Naughty Dog is trying something new with in-game options
The development of the The Last of Us Part II PC port has been complete since November 2023, according to a reliable insider
Your right as soon as the hype wheel is ready for that show there going to drop it on pc.
But the real question is will this pc port be able to run 1080p on a 4090 as the last naughty dog pc port they helped make it was a dumpster fire.
Like i said before the current naughty dog team is just a glorified port studio but even then they have a hard time actually doing it right.
Yes ps blind boys naughty dog worked on pc ports
https://www.pcgamer.com/nau...
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Your information is good but you need to stop calling names and start trying to have a real conversation. Fanboys of any product are extreme but that doesn't mean vast majority of gamers are just that "gamers"
... and the water's wet
But I'd prefer the Uncharted trilogy port over this one, tbh
Just porting Uncharted 4 and 4.5 to PC was not the best idea.
Original Uncharted trilogy is my fav of the series. That is a worthy port to PC not 4 imo
No doubt they need more help as the og's left the building so the uncharted 1-3 port would take actual skill/knowledge along with the source code/audio files/voice files.
If only niel D lost didn't loose over 80% of the team that made the company he is "running" and turned into a port studio.
The PC master race looks down upon you mockingly knowing they are in every way superior gamers to you console simpleton.
Even the ones that have a £50 dell Optiplex and put in a 1650 that's weaker than a series S?
for everytime you say that, the library of PS games on PC grows bigger. This year, Helldivers 2, Horizon Forbidden West, Ghost of Tsushima, GOW Ragnarok has a release date for this year and now TLOU2? Hmm.
Potentially 6 titles in one year. It keeps stacking.
If only the new sony leadership was not hell bent on region locking down there pc games to avoid better sales and get more ps accounts even though pc players do not want a jank exposed ps account that has all there personal info ready for another data breach and or just gets sold off.
I still and will never link my old ps account to my steam account the sony tos is to strict i do not want to get my ps account banned because i left my vpn on or sony things rgb is a hacker tool or some other BS.
When TLOU2 is announced, Spider-Man 2 will be pretty much the only notable PS5 first party game not on PC.
Lmao you probably bought this twice because ps5 have nothing good to play. My backlog of games is too big for me to even care it exists on PC let alone how bad the first one launched on PC. Sony wouldn’t be releasing it on pc if they didn’t need $$$
Will you enjoy Gears 5 and Sunset over drive + Ori games on PS5 after 3/5 years?
The game's huge marketing budget has worked out for it, bringing in $2 billion revenue in its first 10 months of release.
I think it's about time for government agencies to step into mobile gaming and look around, this is shit.
Do not worry 82yr old joe biden is on it he will have 88-100 year old friends in the government to fire up there talky box's.
There definitely should be an age limit on politics. I mean the full retirement age is 67 so why do we have people in their 70s and 80s in politics. I think the cut-off age should be 70 if not 75 and that's it. We got politicians who can't even form a sentence, stand up straight, walk down a flight of stairs but somehow are in charge of making decisions for everyone.
@hool
100% correct but looks like another 4 years of either a 80yr old or a felon that wants a purge to happen
You’re not the target audience. They know you won’t download it and pay micro transactions, so why spend money marketing to you?
A new The Last of Us 2 documentary reveals that Naughty Dog almost made a different version of the PS4 and PS5 game similar to Bloodborne.
Kind of a misleading comparison. They were simply talking about the game being melee oriented and more of an open world. I wouldn't compare a game to a soulslike based on that.
Open world in a very specific sense though. The sense of exploration and discovering shortcuts within a large, challenging area would feel great in a survival game like TLOU. But I'm sceptical it would be nearly as satisfying without the bonfire/lantern respawn system.
A more melee oriented Last of Us 2 would've been so much better imo. The combat mechanics barely got any use from me cause everyone just shoots at you, and then the Scars with their bows are even more annoying. Level design was also more Bloodborne, and I love the level design in Souls game, there's a real sense of scale and exploration due to the branching paths. We really gotta move away from open world in the style of GTA and BoTW and do it more like Souls.
