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

[AnaV]

calling any significant amount of neg reviews a "review bomb" is disingenuous anyway

tlou2 is simply getting bad feedback from people who don't like the game. that is NOT a review bomb, no matter how many jounalists say "but you dislike it for the wrong reasons so your opinion is invalid"

an example for an actual review bomb is what happened to dota2 a few years ago. in 2012 valve ran a helloween event called "diretide", it was a funny little minigame about collecting candy. one year later, in 2013, valve said that there won't be a diretide this year, which resulted in hordes of angry dotards flooding review sites with "0/10 VALVE GIVE DIRETIDE OR RIOT" reviews. THAT is actual review bombing.

It’s almost like their ignoring any real criticism and calling these bad reviewers... detractors.

 

[Denmark Mafia]

Metacritic servers are not as dead as Joel but it's close. Shit is getting bombarded right now.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

A Sinner's Sandwich is way more delicious than a Bigot Sandwich

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

Oh the irony of "muh review bombs by angry male gamers"

"What are the male gamers mad about?"

"Those filthy virgin misogynists are mad that the game makes you watch a musclebound freak of a woman beat the ever loving shit out of two defenseless women, one of whoms pregnant."

"... What?"

 

[Garth]

Eek, called it.

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I honestly wonder what these people think sex scenes in non-pornography media are for. It's not for masturbating, obviously, but they are meant to appeal your sexual instincts, just like jokes make you laugh or dramatic scenes are meant to make you emotional. Rape scenes are expected to make you feel revolted, but sensual, erotic, or sexual scenes are meant to make you understand that the characters lust for each other, it's very sexually charged, it's meant to be.

I guess this lady sees a sex scene and starts wondering what's the meta linguistic symbolism of the number of pulsations per minute made in each thrust. Sure, lady. Sure.

Or these are rationalizations. You see this sort of cope over and over. It can't be that the game/movie/band is bad, it's that the wrong people don't understand it. These woketards are constantly mystified at the idea that regular folks don't like/can see right through all the pandering and lazy violation of tropes that they so desperately crave. The products are shallow and so are they by extension. They can't stand that their usurpation of a hobby has yet to cull the "incels", or bully them into submission. These are vapid cretins who are utterly dependent upon acceptance and their personal well-being hinges on the perception of a product by the very people they ceaselessly denigrate. It's all so tiresome ...

 

[mindlessobserver]

Welp, its still "current year" here in the year 2020. At least in these crazy times things proceed as normal.

 

[haurchefant]

This might be the best day of my life. I'm so thankful to be alive so I can watch this happen in real time. This is delightful, this is Christmas come early. Thank you God, thank you God for letting me be alive in this moment of time to witness this.

This is the natural culmination of this retarded grimdark genre, the tranny shit is just set dressing. It was always going to end up as miserable shit piles where nothing good happens, rocks fall everybody dies SCAR while characters try out grimdark each other. When you reward storytellers for telling miserable pretentious stories full of mass death and betrayal, you will get more miserable and pretentious stories full of mass death and betrayal. Except for sequels there is no where else to go because they're already rock bottom so they have to resort to lunacy to stand out from their predecessor.

This is amazing. I'm not even halfway through my work day and the hits just keep coming. This is such a wonderful time to be alive, I can drive by this fucking lunacy and see the pain of fans. Holy fuck yes keep it coming.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

Eek, called it.

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I honestly wonder what these people think sex scenes in non-pornography media are for. It's not for masturbating, obviously, but they are meant to appeal your sexual instincts, just like jokes make you laugh or dramatic scenes are meant to make you emotional. Rape scenes are expected to make you feel revolted, but sensual, erotic, or sexual scenes are meant to make you understand that the characters lust for each other, it's very sexually charged, it's meant to be.

I guess this lady sees a sex scene and starts wondering what's the meta linguistic symbolism of the number of pulsations per minute made in each thrust. Sure, lady. Sure.

I mean, the sex scene itself grosses me out. Even if they made Abby not look like a manish troon, I would still feel pretty uncomfortable having to watch an awkward sex scene like that pan out in real time when I'm just trying to play a game. Especially if said sex scene involves someone I dislike on a fundamental level. I would very much rather the sex scenes just not be in the game altogether or at least have them done in a way in which sex is implied to have happened which is a lot better than watching softcore porn in a video game. The sex feels like it was just shoe horned in for edginess factor. "Oooh look how adult this game is, look how edgy we are."

It's trashy and I don't like it. There are better ways to handle sex in a game instead of having it thrust-ed into our faces....no pun intended.

