The Last of Us Part 2 (PS4)

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I just started yesterday.

Only like an hour in. And wow.

My faith in gaming has been restored.



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[Blzer]

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Now I'm over 32 hours in. Within the last few hours I was finally able to catch a certain landmark. I don't know if it plays a factor later or anything or the location I'm in, so tagged is the landmark and when I spotted it. I'll upload an image later.

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The Space Needle in Seattle. I caught it from far away going across the last Seraphite skybridge (before crashing through the pool skylight).

Earlier on at some point I accidentally walked backwards and slipped down a mud hill into my next checkpoint area. Of course the game both autosaved immediately and both the last checkpoint and encounter points refreshed, so I couldn't go back to clear out the place for inventory and collectables. Ugh, this game with those moments.

Anyway, I'm not sure if the pills are assumed to supposed to be taken literally as opposed to another method (since they have the pill image, rattle like pills, and it sounds like you swallow them when you upgrade), but I thought it would be cool in a restrictive way if you couldn't do upgrades while equipped with a spores mask.

And I'm not sure if the game messed up or what, but I was once in an area without power and thought I wouldn't be able to find a weapon upgrade station because you normally have to turn on a light to do so, but I stumbled upon one and was able to turn on the light without yet generating power in that area.

Those last two things are nitpicks, but if this game is lauded for its realism in certain aspects, these aren't two parts of it.

[Blzer]

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Just finished on the Hard preset.

It took me 38 hours and 47 minutes to completely finish. I really think I could've done this just fine on Survivor. I'm glad this has a New Game+ mode so I can keep all my upgrades if and when I play through again, though they say that the plus modes are harder, so I'll have to be careful if I try Survivor+ haha. I still need 15 more artifacts, 13 more trading cards, 3 more journal entries, apparently 2 more workbenches, and 15 more coins.

This game was a beast. Props to ND for creating what they did. This could not have been easy, even though the gameplay mechanics largely remained the same from the first game. Going through those credits, man. This game was a severe undertaking for sure, especially with all of the different environments.

I'm surprised people take as long as I do playing this, because I really took my sweet time in this one, including playing guitar a lot. Never really died a bunch, though (even at one point when I did, I reset less than every thirty seconds).

I had no problems with this game's story as a whole. I will acknowledge that I can understand why others did, and I could think of other ways to rework some of the same points, but the gameplay involved in directing the story that was told was fascinating for me. The ending was both hit-and-miss for me, hitting emotionally but missing a bit from a storytelling perspective. I just don't see where anybody can give this thing a 1/10, but that's my own opinion.

In the morning I'm going to go back and read a bunch of your spoilers, haha.

[georgiafan]

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I'm one of the people that hated the story of this game even after a few weeks of letting it digest. I haven't posted my thoughts as to why because I have so many and I don't want to get into any controversial things on here.

[YuNgWuN]

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One of the only games I've beat this generation (multiplayer only type of person) The story was phenomenal to me as was the gameplay. I really liked abby thought she was a great character .

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[JohnnytheSkin]

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I'm one of the people that hated the story of this game even after a few weeks of letting it digest. I haven't posted my thoughts as to why because I have so many and I don't want to get into any controversial things on here.

I say post them. For people like me who don't really get the hate I'd like to try and understand. Those that have griped before on here have posted shallow, easily defeatable points so I'd like something more in depth vs. simple "Abby bad, me no likey story choices".

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[Blzer]

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I say post them. For people like me who don't really get the hate I'd like to try and understand. Those that have griped before on here have posted shallow, easily defeatable points so I'd like something more in depth vs. simple "Abby bad, me no likey story choices".

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I’d say the main thing I don’t like about the story, in retrospect, is that...

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Literally everything that was done was all for naught. From Ellie’s perspective, it just left everyone dead around Abby except for Abby, and now Dina is gone and Ellie can’t properly play guitar anymore.

