like a self contained story. The ending was just so *chefs kiss* that I didn't think anything else needed to be said.
But nonetheless, I'm excited to hear people who had those reservations changed their mind.
I was relieved when Doom Eternal ended. But it's my GOTY and in my top 5 of the generation. It's not necessarily a bad thing.
Some games can be exhausting, in a good way. But you're relieved when you finally reach the destination. Like climbing a mountain. In this case though, it seems like emotional exhaustion.
Like when she dodges and falls sideways into a car for support. Does the environment work into the dosing like that?
Is what you didnt see the smooth animation after the dodge when she attacks the woman after falling into the car or just her not falling into the car at all?
I liked SkillUp and Gamespot's reviews. A lot of the other ones seem like they went into it desperately wanting to love the game, or desperately wanting to criticize it. Some of those top ones are just fawning a little too much that I wonder if they're even being honest, but some of the bottom ones can be equally nitpicky too. Wondering if I'll like this since I'm not sure how dark I want my games to be of late haha!
what do you guys think about this from the polgyon review?
i could see this going both ways on whether or not this reviewer is right or wrong in having expected/wanted Ellie's quest to manifest differently
i could see this going both ways on whether or not this reviewer is right or wrong in having expected/wanted Ellie's quest to manifest differently