The Last of Us Disaster

Vault of the Gameverse has had an unfortunate time trying to enjoy The Last of Us. With terrible A.I., sound bug issues, forced PlayStation 3 console resets, and a bland story, how exactly has this game received perfect scores? Have you experienced the same issues?

[Riderz1337]

The only bug I ever experienced was on the first day when there was a save glitch. Lost about 3 hours of gameplay, but I didn't care because the game is so awesome, I was willing to play it from the start.

Terrible A.I? Try playing the game on Survivor lmfao. Then come talk to me about terrible A.I. Bland Story? Just get out.

[ThatEnglishDude]

Well to be fair, the AI is pretty terrible, even on survivor - but the story is exceptional.

[SonyStyled]

you do know the clickers are blind right? they cant see you to even respond

[plaZeHD]

You're shitting me right?
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Salooh]

plaZeHD

You played the last of us on that tv?.. O.O . It's only been 2 years since i bought my HD tv but i feel like these tv's extinct already XP. IF yes then you have to believe me that HD tv is a must have. It's a different experience in ps3 let a lone the ps4.

[dafegamer]

âre you kidding me? On survivor its almost impossible to get past rooms with all those intelligent encounters from the hunters

[plaZeHD]

14Feb-R

Read the comments. Got picture problems on my previous HDTV, but thankfully I bought a new one and it works well with my PS3.

[Thatguy-310]

The only A.I that was "bad" was the friendly one. Even then the developer already stated why they were invisible to the enemy most of the times. I didn't mind because it would have been annoying having to deal with being spotted when it wasn't even my fault.However, the enemy A.I was nothing short of amazing. The slightest noise you will make altered them.

[Germaximus]

I had actually watched a soldier get stuck and run back and forth in place like twenty times. It was both entertaining and horrible.

[Lilrizky]

Yeah I think the AI is well done. Humans behave so differently compared to the infected. I've never seen human AI's react to certain actions in other games. For example, holding up a gun causes them to scatter, while firing an empty gun makes them realise you have no ammo and then they start to flank you.

The friendly AI thing is not bad AI... it was done on purpose. I'm sure they could of easily made them noticeable. However, if that was the case the awesome AI of the villains and their searching skills would've given players a tough and frustrating time getting to the next checkpoint.

Story is fantastic. one of the only games that had an emotional effect on me.

[sobekflakmonkey]

the only bug I've ever had was in my first play through, when it's all snowy and you're playing as Ellie, this one guy kept shouting "I'm gonna get you!" among other things and just ran around in circles...and would not stop, like...I walked right up to him and he just kept running in circles, like perfect circles out in the open, I gotta admit I laughed pretty hard about it, but then killed him and then went on my way, wouldn't say the AI sucked though, the AI was fine.

[Joey_Leone]

Ignore that guy, he's a goldfish.

[ABizzel1]

The only legetiment complaint about AI is the fact that your companion A.I. sometimes gets wonky and runs in the open but never spotted, and sometimes when you kill an Infected that's literally side by side the other one doesn't attack all the time (specially in the part where you're running through the houses, I think with Ellie and Bill).

The first complaint I get, but I don't understand. Would you rather the AI walked out, and startled hordes every time that happened? No, you'd be complaining about how stealthy you try to be only to have the AI ruin the experience. I fell the AI should stay back in cover at least a few meters behind you, so these problems don't happen nearly as ofter, but I'd rather the AI walk out and not get me caught, than to be punished because the AI couldn't squeeze out of my way while hiding.

The Infected AI only happened to me 2 times, during the house run will Ellie and Bill, during the Grassy Graveyard with Ellie and Bill (a bunch of clickers here), and in the tunnel with Ellie. Each time it was with runners, so that's probably exclusive to them. Hunters either attack or hide, when they see me kill someone (attack if I'm strangling, or hide if I have a gun and they don't).

Other than that the AI is great, especially the Hunters and Fireflies.

Feel sorry for you, you're having a bad experience. Contact support, find out what's wrong, get it fixed, go play two or three other games, and come back fresh for another play through.

Your bad experience doesn't represent the millions of great experience and the GOTY's it's earning.

[yanikins111]

Zombie AI? How smart should it be? There are numerous articles on why the AI ignores NPCs.

Oh and i wonder if this buffoon tried uninstalling the game?

I guess it's just easier to complain.

[Germaximus]

Actually I hadn't tried that. Only because I had seen so many people say that uninstalling it didn't fix it for them. Thank you for the suggestion though.

