The Last of Us Winning Game of the Year is Disappointing (To Me Atleast)

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DerNebel on 12 January 2014

...just another shooter...

Seriously if TLOU is just another shooter then Mario is just another Jump'n'Run and GTA is just another open world game.

You don't have to think that it's GOTY material but calling it "just another shooter" is pretty ignorant.

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GTAV's story, gameplay and sheer scale should have given it the GotY

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FlamingWeazel on 12 January 2014

xJbownagex said:

FlamingWeazel said:

binary solo said:
Winning GOTY where? Certainly didn't win here, didn't even with the PS3 GOTY. It's won on some game sites, but plenty of other games have won GOTY's. I wouldn't even say it's dominated GOTY. Seems that GTAV, LBTW and SM3DW are getting plenty of love here.

So what you are saying is that TLOU winning even one GOTY is disappointing?

And TLOU isn't a shooter. You can make it through entire levels doing only stealth or melee take downs (with the occasional bomb or molotov thrown in for good measure), or sneak past all the enemy without having to kill one. Shooting is an element of TLOU but stealth is far more important. The harder the difficulty setting the more you need to stealth, because ammo is very hard to come by on high difficulty. So to say just "another shooter" suggests you don't really know the game at all.

?? TLOU dominated GOTY awards everywhere.............................it deserves it too.

Saying TLOU is just another shooter shows OP never touched tlou, its the furthest thing froma shooter.

Saying gameplay is "Ladder, plank, raft is simply pure ignorance.

Well I must say a few things.

1. I have played it dude lol. It has mechanics that are similar to the likes of a shooter, actually it has mechanics more or less identical to the Uncharted games. They are expanded upon of course, implementing more stealth elements. I think my main problem is poor wording. Calling it "another shooter" was a bad choice of words. It was a game that has shooter elements and basic third person action title elements (ex. Standing behind them, pressing a button, and taking them out/hostage.)

2. This is also something I made an issue with. The game, obviously, can't be summed up as ladder, plank, raft, however it is something that is often implimented into the level design.

Sorry, I wrote the thread on my phone so I wasn't exactly looking to explain a whole lot. I hope you can understand my reasoning now. And if you can't, hey, opinions lol.

It's mechanics are nothing like uncharted...................One shot you are knocked off balancem you have to regroup, and bullets are scarce, it's nothing like uncharted.............

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FlamingWeazel on 12 January 2014

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It's another game in a trend this generation that puts presentation and cinematics above gameplay. They are great games to watch, pretty meh games to play. Last of Us gets a lot of praise for the SP but I honestly cannot find a single thing about the SP that stood out to me from a gameplay perspective. The combat was predictable due to lazy level design, the AI was a complete joke, the immersion was non-existent to me thanks to invincible/invisible AI partners. The zombies were crap, and the survival aspect was way overblown as supplies were never an issue unless you suck at the game, and any time you die you just load back up from right before death.

MP on the other hand was amazing. Small team, tactical gameplay where stealth could be just as or more important than firepower depending on your build and play style. It is in my top 5 of the year just for the MP.

Hogwash it's as gamey as it gets, more fud.

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FlamingWeazel on 12 January 2014

the_dengle said:

aikohualda said:
nintendo says... its not TLOU

and sony fans says its TLOU....

and they are both not biased...

yey!

*shrug* none of my friends consider it even in the running for GOTY, and they all own a wide range of consoles. I'm the only one who owns only Nintendo consoles.

One in particular who played the game start to finish said that Part 3 / Chapter 3 (I assume he meant winter?) is outstanding but that the rest of it is average at best. He said if the whole game had been as good as that part it would have easily been one of the best games of the year. Instead, he basically said it was good but not great. I don't think it made his top 10.

None of my friends think Nintendo is relevant, Point? Your friends <> universal opinion.

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The game has some strange flaws, and some (minor) plot holes. It is also vastly overhyped.

That being said, I disagree with OP. The game is Game of the Year material.

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elazz on 12 January 2014

After I finished The Last of Us (late at night) I couldn't sleep afterwards since I was so immersed in the game and that ending. Wow. It ruined a lot of games for me which could have provided me fun but weren't at the level of The last of us that I just stopped gaming on my PS3 for a while unless it was TLOU MP. Even the release of GTA V didn't affect me. I played the game and it started of superb and I thought that they will also immerse you in the game but it soon became just a good game, nothing special.

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Nem on 12 January 2014

Well, i dont think the other entries deserve it any more than The last of Us, even though i think its an overhyped game.

At least its a new IP getting GOTY. That might incentivate companies to take risks on new IP's.

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haxxiy on 12 January 2014

I also think it's overhyped, and I'm a Sony fan who owns some 50 games of the 7th generation between PS3, Wii and PC. The characters are more often than not unlikeable, the story is of average literary merit and some bugs or gameplay quirks break the suspension of disbelief. Of couse, gaming stories being what they are, I guess rarity creates value and stands out.

I'm thinking certain audiences, to name young adult male americans, are biased towards post-apocalyptic tropes and clichés. Psychology should explain it.