CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 I sat up too late this morning playing this. Third time through and I still love it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 6 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: I sat up too late this morning playing this. Third time through and I still love it. The pacing is really fantastic. I think the pacing is also fantastic in the sequel even though that game keeps going forever. But I don’t feel like there is wasted time in either game. If they plan to try to end this as a trilogy that is going to be so hard to meet expectations 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 I'm disappointed in the lack of pics/videos from you PC players 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 34 minutes ago, Brick said: I'm disappointed in the lack of pics/videos from you PC players I’m getting closer to this being not annoying because I need gamebar with my new cpu and it seems to have an easy direct capture. Now I just need to figure out how to auto save it in a place that is easy to post here and isn’t twitter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 @best3444 let’s just agree right now to both take a week off work when pt3 comes out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 6 minutes ago, stepee said: @best3444 let’s just agree right now to both take a week off work when pt3 comes out Oh, hands down a week off for that sucker! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 24 minutes ago, stepee said: @best3444 let’s just agree right now to both take a week off work when pt3 comes out 17 minutes ago, best3444 said: Oh, hands down a week off for that sucker! If you guys remember to in five years from now when it comes out haha 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 5 minutes ago, Brick said: If you guys remember to in five years from now when it comes out haha look don’t say that PT2 came out almost three years ago! It could just be another 3 even and that’s a fair 6 year dev cycle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 4 hours ago, stepee said: The pacing is really fantastic. I think the pacing is also fantastic in the sequel even though that game keeps going forever. But I don’t feel like there is wasted time in either game. If they plan to try to end this as a trilogy that is going to be so hard to meet expectations I think I have more of an attachment to the first game and I like the pacing better, but I really can’t find much to complain about for Part II. It’s just so heartbreaking and bleak. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 12 hours ago, stepee said: I’m getting closer to this being not annoying because I need gamebar with my new cpu and it seems to have an easy direct capture. Now I just need to figure out how to auto save it in a place that is easy to post here and isn’t twitter! NVidia’s recording feature built into GeForce Experience is vastly superior to gamebar. 4k HDR 120fps capture and essentially 0 loss for in-game performance during recording. I just upload to YouTube as a private video: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 14 hours ago, stepee said: The pacing is really fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 13 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: You think the pacing in the first game is bad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 12 minutes ago, Spork3245 said: You think the pacing in the first game is bad? The game opens with a narrative bang and then it takes a long time for the gameplay and encounters to get interesting. And there are a bunch of places that are made unnecessarily long by having to ferry Ellie around. It's not a long game so it's not egregious or anything, but those things made replays less fun than they could be. Possible my memory is bad though, I don't think I have replayed it since Remastered came out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 8 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: Possible my memory is bad though Yes. Ellie is one of the least annoying NPC partner characters in terms of AI following you correctly (and she’ll teleport to your location if you get too far away): the way you wrote your post it’s like you’re remembering Ashley from OG RE4. After the opening, it’s essentially a 30-45 minute tutorial that is also setting up the state of the world and Joel’s current character/demeanor post-time jump, then it’s basically set-piece to set-piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Just now, Spork3245 said: Yes. Ellie is one of the least annoying NPC partner characters in terms of AI following you correctly (and she’ll teleport to your location if you get too far away). After the opening, it’s essentially a 30-45 minute tutorial that is also setting up the state of the world and Joel’s current character/demeanor post-time jump, then it’s basically set-piece to set-piece. I don't fine Ellie annoying at all, she's great in the first game. But finding pallets and moving her around on them are a pretty transparent way of extending your time in smaller spaces. And once you know your way around the game, you can get through it in about 10 hours. The first 45 minutes dragging is a non trivial amount of the playtime! I feel like they got much better at this with TLoU2, aside from the last "third" where I felt like I really wanted to move the plot to its conclusion and the gameplay felt like an impediment to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 1 hour ago, Kal-El814 said: I don't fine Ellie annoying at all, she's great in the first game. But finding