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Just finished on hardmode

Story: 6/10

[SPOILER:1bcda03047]Decent twists, good story overall, yet at the same time extremely reminicscene of any other zombie outbreak game I've played before.

Virus breaks out, people die, post-apocalyptic era. A cure arises, you spend the game trying to deliver the cure (Ellie) to researchers, but a bond develops and you sacrifice the sake of human kind over your emotions[/SPOILER:1bcda03047]

Characters: 8/10

You'll fall in love with the characters

Your main character is a stoic who doesn't talk about the past yet you can tell has a heart of gold and takes time warming up to anyone and in the end just misses his daughter

Ellie: Awesome at first, a 14 year old cool as hell girl who yearns for the affection of anyone who will have her and care about her

The supporting characters never last long but all have their own attitudes and demeanor that make them all memorable

AI: 5/10

Falls extremely short here. I didn't play the hardest mode, but in hardmode the game was a cakewalk provided you didn't run headfirst into everything.
The human enemies seemed to ignore their comrades dying right in front of them, and every infected in the game could be avoided with a simple brick/bottle

Enemies could also be avoided when spotted by simply running away and hiding for 5 seconds

Gameplay: 5/10

The upgrade system is flawed, and gives you seemingly useless upgrades for certain weapons (Increased fire rate on a one shot pistol anyone?). Smoke bombs were also beyond useless in the game

The firefight system was no different from any uncharted game, but at the same time Uncharted system isn't bad by any means, but does get redundant.

The game followed a simple pattern, Story - Stockup - Human Area - Infected Area
Was very predictable as what was going to happen, you would spend a half hour searching every place for materials/ammo to be greeted with a all too predictable firefight

The game itself was extremely linear, you could either spend ten minutes in an area and stockup on a few bullets, or simply rush to the exit, there was no diverging or backtracking by any means

The puzzles were almost non existent, not to say it was supposed to be a puzzle game, but was too easy to spot.

Water area? Find a pallet

No doors? Find a ladder or dumpster to climb on

Locked door? Find a hole Ellie can crawl through

Yawn.

Also the hardest difficulty is not unlocked at the start, why do games do this?

Hard difficulty is a bore, but the Survivor (Hardest) difficulty is tolerable, as you lose the ability to see through walls to spot enemies, which is a core component in earlier difficulties, but since the game as little replayability there is little motivation to play again on survivor

Graphics: 10/10

No complaints, awesome

Replayability: 1/10

Hardest difficult isn't available from the start, and since this game is mainly story driven, there is little motivation. You get to unlock skins, big whoop. No new areas, no new enemies, you only get to keep upgrades, which make an easy game even easier. Only motivation is trophies, which are for nerds anyway.

Sound: 6/10

Nothing spectacular as far as soundtrack goes, it has its soppy music for the soppy scenes, but no new great sound effects, but does do pretty good with the infected

Dialogue: 7/10

Awesome dialogue, at first Ellie is awesome with her cursing the world, but soon gets repetitive and monotonous and just plain annoying. The game also features hidden dialogue that is optional depending on whether or not you pay attention to the surrounding characters during scenes, some of which can be very heart-felt.

Consensus: Another great Naughty dog game for PS3 with great graphics characters and story, but the same gameplay as others we've seen. If you've play uncharted you've played this, certainly doesn't live up to hype of all the 10/10 you've seen a million times. Virtually no replayability and all of the trophies are inspired by collectathons. If I wanted to play a collectathon I still have my RARE games on the N64, no thanks.

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I skipped TC's post 'cos I havent finished for spoilers, but I dare say, after 6 hours in, i'm in agreement. Why this is getting 10s across the board is really puzzling me. Hell, the story doesn't even flow that great. It's just the same old linear A-B game that gives you some nice set pieces, albeit inferior ones than the UC series.

The gameplay is nothing new, and it's far more tedious than UC3's 'stealth or not to stealth' sections. Seen it all before, and there isn't anything else to it to make it interesting. At least UC's platform/puzzle sections were a nice change of pace.

And, my main gripe with the game is, the whole idea of being in a group is absolutely flawed to hell. When you're up against a stealth section, your partners constantly make noise to keep in your vicinity, and the game does nothing. Countless times you yourself will progress stealthily, and Bill and Ellie will run out in front of a zombie, and the zombie doesn't recognize them. I know the game's just going by your actions, but it totally breaks the immersion and sense of the game.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/652686-the-last-of-us/66445878

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

My copy arrived early yesterday. I don't want to give my overall opinion as I'm probably only about 5 hours in but this game does not deserve the 10/10 scores it's getting as it has quite a few problems.

Posted: Jun 14 2013 07:36 am

Alowishus wrote:

My copy arrived early yesterday. I don't want to give my overall opinion as I'm probably only about 5 hours in but this game does not deserve the 10/10 scores it's getting as it has quite a few problems.

most of the reviews i have read, indicate there are problems, but they also say the good definitely outweighs the bad. so much so, that it deserves the 10/10 score

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

username wrote:

Alowishus wrote:

My copy arrived early yesterday. I don't want to give my overall opinion as I'm probably only about 5 hours in but this game does not deserve the 10/10 scores it's getting as it has quite a few problems.

most of the reviews i have read, indicate there are problems, but they also say the good definitely outweighs the bad. so much so, that it deserves the 10/10 score

I've played a bit more. I mean it's not a bad game. The game is really buggy though.

