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Yeah this game felt much more willing to let its DNA as a sister series to Uncharted shine through than TLOU 1 did. TLOU 1 sneers at the jump button, climbing mechanics and bombastic set pieces of uncharted out of fear that it would compromise its status as A More Serious game while tlou 2 has the confidence to not give a gently caress
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You know how some of us are left with 99 elixirs at the end of a RPG because what if we really really need them later? In this game, every bullet is an elixir.
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Jun 24, 2020 13:20
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JBP posted:I loved those bits. I'm going to play NG+ with items turned way up and make that bit the entire game. I'm doing this right now, and I recommend turning on the accessibility option that makes you automatically pick up materials and ammo. It's great fun blasting through an encounter, then running through the buildings just hoovering up everything that isn't nailed down.
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Jun 24, 2020 13:58
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RedTeam posted:What's with the Space Needle being on an island? This was very confusing to me, too. I’ve been to Seattle enough times to orient myself from the landmarks in the game, but then we went to what I guessed was either Bainbridge or Vashon island and suddenly there’s the space needle? Unless The Big One hit and separated Seattle’s landmass, but if so it’s not mentioned.
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Jun 24, 2020 14:00
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Looking at a map of Seattle the space needle is like.. half a mile from the convention center, which is definitely on the 'mainland' in TLOU2 and not the island, so I'm guessing creative liberties were taken
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Jun 24, 2020 14:13
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My first idea was something about global warming. Would the space needle be on an island if the ocean levels rise? Never been to Seattle.
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Jun 24, 2020 14:14
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Indecisive posted:Looking at a map of Seattle the space needle is like.. half a mile from the convention center, which is definitely on the 'mainland' in TLOU2 and not the island, so I'm guessing creative liberties were taken I figured that due to the flooding in Seattle, maybe the sea levels have risen and split some parts off the mainland?
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Jun 24, 2020 14:16
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The space needle is 1.3 miles from the library (that wild shaped glass building in the tourist map open section) so creative liberties I guess.
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Jun 24, 2020 14:43
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Firstborn posted:Remember in tlou2 that one weird vehicle section where you got infinite ammo? That felt so much like a UC section The jetboat section in the first Uncharted has a grenade launcher magically spawn in Elena's hands once she gets on it, and it also magically despawns from her once she gets off.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:28
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The museum section of the game is cool and good, but it's also twisting that knife hard.quote:The jetboat section in the first Uncharted has a grenade launcher magically spawn in Elena's hands once she gets on it, and it also magically despawns from her once she gets off. Sections. I believe there are at least two of those sections where she gets on the jetski and hey what do you know, grenade launcher! I could be making this up but I feel like I read that originally you were supposed to just dodge the barrels, which is beyond infuriating, so after playtesting they slapped the launcher in there as a fix.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:55
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Yeah, I'm sure someone hotfixed that thing at the last minute because playtesters were complaining. Except they only did it for the first section. The second section (where you go up the rapids) only gives you a handgun and the barrels are moving this time, plus far-away enemies you have to be very accurate with. First section (Chapter 8) Second section (Chapter 12)
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https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/1275808792056344576?s=20
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If they wanted it to be a proper John wick game they should have had an unkillable enemy hunt you down and destroy you each time you killed a dog
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Jun 24, 2020 18:06
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Jun 24, 2020 18:26
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:Tlou2 is the only video game that has managed to make me empathise with a character who is essentially an IDF soldier, by having her defect to save refugees so that sure is something
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Jun 24, 2020 21:45
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Lugubrious posted:I'm doing this right now, and I recommend turning on the accessibility option that makes you automatically pick up materials and ammo. It's great fun blasting through an encounter, then running through the buildings just hoovering up everything that isn't nailed down. that is seriously one of the best things in this game and everyone should have it on from the beginning.
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Jun 24, 2020 21:49
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Makes me nostalgic for max payne 3.
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Jun 24, 2020 22:15
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/06/24/storylines-characters-levels-cut-last-us-part-ii/#click=https://t.co/a7pAymwjl7 They talk about some more things that were cut in this. I think they made the right call on all of them
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Jun 24, 2020 23:33
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Yeah this is how I played through the game and it was extremely fun.
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Jun 24, 2020 23:41
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If anybody cares given the current mess regarding Lowtax and more domestic abuse:Jon Joe posted:
Kaedric posted:https://breadnroses.net/ WampaLord posted:Anyone who wants an invite, just go to https://breadnroses.net/ and register, I will approve, let me know the username you select if it is different. BreadnRoses already has a lot of people who've moved over, seems rad and actually has good QOL features SA doesn't have (dark mode is freakin' nice). If you want to register they're letting everyone in for free while GBS burns and the entire admin/mod team is in some kind of standoff with Lowtax for apparently beating a third woman so yeah. I've shared the links in a few threads now and figured here was a good place too since Stux aside, everyone here's chill and this place is probably gonna go the way of NeoGAF.
