Current Events > I'm about to start TLOU for the first time.

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Anything I should know?
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Enjoy it

I think you'll be able to relate. The main characters are technically hobos and one of them can sing!
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Excellent game
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great game, just have fun with it. it's pretty streamlined so there really isn't a wrong way to do anything, so just enjoy the ride and try not to have any scenes spoiled for you. TLOU isnt really a good game for multiple playthroughs but the first one is going to be sick
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Before you tart TC, if you're good at shooters play the game on hard your first run with listen mode turned off! Listen mode allows you to see enemies through walls. Turning it off makes you actually listen for enemies yourself, which is far better IMO thanks to the excellent sound design.

I know that sounds weird to turn off a main feature of gameplay, but it REALLY turns the game into a legit survival game your first time through if you do that.

It's how I did it and I'll never forget that playthrough. It was intense as Hell, but never frustrating.
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Play on the hardest difficult if you want there to actually be a challenge and for you to feel fear, stress, and tension around scavenging for ammo and supplies and how you go about attacking enemies.
It's a cake walk on Normal and it might as well just be playing itself on Easy where it when gives you too option to "see" through walls and shit.
I'd suggest Grounded if you want it to have an extra layer to it or just Survivor or whatever Hard is if you just want to enjoy the story but not have it handed to you, or Normal if you just want to story.
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Love this game.

Tag for reactions.
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Don't put it on the hardest difficulty for your first playthrough. That's something you do after you've already played through the game and experienced the story.
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grounded is a bit much for a new player

survival and hard are the sweet spots. survival disables listen mode, which is enjoyable when fighting zombies but a pain in the ass when fighting humans
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Don't put it on the hardest difficulty for your first playthrough. That's something you do after you've already played through the game and experienced the story.

Yeah I'm not really a fan of shooters so I'm probably going to play on a normal difficulty.

However, I've heard nothing but great things, and it was on sale on PSN for $8 a couple months ago so I figured that was the best time to pull the trigger. I've only now finally caught up on everything else to give it a go.
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TheSingingHobo posted...

Yeah I'm not really a fan of shooters so I'm probably going to play on a normal difficulty.

fwiw it is not a traditional shooter, you'll never have more than a few bullets in each gun until the very end of the game

it's more of a mixed stealth/equipment management game with some ranged and melee combat. any fight you can sneak past or resolve by a stealth kill is a good one

hard is the best difficulty for people who arent intense about this stuff
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Are things going to jump out and scare the s*** out of me?

Because I'm kinda a p**** when it comes to stuff like that. =(
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Darkman124 posted...

TheSingingHobo posted...

Yeah I'm not really a fan of shooters so I'm probably going to play on a normal difficulty.

fwiw it is not a traditional shooter, you'll never have more than a few bullets in each gun until the very end of the game

it's more of a mixed stealth/equipment management game with some ranged and melee combat. any fight you can sneak past or resolve by a stealth kill is a good one

hard is the best difficulty for people who arent intense about this stuff

eh there are a bunch of sequences in the game where you are forced to get into shootouts, you can't really play the entire game stealthy

TheSingingHobo posted...

Are things going to jump out and scare the s*** out of me?

Because I'm kinda a p**** when it comes to stuff like that. =(

yes but it's not that bad except for that one part where you have to start the generator in the flooded basement and then all the clickers run at you
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Are things going to jump out and scare the s*** out of me?

Because I'm kinda a p**** when it comes to stuff like that. =(

There are one or two jump scares but mostly it just sets up a tense atmosphere.
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I love it when people makes topic about this game!!!!
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Veggeta X posted...

I love it when people makes topic about this game!!!!

You could always
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Ignore it!!!!!!

Start on a harder difficulty than Normal. It isn't that hard, and it really adds to the game. If you want tovmake it even more immersive, take off background music so there are no audio cues for the crazy stuff that will happen. I've debated turning my 4 on just to replay TLOU myself, might finish my crushing no deaths run finally :)
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rom, technically those are stalkers.

Romulox28 posted...

eh there are a bunch of sequences in the game where you are forced to get into shootouts, you can't really play the entire game stealthy

not the entire game no, but most of the shootouts are not of the traditional COD variety but more cover based. if you hunker down the enemy comes to you and clever positioning gives you the drop on them (much harder without listen mode)
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Jesus Christ @ the intro
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The feels!

Also, always try to have a brick in your inventory. It's one of the best items in the game. The set enemies up for one hit melee kills if you throw it (if you have a weapon), or you can melee one enemy 3 times to kill them. It even can kill a clicker by meleeing if you're quiet enough. Bottles are only good for distracting and brief stuns. Bricks are God tier.
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Right?

I remember going "They're setting this up like one of these two is going to die... but Naughty Dog wouldn't do that..."