[Aceman18]

It's cool u didn't like the game but I absolutely loved it and didn't experience any glitches during my 3 playthroughs. I have to play on survivor mode now.

[MestreRothN4G]

So you are not intelligent enough to make A CONSOLE work properly (that requires only a really small portion of brain juice) and call the game a disaster?

What would you call yourself then?

lol

No wonder your site has this level of "quality".

[RIP_Cell]

can one person play this game and not like it? why be so sensitive geez. people that don't like Bioshock Infinite or GTA 5 are never accused of never playing the game or trolling.

[heisenberguk]

To not like it is one thing, to call it a 'disaster' is another!!

[Germaximus]

I wasn't calling the game a disaster. I was calling my experience a disaster.

[Dee_91]

The title says its an disaster.

[Lilrizky]

I have a friend who says FIFA is a s**t game. I tell him it's not that it's a s**t game, you just don't like it. There are ways of expressing opinion properly.

[Insomnia_84]

WTF IS THIS??

[mrpsychoticstalker]

LOL, chill dude

[Pozzle]

If The Last of Us is what the author calls a bad experience, I'd love to know what he thinks of games like AMY or Ride to Hell: Retribution. :O

[fattyuk]

Opinion noted,

Now on your bike

[mt]

I had only one glitch and it is calling for attention and hits for our website. Have you experienced the same issues?

[apostolis81]

Another xbox fanboy....hahaha

[Venemox]

fanboy logic: someone doesn't like the game that I like therefore they must be a fanboy of the other platform.

[TheGreatXavi]

yeah like any nintendo fanboys calling anyone who dont like MArio 3d world a Sony fanboy right? Its just an okay game, not revolutionary compared to TLOU

[Hicken]

Maybe, Venemox, but when a universally praised game like The Last of Us gets such a "review," there aren't too many reasons for it. The author being a fanboy is definitely within the realm of possibility.

At some point, you just gotta call it what it is: in this case, ridiculous. And, potentially, fanboying, hit-grabbing garbage.

[Imalwaysright]

As if TloU was a revolutionary game.

[Max-Zorin]

Another judgmental member. Probably one of those members that lost to the trolls seven years ago.

[Venemox]

@TheGreatXavi

Did I say Sony fanboy logic? no, it's true to all fanboys. All fanboys are equally retarded that needs to find something better to do with their lives.

TLOU revolutionary? There are no original gameplay mechanics in TLOU, they're all based of things we've seen in games for the past 10 years.

"B-but the story"
Read/Watch children of men.

"hurr durr you're such an xbot/nintendrone".

had my ps3 since launch and still playing it.

[Lilrizky]

Don't you have something better to do with YOUR life than call out fanboys?

[Imalwaysright]

@ Venemox Well said.

@ Lilrizky someone in this fanboy heaven needs to speak the truth and not act like sheep once in a while to break the routine. I know you fanboys don't like when someone tells you the truth but you fanboys just have to deal with it.

[LogicStomper]

@Lilrizky

Fail logic: because one loses an argument, the winner is automatically declared to have no life.

[Venemox]

@Lilrikzy
Since when was calling out fanboys a bad thing.. oh wait i'm on News4Sony where comments like "Microshit lost xD" gets hundreds of likes whilst the slightest bit of criticism towards Sony, regardless of how good the reasoning behind it is, gets bombarded with dislikes by people who gets emotional over plastic.

[trouble_bubble]

Speaking of getting over emotional...

[Hicken]

First you say it's about ALL fanboys, then you show your true colors by calling it "News4Sony." And pretending like the same thing you say Sony fans do isn't also perpetrated by Nintendo, Microsoft, and PC fans? Genius.

Good job with the hypocrisy, there.

[Imalwaysright]

"Good job with the hypocrisy" Says the hypocrite PS fanboy. What Venemox said is a fairly accurate summary of this website. I've been coming here since 2007 so I should know.

[kenshiro100]

Oh cry me a freaking river...
Some of you take this way too seriously.

[heisenberguk]

Each to their own, I loved it!!

[spike]

Over Rated in my opinion.

[Venemox]

http://youtu.be/tTsBn36yPrg...

what I felt about the game.

[Max-Zorin]

Last of Us was good. It's just not as scary as some people claim it is.

[Riderz1337]

Play some of the levels with a headset in the dark...That shit is scary. First time I played the game my heart was pumping so fast. Something about hearing the clickers really freaks me out.

[mt]

it wasn't meant to be scary and horror game. but it was meant to be survival with freaky creature, that was creepy in freakish area. the game succeed to do that.

