The game is severly annoying through most aspects.  There's a lot of pop-in, and I can't for the life of me figure out how the run button works.  Sometimes it does nothing, sometimes he goes for a slow-paced jog, and sometimes, he actually starts running.

I've beaten the game twice, and on my third play-though of it.  I've beaten it once on normal, and again on survivor.  I'm playing survivor+ and having the same issues I had with my first two plays.  The idiotic run button not doing what it's supposed to do.  I'm in the abandoned suburb with the sniper.  I cannot get past this part for the simple fact that the run button works at random.  I'm not using a health pack so close to the end of the scene, I'm going to get full heath again when the next chapter starts.

And, what's up with the guy in the same chapter that you cannot hit?  I'm swinging my bat, he's swinging his, and nothing is happening.  The only way to get rid of him is by wasting ammo on him.  And it's the same issue when you're around large objects too...  Swing... nothing...

Yeah, the games looks ok, and the story is great, but to actually play the game?  Very few games have managed to annoy me as much as this game has.  I've even been bitten by a clicker that was dead, on the ground.

There has got to be something I'm doing wrong, but I doubt that, because I'll get killed, do the exact same thing, and for some odd reason, now Joel's running.

You can't have poor Joel running at all times. Hes like...fifty?

For a guy that hates it you sure have played it quite a few times.

Most aspects = lot of pop-in & the fact you don't know how to run? Ok.

I really don't understand where the core of your complaints are exactly. If you are on PS3 I think you dash using R2 (may be wrong though). You can't also run into clickers because they one-hit kill you so you must either be stealthy or simply kill them using guns, knives, etc.

That is a shame. Joel's legs are finally giving out.

I thought it was great but I played the Remaster

It won't be for everyone

I wasn't trying to be an idiot and run into a clicker, I know I need guns or objects for them.  I brought that up because I was bitten, and went into the death animation, with the clicker laying dead on the ground.  I was being bit by nothing.

The issue is with the sniper.

In the end, the game was overrated anyways. :)

You can only run when there are enemies nearby. If there are no enemies then you can do a light jog.

It was a great experience but I can't see myself playing it again. The segmentsof combat were top notch but the quiet moments--the mood setting moments--just don't want to spend so long just walking and talking now that I know how the story ends..