With the details we now have in terms of features and pricing, I don't think there are any significant concerns remaining - just that perhaps that the term 'remastered' in the title is a little misplaced. Essentially, what we're dealing with here is broadly equivalent to a release along the lines of Death Stranding: Director's Cut. It's the original game with a dash of extra content and additional visual modes that tap into the power of PlayStation 5.
Last of Us Part 2 Remastered has released & it comes with a new rougelike mode! Use our No Return Trophy guide to earn the new Trophies!
Naughty Dog and Sony are doing something unheard of, and that’s giving you a wad of cash back for pre-ordering The Last of Us 2 Remaster on PS5.
Agreed. $10 for a 120fps mode and all new survival mode is a great value for existing owners. And I haven’t played this game since my PS4 pro days, so that’s a no brainer for me.
I've only just finished the game on PS4 (bought it in 2021 for £10). Enjoyed the game so much, and it's incredible to think I can now get the remaster and extra content - while still having only paid half the launch cost of the remaster!
Say what you want about the remaster being unnecessary, but this is some serious generosity that is rarely seen in the industry these days.
Well let's be honest it didn't need a remaster obviously! That's why the graphics are the exact same! They could of gave the extra content for free like Santa Monica did with the god of war DLC as a sorry for letting everyone down with the balls up of MP factions!
They didn't let everyone down. I was actually relieved to hear they'd cancelled the game. Leave ND to do what they do best. Multiplayer games require a huge amount of resources to produce and continue to support. I'd rather them use those resources to make new single player experiences.
Hopefully this will have freed them up to release games more regularly.
TOP's comments are a series of stupid takes.
Nobody wanted TLoU 2: fortnight edition. The graphics are not the same. ND is selling work, they shouldn't be forced to give their work out for free.
I mean, they didn't add or change a whole lot, so $10 is a nice little cash grab also...
That being said, I haven't played TLOU2 yet so I'll probably grab it if it runs well
Literally added 3 new levels, a entirely new game mode, a library of skins and new playable characters, as well as update visuals, admittedly very minimal updates, but still it's some sprinkles on top of all the other stuff added.
10$ to "upgrade" it is better than wanting full price but honestly it's not a big enough change and the game just wasn't as good as the first.
combat was way better than the first's, just cuz you're mad at the story doesnt make the gameplay bad lol
He didn't say the gameplay was bad but who sits through a crappy story in a single player game just because the gameplay is smooth?
InUrFoxHole,
Is that a serious question?
You don't think it's worth playing a game with a bad story if the gameplay is great?
That's interesting, but there implication here is that TLOU 2 has a "crappy story", am I right? Completely disagree with that. You can say it wasn't as good as the first, but a crappy story? I'm what way?
@InUrFoxHole
"who sits through a crappy story in a single player game just because the gameplay is smooth?"
err...Nintendo gamers. hello...
@InUrFoxHole um what? Crappy story? There may be decisions made by the writers, aspects of the story that you don't like (I know I certainly don't) a particular aspect of thebplot that you may even feel amounts to bad writing in many ways. But that does not mean the plot ie crap. Infact it can still be exceptional and compared to everything else an absolute masterpiece in spite of its flaws.
If their is a cool gameplay mechanic i will for sure sit through a lesser story. In tlou2 case, the guns, blood, and hit reactions are just so cathartic. 👌
Tell me you never dicked around in gta just shooting and running over people.
@ScotlandYard
No, we played the same game. You just happened to like a scrappy story. It's poorly written and makes you play as a character I didn't want to play as. Calling part2 a masterpiece is a joke if you ask me. Part 1 is a masterpiece not TLOU2
Haha “as a gesture of goodwill we are providing a refund”.
No. They publicly announced if you owned the previous game they would charge £10 for the new version. Then they opened the game up to pre-orders but allowed no option for which version of the purchase you were making. Making themselves wide open for legal action against them.
What they’re doing is abiding by the law because they messed up. The nerve of these companies trying to portray themselves as the saviour of the situation. Then there’s the complete naive stupidity of you lot! I don’t know which is worse.
True - this is the bare minimum and should be expected of these companies but Sony is trying to make out like they're the best thing since sliced bread for not ripping off their customers.
