The Last of Us Franchise - Because it's apparently a franchise now. This thread has been double-DMCA’d by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

[BeboRefugee]

There's lots of reasons the Wii U flopped, but getting into that in detail would get too off-topic so I'll just keep it at these quick bullet points: a lacking library and shitty marketing that didn't explain the Wii U enough and went after an audience that stopped caring because they had mobile games.

Either way, Sony is stupid for dropping such a large part of their audience. The PS3 was the weeb console of its generation. Guess it's totally worth it now that nobody likes TLOU2 tho.

Can I ask why they went down this path? I mean if you already have the weaboo demographic nailed down, why jeopardize that monopoly by actively maligning it?

As I understand it, Sony moving the gaming HQ to California is somewhat taboo in Japan because of the national pride having such media giants on home soil, but the real kicker seems to be the neglect and tone policing they did after crossing the Pacific.

Thing is, when your corporate portfolio range like Sony's, where you've got so many business interests but only the life insurance and the videogames brand are actually generating a profit overall, shouldn't money trump ideology here? I mean this goes for a lot of Sony's actions lately. Discontinuing the PSP and ceding the handheld market to Nintendo is pretty bad, as is failing to carve a niche in the growing phone game market (e.g. people WILL pay a subscription for PS1 games on your Samsung). The weirdest part, not touching the politics, is how they only release like 2 or 3 First Party games a year, and they all have this over-the-shoulder movie-game feel to them. Everybody rightly critiques Nintendo for being a hostile environment for 3rd party devs, but at least their IP all vaguely represent different game genres. It feels like Sony gave up trying to give its audience gameplay diversity around 2007.

Why are they so shit at business?

 

[PrincessHomura]

The funniest thing has been people who were bragging about avoiding spoilers only for others to find a workaround and spoil it for them.

That subreddit is begging to get its members spoiled.

I guess "stop going to reddit" for even a month is much too hard for them since that's by far the easiest solution.

Can I ask why they went down this path? I mean if you already have the weaboo demographic nailed down, why jeopardize that monopoly by actively maligning it?

As I understand it, Sony moving the gaming HQ to California is somewhat taboo in Japan because of the national pride having such media giants on home soil, but the real kicker seems to be the neglect and tone policing they did after crossing the Pacific.

Thing is, when your corporate portfolio range like Sony's, where you've got so many business interests but only the life insurance and the videogames brand are actually generating a profit overall, shouldn't money trump ideology here? I mean this goes for a lot of Sony's actions lately. Discontinuing the PSP and ceding the handheld market to Nintendo is pretty bad, as is failing to carve a niche in the growing phone game market (e.g. people WILL pay a subscription for PS1 games on your Samsung). The weirdest part, not touching the politics, is how they only release like 2 or 3 First Party games a year, and they all have this over-the-shoulder movie-game feel to them. Everybody rightly critiques Nintendo for being a hostile environment for 3rd party devs, but at least their IP all vaguely represent different game genres. It feels like Sony gave up trying to give its audience gameplay diversity around 2007.

Why are they so shit at business?

Sony continuously do this at every turn. Whenever they have any sort of success, they completely nuke it with no survivors by treating their fans like absolute shit. The PS3 was the same story, and it took many years for it to actually somewhat turn itself around, being an absolute disaster for the first years of its lifespan and being completely decimated by the Xbox 360. This was because they had massive hubris after the PS2 did so well that they figured they could piss all over their fans and they'd still embrace them. They didn't.

Now that they've been somewhat on-course with PS4 and done well, the hubris has returned and they're once again embracing "we can do no wrong" mentality, likely meaning the PS5 will be an absolute disaster and be destroyed by whatever that new Xbox is called. Many people say history is cyclical, it's just that Sony are working on a much smaller cycle than everyone else since you can see in realtime how they keep self-immolating every time they've managed to put the fire out.

 

[vertexwindi]

Can I ask why they went down this path? I mean if you already have the weaboo demographic nailed down, why jeopardize that monopoly by actively maligning it?

Sony is just one of many companies falling for the SJW meme. @Jaimas has explained it like a million times by now and did it better than I can. Keep in mind, this is the same company that still employs Amy Pascal even after the disaster that was Ghostbusters 2016.

Discontinuing the PSP and ceding the handheld market to Nintendo is pretty bad, as is failing to carve a niche in the growing phone game market (e.g. people WILL pay a subscription for PS1 games on your Samsung). The weirdest part, not touching the politics, is how they only release like 2 or 3 First Party games a year, and they all have this over-the-shoulder movie-game feel to them.

Well, I imagine Sony realized they just can't beat Nintendo at their game. The 3DS was a disaster at launch, being too expensive and having jackshit for games, but quickly recovered with price cuts and some good first-party games. The PS Vita was an even bigger disaster, not only being too expensive and having jackshit for games but also requiring expensive Sony memory cards, but the PS4 was printing plenty of money already so they dropped it quicker than a ginger baby.

The over-the-shoulder movie-game is just a trend that has been getting more popular this generation. Sony isn't the only company doing it.

Why are they so shit at business?

To back up what PrincessHomura said above, Sony is a weirdly arrogant company. The PS2 was so successful they thought they could get consumers to buy the PS3 no questions asked only for it to flop because it was 599 fucking dollars. It took years for them to make a profit off the PS3, in part by appealing to the weeb demographic. Heading into the next generation, they played it safe and waited for Microsoft to announce what they were doing before responding, and luckily for them, MS dropped the ball so unbelievably hard with their creepy Orwellian bullshit that all Sony had to do is say "we're not doing that" to instantly win the generation in the eyes of most. Now they got enough money in the bank not to have to rely on the weeb demographic anymore.

