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[Finale Fireworker]

Hi. I don't like the Last of Us.
I played through the PS3 version and hit 42% completion and it was a struggle. I didn't know if it was the game mechanics, the story, the characters, or other things going on in my life so I sold it and planned to get the remastered version.
I bought the remastered edition and I just got through the train station where you learn how To use molotovs. This game is still a chore to play. Like, it feels like a game of trial and error of choosing between melee and guns or whatever. I'm playing on normal and I have plenty of experience playing games (loved the uncharted series) but I think the shooting and melee system straight up suck. HELP ME ENJOY THIS GAME BECAUSE IT SEEMS PRETTY MONOTONOUS AND CLUNKY!
Also let me help out all the comedians out there:

You should see a doctor.

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

Hi. I don't like the Last of Us.
I played through the PS3 version and hit 42% completion and it was a struggle. I didn't know if it was the game mechanics, the story, the characters, or other things going on in my life so I sold it and planned to get the remastered version.
I bought the remastered edition and I just got through the train station where you learn how To use molotovs. This game is still a chore to play. Like, it feels like a game of trial and error of choosing between melee and guns or whatever. I'm playing on normal and I have plenty of experience playing games (loved the uncharted series) but I think the shooting and melee system straight up suck. HELP ME ENJOY THIS GAME BECAUSE IT SEEMS PRETTY MONOTONOUS AND CLUNKY!
Also let me help out all the comedians out there:

Why did you even buy the game?

 

[JohnnyFootball]

Yup, agreed. They're great for people who didn't get a chance to play them previously, and for people like myself who want the best possible version of a great game.

Can either get a 3rd party studio to do the port, or just take a small team of the main studio to look at it. Doesn't hurt resources too bad and great for filling in gaps between major releases.

I could not agree with this more.

Having said that, any re-released game from last gen should be part of a package, include all DLC OR have a much cheaper price. My tune on remasters will change real quick if they start charging full price for older games.

The Halo MCC is the gold standard for how to re-release old games.

 

[ItsTheNew]

Why did you even buy the game?

Because I liked their previous work, it's a critically and fan loved game, and was in a weird spot in my life when I played it last year.

 

[RPGamer92]

Just be the game on normal. Gonna try to go back on easy to get the collectible trophies then do a grounded play through.

 

[GavinUK86]

Hi. I don't like the Last of Us.
I played through the PS3 version and hit 42% completion and it was a struggle. I didn't know if it was the game mechanics, the story, the characters, or other things going on in my life so I sold it and planned to get the remastered version.
I bought the remastered edition and I just got through the train station where you learn how To use molotovs. This game is still a chore to play. Like, it feels like a game of trial and error of choosing between melee and guns or whatever. I'm playing on normal and I have plenty of experience playing games (loved the uncharted series) but I think the shooting and melee system straight up suck. HELP ME ENJOY THIS GAME BECAUSE IT SEEMS PRETTY MONOTONOUS AND CLUNKY!

Sounds like your problem is that you're playing it like a shooter, which it isn't. It's a stealth game at heart.

 

[Voorhees]

I bought the remastered edition and I just got through the train station where you learn how To use molotovs. This game is still a chore to play. Like, it feels like a game of trial and error of choosing between melee and guns or whatever. I'm playing on normal and I have plenty of experience playing games (loved the uncharted series) but I think the shooting and melee system straight up suck. HELP ME ENJOY THIS GAME BECAUSE IT SEEMS PRETTY MONOTONOUS AND CLUNKY!

For the most part it is trial and error. It's a delicate balance. Do I go in guns blazing to take out this room and use all my supplies? Or can i sneak past this group and conserve what I've got since it's a hard road ahead? The choice is up to you. The shooting is meant to be difficult until you upgrade it, b/c you aren't Joel Supersolider, you're just a RegularJoel.

As for the melee system....#teambricks. 3 swipes to the back of a Clicker's head and it's dead.

 

[Applesauce]

Like a noob I didn't know about the brick / bottle + melee attack for enemies so now I have made it to the

Spoiler

hotel basement

with next to NOTHING. So I'm starting over and playing it right, and moving up from Survivor to Grounded mode. Geez, I've wasted so much stuff.

