I did a second playthrough about a year after it came out. I liked it the first time but I definitely appreciated it more on a replay. I'm sure I'll play it again someday.
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Do you have any desire to replay Last of Us 2?
- Thread starter GundamStyle
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No.
One of the problems is that to justify another playthrough, I would need to play it on a harder difficulty. While that means probably retrying combat segments potentially dozens of times because of deaths, it also means that I will have to obsessively search every fucking drawer or cabinet that will all be 80% empty during the games constant walking segments for fear of making the next combat segment even harder for myself. That fucks up the flow nearly as much as restarting a section does a dozen times, on top of feeling draining and dispiriting
One of the problems is that to justify another playthrough, I would need to play it on a harder difficulty. While that means probably retrying combat segments potentially dozens of times because of deaths, it also means that I will have to obsessively search every fucking drawer or cabinet that will all be 80% empty during the games constant walking segments for fear of making the next combat segment even harder for myself. That fucks up the flow nearly as much as restarting a section does a dozen times, on top of feeling draining and dispiriting
I was one of those people who really didn't like the story/writing. While I enjoyed the gameplay, even that got stale to me by the end.
It is emotionally draining and have no need to replay it. I'd probably do it when part 3 comes out.
Nah, it's just draining because the pacing is so slow and the story is stretched over 30 hours for some reason with a ton of downtime. Nothing to do with emotions.
I do, because it was my game of the year/generation all things considered. But I've got plenty of new things I haven't finished, and part of me still hopes for a proper PS5 update.
Maybe years down the line but it's still too soon. It's also just not the style of game that I'd normally replay, theirs no real choices or variation.
I really like TLOU2 and think it's quite a bit better than the first one, but I don't see myself replaying it (or at least not any time soon). IMO, the game's one glaring weakness is that it's a bit padded. A thorough playthrough took me about 35 hours, and I'm of the opinion that you could probably shave 8–10 hours total from various points in the campaign still preserve all the good stuff. So a replay becomes a very tough sell when you combine the facts that it's not only extremely long for the genre, but also somewhat padded and unrelentingly oppressive in terms of tone and atmosphere.
