The Last Of Us 2

I havent worked up enough emotional resilience to replay this. Pretty heavy stuff.

I'll wait until there is some sort of PS5 upgrade to the game. I imagine that will be glorious.

Stayed up to finish this last night and I'm glad I did, but for the wrong reasons. I'm just glad it's done. I loved TLoU.

Disappointing that I played as a character I don't like for a fair percentage of the game. Disappointing that every time a character decided they needed to go somewhere, I was exasperated at the thought of having to travel all the way there to get to the next part of the story. Disappointing that some aspects of the story felt somewhat shoveled in. I must admit, at the confrontation - that's how much I disliked her. I also think they .

I think I get what they were at, that there was another side to the story, I just didn't care. I thought pieces with were long, drawn out and tedious.

Some of it was good; someone mentioned the scenes between Joel and Ellie - real tender moments. I love that guy. I'm looking to buy a dog, and Joel is high on the list of potential names just because of him :pac:

I saw someone give it a 6/10 a couple of pages back. That sounds about right.

no no no no no
An abysmal abhorrent abomination
its's amazing how many ab words you can dredge up immediately

I enjoyed playing as Abbey. I thought she had some of the more interesting set pieces. I wish they found a smarter way to incorporate her story though. A hard reset halfway through the game was a pain in the hole.

HairySalmon wrote: »

I liked that the game turned me from hating Abby to actually seeing her perspective and then hating Ellie for being so one dimensional.

It was tough to like Ellie so much in the first game to then feeling this way about her I will admit.

Exactly the same as me.

Of course I agree that the game was a bit bloated and could have been trimmed (but still loved it) but I was full on hating Abby until seeing her perspective, her motives and her experience which changed my views.

I know AAA bashing is the 'in-thing' lately but I loved the storytelling and execution of the plot (slight bloating aside).

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Keep your game at 8 to 12 hours if it's an action game. 20 to 50 for a rpg.

That's all they need.

Nah. Not every story can be told in 12 hours. That'd be approximately half the length of TLOU2. We can all agree it was too long but the story wouldn't have worked (for the majority) if that had to be sliced by 50% or 66%.

There's no template. Lengths are relevant to the games.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The story was t worth telling over 25 hours and plenty of it was totally inconsequential.

It was in dire need of editing amongst it's other sins.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

In your opinion, which is fine but I doubt the majority would agree.

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Mad to think the game was actually a lot longer, especially the ending location which was originally way more open planned. Saying that, on my 2nd run for the platinum, i flew through it on easy. When you don't have to worry about stealth, the combat sections go much quicker so could be they just put in too many action set pieces.

was one of my issues with the game,I eventually just found myself running past mobs when I got too tired of the gameplay loop

Penn wrote: »

Whats the purpose of the trailer? I presumed there'd be a PS5 upgrade reveal at the end.

"2 sides to every story" according to Neil but yeah, bit weird. Maybe something gonna be announced for game awards. Eddie Vedder will be playing at it, would be shocked if he doesn't play future days and then a ps5 version announcement of factions news.

Big story spoilers in that latest trailer, I'd be pissed if I had seen that before playing the game.