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2 hours ago, SoberChef said:
While I'm curious to hear & read reviews, I don't think I'm going to allow them to sway my opinion of making this a day 1 purchase for me!
The information provided in reviews helps me determine if a game seems like something that I will want to play sooner rather than later, and if I think that it will be worth it to me to pay full price for. I don't care about scores as much as I care about what's said, because I know what I personally like and don't like in games despite if the reviewer feels the same way or not.
2 hours ago, Emperor Diocletian II said:Sounds promising.
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The closer that this gets to release, the more interested in it that I become. Reviews will determine if it's something that I buy on day one, or wait to get when it's cheaper.
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On 7/6/2020 at 6:39 PM, BloodyHell said:
So, I just completed Tha Last of Us and Left Behind. I never played It on PS4 before now, I beat it twice on PS3 but never picked it up again.
First of all, for an early remaster, the game still looks really good for PS4 today.
Second, while tLoU2 is a better game all around, especially in combat, the pacing of the original is much, much better. The game never dragged Anywhere, and there was always the right mixture of excitement and calm, letting you level off and explore between frantic fights.
I just finished it again as well, and part of the reason why the PS4 remastered version looks really good is because it runs at a smooth 60fps. And while I agree that Part II is a better game from a gameplay perspective, the first game is a better game from a story, characterization and pacing perspective IMO. I find it to be a more emotional, human and touching tale overall.
On 7/7/2020 at 8:05 AM, BloodyHell said:I always wonder if there is something wrong with me, because ive never cried during a movie or a game. I just can’t get attached enough to pixels I guess.
On 7/7/2020 at 8:28 AM, CastlevaniaNut18 said:Hell, I’m a woman and I pretty much never cry at books, movies, shows, games, etc.
A few things have caused my eyes to get a bit watery, but that’s usually real life stuff. Like a few parts in Ken Burns’ Vietnam War series.
I’m just not much of a crier.
I didn't really get too emotional from things when I was younger, but as I've gotten older and have endured more hardships and losses in life I'm more emotional now and will cry if something hits me hard enough in a story. The moments that affected me the most in The Last of Us Part II were...
Spoilerwhen Ellie plays a-ha's "Take on Me" on guitar in the record store, it's a charming cover of one of my favorite songs from my youth that made me emotional. Also, when Abby tells Lev that he's her people - I found that moment to be touching and it made me teary-eyed. And when Ellie had her emotional/mental breakdown in the barn on the farm, I could really feel her pain and torment during that scene and it made me cry.
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3 hours ago, XxEvil AshxX said:
Fixed.
Yeah, I got much more of a Witcher III vibe from that gameplay footage than Assassin's Creed.
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On 7/4/2020 at 1:24 PM, BloodyHell said:
Im replaying the original, and this game is still so, so good.
I am too, and I agree. It's one of my favorite games. I'm going to play through Part II again after I finish it.
22 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:Damn, I thought I was thorough in my slightly over 34 hours with the game. Looking at my stats, I missed a decent few collectibles. More than I thought I had. Rats.
Same here. I thought that I looked just about everywhere that there was to look in the environments for all the extra stuff, but discovered that I missed quite a bit after I finished the game.
6 hours ago, SaysWho? said:I agree, and it's a good example as to why I don't watch movies/shows that much these days because I prefer playing video games instead.
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I liked Abby, and thoroughly enjoyed her section of the game. I just didn't really care for them making the surgeon that Joel killed at the end of the first game her father and reason for revenge as I feel that they could have come up with something better than that. I also didn't care for how they handled her killing Joel, but beyond that I found her to be a rather likable character.
I felt for her the most when she was on the pillars a beaten, broken, defeated and diminished shell of her former self. I think that part of the reason why they made her so muscular in the game was to visually show just how much that she suffered and withered away in captivity, and it worked.
I thought that Ellie was going to let her go after seeing her in such a damaged state which is what I wanted her to do, or at the very least have a fair fight against her since they were on equal footing at that point. I didn't like Ellie immediately cutting the shit out of her with her switchblade, that seemed underhanded to me. But I was glad that she spared her in the end.
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3 hours ago, SaysWho? said:
Maybe if she looked like this:
Then I'd wonder where she found the time or what purpose it would serve.
But Abby just looks like a muscular woman. They exist. She's not "exaggerated" lol
I didn't know that it was possible for women to get THAT muscular... dayum! I guess that Abby's physique isn't as exaggerated/unrealistic looking as I thought. I admit that I was wrong.
10 minutes ago, Dodger said:SpoilerYeah, Lev is female to male transgendered. I agree that he's one of the best characters in the game.