 

[illmatic22]

Hi. I don't like the Last of Us.
I played through the PS3 version and hit 42% completion and it was a struggle. I didn't know if it was the game mechanics, the story, the characters, or other things going on in my life so I sold it and planned to get the remastered version.
I bought the remastered edition and I just got through the train station where you learn how To use molotovs. This game is still a chore to play. Like, it feels like a game of trial and error of choosing between melee and guns or whatever. I'm playing on normal and I have plenty of experience playing games (loved the uncharted series) but I think the shooting and melee system straight up suck. HELP ME ENJOY THIS GAME BECAUSE IT SEEMS PRETTY MONOTONOUS AND CLUNKY

Game may not be for you, perhaps play something else?

 

[GavinUK86]

Like a noob I didn't know about the brick / bottle + melee attack for enemies so now I have made it to the

Spoiler

hotel basement

with next to NOTHING. So I'm starting over and playing it right, and moving up from Survivor to Grounded mode. Geez, I've wasted so much stuff.

#teambrick

 

[daveo42]

#teambrick

Bricks for days. #teambrick

 

[KorrZ]

#teambrick

Yup. Brick is too satisfying. I use it to bash dudes heads in because it sounds so vicious! Screw throwing it.

 

[fallingdove]

Hi. I don't like the Last of Us.
I played through the PS3 version and hit 42% completion and it was a struggle. I didn't know if it was the game mechanics, the story, the characters, or other things going on in my life so I sold it and planned to get the remastered version.
I bought the remastered edition and I just got through the train station where you learn how To use molotovs. This game is still a chore to play. Like, it feels like a game of trial and error of choosing between melee and guns or whatever. I'm playing on normal and I have plenty of experience playing games (loved the uncharted series) but I think the shooting and melee system straight up suck. HELP ME ENJOY THIS GAME BECAUSE IT SEEMS PRETTY MONOTONOUS AND CLUNKY!
Also let me help out all the comedians out there:

Monotonous and clunky? Anyway....

If you haven't already written off the game, I would reccommend that you approach it as a strategy stealth game and not so much like a sneaking stealth game. For example:

At the train station, you have access to a couple molotovs and tons of bricks and bottles. I usually approach the area by tossing a brick to grab the attention of 3 or so clickers, then I toss a molotov to catch them on fire. Sometimes, I toss an additional bottle to catch another 1 or 2 curious clickers on fire. Then I proceed to toward the back of the station area, luring with bricks and bottles until I get to the final clicker and shiv them. I rarely use my guns - ammo is typically scarce and this isn't really a shooter so you have to get creative in how you navigate the areas.

I could see if someone was sneaking/shotting only (getting killed over and over) trying to find the safest path to the exit that it could become tedious, but if you are exploring, strategizing, and using the many tools available to you to lure and kill clickers, then it is a very rich, very interesting game to play (IMO).

 

[mstevens]

Yes.

Complete game.

Start New Game Plus on the completed difficulty. Complete first chapter.

As soon as chapter 2 starts

Spoiler

20 Years Later

, let the game autosave and quit to main menu.

Now use chapter select to select first chapter on grounded and it will act as a New Game Plus on grounded.

Do you keep any of your upgrades this way?

 

[ItsTheNew]

For the most part it is trial and error. It's a delicate balance. Do I go in guns blazing to take out this room and use all my supplies? Or can i sneak past this group and conserve what I've got since it's a hard road ahead? The choice is up to you. The shooting is meant to be difficult until you upgrade it, b/c you aren't Joel Supersolider, you're just a RegularJoel.

As for the melee system....#teambricks. 3 swipes to the back of a Clicker's head and it's dead.

Ah didn't know about the bricks. So are you supposed to die a couple times per encounter?

 

[nib95]

My copy arrived from Gamestop (UK) but it wasn't a day one edition. Is the extra stuff a code they send out or what?

 

[LastNac]

I'm excited to hear more about people's impressions from Left Behind. That DLC shows just how much attention to detail ND puts in their games. There's a room in it that I spent 30 minutes just walking around because I kept triggering unique dialogue and another part that's just so shockingly clever it makes me smile every time.

I'm working towards it.

 

[Papercuts]

Is there even a #TeamBottle, and if so, why.

