The Last of Us (PS3)

[Andrew Turner]

Brilliant.

I luckily preordered my PS4 before Amazon ran out. After watching this walkthrough, I'm a quick decision from buying a PS3 tomorrow just to play this game.

[CapeCodRPGer]

I pre ordered a PS4 on tuesday. Yesterday I traded in all my xbox stuff and got a PS3 just for this game.

[Andrew Turner]

I just got back from the P/X. As soon as the kids go to bed, I'm breaking out this game on my new PS3.

It's going to be a long night.

[atheral]

I've been playing this today a little. It is amazing though..yeah you definitely want the kids in bed before playing it. It's kinda brutal.

[Andrew Turner]

This is the greatest game I've played since FO3 (my favorite game of all time). I bought a PS3 just to play this gem and it was money well-spent. I simply cannot recommend The Last of Us enough. Emotional, immersive, engaging--this has got to be the #1 Game of the Year.

[Andrew Turner]

I can't proclaim the rocking-awesome of this game enough. I'm crying my eyes out right now.

Spoiler:

Sam and Henry.

I have never been so emotionally attached to a video game. It's almost creepy.

I'm ready to call it: this is the greatest video game ever made.

[Mikaze]

Yanno, after playing the new Tomb Raider and replaying Silent Hill 2, I'm looking forward to playing a game that isn't emotionally abusive. So instead of playing Serious Sam 3 I decided to play Last of Us!

This is the best idea!

Edit- ;_;

[Mikaze]

45%-or-so through according to my save file tags. Gotta say that this is hitting that Half-life zone where you find yourself being grateful when you're fighting mutants rather than humans.

"Oh @#$%, I heard something. ... Oh, whew! It's just a monster!"

Admittedly having

Spoiler:

Bill fighting alongside me up until recently probably took a lot of pressure off during the infected encounters.

The scenery is hitting a lot of those pleasure centers that had developed around the early Silent Hills. Some of it is downright gorgeous. Some outright depressing. And a lot of meshing between the two. Like a parking lot that's been abandoned for decades.

The in-close fighting can quickly become hard to watch, which rather seems the point.

Spoiler:

I never want to see that death-by-Bloater-grab again. :O

edit-I was wondering why I had Half-Life 2 on the brain while playing this game...

Spoiler:

Besides the scenery, especially in the controlled zone towards the beginning, Marlene is played by Merle Dandridge, who provided the voice for Alyx Vance. So that's major players in resistance movements in two post-apocalyptic videogame settings now. :D

[Arnwyn]

The Last of Us is indeed one of the greatest games of all time.

[Stiehl9s]

Just started playing this last night. Great game. Instinctive controls combat wise and very gritty. Love bashing someone's head into a desk!

[Salama]

Just finished it. It was a great emotional ride. Highly recommended.

Anyone tried the multiplayer yet? I've heard it's also good and captures the survival theme well.

[Sunderstone]

Finished this earlier today, loved every part of it. I took the stealthy approach for most of the game even at the

Spoiler:

double Bloater area towards the end.

I'm still amazed by the graphics @720 compared to the Xbox 360 @1080. Naughty Dog did another unbelievable job with this one.

[Alceste008]

Mikaze wrote:

Yanno, after playing the new Tomb Raider and replaying Silent Hill 2, I'm looking forward to playing a game that isn't emotionally abusive. So instead of playing Serious Sam 3 I decided to play Last of Us!

This is the best idea!

Edit- ;_;

This made me laugh. I really enjoyed Tomb Raider as well. I am looking forward to Last of Us. I have to wait until after my Bday later this month to buy anything thou. My gf and sisters get unhappy when I buy everything I want right before my bday.

[Icyshadow]

The ending made me slightly more misanthropic than I usually am.

[Andrea1]

End stuff:

Regarding the 'cure' What makes it so terrible is that if the characters were at a point where they are cutting out the brain of a teenager for a 'possible' cure, do we really deserve it? If it does work, I mean no action could ever make-up for what happened. No words, statues, songs or naming your kids Ellie.

[atheral]

I just finished this game a day ago or so..still trying to figure out my feelings on the ending.

Ending Spoilers:

Now I have no real issues with the first part of the ending, the "man is the real monster" implications with the fireflies trying to dissect Ellie for the chance of a cure, most likely without her permission. And the sheer desperation of Marlene and the rest of the fireflies have is rather..poignant? (And how desperate do you have to be to try and face down a man who has traveled ,mostly on foot, 2500 miles through very hostile territory then took out two floors worth of heavily armed guards when all you have is a single pistol) Or with Joel's "there has to be a better way" shift from the start of the game, and his conscience coming to the fore after being buried in twenty years of sorrow and vicious criminal activities.

The only real..not really problems but more of an uneasiness , I have center around Joel lying to Ellie about what happened, of course in the epilogue it is implied that she knows he's lying for her sake, to give her a reason to keep going but, it's more believable that he's lying for his sake to avoid losing the little girl who has become a second daughter to him and humanity can go to heck in a hand basket for all he cares. Yeah this may as well be called Gray and Gray Morality:The Game

[Andrea1]

Spoiler:

Also, note how he was going to be thrown out of the compound with no supplies(or at least none that we we knew about) I am thinking she was hoping Joel would get taken out by a clicker as a guilt free murder. Considering how nasty the fireflies were, they would no doubt use the cure as a recruiting tool.

[atheral]

Spoiler:

Actually if I'm remembering correctly from her voice recorders Marlene was actually hoping that she could actually count Joel as an ally as "the only man who could understand her decision" and pretty much goes against the rest of her group who want to get rid of him out of hand before he wakes up. When he rejects her idea she at first does offer him some supplies but then when he started arguing with her she refused even that bit of help and just tried to have him thrown out.

[Andrew Turner]

Ending:

Spoiler:

As a father (and by the end, Joel certainly feels he is Elie's surrogate father), I totally get Joel.

As a father, I would do anything to protect my children, anything. The world can burn to cinders for all I care; my children will always be first.

Humanity managed to survive for decades after the collapse, and without a cure. Marlene and the Fireflies had given up when they decided it was OK to murder a child for the mere chance at a cure.

[Andrew Turner]

I know James Jacobs is a huge fan of this game.

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I'd love to hear what you think, James...

[Sunderstone]

I'm with Andrew on the ending. It was a pretty gray ending though. I got the impression Ellie could tell he was lying, great job by Naughty Dog on facial animations.

[Andrea1]

atheral wrote:

** spoiler omitted **

Spoiler:

I watched a video just to double check and it had them argue about what was going to happen and then she had a guard take him out of the building with no offer of supplies.

[Mikaze]

Just beat it this morning after a long marathon session.

Started playing Borderlands 2 again afterwards. Still processing everything.

Spoiler:

that was not only one of the most genuinely gray game endings ever, but one of the least judgmental