The Last of Us

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    The Last of Us
    Release date: TBC
    Platforms: PS3



    The Last of Us is genre-defining experience blending survival and action elements to tell a character driven story about a population decimated by a modern plague. Cities are abandoned and being reclaimed by nature. Remaining survivors are killing each other for food, weapons and whatever they can find. Joel, a ruthless survivor, and Ellie, a young teenage girl who's braver and wiser beyond her years, must work together to survive their journey across what remains of the United States.
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    The Last of Us is a new type of survival horror game, focusing on emotion via the soundtrack rather than horror.
    Stole setup from Fabio. :D
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    Looks like a very interesting game. I'm glad there is no horror but instead survival. I hope to hear more about it in the next few months. I just hope the ending is not the one I have a feeling will happen where everyone including the heroes end up dieting. Ughh hate those endings. We will see soon.
     
    Looks so sweet, and pretty confronting to boot. It especially looks like it draws inspiration from Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which is a pretty darn good read. I'll definitely be testing my morals here.
     
    Might want to put some sort of content warning on there. It's quite a violent video - we're still on a Pokemon forum, don't forget.

    Looks interesting, but PS3 only means it won't get a look from me. Shame.
     
    I can't wait to buy this amazing game. It's probably the most realistic game I have ever seen because the level of interaction from everything in the game is ridiculous. Not only is the scenery alive, but so are your enemies. In your typical video game, your enemy is static and emotionless, and you can tell that easily. But in The Last Of Us, your opponents act like actual human beings... Sometimes you even think twice about killing them and you even feel sorry for them. You also have to use various tactics to take down your opponents instead of your average "do this and that repeatedly" scenarios.

    I also want to point out that Naughty Dog did a fantastic job with the E3 demo. They made me want to buy the game with everything they did, and I love the way how they presented the gameplay. They made it feel like actual cinematics instead of rough gameplay, which is nice. I am definetely going to buy this, because it's just a game I can't miss out on.
     
    Looks interesting, but I probably wont get it. There maaaaay be some bitter feelings over how Naughty Dog is treating their other two series right now involved, but that's for another thread entirely.
     
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    OokamiReki said:
    It's probably the most realistic game I have ever seen because the level of interaction from everything in the game is ridiculous. Not only is the scenery alive, but so are your enemies. In your typical video game, your enemy is static and emotionless, and you can tell that easily. But in The Last Of Us, your opponents act like actual human beings... Sometimes you even think twice about killing them and you even feel sorry for them.
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    You needn't take most of this post as a direct reply to yours. Now then: one's opponents in a survival game still aren't human for as long as they remain definitely opponents. The AI is demonstrated to be fairly realistic in the mode of being hostile, but the one thing it apparently lacks is being potentially friendly as humans can be. One ultimately can't be remorseful about killing in a game when that is their only given course of action. If the player could, say, upon approaching NPC groups declare themself friendly, a brief standoff could give way to either amicable conversation or shots being fired; you can't know unless you try, but if you can't try as per what we see from the demo then I am ultimately seeing nothing but an action game. It lacks the natural elements inherent to survival; there could be choices to make, fight or flight essentially, but the player isn't given such options. It could be very tense with AI reactions to the player's presence somewhat randomly generated, but it seems one just fights their way through the city. Then of course with it presumably being a linear game, I doubt the need for life's basic amenities will be significant at all.

    That said, I can't look down on what is shown of the game's combat aspect, assuming none of it was scripted. I just think that the game leans so heavily into combat that it will certainly not be 'genre-defining' and probably won't involve surviving much more than enemy attacks in gameplay. All should note how no survival-ing occurs in the demo, besides the NPCs searching the building which isn't within the context of the game engine anyway (what I mean is they won't actually benefit from their supposed action, it's just a simple pretext for their location when the player encounters them; compare this to STALKER wherein NPCs will loot bodies, acquiring and potentially using their new items for the exact same purposes the player can and then some, ex. medkits to heal their friends).

    I know — I'm disregarding what the game's story might entail, but that's just me, I generally don't play games for their storylines.
     
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    This setup looks familiar...
    I thought this game looked really good when they demo'ed it.
    I love that a game is really focusing on the 'survival' element and, by the looks of it, really sticking to it.

    I will be watching this space for sure.​
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    Looks amazing. Wish I had a PS3 so I could play. It just looks like a blast and it's Naughty Dog, so you know it's gonna be great.
     
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