[Max-Zorin]

I know that. I was just saying that some people exaggerated.

[crusf]

Obvious click bait for $$$$$

[frostypants]

YEP! I refuse to click it. Amature hour BS blogger.

[GundalfDeGrej]

Yeah, because everyone with a negative opinion about a popular game (esecially a sony exclusives) are lying for money.

In case you didn't read it, the "disaster" he's talking about is a lot of technical issues (NOT the game itself) which has now been fixed after reinstalling the game. The rest is just opinions, opinions, opinions.

[frostypants]

It's how he said it. You know what he did and so does he. Stop playing stupid.

[iamnsuperman]

I don't think you read it properly. The entire article is amateur at best. He calls the story bland yet hasn't completed it (which buffels me because it isn't a bland story but also he isn't very far into the story) and the heading isn't exactly true to his experience. The writer clearly wrote this out of frustration or was going into the game with some pre existing bias because he made no effort to solve the problem. If you post a forum post on any gaming website the top suggestion will be to uninstall and reinstall the game because this is a standard fix to bugs in games that require some form of download to work. It is amateurish to write an article in this way

[YodaCracker]

I never had any of these problems. The only issue I ran into was a single freeze on my second playthrough. Aside from that, I found the story gripping and the A.I. reasonably challenging. Very satisfying stealth gameplay with just the right amount of feedback from audio and visual clues. And very engaging combat as well, so I never felt like restarting the checkpoint every time I was spotted, like I would in a Splinter Cell game.

[Wolfgang187]

I like how they just tossed in "and a bland story" as if it were fact and not a clear minority opinion.

[GundalfDeGrej]

Of course it's just his opinion? But I guess you're right. He should write "IMO" after every statement he makes.

[iamnsuperman]

What makes that part worse is their is no explanation to why it is bland. He just throws it in expecting that is okay. If he thinks something is bland there should be reasons coherent reasons behind it. I know this isn't a review but if your going to put something in at least expand with why. Bad writting otherwise. Also he hadn't even completed the game. It would be idiotic for me to watch part of the film and say the story is bland because your only seeing a snipet of the whole story.

[ziggurcat]

WTF? No.

[GenericNameHere]

"With terrible A.I., sound bug issues, forced PlayStation 3 console resets, and a bland story, how exactly has this game received perfect scores?"

Almost the same experience with GTAV, but you don't see me calling the game a disaster.

PS
Is the site not optimized for mobile? Because all I see are pictures, and not a single letter.

[InTheLab]

Can't see how anyone can play through the opening or the Winter months or the ending and come to the conclusion that TLoU has a bland story??

Maybe the author likes stories about ex operatives gone rogue or aliens fighting for lands that were theirs to begin with or corrupt companies that experiment with drugs that reanimate corpses or lowly street thugs that rise to power or oops, that's basically all the clichéd plots in video games today.

[listenkids]

"What can I do for hits? I'm desperate. I know, I'll trash a popular game" - This and every other low time article ever written.

[Frodosmugins]

another guy that dislikes anything popular!

[level 360]

Maybe he should replace the disc at the store he bought it, if uninstalling the game still didn't work..

[aNDROiD17_]

well finding a multiplayer matche is super slow now! its so annoying, it never used to be ?

[GentlemenRUs]

All things coming from this article are a load of bull...

The only bug which I found at launch was the save virus, Never did I have to reset the console once...

[IaussieGamer]

Yawn what a pathetic Blog.

[snookiegamer]

Very doubtful, TLOU is amazing from start to finish. I never encountered a single issue with the game. Sorry I just don't believe a word of this. ND never made a bad game....ever!!

GOTY and deservedly so :)

[OMNlPOTENT]

There were so many good games this year and TLOU is one of them. Not a disaster, and hardly a bad game. Overrated? A bit. ND are damn good devs but TLOU is not their greatest game.

[MadMax]

Well to be honest I did not enjoy TLOU as much as I thought I would. I was kinda bored with the game. The gameplay felt slow and repetitive to me. I was looking more forward to a game like the last guardian and it gets cancelled! Go figure. Maybe I'm just tired of every game feeling all too similiar. Sony used to really make some of the best exclusives around. Need more games like shadow of the colossus and less uncharted games!

[chronoforce]

To call the game a disaster is really laying it on thick however to call it a masterpiece is equally laying it on thick in my opinion.

[GundalfDeGrej]

He says "This is just me sharing my experience. I am not calling the game a disaster." He experienced a lot of bugs but apparantly it works now after reinstalling the game.

