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If you can’t afford a console outright, it sounds like a bad idea to be financing one. I feel the same about phones. Its usually not a deal to your benefit in the long run. like those “rent to own” scams. Local place wanted 2300$ in weekly payments over 2 years for a SWITCH.  I was shocked when I read their flyer.

That said, I don’t know MS’s plan, if they are willing to eat a lot of financing and development costs just to get a console in everyones homes, it might be an ok deal. But just saving and buying outright seems like its usually a far more economical idea. 
 

Not financing needless crap has long been the plot armor to my financial security. I doubt I’d break that rule for an X-box.

7 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

N64 was ugly when it launched. Muddy ugly textures and slowdown up the ass and tons of fog. It never looked good.

Exactly. Thankfully it had some amazing games with excellent gameplay, because they looked terrible. 
M64 and OoT are still among the best games ever made, imo.

Think im gonna start Rise of the Tomb Raider, as well as a bit more of my second play through of last of us 2, as I search for more collectibles. 

10 hours ago, ManUtdRedDevils said:

I’m sure they will receive a nice financial package 

Whatever is obligated by their contract, im sure. Unless they committed criminal acts themselves, I didn’t read everything yet. 

I played the game on the second highest difficulty, with supplies on moderate. Thats good enough for me. I like hard, I hate beating my head against the wall. 

Just now, JPDunks4 said:

 

You wouldn't prefer to play games on better hardware, with potentially better performance?  Not sure if Nintendo games will be able to do that, but if I can play some of these Nintendo games at better performance, I'd love that.

Its not that I don’t want it, its just that its not a factor in if I get it or not. 
 

the major thing I want from them is a robust online system like ms/sony

1 hour ago, JPDunks4 said:

Whatever they do, it better finally be back compat 

See, I just don’t care about this. Im fine playing games on their original consoles.

Tony Hawk Pro Skater and Super Smash Bro’s. There were plenty of other great games too, but my friends and I played those constantly 

They are way behind in power already. Nintendo doesn’t care what MS and Sony are doing. They never have.

17 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

He just wants to get paid a lot of money before he retires.

Do you blame him though? Take that EA money and ride off into the sunset.

7 hours ago, ManUtdRedDevils said:

 

black ps5

Is that real? Please tell me that is real.

it doesn’t look real, but its tiny on my phone

14 hours ago, Emperor Diocletian II said:

 

Hmmmm...maybe I already have a natural immunity! 

Ok, but when the fireflies have you on the table, we’re leaving you there. I don’t want no smoke from Abby.

9 hours ago, Paperclyp said:

God damnit. Pass. 
 

Such promise after the thousand year door and they just mail it in with this series. 

How do you know they mailed it in? Nobody has reviewed it yet.

I started a second play through, which is very rare. I love playing this game. And I love blowing people up with explosive arrows. 

9 minutes ago, Amazatron said:

 

Dan Maples, come on down...

 

 

I know its not the point of this post, but I just want to take a moment to state Beyonce is about the the most stunningly attractive woman I have ever seen. 

On 6/6/2020 at 4:28 AM, SimpleG said:

The story of Schilling the video game wunderkind and the 75 million loan,great stuff.

Whoever thought it was smart to get in business with the biggest idiot in baseball to make a video game should be exiled from the world of man. 
 

i bought this game at launch and could just never get into it. It didn’t seem bad, I just had much better games to play.

9 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said:

 

Only bad people wouldnt!

6 hours ago, heydude93 said:

Just finished watching the credits roll.  Two questions:

 

- Should I play and beat the original before starting the next one?

 

- If this isn't a sequel disguised as a remake to tell a new-ish story using the same characters and world, what's the point of adding the whispers of fate/Sephiroth/multiverse timeline angle instead of just tweaking and expanding the story like in other remakes?  It seems like there's good reason to expect significant changes or why introduce the wof/alternate timeline stuff at all?

I f you do play the original, I suggest you play it on PC with thd New Threat mod installed. Its a much, much better game. 

7 hours ago, SoberChef said:

So it's been about 14 hours since I finished the game. As for time spent playing through on Moderate, I really cannot attest to (is there a way to track it?) I was just so engrossed in all of it. On top of that, I was (what I believed to be), very thorough in my exploration of the levels yet was astonished to discover that I found roughly 60% of all safes/benches/cards/coins/letters. This alone makes me want to play again on New Game+ but with as heavy as this whole thing is, I'm hesitant to revisit it at least for a while (already burdened by nightmares of this game legitimately.) As for my thoughts, reactions, etc. my $.02 is as follows...

 