I was wrong. I was brutally wrong and felt sick to my stomach.
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Gotta agree. The brick is serioisly overpowered.
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The Last of Us is an over-praised game with obvious flaws. SPOILERS!!!!

First off this is just an opinion. It's not meant to trigger any negative feelings. If you feel you cannot handle criticism for this game then don't read anymore. Don't get me wrong. The game was fun and entertaining and everyone should give it a go but there's a lot of things within the game I found not to be too exciting.

1. I really dislike "the monsters are really us" themed games. It just seems over done to the point where it gets predictable and boring now.

2. I don't know if you guys knew this or not but the game made it very apparent that Joel and his girlfriend were evil people. Joel saving Ellie wasn't really an act of kindness. He did for his selfish reasons.

4. The game held your hand through out the game. You're going to be fighting zombies soon? We'll let you know by showing spores and you can hear them screech half a mile away. Fighting humans soon? Well we'll give you a great secret hiding spot to start at and we'll make you a ninja and make everyone else a loud ass brute.

5. For the most part, anything and everything is easily disposed by the shotgun. Headshots are instant kills and they aren't hard to do.

6. The survivor horror aspect of the game is an illusion by trying to say you only have limited low amounts of ammo and items but the fact is as soon as you empty your ammo on a group of hostiles, they always drop enough to refill your stuff back up.

7. The game is super easy even in hard mode. Survivor and Grounded mode is a great challenge but seriously you shouldn't have to always play on an insane hard level to find challenge within the game.
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TheSingingHobo posted...

Are things going to jump out and scare the s*** out of me?

Because I'm kinda a p**** when it comes to stuff like that. =(

It's not that kind of scary but it is very tense in a lot of situations.
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TheSingingHobo posted...

Jesus Christ @ the intro

i hope youre not a parent


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It's pretty slow moving so far.
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I love the MP more than the campaign. Both are good. One is EVEN better, IMO.
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SrRd_RacinG posted...

I love the MP more than the campaign. Both are good. One is EVEN better, IMO.

oh yea, the multiplayer is fantastic and a lot of people still play it
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A lot of people say that it sliws down a lot after the intro.

I don't really see it, tbh. But either way, there are some pretty neat forced battles coming up in Bill's Town, maybe 1 or 2 hours.
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Veggeta X posted...

The Last of Us is an over-praised game with obvious flaws. SPOILERS!!!!

First off this is just an opinion. It's not meant to trigger any negative feelings. If you feel you cannot handle criticism for this game then don't read anymore. Don't get me wrong. The game was fun and entertaining and everyone should give it a go but there's a lot of things within the game I found not to be too exciting.

1. I really dislike "the monsters are really us" themed games. It just seems over done to the point where it gets predictable and boring now.

2. I don't know if you guys knew this or not but the game made it very apparent that Joel and his girlfriend were evil people. Joel saving Ellie wasn't really an act of kindness. He did for his selfish reasons.

4. The game held your hand through out the game. You're going to be fighting zombies soon? We'll let you know by showing spores and you can hear them screech half a mile away. Fighting humans soon? Well we'll give you a great secret hiding spot to start at and we'll make you a ninja and make everyone else a loud ass brute.

5. For the most part, anything and everything is easily disposed by the shotgun. Headshots are instant kills and they aren't hard to do.

6. The survivor horror aspect of the game is an illusion by trying to say you only have limited low amounts of ammo and items but the fact is as soon as you empty your ammo on a group of hostiles, they always drop enough to refill your stuff back up.

7. The game is super easy even in hard mode. Survivor and Grounded mode is a great challenge but seriously you shouldn't have to always play on an insane hard level to find challenge within the game.

1. Can't really say anything about that since that's 100% subject. "The monsters are really us" thing is definitely a common theme or trope, especially in apocalypse stories. But I personally thought they did it well enough.

2. It didn't really ever act like they were "evil" I'm not sure where you're getting that from. It was just made known that they'd done some shady shit and what they needed to in order to survive such as smuggling stuff. I wouldn't really say that makes someone "evil" inherently. And the gray area of morality is kind of the point of the ending. It didn't make things black and white like a lot of stuff does.

3. Where's #3? Lol

4. I agree that it's definitely no Souls game or anything and there's obviously a predictable linearity. The spores argument is kinda dumb because that's the universe they established, that where there's spores there's infected.

5. Headshots should be instant kills. It's bullshit in any game they aren't.

6./7. That's simply not true. I got stuck in an area where I had to play it over and over because I didn't have enough ammo and couldn't get any to drop as well as not having enough shivs for all the clickers in the area so getting detected was an immediate death sentence. It's obvious not a super hard game or anything but idk what else you'd expect from a Naughty Dog game like that, obviously they want it to be accessable.
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play it on the highest difficulty and the gameplay will actually be somewhat engaging without being overly difficult
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Decided to take a break after
escorting the girl to the building, then having Tess come back and tell me that the Fireflies have a shit ton of guns
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