http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/the-last-of-us
"The Last of Us is a masterpiece, PlayStation 3's best exclusive and an absolute must-play."
zombies? do i have to?
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 6 June 2013 11:50 (five years ago) Permalink
it does sound pretty fucking cool tho
really wish i could play this :(
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 6 June 2013 14:58 (five years ago) Permalink
feeling this but will get it anyway. i'll wait for used copy at least
― joe bogus (am0n), Thursday, 6 June 2013 15:56 (five years ago) Permalink
i have tried to get excited by this but yeah zombies post-apocalypse gritty survival blarrrgh
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:21 (five years ago) Permalink
ha, but i thought you liked the Metro games?
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:23 (five years ago) Permalink
i also keep confusing this with like 7 other games, like that ellen page one and whatever "remember me" is
the 2010s also seem to be the era of the "strong protagonist helps waify young dark haired girl with a smart haircut achieve her goals"
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:24 (five years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbNmmK9Bhzw
― joe bogus (am0n), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:25 (five years ago) Permalink
i liked metro 2033 because its the king of interesting background mostly - any game that makes me want to hang out and listen to as many npc conversations as possible is an all time achievement tbh.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:26 (five years ago) Permalink
the 2010s also seem to be the era of the "strong protagonist helps waify young dark haired girl with a smart haircut achieve her goals"― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, June 6, 2013 12:24 PM
haha true. at least here she doesn't have a huge head n eyes like a thrift store keane painting (bioschlock)
― joe bogus (am0n), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:28 (five years ago) Permalink
i am kind of resigned to the fact that despite my better judgment i will go for a walk one lunchtime and suddenly find myself somehow holding a copy of this game with 60 bucks missing from my wallet
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:32 (five years ago) Permalink
someone should make a game where you play as the waify girl trying to escape from the dude who keeps trying to help you + killing people.
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:34 (five years ago) Permalink
^ dlc
― joe bogus (am0n), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:35 (five years ago) Permalink
main character looks like drake w/ a beard
http://i.imgur.com/PN3c5JS.jpg
― joe bogus (am0n), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:46 (five years ago) Permalink
lol.
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:55 (five years ago) Permalink
"GAMING'S CITIZEN KANE MOMENT"
oh good lord shut the fuck up
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:56 (five years ago) Permalink
the gaming yankee foxtrot hotel has arrived
― joe bogus (am0n), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:57 (five years ago) Permalink
ok haha so despite not actually starring ellen page, the character from this looks uh exactly like ellen page?!
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:58 (five years ago) Permalink
wait, they got 10/10 from God as a Geek????????? *runs to store*
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:59 (five years ago) Permalink
and her characters name? you guessed it: frank stallone ellie
― joe bogus (am0n), Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:01 (five years ago) Permalink
OFFICIAL PLAYSTATION MAGAZINE says "this PS exclusive is a MUST-BUY"
― joe bogus (am0n), Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:03 (five years ago) Permalink
http://images.crispygamer.com/public/column-2288/kanethegame.jpg
never forget
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:07 (five years ago) Permalink
actually, is there a gritty adventure narrative rhythm game out there? I would totally play that
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:09 (five years ago) Permalink
just play bit trip runner on a half broken black and white tv, that should get you there
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:12 (five years ago) Permalink
until i see video demonstrating otherwise i assume this game is just zombie uncharted with some handwringing over the murdering
― adam, Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:21 (five years ago) Permalink
gameplay looks the same, the molotov cocktail throw in the video above is exactly like uncharted grenades. i think main difference is that its more rpg, open world, carrying items, etc. i could be wrong tho
― joe bogus (am0n), Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:25 (five years ago) Permalink
the laboured choking and the head-smashing are quite different from the tone of uncharted
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:27 (five years ago) Permalink
actually this isn't rpg at all so nm
― joe bogus (am0n), Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:33 (five years ago) Permalink
ok i am getting this tomorrow and if it is anything less than gaming's citizen kane moment i am going to have been misled by advertising yet again
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 13 June 2013 11:40 (five years ago) Permalink
this isnt the citizen kane of gaming... citizen kane is the The Last Of Us of cinema
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 13 June 2013 11:44 (five years ago) Permalink
http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/tellmemore.png
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 13 June 2013 12:41 (five years ago) Permalink
that jpg has many ilx appropriate applications
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 13 June 2013 12:42 (five years ago) Permalink
my hopes for this game are right around the level of gaming's lethal weapon moment, or at my most giddily optmstic, gaming's ghostbusters moment, although the original ghostbusters game had a fair claim to that distinction.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 13 June 2013 12:45 (five years ago) Permalink
it was pretty cool but man the loading times
― Nhex, Thursday, 13 June 2013 13:53 (five years ago) Permalink
gaming's citizen kane with andy warhol's loading times
― am0n, Thursday, 13 June 2013 15:05 (five years ago) Permalink
day 1 server issues :B
https://twitter.com/Naughty_Dog/status/345591249148985344
― am0n, Friday, 14 June 2013 17:36 (five years ago) Permalink
http://thecitizenkaneofvideogames.tumblr.com/
― kenjataimu (cozen), Sunday, 16 June 2013 16:00 (five years ago) Permalink
i am not sure this is gaming's citizen kane moment, but it is very good
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 16 June 2013 16:24 (five years ago) Permalink
it doesn't start off promisingly - for the first few sections of the game it doesn't hold your hand so much as take the controller, sit you down with a hot drink, and say 'listen, let me do this bit ok?'. but it gets beyond that, although it never quite stops giving you helpful nudges. it feels initially like it is aiming for Uncharted: Heavy Rain of Zombies but once it gets going it surpasses that low bar without effort. the basic gameplay is very simple and i did wonder if i really wanted to throw however many hours at doing the same thing over and over, but the game manages to keep contriving situations that refuse to let you just fall back on what worked last time, and that is probably the most impressive achievement. it's never scary but it is frequently intense. however it is as linear as all get out, no more illusion of choice of direction than i dunno operation wolf, so if you have a philosophical problem with that look elsewhere i guess.
