The Last of Us: How many of Us used the “listen mode”?

SchollA from Console ControllUs pronounced console-control-us writes:
Shhhh…you hear that? Are you listening close enough? I can hear people already dubbing The Last of Us “Game of The Year” even Game of The Generation! It’s safe to assume most of Us are enjoying The Last of Us.

Anyhow let me give you some background on the type of gamer I am that led to the articles question at hand.

[JoGam]

I used it but on tbe hardest mode i won't be able too.

[Ezz2013]

on my two playthrough on normal and hard
i never once used it
disable it before i even started the game
and never will use it
that made the game much more tense and made me on the edge off my seat all the time

EDIT :hmmm, Why the disagrees ?!

[sprinterboy]

Because your first playthrough it's on, u can not disable it

[piroh]

seriously? i´m using it very often. game is scary as hell, i don´t like "surprises"

[Ezz2013]

@sprinterboy

what ?!
dude, you can disable listen mode from the option menu before you start your playthrough

you really didn't know that ?!

@piroh

but i do like surprises
it's a survival game after all
it was joy for me to play not knowing what will i find in the next room or area
listen mode is cool though for who like to use it

[levian]

I don't know why people are disagreeing! I always explore the options first.

I started on hard mode with everything disabled. I haven't beat the game yet, but there's been times I almost wish I left listen mode on, it gets scary!

[sarcastoid]

No idea man, I totally agree with you and did the same!

[grailly]

I used it a lot, I love the feeling of being in control of everything, knowing where everything is and knowing when to strike. It also enhances the feeling of craziness and panic when everything goes wrong in a fraction of a second

[The_Con-Sept]

If there was one thing I would change about the listen mode.... It would be that you could only hear their footsteps.... Basically I didn't want to see their silhouette but rather... Just their footsteps would have sufficed.

[Silly gameAr]

Listen mode is disabled for any difficultly past normal.

[JsonHenry]

I haven't finished the game yet but I use it. It would make the game very intense not using it though so I can see why some people wouldn't want to.

[Salooh]

I don't even want to know how it works :D . The harder the game the better. Finished it on hard and survival without listen mode..

[assdan]

Yeah, there are a few parts on survival mode where the listen mode would be really helpful. I miss it sometime, but you can make it.

[nick309]

I didnt use it much

[edwineverready]

No i did not use it that often.

[Sharius]

after the 1st hard playthrough?

i don't even need to use listen mode to know extract where my enemy is

i mean.... come on.... in easy and normal mode you can technique go through all the game with uncharted style, on hard and survivor mode you can stealth a whole game w/o even breaking a sweet, is much easier than when i run MGS4 in big boss mode under 5h, no kill, no alert

[Lovable]

I disagree. I find it really hard to stealth on Survivor. They seem to have heightened senses or something since the moment you get close, you'll alert them

[Sharius]

well to switch between normal and hard mode is really a big jump on the difficult but between hard and survivor is not much

in fact ion my survivor, at the last section of the game.......SPOILER......... hospital........

.......... i have a lot of stuff to waste on my enemy especial bomb and motolov (i have full inventory of them plus thing in my craft menu) because in the whole game i mainly use stealth kill (with my hand not shiv) and skip section w/o any kill

[Lovable]

I played normal then jumped to survivor. You really need to adjust if you want to survive. Kinda stuck right now tbh...

[Bathyj]

big deal.
try playing the game blindfolded ;)

[mac_sparrow]

My mate's made me fight The Boss in Snake Eater blindfolded when I told them cqc and a decent sound system would make it possible.

Imagine thier surprise as I proceeded to take her down, an easy £20 for me ;)

Last of us blindfolded though, very doubtful, far too much going on.

[mac_sparrow]

On topic, I found I used it when I was sneaking up behind people, don't know why but the slower movement made me feel safer. Wish you could pull the button to move like that without the listen mode though.

[mac_sparrow]

Bugger, disagreed instead of agreed on my phone. Bubble up apology.

[wishingW3L]

I didn't!

[Drainage]

disabled it as soon as i found it existed

[frostyhat123]

I use it all the time.

[Conzul]

As did I. I find it confusing that people don't use it on principle....but whatever. We're all different.

[ExitToExisT]

I am against using these x-ray vision kind of features in every game.

[MidnytRain]

Well, it does give you different options for action when you have more info.

[monkey48]

Going to start my Survivor playthrough, how its meant to be played.

[rpd123]

I used it moderately. I didn't think it was out of place. It had weaknesses, too. If nobody was moving they wouldn't show up. That is a pretty big disadvantage against human enemies.

[GUYwhoPLAYSvideoGAME]

used it frequently when i took off my surround sound headphones, otherwise no

[Bathyj]

I used it a couple times in hard but forgot it was there most of the time.

not missing it at all on survivor. could use some more arrows though.