pallets and moving her around on them are a pretty transparent way of extending your time in smaller spaces. And once you know your way around the game, you can get through it in about 10 hours. The first 45 minutes dragging is a non trivial amount of the playtime! I feel like they got much better at this with TLoU2, aside from the last "third" where I felt like I really wanted to move the plot to its conclusion and the gameplay felt like an impediment to that. It’s puzzle solving, my guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Kal comin in here with some of his worst takes ever lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 23 minutes ago, best3444 said: Kal comin in here with some of his worst takes ever lol. Tell me you don't have notifications on for my posts without saying you don't have notifications on for my posts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 There’s like 5 or so raft segments that are used to add variety in the game by adding additional puzzles. The actual time you spend rafting her is like 5 seconds, they are used to split you two up which helps which adds a layer of tension and to add some puzzles to keeps things varied. They are more examples of how the pacing is good than bad. It’s a heavily narrative focused game so it having world building in the beginning doesn’t count against its pacing for me. It seems like you are ranking how well it plays as a pure action game during replays instead of the actual experience as intended. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Played this for several hours on my PC last night, the VRAM on the 3080 is definitely an issue. I'm running it at high settings at 1440p. It's mostly fine, framerate is good, but I was getting weird texture issues. Notably in the hotel the clothes hanging in the closets would freak out. It's perfectly playable on my PC, but I think I'll stick with the game room PC so I can do ultra/4K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 9 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: Played this for several hours on my PC last night, the VRAM on the 3080 is definitely an issue. I'm running it at high settings at 1440p. It's mostly fine, framerate is good, but I was getting weird texture issues. Notably in the hotel the clothes hanging in the closets would freak out. It's perfectly playable on my PC, but I think I'll stick with the game room PC so I can do ultra/4K. The image quality is just sooo good with those ultra high res textures that the 4k oled is the way to go anyway! It looks like viewing concept art often times, just really pristine. Since you have that game room pc as an option for more demanding or poorly optimized games though it’s definitely smart to wait for the 5000’s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 11 minutes ago, stepee said: The image quality is just sooo good with those ultra high res textures that the 4k oled is the way to go anyway! It looks like viewing concept art often times, just really pristine. Since you have that game room pc as an option for more demanding or poorly optimized games though it’s definitely smart to wait for the 5000’s Yeah, now that we have a beastly PC as an option, I wanna use it more. But I still like having my own setup at my desk. The 3080 has been great for most stuff so far. TLOU is the first issue I've really had. Husband is on a 3070 still, so he's been playing Cyberpunk down there. I sure hope NVIDIA isn't as stingy with VRAM on their next line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 10 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: Yeah, now that we have a beastly PC as an option, I wanna use it more. But I still like having my own setup at my desk. The 3080 has been great for most stuff so far. TLOU is the first issue I've really had. Husband is on a 3070 still, so he's been playing Cyberpunk down there. I sure hope NVIDIA isn't as stingy with VRAM on their next line. Yeah hopefully the 5000 series will have vram that is fine for the rest of this generation. I think if they just bump the 5080 to 20gb that should be good for everything until we hit 8k. The 3080 is still a good card it’s just going to have issues with certain things here and there and I think Last of Us is a big outlier there with how there’s no way to easily scale down. Just going to dlss performance should be enough to solve the vram issue for most anything, something is just off with that one. But ohhhh is it pretty when you brute force past that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 Beat the main game last night and started on Left Behind. I'll finish that when I'm off again on Thursday. And goddamn, I missed a lot of Firefly pendants. How are they so hard to find when I got nearly all of everything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 The Last of Us Part I DLSS 3 Mod by PureDark Doubles FPS Once Again WCCFTECH.COM PureDark has showcased his new DLSS 3 mod for The Last of Us Part I. It can double the frame rate on GeForce RTX 40 graphics cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 13, 2023 Author Share Posted June 13, 2023 The Last of Us Part I v1.1.0 Patch Notes for PC Quote A patch for The Last of Us Part I is now live. This update primarily focuses on performance improvements, Steam Deck performance, various crashes, and more. Alongside this patch, The Last of Us Part I is now Steam Deck Verified. You will find the latest patch notes for Steam Deck below. Downloading this patch will trigger a full shader rebuild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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