[Hakoom]

the last of us <3
best game in 2013

[Letthewookiewin]

The Last of Us is in my top 5. Had no problems at all. The gameplay was sloppy and real, the story was amazing and so screwed up. One of the best games I've ever played.

[DareDareCaro]

Do we really need all those crap blogs, crap journalism and whatnot in the gaming world?

[GundalfDeGrej]

I respect his opinion. We all have games we don't like but "everyone" else does.

I noticed a few bugs when playing through tlou (like enemies getting stuck in walls and stuff) but nothing major. It was a great experience and it's definitely among the top games this year.

[hadouken007]

That site needs hits. I've been playing since it released not one issues . story/game play is top notch.

[dmonee]

I admit, there are things about the last of us that I look back at and laugh a little. The weapon crafting system, and the predictability of the A.I. However, never has a game since Resident evil 4, gotten me to play through it so many times. I loved the pacing, intensity, and story. The drop dead visuals were an after thought to the whole experience. As far as bugs and glitches, I never came across any. Not in single player anyway. I also didn't play multiplayer that much. Maybe that's where some of the afformentioned issues arose for the editor of this article. I can't wait to see what kind of a PS4 encore Naughty Dog does with this franchise. PS3 game of the year indeed is "The Last of Us"

[denero1]

The snow scene when you use elle -_- my goodness

[ForgottenProphecy]

just flame bait. Everybody is going to diss the big games to get some hits.

[GundalfDeGrej]

More like: It's a popular, big-selling game and someone is bound not to like it.

[ForgottenProphecy]

Well, there's a difference between not liking it, and suddenly experiencing things nobody has really mentioned before, like forced resets and sound bugs.

[Goro]

This article is a load of BS.
The Last of Us is a great game but personally i do still think it's overhyped like shit, GOTY 2013? maybe... but best game of all time? Fuck no.

[ftrain]

Talking shit about the overall goty for hits, what's new? TLOU is an amazing game and completely deserves all the perfect scores and GOTY awards. How can you call the game play bland? It has the best melee combat ever and has top notch 3rd person shooting where every bullet counts and has actual impact. The crafting is unique and scavenging is fun. I don't know what game he played, maybe some knock off game called All of Us.

[xxxGEOxxx]

I've never used the term "click bait" before, but...

umm...yea, click bait

[GadgetGooch]

All I know is that this guy is chatting shit...I normally play XBOX but had to buy this when I seen the gameplay being compared to survival horror and being made from Naughty Dog was an excellent bonus, The Last Of Us has got to be one of the best games I have played in the last ten years...bar MGS2 :)

[heisenberguk]

One of the only games where I actually cared about the characters I was playing as and the opening was heartbreaking!!

[NeoTribe]

Lol a last of us article dedicated to downplaying it. Little late aint it? Its already established the fact that its one of the best games ever made. Nothing is gonna change that.

[Mrveryodd]

I wished i had enough cash to buy myself a PS3 so i could play this masterpiece

[Prime157]

Obvious troll. Read the paraphrase and couldn't click through... sorry it got this hot

[hobbitooo]

just another flame bait article
this guy should just go play cod n shut the fug up

[SpaceGhost]

If I knew it was this easy to get to front page of N4G I would have written an articlhahahaha nah, its so easy to get to front page of N4G these days, all you have to have is a sexy babe/have nude babe, someone dissing a popular game, or anything patcher related even though anyone with two brains(which N4G is lacking these days) would know is full of shit, he knows the same amount about games as I do astro physics.

[Dafreakzo]

Good luck Germ.

[psDrake]

I wonder if his favorite game is COD Ghosts. Just because Joel didn't have a dog in the story doesn't make is a less of a game...#sarcasmintended

[kingmushroom]

Its some d-bags opinion ..... who cares.

[MoB21]

Lmao bad AI? First shooter that I've ever had to think while I played

[Inception]

Sound bugs and made PS3 reset? I never had it and this is the 1st time i ever heard this issues. Even though i experienced some glitch when i must pass the sniper before the Fall chapter. Besides that the game really solid.

But the story is bland? Lol get real dude. One of my friend doesn't really care about story in video games. But when i showed TloU to him, he made it an exception. He really love the story and he even wants to buy my TloU copy so he can go home and play it with his families! You can call TloU story generic zombie outbreak or something, but you can't deny that the story really good.

[WaltBandicoot93]

The only issue I have with this game is that it occassionally makes my ps3 sound like a jet engine...it is pretty alarming, but the game is great otherwise.

[joel_c17]

Troll article looking for hits - move along people.

