The Last of Us - it's the time of the season

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i still haven't played this game but am so looking forward too. i may have to buy a PS4. can you play Demon's Souls on it?

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 December 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link

damn it zappi, i hate that you're probably right

i'm still 100% behind the hype ofc

Nhex, Sunday, 4 December 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link

didn't need a sequel. will still play it. pls do not fuck this up naughty gods. get hype

||||||||, Sunday, 4 December 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

I just started playing this and:

it's never scary but it is frequently intense.

I will tell you that I let out an entirely undignified yelp once when I was ambushed by a runner.

Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link

I wish I could play it for the first time again

(•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link

leee are you talking about the sequel?

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link

sequel isnt out yet

ciderpress, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link

I'm playing the original! (I've taken a long break from console gaming.)

Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link

And without checking any advice, I started my game on Normal difficulty and am currently at the sewers (so about halfway through the game?), don't quite feel like starting over. ESPECIALLY don't want to retry the hotel bit with the bloater, which was all I could do not to completely freak out (even though I ended up just sprinting to the exit) (I'm so bad at this game!).

Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link

Just finished this. Really reminds me of Citizen Kane.

Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Sunday, 6 May 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link

lol

ciderpress, Sunday, 6 May 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link

was this the game responsible for the current generation of Dad Games

ciderpress, Sunday, 6 May 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link

what are the current Dad Games?

Mordy, Sunday, 6 May 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link

so many empty drawers

lol.

OK so the Winter section was a bear, I'm amazed that I was able to make any progress during the whiteout sequences because I was scared out of my wits and was just running to avoid gunfire without any clue about where to go -- one of the times I was thankful for how linear the game is. But after that the difficulty started to melt away, in part because some of the stages became, with all my dying, a de facto training ground for me, which made the last two stages a lot more tractable (and dare I say easy?).

Except the hospital stuff was still hard! But it also forced me to use smoke bombs in a somewhat strategic manner.

I never got to actually use the flamethrower!

Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Sunday, 6 May 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link

xp witcher 3, god of war, theres several other big ones from the past few years but im blanking on em at the moment.

ciderpress, Sunday, 6 May 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link

but yes, this was totally the game responsible (+ Telltale's Walking Dead S1 which was around the same time iirc)

Nhex, Sunday, 6 May 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link

One thing that annoys me though about the game is the compulsive scavenging mindset it forces on you, because of which I missed the giraffe petting part.

Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Sunday, 6 May 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link

Oh and BTW, Tommy is IMO definitely modeled after a lesser Baldwin brother (Stephen?).

Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link

always seemed more like sawyer from lost to me

Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

For Part II, it'd be great if Ellie knows how to swim, it'd be even better if she only knows how to dog paddle.

Regreta Garbo (Leee), Friday, 25 May 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link

three months pass...

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-last-of-us-and-the-post-apocalypse-by-darran-anderson

Great longform article on post-apocalysm by the Invisible Cities author.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 15 September 2018 04:58 (six years ago) link

i played the first 3 hours or so of the remastered ps4 version and just wasn't into it at all. but does it get better after that? i'm assuming that i continue helping the girl get to wherever i was supposed to be taking her, but then something happens and i end up having to be her guardian more or less full time, and i don't want that and neither does she, but then we go through some shit together and we slowly bond while learning that in this terrible land of zombies and death and terror, the capability to love and be loved is ultimately the thing worth living for? meanwhile solving little puzzles, moving ladders around, and judiciously saving ammo and going through lots of cutscenes where the little girl is moody and hates me but is slowly starting to respect me? and at one point i get really injured (or maybe just straight up die) and end up playing as her for a significant portion of the game? i'm just making all this up and would like to be very wrong and surprised. so many people adore this game, so it makes me think that there must be something more to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZZlQ4Tmrc (Karl Malone), Saturday, 15 September 2018 05:20 (six years ago) link

