The Last of Us Part 1 - next-gen remake out now on PS5/PC

[Wunderbar]

 

[JDR13]

The PS5 is so powerful, it can change a white person into an African.

 

[Roguey]

Visually pretty impressive, particularly the facial animations and lighting. PC version is meant to be coming "very soon", vague as that is. Wonder if it'll have proper/"full" DualSense support on PC too.

Never played it, despite housemate having an old PS4 copy lying around somewhere. Glad I waited, though probably going to be waiting a bit longer at that price tag.

I honestly can't for the life of me understand how basic blocking and composition can be fucked up this badly. Naughty Dog is usually pretty great at level design for cinematic framing, and they're working from a previous game, so what gives? The Last of Us Part 1 looks bad.

Getting the impression the game industry is now at the "no one knows how to build pyramids anymore" stage of decline.

 

[Theodora]

Getting the impression the game industry is now at the "no one knows how to build pyramids anymore" stage of decline.

That's a bit dramatic, don't you think? (Decline narratives generally are, but this is far from a visual disaster.) I readily admitted not playing the original, but to the point: complaint 2 is more than fair, particularly the absent mountains, and 3 is so-so; the first one is just a shifted framing, and the last complaint is just silly.

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised I disagree, I find this guy's art rather ick. Anyway, I stand by my point about the character models, and in particular their faces -- they are dramatically improved.

Tell me this isn't an improvement. One looks like an actual human child, the other bordering on alien.

 

[Roguey]

Tell me this isn't an improvement. One looks like an actual human child, the other bordering on alien.

The first is stylized, the second tries to be more nearly realistic and desaturates the colors, presumably to appeal European tastes (agenda acknowledged). Appeals to different preferences, not necessarily an improvement.

 

[Wunderbar]

 

[Theodora]

what have you done /o\

 

[Baron Dupek]

meanwhile on certain forum

People reports about broken boxes with the game.
Best reason to go full digital according to Sony.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Who gives a shit. Stop giving the wokies attention. The time for legally ending them will come. Be patient.

 

[Zlaja]

One looks like an actual human child, the other bordering on alien

Who's the alien now?

Also:

 

[Valestein]

One looks like an actual human child, the other bordering on alien

Who's the alien now?

Also:

This definitely proves that they're deliberately making women uglier in vidya.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

 

[DemonKing]

I got a cheap copy using some store loyalty points and there's definitely not enough there to justify the price point it launched at unless you've never played it on PS3/4. The dualsense implementation and 3D sound via headphones are ok but not enough to justify the launch price.

If it had launched at the same price as the Uncharted 4/Lost Legacy remaster it would be decent value.

 

[Pound Meat]

How can one man be so baysed?

 

[WaterDrinker]

Stop obsessing over attractive females you misogynistic pigs! Big girls and weathered masculine women are JUST as beautiful! Especially if they have a swinging dick!

 

[Ivan]

don't care about graphics, yeah sure bud

 

[Pound Meat]

One looks like an actual human child, the other bordering on alien

Who's the alien now?

Also:

This definitely proves that they're deliberately making women uglier in vidya.

Take that, Male Gayze!

 

[DemonKing]

So I finished the "remake" and decided to play Part II again while the characters/story was still fresh in my mind and it's inconceivable to me that they were too lazy to implement some of the stuff they put into Part II like dodging and going prone into the remake. Part I is literally just the same thing as the original with a slightly shinier coat of paint.

I guess the RE2 remake spoiled me with regards to expectations of what a remake should be.

 

[blessedCoffee]

I readily admitted not playing the original, but to the point: complaint 2 is more than fair, particularly the absent mountains, and 3 is so-so; the first one is just a shifted framing, and the last complaint is just silly.

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised I disagree, I find this guy's art rather ick. Anyway, I stand by my point about the character models, and in particular their faces -- they are dramatically improved.

Tell me this isn't an improvement. One looks like an actual human child, the other bordering on alien.

I can see improvement on certain areas after checking gameplay on the web, characters that left a body of water change their visual accordingly and with realism (hair, clothes and guns get wet, there's water dropping on the ground), her or Joel's hair (+ his mustache and beard) got beautiful if you ask me, accessories of the characters have realistic physics (backpacks), horses got an improvement in their visuals.

BUT other enhancements (more like "enhancements"), were doubful decisions. Why the hell the developers had to drastically change the color palette / ambient colors? WHY they ruined the design of some characters, instead of keeping them faithful to the previous generation?

Since when making Ellie's eyes more separate from each other, or her new chin are objectively better than how she looked like previously, for example?

 

[Theodora]

Since when making Ellie's eyes more separate from each other, or her new chin are objectively better than how she looked like previously, for example?

Don't really have an issue with the rest of what you said, and admittedly I don't have a connection to the game to be irate by changes, but imo the PS4 pro image there hits the uncanny valley for me, whereas the newer iteration doesn't.

 

[vortex]

Finally in March

 

[Ivan]

meh, I didn't care much for this, Jack and Daxter is more my Naughty Dog jam

 

[Duraframe300]

meh, I didn't care much for this, Jack and Daxter is more my Naughty Dog jam

Yup.

I personally also like Uncharted, because it was a fun, indy like romp. Then Last of Us 1 and Uncharted 4 happened, containing some of the most pretentious, boring drama ever.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Theodora]

Had people nagging me to play it for nearly a decade now, so waiting a few weeks extra is nbd. Little scared I’ll expect too much of it after such a build-up.

Thanks for posting.