Spoiler The Last of Us

[Reaca]

Guys, I just got home with my newly rented copy of The Last of Us.

I've been playing for about 10 minutes now, and it's already made me sadder than any game I've ever played.

So I haven't played enough to form any other opinions of it, but what do you guys think of it?

 

[Ventus]

Great game, great story, great gameplay. :yes:
10/10

 

[Trio the Punch]

I actually really dislike this game. I found it... heinously boring. And honestly, I used to be really into the story of games, but these days I just don't give a ****. If I'm not having fun with a game the story means **** all to me. The concept behind Last of Us is "oh dear, zombies" which has been goddamn cliche for MANY years now, the escort **** is nonsense, the enemy variety is YAWWWWN, you're given far too much ammo for any challenge to come about, and honestly, HONESTLY, I found the story trite and predictable (I watched a movie of the cutscenes later to find out, I did NOT play all the way through the game). **** this game. It is BEYOND overrated, and I quit after two hours to go play Mario Sunshine because that game can actually hold my attention. 3/10, at my most generous.

 

[ShadowDiety]

I actually really dislike this game. I found it... heinously boring. And honestly, I used to be really into the story of games, but these days I just don't give a ****. If I'm not having fun with a game the story means **** all to me. The concept behind Last of Us is "oh dear, zombies" which has been goddamn cliche for MANY years now, the escort **** is nonsense, the enemy variety is YAWWWWN, you're given far too much ammo for any challenge to come about, and honestly, HONESTLY, I found the story trite and predictable (I watched a movie of the cutscenes later to find out, I did NOT play all the way through the game). **** this game. It is BEYOND overrated, and I quit after two hours to go play Mario Sunshine because that game can actually hold my attention. 3/10, at my most generous.

In all honesty I thought I was the only one who holds this opinion.

 

[Ventus]

I actually really dislike this game. I found it... heinously boring. And honestly, I used to be really into the story of games, but these days I just don't give a ****. If I'm not having fun with a game the story means **** all to me. The concept behind Last of Us is "oh dear, zombies" which has been goddamn cliche for MANY years now, the escort **** is nonsense, the enemy variety is YAWWWWN, you're given far too much ammo for any challenge to come about, and honestly, HONESTLY, I found the story trite and predictable (I watched a movie of the cutscenes later to find out, I did NOT play all the way through the game). **** this game. It is BEYOND overrated, and I quit after two hours to go play Mario Sunshine because that game can actually hold my attention. 3/10, at my most generous.

You too? Ouch. I actually agree with Trio. Sure enough the gameplay is melded with the story (or maybe created BY the story but who knows?), but the story simply isn't anything to me (except for the opening...damn that was saddening). From the moment you start playing as Joel, the game became boring. And monotonous. And boring. :/

 

[Reaca]

I actually really dislike this game. I found it... heinously boring. And honestly, I used to be really into the story of games, but these days I just don't give a ****. If I'm not having fun with a game the story means **** all to me. The concept behind Last of Us is "oh dear, zombies" which has been goddamn cliche for MANY years now, the escort **** is nonsense, the enemy variety is YAWWWWN, you're given far too much ammo for any challenge to come about, and honestly, HONESTLY, I found the story trite and predictable (I watched a movie of the cutscenes later to find out, I did NOT play all the way through the game). **** this game. It is BEYOND overrated, and I quit after two hours to go play Mario Sunshine because that game can actually hold my attention. 3/10, at my most generous.

Yeah, after about six hours, I'm extremely bored of this game's gameplay. For the first 2 hours or so, I was thinking about how the simple, generic gameplay would evolve into something more unique... but it never did. When I found human enemies, the gunplay and stealth was bad, and "sneaking" around clickers by crouching and walking slowly in front of them was terrible, especially when you had more than just Ellie following you. I can't tell you how many times Bill and Ellie teamed up to trap me in a corner while a clicker walked into me and killed me. The story seemed like the standard "oh my god, zombies" along with "this one person seems immune to the infection." There are two things that I did like about it, though. I do like the character of Ellie. Even though she does swear a little too much, it's fun to see her try to learn to whistle, just like a kid her age might try to do. The other thing I like is how the game looks. The areas and cutscenes are gorgeous. I'm sure that I would have disliked the game even if it wasn't completely overhyped. My final score is 5/10 - Bad.