That was a really assholey way to ask that question, sorry. I guess it’s better phrased as something like “is this more of a really well polished action-adventure game, or is there something really innovative about it that I haven’t seen yet?” That sounds assholey too. Maybe I’m just an assholey. It didn’t help that I played through the first hours of the game with someone who was adamant that it was the greatest game of all time, so I was naturally kind of inclined to pick it apart (internally) as I went, which is kind of an assholey tendency, I know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZZlQ4Tmrc (Karl Malone), Saturday, 15 September 2018 05:38 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTSGp4UdEvQ
in my mind your two posts were spoken aloud in this voice
but tbf and answer your question, no, there isn't really a great innovation you're looking for. it's just really exceptionally well done

Nhex, Saturday, 15 September 2018 06:17 (six years ago) link

good article brocc

Nhex, Saturday, 15 September 2018 06:20 (six years ago) link

xp
your plot guesses are pretty much otm haha
as you suspect it's a well polished action adventure game
I remember someone (on here?) calling these sort of games "content tourism", being led thru a linear path of set pieces while giving you the illusion of agency

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 15 September 2018 06:28 (six years ago) link

xpost Weird, that Family Guy clip briefly was replaced by a Last of Us 2 trailer for me, then reverted back to Family Guy after I reloaded the page. .

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 15 September 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link

hahaha, uuugh, i'm sorry. i would prefer that my posts be read in the voice of the crystal river boy on the right from 3:35 on in this video, but i brought that on myself.

i'm sure we've already discussed stories + videogames before, but i can't find it at the moment. in the spirit of being the ilx i want to see, i'll start a thread on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZZlQ4Tmrc (Karl Malone), Saturday, 15 September 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link

As someone who feels that story is not inherently but in actuality an afterthought (at best) in most videogames, I was surprised to find myself getting a lil emotional during the opening portion of this game.

I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link

(I never got too far beyond that, though.)

I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link

They've made a point of emphasizing that story is an important context for the apparent ultra violence of the sequel. Likewise, as discussed elsewhere, there is apparently more emotional payoff to Uncharted 4 if you've played the previous games. Most games and esp. game series have mere scenarios or setups for action, or boast pretty elliptical/confusing/optional narratives. But as graphics get better and better and more and more "realistic," and games intersect and overlap with the qualities of feature films - and as feature films become more and more like video games - I assume there will be a gradual but still ever greater emphasis on story.

Has there been a high profile (or low profile) collaboration with a game developer and A+ author or screenwriter yet?

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link

Pretty sure whoever did this has won at least a Pulitzer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAhG9D9UO7c

I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link

i'd say there was plenty of context for the ultra-violence in the first game (at least, beyond the first Uncharted, for instance). the second one looks even more violent, but that world has already been established as pretty sickening so i wasn't that taken aback. Plus The Walking Dead has been on for like eight seasons now and has really normalized this kind of thing, for better or worse

Nhex, Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link

if anyone cares to join me on the story tangent:

storytelling, plots, and narratives + videogames

Karl Malone, Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link

Damn this sounds like a Plastikman track (spoiler-free!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn50VaRva0s

Nag Reddit (Leee), Friday, 28 September 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link

three months pass...

Not TLOU2 news, but still:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/ae2ug8/the_last_of_us_in_a_nutshell/

Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link

this is probably a good thread to say that i didn't realize until last week that life is strange 2 came out!

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:52 (five years ago) link

LIS has such a cool vibe i just recently played it

(•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link

I bought LIS last month! Haven't had the chance to play it yet, but nice to hear it get the ILG stamp of approval.

Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link

there are some cringy parts and it's not for everyone but i overall loved it .

(•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link

I don't know this game (LIStrange). Is it worth $5 for the "Complete Series?"

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link

yes!

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link

Oh, wait, it's for PS3, don't think I can play it on PS4?

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link

I bought it for PS4! It's pricier than the PS3 version of course: $6.

Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link

I got that a while ago, and I need to backlog the other series and the sequel before I can even start the first one right

Nhex, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link

there's only one episode of S2 out now iirc or maybe I've misunderstood

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link

Nhex, I may be misinterpreting your post but from what I've gathered, LIFE IS STRANGE can/should be played before LIFE IS STRANGE: BEFORE THE STORM which is a prequel.

Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link

i should go back to it. i played the first ep (maybe 2) and it was charming but not super compelling to me - maybe it picks up?

Mordy, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link

xp ...right... also that prequel before LIS2

Nhex, Thursday, 10 January 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link


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