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

[Rei is shit]

It sure is weird that the new trailer doesn't show Ellies lesbian lover

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Shockingly enough, the "games as art" crowd don't pipe up about Pathologic very often. I wonder why?

Because they suck at video games.

 

[Ma_Hooty]

Been reading back because I like to fully enjoy a landfill inferno and I'm still behind 50 some pages, but I still wanna put in my opinion. If I may:

As someone who enjoys-and dabbles in their own-creative endeavors, this gutting of a pretty good IP makes me livid. Dunno if it's because I love me some spooky, plausible doomsday pandemics like 28 Days/Weeks Later or Quarantine (the foreign one, not the Americanized version), where it's implied that the rabies virus mutated and turned victims into rage zombos, or I'm a sucker for some damn good world/character building, but I felt a lot of feelings when playing that game.
I fucked playing Sam Fischer in the hospital because you and the kid you were tasked with smuggling cross-country spent months (in game time) with became your daughter in all but blood was about to die a painful death that more than likely would be fruitless in providing a cure for a fungal brain infection that turns you into a Lovecraftian monster. Even back then, I wasn't reeetarded enough to push aside common sense and see that this rebel group was nothing but a bunch of power-hungry dick nibblers who were barely any better than the bandits and cannibals you mowed down beforehand.

And even after I beat the game, I was satisfied with how it ended: it was open-ended. You saved Ellie and Joel has to live with the fact that he *may have doomed the rest of humanity because of it. Chapter done, the end, move on to someone else or another country, like how the novel World War Z was written. I'd be totally cool with TLoU being like that- put yourself in the shoes of some guerilla fighters in the Middle East or a group of nomads in Siberia who have somehow survived the worst of it due to the climate being too poor for the virus to grow.

You can even make the multiplayer work that way and make it a long term campaign (like how the ME3 multiplayer worked, but make it that way across several more games), so the players can have a bigger say in how the game plays out, and - if ND/Sony cared about their consumer base - used what was happening MMO-wise to lead how the next games played out (more cooperation among players = better chance for humanity to fight back against the virus/deathcults/dictatorial governments/etc. = the next game being more hopeful of a turnaround).

But nah, let's butcher a growing franchise by playing as a Mary Stu who gets sick gains at the post-apoc Planet Fitness so he can later brutalize 2 gay eighteen year old girls - one being pregnant - all because some no name rebel """surgeon""" killed by one of the girls' adoptive fathers had that character be his surprise troon for a kid. Guess that's how he got all that HRT?

Goddamn, fuck these creatively dead Idpol faggots, build your own thing for you to push your dying narrative onto and destory? But of course, they're creatively dead, so they need to be fucking parasites to be relevant.

S A D.

*As an example: elephants being born in the wild today are growing up without tusks because the ivory trade decimated the population to the point where the only ones being able to pass on their genes don't have visible tusks, hence the next generation not having them, which nets them a higher chance of passing on their genes and so on. Survival of the fittest isn't about being the strongest, it's about adapting to what life throws at you and good old-fashioned luck - humans are more than likely building up some sort of immunity or the virus could be hitting dead ends when evolving - why's everything got to be so nihilistic today?

 

[Psyduck]

Because it’s not a walking sim and little bitches quit on second day because of the price spike. Same with the Void, game by the same studio, everybody gangsta and look at cg tiddies until the first brother arrives.
And because story about immortality of soul, conflict between reality and human creation, and consequences of said conflict does not have teen lesbians.

Can i just get a fucking game please i deal with enough pretentious try hards on the average as it is

 

[YourMommasBackstory]

Can i just get a fucking game please i deal with enough pretentious try hards on the average as it is

There are more then enough of fun games on the market, boo! Look more into new indie studios, they mostly focus on gameplay.
IPL’s were pretentious fuckers since 2002 but they gathered a loyal fanbase by doing artsy games from the start. Their main idea is that games are not always =/= fun and you, as a player, should suffer, so they are not the guys you need to go for if you want a fun game.

 

[Übertroon]

It sure is weird that the new trailer doesn't show Ellies lesbian lover

Because the story trailer doesn't show nearly anything at all. The only thing a viewer with no knowledge about the leaks can guess from the trailer is that Ellie sets out on a quest because of Anger. Likely because someone hurt her or hurt and possibly killed Joel. And lots of shitty things will happen to Ellie.
Contrast it with the Story trailer for the original game which laid out the setting, Joel having to deliver Ellie to the fireflies, Joel having done lots of morally ambiguous things to survive in the past, and that he will continue to do morally ambiguous things to make sure he gets Ellie to the fireflies

 

[Atomic Wangler]

All this talk about (hoo-mun) female representations in vida got me thinking, is there any example of spergs complaining about how unrealistic and harmful male videogame characters look? Does Resetera petition game studios to put more regular looking guys in their games?

I seem to recall a bunch of memes about how Chris Redfield turned into some manner of roided muscle beast for Resident Evil 5. I also recall his build being toned down from that game onward.

