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The Last of Us

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  • #102
    mystic86
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    serious pair of **** me boots on your one!


  • #103
    LighterGuy
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    just managed to get a stream.
    Ah sucks, didnt know it started at 1. thought it was 2.


  • #104
    Retr0gamer
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    WolfForager wrote: »
    Love how everyone judges before full details have even been announced.

    Could be good, could be bad. All I know is that I'm sick to death of zombie games just like I'm sick to death of done to death genres like tower defence, twin stick shooters and linear FPS games. It will take more than adding in a young girl to shoehorn in some supposed emotional depth to get me interested.
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  • #105
    mystic86
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    ha, Hideo totally messed up!!!

    anyway, that trailer was the highlight of the show, along with the reveal that naughty dog is behind the last of us!


  • #106
    WolfForager
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Could be good, could be bad. All I know is that I'm sick to death of zombie games just like I'm sick to death of done to death genres like tower defence, twin stick shooters and linear FPS games. It will take more than adding in a young girl to shoehorn in some supposed emotional depth to get me interested.

    But as Magill said, nearly every genre of game has been overdone at this point. The only thing we can hope for is that a dev takes a pre-existing genre and trys to come at it from a different angle. I'll give Naughty Dog the benefit of the doubt here and hope that they come up with something great.


  • #107
    LighterGuy
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    TBH,
    The last of us just looks like a 'I am Legend' video game.


  • #108
    mystic86
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    LighterGuy wrote: »
    TBH,
    The last of us just looks like a 'I am Legend' video game.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75898637&postcount=41

    :)


  • #109
    Notorioux
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    Dead Island was a great game just put aside the bugs... I don't care if it's like it though, but hope they go to 3rd person route ND animations are just too smexy for first person. :D


  • #110
    Retr0gamer
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    WolfForager wrote: »
    But as Magill said, nearly every genre of game has been overdone at this point. The only thing we can hope for is that a dev takes a pre-existing genre and trys to come at it from a different angle. I'll give Naughty Dog the benefit of the doubt here and hope that they come up with something great.

    It's not the genre it's the whole zombie theme. It's like the World War 2 setting at the start of the last decade. Who knows, maybe it will do what Call of Duty did back then and surprise me but at the moment I can't get excited about another zombie game.
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  • #111
    Magill
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    The last zombie game i played was L4D(1). So not really that bored of the theme at all.


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  • #112
    LookingFor
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    This doesn't look, gameplay wise, like it's going to be a L4D or Dead Island (haven't played the latter but from what I've seen).

    I mean, she's picking individual bullets out of your man's hand. A pretty big hint that this will be more about strategic survival than mowing down hordes of zombies.

    The vibe seems more 'The Road' than L4D.

    Then again, maybe they'll just happen to stumble upon a massive weapons cache mid-way through the game for a particular level ;)

    Anyway, it looks incredible. Reinforces to me that Sony doesn't need a new machine any time soon. This will probably be a more impressive game visually than most of the first games on new hardware next year, and on a cheaper box too.


  • #113
    penev10
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    Good trailer. I still have hope for the survival horror genre. Naughty Dog are a decent developers so I'm sure it'll be a good game but whether it'll be a good survivial horror is another story. Surely a studio somewhere has been listening to the fans of the declining genre and will come up with the goods. Although it might be a case of be careful what you wish for!:pac:

    As I've said on the Resident Evil forum, gameplay mechanincs have to evolve but what needs to be retained is atmosphere and judging by the enviroments alone form the trailer it looks like it might've gotten that right.


  • #114
    Retr0gamer
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    No gameplay has been shown yet though. Dead Island looked like a very different game when its first trailer was shown
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  • #115
    Potential-Monke
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    Uncharted set in a Dead Island/I Am Legend theme with emphasis on survival horror over action. I'll buy it. Fook it, i'll buy it anyway. Naughty Dog are fantastic developers.


  • #116
    johnny_ultimate
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    Hmm... pretty tech but we need another zombie game like we need - if you'll excuse the completely intentional pun - a hole in the head.

    That said, if they follow through with the suggestion that this will indeed be a game about survival rather than old-fashioned genocide, there's the potential it will be something different.

    And setting a game years after an outbreak is at least somewhat of a novelty. And it's Naughty Dog.

    But still - really wish this zombie phase would make like a brainless drone and receive a swift shotgun blast to the noggin.


  • #117
    WolfForager
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    Somehow didn't notice this, but the first thing that he kills in the trailer is actually a human, not an infected. So we'll be fighting both the infected and other people. Nice one.


  • #118
    YouSavedMyLife
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    To many zombie/horror survival games coming out these days. To many stolen ideas in that trailer. Looks like its even set in New York just like IamLegend. Plus it sounded like Nolan North is doing the VO for the guy in the trailer? Although there might be some interesting game mechanics between the two characters which would be nice.

    So far the only thing this game has going for it is the strength of the developers name


  • #119
    WolfForager
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    Ashley Johnson is playing Ellie and Troy Baker is playing Joel.


