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

it's sitting on my pile of TPBs yet to read, i should read it

is the Left Behind side thing worth playing? how long is it?

a) this thread including me universally says yes
b) 5 or so hours? maybe less

I'd say 3.5 or 4 but absolutely worth playing

ok that seems manageable, will give it a go. thanks!

Just met up with Bill (Hicks?)

it's the guy who played dan dority from deadwood. looks like him too:

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120718152858/thelastofus/images/5/52/Wearl.jpg

"Ellie."

"What?"

"Tell 'em Ellie is the name of the little girl who BROKE YOUR FUCKING FINGER!"

Played it again on hard. I was surprised by how easy some sections were. Fights that were permanently burned into my brain, locales that I knew were coming up and which put a knot in my stomach, wound up being not too big of a deal. Obviously it helped that I vaguely remembered my successful strategies from the first time through. But I suspect that fewer supplies actually made it easier, in a way, because I had to play smarter. Several sections that I'd blasted through, with immense difficulty, the first time around, I just stealthed past, no biggie, see ya suckers. And knifing the cannibal in the steakhouse was a piece of cake, almost disappointingly so.

The only place I really got stuck for awhile was before the cannibal turns on you, in that fucking concrete room with the clickers and runners coming through the windows and the bloater who comes down through the ceiling. I was quite unlucky in that I had only one tick of health left when that scene started so any hit was fatal. Kept me on my toes.

I found myself wanting the melee combat to be just a little smoother and better, but in general the combat is just so satisfying to me for some reason in this game. (I haven't played enough other games to really know why, I don't think.)

remastered version looks fucking good. enjoying this more 2nd time around

I always soup up my melee weapon just because connecting with some fool's skull and yanking a nail through it feels so fucking good

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i watched the new planet of the apes movie the other night and was struck by how much it reminded me of the last of us:

http://static2.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1836331.1403200492!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/dawn-planet-apes.jpg
http://geeknation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/media_dawn_planet_apes_20140619.jpg

i..... totally don't remember that scene from last of us?? i remember the monkeys in the lab, and the giraffes

neither of those shots are from the game, they're both from the movie. it was the production design of the movie which reminded me of tlou rather than the presence of the apes

movies, games - who can tell the difference these days!

the promise of night trap finally fulfilled

good call, definitely reminds me of the Pittsburgh chapter

That 2nd shot is the Stockton Tunnel:

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/2548285.jpg

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.

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.

Looks interesting for sure

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

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

so many empty drawers

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

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."

Calling it now that Joel is a ghost and Ellie is avenging his killers

spoiler alert ffs

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?

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

i'm still 100% behind the hype ofc

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

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.

I wish I could play it for the first time again

leee are you talking about the sequel?

sequel isnt out yet

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

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!).

Just finished this. Really reminds me of Citizen Kane.

lol

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

what are the current Dad Games?

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!

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

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

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.

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

always seemed more like sawyer from lost to me

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.

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.

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.