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

[Slimy Time]

TLOU2 sales fell 80% for the second week, looks like indeed the word of mouth has not been fantastic. Good sign.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-06-28-3ds-spongebob-squarepants-and-the-last-of-us-part-2-lead-uk-charts

As expected. Good first week from all the preorders and normies who don't spend any time online/people buying to see the trainwreck, then a massive drop once it gets out that this game is a mess.

 

[Mammal Pod]

This game is so fucking bad I dusted off this account, Jesus Christ. I swear defending this requires you to have more fungi in the brain than the zombies do.

Props to the member who mentioned Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. I went through that game recently and had the same thoughts. Silas's target becomes a different, honest man, and the game lets you make the call on what he deserves without punishing you if you decide to kill him other than a darker but fitting ending.

This game kicks both Abby and Ellie in the stomach, but Abby is allowed to get up and walk away while Ellie keeps getting kicked while she's down despite doing "the right thing" and "breaking the cycle" (which is stupid bullshit the retards defending this keep peddling. This game already established that any random NPC can be the parent of a roided up Terminator ready to tee off your skull, and Ellie scored a blood river large enough to power the fucking Jacksonville dam).

And like one of the memes that was posted, this ending could have been made just the slightest bit better by having Ellie flip the guitar over and start practicing how to play with her other hand, But no. Doctor Uckmann brains 100 must systematically seek and destroy any glimmer of good and hope for the surviving cast of the original game, because fuck you for wanting nice things.

EDIT: by the way, Ghost Trick's main antagonist is a cruel asshole who's driven by revenge but that game makes you empathize with him in 10 minutes, something TLOU2 can't do for Abby with 20+ hours

 

[Anya15]

TLOU2 sales fell 80% for the second week, looks like indeed the word of mouth has not been fantastic. Good sign.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-06-28-3ds-spongebob-squarepants-and-the-last-of-us-part-2-lead-uk-charts

Uncharted 4 did the same thing When it was released

 

[Secret Asshole]

The absolute fucking state...

>"have gamers ever, like, seen women before?"
Reading his Twitter feed (which is a spectacle to behold) I highly doubt that he has either. I found however this reply interesting.
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Which is a bit of an unfair comparison though. Not only does Noi in spite of being a tall and buff woman still resemble a woman, it is her lovely and tomboyish personality combined with her interactions with Shin that made people fall in love with her (seriously, the absolute thirst the fans have for Noi is real); something you really can't say about Abby. Then again unlike Druckmann, Hayashida actually knew what he was doing when writing all the characters of Dorohedoro.

You forgot that Dorohedoro legit has a trans character:

Spoiler: NSFW and Manga Spoilers

Dorohedoro, better than TLOU 2 in every way, also a revenge story.

Why niggers sleep on Dorohedoro? It was the best anime of it's season.
Even if people didn't sleep on it tho, nobody would fucking care it had a large, muscular woman because Noi still looks like a fucking woman.

Because, going by the manga, its got at least like 4 more fucking seasons to resolve everything. Its also weird as fuck, with the manga having a MASSIVE amount of nudity and violence (extreme violence), which I'll have no idea how they're going to translate. Entertainment is for pussies these days.

EDIT:
I have no idea why people are masturbating over this fucking AWFULLY told story of revenge. There are so many better ones out there and people and just whimpering and whining and shilling that this shit is good. If you like this game, you're really pathetic.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

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So, Druckmann retweeted this.
Feels like he tries to justify his writing (or rather Abby) with this.

Where does Abby fall on the checklist? Oh, wait, she does.

It's called a Mary Sue.

 

[Richard29]

People back then who hated Activision and wanted Naughty Dog to get Crash Bandicoot back.. i bet they are happy now, that its with Activision and not Naughty Dog

Where does Abby fall on the checklist? Oh, wait, she does.

It's called a Mary Sue.

Abby wasnt a bad made character, just a funny one. As a axe person i can relate to her, used to axe the heck out of logs as a 10 year old kid

But its clear that they made Ellie into a jerk in this one to hate her more over Abby... why do i care about this again, i hated first one lol XD. Movie games

Either case, if i imagine this to be a movie, not a game. Basically Abby had good chemistry to the group "why the heck they have a pregnant female with them is beyond me" but hey. However, Ellie and Dina was just.. it had no connection at all. Would honestly have made the game better if Dina was a dog and Jesse was more in focus, he was actually legit well made

 

[Titos]

People back then who hated Activision and wanted Naughty Dog to get Crash Bandicoot back.. i bet they are happy now, that its with Activision and not Naughty Dog

Nobody with a brain would want modern Naughty Dog to touch crash. Even though the new game has some questionable character designs it's still probably better than what Naughty Dog would come up with. Coco may look like a reject Psychonauts character but hell I'll take that over the monstrosity ND would have turned her into. At least Psychonauts was great and Psychonauts 2 looks really good despite Tim Shafer being a shithead.

