I swear to god, my 2014 PS4 has never, not once, bothered me with fan noises.
I guess that's the benefit of mostly playing non-AAA games on it. Although I also played HZD, which is as AAA as you can get, and I don't remember the hardware being noisy.
@Spanjard I almost did lol. I thought God of War was pushing the system, but this game is pushing it beyond its limits for sure. Mind you, I have an OG PS4. But I should really invest in a good pair of noise cancelling headphones.
Anyway, a weird thing is that the game sound is quite low. Normally the volume of my TV is around 20-25 for games or watching films, but I had to crank it all the way up to 50 to get the same volume level.
Anyway, some first impressions. I've played a little over 4 hours so far. Nothing has triggered me yet!
The gameplay is surprisingly open. Think Lost Legacy, but even bigger. Almost like a miniature open world game, so there's a lot of freedom to explore. At the same time I feel like I'm missing stuff because of it lol. It's also definitely harder than the first game. I'm playing on normal, but I'm constantly out of ammo and resources. Clickers are absolutely brutal. I swear one of them noticed me even though I wasn't moving. It seems that staying quiet doesn't guarantee you won't be seen anymore.
I did also encounter a puzzle. Not the 'move a ladder' kind, but it definitely had me thinking for a moment. The game does some clever things and it utilises all of its mechanics quite well, and it isn't afraid to experiment. So far so good!
I'm also enjoying it and played for about four hours so far. There was one incredible bit near the beginning where you're running from a horde for about five or more minutes and then desperately trying to fight them off so you can escape on horses and it was incredibly tense and panicky. I don't think i've ever played another game where it was that stressful and feeling how the character would have felt and I died there quite a few times before just about getting away. I agree with @Octane that it's harder than the first game with less resources and those clickers are damn scary!
The graphics are amazing, i'd say even better than God of War and the acting is really good in the cutscenes. I'm really enjoying Seattle where there's a pretty large open space to explore and it's great finding little secrets and wandering around
@Dezzy Can someone please explain to me what the issue is? I haven't heard anything but 'They SJWed it', but also the only evidence I've seen anyone provide of that is that the main character has a girlfriend. Nothing about y'know, them actually pushing an agenda.
Think of the dislike people had for the Last Jedi. It's kinda similar to that. Mostly just based on certain story choices they've made that seem very different than what people were expecting (especially in how some of the main characters are used).
The "SJW" stuff is mostly just minor things where people are inferring a kind of agenda, that may or may not be there. One thing that's annoyed a lot of people is the fact that Sony have repeatedly censored any kind of female nudity in games for the last couple of years, and yet in this game they warned there would be nudity, and then it turns out it's the most unattractive masculine woman you could possibly imagine who gets naked for no particular reason. People have combined that with various comments Druckmann has made in the past in supporting Anita Sarkeesian, to infer that there was a deliberate attempt to try and annoy straight male gamers who like attractive female characters. That does seem kinda likely to me that it was deliberate. But no way of knowing really.
@Dezzy Hm, okay then. I'd say The Last Jedi's biggest weakness was not letting it's characters interact, and telling three separate stories that were only vaguely intertwined, and just spread itself too thin compared to the next most similar movie, Empire. But the character actions themselves didn't bother me. I liked Rose, found Kylo's arc in that movie fascinating, and enjoyed what they'd done with Luke, albeit with some flops in execution. Still better than the rough attempt to revert them did in RoS. So I'd probably be fine with this game.
And good to know the SJW agenda talk is all BS then. So sick of the existence of gay characters being considered political, on both sides.
@link3710 I think the only game that's annoyed me with politics is Life is Strange 2. And that's not because I disagreed with the message. It's because they sacrificed character depth, in order to make political points.
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From what I've seen there's 'SJWs' who hate the game too. I won't speak for anybody else, just myself. But there's some real character assassination in this game that completely ruins the experience, for me, even with the gameplay which is improved quite a bit over the first TLoU. To be fair, I'm not at the end, so I could still change my mind, but so far, it's disappointing. No where near 'game of the generation' like the shill media claims. But I also wouldn't say it's a 3 or 4 out of 10 like overly attached people claim either. The gameplay mechanics are too good, the world building itself is too strong to give it a such a low score that should only be reserved for games that are almost unplayable due to bugs and/or poor mechanics.
Is anyone here familiar with the Danganronpa series? Is it similar to the Phoenix Wright series? What are the differences? I really liked the Phoenix Wright trilogy so I'm open to trying it out.
@Spanjard Which is weird, because the gameplay is pretty much the same in both games, but obviously expanded in part 2 as you'd expect from a sequel. The story is good in the first, but it's a shame that the gameplay takes a backseat in nearly every conversation about TLOU, because I do think that it's pretty good, and there are a lot of clever things it does. But it the same when talking about The Witcher 3. The combat was terrible. It isn't, it's pretty decent. But since the rest of the game is so good, the combat kinda pales in comparison, up to the point that people start calling it bad. It all depends on your perspective I guess.
@Gamer83 Oh, yeah, I've seen arguments from both sides. I just was hoping to hear that whatever that was, they let Ellie just exist as a gay person without making it the crux of her personality. Which sounds like they did.
@Spanjard It's a lot like Phoenix Wright yeah. But uh... far more darker and less goofy.
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