Posted: Jun 14 2013 08:08 pm

Alowishus wrote:

username wrote:

Alowishus wrote:

My copy arrived early yesterday. I don't want to give my overall opinion as I'm probably only about 5 hours in but this game does not deserve the 10/10 scores it's getting as it has quite a few problems.

most of the reviews i have read, indicate there are problems, but they also say the good definitely outweighs the bad. so much so, that it deserves the 10/10 score

I've played a bit more. I mean it's not a bad game. The game is really buggy though.

so.... gamefly it is, then

Posted: Jun 15 2013 12:22 am

username wrote:

Alowishus wrote:

My copy arrived early yesterday. I don't want to give my overall opinion as I'm probably only about 5 hours in but this game does not deserve the 10/10 scores it's getting as it has quite a few problems.

most of the reviews i have read, indicate there are problems, but they also say the good definitely outweighs the bad. so much so, that it deserves the 10/10 score

10/10 games should not have bads to be outweighed.

Posted: Jun 15 2013 01:22 am

I'm only about 2.5-3 hours in but it seems pretty decent at this point. Stealthing seems to be pretty much pointless and, while horrible shots, the AI characters seem to take no damage and seem to have infinite ammo. 10 minute firefight between Tess and a random enemy soldier resulted in her killing him on what I believe was either her 5th or 6th clip and having no less than 20 bullets pass right through her chest and head while she fired at him. Probably not a 10/10 game but a 7 or an 8 would probably feel right at this point.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

So I decided to load up my game for another day...and despite having a fucking autosave function, my last save was an hour back from where I last was.

I'm close to giving up.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Alowishus wrote:

So I decided to load up my game for another day...and despite having a fucking autosave function, my last save was an hour back from where I last was.

I'm close to giving up.

#21stCenturyGamers

Posted: Jun 29 2013 04:47 pm

I sorta resent this notion that game has to be perfect to have a perfect score. It makes sense on one hand, but the reality is that there's no such thing as a perfect game. Perfect means utterly without flaw, and there has never, ever been a game that meets that criteria. Especially not these days, when games are so large, expansive and varied in their content that the margin for error is so high.

But while there haven't been any perfect games, there have been some games that I felt gave me a perfect gaming experience. I'm only 10 hours in, but The Last of Us feels like it's on track to deliver that.

Posted: Jun 29 2013 05:27 pm

Alowishus wrote:

So I decided to load up my game for another day...and despite having a fucking autosave function, my last save was an hour back from where I last was.

I'm close to giving up.

You are the weakest gamer ever.

Posted: Jun 29 2013 08:58 pm

I watched a walkthrough of the game without any commentary since I don't have access to a PS3. Winter is my favorite of the game's "chapters," and while I can't condone Joel's final decision, I can see why HE would be the sort of person to go about things like he did.

Posted: Jul 02 2013 11:25 am

Utterly loved the game. One of the best gaming experiences I've had in a long time. I actually cared about the characters and there were several times where my mouth was agape in shock, and I also teared up. I'm actually excited to play this again on the Survivor difficulty, it will definitely be interesting without the ability to "hear" the enemies.

Posted: Jul 02 2013 02:27 pm

I'm not quite finished yet, but last night I finished up the Fall section around midnight. And then I played Winter.

And fuck. Just...fuck.

Winter was one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. It was shocking, tense and heartwarming all at the same time. This game has a few minor flaws, but in light of the experience it gives you, they're easily forgiven. After having played the Winter segment, it's easy to see why this game is getting perfect scores.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

DarknessDeku wrote:

Alowishus wrote:

So I decided to load up my game for another day...and despite having a fucking autosave function, my last save was an hour back from where I last was.

I'm close to giving up.

You are the weakest gamer ever.

1. Fuck you.

2. This game is one of the most overhyped games I've ever seen. My giving up was with regards to how much of a trainwreck this game is. I found the part I'd played up to, particularly tedious and boring. The thought of having to then replay that part and go through the same fucking boredom was unbearable.

I expected good things for this game but the story is bland as fuck and completely predictable.

The game is a 7/10 at best (by actual scores and not those stupid fucking journalist scores they give nowadays where nothing basically gets below 8/10)

Posted: Jul 02 2013 11:11 pm

I thought this game was ok. Definitely not as great as most people are making it out to be. Nice to see people circlejerk over this same theme, yet again being beaten into oblivion.

Posted: Jul 03 2013 01:29 am

I honestly haven't even touched the game since the day it came out and I played for a couple hours. Just don't really feel inspired to play it at all since it didn't seem to be anything particularly spectacular. Between the new Civ V expansion and the upcoming Steam Summer Sale I probably won't even get back to it until late August and by then several other new game preorders will be coming in to play and it'll just get pushed aside again.

Posted: Jul 04 2013 05:21 pm

Looks like we are the minority Fighter. I will be completely honest when I first started I was a little bored, put the game down and played some Final Fantasy XIV Beta for the weekend. I came back got to "Pittsburgh" and couldn't put it down. Can't wit for the DLC.

Posted: Jul 09 2013 09:08 am

Well, I like it. I'm about three hours into it after having played it at a friend's house and so far the game is incredibly visceral and intense. If I owned it I probably wouldn't be able to put it down.