[Williamson]

On my only play through on hard I used it a lot, so trying survivor mode which doesn't allow it makes me think it will be impossible to finish for me.

[CrisisOne]

Never used it, turned it off before before I started the game.

[Xer0_SiN]

on survivor you cant. i played on hard my first time around (its recommended you do) and i used listening mode, but i wasnt dependant on it. i felt it was more of a hinderance cause youre near immobile while its in use.

[DigitalRaptor]

Turned it off, the game didn't need it.

Luckily, I have the wonderful Pulse 7.1 stereo headset.

[BuffMordecai]

I maxed out listen mode so those bastards wouldn't get the jump on me.

[plaZeHD]

I haven't used listen mode in singleplayer once. Same with multiplayer, but I am still having a great match. I am usually the top player.

[Salooh]

Same here. I didn't even know mp have it xD . I'm always the first though hehehehe

[plaZeHD]

Well that makes The Two Of Us.

[Salooh]

lol o+

[Imalwaysright]

Just in the multiplayer. It would be blasphemy to use it on the singleplayer.

[Umbasa]

I was wondering to myself the other day about this.
No i did not use it at all cause i wanted to feel like i was just able to make it through the game on hard. I wanted to feel struggle and that x-ray thing was going to ruin my time.

[Benjammin25]

Used it the first time. Was disabled during my survivor playthrough.

[levian]

Listen mode for me kind of messes with the story a bit, and like it was mentioned to me it makes it feel like Joel has superpowers.

How come Joel can see through walls by listening, yet the Clickers who rely on listening and echo location to get around can't hear you moving slowly? Slightly immersion breaking, but that's just me.

With good headphones I move around slowly and stop at all corners listening for movements and sound, its really tense.

[ufo8mycat]

Listen mode ruins the tension. Once you know where the enemies are after using listen mode, the tension and excitement is gone.

That extra tension and not knowing where your enemies are, really enhance the game.

Anyone who has not played the game yet, I recommend turning it off.

[Mr-Dude]

I sure could have used it on my survival playtrough... But then, my survival+ was a bit easier because Joel was upgraded and stuff. On my hard I used it. I don't care how other people play their game, but for me it didn't trew the tension off.

[Sideras]

I played without it on Hard in my first playthrough. I respect them for listening to what people want but in the end it didn't feel like the game was designed without it in mind.

[WeskerChildReborned]

I haven't used listen mode for my last 3 playthroughs(i've been doing survivor).

[r21]

I used it alot in normal. Cant believe how much I depended on it when I was playing Survivor mode. Btw, survivor is freaking brutal hard!

[iMaim]

Disabled it from the get go. The game plays fine without it.

[sarcastoid]

The listen mode was put in place just as EVERY new game now has 'cheat vision' as i call it. It's there for the noobs who aren't patient enough to approach the game cautiously. It was not meant for core gamers... that's just my opinion.

[RE_L_MAYER]

First time I tried it it was rendered unrealistic for me so I never used it but im going to try survivor difficulty where you dont have it whitch is nice

[leemo19]

I used it on my first play through on Hard, but haven't used it since.

[martinezjesus1993]

I used it on the first playthrough, considering I never really played games where I had to sneak (mostly rpgs and sports games) I wasn't very good at it add to that, I didn't have the patienc. But as the game went on I used it less and less and now I'm on my 3rd playthrough, 2nd time on survivor and the game is much better with out listen mode.

[spaceg0st]

i guess im kind of a big pussy then, because i used that shit all the time. lol. Before entering an area, after i cleared areas.... scary games aren't my forte but after all the praise, i had to give it a run, and im glad i did. Amazing game.

[goldwyncq]

Normal without Listen mode is harder than Hard with listen mode.

[csreynolds]

I've used it quite a lot. Without it, I reckon the experience would be far too tense to be enjoyable, but that's just me.

[Sevir]

That game was too freakin intense. in my play through especially when fighting the infected Shit went sour qucikly, even when playing the game with it on! Im not sure i can handle the game on survivor with it being disabled from the get go.

Trial and error was my friend and listen mode saved me alot!... this game is a freakin Master piece! How anything tops this game this year will be in a miracle in itself, GTA5 looks to have a free pass. I didn't think Bioshock infinite would be topped but ND totally obliterated Irrational and Ken's work. best of luck to R* and Quantic who drop big PS3 games this fall. Both are sure to be good but I just dont think The Last of Us can be topped this year!

[kma2k]

i used it pretty frequently in the beggining as the game went i on used less & less. Also in the beggining i was like full stealth mode towards the end i said fuck it just kill everyone!

[Hayabusa 117]

Yes. Why is this even an article?