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The Last of Us... (Use Spoiler Tags)
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Huh I never played nor care to play TLOU so thanks
Spoilers I guess...
I watched through the whole thing and honestly, it's just overrated. Like even the negative aspects of the reviewers was overblown. There was a lot of mythology about the last twelve hours being exceptionally grueling or brutal... but it was more like the last.... fifteen minutes? Like one scene that was uncomfortably brutal. There was gruesome gore and imagery (implied offscreen and shown) but nothing that amazed me or shocked me to the core or anything. When the critics kept stating how the last twelve hours were so relentless and dramatic and grueling... I was constantly wondering when that would actually start.
It's hard to judge the gameplay, but it doesn't look like anything amazing. There are some lets plays out there of quick runs which make the gameplay look great but seeing a merely "good" player in this game made me thing the gameplay is far from perfect, though still challenging and serviceable. But honestly, the mechanics didn't seem as good as a proper shooter with stealth components, like a Far Cry game or the like. And the action scenes were... repetitive. And the nice touches of NPC's each having names and stuff lost its luster quick. There wasn't anymore emotional impact killing these NPC's as opposed to other nameless ones IMHO.
The graphics were still beautiful.
The main issues which were the characters and plot and honestly.... it's all above average. The Last of Us plot I feel was great, but still dramatically overrated. The main strength of the first game was developing friendship and father-daughter bond between Ellie and Joel and that was beautifully done. That sort of link just isn't here. There's a lot of genuine chemistry between Ellie and her girlfriend Dinah but while the chemistry was there and you could believe the attraction, it still didn't hold a candle to the bond from the first game. This got worse as Ellie's character had her downward (and repetitive) spiral into emotional trauma and becoming more unreasonably obsessive with her desire for revenge and its manifested by several almost forcibly stupid decisions made by various characters. And honestly Ellie's journey just didn't make sense. She killed dozens of people and suddenly grows a pang of a guilty conscience which lacks genuine qualities.
In regards to Abby (who isn't trans by the way) the game did do a good job of making Abby sympathetic and likable, but it still wasn't convincing. I get that she's obsessed with vengeance for the death of her Father, but in a post-apocalyptic world where lots of people lost loved ones it doesn't seem to gel much IMHO. The game tried to sell me on it and they did do a good job but it didn't quite sell it to me. There was also showing many of the characters that Ellie had already killed in her storyline but while it was psychologically and emotionally interesting, it didn't sell me on how these are all actual people that Ellie killed. I just didn't care all that much with most of the characters. Especially ones that made poor decisions.
The story heavily relies on characters and the characters are likable... but I can't say I felt a connection with them or their decisions that are forced upon them. And since literally a third of this game is literally character driven cutscenes and scripted scenes it's hard not to be sold on these characters being likable or interesting since the game literally feeds you hours of well acted and voiced character acting. The love triangle between Abby, Owen and Mel wasn't particularly interesting either. I liked all of the characters individually but their relationships were blah. However the trans-character Lev was a good character and HIS relationship with Abby was a higher point of the game. But Lev's character was so... detached from 90% of the story he almost seemed tacked on in many respects in the scenes that didn't directly deal with his origins and where he came from. And the ending/final act... it was artificially tacked on because I think they wanted it to be more brutal and really had to force it to occur instead of the plot/character naturally drifting/transitioning to those moments organically.
Overall it seemed like a good game, but far from perfect and certainly not the greatest game or game story or something like that of all time. At its core, its an overly charactertized revenge story and while decent, it's not great.
I watched through the whole thing and honestly, it's just overrated. Like even the negative aspects of the reviewers was overblown. There was a lot of mythology about the last twelve hours being exceptionally grueling or brutal... but it was more like the last.... fifteen minutes? Like one scene that was uncomfortably brutal. There was gruesome gore and imagery (implied offscreen and shown) but nothing that amazed me or shocked me to the core or anything. When the critics kept stating how the last twelve hours were so relentless and dramatic and grueling... I was constantly wondering when that would actually start.
