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

My problem with Spec Ops is that it treats playing modern military shooters as the moral equivalent to raping babies in front of their terrified mothers. Yeah, many people play video games so they can roleplay as larger-than-life action heroes who save the day. There is nothing immoral about that.
When the heroes are being represented by the USA army then it might as well be baby rapists according to most western writers.
I like Spec Ops for showing PTSD and having the characters fuck a situation rather than improving it, but any attempt to moralize playing a game without the ability to control your actions is completely retarded.
 
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OY GODS! MY GAME IS RUINED!

Ok between Senator Abbstrong and now the choking mayme I think we can conclude that this shit is as big a goldmine of hilarity as many of us hoped back when the leaks first came out



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For me it was amazing. Metal Gear 3 had all sorts of weird secrets for you to discover, like being able to snipe the End befor fighting him, that you could easily beat the Fear using the fake death pill, hungry soldiers will fight for food or Eva's medical record which is terribly hilarious. And let's not begin with the codec conversations.

But the best for me was that if you saved while Snake was in prision, when you loaded you would be in a minigame about a guy that beats vampires with canes that apparently was an extremely early concept of an scrapped game. This kind of attention to detail and hidden stuff really makes me enjoy the games Kojima makes, because he even lets you do absurd and stupid stuff.

Don't forget you could actually see Eva's nipples in her X-Ray screen.
 
I'm still wondering who's responsible for getting the harmless face petting of FE Fates removed.
Fire Emblem was a Nintendo game, not Sony. I think FE Fates was a Nintendo Treehouse hack-job.

Sakura Wars despite having all the supposedly offending things(swim suits, first person mode, heavily reliant on dating sim mechanics, boob jiggle) came in unscathed. Which meant the censorship policy was not really about censoring content but more about removing bad games from the running by taking away their crutch.
Sony allowed Life is Tumblr and Life of Black Tiger around the same time. To suggest it was quality control is laughable.

Sakura Wars got a pass for the same reason GTA and Red Dead Redemption got a pass. Money.
 
So focusing more on the topic and the adventures of Brick Cuntfist.

Apparently, it's no longer just 4chan. There's been massive thread disappearances on few other sites, and there's talk that Sony's paying off the Jannies to further stifle the leaks.

The fuck is this timeline.
Would not be the first time Sony paid for reviews and what not. I know Sony love censorship but to censor 4chan!?
 
You don't want that. You really really don't. Their previous attempt at making another Jak and Daxter before The Last of Us just would've been over-the-shoulder third-person garbage, with a heavy focus on realism. And if you think these games are boring and awful, then you do not want to see the old concept art for "Jak Z". Trust me: I thought I did once too.

They both fucked up from beginning to end sure, but at least ME3 got one last attempt at continuing with ME:A and it was a case of the game just being shit and underselling; they never really racked up the marketing bill too too high. As for DmC, at least the game did somewhat improve over the years, Ninja Theory's still kicking with Hellblade, Hellblade II, and whatever Project: Mara is going to end up being, and in the end we still ended up getting Devil May Cry V from Capcom because of it: a much better return to form for the series.

The Last of Us is the only real franchise Naughty Dog's got after they lost Crash, burned the Jak series asunder through their arthouse bullshit and third-party collaborations, and ended the Uncharted series on a wet girl-power-induced fart of a side-game, and they've had Sony do a lot, and I mean a lot of superfluous and expensive bullshit for them that DmC and ME3 didn't have nor need.
I'd say give it to Insomniac then, but I'm sure they're busy with Spidey. Hopefully we'll get a new Ratchet & Clank and maybe Sunset Overdrive 2 someday. Even Resistance was kind of neat.

Hopefully Sucker Punch can go for realism with GoT while maintaining fun gameplay. Also actually having gameplay and not 1 hour cutscenes for every 5 minutes of gameplay like ND.
 
Fire Emblem was a Nintendo game, not Sony. I think FE Fates was a Nintendo Treehouse hack-job.


Sony allowed Life is Tumblr and Life of Black Tiger around the same time. To suggest it was quality control is laughable.

Sakura Wars got a pass for the same reason GTA and Red Dead Redemption got a pass. Money.

Sakura Wars got a pass because the last Sukura Wars to come out in the U.S came out in fucking 2008 on the wii and ps2. I don't even think this new one even had a proper collector edition.
 
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Oh god, thanks for reminding me of Hamburger Helper herself. The same woman that wrote that exceptionally awful gay romance between Shepard and Cortez.
This is especially after MaleSheps VA didn't want to do gay stuff. I guess Mark Meer was pressured into it.

Anyway, I was taking a stab at TLoU1 again, and I'm currently just after the Detroit chapter with the Hunters. The nuance of the characters is damn amazing. Everything is way more subtle than I remember. Joel is flawed but extremely likable, Ellie is a pint-sized punk but you can't help but love her enthusiasm. She's so tsundere, it's quite funny. The tragedy with Henry and his brother Sam, is juxtaposed perfectly with Joel and Ellie. Henry tried to shelter Sam so much, it ended up getting him killed when he wasn't prepared to get suddenly attacked by those infected, whereas Joel decided to foster trust between him and Ellie, and she wasn't even biologically related. I guess family is what you make of it. It takes time to build up the relationship, and how they come to banter with eachother so naturally.

And then... the sequel just tears it all down. For what? Sadistic pleasure and a desperate need to celebrate yourself by being subversive. Druckmann is just straight up scum. He could have done anything else. Literally anything else, but he consciously chose to ruin everything. Christ.
 
So focusing more on the topic and the adventures of Brick Cuntfist.

Apparently, it's no longer just 4chan. There's been massive thread disappearances on few other sites, and there's talk that Sony's paying off the Jannies to further stifle the leaks.

The fuck is this timeline.

I doubt Sony is paying Jannies. They will be authoritarian assholes for free.
 
Okay these videos aren't actually giving us any new info now; like, I get it: Geeks + Gamers got hit the hardest and he'll probably be the most vocal about from here on out, but most of the other videos posted in the thread contain shit we talked about days/weeks/months ago: I don't need to hear every single 1k+ sub YouTuber discuss how they're being oppressed by Naughty Dog or talking about the Like/Dislike bar on the video.
 
Holy shit people are still talking about the fuckups of this game. This game is fucked, completely and utterly fucked. By the time they finally release it, no one will be playing it.
Optimistic take tbh. There will always be a contrarian crowd for these sort of games. I have seen people who went "oh it can't be that bad" and "its dem gamergoy trolls again".

It'd have a solid first week, I guarantee you. It's the second week that'd be actual barometer whether or not normies like Druckmann's filth.
 
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