• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      No, it’s the same thing. You’re an arrow who jumps on the heads of enemies.

      Wait, you didn’t think you were the person with the bow did you? The stealth archer is inconsequential to the story. It’s the arrow that matters.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Someone call a psychiatrist, we have another case of Other Games Syndrome.

      You’ll be ok. Let’s just sit down and play either of your games. Do you want to play Super Mario, or Last of Us

  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The Last of Us is just something I cannot get in to. Been trying for 10 years. I just do not care and it bores me to death even when I was trying to force myself to stay with it. Turns out as I get older, I still don’t want walking simulators. I still just want more of the games I played as a kid, and luckily I still have them all.

    • myotheraccount@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I absolutely loved playing The Last of Us. But I find no enjoyment in ever playing it again (I tried and got bored). It will be like rewatching a movie I’ve seen, but meanwhile having to relearn how to watch it as well. I think these storydriven games have their place, but there are surely more engaging games.

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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      2 months ago

      TLoU is as far as I know the only instance of a movie or series adaptation of a video game being better than its source material.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’ve been balls fucking deep in Spider-Man 2 lately. I got it a couple weeks ago and haven’t stopped since. I’m already almost 100% done with my NG+ run. I got a bunch of costume mods and some gameplay tweak mods, and I’m having a blast swinging around the expanded NYC (including Queens and Brooklyn) in all these different costumes that all honestly look fantastic.

      It’s just more of the same/similar Spider-Man games we’ve all been playing for the better part of 20 years, but it’s just so goddamn fun.

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It is fine to have a different experience and taste in games. But The Last Of Us is absolutely not a Walking Sim. For one thing, Walking Sims, by definition, have no combat. You just walk around and explore a place and uncover a story along the way. TLOU is filled with stealth combat and 3rd person shooting, survival horror style resource management, as well as exploration and an unfolding story.

      I think what you mean is that you dislike Narrative-driven adventure games. Walking Sims are a sub-genre of narrative driven games, but not all narrative driven games are Walking Sims. The Last Of Us is an narrative- driven action-adventure survival-horror game.

    • criss_cross@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I like walking sims but I hate stealth action games. Will never be able to play TLOU.

      Also hearing about what they did in the 2nd one kinda kills my interest.

        • Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip
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          2 months ago

          Made a questionable choice with the story that required retconning the depiction of the final antagonists from the first game, among other choices.

            • Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip
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              2 months ago

              In the ps3 release the Fireflies hospital was dirty and dingy. In the sequel it’s all squeaky clean.

              In the first game the Fireflies are portrayed as shortsighted and incapable of even crossing the country with heavy weaponry. In the sequel they’re treated as if they were perfectly capable of making and disseminating a vaccine.

              Neil clearly didn’t like how the first games story turned out and made the sequel into his little fanfic.

              • blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Your idea of a retcon is that the hospital looks different in the sequel game in that tiny cutscene you see? It’s not even true, the hospital is still dirty and dingy. You’re also claiming a character having a wishful opinion is a retcon.

                Neither of these are retcons.

                There’s zero plot or story changes here too to even start making the assertion a retcon happened. How and why are you escalating to accusing the entire TLOU2 of being a fanfic because of two extremely minor things about the previous game, one of which isn’t even true.

                • Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip
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                  1 month ago

                  It’s literally the definition of a retcon, and there’s way more, but you’re clearly not worth talking to.

                  You really don’t see a difference here?!?

            • Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip
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              1 month ago

              Unfortunately foe the both of us, because rightwingers used this game for their agenda, neither of us will ever be taken seriously. It’s like telling one of those narcissists that make their abusive childhood their entire personality that running a stoplight is bad.

              I hope the 4th Witcher game ends up being good, because I’m not sure how many more times I can watch the same situation go down, man.

        • criss_cross@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          STORY SPOILERS AHEAD

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          .

          The second game starts off with killing the MC from the first game and you follow the other MC around on their revenge tour. From the bits I’ve seen it’s going for an ultra gritty, introspective, Walking Dead style narrative that I just honestly don’t care for anymore. It’s just not my thing.

          I also don’t want to invest in the series when I know the main guy from the first one gets done dirty.

          • blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I wouldn’t call it “Walking Dead” style. If anything, it wears its Cormac McCarthy influences on its sleeve. If the first game was The Road, the second game is Blood Meridian. The story is intentionally dreary, miserable, uncomfortable, and emotionally draining. Kotaku’s review of the game was pretty on the money for a lot of people, it’s entirely possible to be so put off by the tone and story of the game because it’s so miserable.

            The thing is that you play as Ellie and then as Abby to get both perspectives on the story. The entire message of the game is that revenge and unending conflict a downward spiral of self-destruction. Joel gets done dirty… but so does everyone. That’s the whole point of the game.

            • criss_cross@lemmy.world
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              1 month ago

              Sure. I respect the choice and understand why people like it. But it’s definitely not a story for me. I think I’d just burn out of playing something that dreary for so long only then having to go through it again from the other perspective.

              Between that and hating stealth games it’s just not a game for me.

              I can respect that others love it but it’s not a game for me.

    • Klear@piefed.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You can’t die in Doom. Per the quote - you die after jumping on enemies. The lack of jump button and infinitely tall monsters were specifically implemented to prevent player death in Doom.

    • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I did once. The quarter fell onto some solder points and short circuited a bunch of stuff. Fried the whole machine. This was back in the early 90s, of course, when a typical computer cost as much as a nice used car and maybe four people in the county had one, much less knew how to fix one. Some original joke about getting beaten with jumper cables. Sometimes the hard lessons are the ones that stick with you most because as I got older, I learned how to solder and perform board level repairs. It’s an insanely useful skill.

    • julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      The cut scenes are good, but the stealth bits are really exciting gameplay too. Genuinely scared my partner with the faces I pulled playing the left behind expansion.

        • julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          Ah interesting. I’m a big fan of the “what is a sport” pub chat, so this is fun too. “single player game” = oxymoron doesn’t hit common understanding of what constitutes a game, but I don’t think we have a word for the subset of games being singled out here.

          Is there a level of capability for AI where you would consider them “agents” according to this schema? Obviously TLOU enemies don’t qualify, and multiplayer is generally more fun. Aah so many questions. I’m going to have to find someone who will put up with 2hrs of debate on this if I stand them pints.

  • Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s frustrating how people in charge are so far away from reality.

    Remember when Kathleen Kennedy said that writing for Star Wars is hard because there aren’t any books and comics?

  • LazyOldPervert@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You kinda undercut your point when you say that the most famous video game of all time was released aover a decade before it actually was. . .

  • whereitsat@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    movies and tv shows are pretty simple – you had charlie chaplin and leave it to beaver and then the last of us on HBO.

    i have a private school/ivy league education in film theory btw. i’m short for time, so excuse the grammer.

    • Delusions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      if you don’t think so, spend the two seconds it takes to search it out yourself

      Nope doesn’t look like it, looks like it was someone being gamergate about videogames

        • Jiggle_Physics@quokk.auEnglish
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          2 months ago

          It is however the absence of reason to assume it’s factual

          In this case though this is real. Where it might have been said to not be real is the quote is often attributed to the director of the game, where as it was actually said by the screen writer of the show.

  • myyass@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s right because playing Dark Souls, I had to insert my sanity in the coin slot every time I died and it said Thanks Obama.