The Last Of Us 2

gimli2112 wrote: »

worst
game ever

HA!

Zero-Cool wrote: »

I just checked the settings, sound and screen. Turned off Key Tone and I'm left with sounds of the ocean and no noise when navigating icons, exactly what i wanted!

This is awesome - thanks for the follow up. I've had so many themes over the years where the icon noise has bugged me and ruined the theme. Good to know I can tinker a bit.

I had to give up on this, my heart was just sinking every time I cleared an area and moved straight on to another area to repeat what I just did, it stopped being fun.

I'll stick christopherodds let's play on in the background while I'm working just to see the end of the story but even that hasn't grabbed me.

Thargor wrote: »

it stopped being fun.

This game isn't meant to be fun.

SMC92Ian wrote: »

TLOU2 isn't a compelling narrative? Yeah ok.

Not when its buried under a few dozen hours of tedious filler.

I haven’t really thought about this too much since I finished it, but agree with the above. It’s a good bit too long and the last 30% I found to be a grind to the end, I had really stopped enjoying it and just wanted to see it through.

I also wish there was more segments with the infected instead of yet another gang of humans I don’t care about. The best bits were when you, enemy humans and infected were all thrown into the mix together imo.

All in all it’s very much a Naughty Dog game, make it look pretty and stick doggedly to the formula of the previous game. I think during the PS3 years their ability to tell a story definitely helped them stand out, but there’s a lot of games now that would be at least on their level narratively, so it needed to do more than the first one gameplay wise to really be considered essential.

This pretty much lines up exactly with my feelings on the game.

So many segments that outstay their welcome followed by segments, such as the museum sequence, that the game could have done with more of. By the end of it I was so sick and tired of fighting my way through samey kill boxes that the only reason I was able to finish it was due to not wanting to waste the significant time investment I had already put in.

Between this, and Uncharted 4, less is definitely more with Naughty Dog games as far as I'm concerned. Uncharted 4 was a clear indication to me that they are a developer who don't vary their mechanics enough to sustain a longer play time, and TLoU 2 really hammered that point home.

Never played the multiplayer but the campaign was tedious. Probably one of the most disappointing games of this generation for me.

There's a bit near the end of UC4 where you're scaling another cliff. I wanted to let go just to end it all and I love the UC games.
I thought the conclusion was cool however and that's how I like my games to end, happily. It's like Hollwood endings.

An outcome considered to be typical of certain movies produced in Hollywood, California, in which all desirable results are achieved, with protagonists being rewarded, antagonists being punished or destroyed, and positive sentiments (love, happiness, peace) prevailing over negative.

While people may not like such outcomes I prefer this. It's like watching Korean cinema and coming out at the end wondering what the frick just happened.

Good God UC4 was tedious. I'd be hard pressed to play another Naughty Dog action adventure game without a total overhaul of how they approach game play.

SMC92Ian wrote: »

Thanks for the laughs previous commentorrrs.

No problem, 12 year old.

goon_magee wrote: »

Found Uncharted 4 too long and should only play indie games lol. Get a grip. You misunderstood/manipulated my post (not surprising really), my problem isn't with long games, it's with long games that are utterly stale, one trick ponies that outstay their welcome by about 6 hours. And I say that as someone who loved the series to that point, and subsequently loved Lost Legacy.

If you find Uncharted 4 enjoyable for the duration of the game, then more power to you. I wish I had the same patience and could have found some good in the absolute tedious slog that game was.

Slog? That's your opinion. Uncharted 4 was only 12 hours (Uncharted 2 and 3 were far far more dragged out, coming from someone who LOVES 2) and this was only 20... god imagine if you played The Witcher 3 or the new AC games, you'd die haha.

I loved TLOU 2 but the guy in the vid above makes good points like made on this thread long ago. Uncharted is very stale but it's worse that other games try to copy it. Uncharted is very casual player friendly though. Anyone i know as a casual player plays fifa, cod and Uncharted so i can see why the keep the formula like that.

Johnny has mentioned this before and i would love to see ND have their next game more story driven and less action. What they'd have to do fix the balance and make it enjoyable, i dunno. There are too many action set pieces in 2 so is it just a case of get rid of half the combat sections? The open world of downtime Seattle was great to explore and as ND has said, most of the game was open world but it hurt the story. I think if they can find a balance for more open world stuff while keeping an engaging story, they'll be onto something special.

I'd love some dlc like Left Behind, they definitely have enough interesting characters and storylines to cover over the years/scenes we didn't get to see.