The Last of Us - it's the time of the season

Anyone played through the main game again? Seriously tempted, especially as I did it on "normal" the first time.

I enjoyed it so much on PS3 I ended up getting the remastered version for the PS4. It's the only time I've ever double-dipped for a game, and one of the very rare occasions I've wanted to do a second run after finishing the first time. I'm only a couple of hours in but really looking forward to going through the whole thing again - I've already noticed some stuff I missed on the first playthrough.

I played through on PS3--there's a big advantage as you get to keep your weapons and level-ups, so it turns into more of a straight-up action game. You don't get to keep your unlocks from the previous gen in the PS4 version, which bummed me out.

I also played a bit of the multiplayer for the first time. I generally despise playing with strangers but it's way more fun than I expected - it does a really good job of keeping the tension of the main game.

xpost @ tracer, seriously, play on hard for sure. I did my first playthrough on hard and it's way more fun and survival-horror-ish imo. You have to really sneak around and strategize every encounter, at least until you get the flamethrower late in the game.

^oh, good to know. this came with my borrowed PS3, planning on playing it whenever i finish Demon's Souls.

If you like demon's souls you should definitely play on hard. Or the harder-than-hard one, where you don't get to use your sonar thing, which was way too hard for me but if much more of a YOU DIED type of gameplay experience (with lots of checkpoints and pretty fast respawns)

The restarts are seriously amazing in this game. Like 3-4 seconds max.

OK, I think I'm in for hard.

I don't even remember the flamethrower??!? Maybe i never got it ;_;

i'd worry playing through snowville on hard, that part was torture for me

like the story in retrospect more than after i just finished playing but it's one of those things where it gets compressed into smth much smaller in my memory and idk

I like the story as long as I'm thinking about it separately from the gameplay. If you consider what you as the player do to be part of the story, then it's a story in which Joel is a mega-ubermensch who brutally kills his way through hundreds of dudes, rather than negotiating, compromising, and using his wits. That's obviously a standard a lot of games fail, but I feel like it becomes more of a tension as narratives aspire to certain kinds of seriousness.

joel has some massive, violent psychopathic tendencies - that jibes with the story, he's killed hundreds of dudes (at least) before you start playing as the old man

Played through this over the last few days. It's incredibly well made but I can't say I had that much fun playing it, spent more time wowing at the scenery and idle animations etc than all the shoot bang and lame puzzles (though appreciated Ellie giving it the "again?" when asked to stand on a pallet for the nth time.) They do a v good job of funnelling you down a route while making it feel that you are choosing to go that way. Fav bit was start of winter with the deer, is there such a thing as an arrow-based fps, like a Neolithic survival game?

xp yeah of all games where violent behaviour seems to contrast with the character, psycho behaviour is pretty consistent with joel's character. Don't want to spoiler this thread as apparently some people are still playing but there's some shit coming.

I started this again and just got Ellie. Killed Robert (I forgot how disturbing that was; it wasn't necessary to shoot him in the face but we did anyway).

Saw a "Wanted" poster for Riley :(

Is Marlene Riley's mom, by the way? Ellie says "Marlene knew my mom, she's taken care of me." Just a thought... If so, the moment when Ellie and Marlene say goodbye to each other is even more affecting; it's the last connection Ellie had with Riley.

I actually really enjoy the combat. There's something both relaxing and engaging about it, it strikes just the right balance between puzzle-ness and YEAAAARGHness.

I'm not finding hard TOO hard yet, though the supplies are quite few and far between.

By the way, if you played through on normal, you don't get to keep any of your shit if you play through on hard afterwards ;_;

Oh nm:

Riley was born at some point in either 2016 or 2017. When she was younger, her father was infected with CBI and killed her mother, tearing her to shreds. Riley was forced to kill him in order to save her own life.[5]

anybody ever read the comic?
http://thelastofus.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last_of_Us:_American_Dreams

it's sitting on my pile of TPBs yet to read, i should read it

is the Left Behind side thing worth playing? how long is it?

a) this thread including me universally says yes
b) 5 or so hours? maybe less

I'd say 3.5 or 4 but absolutely worth playing

ok that seems manageable, will give it a go. thanks!

Just met up with Bill (Hicks?)

it's the guy who played dan dority from deadwood. looks like him too:

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120718152858/thelastofus/images/5/52/Wearl.jpg

"Ellie."

"What?"