 

[Aurora]

Can we get a poll added to the thead with options on how many copies it will sell at launch?
Example:
Neil commits suicide:1-10,000
Neil and co crucified by Sony, death of ND: 10,000-100,000
Neil and co quietly let go, Naughty Dog disbanded: 100,000-500,000
Consoomers bring a win: 100,00-1,000,000
Manbabies BTFO: 1,000,000-10,000,000+

 

[Jan Ciągwa]

I honestly feel a little bad for the people who are championing the lesbian kiss when it's already been spelled out that Ellie's girlfriend is gonna die- Ellie wears her bracelet in the gameplay, the theme of the game is about hatred, and Ellie swears vengeance on the Fireflies in the first trailer. She's being set up as Ellie's Sarah- someone who dies early on just to make the protagonist sad. I think they call it the "Bury Your Gays," trope? Either way, it's lazy writing.

I know it's 2 years late but "bury your gays" trope refers to things like killing off the gay character as a way to shove him/her away from the scene AFAP ('cause we don't condone the gay, OK?), not to serve as cheap character development.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Especially with his whole "games aren't meant to be enioyable, they are meant to be deep" or whatever deal he said

This is the last refuge of the pseud, this is. Write incomprehensible shit and watch as all the critics fap themselves blind over how it's clearly totally intellectual and relevant and starts important conversations because they can't or won't point out that the Emperor is naked.

 

[Nobunaga]

I seem to recall a bunch of memes about how Chris Redfield turned into some manner of roided muscle beast for Resident Evil 5. I also recall his build being toned down from that game onward.

Chris being roided has an explanation though iirc
Chris couldnt match wesker on his speed so he choose to focus on strenght
(Something that ends up working because the man can punch boulders like a god)

 

[The Great Chandler]

With all the sucky stories with the whole nihilism, interjecting with identity politics, I quite have enough. This stuff makes me compelled to make some more upbeat stories or really anything, but without the ridiculous politics. I might as well go on adventures across the globe Indiana Jones-style. Something that uplifts the soul or at least remotely fun.

 

[Nevor Toah]

With all the sucky stories with the whole nihilism, interjecting with identity politics, I quite have enough. This stuff makes me compelled to make some more upbeat stories or really anyone, but without the ridiculous politics. I might as well go on adventures across the globe Indiana Jones-style. Something that uplifts the soul or at least remotely fun.

So... Uncharted?

 

[Adamska]

Can we get a poll added to the thead with options on how many copies it will sell at launch?
Example:
Neil commits suicide:1-10,000
Neil and co crucified by Sony, death of ND: 10,000-100,000
Neil and co quietly let go, Naughty Dog disbanded: 100,000-500,000
Consoomers bring a win: 100,00-1,000,000
Manbabies BTFO: 1,000,000-10,000,000+

Raise it by an order of magnitude and it'd work, since the OG TLOU did like 15 million or so. I like it.

 

[The Great Chandler]

So... Uncharted?

Something along the lines, but a little more metal. Whatever is your guys' guess. Still, I'm just kinda tired of every downer moods lately. You got a virus going on and you got this crap being dispensed, which clearly nobody wants. I mean everyone has their tastes, but when it comes to this kind of taste, it's like being fed those stupid "gourmet" soil food that they call "high-class". Blinded by the clouds of their lofty position over the disappointed masses.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

What is hellblade about? I remember when it was released but I never played it. Looked scary lol.

Wishful thinking but you'd expect this entire controversy to serve as a lesson on how to not draw your characters the way that ND has.

It's a ride through a Celtic/Norse schizo girl's head. Since Ninja Theory made it, the sparse combat sections are very good. Hellblade was directed and written by Tameem. Tameem also directed and wrote the infamous DMC reboot.

It's funny you mention that, because I know of an indie studio who managed to make a game that wasn't fun, but was fascinating enough to keep your interest.

Matter of fact they did it twice, only the second time it was fun.

Shockingly enough, the "games as art" crowd don't pipe up about Pathologic very often. I wonder why?

That crowd doesn't want interesting, creative games. They want bland Oscar bait.

 

[Judge Holden]

Gotta admit, the Senator Abbstrong maymes im seeing flying around are really quite effective in making me giggle

"TRANNOMACHINES SON!!!"

 

[Muttnik]

Gotta admit, the Senator Abbstrong maymes are really quite effective in making me giggle
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This one is surprisingly wholesome. I would have settled for a doofy wholesome TLU2 over what we got. That would have subverted my expectations in a good way.

 

[Judge Holden]

This one is surprisingly wholesome. I would have settled for a doofy wholesome TLU2 over what we got. That would have subverted my expectations in a good way.

Raw absurdity pairs just as well with the wholesome as it does with the profane.

 

[Robert James]

FTFY

Putting these here for a side by side with audio. I guess the game shifts where one is from Abby's perspective and one is from Ellie's.

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got to love that Drucmans stand in not only spits on joel's corpse after someone else kills it but is the one that wanted to kill Ellie while she's pinned down. I don't want to be accused of Hyperbole here but I think Druckman may have a few dead small animals in his backyard.