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The Last of Us
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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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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
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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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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.0 -
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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.
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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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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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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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USA TodayExpected 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."
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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:
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