 

[Hubb]

Thinking about grabbing the digital version tonight and was just wondering can you start playing this before it's fully downloaded?

Yes iirc you pick what you want to play first. MP or SP and it lets you start playing after something like 11gb has downloaded. It could be as low as 5gb to start playing but I don't remember if picking MP or SP changed the amount.

 

[CambriaRising]

Ah didn't know about the bricks. So are you supposed to die a couple times per encounter?

You can, you have to play this game carefully and plan your movements. Check your supplies and try to understand the options you have available to you. If you only have 4 bullets, you need to understand the best way to use that ammo. Alternatively be aware of your surroundings, and the supplies/bricks/bottles laying around.

 

[Hubb]

My copy arrived from Gamestop (UK) but it wasn't a day one edition. Is the extra stuff a code they send out or what?

Unless different regions do it differently, the NA boxes weren't day one either. Wherever you had it preordered from should have given you a download code.

 

[daveo42]

Do you keep any of your upgrades this way?

Yes.

Ah didn't know about the bricks. So are you supposed to die a couple times per encounter?

No. The best way to play is to avoid combat at all costs and use stealth kills and distractions to your advantage. There is next to no benefit in clearing out rooms expect for making it insanely easy to scavenge stuff that you can just as easily get by sneaking through to get it.

As someone else said, this game is geared way more towards stealth than combat.

Is there even a #TeamBottle, and if so, why.

Bottles are throwing items, bricks are killing items.

 

[toastyToast]

Is there even a #TeamBottle, and if so, why.

Do bottles make a louder noise when thrown?

If I have the option of throwing a bottle or brick I always pick bottle

 

[Voorhees]

Is there even a #TeamBottle, and if so, why.

It works great at not wasting a brick to get Clickers to gather for #TeamMolotov.

 

[Daffy Duck]

If I've not even started this yet what's the best/quickest way to start this?

I'm confused by the new game+ stuff.

Sorry.

 

[antitrop]

I don't know if it's the 60fps, the DualShock 4, or my because it's my second time playing the game, but I'm finding it waaaaayy easier on Hard right now than it was when I played on Normal on PS3.

 

[ExplodingKetchup]

Hi. I don't like the Last of Us.
I played through the PS3 version and hit 42% completion and it was a struggle. I didn't know if it was the game mechanics, the story, the characters, or other things going on in my life so I sold it and planned to get the remastered version.
I bought the remastered edition and I just got through the train station where you learn how To use molotovs. This game is still a chore to play. Like, it feels like a game of trial and error of choosing between melee and guns or whatever. I'm playing on normal and I have plenty of experience playing games (loved the uncharted series) but I think the shooting and melee system straight up suck. HELP ME ENJOY THIS GAME BECAUSE IT SEEMS PRETTY MONOTONOUS AND CLUNKY!
Also let me help out all the comedians out there:

42% completion isn't even out of

Spoiler

Summer

yet. You need to keep playing because once you get to

Spoiler

Fall

it gets very, very good.

 

[Jimmyfenix]

If I've not even started this yet what's the best/quickest way to start this?

I'm confused by the new game+ stuff.

Sorry.

Play on Grounded twice.

 

[RoboPlato]

I don't know if it's the 60fps, the DualShock 4, or my because it's my second time playing the game, but I'm finding it waaaaayy easier on Hard right now than it was when I played on Normal on PS3.

Same here, although I have done two Survivor runs since then. I don't remember having nearly as much stuff on Normal as I do now on Hard.

 

[CambriaRising]

I don't know if it's the 60fps, the DualShock 4, or my because it's my second time playing the game, but I'm finding it waaaaayy easier on Hard right now than it was when I played on Normal on PS3.

I honestly thought the same thing.

But it may just be because I've played the game through 5 times.

 

[FaintDeftone]

I picked the game up yesterday and utilized the trade-in deal at Gamestop. I was hesitant to purchase the game and just hold on to my PS3 copy, but I still haven't played the DLC and I wanted the 60fps multiplayer, so I caved.

I'm glad I bought it, because the remaster is actually a lot more impressive than I thought. I do not remember the game looking this good when I played it on PS3, so obviously it is noticeable. The framerate makes all the difference though, as a result making everything feel much more fluid. Definitely glad I bought it.