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58 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:
I’m tired of oversexualization of female video game characters. I’m fine with how Abby looks. It’s a change.
Ellie and Dina aren't oversexualized, and I'm fine with how they look because they look realistic and not unrealistically exaggerated like Abby does IMO.
SpoilerLike I previously stated, young Abby in her flashback scenes looks good IMO because she looks realistic, but her current muscular appearance looks overdone like she has a male bodybuilder's physique. They could have made her muscular looking without making her look like He-Man.
43 minutes ago, johnny said:Shut up
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3 hours ago, johnny said:Spoiler
There are plenty of ugly and obese women as well, but that doesn't mean that I want to play as them in video games.
SpoilerI get that Abby is a soldier and why she would want to be strong for that reason, but I still feel that they went a little overboard with how buff that they made her.
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3 hours ago, TheLeon said:Spoiler
Despite thinking that her muscular physique is exaggerated, it admittedly does make her feel like a genetically enhanced badass super soldier while playing as her which is kind of cool.
1 hour ago, Amazatron said:Definitely the most spot on assessment of the game that I’ve seen.
It's not bad, but I personally feel that Angry Joe nailed it better (spoilers):
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Spoiler2 hours ago, SimpleG said:
Did I miss it in the first game or in this game but did anyone actually know how to find Joel , I mean even if the they know the state thats a hell of needle in a haystack
It was never explained how Abby was able to track him to his whereabouts which I thought that they would show in flashbacks during her section of the game.
1 hour ago, TheLeon said:Abby has the body of a woman that has spent years getting ripped so when she finally has the opportunity to get revenge, she can kick this dude's ass. Meanwhile Ellie can take on fully grown men in melee combat, but she looks like a gangly dweeb that could be knocked over by a strong breeze.
Exactly.
I kept thinking why did Abby need to be ripped to go after Joel since she would most likely just use weapons to kill him when she finally found him. Boxing, martial arts and some strength training I could maybe understand, but why the body of a bodybuilder? That just seemed like overkill to me. And like you said, skinny little Ellie was able to take on humans and infected just as easily without the need to be He-Man. But she did have an unbreakable switchblade that definitely helped. -
16 minutes ago, SimpleG said:
You need to spoiler that stuff
Yeah, I realized that it wasn't hidden right after posting it which I remedied immediately.
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Spoiler3 hours ago, SimpleG said:
She was a little exaggerated but not much and certainly not when we compare to other buff characters.Just an FYI some girls have small titties and in shape very muscular low body fat women will have smaller boobs. This women has very close body type to Abby
Her arms are comparable to Abby's, but the rest of her looks more female including actually having breasts. Abby looks like a male bodybuilder with a female face. And me asking why Abby didn't have breasts was a rhetorical question.
3 hours ago, SimpleG said:My issue with it was that there was little to no real verifying this is who we are looking for from the group
I agree, the second that he says that his name is Joel he's brutally attacked. I'm sure that there's more than one person named Joel in the world. No matter how you look at it the killing of Joel happened too suddenly, and was poorly handled.
3 hours ago, SimpleG said:I also would like to have seen more of that instead of the repeated ad nauseam neighborhoods that we got.
Yeah, same-y looking Seattle neighborhoods and city streets are basically the entirety of the game's environments except for the Aquarium and Seraphite village. We only got to spend like five minutes in California, I would have liked more of the game to take place there.
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I finished it, it took me 35 hours and that was taking my time searching everywhere for ammo, collectibles, crafting materials, health items, notes, supplements, etc.
I enjoyed every minute of it and some really cool stuff happens throughout, but the story and ending didn't really do it for me. While the story was somewhat entertaining due to a lot of the events that occur in it and how well that it's told, I wouldn't really call it good. It was kind of all over the place, and I think that a lot of things that happen in it should have been handled better/differently. The first game had a much better story IMO.
The best aspects of the game are its graphics, environment designs and gameplay IMO. It looks stunning, and the combat is a lot of fun. But I feel that the game starts out better than it becomes later since it offers more exploration, environmental puzzles and platforming early on and then kind of becomes more of a straight forward linear action game later.The following are some specific things that I didn't like about it:
SpoilerAbby's muscular physique was exaggerated to the point of ridiculousness, and I found it distracting the entire time that she was onscreen whether it be in story scenes or when I was playing her. She looked great in the flashbacks when she was younger and thinner, but they went overboard with her current look. Some muscles would have been fine, but making her look like He-Man was absurd. Also, why didn't she have breasts? If she did, it would have made her cringe-y sex scene a little less cringe-y.
