The Last of Us Part 2 (PS4)

[Blzer]

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In that same vein I couldn't help but think how they were able to navigate back to "base" after the day. Like doors and walls crumbled, others were blocked, rushing water, etc... certainly couldn't go back the way you came.

Video game logic, LOL.

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Oh, I always thought the same thing as well. Should have mentioned that in my post. Yeah, even if you cleared out everybody and maybe nobody else shows up there, you simply aren't going back the same way you came haha. Good thing they just "glossed over that," I guess.

[Americas Team]

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I just beat the game and what a game it was! One of the best if not the best single player game I've ever played. The game play was excellent, the game looked very realistic, the story was good to me though I see why people are mad at it. The voice acting is top notch, the facial expressions/emotions are the best in any video game ever!

My only small gripe is that I wish food would have played a bigger part, they should have included hunting and scavenging for food to survive.

Looking forward to playing through it again on the PS5 when it gets a PS5 patch.

[Blzer]

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My only small gripe is that I wish food would have played a bigger part, they should have included hunting and scavenging for food to survive.

I assume the small bits of health you get from vending machines and such are supposed to be little snacks you eat. But yeah, maybe if it was a part of your core/essential health or something, that would be interesting. I thought about that once when doing a long stroll with another companion, thinking: "Wanna grab a bite?"

Since I'm playing some RDR 2 again though, I'm feeling what you are regarding that. At least these games don't require you to seek toilet.

[Blzer]

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So, one gameplay quip I had with this game (and it may have been with the first one as well, not sure) is that once I'm able to craft and use shivs, I couldn't grab and choke out clickers anymore. I had to use a shiv to kill them using stealth. Even if I was out of shivs, I didn't seem to have an alternate option except beat at them or blow them away (I don't think you could kill them in one shot with a normal arrow).

I don't know why the game cripples you in that way once you build an advantage for yourself. This will especially be troubling if I try and do a second playthrough in Plus mode and I already can shiv people but potentially can't pick up or craft any early on.

[zanner]

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Really disappointed. I'm beginning to wonder if the game will ever end, it's at the point about 4 hours ago ( and no telling how many hours in) where I just really started to not care. It seems to keep dragging on to the point where it's almost ruining and negating the masterpiece that was Last of Us (one of my all time faves).

I have went from last of us masterpiece to enjoying part two to really not caring if the world was hit by a meteor and every character seized to exist. The writers in this did a magnificent job of making everyone in this game forgettable and make this a chore for me to get through. There's a part of me late in the game where I was really hoping any controlled player dieing would end the story abruptly . I think I'd be much happier at this point that there was an end in sight.

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[Blzer]

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(I'm not responding to the above post by the way, this is completely unrelated as I just saw something on YouTube)

I hope that people who hate the story for some specific reasons check out this video. It kind of makes things a little more levelheaded when you think it through. The only problem is his misuse of the word "beloved."

Very spoiler-heavy, so only watch if you've played it through.


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[moose1619]

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I am at a certain point near the end(I think). I don’t want to play anymore, very hard to bring myself to finish playing. This is not a knock on the game. I am sure you guys that have finished it know what I mean.



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[Blzer]

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I am at a certain point near the end(I think). I don’t want to play anymore, very hard to bring myself to finish playing. This is not a knock on the game. I am sure you guys that have finished it know what I mean.



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I had no problem wanting to finish. I wanted to know how the story ended.

Strangely, I actually didn't know that I was moments away from the end right before where the ending was actually taking place. I'm mostly speaking from an "encounter" sense. I didn't know that was the last time I'd be facing baddies, heh.

[YuNgWuN]

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I am at a certain point near the end(I think). I don’t want to play anymore, very hard to bring myself to finish playing. This is not a knock on the game. I am sure you guys that have finished it know what I mean.



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Finished it ... probably one of the goats for me. I know others felt the same as you though so you are not alone on those feelings

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[JMD]

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(I'm not responding to the above post by the way, this is completely unrelated as I just saw something on YouTube)

I hope that people who hate the story for some specific reasons check out this video. It kind of makes things a little more levelheaded when you think it through. The only problem is his misuse of the word "beloved."

Very spoiler-heavy, so only watch if you've played it through.


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While I agree with a couple things this person says , I really can't take him to seriously. He keeps referring to Joel as Ellie's Dad , that is not the case.

[georgiafan]

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I still haven't put together my full thoughts on why I didn't like this and at this point I'm not sure if I have the energy to do so.

I will quickly say I would have liked them to cut out a 10 hour section of the game. This would have got the game out 12-18 months earlier. It saves Sony 10s of Millions of $ and fixes some of the issues a lot of people had. I don't think the sales would have suffered going from a 25 hour game to a 15 hour one.

[Blzer]

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While I agree with a couple things this person says , I really can't take him to seriously. He keeps referring to Joel as Ellie's Dad , that is not the case.

He says "father figure" at least once, and after that he means it in that exact way. He doesn't mean it biologically or legally.

EDIT: I'm actually confusing some of it with a different video, but he does only say "daughter" twice and both are in context of speaking from another person's perspective, like as if he's quoting somebody else who is voicing out.

I stand by what I said in that he means it in a figurative sense only; he knows that Joel and Ellie are not father and daughter, otherwise he would have said this much more often when he heavily discussed their personal relationship.

[Bullit]

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While I agree with a couple things this person says , I really can't take him to seriously. He keeps referring to Joel as Ellie's Dad , that is not the case.

Yeah and I just love reviews that tell you how to think and if you don't agree your opinion is just wrong and you don't understand.

[YuNgWuN]

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Yeah and I just love reviews that tell you how to think and if you don't agree your opinion is just wrong and you don't understand.

I mean I feel exactly that way about those reviews saying naughty manipulates you into feeling certain emotions.. lol

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[Blzer]

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Yeah and I just love reviews that tell you how to think and if you don't agree your opinion is just wrong and you don't understand.

I know what you mean, but my point of posting the video (and his point of making it) was that opinions are sometimes only as limited as their scope or understanding. This video is to ensure that people can first see the complete package from all points of view, and then decide at that point whether they believe their opinion is still as valid for themselves as it was before.

If somebody made a comment "I hate cereal because it tastes too dry," and then somebody else mentions that cereal tastes really good if you add milk, that person probably should consider adding milk again before reinforcing their own believe of not liking cereal. That example may sound ridiculous, but that's the point: the person isn't seeing it as a whole just yet. They are so very one-sided... not in their opinion, but in their perspective. See the whole thing for what it is, first.

One thing that a lot of people don't know about this series (Pts 1 and 2) is that this has been Neil Druckmann's vision for this story's framework for a long time, and by that I mean a couple of decades. Yes, things have been reworked over and again, but the revenge storyline wasn't just an afterthought. That being said, the reason the first game didn't include this was because there were other frontrunners who believed that revenge wasn't a strong or redeeming enough story bit for the gaming audience, but it might mean something else to somebody if they understood this was not a spontaneous decision for the game to go the route that it did. The first part doesn't exist without the same mind that already had the second part in mind to begin with, for better or worse.