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TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Hey guys, lets spoil:
The team is hiding something from Wondereyes Red and that kid complaining at the end of the opening of the game is probably going to transform in Red because it was foreshowed in a flashback at the opening in the game
Fixed
razoftblend
Member
I can't qoute since I'm on my phone, but thanks "retro" and "TheGreatMightyPoo."
I guess now I'm getting it on day one.
I guess now I'm getting it on day one.
Pennies & Nickels
Banned
Saw both JP and US trailers. Lol'd at the censorship.
You can definitely see the game has the Kamiya touch. Trailer has big Viewtiful Joe vibes.
You can definitely see the game has the Kamiya touch. Trailer has big Viewtiful Joe vibes.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
The Last of Us is the Citizen Kane of videogames, we know.
R
Retro_
Unconfirmed Member
..........Oh... my god....
Wasn't that Metroid Prime? Lol
dark_prinny
Banned
ITS MOTHER'S DAY BITCHES!!!!
The Last of Us was a good game that succeeded mostly because of the exceptional storytelling.
Gameplay wise though... nah.
Last of Us is my current GOTY, as well, but I suggest you actually watch the TW101 trailer and think about who's making it and consider the reviewers saying we haven't seen a tenth of what this game has to offer. TLOU will have some competition in TW101. Just another reason 2013 has been one of gaming's best years.
JetBlackPanda
Member
looks so good.
HamPster PamPster
Member
Break out the spoiler warnings people - the team captain and the team hotshot clash heads. Never saw that coming
Anyway the game looks good. Looking forward to playing the demo... eventually ::mutter noa mutter::
Anyway the game looks good. Looking forward to playing the demo... eventually ::mutter noa mutter::
Actually, there are several Citizen Kane's of video games apparently.
http://thecitizenkaneofvideogames.tumblr.com/
Sammy Samusu
Member
Fantastic trailer. I think I'm interested now.
MemoryHumanity
Member
Can I just say, yay for fantastic voice acting?!
The Last of Us is an interactive setpiece movie.
W101 is a video game.
I like video games better. This will likely be my GOTY.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Thats nice... why they still feel like spoilers?
matrix-cat
Member
Citizen Kane was the Wonderful 101 of movies.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Can't speak on The Last of Us properly at all but I watched a playthrough of parts of it and wasn't impressed.
I didn't get any context of the story but the gameplay seemed nothing new.
Dude, I'm a huge Nintendo fan and looking forward to TW101, as well, but you have no idea what you're talking about with TLOU if you're calling it an "interactive setpiece movie." You look like a Nintendo fanboy when you say completely untrue statements like that. Have you played TLOU?
dark_prinny
Banned
Nemesis_
Member
Is this meant to be ironic
Azure Dream
Member
Well OK then, I rescind my previous warning. Watch the whole damn thing, and be amazed.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I knew it
I knew as soon as that guy name dropped TLOU as GotY there would be some moronic nintendo fanboy comments such as this to overcompensate for it.
Wpw, amazing trailer, it looks like its gonna be a fun story on top of amazing gameplay.
Yep, TW101 or any kind of movie or book wont reach the mature highs that The Last of Us provide, best story since the renaissance. #realtears #GOTF #fuckbioshock
Yep, TW101 or any kind of movie or book wont reach the mature highs that The Last of Us provide, best story since the renaissance. #realtears #GOTF #fuckbioshock
BloodyJasonMask
Member
Did you actually play The Last of Us?
Anyways I'm buying a Wii U for this. The trailer looks amazing!
Since calling TLoU an "interactive setpiece movie" is one of the greatest lies in videogames, I'll post what I've written elsewhere:
Let's start by establishing TLoU is NOT like Uncharted. I like UC2, but I never thought the gameplay was anything special. Its appeal to me was, and remains, its audiovisual presentation, and the way it shuttles the player through a variety of technically impressive set-pieces. But again: I never thought the gameplay in UC2 was anything special.