supplies are scarce enough that you actually have to think about what your doing, which is essential for a game like this to work and if i'd have had to pick a place they'd have gone wrong that probably would've been it. it does look great, and the recognizable bits of boston at the start are very cool. the story and the characters and the voice acting etc are all at least reasonably intelligent but as usual the assumption is that gamers are impervious to subtlety, so none of it is what it could or should be to deserve the critical jizz.
so yeah, it is very good. it's paced so you can't put the controller down because you always feel like you're in the middle of something, but there is also a genuine feeling of not wanting to stop, of wanting to know what's next, and that's as much of a recommendation as anything imo.
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 16 June 2013 16:41 (five years ago) Permalink
how much space does it need to install on ps3? (ive only got the 12gb hd)
― NI, Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:03 (five years ago) Permalink
it's 26gb so it will want 52 gb (!) to download and install.
― adam, Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:50 (five years ago) Permalink
i mean from disc version - i've written off ever downloading anything on this flimsy thing
― NI, Monday, 17 June 2013 02:05 (five years ago) Permalink
operation wolf!! i have not thought about that game in literally years
― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Monday, 17 June 2013 21:52 (five years ago) Permalink
Anyone else getting a Children of Men vibe from this?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 13:09 (five years ago) Permalink
getting a citizen kane vibefor christmaslil orson welles head that takes three AA batteries
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 20:06 (five years ago) Permalink
hey remember how you were like man i love uncharted's shitty gameplay but all these engaging characters and this breezy story are really dragging me down? have i got the game for u
― adam, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:46 (five years ago) Permalink
like right at the beginning of the game this little girl dies and it's like who cares but the protagonist is fuckin freaking out and it's just like that heavy rain glitch video where dude is like SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN
― adam, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 23:21 (five years ago) Permalink
lmao
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 02:06 (five years ago) Permalink
This is good so far!
― lego maniac cop (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:57 (five years ago) Permalink
movies, games - who can tell the difference these days!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:50 (three years ago) Permalink
the promise of night trap finally fulfilled
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:35 (three years ago) Permalink
good call, definitely reminds me of the Pittsburgh chapter
― Nhex, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:07 (three years ago) Permalink
That 2nd shot is the Stockton Tunnel:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/2548285.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:31 (three years ago) Permalink
i started this over the weekend, on hard. i like it! so far bullets are so scarce that it's not even worth starting a firefight, stealthily strangling everybody one at a time (ie Batman-style) seems like the way to go.
