The Last of Us

[Trash]

There is plenty of actual gameplay footage out there. I think it looks fine for a console game.

 

[ghostdog]

There is plenty of actual gameplay footage out there. I think it looks fine for a console game.

Those 15 minutes (BTW this was almost the same video as the previous one) were a painfully linear romp filled with heavily scripted combat encounters where the player seemed like he was forced to deal with them in a very specific way, that's why I called it glorified QTE in my previous post. I wouldn't exactly call it gameplay, but I can understand if people like this sort of thing if it's done in a competent, cinematic way.

 

[mindx2]

There is plenty of actual gameplay footage out there. I think it looks fine for a console game.

There was perhaps 2 minutes of actual gameplay, and I say that loosely, in that entire 15:52 video. Is this really what gaming is to today's gamer? I say this as someone who doesn't own a console nor have I played any console games, except one or two that were ported. The last "modern" games I purchased was Crysis 2 (on a Steam sale this Christmas) and DX:HR. I actually liked DX:HR but Crysis 2 was terrible. Yet, even with that game I still felt I was actually, you know, playing it. Not watching an interactive movie. I mean that video just showed a pretty Dragon's Lair from my arcade days in the 80s!

 

[ghostdog]

I could give it the benefit of the doubt, since maybe it's the start of the game where it tries to get you into the mood and show you the mechanics. Maybe later it becomes more open world and less scripted. I played the new Tomb Raider and kind of enjoyed it as soon as I went past the heavily scripted QTE-fest of the first 15-20 minutes. But frankly what is shown so far isn't gameplay.

 

[Minttunator]

I haven't followed this game at all, but it's getting 10/10 reviews all over the place - apparently this is the Citizen Kane of video games. Any chance the mainstream reviewers aren't lying this time and we PC gamers are missing out on the greatest game of this generation?

...yeah, I didn't think so. :D

 

[J_C]

Any chance the mainstream reviewers aren't lying this time and we PC gamers are missing out on the greatest game of this generation?

...yeah, I didn't think so. :D

How do you know? Like any other Codexian, you didn't play it, you didn't researched it, all you see is the reviews.

And before you say that "herpderp, it is a cinematic game, so it must be shit", in my book cinematic =/= shit. They have the place in gaming like any other style of game.

 

[Sranchammer]

You're not a real gamer until you buy this game!

 

[Minttunator]

Sure, you could be right, Matt - it could be great. We'll find out soon enough - my personal guess is still that it's an over-hyped utterly linear piece of poop - just like all the other recent 10/10 games.

I do agree that cinematic doesn't necessarily mean shit, but there does seem to be a correlation between the two.

 

[J_C]

I do agree that cinematic doesn't necessarily mean shit, but there does seem to be a correlation between the two.

Sure, but we have to search for the good ones. Maybe it is this.

 

[potatojohn]

There are no good ones. Cinematic games are categorically shit.

 

[anus_pounder]

I do agree that cinematic doesn't necessarily mean shit, but there does seem to be a correlation between the two.

Sure, but we have to search for the good ones. Maybe it is this.

Hey, you're the one with the review copy. Less time on codex, more time writing a review plz.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Might just take my PS3 out of storage to play this, looks interesting and as good a time waster as any until Shadowrun is released and disappoints me.

 

[J_C]

There are no good ones. Cinematic games are categorically shit.

Why?

I do agree that cinematic doesn't necessarily mean shit, but there does seem to be a correlation between the two.

Sure, but we have to search for the good ones. Maybe it is this.

Hey, you're the one with the review copy. Less time on codex, more time writing a review plz.

Eh, Airland and its review took my time, so I only took a peak into it. But I will really start it later today.

 

[potatojohn]

There are no good ones. Cinematic games are categorically shit.

Why?

It's simply an experimental fact. There's no answer to "why" any more than there's an answer to "why is momentum converved?" It just is.

 

[dextermorgan]

but it's getting 10/10 reviews all over the place - apparently this is the Citizen Kane of video games

I though that was Bioshock Infinite?

 

[Malpercio]

But my thread is better!

 

[Minttunator]

I though that was Bioshock Infinite?

That too. Greatness cannot be contained!

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Pseudo-gameplay meets fertilized cinematic bloat. In other words, another Naughty Dog creation.

 

[Metro]

Weren't you praising Naughty Dog just a few months ago as some great developer? Not that it isn't heartwarming to see your tastes refine.

 

[Tehdagah]

Pseudo-gameplay meets fertilized cinematic bloat. In other words, another Naughty Dog creation.

I miss Crash Bandicoot

 

[Random]

I miss the original Jak and Daxter.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

It's all shit.

 

[sea]

Can we have a game where we play as the little girl instead? Your companion character would be the big grizzled he-man and during combat, your role would be to throw him ammo when he asks for it. GAMING MASTERPIECE 11/10

I also hate gameplay videos where the devs purposely walk around really slowly and pan the camera all around to show off their environments, and to pretend there is actual gameplay outside of listening to scripted dialogue and shooting hobos in the face.

 

[SCO]

Can we have a game where we play as the little girl instead? Your companion character would be the big grizzled he-man and during combat, your role would be to throw him ammo when he asks for it. GAMING MASTERPIECE 11/10

I also hate gameplay videos where the devs purposely walk around really slowly and pan the camera all around to show off their environments, and to pretend there is actual gameplay outside of listening to scripted dialogue and shooting hobos in the face.

No no. You have to shape to your audience. In this case, the subs. You'll be a small (can't hurt that self-image too much) boy throwing ammo to your dom the sister of battle. Pedo variant is focus tested not to work so well with a dominant female.

 

[Luzur]

1/10

I'll watch the non-commentary LP on youtube.