The Last of Us (PS3)

[dickey1331]

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I haven't decided if I'm going to get the game on PS4 or not. I beat it on the PS3 and loved it but I don't know if I want to experience it again. It's hard to explain but it was perfect the first play through and I just don't want to ruin my experience by another play though.

[Burns11]

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I haven't decided if I'm going to get the game on PS4 or not. I beat it on the PS3 and loved it but I don't know if I want to experience it again. It's hard to explain but it was perfect the first play through and I just don't want to ruin my experience by another play though.

I feel the same way, like playing it again will sully the memory of experiencing the game for the first time.

[Picci]

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I feel the same way, like playing it again will sully the memory of experiencing the game for the first time.

This is no doubt true.

However, on the other end of the spectrum it's also like watching a good movie again, and catching a new phrase, surroundings, action, you didn't notice before. There's always something new discovered.

Here's a note to pass on. Watched my son playing game with the new difficulty. Basically, it's a 1 kill shot. He says there isn't anything cheesy. Difficult yes, but what would be expected in a realistic environment.

[LingeringRegime]

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I look forward to playing it on the "Grounded" level.

[Flawless]

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EDGE - Naughty Dog on bringing The Last Of Us to PS4

“I wish we had a button that was like ‘Turn On PS4 Mode’, but no,” creative director Neil Druckmann says. “We expected it to be Hell, and it was Hell. Just getting an image onscreen, even an inferior one with the shadows broken, lighting broken and with it crashing every 30 seconds… that took a long time. These engineers are some of the best in the industry and they optimised the game so much for the PS3’s SPUs specifically. It was optimised on a binary level, but after shifting those things over [to PS4] you have to go back to the high level, make sure the [game] systems are intact, and optimise it again.

“I can’t describe how difficult a task that is. And once it’s running well, you’re running the [versions] side by side to make sure you didn’t screw something up in the process, like physics being slightly off, which throws the game off, or lighting being shifted and all of a sudden it’s a drastically different look. That’s not ‘improved’ any more; that’s different. We want to stay faithful while being better.”

"It still means rebuilding the assets, throwing them in, seeing how the new streaming works, working with the new hard drive and the new OS that you have to write whole new systems for. We knew the areas that were problematic on the PS3, where we were hitting a technical bottleneck, so they were the easiest areas to improve. We brought in all the hi-res models, and then it’s on par with what you saw in the cutscenes. There’s an improved lighting model. After that, we started looking across the board; enemies look a little blurry up close, so that was pretty easy. We ramped those up and saw a pretty significant difference. Our cinematics are now running at 1080p and 60fps, and that involved rendering them all from scratch. It’s interesting that now [instead of a technical bottleneck], the bottleneck is ‘Can we fit all this on the disc?’"

“Right now, it’s still a straightforward port,” Druckmann says, “but there are things I’d like to do. I love the feel of the triggers on the PS4, so I want to give the option to switch which triggers you use to shoot and which ones you’re using to listen and crouch. Then there are some ideas of how to use the touchpad that we’ll play with and see if it’s worth it. Mostly, we don’t want to mess with the experience too much, and we don’t want to deviate from what made The Last Of Us so great.”

How do you show it on the Internet? Any next-gen game?” Druckmann asks. “We have the game running in 1080p at 60fps, and YouTube brings it down to 30fps and does a compression on it, and it’s hard to tell the difference. When you see it running on your big TV and you see all the hi-res assets running smoothly, it’s hard to go back to the previous version after that, but it’s hard to show all the work, the optimisation and the artistry that went into it. We’re still trying to figure out what the best way to do that is. We tried to put a non-compressed version of the trailer running at 60Hz for people to download, but it’s several hundred MBs. It’s a huge file. Maybe there’s something on PSN where we can make this stuff available, but it’s something we have to address.”

We’re working on this re-release, but at the same time we’re working on two other brand-new experiences.

[Phobia]

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The wait has been hard!!! I want to play this so bad and holding out for the PS4 version is killing me.

[LingeringRegime]

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The wait has been hard!!! I want to play this so bad and holding out for the PS4 version is killing me.

Soon. Very soon. It will be worth it.

[Picci]

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Not sure how true this is but information in UK has it arriving next week, June 13th.

According to the retailer GAME, The Last Of Us Remastered will be hitting store shelves next week. This would be right on target with the rumors that the game will be releasing in early June. This could all be an honest mistake on the part of GAME but it doesn’t seem likely that they’d make such a huge mistake. If this is true then expect Sony to announce the release date on Monday with a release the following day, similar to what SEGA did back in the 90′s.

http://www.gamersftw.co.uk/video-games/last-us-remastered-coming-next-week/

[Phobia]

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Not sure how true this is but information in UK has it arriving next week, June 13th.

If that's true I'm holding off on EA UFC and getting this instead!!!!

[m1ke_nyc]

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Too many games I want coming out within the same time frame.

[LingeringRegime]

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Pretty sure it was delayed until August, June 13 was the initial release date.

Yeah, it was a "misprint" they say.

So, it will not be coming out on June 13th.

http://i.imgur.com/uuoscXL.png

[DTX3]

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Good. I'm already having trouble splitting my playing time with Show, Watch Dogs and BF4. UFC is just going to make that even tougher.

[Pezell04x]

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Pretty sure it was delayed until August, June 13 was the initial release date.

Yeah, it was a "misprint" they say.

So, it will not be coming out on June 13th.

http://i.imgur.com/uuoscXL.png

UGH. I was gonna make that my birthday present to myself.

[Flawless]

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July 29th

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[neifro]

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Here is the E3 trailer 1080p/60fps....Warning Spoilers

http://nd.images.s3.amazonaws.com/video/T1-PS4-Trailer-FINAL-Online-HQ-5994_gamersyde_update.mp4