  • #120
    Myrddin
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    No gameplay has been shown yet though. Dead Island looked like a very different game when its first trailer was shown

    Was that the trailer of the little girl falling outta the hotel room window in a real cinematic way? That promised so much...& what did we get? The gaming equivalent of the X Factor


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  • #121
    richymcdermott
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    WolfForager wrote: »
    I could tell that it's not gonna be anything like Dead Island. Sounds more like Enslaved, with zombie-esque things...

    Funny you said that cause enslaved lead designer working on this with naughty dog

    http://playstationlifestyle.net/2011/12/11/enslaved-lead-designer-working-on-naughty-dogs-the-last-of-us/


  • #122
    uncleoswald
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    No gameplay has been shown yet though. Dead Island looked like a very different game when its first trailer was shown

    But at least we are going to be playing the characters from the trailer, if the artwork is also to be believed, and not a bunch of charmless cardboard cutouts like in Dead Island. The Dead Island trailer was a complete fabrication that suggested a complete different tone of game. I don't think The Last Of Us will be as opportunistic.

    But yeah we'll just have to reserve judgement for the time been.


  • #123
    Kiith
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    I'll reserve judgement till we get some gameplay. Can't really tell anything about it from that trailer. Loved the Dead Island trailer, but was really disappointed with the game itself. I'd say Naughty Dog will do it well though.


  • #124
    Underground
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    Don't know if there's a thread on this already,didn't see one. Apologies if there is. Anyway, looks interesting.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLGxubfC1Ik


  • #125
    WolfForager
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    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-13-the-last-of-us-scored-by-oscar-winner-gustavo-santaolalla

    Gustavo Santaolalla composing the music.

    Got Oscars for the scores of Broke Back Mountain and Babel.

    Sony are pulling out the big guns! Very excited that he said "I must be a part of this"!


  • #126
    Retr0gamer
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    Merging threads
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  • #127
    Snakeblood
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    WolfForager wrote: »
    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-13-the-last-of-us-scored-by-oscar-winner-gustavo-santaolalla

    Gustavo Santaolalla composing the music.

    Got Oscars for the scores of Broke Back Mountain and Babel.

    Sony are pulling out the big guns! Very excited that he said "I must be a part of this"!

    The other part of the quote was "Because of all the money they'll give me!"


  • #128
    Otacon
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    I liked Edmonson's work on the Uncharted series.

    Still, Gustavo has also been involved in some sterling movies.

    Amores perros (2000)
    The Insider (1999) - features his song, "Iguazu".
    21 Grams (2003)
    The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
    Brokeback Mountain (2005)
    Babel (2006)
    Into the Wild (2007)
    Biutiful (2010)


  • #129
    super_furry
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    The trailer is well put together and shows promise but part of me still thinks, 'meh, just another zombie game'.

    I think there's the same amount of fatigue and cynicism over zombie games now, as there was about WW2 games a few years back. Didn't help that Epic announced one too on the same night.


  • #130
    Josey Wales
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    I wasn't interested in this game at all when it was thought it was going to be an FPS. But now that it is confirmed to be in the third-person perspective I'm much more interested.


  • #131
    A-Trak
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    Hogzy wrote: »
    Dead Island isnt even out a year and that was a huge disappointment. It will have to take a really good game for them to bring people back.

    I thought Dead Island was huge fun & a lot of people here did too.
    I'm still playing through it.
    Very little time to play games these days, so it's perfect for a quick 30 min fix when I get a chance.

    If this is of a similar vein, Day 1 for me.


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  • #132
    Zero-Cool
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    Ya I loved Dead Island, one of my faves this year. I wonder will the 3rd person be like Silent Hill, Resi 5 or Uncharted. I thought FPS would work better like Dead Island but will just have to wait and see.


  • #133
    wes
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    Its Naughty Dog, so those guy have earned a lot of trust from me. So I am looking forward to this. Will probably be one of the last big PS3 games as well imho.


  • #134
    PaddyBomb
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    With two lead characters, would it be too early to assume that this will have full co-op through the main campaign?

    I always felt like Naughty Dog wanted to bring a 2 player co-op into the Uncharted series with the many chapters where you have a partner (or 2 partners) helping you and having to boost them up to get ladders, etc.

    Trailer looks great and can't wait to find out more information and a gameplay trailer.


  • #135
    Retr0gamer
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    My uneducated guess: it will be Lost Vikings with two characters. Little girl can get into small crawl spaces, older guy will to able to move heavy things. They'll manipulate you into liking the characters and then kill one of them off and call it masterful storytelling :P
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  • #136
    Sephiroth_dude
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    Hope they release a gameplay video soon......looks very interesting


  • #137
    WolfForager
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    This whole "it's another zombie game" is starting to irk me.

    Why can't people just call them Monsters? Nothing has been mentioned by Naughty Dog that would suggest they were zombies.

    My feeling is that when most people see monsters in a realistic game, they automatically think "zombie".


  • #138
    Retr0gamer
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    WolfForager wrote: »
    This whole "it's another zombie game" is starting to irk me.

    Why can't people just call them Monsters? Nothing has been mentioned by Naughty Dog that would suggest they were zombies.

    My feeling is that when most people see monsters in a realistic game, they automatically think "zombie".