"Tell 'em Ellie is the name of the little girl who BROKE YOUR FUCKING FINGER!"

Played it again on hard. I was surprised by how easy some sections were. Fights that were permanently burned into my brain, locales that I knew were coming up and which put a knot in my stomach, wound up being not too big of a deal. Obviously it helped that I vaguely remembered my successful strategies from the first time through. But I suspect that fewer supplies actually made it easier, in a way, because I had to play smarter. Several sections that I'd blasted through, with immense difficulty, the first time around, I just stealthed past, no biggie, see ya suckers. And knifing the cannibal in the steakhouse was a piece of cake, almost disappointingly so.

The only place I really got stuck for awhile was before the cannibal turns on you, in that fucking concrete room with the clickers and runners coming through the windows and the bloater who comes down through the ceiling. I was quite unlucky in that I had only one tick of health left when that scene started so any hit was fatal. Kept me on my toes.

I found myself wanting the melee combat to be just a little smoother and better, but in general the combat is just so satisfying to me for some reason in this game. (I haven't played enough other games to really know why, I don't think.)

remastered version looks fucking good. enjoying this more 2nd time around

I always soup up my melee weapon just because connecting with some fool's skull and yanking a nail through it feels so fucking good

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i watched the new planet of the apes movie the other night and was struck by how much it reminded me of the last of us:

http://static2.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1836331.1403200492!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/dawn-planet-apes.jpg
http://geeknation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/media_dawn_planet_apes_20140619.jpg

i..... totally don't remember that scene from last of us?? i remember the monkeys in the lab, and the giraffes

neither of those shots are from the game, they're both from the movie. it was the production design of the movie which reminded me of tlou rather than the presence of the apes

movies, games - who can tell the difference these days!

the promise of night trap finally fulfilled

good call, definitely reminds me of the Pittsburgh chapter

That 2nd shot is the Stockton Tunnel:

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/2548285.jpg

i started this over the weekend, on hard. i like it! so far bullets are so scarce that it's not even worth starting a firefight, stealthily strangling everybody one at a time (ie Batman-style) seems like the way to go.

it reminds me of I Am Alive, except with a giant budget.

Fans of this game will probably want to see The Girl With All The Gifts

It's essentially the same plot with a v good twist to the setup.

Looks interesting for sure

Sold out already, but loved this poster commissioned for "Outbreak Day" (their attempt to keep pushing this franchise?)
https://mondotees.com/blogs/news/celebrating-the-last-of-us-for-outbreak-day-2016

playing this on grounded difficulty is so stressful, i've made it pretty far tho. the hanging upside down in the trap and shooting part took like 30 tries

so many empty drawers

not sure this game needed a sequel at all but the trailer for part 2 is certainly atmospheric:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqU58Q72acA

Ellie will be the lead playable character in The Last of Us Part 2, Naughty Dog has revealed in a panel session at this year's PlayStation Experience.

Neil Druckmann took to the stage with Troy Baker - who plays the returning Joel, the main playable character in the first game - and Ashley Johnson, who plays Ellie.

Details were understandably thin for a game that's not due out for a while - and the trailer was intended for next year's E3 but Naughty Dog elected to show it at this year's PlayStation Experience - but Druckmann did give a broad view of what to expect.

The story is set five years after the first game, with Ellie now 19 years old. "If the first game, the theme was the love between these two characters... This story's the counter of that," said Druckmann. "It's about hate."

The Last of Us' original end drew lots of praise, leading many fans to believe the story of Joel and Ellie did not need a sequel - something Druckmann addressed.

"So much thought went into this - I know there's trepidation about going back to these characters. We feel that as well. No-one loves these characters more than we do, and we wouldn't do it if we didn't have the right idea. I had ideas with different characters and it didn't feel right. The Last of Us is about these two characters. All I ask is that fans of the first one put some faith in us - we're going to do right by you."

Calling it now that Joel is a ghost and Ellie is avenging his killers

spoiler alert ffs

i still haven't played this game but am so looking forward too. i may have to buy a PS4. can you play Demon's Souls on it?

damn it zappi, i hate that you're probably right

i'm still 100% behind the hype ofc

didn't need a sequel. will still play it. pls do not fuck this up naughty gods. get hype

I just started playing this and:

it's never scary but it is frequently intense.

I will tell you that I let out an entirely undignified yelp once when I was ambushed by a runner.

I wish I could play it for the first time again