[Orionsangel]

What a weirdo!

[Gore-Content]

Tough sh't. Go play minecraft, or COD, or whatever.

[its_JEFF]

I often read people asking "what's wrong with everybody else" rather than asking "what's wrong with me?"

He's entitled to his opinion, but his opinion isn't a very popular one.

[Holeran]

I think his console or his brain is effed up, one or the other because The Last Of Us is a masterpiece.

[josephayal]

Best game ever

[Visiblemarc]

This article is awesome...if you like click-bait....if not, not so much.

[PS3and4_HAS_GAMES]

Sorry but this article is a little too late.This game has won so many awards its not even funny. Plus it was one of the highest rated games of last gen and in my opinion and millions of others,one of the best games I have ever played. My wife if not a gamer and she was in to the game and story. So sorry buddy too little too late for this kind of story not that it would have made a difference.

[MIDNIGHT 21]

Im an xbox guy and if there was a reason to own a PS3 which there are more than a few this is an absolute must have game period.

[Psycho_Mantis]

How does crap like this get approved? I dont even...
It like there are monkeys running the site : /

[paleselan]

Obviously written just for hits...

[dcortz2027]

This game ran smooth as butter on my PS3. Terrible AI? Crank up the difficulty to something other than easy lol. Great game that every gamer needs to experience!!

[beatled]

this is a bit over reactive I think-

the audio is GREAT in this game, some of the best on a console I have ever heard, the voice acting is TOP-notch

the characters are believable and well rounded

though I do agree the some parts of the story are kinda lame, fungus men....come on....really? the character interactions and dialog are very, very well done

plus I love the production values and the feel of the game

the gunplay could also use some work, but all console games have sloppy gunplay imo

the graphics are great for an 8 year old console, sure they are outshined by pc games from 2007, but that's to be expected, just like ps4 games will never compare to pc games from 2012

9/10 for me, enjoyed it

[oIITSBIIo]

To me the game was so booooooring and it didn't give me anything special .

I can't understand why most people say it is a great game !!

The story was repetitive and predictable I'v seen many movie with the same idea and the end was stupid at least they should give you a choice to let the girl die or save it .

the gameplay was boring and repetitive ladder - shoulder boosting - and swimming .. ladder - shoulder boosting - and swimming .. ladder - shoulder boosting - and swimming ...etc

the control was bad specially switching between guns and the aim accurate is shit , the autocover system is dumb . not to mention the stupid AI .

the voice acting ok - the graphics was nice but nothing special .

so yeah this game is one of the most overrated games ever .

it does not deserves more than 5/10

[90Supra]

lmaoooo

[Totoro17]

Update: Thanks to some rude comments I actually got advice that worked. I had seen players mention that uninstalling the game did not work for them so I didn’t try it. I decided to finally give it a shot because there was nothing else I could really do and it seems to have worked. Feel free to think of me as an idiot and all that but it still does not change how horrible this experience was. And I still think the story sucks so far forty-two percent in. Sure, I feel like an idiot but I’m leaving this up.

What a tool.

[cyborg]

Flaimbait clickbait spam alert.

[Donnywho]

Just grow some balls and say Super Mario Bros. is a horrible game. Call the Ps2 the worst console ever or something. you could of said so many more asinine things. Why limit your stupidity to just one franchise?

[corvusmd]

The game isn't quite as bad as he makes it out to be, but it is definitely shaping up to be the most over-rated game of all time. The voice acting was the best feature, the story was well done till the end, but the gameplay was just ok with it's fair share of bugs like any game has, but there was nothing incredible about it, and with the lack of collectibles there is NO replay value....like playing a movie. There were too many forced QTE events in my book, the MP was a complete waste, the AI was a bit stupid at some points (however, constructing a great AI is one of the most difficult things to do I imagine). It was a great game and I'm glad that I played it, but Tombraider had much better gameplay and variety....I actually had more fun playing that, they looked very similar as far as graphics (slight edge to LOU). It just seems very odd that all the sudden this is supposed to be the "best game of all time" when it's not the best in any category, but it's just a basic solid game...about an 8 out of 10 in my book... it seems more like it was Sony's last big exclusive before the PS4 launch, and Sony fanboys wanted to be able to say that Sony has the best exclusives...however, despite PS3 pulling ahead in console sales at the end....TLoU didn't shatter any sales records. Good game, but let's be more realistic.

[Dfooster]

Hipster

[x5exotic]

Most overrated studio in history of gaming, it's hilarious when they talk about it as deep critics latching words like "storyline" and "revolutionary" without meaning.