How quickly and viciously Joel was attacked and killed by Abby seemed completely unrealistic. I get that she was looking for him for a long time to get revenge for him killing her dad (which was a lame plot device IMO), but he just literally saved her life right before her attacking him. Perhaps that wouldn't change her mind about killing him, but I would think that it would have maybe made her hesitate and think about it a little first instead of instantly whipping out a shotgun and blowing off his kneecap and grabbing a golf club and beating him to death with it as soon as he said his name.
Not physically traveling to Seattle in the beginning felt like a missed opportunity to me. I was looking forward to that journey, but I was robbed of it. Even just a short cut-scene montage of the journey would have been better than nothing at all. I realize that some of the journey was mentioned in Ellie's Journal, but that's stuff that I want to play not just read about.
I didn't like that the bulk of the game took place in Seattle as it started becoming a little same-y looking, especially since you play through it as both Ellie and Abby. It was nice going to California at the end, but that part of the game was extremely brief. It seemed rushed, and you didn't get to spend much time there at all. It felt like they were originally going to make it a bigger part of the game, but cut it short due to time constraints. I also didn't like that they didn't really explain the Rattlers, they were a briefly encountered enemy faction in California with no explanation given as to who they were or why they were taking countless people as slaves.
You don't get to play as Ellie enough. While I liked Abby's portion of the game, I would have liked to have played as Ellie a lot more before playing as Abby. This game has always been shown as being Ellie's revenge tale, but then you only get to play as her for half the game (and briefly at the end).
And finally... WTF is up with Ellie's switchblade? It's virtually indestructible while crowbars in the game crumble after hitting an enemy a few times (which literally made me LOL). The blade on Ellie's switchblade would have broke off the very first time that she used it on an enemy, so why Naughty Dog felt that a switchblade was the right choice of knife to give Ellie to use throughout the game when there are so many military knives out there that would have made a lot more sense is baffling. Also, I didn't like that Ellie used it during the final fight with Abby. I would have enjoyed that fight a lot more had it been a fair fistfight from the start since it seemed uncharacteristic of Ellie to just start cutting the shit out of unarmed, frail, thin and weak Abby.
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I've played 15 hours so far, and it's been awesome the entire time. I can't remember the last time that a game has addicted me like this. It's nonstop entertainment. It's like a mix of the first The Last of Us, Days Gone, I Am Alive, Manhunt, Resident Evil and Tomb Raider (2013). The graphics are gorgeous, it's the best looking game that I've seen even beating out the likes of Horizon Zero Dawn, Red Dead Redemption II and Uncharted 4. The attention to detail is incredible.
The game itself is a great mix of third person action adventure and stealth combined with survival horror offering a good balance of semi-open exploration areas, and more linear combat heavy ones. Speaking of combat, it's some of the most visceral and satisfying that I've experienced in a game. It's brutal, and violent. And the violence is realistic and not cartoonish like it is in so many games, it's nice to play a game that doesn't feel like it's holding back to appeal to the masses.The variety of weapons at your disposal is fantastic: pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, bow and arrows, knives, baseball bats, crowbars, lead pipes, machetes, Molotov cocktails, shock bombs, smoke bombs, proximity bombs, bottles, bricks, etc. You have something for every type of enemy encounter, and it's entirely up to you how you approach each situation.
While it has its cinematic story moments, it's more gameplay driven than the first game. A lot of the environments are bigger and more open than they were in the first game as well offering more environmental interaction, exploration, puzzles and platforming. There's also a good blend of both outdoor and indoor levels which is nice for variety.It's a shame that more developers don't have the balls to make games like this, because after gaming for approximately 40 years I admit that I'm starting to get tired of the same old rehashed/reskinned shit that doesn't take any chances and play it safe to avoid controversy and appeal to mass consumption. We need more games like this with the attitude that if you don't like it then don't play it, because not everything is for everyone. It's as simple as that.
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5 hours ago, Emperor Diocletian II said:
This is EASILY one of my highlights of the presentation!
Same.
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This is one of my favorite action RPGs. While the story and characters aren't the greatest and there's an overabundance of boring/longwinded lore throughout, the colorful/varied high fantasy game world, quests and overall gameplay/combat are all topnotch.
I consider it to be one of the more underappreciated and underrated games of last gen, so I'm glad that they're rereleasing an updated version of it for those who might have missed it the first time.
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On 6/3/2020 at 12:17 PM, GameDadGrant said:
Hey, I own a PS4!
You do?!
