1670

I usually have that problem also. In TLOU, it felt like they encouraged you to use everything though, as I often ran into supplies that I couldn’t carry. Felt like the game was telling me, HEY, use this shit. So I started doing that and it made the gameplay more fun as a result.

Enidigm, hopefully you go back and give it another try at some point. Worst case is that you finally see what all the fuss is about!

1671

If you’re going to critique something you should definitely get all the facts… they used fungus and the exploded heads like that because of a certain bug and fungus that really does go into well currently other insects and kills them and then uses their bodies for awhile and explode and pas fungus onto others

1672

Well then. Welcome to Qt3! Great first post…

1673

Welcome to Qt3 Dan. The thing you’ll learn about Tom is that when he starts really enjoying a game, that’s when he suddenly starts caring about the lore enough to look into it and to sweat the details. But when he’s playing and reviewing games that don’t really grab him, then getting the details wrong is part and parcel of the problem of the game never really getting into his head. And that’s understandable.

I certainly became a big fan of this game after playing through it, and when I saw that fungus at work in nature documentaries later, I definitely recall thinking “hey, this must be the fungus that The Last of Us was based upon”.

1674

Come on guys, haven’t we seen enough of these hit-and-run posters by now to recognize that they are not here for discussion?

1675

Right, but this one has a real name. And a real picture or selfie. Unlike some of us anons with made up names! He might just be sticking around!

1676

The latest trailer for the sequel just revealed the release date. Part II’s out February 21 on two blu-ray discs!

1677

Two blu-rays! Oh no. I’d better start playing some PS4 games I own in the backlog to make room for it on the hard drive. Maybe Horizon Zero Dawn and The Last Guardian.

1678

This game was taking so long I’d started to think this would be held to be a PS5 launch title.

1679

In the PS3 -> PS4 transition, the original Last of Us came really late in the cycle. So on PS4 they did the Remastered version. But this time that shouldn’t be the case. Even though PS5 is right around the corner, it should be fully backwards compatible this time, so there should be no need to do a Remaster right away.

1680

I am glad its not releasing in Q1 of next year, its so overloaded already.

Looks at release date.

Oh…

1681

I’m not super excited about the sequel. I thought Last of Us as a near perfect gaming experience. I thought it was completely self contained. I don’t know what a sequel would add to the story or why it is necessary.

Also, spoilers in that video?

1682

I don’t understand this sentiment. I guess my advice is skip it, and you’ll always have the memories of the first game, untarnished by attempts to further the world building and characters?

1683

While I agree with you that I didn’t think a sequel was needed after finishing the first one, now that they decided to make it anyway I sure as hell am interested in it. I’m just going to wait for some reviews first, and if everyone thinks it’s rubbish, I’ll stick to my memories. But I doubt it will be rubbish!

As for spoilers: it’s the official trailer…? If the developer thinks it’s fine to know this stuff before I start playing, I don’t mind.

1684

I doubt the developers make the trailers. For bigger studios like Naughty Dog (i.e. Sony), I assume it’s like the film industry, where trailers are made by the people trying to market the movie. I’m guessing any Last of Us 2 trailer is almost exclusively the creation of Sony’s marketing folks. And like any marketing folks, they would gladly sap every last ounce of discovery from the experience if it meant getting you to buy the game.

Of course, I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t watch trailers. I don’t even read the backs of books. I don’t even read threads here for games that aren’t out yet! I’d prefer to experience something the way its creator intended. Weird, I know, but I find discovering something is almost always better than remembering I’d already seen it.

-Tom

1685

Interesting, I had not considered that. I would assume that the developer has a say in what can and cannot be used for a trailer, but I don’t know anything about that business, so I may very well be wrong…
Fair point about discovery being more fun than recognition. Then again, there’ll still be plenty to discover in The Last of Us 2, I imagine :-).

1686

That is an interesting thought, I had assumed the developers must be involved in making the trailer just because it involves the “guts” of the game.

What I mean is, for a movie trailer I guess the filmmakers just dump what they have filmed on some ad execs and say, good luck! And they throw a 60 second trailer together.

With a game though, you’re going to turn over what? It’s not completed yet, so how do they make a trailer out of all the various code branches and unfinished polygons and such. Would explain why so many game trailers are mostly cinematics I suppose.