The Last of Us (PS3)

[Fe 26]

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[Geo]

I was also one of those 3,350. Sorry SSJN.

I wasn't planning on buying the game until I saw it available at that price. My brother has a PS3, I figure we can try to play the game between the two of us.

[Jimmy Carter]

So far, I'm liking the game well-enough. Sometimes, find it a little confusing. For instance, early on, you're running with a couple people, and getting shot at. Because of the narrative, I assumed I should be careful for their sake and ended up getting the piss shot out of me. Turns out, I could have just gunned it, and they would have been fine. There go two health kits.

Beyond that, I'm enjoying it.

[Joust Williams]

So far, meh

[magnifiedplaid]

I'm 30% into this game now, and I'm certainly not understanding all of the 10 out of 10 scores. The opening 10 minutes are surely pretty cool, and it really makes you feel for the main character, but once the main, post-apocalyptic, narrative kicks in the game gets surprisingly boring for a long stretch of time.

The game just feels packed with too many ideas too, most of which don't add much to the experience, like healing yourself by taking time to wrap bandages around your wounds, by crafting items and upgrading weapons (and this is one of the most boring upgrade systems I've come across in a while), or holding R1 to "listen" for enemies. It feels like they spent so much time trying to immerse you in the games' world, that they forgot to tighten up the main gameplay mechanics. The shooting in this game is so terrible, that it shouldn't even be an option to shoot. Your best bet is to run like a little bitch, use a stealth kill, or punch/melee the hell out of most of the enemies. Meanwhile, the microscopic triangle that indicates which items you can interact with, should be a bit bigger so I don't pass them up if I'm walking around in the dark. Again, this games' tragic flaw is that it goes for immersion at the expense of gameplay.

At this point, I'm honestly only playing the game for the story. This makes a hell of a nice "interactive movie." If only it were more FUN to PLAY. Don't get me wrong, I don't think this game is horrible, but if Naughty Dog plans on making this a series they do have a bunch of room for improvement in a sequel....this is far from a 10/10. I don't see this having the mass appeal of the Uncharted series either.

[Jimmy Carter]

At this point, I'm honestly only playing the game for the story. This makes a hell of a nice "interactive movie." If only it were more FUN to PLAY.

This is where I'm at. While I'm enjoying myself, I'm just not GETTING it the way the reviewers have. The combat seems a little sloppy, but at least the camera seems pretty awesome.

[James]

3 hours in, it's not 10 out of 10 unless it gets really crazy-amazing, really fast. It's good, I'm happy with it, I definitely want to know what happens next. 10 of 10, though? Pure hyperbolic bullshit.

James

[Andrew]

I think I would like this more if I weren't terrible at stealth. But I always get discovered, and the gunplay isn't so good.

It's beautiful, and I'll see it through because I'm interested in the story. But I'll probably die a lot and not have an excessive amount of fun.

[Joust Williams]

I'm 30% into this game now, and I'm certainly not understanding all of the 10 out of 10 scores. The opening 10 minutes are surely pretty cool, and it really makes you feel for the main character, but once the main, post-apocalyptic, narrative kicks in the game gets surprisingly boring for a long stretch of time.

The game just feels packed with too many ideas too, most of which don't add much to the experience, like healing yourself by taking time to wrap bandages around your wounds, by crafting items and upgrading weapons (and this is one of the most boring upgrade systems I've come across in a while), or holding R1 to "listen" for enemies. It feels like they spent so much time trying to immerse you in the games' world, that they forgot to tighten up the main gameplay mechanics. The shooting in this game is so terrible, that it shouldn't even be an option to shoot. Your best bet is to run like a little bitch, use a stealth kill, or punch/melee the hell out of most of the enemies. Meanwhile, the microscopic triangle that indicates which items you can interact with, should be a bit bigger so I don't pass them up if I'm walking around in the dark. Again, this games' tragic flaw is that it goes for immersion at the expense of gameplay.

At this point, I'm honestly only playing the game for the story. This makes a hell of a nice "interactive movie." If only it were more FUN to PLAY. Don't get me wrong, I don't think this game is horrible, but if Naughty Dog plans on making this a series they do have a bunch of room for improvement in a sequel....this is far from a 10/10. I don't see this having the mass appeal of the Uncharted series either.

This is more or less how I feel. Maybe I am hypocrite since i liked Infinite a lot and people criticized it in a similar way, but I just am not feeling it. I am going to continue though.

By the way, while his game is a looker for a console game, in the last 6 months I have been so used to so much more that it's actually pretty tough. Double the resolution and double the framerate spoils you a LOT. This game doesn't even hold 30. And it doesn't look as clean as Uncharted did.

[Jeremy]

Speaking of Uncharted, there's a nice little reference to it in the toy store. Both Uncharted and Jak and Daxter get board games in this game's world.