From Abby’s perspective, she goes through a lot of trouble to get Yara surgical equipment only for her to die later, and as she and Yara head to get Lev, it just leaves Manny dead, and she of course couldn’t protect Owen and Mel.

The first game was like this as well though. Joel takes Ellie all the way to the Fireflies only to not get a cure and catalyze Abby’s anger by killing her dad. If everyone stayed put where they were this whole time, everyone would be in the same place and more good people would still be alive, haha.

Note that I’m not saying this is bad storytelling. It’s just too realistic to be adored from a cinematic perspective.

I do wish Ellie found a way to “talk it out” with Abby by the shore instead of fight, but given that I played as Abby and she grew on me, I’m also glad she was spared.

[NinerFan1983]

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Just finished this game.

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I was a little surprised that Ellie spared Abby, considering what Ellie had to go through just to track her down in Santa Barbara. I still liked the ending as it was.

[YuNgWuN]

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Sorry didn't mean for the spoilers. Dont know how to do spoiler tags.

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So I was very far off in my "plot development" prediction I made early on while playing, and I found it out really quickly after I posted too lol.

I just wanted to say that I know nothing about where this game is going to go, and surprisingly only recently have been privy to story controversy in this game. I have a guess of what could possibly happen.

Don't tell me if I'm right or wrong, but I just want to go back to this later and see if there is anything to it. I kind of just wanted a public stamp of approval for myself. Don't read if you haven't gone as far as I've gotten (again, I've played 16 hours and I play kind of slowly), or if you're not interested in considering what could happen here:

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As I'm only at the first look at "stalkers," I'm really not that far. Ellie is still trying to get to the hospital in Seattle. I just came from some sewer water.

Anyway, we've played as Abby before. Why deviate and play as somebody who would kill one of our protagonists unless we are supposed to play more as her later? My guess is that eventually Ellie discovers the truth about what Joel hid before, and either becomes a martyr for the greater good of the human race or is killed rejecting it regardless, and the rest of the story is us playing as Abby as she has to fight off whomever to get the cure to the right place for mass production.

I could be way off-base. Only time will tell on this one. Give me a few more weeks, lol.

[YuNgWuN]

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SPOILERS IN ABOVE POST


I don't know where we're yet at with this game regarding this, but I say we still tag for a while.


EDIT: By the way, I was very far off in my "plot development" prediction I made early on while playing, and I found it out really quickly after I posted too lol.

Definitely tag.. didnt mean to do that. You actually covered it in your reasoning anyways.

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Definitely tag.. didnt mean to do that. You actually covered it in your reasoning anyways.

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That's okay. You tag it like this:

[ spoiler]Write stuff here.[/spoiler]

Just leave the space out before the "s". If you still have what you put, you can edit it back in.

[Blzer]

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Fam, I'm sitting here 2 days later and I just really don't want to play as Abby. I'm 32yo and throwing a temper tantrum over a video game .

I'll tell you one pro I had in this section of the game:

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At least every time Abby tried to open a door that wasn't locked, she wasn't always saying "****!" or "****!" Got a little old hearing that from Ellie each time haha.

On that note, this is obviously the way it has to be done and a game like Uncharted or Tomb Raider is the same, but isn't it awfully convenient that there is always exactly one way (not zero, not two) to get to somewhere they need to go? Like, if that door is locked and there wasn't a nearby rope to climb through that high window, then the game is over my friend haha.

It's just something I kept thinking about while playing, especially when you're going through a building with many levels busted apart and the characters are just hoping that they'll have a path going to the other side, and surprise surprise there is one!

This obviously isn't a knock on the game. If it were real life though, I'd look back and tell that story to the others that were with me. "Hey guys, didn't you notice that we lucked out in every single turn of ours? I mean we could have been blocked off 368 different times, and we always just so happened to have enough people, objects, or openings to get us just to that very spot in the end, just because we wished it to be true!" Heh.

[JohnnytheSkin]

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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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[georgiafan]

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I was disappointed we didn't need to find a pallet to get to somewhere like in the 1st game. I think that would have been fun just 1 time.