PixlBit | "Since finishing The Last of Us, I’ve been sitting at my desk agonizing over this review. Thinking over my time with the game, I’m filled with conflicting emotions that I now have to distill into something cohesive for you fine readers. To say that this is the most impactful game I’ve played so far this year would be a grotesque understatement, but The Last of Us is not without its faults, and to gloss over them would be disingenuous. I call this “The Reviewer’s Lament”: having to fight the urge to gush for a thousand words and instead give a proper account of my experience with this game. My hope is that, even if it reads a little rough around the edges, it will still be entertaining, which is The Last of Us in a nutshell, really."
"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.
Najam from eXputer writes "It's time fore a new installment in the series, not another pointless remaster."
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.
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"
They remaster is to put out something quick while they are deving new stuff. I don't get how people can be so static.
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.
The team is sad for losing out on such a great project but celebrates its growth because of spending time on it.
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.
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
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…
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?
My little nephew graduated from elementary school today & we all pitched in & gave him $500 & the 1st thing he asked his dad was or he can take him & his 2 other friends who graduated with him to gamestop. They all go with my cousin & im thinking there all going to just buy a kids game. Guess what happens? They all comeback & all 3 of them run up to me & say look we got our own copy of the last of us & im like shocked because i told my cousin dude u bought 3 of the same game & he said that he told them to buy different games but they all watched gameplay footage from youtube & were all like wow that is cool. I was just mind fu**ed seeing that haha. Also they said the guy at gamestop said these kids know their games & said this was their 5th truck load shipment because of the high demand for the game. Im still really shocked that they all bought TLOU & their freakin 5th graders lol.
this is the first game I have bought this year for the PS3, I expect to buy it again in HD for my PS4
This is the best game I played this year and probably the best game I played this generation. Naughty Dog did a great job with this one. Now I have to wait for beyond 2 souls and GT6
most of my friends who finished the game are just confused what game to play next. turns out it has left such a huge void that they can't find a matching game to fill up that empty space.
great game is all i hear from them. my day will come too.
I've finished it - took me 21 hours lol. Story and acting wise I can't fault it, emotional too.
The gameplay was lacking a bit and didn't feel as involving/addictive as say Uncharted 2, sadly. The UC series did the GAMEPLAY parts better but no doubt TLOU is an epic experience nonetheless.
I always bias towards gameplay over story (call me old fashioned) so can only give the game 8.5/10 and to me it's not the best game of the generation. I don't think there even was a single best game of the generation (but UC2 would be above TLOU for me, it had everything not just story)
I also feel the game was overlong for the first half, dragged out, and some editing would have helped make it impact more. It had peaks and troughs and pockets of sporadic stealth/gunplay that felt jarring next to the amazingly presented story/exploring parts.
I hope they improve the gameplay for any sequel on PS4 if they do one
As for this article, while I agree the combat wasn't done right and wasn't anywhere near as fun as in UC2, I think he has it wrong about the first/second halves of the game - the game improved massively after meeting Bill approx half way through, started to feel more like an *interactive* game rather than one big cutscene. My 8.5 is because of how much better the 2nd half was and how the environments improved a lot, if it had just been like the first 5 hours or so I would have scored it far less.