I Remember The Last Of Us Part 1 Being Better | Opinion

Be honest reviewer, How much did Microsoft pay you to shit on this review?

Yeah this is a terrible review, I beat the game on ps3, ps4 and pre ordered the ps5 version to completion. It’s a beautiful story that no game can come close to. This sounds like it was written not by a fan but by someone who just has an opinion

game informer lost some credibility with this one…

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As soon as I saw the title I knew the comments would be full of Sony fanboys protecting their favorite corporation

I remember Game Informer being better.

I think they made Joel look a little too old.

3:23 I guess Blake wanted Joel to get on his knees and ask politely and Tess to pat Robert on the head and let him go after killing most of his group? Interrogation is supposed to civilized according to Blake

This review is actually interesting in what you mention. Yes the last of us created several modern tropes in gaming, but just because it is the first one, doesn't mean it holds up now. If it was a remaster like you said you just let it pass, but several people are comparing it to RE2 remake. Which did make the gameplay more modern, the lines (still B movie funny) a little bit more serious, and made the paising of the story better. I feel it is more comparable to Warcraft 3 reforged. They could've fixed things to make it fit more with Part 2, but at the end they just decided to make it "look" like Part 2, but not change anything else. At least Naughty Dog didn't promise to do that like Blizzard did.

"Now unencumbered by technological restraints"

Still has the same invisible walls blocking you from going even an inch further than it wants you to even in areas that should be explorable, has even worse unnecessary motion blur and camera shake (which can be turned off thank fuck)., Still has the exact same melee combat, exact same enemy AI, same swimming mechanics, same grab/drag mechanics, still can't dodge or crawl or prone, no new TLOU2 mechanics like hiding in tall grass. Game STILL doesn't run at 60 fps even on performance mode and Fidelity mode doesn't increase the graphical detail enough to justify the fact that it literally can't even run at 1080p60fps.

I'm truly curious to know what encumbrances it had before that it now doesn't.

This game could have been truly 10/10 if they had simply actually remade it and added dodging, added the one-two punch to killing clickers (destroying their "shell" and then stabbing them in the head), and added crawling. Or new enemy AI. Instead they sold TLOU re-remastered for $70 where most things look better but a lot of things lost their details.

I'm playing this now and I'm loving it, it's a visual remake, never expected the base game or dialogues to change, it's perfect if you wanna experience the first game again but with a fresh and beautiful new coat of paint

I want to engage but I want to clarify that I purely want to dissect your opinions, not dogpile on you. None of this is a judgement on you as a person or meant to be snarky. please read this in a neutral academic tone
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this review sorta feels completely devoid an understanding that fiction is generally intended to be consumed multiple times to properly engage with it critically. Art is a conversation

I see what you are saying, but I feel like you are misunderstanding the purpose of Joel as a character, or just that like, the game doesn't have meaning that isnt assigned to it. The violence is there because the muses told the developers it needed to be there and serves to illustrate that Joel is a bad guy even in a world where everyone is out for themselves, but that he's also not the worst of the worst by a long shot. . You aren't supposed to like Joel. he's just straight up not a good dude and actively chose to do bad things, and ends the game ignoring Ellie's autonomy and then lying to her about it. He wasn't hardened by circumstances any more than anyone else in the story, he chose to be a violent asshole. He loves Ellie but only because she reminds him of his daughter. He is a deeply sympathetic character, but he is a violent bully. Tess told him he's a bad person because he's a bad person. This is not a redemption story or a family drama; It's a tragedy. He's not a hero, he's not a villain, he's not even an antihero or an antivillain. He's just a person making decisions in an impossible world , it's a tragedy. It has a lot of themes to divine meaning from but it has no inherent purpose other than to move you. If you're bummed out and bored you're probably supposed to be and if it doesn't land with you anymore it's on you more than the writing. I personally enjoy when a piece of media challenges my learned emotional presumptions about what makes art good.

Stories where nothing happens until bad stuff happens and only bad stuff happens move me the most because they resemble life, but abstract themselves from life by being…well, dramatic. If (as in the case of The Last of Us) said story has believable character interactions, and downtime it opens the door to feel a lot of warmth, especially. The warm moments ring hollow to you now because you're old enough to not be swayed by bad people when they show warm qualities. You're reviewing it as a consumer product based on how it made you feel rather than as a piece of art, a long-form narrative more akin to a novel than a film or TV show.

You're an editor and it took you 9 minutes to say "I think The Last of Us is a bummer and I wish that it wasn't" but didn't even engage with the ideas you brought up in the video.
If an employee presented this to you to publish you would ask for extensive rewrites.
to quote the novel House of Leaves (A deeply dark, tastelessly violent, boring, slow, bummer of a novel with capital T themes in it that is also simultaneously a very warm and relatable family story, and is also a 500 page dissertation on why art is both purposeless and meaningful at the same time. )

"This is not for you"

Gamesinformed didn't get s review copy hence spent 70 bucks speaks fully in the video ??

A more appropriate title to this may be “I’ve grown in the past 9 years.” The game isn’t “worse” because the industry has evolved and you as a person have matured and have reflected on this experience..

This is the first time I've ever played this game, and I disagree with so much here

The violence is just part of the world building. I don't really find that it's trying to be edgy, nor does it really stand out. After a while it's routine and in the background, but it serves to explain just what kind of person Joel is

The story doesn't feel like it's trying to do anything groundbreaking at all, and that's fine. What it is is an incredibly well-acted love story. We've seen it before, apparent loses a child, meets new child with no parent, paternal relationship begins to unfold.

The thing about this game is, that it's just done so God damn well. The acting is phenomenal and the chemistry between Joel and Ellie is tangible

Gameplay is definitely a bit stiff and reminiscent of 2013. Too many damn ladder puzzles and conveniently placed pallets in everybody of water

You can literally skip these puzzles though. As well as touch up the controls to be pretty damn modern, if still a bit shy of the standard.

And as far as button layout, the entire thing is also customizable

As far as game design goes, I could see recognizing how the game has aged. But as far as the story and performances go, I think this is top notch