Completely agree with your final comment. Semi-linear open worlds like those in soulslikes are by far the most satisfying. Even Elden Ring (which is of course amazing) loses some of its heart due to it's open world.
@SnarkyDoggy
Of course, my comment was my opinion, and may be different to yours.
I completely agree that Elden Ring's world is incredible. The design of every inch of its map is fantastic, with so much care that has been put into its layout and design to tell a story in the classic ambiguous way that FromSoft always manage. I would argue with anybody, any day of the week, that there is no finer example of open world design anywhere in gaming across all platforms and genres.
However, the 'heart' that I speak of is perhaps more aligned with gameplay. The more linear form of the previous games provides a distinct level of focus and determination that Elden Ring lacks due to the nature of it's open world. In Dark Souls, Bloodborne, etc. you often have between one and three bosses available to you at any time, requiring dedication and a certain level of grit. You have to learn each boss, master the techniques required and vanquish them before moving on. Between 60% and 90% of the bosses in each game generally result in this experience.
I had no such experience in Elden Ring, except for the fight against Malenia, because the nature of the open world meant that there was always something else to do and explore. The open world encouraged this, meaning that I spent most of the game over-levelled for the bosses I was facing. And I didn't even go out of my way to over-level.
To conclude, the heart of Soulsbourne games isn't inherently the difficult; it's the grit and determination required to beat them. There are other things that factor into the soulslike genre, but that gameplay loop is the real soul of the series. And Elden Ring, mostly due to it's open world, lacked that particular aspect.
As I have said, you are welcome to disagree with me! But I hope that further explains my original statement.
I don't think we need to move away from a gta open world style. There's room for all. I enjoy open and linear along with in between. If you have an issue I imagine it's on the devs.
An in-between then should be considered more often. I'm just not a fan of the long stretches of land of nothing. Idk whatchu mean by the last thing tho, I like ND.
Def did good with their own thing I'm so over the whole copy souls combat sheesh I can dee if in certain games it would be bosses that looked like a souls boss but straight out copying the combat and feel takes away from a game that supposed to be its own lol
that is one great thing in the game. technically it is a marvel (other than AI). if ND just replaces the horrible narrative team dragging the studio down they could make a comeback.
I am finding the game to be ridiculously easy. Clickers are a joke compared to the first game and so far the human enemies don't care much better then in the first either. Maybe even worse since there's high grass options and the new prone mechanic.
I'm on my first playthrough in survival. I always play my games on the hardest difficulty on my first try.
I don't like the difficulty options and how accessibility can affect the difficulty.
No problem with those features that help other people play the game but I thought that with the choice of difficulty should come specific unchangeable parameters.
Heck even the trophy list is more accessible. This is one of the easiest platinums ever.
I applaud Naughty Dog for their accessibility options. They're taking steps in the right direction.
As for the mountain of difficulty options, I can't help but think there are better ways to go about it. Starting up the game and being given difficulty settings for a whole load of different variables (enemies damage, health, item scarcity etc) what player is going to know what's best for them? Simply introducing all these options doesn't necessarily mean the game can be tailored to exactly what's best for the player. Looking at the custom difficulty options, I feel overwhelmed. Are players expected to have all this in the back of their minds as they play through the game, constantly adjusting the experience?
This is where I think a more robust form of adaptive difficulty would work well. Give players the generic Easy, Normal, Hard, Survivor with an option to turn on adaptive difficulty that alters the experience automatically as you play. If it detects that the player struggles to shoot straight, it can make an adjustment to weapon accuracy. If the player is constantly running out of supplies, it can alter the availability of certain items. If the player seems to be walking past important items again and again, it could use some dialogue ("Better check out this place") to guide them. If the player struggles with stealth, it could adjust enemy behaviour. This way, you can cater to players who might struggle while allowing them the chance to enjoy a more challenging game if they improve, all without the confusing and vague list of difficulty options.
Another part of the game that ND has excelled in. I hope other devs will follow suit, as difficulty is not the only accessibility option.
Incidentally Polygon has put out many articles masking their demand to make hard games have easier difficulty options, with claims that hard games are impossible for colorblind/handicapped gamers.
Sounds like they are just using the disabled options to cheat their way through a stealth game.