 

[The Final Troondown]

I skipped to the drowning part because I thought he would drop a fucking bomb when Ellie would stop choking Abby but I got to the finger part. You can't snap fingers off like that with human teeth, especially not with you front teeth. I know because I remember seeing the same thing in TWD season 3 and I thought it was fishy and researched it. Biting fingers would hurt a lot and draw blood easily but yeah no you'd need to break the bones and chew through hard to chew stuff like a fucking savage. Even if they are small, the bones in your fingers aren't fucking baby carrots.

And now it's the second time I've noticed something straight out of TWD in TLOU2. If he gets inspiration from garbage tv shows no wonder he doesn't know how to write a proper story.

Well you and I can't but we don't have abby's pitbull jaw

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

Page or two back, but I thought tlou1 addressed zombies ignoring Ellie due to her being a carrier and just considering her to be another zombie.

Also perpetual shoutout to cave story for the best escort mission ever, in which the game blares chiptune buttrock at you as the female character you're assigned to protect is revealed to have a machinegun, infinite ammo and full damage immunity and she does the lion's share of clearing enemies for the two minutes the scene lasts - just long enough for the humor in the joke to fade and then it's off to something else.

 

[Brutalist]

I have a profound distaste for Abby's design. Not necessarily because of the character itself, but because its underlying implications.

Naughty dog could easily have altered the model a little to hint at a female bodyshape. No drastic change had to be made to attain a middleground that makes anatomical sense. An inch off that impossibly thick torso; an added inch of width to turn her male pelvis into a female one; B-cups instead of those nonsensically masculine pecs. None of that would have compromised the intent behind the character, nor sexualized her in any way.

Considering that anatomy is a cornerstone of character design, I find it exceedingly unlikely that no one would have brought up those problems in seven years. Thus, it has to be that the over-virilization of Abby was an established requirement in her design brief. Perhaps to make her as physically unattractive to the audience as possible, or perhaps to drive home that she's just a warped reflection of Joel. A new, comically uncreative twist on the bald spacemarine archetype.

Whatever the justification, this trend of purposefully eschewing attractive physical traits for the sake of "telling a story" really is a microcosm of everything wrong with western videogames. Developers are afraid to contend with sexual appeal, so much so that they seem to adhere to a school of thought that says gritty realism equals either ugly or painfully average. A thought so ludicrously immature it instantly explains the absolute lack of writing chops in this part of the industry.

 

[AnOminous]

None of that would have compromised the intent behind the character

Yes it would have, since the intent of the character was to disgust and horrify.

 

[Gamepad]

I have a profound distaste for Abby's design. Not necessarily because of the character itself, but because its underlying implications.

Naughty dog could easily have altered the model a little to hint at a female bodyshape. No drastic change had to be made to attain a middleground that makes anatomical sense. An inch off that impossibly thick torso; an added inch of width to turn her male pelvis into a female one; B-cups instead of those nonsensically masculine pecs. None of that would have compromised the intent behind the character, nor sexualized her in any way.

... Or just stuck with her original body model. Can't imagine the implication: "Aight, we're modelling her after you, but you're still decidedly too female so we're changing that."

 

[CWCissey]

Coco may look like a reject Psychonauts character but hell I'll take that over the monstrosity ND would have turned her into.

Probably this if we're honest.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

Probably this if we're honest.

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I don't get it, you just posted a picture of abby?

 

[I got rabies]

Page or two back, but I thought tlou1 addressed zombies ignoring Ellie due to her being a carrier and just considering her to be another zombie.

They're ignoring anyone that's not Joel, not just Ellie. When you're with Bill to fetch a car battery and you have to retreat inside a school, you can try to sneak around while his fat fucking ass sprint to a new location every few seconds. It really kills the immersion and the horror aspect.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

TLOU3 will be set 500 years in the future where the mushroom zombies have become sentient and are the dominant civilization. Humans make up 13% of the population and are oppressed and shit and the whole game will be a clunky metaphor about racism that no one wanted and no one will be happy with.

Sounds interesting tbh

 

[Miang]

The Woke-Off continued on Twitter yesterday, as ND's favorite critic made a comment and Troy Baker got triggered.

tweet / archive / tweet / archive

 

[verissimus]

Funny how Troy Baker quotes a man who statues are now coming down.

 

[Reverend]

Funny how Troy Baker quotes a man who statues are now coming down.

TANGENT:
Why the fuck are they tearing down TR's statues? He was one of the most powerful presidents of our modern era unless these asshats can't differentiate anyone with a mustache from automatically assuming they were some slave owning southern general.

TR was from New York for godssake.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

TANGENT:
Why the fuck are they tearing down TR's statues? He was one of the most powerful presidents of our modern era unless these asshats can't differentiate anyone with a mustache from automatically assuming they were some slave owning southern general.

TR was from New York for godssake.

Because he was a white man, as we know with the rioters WHITE MAN BAD. Doesn't matter what the white man did, because the sin of being white out weighs it in the twisted reality they live in.