    A zombie by any other name is still a zombie. They were 'infected' in Left 4 Dead. Most also traditionally zombie films also don't call them zombies. Doesn't matter what you call them they're still zombies and from the trailer and description it sounds like they are even if you want to call them 'fungally infected los ganados hybrids'.
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  • #139
    cloud493
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    I have complete faith in Naughty dog. I think we're in for something special.


  • #140
    richymcdermott
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    Seen alot of people saying this is going to be another dead island game , i highly doubt it .. Knowing naughty dog its going to be very cinematic and story driven . I expect it to be along the movie i am legend than anything else..


  • #141
    Otacon
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    A zombie by any other name is still a zombie. They were 'infected' in Left 4 Dead. Most also traditionally zombie films also don't call them zombies. Doesn't matter what you call them they're still zombies and from the trailer and description it sounds like they are even if you want to call them 'fungally infected los ganados hybrids'.

    What if the creatures in The Last Of Us display intelligence, and can communicate? What if they jump, run or take cover? Are they still zombies?

    My point is we know next to nothing about this game yet. Why not wait until these creatures display ANY properties we associate with zombies before calling them that?


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  • #142
    Overature
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    really like the look of this game, wish it would come out on xbox, now i have to get a ps3


  • #143
    WolfForager
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    The way i see it, nearly every game has monsters/npcs or whatever you want to call them. In nearly every game they act the same way.

    Take Battlefield/COD/Killzone/Uncharted/Medal of Honour/ and the hundred or other so games like them. They all feature men who jump out at you from behind cover and try to kill you, there's very little difference between they way they act, cover, shoot, cover,run,cover, shoot. Yet i never here about people saying "Bloody humans, so bloody overdone".

    Then take games like Skyrim, they have an uncountable amount of different enemies, yet they all attack in the same way, maybe with a bit of magic thrown into the mix. (Alright the dragons are the one obvious exception).

    Going to start rambling soon, if i haven't already so i'll just say that down at their core nearly every npc in the world of videogames are basically the same bar the boss fights. I may be playing a shooting game, but i know that i can just wait til they pop out of cover, or run towards me when i move outside of a certain range.


  • #144
    Retr0gamer
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    It seems from interviews that themain focus will be the relationship between the two characters. Naughty Dog have shown they've got some great writers but it hasn't been paired with great stories, the uncharted games while good, there's really not much special you can do with an action game. Hopefully they can marry that writing with a really good story. I just hope they can take it to dark places and not just go for the obvious death scene to pull and the emotional heartstrings. Horror games have some of the best storytelling in videogames so I'm optimistic. The zombie setting though isn't filling me with much hope for originality. I can see it being a very linear game. If it's not and they manage to get the emotional depth they want from their characters in an more open world game then it will be a truly a landmark game, but I don't think the industry is anywhere close to that yet.
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  • #145
    WolfForager
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    Articles up on Eurogamer.

    Preview
    Contrary to evidence in the trailer, however, The Last of Us is "not a zombie game," insists Straley. Druckmann explains: "If the game was about the monsters, we would have not showed them. The story's not about them, so [we thought] let's get it out of the way."


    And then the creative director talks about story telling, or lack of, in the industry. Bit too much if ya ask me.


  • #146
    cloud493
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    It might be a story based around their attempts to find a solution to whatever it was they were running from. Hope they don't, it'll be interesting to see where it could go.


  • #147
    tok9
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    You have to say they are showing some bit of ambition with what they are saying.

    I'm confident Naughty dog will deliver and I haven't played that many Zombie games so I don't have the same complaints as many who say there sick of them.


  • #148
    WolfForager
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    USA Today
    Expected for PS3 in late 2012 or early 2013, The Last of Us is a rare new intellectual property in an era when publishers rely heavily on trusted franchises. "The team at Naughty Dog is known for incredible storytelling, and what excites me most about The Last of Us is the potential of a grittier and more mature story," says Geoff Keighley of Spike's GameTrailers TV. "If Uncharted is the video-game version of Indiana Jones, The Last of Us has the potential to be a video-game version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road."

    Although the designers don't want to give away the entire story line, the development team recently gave an exclusive inside look into the project. At the start of the game, the lead character, Joel, finds Ellie, and they team up. Joel is "a vicious survivor. When he meets this girl, she is his one chance at redemption," says Neil Druckmann, the game's creative director. "That kind of arc has always been intriguing."


    ...


    Like the Uncharted games, The Last of Us has a third-person perspective, in which you see the character on-screen, but it has a more realistic, cinematic look. "We're trying to move the medium of video games into an area elevated in the same manner of respect of film," Balestra says. "We want to redefine what our medium is even called. 'Video game' is not an accurate name anymore. It is not necessarily a game with rules and a winner and a loser. It's an experience."


    Theme from the trailer:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssLAf5akbfU


  • #149
    mystic86
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    Retr0gamer, you're a sour bugger


  • #150
    Retr0gamer
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    And you're a fanboy. Try contributing to the discussion next time.
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  • #151
    mystic86
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    And you're a fanboy. Try contributing to the discussion next time.

    ooooohhh

    sting


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