The Last of Us is a whole different beast, though. Most players will hardly ever shoot their guns in TLoU. Those who do will find themselves scouring every nook and cranny of the environment looking for bullets. I usually only had three bullets per gun -- maybe seven or nine, tops. So when you resort to your gun, you make sure "every shot counts," as Joel says. And when the bullet connects, there's none of the "sponginess" of Uncharted. In TLoU, bullets obliterate enemies, as they should; hell, shotguns will even dismember and disembowel (though there is an option to disable gore). It's raw, it's brutal. Your character doesn't fare well, either; power weapons will knock your character on his ass, and it can be a struggle to get back to your feet.
So, you often avoid direct combat. You crouch and tip-toe around the environment. You survey your surroundings for enemies. You slip through doorways and hop through open windows, effortlessly seguing straight back into a crouching stance. You throw bricks and bottles to distract enemies, drawing them to the opposite corner of the room. You lure them away, and sneak by... or maybe strangle them, at the risk of causing noise... or maybe grab them to hold them hostage as a human shield... or maybe throw them to the ground and hold them at gunpoint, forcing them to beg for mercy... or in most cases, if you've crafted a shiv from sufficient bindings and blades you scrounged up in the cabinets and closets and drawers, you stick them in the jugular, bleeding them out. Their comrades won't hear the kill, but they might find it later... They'll grow alert, intensify their patrolling... If they see you have a gun, they'll change their strategy completely, going on the defensive... They can spot you by the shine of your flashlight, so you'll want to turn it off. You can cause a stir to lure them into nail bombs you crafted, or hide behind furniture and wait for the opportune moment to throw a Molotov you scrapped together from rags and liquor. You can arm yourself with planks and pipes and hatchets and machetes. You can power up your blunt bludgeoning devices with blades. You can silently snipe enemies with a bow, provided you account for the trajectory and time it just right... Then you can retrieve the arrow, if it doesn't break on impact. You can flank your enemies, stalk them, elude them, up and down flights of stairs, through holes in the walls, down fire escapes, up ladders, in and out of bathrooms and utility closets, behind bars.
And those are just the human enemies. Then you have the runners, the stalkers, the clickers, the bloaters. All well within your ability to handle them, provided you're patient and observant. The controls in TLoU are streamlined and sensible, weighty and deliberate. None of the over-sensitive fiddly-ness of MGS controls... Nothing frustrating or unfair about the enemies. The enemies are smartly placed, in multi-tiered environments with numerous ways in and out, with copious bricks and bottles, with many solutions to the same puzzle, each encounter playing out like a clockwork construct no matter which way you approach it. The enemies telegraph their routines well, but they still have enough spontaneity to make them seem alive. The effect of the experience is something dynamic, something organic, with layers like an onion -- I'm on the final stretch of my second play-through, and it's remarkable how differently my enemy encounters played out this go-around, and how much tighter this replay feels, which is saying something, since the first playthrough was also well-paced and immensely gratifying.
BOTTOM LINE: I wasn't hyped for The Last of Us, and I've never considered myself a Naughty Dog "fan." I was merely so-so on UC2 and UC3. But TLoU is a legitimately excellent GAME... It's deep yet accessible... Tightly designed... Deftly paced... It's a subtle game, with lots of quiet downtime, lots of meditative moments... It exercises remarkable restraint I would've never associated with ND after the Uncharted trilogy. And semi-frequent enemy encounters are richly rewarding in their tactical complexity, in the way they encourage improvisation and experimentation. Many sequences are harrowing in their odds; you frequently feel vulnerable, and running away, hiding, sneaking and avoiding enemies altogether is often a viable strategy. It's that back and forth between predator and prey, the way it's executed so confidently here, that makes the action in TLoU so addictive. And then the world is so well-realized that you're not only driven to see the next story beat, but to pore over the background narrative cobbled together with notes and recorders and environmental details that trace the trajectory of mankind's struggle in a post-pandemic world.
Soooooo GOOD!
Let's start by establishing TLoU is NOT like Uncharted. I like UC2, but I never thought the gameplay was anything special. Its appeal to me was, and remains, its audiovisual presentation, and the way it shuttles the player through a variety of technically impressive set-pieces. But again: I never thought the gameplay in UC2 was anything special.