People mostly buy PS4s to play third-party games like GTA, COD and Fifa, so Sony should've realized that they need to step up their game with the PS5 if they want that momentum to last, but looking at TLOU2 and the rumors surrounding the PS5 costing at least $499, it seems doubtful they have. Considering the PS5 has ray-tracing and SSDs, I'm personally guessing $549.

 

[Rei is shit]

Over an hour and a half of leaked footage. Some of this has been posted before but a lot is new.
m.cda.pl/video/509538290

min 58 is the start of the tranny vs ellie fight
1:04 is tranny flashback before she took roids, then flash forward to the joel murder (with a dude cursing joel in spanish )

There is also a bit of janky multiplayer and the transbian love seen between abby and the asian.

EDIT: TRANSBIAN LOVE
streamable.com/l21cw1

 

[Rakdos92]

Over an hour and a half of leaked footage. Some of this has been posted before but a lot is new.
m.cda.pl/video/509538290

min 58 is the start of the tranny vs ellie fight
1:04 is tranny flashback before she took roids, then flash forward to the joel murder (with a dude cursing joel in spanish )

There is also a bit of janky multiplayer and the transbian love seen between abby and the asian.

EDIT: TRANSBIAN LOVE
streamable.com/l21cw1

The gameplay of the duel is even worse. Previously Ellie was getting the shit beaten out of her, but this plays out like a woman trying to defend herself from a predator.

 

[Kurtis Trent]

Over an hour and a half of leaked footage. Some of this has been posted before but a lot is new.
m.cda.pl/video/509538290

min 58 is the start of the tranny vs ellie fight
1:04 is tranny flashback before she took roids, then flash forward to the joel murder (with a dude cursing joel in spanish )

There is also a bit of janky multiplayer and the transbian love seen between abby and the asian.

EDIT: TRANSBIAN LOVE
streamable.com/l21cw1

>instead of scissoring we got this eww
>her nickname is ABS and there's a guy named MANNY
that's it I can't take druckmann seriously anymore

 

[Buddy Booth]

Over an hour and a half of leaked footage. Some of this has been posted before but a lot is new.
m.cda.pl/video/509538290

min 58 is the start of the tranny vs ellie fight
1:04 is tranny flashback before she took roids, then flash forward to the joel murder (with a dude cursing joel in spanish )

There is also a bit of janky multiplayer and the transbian love seen between abby and the asian.

EDIT: TRANSBIAN LOVE
streamable.com/l21cw1

I like the look of the new infected. They could use the body horror to some great effect if this was oh, I dunno, a horror game instead of a shitty melodrama about transgender golf enthusiasts.

 

[4STA]

Over an hour and a half of leaked footage. Some of this has been posted before but a lot is new.
m.cda.pl/video/509538290

min 58 is the start of the tranny vs ellie fight
1:04 is tranny flashback before she took roids, then flash forward to the joel murder (with a dude cursing joel in spanish )

There is also a bit of janky multiplayer and the transbian love seen between abby and the asian.

EDIT: TRANSBIAN LOVE
streamable.com/l21cw1

Wait, there is multiplayer? I thought they decided against adding it to this game??

EDIT: Rest of the footage looks either boring, or boring and bleak. What a goddamn letdown this game is on all levels. Predictable, as I saw it coming, but it still is a letdown.

 

[Rakdos92]

Over an hour and a half of leaked footage. Some of this has been posted before but a lot is new.
m.cda.pl/video/509538290

min 58 is the start of the tranny vs ellie fight
1:04 is tranny flashback before she took roids, then flash forward to the joel murder (with a dude cursing joel in spanish )

There is also a bit of janky multiplayer and the transbian love seen between abby and the asian.

EDIT: TRANSBIAN LOVE
streamable.com/l21cw1

Also, goddamn, you know what? Joel should've burned down the hospital and all inside it, leave no survivors.

 

[Kurtis Trent]

it's okay, they got GYM

 

[Boobie Bomb]

What a fucking Dumpster fire this is turning out for Naughty Dog!

 

[Ruin]

it's okay, they got GYM

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Abby's shoulders are like two and a half times wider than mine. There are no irl women and very few men who have proportions like this.

 

[Rei is shit]

18FPS just like my Edison films!

Spoiler

I think I saw it hit 14 briefly but its hard to tell with the shit kurwa compression

 

[YourMommasBackstory]

Abby's shoulders are like two and a half times wider than mine. There are no irl women and very few men who have proportions like this.

I know guy who has similar body and he’s lifting weight professionally.

 

[Kurtis Trent]

Abby's shoulders are like two and a half times wider than mine. There are no irl women and very few men who have proportions like this.

this is a character we're not only supposed to like but also find ATTRACTIVE because Neil Druckmann said so

 

[Francis York Morgan]

it's okay, they got GYM

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. . . A fucking gym? In the post-apocalypse? Are you shitting me?

 

[Foltest]

. . . A fucking gym? In the post-apocalypse? Are you shitting me?

Need to make those gains bro!
Also, Abby have stolen Chris Reidfields roids from the looks of it. I have seen buff girls, but jesus. She is build like a shitbrickhouse.

 

[Buddy Booth]

Christ, the ending is literally Ellie refusing to stay and raise her girlfriend's son and going on a revenge quest instead. It's fucking hilarious.

 

[TexOffender]

Well that just looks like a zombie with a little bit of fungus on it.

 

[Nobunaga]

. . . A fucking gym? In the post-apocalypse? Are you shitting me?

Are they actually copying fucking lisa of all things?