It's quite the opposite. I don't know about Far Cry, but in RDR2 is impossible to finish the game without killing one animal, in the TLOU2 you absolutely have a choice and can complete the story without killing a dog. It's kind of crazy how little backlash games like those two and Assassins' Creed, Monster Hunter and many others have compared to the commotion around TLoU. Specially when you take into account how there's much more animals to kill in other games.
This is the big thing for me as well. They try to make the violence as real as possible and want you to be uncomfortable or remorseful for killing people, but the game still has multitudes of systems designed to make the game enjoyable to play? You're encouraged to make Ellie commit violent acts then told to feel bad about it, that's not great narrative design. To be fair that's how the first game was as well, but this one seems to be going all-in on the idea, and the problem with that for me is that the gameplay betrays the intent of the story. By the End of Last Of US 1 I didn't care if whether any of the doctors or survivors at the medical facility were people with families and fears and wants, they were simply presented as obstacles that the player is supposed to mow down. It's a very difficult thing to tackle with a video game using the lense or realism.
There's most likely a hard coded limit to just how far you can be tracked via scent. Like in every other video game.
I understand the hype train but I have a good enough understanding of how AI is typically balanced to know that your hypothetical is flawed. You are talking about the AI and what they'd do as if it's a situation with a real dog and real people.
-They've gone on record stating that they watched stuff for reference
Maybe make it harder to actually kill people than just sneak past them, similar to Kojima games where you're actually punished for killing people.
Dogs are different for a lot of people and this game is extremely realistic in its killing of humans and Animals.
The vast majority of people who have said that it made them uncomfortable have not also stated that they're ok with killing humans.
Games like that typically never encourage you to kill domesticated dogs. And on top of that, they rarely have sound effects like this. The closest being RDR2 which has some really realistic wounded animal behaviors.
Are you talking about Death Stranding? Because I don't remember MGS V punishing me for killing people.
See, this is what I want. For as comic-bookish MGS games are they have a pretty good track record on player agency regarding violence. If I can complete TLOU2 without killing a single person, I'd be very happy but that also wouldn't mesh with the kind of story they seems to want to tell.
We're probably not going to hear anything about it until the game is out. My guess is that Factions will be the incentive to Port TLOU2 on PS5.
Don't know about that. While the environment and level design look more relaxing in GoT, the story is about a war and the game looks as violent with dismemberment and lots of blood splatter. While in TLoS you can kill people from far away, in GoT the whole combat revolves around you cutting people. I say the perfect palette cleanser will be Paper Mario.
Not sure I agree with you, but I can agree with your perspective. That's fair, and I'll drop it.
Yeah, it's great to finally see a Bloater. I can't even imagine the death animations they will do to Ellie.
Yeah I'm definitely going for the easiest difficulty option the game offers. I want to make my playthrough avoid killing humans/dogs as much as possible.
I mean the dogs behave more like killing machines than domesticated in the gameplay they showed. It reminded me of RE dogs.
If I remember correctly, your rankings are impacted if you kill someone and also the warning system isnt as harsh if you tranq someone and the person is found in comparison if you flat out kill them.
There'll no doubt be sections and scripted events such as the Vita moment where you/Ellie will be forced to kill people, but yeah encounters are generally skipable by sneaking around the enemies.
It's been a while since I played MGS so I don't remember the effect killing has on rankings but I do remember the tranqing. Thanks.
Like, if a dev says "you can do x but it's more difficult" the difficulty in question is often very exaggerated compared to the experience of playing through the thing.
It's not a stretch. They watched some fucked up shit while making this game.
I really hope all those sections are 100% cutscene, if I can get through this game non-lethally I'm all in on it, despite what I've said it's still a phenomenal looking game and an amazing piece of artistry.
