Double-posting to say that I appreciate the…fuzziness, for lack of a better term, of the game’s stealth system.
No real indicators, just that oppressive sound that increases as you’re being spotted.
There’s that part where Ellie fights through that neighborhood, where I managed to actually take it stealthy for a good bit. Lotta laying prone in the grass, waiting for someone to come up in line with my big coke bottle silencer. It’s…pretty good!
That said, some of the scarier stuff, hmm nope did not like that. The conference center offices, with all those stalkers? The blown up hotel, with all the stalkers? That bit in California, outdoors in broad daylight, with the handful of stalkers?
Yeah the Ellie boss fight slapped. When she started laying mines i yelled BITCH YOU CANT TRICK ME I HAVE PLAYED METAL GEAR SOLID at my tv. i think the abby section is 100% effective at switching my mental frame from ellie to her, such that when ellie finally appears it DOENST feel like “im fighting the main character,” it feels like im fighting just another boss villain. like the total separation from her was palpable, and that’s a neat thing
and even tho the fake epilogue puts u back in her shoes, by that point you, the player, have already separated yourself from her enough that it really hits when she decides to go back to her revenge spree, in a sort of horror movie "for the love of god do NOT do that’ kind of way
Oh wow I didn’t even know she would do that. After seeing her blow Abby’s head off with a shotgun for the nth time I just got real good at immediately grabbing a bottle or brick, chucking it at her noggin, and barreling full speed at her.
But yeah I hear ya on that last part. I can’t think of many games that have made me actively want to sort of stop playing and accept the story where it’s at. Hell, even as she almost climbs into the boat, but suddenly turns around, I was like “Ellie please just stop goddamn”
I have decided to start playing Last of Us.
It’s really impressive on the PS4 Pro, you would never think it was born as a PS3 game, from the visuals. How much work did Naughty Dog put in the remaster?
The storytelling stands out too, obviously.
I think the controls are needlessly complicated, isn’t it? I always have to actively remember which buttons sequence I need to heal myself, change weapons, and so on. It’s just not immediate, at least for the first hours.
Not sure how much work went into the remaster, but it never looked like a “PS3 game” on the PS3 either. It was in a different league from every single other game of that generation.
finally started this and man, I haven’t even gotten to the “bad” part yet and the plot has taken so many dumb turns. so many small things are still executed masterfully too… but I don’t know how seriously I can take it after the very early game reveal that joel is a sensitive guitar bro so like, it’s probably okay that he killed all those activists and doctors in part I. I just
The plot to 2 is watching two people continue to exponentially fuck things up further and further for themselves. One eventually learns, the other doesn’t.
It’s pretty miserable in that regard. That said, Team Abby all the way.
I’m so conflicted about Chernobyl because half of it featured great quasi-documentarian material and half of it was pernicious nonsense and obvious falsehoods. It gave me a feeling of constant whiplash. The side narrative about the firefighter and his pregnant wife was the worst prestige tv dross I’d witnessed in a long time.
Just finished watching this and yeah. There was like, an hour of footage of naive conscript kid shooting dogs, to no narrative end? Lots of overlong lingering shots with mournful music that last so long the emotion fizzles out and leaves you bored. Should have spent more time on the engineering procedural and cut all this weepy crap. Could have dropped a whole episode’s worth of junk and been so much better.
my respect for the naughty dog animators & environmental designers rocketed up. never been so disheartened on seeing practical effects
I can feel the ooze of gamer in the trailer, but where is the dad vibes. when does Joel give Ellie a bullet, I’m giving it to you but this is for me, I need you to, if I ever… :breaks eye contact: just be ready
