Played the first couple of hours. It’s still very good, but it just looks like I ‘remember’ it looked at the time. Of course it didn’t but it feels like one of those.

drumbeg wrote:

digi wrote:

Forgot how huge this game is, just reached fall.

Spoiler:

poor henry.

This part, the transition to fall with associated cut-scene and music, plus the events of the previous scene(s) is the point in the game where I realised it was something special.

Iv saved it here and kinda don't want to move on.

I agree about TLOU 2. The writing and story in TLOU1 though were great. As far as I recall it wasnt Druckman leading the writing on that.

superflyninja wrote:

I agree about TLOU 2. The writing and story in TLOU1 though were great. As far as I recall it wasnt Druckman leading the writing on that.

No, it was Druckmann on the first one too.  The sequel had Halley Gross's help.  Maybe that's where it went wrong.

I started the remake of the first the other night and frankly those nattering about it only looking how you remember are chuntering absolute nonsense. It looks absolutely incredible and if you played a game that looked like this on a PS3 then you must have had a special super powered version.

I’ve pushed some bins about and carried a ladder. I’ve pushed a triangle to push a bookcases to reveal a hidden door. I’ve timed my triangle push to start a generator to start a lift. So yeah, there’s parts of it that are limited in scope but the hand to hand fighting is horrible and visceral and the world, though clearly limited and linear is brilliantly realised. I had only medium expectations for this. Lol that price. Lol push triangle. Lol Naughty Dog don’t make real games for real games men but this has taken me by surprise. For world and character building there’s no dev that are anywhere near this lot. They’re so far ahead of the rest that their 10 y/o original feels like the second best version of this kind of game.

Eventual update on giraffe ballbag size pls.

It’s interesting how this is now playing out for me and how time plays with your memories. The short is that this absolutely feels like a PS3 game in scope and direction, with the upgrade in visuals seemingly making it more apparent.
There’s very very little change in tempo and pacing throughout the game, with it following the standard ND template of slow, slow, set piece, relief. The dialogue, delivery and scripting are now no longer the high water mark they once were, and they really should have done something about Joel’s sneaking animation which makes him look like he’s about to take the lead in a traditional soviet dance troupe.

So yeah, Naughty Dog have a template and nothing changes, and all their games are the same, and they can write a script but not deliver a game but… ten years is a long time for a lot of people to learn a lot of stuff about how to make a game. It’s really interesting to look at the progression from the original version of this, to U4, to LoU2 and then back to this remaster. I’m realising that it’s not just betta graphix that they’re moving on with but how every incremental improvement to every aspect of game development moves stuff ever further forwards.

£62 was a ridiculous price for me to pay for the privilege of seeing this evolution of this particular developer but I’m just about happy I have. It’s no longer quite the game it was but it’s given me more context for how far they’ve moved on this particular style of game and how far ahead of every other studio they are.

The Last of Us Online is dead. Basically Naughty Dog realised they would have to become a GaaS developer to be able to do it justice so fucked it off. https://www.naughtydog.com/blog/an_update_on_the_last_of_us_online

Apparently it got internally reviewed by Bungie staff who said "lol no". I mean, fair play for recognising it was pants and cancelling but, damn, there's a good 2yr wasted that could've went to something else.

Anyway,

2, 4, 3, 1.

Funny thing is all most people wanted was an updated factions.

NG lost their heads and got ambitious and have now produced fuck all.

I don't see the need to separate single player and multiplayer games, we've had countless games where both are part of the package and they've been great.

Syph79 wrote:

It won't be wasted time though. The effort will 100% find its way into another product at some point.

I'd of loved them to shine up factions 1 and chuck it in with the remaster of 2. That would be lovely.

I think I just want some TLOU multiplayer in any form to be honest.

You can already play at 60fps on the Ps5 with the PS4 version can’t you?

How much of an upgrade was 1 then? Or was it that 2 looked so good at the time.

The part 1 remaster brought the OG game in line with the visuals of no.2 running on a PS5 (60fps), as far as I could tell.

ohh.. interesting.