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An Examination of Looting in Bioshock Infinite and The Last of Us

Hardcore Gamer: Now that months have gone by since both games were released, we take a thorough look at the looting mechanics in both games, unimpeded by hype. Naughty Dog designed a system from the ground up for The Last of Us to serve the game, its story, world and overall design. Irrational, on the other hand, simply stuck with a system that made sense and worked for past games in the Bioshock series without changing it to serve Bioshock Infinite in particular, which is in many ways a very different game than the original Bioshock.

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admiralvic3828d ago

Interesting and insightful article.

Rageanitus3828d ago

Umm why are things games compared. Bioshock has some RPG elements but it is more on a action side. Why not keep it at that.

Its like comparing the loots from Diablo with these games.

Soc53828d ago

In Infinite I thought it was a pain and a bit silly to raid all the garbage cans around me for food and ammo. If you're going to put so much effort into crafting an original story then think up better ways to get health and loot that don't involve looking in every garbage can like a hobo. It also takes away from the flow of the story a bit when you have to keep stopping to say Hey i gotta look in all these trash cans and desks and cabinets and scour every new environment.

kneon3828d ago

Well at least it's not as bad as Mass Effect. There we have a government agency spending vast sums of money to get the mission under way, yet you still need to scrounge around for money for weapon and armor upgrades. That extra money would be a rounding error as compared to the entire budget.

Soc53827d ago

Ha, very true, that felt weird too. There has to be a better way to integrate picking up items that goes with the story rather than takes you out of it.

To the couple of disagrees, you want to pick food out of trash? Booker should look for bananas and cake in garbage cans? Ok lol

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The Sounds of the Fireflies ("The Last of Us") concert kicks-off on April 28th, 2024

"The Game Music Foundation are today very proud and pleased to announce an additional concert, circling back to the roots of Game Muisic Festival in Poland. On April 28th, 2024, the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw will once again become a place to celebrate the art of video game music, featuring scores from The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II." - The Game Music Foundation.

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The Last Of Us Series Has Remarkable Potential For Spin-Offs

Najam from eXputer writes "It's time fore a new installment in the series, not another pointless remaster."

anast84d ago

They are working on something new. Not to be rude but it is impossibility stupid to think ND next major announcement is going to be a remaster or their next Last of Us entry is going to be another remaster.

AlterRecs81d ago

I think this is in response to them releasing a remaster for the sequel, a game that didn't need a remaster.

Basically a "why did you put out a remaster no one asked for when you have all there options available"

anast81d ago

They remaster is to put out something quick while they are deving new stuff. I don't get how people can be so static.

AlterRecs80d ago

There's no news about a third game being in production, you're just assuming that they're working on something that they aren't

anast80d ago

When they release the news to start the hype-train, you can give me my props then.

DrDoomer84d ago

I want an alternate timeline spin-off, where part 2 never happened.

CrimsonWing6984d ago

They’ve already done Remasters of 1 and 2… what else is there to Remaster?

AlterRecs81d ago

Considering they remastered the first game twice, who knows lol

CrimsonWing6981d ago

That was a Remake. I guess they could do that to 2, but man…. They should wait a couple generations so it can look like a major upgrade.

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The Last Of Us Online Devs Celebrate Their Experience With The Canceled Game

The team is sad for losing out on such a great project but celebrates its growth because of spending time on it.

Chocoburger129d ago

All they had to do was make a basic online mode like their previous games. Instead they wanted more money and choose to go live service which makes games worse in my opinion.

What a waste of time and money, what a shame.

seanpitt2384d ago

I can't wait for season 2 so they can kill Joel off in the first 2 episodes!! Then it will be just Abby and Ellies revenge plot!

Something is telling me that this won't happen though because it wouldn't make sense, oh wait

Linzoid128d ago

Not sure why they didn’t just make Factions 2. There was no need to make it a live service.

TLoU Factions was a great addition such a shame they couldn’t be bothered to remaster that for PS5 considering the crazy high price tag of the remaster of a remaster…

anast128d ago

This is something to be celebrated. This studio is smart and they get it, even factions 2 wouldn't've have been worth the time. I am surprised they didn't just remaster the first one though, but actually how popular was Factions?