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• Joel not only took away Ellie’s “reason for existing” but he, by way of killing her father, did the very same thing to Abby.
• Because of this, Joel's time was up one way or another. Abby had been searching for years for him with one singular purpose and literally all that surrounded her were merely a means to the visceral end she was compelled to deal out to this ONE personification of the ruining of what her existence SHOULD have been. 
• The years of training, internalization, bottled up emotions...it is awful in the HOW of Joel's death (being so brutal) but it was pure catharsis for Abby.
• As someone who also has a deep seeded fear of heights, that element which was introduced quite quickly when you began to play as her, was the first bit of "Ohhh! Well at least in that sense she's relatable." Which in turn was essentially that first domino falling to give way to even beginning to see things appropriately from her POV.
• Had Ellie not been present and/or had Joel's death not been so vile & garish, I'm not even sure she would have gone to such extreme lengths for vengeance. I say this because of the ground they were on, the harboring of resentment still so close, all of it. 
• The quieter moments of conversation, world building, backstory, times to just breathe and process - all were phenomenally well done & well timed.
• Having to BE Abby in that first boss fight against Ellie I was absolutely NOT OK with. I hated it, I cried (I had JUST SCREAMED when I believed she had shot & killed Tommy moments earlier all without a moment to process.) I actually relished every failed attempt to progress the battle and ended up dead by Ellie's end so that she could have that for herself even though the game isn't meant to be written in such a way.
• The visualization of PTSD was done tastefully and you understand just exactly WHY Ellie has to walk away from her established "new normal" just to finally get that which she believes she desires most and will rectify all of her perceived troubles. 
• Genuinely believed Lev was a boy until the revelation of the Lily statement. 
• As everything progresses as Abby, the duality of it all just continued to echo in my mind. I enjoyed being able to fully explore with great & sincere empathy both sides to the coin throughout. 
• The end fight, again just hearkens back to what I said about Ellie NEEDING THIS FIGHT! That said, even in those last few moments before it began, I cried and shuddered and sobbed not wanting this to continue and end potentially with one or both being dead (or even possibly Lev for that matter!)
• Ellie arriving back to the empty house, the inability to play her guitar further emphasizing physically what she has lost. That by going through such a fruitless endeavor only served to further distance herself from the person she was doing it all for in the first place. I feel that it wasn't even the fact she couldn't play anymore but that the memory of Joel was so sour & bitter at that point that it was the final step needed to just walk away from it all. Because of that, I feel she also quite possibly walked away from Jackson either that day or not too long thereafter. 

 

One thing I cannot get out of my mind is, regardless of how harrowing, vile, ghastly, disturbing, and grimy the story was and how I as the player felt at the end of it, I just want to engage in a TLoU3 immediately. What that story is or could be I do not know however. What if Abby did reconnect with the Fireflies on the island? They find out about all that transpired, wouldn't they want to go after Ellie as well? Where does that leave Jackson and the few left there that mean something to Ellie? 

 

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. 
 

thst said 

Glad you enjoyed the game!

6 minutes ago, johnny said:

If he wants to make a third I have no problem with it. 2 masterpieces imo. who am I to say he shouldn’t do a part 3 if he thinks of a story worth telling 

I think a third with the same characters is overkill. We can’t only have these characters do the same thing over and over. Any new story with them would end up being reductive and detract from the series. Most things get worse as sequels drag on. Move on, do something new. I have no interest in a 3rd adventure with any of these characters. Thats just my opinion, though. 

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. 

The sequel is still superior. I love how they took away any player agency, making you come along for the ride, more than an interactive participant in the story. But I also think the pairing of Ellie and Joel in the first game were fare far more fun and interesting than this game’s protagonists. The original is certainly a sweeter story, a gruff old man and scared but bright child finding family in each other. I don’t think anyone would argue Joel is a good guy, but the way he warms up to and comes to love Ellie was extremely well done, and Ellies bravery and willingness to do anything to save Joel, physically and spiritually just makes for an incredible adventure. 
 

The second  game has almost none of that, but it still nails everything it attempts so perfectly. Aside from being a little drawn out in a couple of places, it feels pretty perfect. Ellie is a far different person this time around, and not near as likeable, by design. At the end of this game she’s in about the same place mentally that joel was at the beginning of the first, and it works so damn well. 

They definitely sent the PS4 out with one of best first party games in Sony history. And probably the third best direct sequel ive ever played.

I just hops Neil Druckmann doesn’t decide we need a third and ruin this series. Make a new IP and move on. These two games serve as a perfect time capsule of the last decade of gaming, they don’t need more. They can’t improve on this. Im fine with another game in the same world, in another place or in the future, but it can’t be connected to these characters. I think they’d ruin it. They said what they have to say with these people.

On 7/1/2020 at 6:52 PM, XxEvil AshxX said:

 

I think the idea of anybody being "serious" about a hobby is stupid. I think the fact that there is apparently a measurement for a hobby, is stupid. It's a fuckin' hobby. People have hobbies for their enjoyment, and the only person that should decide how "serious" they are, is them. Nobody else gets an opinion.

 

If I want to mountain bike on a $89 Walmart special, and that's as much as I want to invest into it, that's up to me, and fuck all those guys with their expensive ass bikes in their little tight biking shorts with their ballsacks flopping around riding the exact same trails as me trying to get me to move out of their way like they have some sort of superiority over me just because they spent thousands of dollars more than me to do the exact same fucking thing.

Ok, but what if that hobby is skydiving, or wingsuit flying! Point is, some hobbies are very serious. Gaming not so much. 😋

Last of Us (replaying the original) and Witcher 3 maybe.

6 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Finished. Man, I'm gonna need some time to process this one. 

 

Gameplay was good, loved the environments, the atmosphere, the discovery of notes to tell smaller stories of people from the past. 

 

I still think I liked the story from the first game better. 

 

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By the end, it all felt so pointless. Both women lost nearly everything and for what? That final fight was brutal. 

 

I'd like to think Ellie went back to Jackson to reconcile with Dina. What else would she do? 

 

I ended up liking Abby more by the end. Really loved her friendship with Lev. He was the best character in the game. 

 

I'm guessing we won't get another game in the series. At least not with a focus on these characters. 

 

Still, I think it's one of the best of this generation and a fantastic swan  song for the PS4, much like its predecessor was. 

4 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

It didn't? I don't remember any issues with this in the game.

I meant from building to building, and don’t get me wrong, its one of my favourite games. I just always found the sideways running wonky. Especially as it relates to a few of harry’s station quests