 

[msd]

A Sinner's Sandwich is way more delicious than a Bigot Sandwich

I want this to be remade or a sequel

 

[CatharticShitHead]

Something I've been mulling lately is this depressing slide into nihilism in our media. We used to focus on what we had in common, and post apocalypse writing usually had a hopeful element. The idea that after a collapse we refocus on our humanity and build it all back up after the initial growing pains was taken for granted.
Can someone explain why the people in charge of these things prattle on about how righteous and enlightened they are, yet they put out nothing but propaganda basically blackpilling people on the idea of barely even surviving? For acting like they have the best interests of mankind at heart, it doesn't seem to affect the actual fruits of their labor. They say they're planting delicious apples, but every time the tree grows we get this shit, misshapen, turd-flavored, garbage. Then they say we're assholes and cavement for wanting sweet, crispy apples.

It's problematic to like, apples, you see. not all fruit is delicious, and it really hurts the feelings for those who grow crabapples, so we'll all force ourselves to play along and munch sour, hard, crabbles while complimenting how 'wonderful' 'amazing' and 'filling' they are.

This is my personal opinion but I think it stems to what people say is the "theme" of certain time periods.
And this time period of ours is just people taking the idea of making sure everyone gets a chance way too fucking far. To the point where some people get death threats by fags on the internet if they don't do this and that in whatever they're making.

Some gays sent death threats to the Author of My Hero Academia for not making the teenage protagonist gay.
Some trannies send death threats to JK Rowling for saying her opinion and I guess not making characters trans?
And the good old situation with any game being developed, where if there's no black lesbian cunt in a wheelchair, the progressives deem it a horrible and offensive excuse of a game.

Now that I just brought that up, I just realized why Last Of Us 2 got good reviews from critics besides Sony paying off critics. Because you got two trannies running around, a whole gang of different race people, and they killed the only white dudes in a room by ambush.

 

[Denmark Mafia]

I want this to be remade or a sequel

I mean... If you got a Switch the sequel comes out in 3 weeks

 

[ZMOT]

I'm pretty sure Anita's endgame is to destroy the gaming industry.

Little does she know, if she succeeds, from the ashes will come a plethora of great games with conventionally hot women and good gameplay.
Cheers to anime titties and new IPs, lads.

she's a con, the endgame is money. it was never about the actual topic.

more anime games definitely but no new IPS, the vidya industry just won't make those much anymore even after a crash it will all mostly be remakes of shit to be honest

nah, most weebgames still come from japan, and they're not as creatively bankrupt at the west (or in general, almost anything goes). of course that depends if you personally like cute animu girls and their approach to gameplay (nip devs, not the girls). sure, there's stuff like dragon quest but being the same game essentially is a big point of the series to begin with.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

This might be the best day of my life. I'm so thankful to be alive so I can watch this happen in real time. This is delightful, this is Christmas come early. Thank you God, thank you God for letting me be alive in this moment of time to witness this.

This is the natural culmination of this retarded grimdark genre, the tranny shit is just set dressing. It was always going to end up as miserable shit piles where nothing good happens, rocks fall everybody dies SCAR while characters try out grimdark each other. When you reward storytellers for telling miserable pretentious stories full of mass death and betrayal, you will get more miserable and pretentious stories full of mass death and betrayal. Except for sequels there is no where else to go because they're already rock bottom so they have to resort to lunacy to stand out from their predecessor.

This is amazing. I'm not even halfway through my work day and the hits just keep coming. This is such a wonderful time to be alive, I can drive by this fucking lunacy and see the pain of fans. Holy fuck yes keep it coming.

I'm actually having more fun watching this unfold than people are having playing the game. It's fantastic.

 

[Prester John]

Ellie enters synagogue alone.

PewDiePie: "Did we just leave Dina? Good."

Dina appears.

PewDiePie: "Dammit."

 

[Ginger Piglet]

It seems to trite to constantly say it, but its social justice theory again. It is a non-theistic religion that is at the core inherently nihilistic. Its an all encompassing theory of everything that exists only to deconstruct existing systems of thought and being but offers no redemptive path, or the ability to create something new. Its no small wonder its adherents (basically anyone getting churned out of a university these days) are so angry and black pilled by just about anything. And why they seem to take such glee in seeing existing IP's ruined and the fans shrieking about it.