it reminds me of I Am Alive, except with a giant budget.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 2 March 2015 22:12 (three years ago) Permalink
Fans of this game will probably want to see The Girl With All The Gifts
It's essentially the same plot with a v good twist to the setup.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 September 2016 14:47 (two years ago) Permalink
Looks interesting for sure
― Nhex, Thursday, 29 September 2016 16:29 (two years ago) Permalink
Sold out already, but loved this poster commissioned for "Outbreak Day" (their attempt to keep pushing this franchise?)https://mondotees.com/blogs/news/celebrating-the-last-of-us-for-outbreak-day-2016
― Nhex, Thursday, 29 September 2016 16:31 (two years ago) Permalink
playing this on grounded difficulty is so stressful, i've made it pretty far tho. the hanging upside down in the trap and shooting part took like 30 tries
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:41 (two years ago) Permalink
so many empty drawers
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:43 (two years ago) Permalink
not sure this game needed a sequel at all but the trailer for part 2 is certainly atmospheric:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqU58Q72acA
― trump le monde (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 4 December 2016 10:22 (two years ago) Permalink
Ellie will be the lead playable character in The Last of Us Part 2, Naughty Dog has revealed in a panel session at this year's PlayStation Experience.Neil Druckmann took to the stage with Troy Baker - who plays the returning Joel, the main playable character in the first game - and Ashley Johnson, who plays Ellie.Details were understandably thin for a game that's not due out for a while - and the trailer was intended for next year's E3 but Naughty Dog elected to show it at this year's PlayStation Experience - but Druckmann did give a broad view of what to expect.The story is set five years after the first game, with Ellie now 19 years old. "If the first game, the theme was the love between these two characters... This story's the counter of that," said Druckmann. "It's about hate."The Last of Us' original end drew lots of praise, leading many fans to believe the story of Joel and Ellie did not need a sequel - something Druckmann addressed."So much thought went into this - I know there's trepidation about going back to these characters. We feel that as well. No-one loves these characters more than we do, and we wouldn't do it if we didn't have the right idea. I had ideas with different characters and it didn't feel right. The Last of Us is about these two characters. All I ask is that fans of the first one put some faith in us - we're going to do right by you."
Neil Druckmann took to the stage with Troy Baker - who plays the returning Joel, the main playable character in the first game - and Ashley Johnson, who plays Ellie.
Details were understandably thin for a game that's not due out for a while - and the trailer was intended for next year's E3 but Naughty Dog elected to show it at this year's PlayStation Experience - but Druckmann did give a broad view of what to expect.
The story is set five years after the first game, with Ellie now 19 years old. "If the first game, the theme was the love between these two characters... This story's the counter of that," said Druckmann. "It's about hate."
The Last of Us' original end drew lots of praise, leading many fans to believe the story of Joel and Ellie did not need a sequel - something Druckmann addressed.
"So much thought went into this - I know there's trepidation about going back to these characters. We feel that as well. No-one loves these characters more than we do, and we wouldn't do it if we didn't have the right idea. I had ideas with different characters and it didn't feel right. The Last of Us is about these two characters. All I ask is that fans of the first one put some faith in us - we're going to do right by you."
― trump le monde (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 4 December 2016 10:23 (two years ago) Permalink
Calling it now that Joel is a ghost and Ellie is avenging his killers
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 4 December 2016 10:37 (two years ago) Permalink
spoiler alert ffs
― the criss angel's death song (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 4 December 2016 18:06 (two years ago) Permalink
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 (two years ago) Permalink
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 (two years ago) Permalink
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 (two years ago) Permalink
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 (seven months ago) Permalink
I wish I could play it for the first time again
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:58 (seven months ago) Permalink
leee are you talking about the sequel?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 22:04 (seven months ago) Permalink
sequel isnt out yet
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 22:11 (seven months ago) Permalink
I'm playing the original! (I've taken a long break from console gaming.)
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 22:28 (seven months ago) Permalink
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 (seven months ago) Permalink
Just finished this. Really reminds me of Citizen Kane.
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Sunday, 6 May 2018 00:29 (seven months ago) Permalink
lol
― ciderpress, Sunday, 6 May 2018 00:29 (seven months ago) Permalink
was this the game responsible for the current generation of Dad Games
― ciderpress, Sunday, 6 May 2018 00:33 (seven months ago) Permalink
what are the current Dad Games?
― Mordy, Sunday, 6 May 2018 01:32 (seven months ago) Permalink
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 (seven months ago) Permalink
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 (seven months ago) Permalink
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 (seven months ago) Permalink
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 (seven months ago) Permalink
Oh and BTW, Tommy is IMO definitely modeled after a lesser Baldwin brother (Stephen?).
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:21 (seven months ago) Permalink
always seemed more like sawyer from lost to me
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:34 (seven months ago) Permalink
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 months ago) Permalink
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 (two months ago) Permalink
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 (two months ago) Permalink
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 (two months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTSGp4UdEvQin my mind your two posts were spoken aloud in this voicebut 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 (two months ago) Permalink
good article brocc
― Nhex, Saturday, 15 September 2018 06:20 (two months ago) Permalink
xpyour plot guesses are pretty much otm hahaas 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 (two months ago) Permalink
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 (two months ago) Permalink
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 (two months ago) Permalink
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 (two months ago) Permalink
(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 (two months ago) Permalink
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 (two months ago) Permalink
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 (two months ago) Permalink
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 (two months ago) Permalink
if anyone cares to join me on the story tangent:
storytelling, plots, and narratives + videogames
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 15 September 2018 16:53 (two months ago) Permalink
http://www.thelastofus.playstation.com/outbreakday#sf198111575
― Nag Reddit (Leee), Friday, 21 September 2018 17:36 (two months ago) Permalink
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 (two months ago) Permalink