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Also, from my understanding. The Last of Us has kinda meh gameplay, and a story that is essentially ripped off from The Road except nowhere near as well done. So if this is true I ask, why does this game even exist?
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Well, I've played plenty of it so far, and I wouldn't say it has meh gameplay. In fact, it's gameplay is really good. It has a few AI issues at times, and those aren't really even immersion reading, and other than that, everything else IST pretty well done. The open ended nature of the combat leaves o wit plenty of options, and I'm generally having fun playing it, to put it mildly. Plus, the game's REALLY atmospheric.
as for the story, I've never really read The Road. TLoU has obviously taken inspiration from plenty of sources, it i don't know if it has completely ripped something off. All I know is that the story, setting and characters are really well done and are dong a great job of keeping me hooked to the game.
Nice to hear.
I have been reading more about the game and it seems to be worth a rent at most now. Which certainly is better than "worse than drinking horse piss". Still not sure I want to play it though, I absolutely HATED Uncharted and consider it my standard for shit.
But I might still give it a chance, if I can find it for extremely cheap.
I'm not trying to sell you on the game, because I hate it when people do that with me, it's up to you after all, but I WILL say that if you hated Uncharted, that's no reason not to play The Last of Us. Both are actually complete opposites of each other. It's like ND took the worst of uncharted, reversed it and then put it into TLoU. Linearity- well, yeah, TLoU is still linear, but not entirely. You can take different paths at time, which all lead you to the same destination, but it's still a nice option. Then there's random exploration, where you can go into insignificant areas just to collect items which almost always come in handy for crafting stuff that you will DEFINITELY need. It's nothing that has never been done before, but ND have put it all together to create something truly great. And I've rarely ever had the chance to actually use guns all throughout a gunfight. It's usually just two three guys, which is when I run out of ammo, and then it's all improvisation. And it's so nerve-wracking the entire game... intense atmosphere.
I know a lot of this sounds like hyperbole, and it might be, honeymoon phase and all, but I'm just telling you what my impressions are from the first seven hours or so. Again, it's completely up to you of course, but I would definitely recommend it. Worth a rent? Definitely, AT LEAST.
I see. I heard it is similar to Uncharted though in some ways, namely the fact that it has some cover based shooting which I absolutely hate. Thankfully as you said, the lack of ammunition results in people sneaking up and meleeing most things. Anyway a few questions,
What difficulty do you play on? It seems a lot of the complaints about the gameplay are from people playiong on the low diffiulties/playing the first few hours.
From what I have heard you do have an upgrade system, but I have heard that you dont power up enough to the point so you can just overpower everything. Is this true? Because if it is it is nice to see more devs getting the power up system done right.
There isn't exactly a cover system, you can crouch behind objects if you like. It isn't the traditional cover mechanic where you press a button and just stick to cover. Anyway, you have to keep moving, because everyone's always flanking you, and stealth is usually the better option. And as I said before, you rarely ever get to use your guns so much, due to the lack of ammo.
I'm playing it on Normal, and I haven't had any complaints besides literally just two incidents, where some of my enemies failed to notice my companions moving in their line of sight. The gameplay's pretty good, and the good thing is that it lets you do things the way you want, rather than forcing you down a path in Uncharted.
And yeah, there is an upgrade system, but it doesn't provide any upgrades that will make you or your weapons super powered. Ability to carry around more bullets (usually 2 or 3 extra bullets at the most) and increasing reload time by a few seconds, and sure, it comes in handy, but it never makes you feel overpowered. I mean, all the encounters I've had with the human enemies and with the zombies have been as tense and nerve-wracking as before, and a large part of that is down to the difficulty. In most games that give you stealth as an option, you're usually the predator and you can easily take out all your enemies in a matter of a few seconds. It's not like that in The Last of Us. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't feel cheap either. It's pretty well balanced.
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