I thought that you only played Nintendo systems, but I guess that I was mistaken.
On 6/3/2020 at 3:13 PM, heydude93 said:RE4's pacing, atmosphere and game design are timeless and influential in ways that are almost unprecedented in gaming, but I still think movement while aiming, more challenging combat and limited supplies of items, The Last of Us-inspired stealth mechanics, and a slightly more well written story are examples of progressions on it, many of which will appear in the remake.
I agree. The Evil Within is criminally underrated IMO. I have the sequel, but I haven't played it yet.
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11 hours ago, GameDadGrant said:
there are so few games I truly love anymore.
That's because you don't have a PS4.
11 hours ago, GameDadGrant said:...wait, does 3DS count as “this gen” still?
No.
9 hours ago, ShreddieMercuryRising said:Bizarrely, this conversation has me thinking about playing Days Gone even though it doesn't seem like my thing and "freakers" is the worst name I've ever heard for anything. How much open-world bullshit do you have to deal with in Days Gone? More or less than Horizon Zero Dawn? Because that was too much for me.
Days Gone has a much smaller and more dense open world than Horizon Zero Dawn, and it has a lot less filler as well. Some of its optional side activities are repeated a lot, but you can ignore doing them if you choose.
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19 hours ago, Bloodporne said:
I love how immersive the game feels in its seemingly complete disregard of the player. It makes you an archaeologist and sometimes you find things that fuck you up and sometimes you find a way forward. If someone asked me to pick one game that distills and bottles the essence of video games, I'd pick the first Dark Souls. I don't think it's perfect, some of it is quite flawed, but I think it somehow manages to combine everything I thought was 'magical' about video games as a kid and repackages it as a version that feels like those old games aged along with me and this is the outcome.
I totally get the appeal of the From Software Soulsborne games which is why I've given them all (except Demon's Souls) a good go, but after several hours into them despite wanting to push on my patience runs out and I have to quit playing them because I become enraged. I just don't have the tolerance for really difficult games that require a lot of trial-and-error now like I did when I was younger.
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16 hours ago, Bloodporne said:
I get it's not your cup of tea but those games are anything but simply some sort of challenge simulators. The amount of effort they put into environmental storytelling, atmosphere, deliberate pacing, rich-as-fuck lore and characters and everything in a game like Dark Souls or Bloodborne is staggering.
The From Software Soulsborne games (especially Bloodborne) are somewhat my cup of tea due to their gorgeous environments oozing with dark, disturbing and unsettling atmospheres, solid combat and incentive to explore. However, they lack narratives beyond obtuse sprinklings here and there which is not my preferred way of storytelling, and I'm also not much for going out of my way to discover backstory and lore in games.
I personally do feel that they're primarily about overcoming the challenges that they present the player with every step of the way throughout them. If they weren't so punishingly difficult (especially the bosses) and require so much trial-and-error, I would find them more fun and less daunting.
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3 hours ago, SimpleG said:
Days gone was pretty mediocre but I enjoyed my time with it.
Days Gone is far from mediocre as far as I'm concerned, it's one of my favorite games this gen. Everything about it is solid IMO. It has an entertaining story, an interesting cast of characters, a big game world packed with things to do and great melee/shooting/stealth combat. And the zombie hoards/mobs are intense. It appealed to me right from the start, and I enjoyed every minute of it.
2 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:I liked the spikey face girl
She's back.
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16 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:
Everything except your avatar you keep changing every 30 minutes.
Which is your favorite?
8 hours ago, gamer.tv said:For me, it was a good story wrapped up in an OK game.
Same for me.
1 hour ago, Bacon said:Zombies suck worse than superman these days.
I still like them.
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6 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:
My comments reflect my personal taste. I appreciate that others may not share them, and in fact may really enjoy the same things that are initially off-putting to me.
I totally get and respect that, I was just pointing out how for me the game's brutal, dark and grisly depiction of violence is a draw as opposed to a deterrent like it can be for others such as yourself. It basically comes down to different strokes for different folks.
I kept thinking why did Abby need to be ripped to go after Joel since she would most likely just use weapons to kill him when she finally found him. Boxing, martial arts and some strength training I could maybe understand, but why the body of a bodybuilder? That just seemed like overkill to me. And like you said, skinny little Ellie was able to take on humans and infected just as easily without the need to be He-Man. But she did have an unbreakable switchblade that definitely helped. 
I thought that you only played Nintendo systems, but I guess that I was mistaken.
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Spiders gets better with each new release, and I have a feeling that this will be their best game yet. The concept definitely sounds intriguing.