HBO's The Last of Us will stay away from the source material as much as it can

Scrounging for supplies in a post-apocalyptic world is exactly what they were going for. If you want more supplies all over then lower the difficulty to easy and you'll be fully stocked all the time. It ruins the game though.

Those two components are also makeups of a good story. Of course, we also have to separate story and storytelling. Great stories can be told poorly. Average stories can be told greatly. I believe TLoU is the latter. The story wasn't great, but the storytelling from guiding us through Joel's perspective was more than efficiently told to us to feel for the character, understand his motivations, know why he is doing what he does, and supports the over-arching theme of the story being told. This, all of course, using some of the most generic overplayed tropes in story and storytelling----E.g. Joel changes his mind about Ellie after Ellie "saves" him.

@Zero_epyon: if scrounging for supplies is all they were going for then job done. but clearly it's not.

yes, at heart it's a survival game, and a heavily scripted survival game. but there's a a balance to be had between creating a survive-using-anything-you-can-get-your-hands-on atmosphere, and making the act of scavenging so repetitive and chore-like that you're seriously weighing up what's worse, being bitten by a clicker or being forced to spend so much time huggin every wall, counter top, table and garbage bag waiting for that "you can interact with me" icon only to find a rag, brick or something similarly mundane to craft an equally mundane weapon.

wouldn't go so far as using your phrasing saying it ruins the game, but it certainly doesn't help the atmosphere or immersion. it's pulling you away from the scripted story and progression. the characters you're with are trying to lead you to the next area, talking to you to build on the story and characterisation, and you're like hold up there's a decrepit toilet over here i need to explore first in case there's some nuts and bolts in the bowl.

it's not that i want more supplies, it's that i want more variety and imagination in ways to get equipped

I bet it’s better than the halo show.

well as the games director said, its supposed to have simple story, complex characters which it achieved very well

@cainetao11: The catalogue reading half an hour of go with pictures of Legos while sitting on the shitter is better than the Halo TV show.

Well yeah, duh.

If they're going to eschew the fundamental core traits of what people love about the series, why bother calling it The Last of Us? People are fans for a good reason.

If Uwe Boll isn't directing it, what's the point?

@cdragon_88: I can't believe there is actually intelligent life on System Wars. It makes me want to cry.

TLOU slow, methodic, strategic, tactical gameplay not only makes for intense moments in the single player campaign but it also is fantastic in the multiplayer. Almost ten years later and nothing has come close to emulating it.

I'll post a picture of my hours played if you want but I am a little self conscious about it.

If the script is good and faithful to the story, there is no need for any of them to play the game.

Why would I need that and what will it prove?

what's that got to do with anything we were talking about?

That I highly enjoy the gameplay and have played for a very long time, lol

And in the end, that is all that matters.

This is why we are here

@mysticaldonut: oh ok, was just me being silly. tbh i don't think tlou 1 has aged all that well when it comes to stealth based survival combat. i'm playing the remake at the minute and it's showing its age at times. feels a bit one dimensional, and the incessant need to scavenge gets in the way of the story and your ability to soak up the atmosphere, distraction free (tlou2 didn't improve much in that regard though either). i think days gone, despite its faults, had tighter stealth mechanics and gave you a few more combat options to play with. dying light 2 whilst similarly flawed also has its moments.

tlou2 though is close to god tier. but only the few times (mainly first few days in seattle) when you're in a wide open setting for long uninterrupted periods (i.e. little to no cinematics or narrative). crazy intense and absolutely nails the desperate, survive by any means necessary atmosphere that tlou 1 paved the way for

Hopefully the show looks better than The Last of Us Part 1 Remake. I was playing more last night, and it looked like...well....ass?

The second game's gameplay is so good that it ruins the experience of the first game to an extent.

All the more reason why it was extremely dumb and lazy to not put Part II's gameplay mechanics fully into the Part 1 remake.

Would rather have a game in the same universe with different characters.

And how that relates to what I said?

Wow....you said "you lot wouldn't give it a second look" if the game had lower production values and acting but still the same gameplay. I have been telling you in multiple responses now that I have thousands of hours in this game that prove otherwise because the gameplay is addicting. That is all.

And I'm right. You didn't disprove me. You're still playing the game with the same production values. And that thousands of hours of gameplay is probably in the MP, if I were to guess. If that's the case you just proved my point.

But yet there's no highly produced cutscenes or anything in the MP

Also not the sh*t tier AI and scripted, boring encounters. BTW, MP has a story?

Sort of, there's a meta game to it where you do specific challenges to grow your survivor clan. If you ignore the challenges or don't do well consistently in matches, your survivors get hungry, sick and eventually die. There used to be a feature back in the day to link your Facebook account to it and you would see the names of people you actually know scrolling by lol "John Smith is out hunting for deer meat"

I won't comment on MP because I never played it. I was talking about the SP.

The single player and multiplayer game are both great and worth the price of admission. The production values, cutscenes, voice acting, etc. are just added bonuses

Yeah, no! Ask your fellow cows themselves about that. Forget cows, ask Sony about that. They abandoned MP a long time ago and the remake didn't have it. Unlike you they know what their audience spends most of their time in and for what.

@uninspiredcup: yo mama

TLOU MP is still alive and well on PS4 (and now PS5) almost ten years later. Plenty of people enjoy the multiplayer and are excited for more information about the sequel next year. You dunno what you are talking about.

The show isn't written or directed by the actors; the script is their source material.

This. OP, is a doofus. Or a kid.

The actors not playing the game does not mean the show will stay away from the source material.

He builds castles with cardboard (Nintendo Labo), so ill let you guess😊

@shellcase86: It could be it. It means they don’t want them to try to be like the characters in the game. And no need to insult people here, your better than that mate.

Apparently, those aren't plenty or Sony wouldn't have abandoned the MP. Majority plays the SP once and never looks back again.

Finished The Last of Us Part 1 Remake. Nicely improved over the PS4 remaster. I must say it sucks that we don’t unlock all the skins until the game is finished. I’m not gonna play it AGAIN. They didn’t put much thought into that.

come on for a video game it has a great story. maybe not legacy of kain story but a great one.

would you rather save the princess over and over again?

or shoot and ask questions later lol?

@mesome713 said:

It appears the actors were asked to not play the games as they prepared for their roles for the tv show. Actress Bella Ramsey recalls "after my first audition, they asked me, 'have you played it?' And I said 'nope', and they said, 'keep it that way'". I think this is genius, we need a fresh take on The Last of Us story, i always felt the story kinda sucked and was boring at times. But since they arent being bound by the source, they can actually turn The Last of Us into a great Walking Dead and start Game of Thronesing characters left and right. I want to see them bodies dropping like flies.

Now this might make butthurt fans upset, " Yes, don’t do any research on the game that millions of people love so we can make it completely different and the only thing that’s the same is the name. " Them weirdos arent gonna watch it anyway, theyre gonna post 1/10 reviews on media sites and call it a day. So no sense in even trying to cater to them, they wouldnt know a good story even it was written by Ernest Hemingway himself.

What say you system warriors, are yall ready to turn the batched story around and await greatness?

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not a great story? ok go save the princess over and over again. man fanboys are so not smart sometimes.

lol do you have split personality lol? above you said it looks like ass. then say improved over the ps4 remaster.

just saying lmao.

The trailers all baiting fans of the games with familiar scenes.

It was a joke because the picture I took of Joel had his body and head in the horses ass 🤦‍♂️

I took these during a cutscene