I've said this recently on here because I've become convinced of it, but this is closer to the truth than you think. You can't have Year Zero and remake society in the perfect image while old cultural institutions and legendry remains. Anything with any hope or redemption or character development gives the dangerous idea that heretics and wrongthinkers are reformable. If you have ever said a racial epithet on social media, called someone a fag, given your wife or gf a slap or shouted at them, or anything like that, you are irredeemably tainted and this cannot be atoned for, even by your own death. Therefore, anyone who has done wrong but wants to atone must be punished. Stalin didn't let his political opponents or critics redeem themselves. No he did not. He sent them to Siberia and they were forgotten about. Similarly, Joel may have made morally questionable decisions in the past but his adoption of Ellie as his daughter and their growing together and bonding over the first game and how he realised that in fact, delivering her to a bunch of mad scientists to have her brain sucked out and turned into anti mushroom juice was a bad idea and he couldn't do it. That can't be allowed to redeem him. That is why he gets his legs shot off and then his brains beaten out with a sand wedge.

If you push the idea that things can change the nature of a man and that people can atone or redeem themselves, then people might start committing heresy or wrongthink because they know that they may get away with it, but since words are literal violence that can't be allowed to happen because the people they wrongthinked against remained literally murdered by their dangerous ideas and the revolution was hampered by it. Better to give them the message that the moment you step off the path, you WILL get tortured to death by a murderous troon, and you WILL deserve it. Having people live in fear of such a fate allows them to be more easily controlled.

It was told many pages up the thread that we'd find out things about Joel's past that would shock and appall us. I bet those things are that he was a wife-beater or he had beaten or abused a woman in the past. Am I right?

 

[Overcooked Raccoon]

Leave it to $ony to shill out to the reviewers for the good scores.

The writing was on the wall when the delays started happening, and after the leak happened everyone should have just abandoned all hope.

The one thing I can say I'm glad for is the entertainment of watching these people's worlds fall apart because they thought it was all a hoax.

Hell I don't even have to spend anything to experience the best this game has to offer.

 

[Tard]

when your "argument" boils down to "lol incel" you already lost, even 4chan shitposting is higher discourse than that.

It's ironic because they are all bitter femcels
Not everyone who dislikes this game are men or straight. That hilarious "I've sucked more dicks than you Neil" comment, for example
They only care that the straight men portion dislike it so they can act all smug and revel in it
It's exactly like male incels when they revel and act all smug when female models are upset over something

 

[Neurotic Loser]

Eek, called it.

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I honestly wonder what these people think sex scenes in non-pornography media are for. It's not for masturbating, obviously, but they are meant to appeal your sexual instincts, just like jokes make you laugh or dramatic scenes are meant to make you emotional. Rape scenes are expected to make you feel revolted, but sensual, erotic, or sexual scenes are meant to make you understand that the characters lust for each other, it's very sexually charged, it's meant to be.

I guess this lady sees a sex scene and starts wondering what's the meta linguistic symbolism of the number of pulsations per minute made in each thrust. Sure, lady. Sure.

I love that these types are the ones that are desexualising games but at the same time push for sexualising games in a "mature" manner. Basically they are closet degenerates trying to push their fetishes while being "morally superior".
Speaking of sex scenes, what was the point of that one? I mean it's 30 seconds long which is: too short to say anything truely meaningful about the relationship between the two but; it is too long, thus, creates a disconnect with the player as we see an unredeemable character happy and the game treats it like a good thing.

If a sex scene is necessary in your "deep" game at least have it tell us more than A loves B or make it be directed in an appealing way.

 

[MeltyTW]

hey actually the metacritic is at 7k and still 3.4 i dont know how numbers usually flow organically there but .... is it possible they had to lock it to the keep the game from going lower?

actually no its at 12k and dropped to 3.3 lol, get absolutely dry fucked sony and niel

 

[CheezzyMach]

after bolton claiming trump is chummy with winnie it's all chinese influence now actually.



that's exactly how it works tho. that's why they're celebrating "representation" in settings where it makes zero sense like fantasy where you can actually become the other gender, 100%. it's not woke if you don't tell everyone you where another gender at some point, because that's what gender dysphoria is all about! but not too much else you veer off into deadnaming!
same shit with the retarded ableism adding wheelchairs etc in scifi because "maybe he chose to be a cripple having to shit in a bag for the rest of his life?! check your privilege bigot!"

The thing is realistically in any high sci-fi setting things like birth and mental defects should be almost eliminated. Hell IRL shit like Crisper is trying to do just that.

That means no Troons * No brain defects mean no GD hell potientally no gays at all if you want to kick THAT hornets' nest *, no cripples * No birth defects and even if it happens after birth cybernetic limbs that are almost identical to the real thing will fix it and it'll be like going to the doctor for a minor infection *, no autistic spazs.

The only way having those make sense is if you go the Gundam Seed route and have it become a moral quandary between natural birth and science and these fuckers won't do that because it often goes hand with religion which these fedora tippers hate.

And you already mentioned fantasy where an actual sex change is just a tonic away.