Sony isn't making out anything. They are just saying "here is your money back". It's the public saying it'd a great thing because people recognise that they were not legally obliged todo anything.
"Sony isn't making out anything. They are just saying "here is your money back". It's the public saying it'd a great thing because people recognise that they were not legally obliged todo anything."
"As a gesture of goodwill we are providing a refund"
Hmmm
There was no legal action that could successfully be taken against them. They announced that if you owned the ps4 version at LAUNCH there would be an upgrade path. They then listed the game for preorder on the store. If you went through and purchased it then you knowingly agreed to the higher price (it's what is known as an offer by a seller, accepting it is the same as agreeing to a contract for sale). By going through, clicking purchase and putting in your psn password etc you are knowingly accepting the price displayed. So after that sony isn't obliged to refund you anything. That they are offering people who already had it, that money back is therefore a gesture of goodwill. The literal definition of a gesture of goodwill is something that you legally did not have todo. Now wether or not morally, it's a given they should do what they have done is a separate matter. The point is they did not have to.
You quite clearly have never been involved in a legal dispute. Also clearly a very naive human being. I wish you well in life.
If you have already unlocked Trophies in the PS4 version of The Last of Us Part 2, there is good news. You will not lose them if you upgrade to the remastered edition for PS5 including the platinum.
What a pointless article. Who thought you would "lose them"? That has never happened.
Anyone who cares about trophies would rather be able to gain them a 2nd time, which is what the common practice is in this situation.
I don’t think they were alluding to you “losing” your trophies, but rather they’re saying the trophy progress you earned transfers over to the Remaster.
This wasn’t the case with the initial PS4 Remaster (not to be confused with the PS5 Remake). Not all games do this, either. I care about trophies, but don’t necessarily want to sink my time into getting them all over again, so for me this is a positive.
"I care about trophies, but don’t necessarily want to sink my time into getting them all over again, so for me this is a positive." - then just don't? It doesn't harm you.
Why would you be against being able to earn them again?
Sony should've just made it so that both games point to the same trophy entries on their server. It's kinda stupid that you basically get a second platinum trophy for free. Not that the competative aspect of trophy hunting is worth much anyway, when there are shovelware games specifically designed to give you an easy platinum in the least amount of time possible.
It's also strange to me that Sony still hasn't implemented a way to reset your trophies for a specific game in case you want to earn them again without needing to create another account. Not to mention that it would also give us a way to get rid of single digit percentage entries we aren't planning to play again. They just end up cluttering the trophy list.
@riipper
Kevin Butler at the now evaporated E3 said it bes....
@rippermcrip
“Why would you be against being able to earn them again?“
Like I said, I don’t necessarily want to put all that “time” into doing it all over again after already accomplishing it in the previous version.
I mean, I’ll do it if that’s just what has to be done since I’m an OCD Completionist, but I don’t necessarily want to put a massive amount of hours into something I’ve already done.
I just want to enjoy the new content, play through the updated version of the game, and earn any “new” trophies.
@rippermcrip
“So Sony shouldn't do that because you have OCD? Not exactly a fair argument.”
Help me out here… you literally asked me why I wouldn’t want to get all the trophies over again, to which I responded because I don’t want to sink the amount of time into unlocking all the trophies for the second time, but if Sony didn’t unlock them that I would still unlock the trophies again because I’m an OCD completionist.
At what point is there an “unfair” argument in my response to you?
Is it the fact that I like Sony is allowing the trophies to be unlocked IF (“if” being the keyword here) you’ve already unlocked them before?
I’m so confused from whatever you’re going on about…
Bloodborne, Infamous, Killzone, Resistance, Puppeteer, Jak and Daxter etc are all better choices
Even a full on remake of Drakes Fortune I’d take
Well I want a Horizon Zero Dawn remaster especially if it's an upgrade to Forbidden West Graphics and Animation.
Nope. But HD remasters are an easy cash grab that the masses shovel cash for because while they complain about remakes, they still buy them
My thoughts on this is do we need Richard Leadbetter's or Digital Foundry's opinion on anything........ever? I know I don't they do nothing for me and never have.