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

This talk all about disgruntled employee and leaks made me remember a story about outsourcing and Naughty Dog. Naughty Dog is not in fault in this one, but it still involved them.

So, anyway, there is one of a particular game outsourcing studio in flipland (i forgot the name, but I remember applying there back around 15 years ago) that Naughty Dog had chosen to outsource to make 3d models of background assets (crates, bricks, pebbles, flags, and stuff) for Uncharted 2.

After the game was released, Sony or Naughty Dog has given the outsourcing studio 1 Million USD to distribute among the employees as part of completion bonus. It might not be much, but that 1 Million USD is 50 Million in flipbucks. So, anyway, instead of distributing it among the employees, the studio owner closed the studio and ran away with all the money.

Anyway, I don't think its possible the leaks are coming from outsourcing studios at least, or at least I believe they don't come out from flipland outsourcing studios, because one of the regular flipland studios that Naughty Dog uses to outsource 3D models haven't listemselves as working on Last of Us 2.
 
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Aberforth said:
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I was gonna make a joke asking if it's not the good Scent of a Woman, until I actually read the plot summary and removed all doubt.

On the eve of a romantic weekend upstate, sweet but profoundly awkward Chloe plans on telling Dan, her boyfriend of three weeks, that she loves him. While he prepares the one meal he knows how to make, Fettuccine Alfredo, she tries on sexy lingerie, works to build up her courage. Then, terror strikes as lactose intolerance Chloe comes face to face with Dan's creamy concoction. Chloe escapes to find her trusty dairy-aid, but she's all out. Not wanting to be rude (and hoping to titillate Dan with her voraciousness), Chloe throws caution to the wind and dives in to the meal. But as soon as the wine kicks in, so does the Alfredo. Chloe runs to the bathroom in the hopes of suffering in private, but the size of the house only amplifies her thunderous farts. Will her hope for true love be squelched by her cock-blocking emissions?
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Aberforth said:
Found out this game has two writers. Drunkmann and Halley Gross. Nothing of interest on her Twitter. She's written episodes 9 and 10 of Too Old to Die Young, episode 6 and 7 of Westworld season 1, episode 2 of Banshee season 3, episode 5 of Emerald City season 1, and two short films no one cares about. Just for the sake of completeness, Scent of a Woman and Chemistry Project.

Description of Chemistry Project sounds like a porno
Scent of a Woman plot summery.
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NGL, for a second I thought you were referring to the 1992 Al Pacino film of the same name, and I thought to myself "that's a damn good movie. How the fuck did she end up writing this?". But then I clicked on a link and saw that it was just a short film she did.

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I already think I have a better premise then this shitshow of a plot that largely keeps the same basic ideas
>Ellie and gang run into some sort of relative of the Cult leader seen in the trailers, a misunderstand/argument happens and they are killed in the gun battle
>cult leader vows Old Testament style revenge on Ellie and her settlement for this death (i.e regardless of what the player thinks of her beliefs she does have a sympathetic angle and not just a generic evil person)
>one or two of Ellies friends are killed in the mid point and Dina is almost killed
>Ellie resolves to destroy the threat to herself and her community, leaves on said quest without Joel
>Players alternate between Ellie and occasionally Joel as he tries to catch up to Ellie and not to fail to save her like he did Sara
>Ellie and Joel are both caught by the cult and Joel is left presumably dead, with Ellie being tortured for the location of her town
>Ellie breaks out of her bonds and tries to sneak her way out of the compound while Joel, revealed to still be alive goes after the Cult
>Final level is a three way gun battle between Joel & cult, Ellie sneaking and fighting through on the other side and a flood of the infected. Ellie has the chance to kill Cult lady but Joel intervenes as the infected near and their opportunity to escape closes. It is left ambigous if the Cult leader survives or not
>After Joel and Ellie escape, she is initially enraged that Joel would prevent her from getting revenge, that Joel would have wanted blood and how dare he deny her that chance when he would have killed anyone who hurt him the way she was hurt.
>Joel admits that before Ellie this would have been the case, but that Ellie not only gave him a reason to live but a second chance to have a daughter and by extension of Dina and her baby, a family.
>They hug and Ellie helps shoulder him back to town. Joel asks if Dina being pregnant makes him a grandfather. Ellie punches him on the shoulder and screen cuts to black.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
A woman who ruins her social life and career because of her uncontrollable toxic farts.

Get Blumhouse on the line.
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The edgy all female reboot of Thunderpants we've all been waiting for!
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The goal of writing for these people is not to tell a story but to broadcast their politics and sexual fetishes.

Like how modern art became fucked up like with painting using elephant shit to try and shock people. It's the same shortsighted bullshit.
 