 

[daveo42]

If I've not even started this yet what's the best/quickest way to start this?

I'm confused by the new game+ stuff.

Sorry.

Start on Hard without Listen Mode on. Play Grounded and hate life.

 

[mstevens]

Yes.

Oh wow, that's amazing. Thought I was going to have to start with 0 upgrades for survivor (not even going to try grounded, I'm not very good at this game yet).

 

[JohnnyFootball]

I honestly thought the same thing.

But it may just be because I've played the game through 5 times.

Most likely this. You have much better knowledge of how to manage resources and approach each situation.

 

[@Wreck]

Hi. I don't like the Last of Us.
I played through the PS3 version and hit 42% completion and it was a struggle. I didn't know if it was the game mechanics, the story, the characters, or other things going on in my life so I sold it and planned to get the remastered version.
I bought the remastered edition and I just got through the train station where you learn how To use molotovs. This game is still a chore to play. Like, it feels like a game of trial and error of choosing between melee and guns or whatever. I'm playing on normal and I have plenty of experience playing games (loved the uncharted series) but I think the shooting and melee system straight up suck. HELP ME ENJOY THIS GAME BECAUSE IT SEEMS PRETTY MONOTONOUS AND CLUNKY!

i did not know if it was a game for me so i tried it on easy for the story

ended up really liking it and played it again on regular

maybe try it on easy to get through it

and if that does not work for you then, you tried it and did not like which is okay!

 

[daveo42]

Oh wow, that's amazing. Thought I was going to have to start with 0 upgrades for survivor (not even going to try grounded, I'm not very good at this game yet).

It really is handy for some of the harder difficulties, especially if you need it like me.

I don't know if it's the 60fps, the DualShock 4, or my because it's my second time playing the game, but I'm finding it waaaaayy easier on Hard right now than it was when I played on Normal on PS3.

I've noticed that too. I'm just going to go with knowing what to expect and when regarding enemy encounters. I'm also seeing a good deal of supplies and seem to only be lacking food items for health right now.

 

[nib95]

Unless different regions do it differently, the NA boxes weren't day one either. Wherever you had it preordered from should have given you a download code.

Haven't received anything yet. Will ring them tomorrow. On a side note, the front box art is just beautiful.

 

[Papercuts]

Do bottles make a louder noise when thrown?

If I have the option of throwing a bottle or brick I always pick bottle

They do, though generally a well tossed brick can still lure a couple of enemies.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

This game sure is good. Its one of the most coherent moment to moment experiences there is, I think.

 

[StuBurns]

I'm really very impressed by the port. I kind of wish I'd never played it on PS3. It's going to be wonderful for new comers.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

I'm really very impressed by the port. I kind of wish I'd never played it on PS3. It's going to be wonderful for new comers.

Ha! I've been thinking it feels like a rush job this whole time. I've had some weird glitches and a few moments of slowdown.

 

[Voorhees]

They do, though generally a well tossed brick can still lure a couple of enemies.

But then you don't get the satisfaction of using it to cave in the back of a Clicker's skull...

 

[Jerkson]

But then you don't get the satisfaction of using it to cave in the back of a Clicker's skull...

I still have trouble stealth killing a clicker with a brick.

 

[Marvel]

My copy is arriving tomorrow, yay!

 

[Voorhees]

I still have trouble stealth killing a clicker with a brick.

I have trouble remembering to equip the brick before I sneak up on one. Then I lightly punch the back of it's skull and shake my head while I wait for the game to reload.

 

[yog-sothot]

whaaat ? You can kill a clicker with a brick ? All those wasted shivs ! ^_^

 

[Jimmyfenix]

Here is the Spoiler thread for first time players. It got lost in the shuffle so here it is.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=864083&highlight=

 

[Cudder]

What difficulty should I play Left Behind on? I haven't played it yet so I have no idea what to expect. Is there a lot of combat in it? I'm very well versed in the main game.

 

[Jerkson]

I have trouble remembering to equip the brick before I sneak up on one. Then I lightly punch the back of it's skull and shake my head while I wait for the game to reload.

ugh ya, that's the worst. keep the brick out, Joel!

 

[toastyToast]

WAT

Someone enlighten me on this stealth brick tech