Just ordered Days Gone for 20$! I wanted to play that game for a while now!
I pity you, Days Gone is such a clunky, glitchy, ugly, awful mess. And to top it all off, Deacon is an inbreed maniac that talks to himself very loudly when he sees or hears something.
The Harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
@Zuljaras The guy talks to himself(very loudly!) about everything! When you go to a bandits camp, a freakers nests, listening to the radio, when you're in a story mission, or when someone's done talking. And there are more examples when you progress through the game(if you can stomach it).
The Harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
@kkslider5552000 I 100% agree, I've said that for a while. The world is in collapse there's a plague ravaging the world, it's unsafe to ever leave home, the food supply chain is precariously dangling, there's now a race war going on with no end in sight that's playing out as a revenge fantasy, and we're entering the second great depression.
WTF is interested in post-apocalyptic survival anything? Who actually wants their escapism to involve dismal despair in a suffering world, dwelling in the ruins of what was. That's your REAL life....the whole point of fiction is to escape it. And yet people are clamoring for it. "YEAH, economic ruin and death everywhere....this is so awesome, I want to simulate it in my fantasies, too, so I never have to leave such awesomeness! " I'd have thought TLoU2 would have been "indefinitely delayed" at this point and the whole zombie fetish would have ended.
I just don't get it at all. Maybe it's just Sony fans? Or am I really so disconnected from the newly minted human brain that I must be an alien visitor that fell off my ship at the last rest stop and landed on a backwater planet where the poisoned water has driven everyone insane?
Wait, that's probably Sony's next big game. Just Add Zombies!
@NEStalgia Well speaking as a privileged white dude, all those things you describe aren't really having much effect on my quality of life. In fact I'd say, on the whole, my q.o.l. has improved under lockdown. And all those things you mention just serve as entertainment, rather than some terrible reality. Admittedly, I'm not in America, which usually helps.
@gcunit I can get that on an individual basis the lockdown actually improves things. We're gamers. We never leave our basements and have preferred not to be dragged out of them since we were 5. I get it. But getting reminded that what's awaiting outside your door is something other than Greatness is something can't imagine finding pleasurable.... I don't know, as emphasized by your comment that you can see it all as entertainment instead of reality like thoroughly disassociated from it....maybe that's the difference. Any of these things, whether the real world around and each circumstance or the characters in these games, it's impossible for me to view it in a disassociative way like that, it's always an empathic response: "This could be me." Maybe humans are "breeding out" empathy and that's why I can't seem to understand anyone else's thinking in the modern world?
It's not just you. Now that you mention it, it does seem common that virtually nobody seems able (or willing?) to put themselves in anyone else's shoes. If so, that's also precisely what's wrong and why the world is where it is, not just with the current events but corporate behavior and so on in general. That's a terrifying thought. Now I REALLY can't play TLoU. Far too much terror going into it at an army of narcissistic humans incapable of empathy just outside the door.
On the other hand, the ability to disconnect from it all like that, including the real life turmoil, is probably what the "violent video games make people kill people" thing is all about....maybe those advocates have a point. If people really can disassociate from both fictional and real strife and see it passively entertaining....an idea I'd find incomprehensible. Maybe such imagery can more commonly drive some people to emulate it than some of us defensively realize.
Such enters TLoU2 which as someone here...maybe Dezzy, once referred to it as: "torture porn."
On the other hand, the ability to disconnect from it all like that, including the real life turmoil, is probably what the "violent video games make people kill people" thing is all about....maybe those advocates have a point. If people really can disassociate from both fictional and real strife and see it passively entertaining....an idea I'd find incomprehensible. Maybe such imagery can more commonly drive some people to emulate it than some of us defensively realize.
Maybe, but personally, if anything I would say that video games make me less likely to perpetrate violent acts in real life. If I take out my frustrations on people in real life then I risk retaliation and legal bother; if I do it in game the only thing I risk is a worn out controller. I'll never forget my first time playing Grand Theft Auto 3: some old lady gave me some lip and the realisation that the game would just let me take to her head with a baseball bat for as long as I liked and keep producing blood spurts was so cathartic. If I did that in real life my clothes would get all dirty 😈
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
@Grumblevolcano Was just coming to post that! Its definitely great news, crossplay and all. Really seems at this point PS5 basically has Smart delivery too without the catchy name
Evoland: Legendary Edition PS4 version pre Order has been announced from playasia !!
So excited that i can order from playasia with cheaper price. 😀😀😀
Been playing RE7 after finishing Watch Dogs 1, and I have to say, RE7 has not aged well at all. It looks blurry and cheap, from afar it looks fine, but oh boy when you get closer it's a whole different story. And the gameplay is so sluggish it's like moving a very slow tank.
The Harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
So has anyone come up with an explanation for the massive discrepancy between reviews for TLOU2. I'm not talking about 0/10 reviews on metacritic, which we could just assume is mostly trolling for the sake of argument.
But a significant number of youtubers disliked it too. Or at least disliked it enough such that it would never get 10/10.
The youtuber average score seems to have been a kind of 8/10 type figure. Although most don't give scores, so I'm just guessing that.
@Dezzy Actually the average score is 6/10. People just did not like the story direction. The depressing finale where nothing happens and nothing is achieved.
After watching the WHOLE thing I could say it really is 6/10. Nowhere near 0/10 or 10/10.
There are also lots of controversies as ND shut down many channels and streamers that did not give the game 10/10.
I do not se why it is a bad thing for people do dislike a game. Now talking about bombing etc. Also in Japan there is a trend now to make a video of how you destroy your TLOU2 discs.
Super crazy stuff happening this past week.
After finishing The Last of Us 1 I will start the Uncharted series as I have heard some very good things about it.
Btw maybe that is the problem that most streamers/gamers have with TLOU2. Most of them said that they loves ND games so much that this one is a slap in the face.
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