 

[ProtagonistJake]

"Just recently finished the Last of US, and while its by no means a perfect or revolutionary game, the amount of detail and life in the ironically zombie filled wasteland is something to be praised.
It's a linear and sometimes scripted game, but the levels are made so alive and designed so cleverly you barely notice when playing through, it just feels as part of the normal world, instead of just an obvious game obstacle.
Not to mention the thousands of optional and well hidden content and dialogue you can find if you go exploring and think outside the box.

The Story I would normally call generic, but the characterization and more unique twists they pull off with the tired zombie formula is pretty impressive.
Just goes to show how much a new coat of paint can pretty up a picture.
The characters are so realistically portrayed, with astounding voice acting to boot, that it manages to draw you in to the scenarios which have really all been done with Zombies before.
It's not the scenario, its how these characters interact with it you want to see.

The gameplay is basically Uncharted, but with an amazingly well implemented crafting system that you have to actually make choices on crafting one thing over the other (Imagine that), and design on rewarding those for being stealthy and smart makes it a 10x more compelling experience than most "blast through the enemies like the bullet sponge you are" games nowadays (Infinite...). Though the AI can be pretty hit and miss. The enemy AI can go from being ingenious to incredibly damn stupid. For example one time this guy refused to come out of cover like every other cover shooter and instead tried to flank me. I was left in awe. Next thing you know I strangled this guy's buddy 3 ft away from him and he never noticed. I was left in awe.

It's whole escort mission thing is a bit of a copout, in similar ways to how it is in Bioshock Infinite. As in she's completely invisible and your enemies just ignore her (Which is barely an escort mission technically). BUT, she's automatically better than what Infinite offers because, not only is the girl herself realistically characterized and interesting, but she doesn't help you out in the most distracting way possible. And, despite what i said before, CAN and IS caught in situations where you need to protect her and its not infuriating, because she helps you cross obstacles and figures things out as well. She helps in her own realistic way.

The games can be rather unpolished though, with random glitches out the wazoo. They can be pretty immersion breaking at times too (My friend discovered a God mode glitch).
Other than that though it's a very compelling game and experience that is probably my GOTY as of now.

8.5/10"

 

[Ventus]

TLOU is a fantastic game worth multiple replays. The critical reception didn't lie for once. However, the multiplayer portion of the game is largely forgettable.

 

[Rohan]

It's a good movie.

 

[ProtagonistJake]

It's a good movie.

Ohhhhhhh no

That gameplay to cut-scene ratio is absolutely nothing.

It's about 60:40 in gameplay's favor.

Doesnt even touch MGS4's level

 

[Rocky]

Doesnt even touch MGS4's level

Except MGS4 was a much better game and had a really good story.

As for this game, the game play was alright, but honestly I didn't see anything innovating. Generic third person stealth game play. And I agree with Trio, the game has a generic plot that involves some form of zombie outbreak and throws you in the midst of an apocalyptic world where everyone's killing each other (ahemTheWalkingDeadahem). The zombie genre is the most overused and beaten to death thing out there. Honestly, Naughty Dog could have came up with something more epic, like Uncharted. Now that series was epic. Total India Jones ripoff, but it had never been done before. It was as if you were IN a movie. It had an amazing story line, great cast of characters, and beautiful scenery too. But nope, they got lazy and didn't feel like being creative to come up with something that hadn't been done before. They went with the safe route and new people would be suckered into getting the game just because it has zombies in it. Personally, I love zombie related things, but it is starting to get old, and if people keep overusing it, I will get sick of seeing another darn zombie game/movie/show.

Overall, the game was alright. I'd rate it a 7.5/10. Honestly, for what it was, the story was okay at best. It just felt like a huge escort mission. It wasn't really engaging and honestly the ending was really predictable. My friend and I both called out how the ending would happen, and it played out exactly like we said it would. Sure, the game was sort of depressing, but there's a ton more other shows/movies/games that play with your emotions even more. Want an example? Okay, go play The Walking Dead. That game was an emotional roller coaster. Not only that, the game had one of the best written stories in recent memory.