It's hard to judge the gameplay, but it doesn't look like anything amazing. There are some lets plays out there of quick runs which make the gameplay look great but seeing a merely "good" player in this game made me thing the gameplay is far from perfect, though still challenging and serviceable. But honestly, the mechanics didn't seem as good as a proper shooter with stealth components, like a Far Cry game or the like. And the action scenes were... repetitive. And the nice touches of NPC's each having names and stuff lost its luster quick. There wasn't anymore emotional impact killing these NPC's as opposed to other nameless ones IMHO.
The graphics were still beautiful.
The main issues which were the characters and plot and honestly.... it's all above average. The Last of Us plot I feel was great, but still dramatically overrated. The main strength of the first game was developing friendship and father-daughter bond between Ellie and Joel and that was beautifully done. That sort of link just isn't here. There's a lot of genuine chemistry between Ellie and her girlfriend Dinah but while the chemistry was there and you could believe the attraction, it still didn't hold a candle to the bond from the first game. This got worse as Ellie's character had her downward (and repetitive) spiral into emotional trauma and becoming more unreasonably obsessive with her desire for revenge and its manifested by several almost forcibly stupid decisions made by various characters. And honestly Ellie's journey just didn't make sense. She killed dozens of people and suddenly grows a pang of a guilty conscience which lacks genuine qualities.
In regards to Abby (who isn't trans by the way) the game did do a good job of making Abby sympathetic and likable, but it still wasn't convincing. I get that she's obsessed with vengeance for the death of her Father, but in a post-apocalyptic world where lots of people lost loved ones it doesn't seem to gel much IMHO. The game tried to sell me on it and they did do a good job but it didn't quite sell it to me. There was also showing many of the characters that Ellie had already killed in her storyline but while it was psychologically and emotionally interesting, it didn't sell me on how these are all actual people that Ellie killed. I just didn't care all that much with most of the characters. Especially ones that made poor decisions.
The story heavily relies on characters and the characters are likable... but I can't say I felt a connection with them or their decisions that are forced upon them. And since literally a third of this game is literally character driven cutscenes and scripted scenes it's hard not to be sold on these characters being likable or interesting since the game literally feeds you hours of well acted and voiced character acting. The love triangle between Abby, Owen and Mel wasn't particularly interesting either. I liked all of the characters individually but their relationships were blah. However the trans-character Lev was a good character and HIS relationship with Abby was a higher point of the game. But Lev's character was so... detached from 90% of the story he almost seemed tacked on in many respects in the scenes that didn't directly deal with his origins and where he came from. And the ending/final act... it was artificially tacked on because I think they wanted it to be more brutal and really had to force it to occur instead of the plot/character naturally drifting/transitioning to those moments organically.
Overall it seemed like a good game, but far from perfect and certainly not the greatest game or game story or something like that of all time. At its core, its an overly charactertized revenge story and while decent, it's not great.
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Although it wasn't Hideo Kojima himself that said it as originally reported, some random community manager for Kojima decided to respond to some TLOU II flavored trolling with a flame of their own.
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Did Kojima Productions Throw Shade at TLOU2? They Answer Rumors Regarding P.T., Konami, Hideo Kojima
The past few days have shined a light on Kojima Productions.
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In which The King Of Hate attempts to play through Neil Druckmann’s self-insert fanfiction AKA The last of us 2.
Arch Dornan
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They know deep down how many enemies they have made and emboldened, so they are trying to brainwash people into being magnanimous in victory. They will beg for mercy while offering none themselves. Remember that.
Marginally: Abby lives in a football station which is stuffed with food, and also has a gymnasium. Her faction lives like royality, gorgueing themselves on the sweat and blood of their subjects while those who objected were executed or exiled from Seattle. Then they ran out of outsiders to hate, so they designated the Seraphim as their mortal foes and prepare to genocide them.
Luckily their effort failed, their invading force was wiped out to a man, and the ending implied the Seraphim destroyed the WLF completely, putting all members to the sword.
Looks like The Last of Us is getting a television series, despite the game basically being an interactive movie already.
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Thankfully it'll be on HBO Max so maybe not that many people will see it regardless.
Director confirmed for the TV adaptation of The Last of Us
Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov will reportedly be directing the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us. Although it was i…
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Thankfully it'll be on HBO Max so maybe not that many people will see it regardless.