The Last of Us- GOTG?

[graffix_13]

Yeah we'll just have to wait and see how the game plays. The great reviews have got me excited and hopeful, but I've played highly rated games before and they were just 'meh' to me.

It's all subjective in the end, and we all like what we like for whatever the reasons. ND hasn't really let me down yet (although I didn't play Uncharted 3), I like the setting/genre, and the graphics look great.

[dsheinem]

Yeah we'll just have to wait and see how the game plays. The great reviews have got me excited and hopeful, but I've played highly rated games before and they were just 'meh' to me.

It's all subjective in the end, and we all like what we like for whatever the reasons. ND hasn't really let me down yet (although I didn't play Uncharted 3), I like the setting/genre, and the graphics look great.

Yeah, I had this preordered long ago. Uncharted 2 is probably in the top 3 or so games of the generation for me and Uncharted 3 was excellent (if worse), so I have high expectations for this one.

[BoneSnapDeez]

This looks like one of those games that critics would love and I would hate.

[prfsnl_gmr]

This looks like one of those games that critics would love and I would hate.

Bone's GOTG....<drum roll> Ys III emulated on an Xbox 360!!!

On topic...I was reading IGN's review, and everything sounded great until I go to the zombies part...<sigh> Maybe I am the only one, but I think that they are a bit overdone at this point (even when they are used ironically). Would it have killed them make a game like this a little more grounded in reality? It does not sound like it would have detracted from the experience at all, and it is hard to ask people to take games seriously when even the best, most emotionally moving works feature ghouls.

Also, this:

The scope and story may be on a grand scale but ultimately it's a third person game where you're solving problems with violence.

is a great observation.

[flex wood]

I have only read the review on destructoid and the one thing that really stuck out to me was the praise for the AI. I am usually extremely bothered by bad AI but the reviewer said it was the best AI he had ever seen.

I'll pick it up but I'll wait for it to hit 30 somewhere, preferably amazon.

[Gunstar Green]

I was reading IGN's review, and everything sounded great until I go to the zombies part...<sigh> Maybe I am the only one, but I think that they are a bit overdone at this point (even when they are used ironically). Would it have killed them make a game like this a little more grounded in reality? It does not sound like it would have dtracted from the experience at all, and it is hard to ask people to take games seriously when even the best, most emotionally moving works feature ghouls.

You're not the only one. They tried to make their zombies a little different by creating some kind of fungal infection but it's the same thing in the end. At least it isn't all about zombies though, as you're working to survive against different factions of people either trying to maintain harsh control of their crapsack world or similarly trying to survive themselves. Which leads to the point you raised, why use zombies at all?

This is just a personal gripe that has nothing to do with the game, but what what I'd like to know is when is somebody going to make optimistic speculative fiction again? Even Star Trek is full of terrorism and mass-destruction now.

[wclem]

Seemed like a cross between Fallout world and Resident Evil action. Though the demo was extremely short, would have liked a little more of the game. Hopefully this does not mean it is extremely short. I would forfeit my left testicle for a 30 or 40 hours worth of gameplay on this one. It gets real old paying full price to beat a game in 6-8 hours.

[Stark]

Seemed like a cross between Fallout world and Resident Evil action. Though the demo was extremely short, would have liked a little more of the game. Hopefully this does not mean it is extremely short. I would forfeit my left testicle for a 30 or 40 hours worth of gameplay on this one. It gets real old paying full price to beat a game in 6-8 hours.

I've read a couple of reviews placing the single player in the 16 - 20 hour range.

[wclem]

Seemed like a cross between Fallout world and Resident Evil action. Though the demo was extremely short, would have liked a little more of the game. Hopefully this does not mean it is extremely short. I would forfeit my left testicle for a 30 or 40 hours worth of gameplay on this one. It gets real old paying full price to beat a game in 6-8 hours.

I've read a couple of reviews placing the single player in the 16 - 20 hour range.

Seems like a happy medium and I keep my body in-tact LOL.

[graffix_13]

I can certainly see why people are sick of zombies. I know they have been pretty much crammed down our throat through TV/movies/video games the last several years.

However, with that being said, I can say I'm not at that point.....YET. Sure, I'm a fan of the Walking Dead TV show. But the last GOOD zombie video game that I played? Hmm I'd have to say Dead Space 2 (and necromorphs aren't really zombies in the classic sense). Before that maybe the first couple of Resident Evil games (when you shoot off someone's head and an octopus comes flailing around is when it moves more into a more broader horror category). Other than those two examples, I'm hard pressed to say I've played any good zombie games. I know there are an assload of them out there though (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_zombie_video_games).

Maybe this one will be the *one* for me?