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Please, please, please! Donate! To RAINN!
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Jun 25, 2020 00:24
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WatermelonGun posted:I don’t think I’m going to play this game seems dumb The wild thing is you CAN not play it, it's very fun to not do things
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Jun 25, 2020 14:18
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I don't think he actually wrote that, he initially posted goatse, so you can probably ignore the post 
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Jun 25, 2020 15:31
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this is gonna be a thing and that's cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7C82kUGeYM
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Jun 25, 2020 15:37
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ymgve posted:this is gonna be a thing and that's cool Holy poo poo, the touchpad actually plucks individual strings.. This game keeps giving.
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Jun 25, 2020 16:00
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/06/24/storylines-characters-levels-cut-last-us-part-ii/#click=https://t.co/a7pAymwjl7 jfc the game was going to be five days originally
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Jun 25, 2020 16:24
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SUNKOS posted:If anybody cares given the current mess regarding Lowtax and more domestic abuse: If the ending of this site is as good as the ending of Last of us 2 then your fingers are gonna go the way of neogaf
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Just finished the game an hour ago - Hard Mode with a playtime of 34 hours, a lot longer than I was expecting. I'll put my thoughts in spoilers just in case so please don't finish my post if you're still playing. Loved it. Pacing was definitely hosed though, everything that happened after the Confrontation was a bit messy but I appreciate what they were going with thematically. Speaking of which, I grew to really like Abby as a character and during the final boss fight I even got a purposeful game over to see if there was a split ending (of course there wasn't, this is a Naughty Dog game). Ground Zero section was cool, The Descent was cool, Tommy Sniper section was cool, escape from the Island was cool, Abby got all the cool set-pieces. I also enjoyed letting those captive Infected loose on the Rattlers, I wish the game had more of that
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SUNKOS posted:If anybody cares given the current mess regarding Lowtax and more domestic abuse: Oh by the way I've used this since forever: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ And use a dark theme here  Edit: Unrelated to everything else Firstborn fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jun 25, 2020 |
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I do think the Tommy sniper stuff felt out of place and they had the idea but couldn’t fit it into the final story as well, but it was a cool gameplay setting.
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bobjr posted:I do think the Tommy sniper stuff felt out of place and they had the idea but couldn’t fit it into the final story as well, but it was a cool gameplay setting. i was just glad that manny caught a bullet
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Okay so I solved Ellie's guitar problem in something that should take her literally five minutes to do since she can tune by ear: -If you want to play in a minor key, swap the G string into the D string's place. Now you can play any minor chord by barring the bottom 3 strings with the index finger and dropping the middle finger onto the A string 2 frets up from the index finger. You can actually also play the B and high E string for added tone if you like, if you just make sure to curve your index so the D string is muted. This is totally optional though, you don't have to do it until you're ready. -You should be able to drop the pinky or ring finger stump on the high E too to add an extra note, if not, put on a thimble. -For a major key, just tune the G string up half a step. Of course, this was all about "putting Joel behind" as someone in the discord pointed out. But you could do that much more subtly and less stupidly by just having her pick up the guitar, and not be able to play it well as she just decides she doesn't give a gently caress anymore, and putting it away. No need to actually lose fingers - they don't actually keep you from not being able to play guitar. It's just hamfisted bad writing.
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Nail Rat posted:Okay so I solved Ellie's guitar problem in something that should take her literally five minutes to do since she can tune by ear: This is very odd
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Nail Rat posted:Okay so I solved Ellie's guitar problem in something that should take her literally five minutes to do since she can tune by ear: do you think Ellie's story arc was starting out good at guitar and then not being able to play guitar anymore
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Firstborn posted:Oh by the way I've used this since forever: Stylish is a horror on privacy and was replaced by a more privacy conscious third party, Stylus. Or something. But if you’re only using it to force dark mode poo poo just get Dark Reader, an extension that doesn’t watch your poo poo.
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Pencils R Cool posted:Just finished the game an hour ago - Hard Mode with a playtime of 34 hours, a lot longer than I was expecting. I'll put my thoughts in spoilers just in case so please don't finish my post if you're still playing. they should have pulled a full MGS2 with this and only had the abby part of the game as soon as ellie gets to seattle. just cut literally all of ellie's story and piss off everyone.
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Sir Tonk posted:they should have pulled a full MGS2 with this and only had the abby part of the game as soon as ellie gets to seattle. just cut literally all of ellie's story and piss off everyone. Actually yes EDIT: quote:“The reason that got scrapped was because we just didn’t have time to establish Esther,” Gross said. Players wouldn’t have enough time to bond with Esther before her death.
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Jun 26, 2020 06:00
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Well you do get a chance to bond with everyone in Ellie's story who dies before they do. And Abby's story AFTER they do If you mean Joel well we spent an entire game bonding with him, it came out in 2013
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