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Gay_nig_from_outer_space said:
I already think I have a better premise then this shitshow of a plot that largely keeps the same basic ideas
>Ellie and gang run into some sort of relative of the Cult leader seen in the trailers, a misunderstand/argument happens and they are killed in the gun battle
>cult leader vows Old Testament style revenge on Ellie and her settlement for this death (i.e regardless of what the player thinks of her beliefs she does have a sympathetic angle and not just a generic evil person)
>one or two of Ellies friends are killed in the mid point and Dina is almost killed
>Ellie resolves to destroy the threat to herself and her community, leaves on said quest without Joel
>Players alternate between Ellie and occasionally Joel as he tries to catch up to Ellie and not to fail to save her like he did Sara
>Ellie and Joel are both caught by the cult and Joel is left presumably dead, with Ellie being tortured for the location of her town
>Ellie breaks out of her bonds and tries to sneak her way out of the compound while Joel, revealed to still be alive goes after the Cult
>Final level is a three way gun battle between Joel & cult, Ellie sneaking and fighting through on the other side and a flood of the infected. Ellie has the chance to kill Cult lady but Joel intervenes as the infected near and their opportunity to escape closes. It is left ambigous if the Cult leader survives or not
>After Joel and Ellie escape, she is initially enraged that Joel would prevent her from getting revenge, that Joel would have wanted blood and how dare he deny her that chance when he would have killed anyone who hurt him the way she was hurt.
>Joel admits that before Ellie this would have been the case, but that Ellie not only gave him a reason to live but a second chance to have a daughter and by extension of Dina and her baby, a family.
>They hug and Ellie helps shoulder him back to town. Joel asks if Dina being pregnant makes him a grandfather. Ellie punches him on the shoulder and screen cuts to black.
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Corny as fuck but in a feel-good way. It would have been a lot more thematically-relevant and heartwarming than this schlock.
 
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TexOffender said:
Stealth combat vs Ellie.

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How does a 250 pound mongoloid travel silently without moving inch by inch? She carries more muscle, so her body is going to be craving oxygen. I'm sorry, but in no reality can 250 pound muscle tranny out stealth a 90 pound girl survivalist. Everything about this is unrealistic. She's fucking stomping around in boots and shit.

Aberforth said:
Found out this game has two writers. Drunkmann and Halley Gross. Nothing of interest on her Twitter. She's written episodes 9 and 10 of Too Old to Die Young, episode 6 and 7 of Westworld season 1, episode 2 of Banshee season 3, episode 5 of Emerald City season 1, and two short films no one cares about. Just for the sake of completeness, Scent of a Woman and Chemistry Project.

Description of Chemistry Project sounds like a porno
Scent of a Woman plot summery.
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Archive of the summery
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So she's a terrible writer too? My guess is she was more of a glorified editor and did some treatments and gave him some notes. She did the 'cleaning up'. Since she really didn't give a shit about the game, my guess is she really wouldn't care. Its still all on his shoulders, but I would find it hilarious if he started blaming the woman for his failure
 
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Secret Asshole said:
How does a 250 pound mongoloid travel silently without moving inch by inch? She carries more muscle, so her body is going to be craving oxygen. I'm sorry, but in no reality can 250 pound muscle tranny out stealth a 90 pound girl survivalist. Everything about this is unrealistic. She's fucking stomping around in boots and shit.
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We already know she is perfect at everything, the game already told us that. The only noise she is makes is deliberate. The fact she is using stealth at all is just to give Ellie a fighting chance. Abbey could easily dodge Ellie's gunfire as we've seen and that's only if she decided to. Abbey is an unstoppable but still ladylike machine and getting shot wouldn't inconvenience her in the slightest like being sliced or bitten or fallen through floors.

My god Abbey is the perfect character and I love it!
 
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Burned Man said:
We already know she is perfect at everything, the game already told us that. The only noise she is makes is deliberate. The fact she is using stealth at all is just to give Ellie a fighting chance. Abbey could easily dodge Ellie's gunfire as we've seen and that's only if she decided to. Abbey is an unstoppable but still ladylike machine and getting shot wouldn't inconvenience her in the slightest like being sliced or bitten or fallen through floors.

My god Abbey is the perfect character and I love it!
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She's as perfect as the trans community she was made for.
 
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I dunno what it is, but the gameplay posted so far by Tex looks... lightweight? I'm not sure what the right word is here, but none of it feels real. Horrendously bad writing aside, everything I've seen so far, barring the 2018 E3 trailer, feels little more than slapped together. Abby barely flinches when Ellie shoots her with a fucking shotgun. The infected also... run away? What? They never did that in the first game. They all gunned RIGHT for you, and if more than 2 ganged on you at once, you had to actively break free from their dogpile and run the fuck away. Here, Ellie, who's considerably smaller, is going toe to toe with 2 of them with a fucking switchblade.

There was also a moment where she's near the Bloater (the one she runs away from and shoots several times with a shotgun), and it not only looks incredibly smaller, but she could stop it at all??? In the first game, even going so much as NEAR a bloater was a death sentence, and they didn't stop at all unless you used explosives or a molotov. Not even the flamethrower you pick up stopped it for more than a second. Headshots from the hunting rifle and a very lucky shot point blank with the shotgun might save you. That just took me right the fuck out of it.

That section with Abby doesn't look much better either. The AI is standing around at several points trying to figure out where to go while they're getting shot at. Way to go!

I was already skeptical of even pirating it. I thought, maybe "Well, maybe the gameplay will be improved!" But obviously being optimistic is u n r e a l i s t i c.
 
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