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The Last of Us Part II - Review Thread
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Hoping it's just buggy due to the pre load going live and so many people downloading. Really want to pre load this thing
Haha! Yeah, we folded WENB into NGB a while back, it's a bit of a shame that some of us dropped off PES as much as we did, but we'll still cover it!
i kid you not there are genuinely people who think the game is emasculating them, to the point where they tried to compare his shoulders across the 2 games, thus spawning the "they shrunk his shoulders" meme
I don't know all the details, so i'd rather not say anything than spread wrong information. It's all good though, you did nothing wrong.
I don't think there's anything, they wanna let people play it the way they want.
Eric gets it. Any worthwhile analysis requires holistic approaches, not divided lenses. However, I put this down to critics and audiences wanting only shallow critiques and essays on their beloved products. Look at how up in arms people get when anything more "topical" gets brought up. More recently, I read a fantastic piece of Kentucky Route Zero and how it fails to incorporate the state's minority population. Unsurprisingly, the comments were mostly trash
Was just reading this, good perspective of the game.
And in the follow up tweet "Much of the information out there was straight up fake. ".
If your claim about the narrative being the "main thing the game brings to the table" is true, and reviewers weren't happy with it, they wouldn't be giving the game a 95 to 100 scores. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
Unless that rocket scientist wanted to concern troll, of course.
I was already a 10, this brought me to 11. It was like the Ghost of Tsushima State of Play got me more hyped for that game, now the reviews solidified the Last of Us and I'm more hyped for it. THIS IS AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER OF HYPE.
Would be interested in that as well. I want to go through the Generation with my launch PS4.
After hearing some spoilers I kinda did.
Glad to hear ND pulled it off regardless.
They really are masters of their craft.
Don't know why I bother posting here. I follow Skill Up as he has a similar view and taste on games as me in general... I did watch and read other reviews but his resonated with me the most.
I presented quite a balanced view on this, 1. saying that I will give the game a chance with an open mind; 2. I acknowledged that the game might not be for me and that it is a good thing that fans of the first game will be happy, particularly three of my IRL friends who are extremely excited at the moment.
Absolutely pointless trying to have a discussion here though if a one line defensive and aggressive response is all I'm going to get. anyway I'll judge for myself next week.
Interesting becuase i was spoiled of one specific thing so i am curious to see how it will affect my experience of the game
it will definitely be interesting to see what happens with this. Especially when the harshest critics of the game have mentioned its narrative as a sticking point.
Yikes, the Kotaku and Polygon reviews are articulating almost exactly what my fears about this game are. That it' cumbersome design, pacing and relentlessly didactic message are just going to feel banal and tedious.
Guess I'll find out for myself in a week.
Guess I'll find out for myself in a week.
At the same time there is also a handful of reviews that are extremely positive that also do not have scores attached (GameXplain and Eurogamer)
Wow, holding momentum strong in high 90's and it seems I barely underestimated it. Very nice!
It seems the biggest games today get around 100-110 reviews. TLOU is in the 80's in reviews counted, so I can't see more than a point fluctuation in either direction. I don't know. Maybe there is one of "those" reviews that give it like a 2/10 but even then I think it's not going to change much if at all.
I mean, there's something to be said about being able to talk frankly about an anticipated game without weird dipshits being mad that you made The Big Number go down.
Probably getting added to the game as we speak now that it's shipped. The magic of x86 and semi-custom consumer PC hardware.
YIKES. I've got to stop going to youtube now. The videos are showing up on there and I didnt get spoiled or nothing but fuck me.
Probably people who got spoiled and thought it would affect reviews lol.
the final two sentences in the waypoint review is exactly the thing i was worried about with this game:
Guaranteed just hating/trolling.
The kind of people who feel like ND games should sit at 75 or less are also convinced that 99% of reviewers are paid off and therefore wouldn't make that prediction since, well, "paid off reviewers" would overrate it anyway.
imagine the harassment they would receive if there was a number. I imagine that has a lot to do with it. they've now freed themselves from the conscious and subconscious ways that the expectation of harassment introduces bias into criticism.
Predicting that the aggregate score of a game like this would be under 75 is an incredibly poorly informed opinion
Same. I just talked with a co-worker and he said his just finished downloading. I'm so jealous right now!
I just initiated the pre load from the online store, i just clicked on 'Download to your PS4' and it worked. You should also check your download list and see if you can initiate from there.
Really interesting to see reviews from some that saw all the spoilers, didn't like them at all, went in sceptical, then came out uttering the word "masterpiece".
It takes something extremely special to win over someone who comes into the game wanting to actively not like it... can't wait for next Friday!
It takes something extremely special to win over someone who comes into the game wanting to actively not like it... can't wait for next Friday!
I have a theory, wild guess based is virtually not evidence might be the best name for it but let's move on, that if you create a poll with a ranking there will be people voting for the worst choice that have no idea what the poll is about.
An opinion nonetheless. I went with the more realistic 90-94 because naughty gods.
That's an argument you can make about probably every sequel ever. It was not going to become like, a platformer or a party game for part 2.
I don't know if they'd agree with that considering the Nobody's Perfect trophy in TLOU1 lol
Oh nice, thank you for the info. Does the camera follow Ellie when she's thrown over the counter by a heavy?
