The Last of Us 2 violence IS too much * no spoilers

If ND maintained this much smaller areas, they could focus on internal organs, gibbing and more impactful animations next gen in another game like last of us.

@Mozelleple112: What doing here is equating the difference of a protagonist character with a red shirt, when in reality it's the difference between nuance and subtle as a brick.

Horses display fear, wander around the battlefield aimlessly rider-less and require personal investment, it's one of the few games that show horses in war as living entity than a mere resource.

Part of that can be attributed Akira Kurosawa influence, which the developers directly cite. Again, Kagemusha being the quintessential example.

LOU2 by comparison is the equivalent of Lost, where the doctor man cries and a teenage girl wonders who Kate will choose, meshed with Saw as faces are caved in.

It's cheap in it's methods of evoking empathy, low brow masquerading as high art.

Gaming journalists desperate for decades to be taken seriously, will fap furously, making themselves feel more intelligent in the process.

When all along, Shogun 2 was already Shindlers List times a million.

Imo. Imho.

Nah, nothing too bad, not even gnarly.

@uninspiredcup:

Imitation=high brow.

Not imitation=low brow.

Because, ya know, it's, like, imitation, dude.

@subspecies: This is a good point, another thing we should probably praise here, besides Shogun 2's superior depictions of animal violence, is how it actually manages to emulate, epic cinema, in an uninterrupted flow making full use of the interactive nature the medium provides, which cinema doesn't.

Where as LOU2 wholly uses it as a crutch.

Oh wells.

When the dog died I cried.

I'm such a sucker for crutches.

@ivangrozny: if u had watch u-tube about the game u would had know what u was getting.There was leaks of the game out on u-tube way befor the game came out, just saying.

I've never really been a fan of gory violent games, except for horror games. When it comes to non-horror games though, I can't think of a single gory violent game that I'm actually a fan of. Whether it's Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto, or God of War, it just seems like violent gory games try to make up for their lack of gameplay depth with excessive violence.

when i read the gs review criticising it for being too violent naturally i thought what a pussy but i do get it after playing it. for me it's choking people out, and the camera panning to their face as you slowly, excruciatingly drain the life out of them and how real they look. and you do it over and over and over again in umpteen different flavours. it drains you. not sure if ive played a game as joyless as tlou2. it's pretty fckin bleak. boring too. not a good combo

@Jag85: Fallout comes to mind, but that's a game where you can beat the end-boss debating philosophy, far more sophisticated than the emotional manipulation of LOU2, and generally a far better use of the interactive nature of medium, with the player directing rather passively watching.

Obviously not talking about Bethesda's entries.

Did you try playing stealth lol?

deadly stealth :)

The blood never got stuck on the glass, it was more of a red cloud that just dissapeared, and the window breaking from basically no force from his body looked weird. Regular videogame stuff.

Remember in Half-Life 2 when combine would rag-doll and glass would break?

HL2 was ahead of it's time that's for sure but still TLOU2 has some very impressive things going on with its physics.

This game attempts to be violent, but it's not violent enough and it's too scripted for its own good.

I too did similar but I barely pay attention to the details on the physics as I'm always on my back the whole time and hearing warmblur mentioning Manhunt games from Rockstars never cross my mind. Manhunt is almost 2 decade old but the tech was limited to what you could do, I'd welcome ND to make a Manhunt sequel.

soldier of fortune 3 still has a better gore system.

I've played a lot of violent games and I'm not usually bothered by it, but I thought this was a bit too much for me at times. I had seen my fill of brutal violence by the end. It's also a very depressing game.

It does. There's some blood remaining on the edge of the glass that didn't shatter. It's hard to see but it's there. As for the no force, it's not his body slumping over that breaks the glass. It's his arm that swings into it before he starts to fall. Glass is pretty weak in the game though.

There's a reason Uncharted baddies just fall over cleanly and Last Of Us baddies are fucking pulverised into scraps of bone and gore.

Uncharted is silly escapist fun, Last Of Us is a horror franchise.

It's not too much, imo. It's supposed to make you feel bad when you slash the throat of a crying, begging woman.

I didn't know you could shoot someone's arm off where they're pretty much dead as an npc but still wince so much in pain in this game:

https://youtu.be/meseu276SSs?t=149