The Last of Us is a whole different beast, though. Most players will hardly ever shoot their guns in TLoU. Those who do will find themselves scouring every nook and cranny of the environment looking for bullets. I usually only had three bullets per gun -- maybe seven or nine, tops. So when you resort to your gun, you make sure "every shot counts," as Joel says. And when the bullet connects, there's none of the "sponginess" of Uncharted. In TLoU, bullets obliterate enemies, as they should; hell, shotguns will even dismember and disembowel (though there is an option to disable gore). It's raw, it's brutal. Your character doesn't fare well, either; power weapons will knock your character on his ass, and it can be a struggle to get back to your feet.
So, you often avoid direct combat. You crouch and tip-toe around the environment. You survey your surroundings for enemies. You slip through doorways and hop through open windows, effortlessly seguing straight back into a crouching stance. You throw bricks and bottles to distract enemies, drawing them to the opposite corner of the room. You lure them away, and sneak by... or maybe strangle them, at the risk of causing noise... or maybe grab them to hold them hostage as a human shield... or maybe throw them to the ground and hold them at gunpoint, forcing them to beg for mercy... or in most cases, if you've crafted a shiv from sufficient bindings and blades you scrounged up in the cabinets and closets and drawers, you stick them in the jugular, bleeding them out. Their comrades won't hear the kill, but they might find it later... They'll grow alert, intensify their patrolling... If they see you have a gun, they'll change their strategy completely, going on the defensive... They can spot you by the shine of your flashlight, so you'll want to turn it off. You can cause a stir to lure them into nail bombs you crafted, or hide behind furniture and wait for the opportune moment to throw a Molotov you scrapped together from rags and liquor. You can arm yourself with planks and pipes and hatchets and machetes. You can power up your blunt bludgeoning devices with blades. You can silently snipe enemies with a bow, provided you account for the trajectory and time it just right... Then you can retrieve the arrow, if it doesn't break on impact. You can flank your enemies, stalk them, elude them, up and down flights of stairs, through holes in the walls, down fire escapes, up ladders, in and out of bathrooms and utility closets, behind bars.
And those are just the human enemies. Then you have the runners, the stalkers, the clickers, the bloaters. All well within your ability to handle them, provided you're patient and observant. The controls in TLoU are streamlined and sensible, weighty and deliberate. None of the over-sensitive fiddly-ness of MGS controls... Nothing frustrating or unfair about the enemies. The enemies are smartly placed, in multi-tiered environments with numerous ways in and out, with copious bricks and bottles, with many solutions to the same puzzle, each encounter playing out like a clockwork construct no matter which way you approach it. The enemies telegraph their routines well, but they still have enough spontaneity to make them seem alive. The effect of the experience is something dynamic, something organic, with layers like an onion -- I'm on the final stretch of my second play-through, and it's remarkable how differently my enemy encounters played out this go-around, and how much tighter this replay feels, which is saying something, since the first playthrough was also well-paced and immensely gratifying.
BOTTOM LINE: I wasn't hyped for The Last of Us, and I've never considered myself a Naughty Dog "fan." I was merely so-so on UC2 and UC3. But TLoU is a legitimately excellent GAME... It's deep yet accessible... Tightly designed... Deftly paced... It's a subtle game, with lots of quiet downtime, lots of meditative moments... It exercises remarkable restraint I would've never associated with ND after the Uncharted trilogy. And semi-frequent enemy encounters are richly rewarding in their tactical complexity, in the way they encourage improvisation and experimentation. Many sequences are harrowing in their odds; you frequently feel vulnerable, and running away, hiding, sneaking and avoiding enemies altogether is often a viable strategy. It's that back and forth between predator and prey, the way it's executed so confidently here, that makes the action in TLoU so addictive. And then the world is so well-realized that you're not only driven to see the next story beat, but to pore over the background narrative cobbled together with notes and recorders and environmental details that trace the trajectory of mankind's struggle in a post-pandemic world.
Soooooo GOOD!
ViewtifulJC
Banned
goddamnit Neiteio