Erm not too sure what you mean. Graphics story and game play are all good no matter what games you play. But it certainly isnt game of the generation or anything. Its just another cover based combat game nowt special just plays well

Well, I kind of agree with the premise of this post, though I don't 'hate' it, it's still weird that you still played through it three times.

Personally I can't even bring myself to finish it once. And I want to finish it. I had two serious attempts where I played the game for a couple days stretched out over a couple weeks in a row and progressed a good deal, but then I stopped again. The gameplay is just too boring, repetitive, simple, slow and sluggish. I agree it's vastly overrated and the press going apeshit over it, especially with the Remaster, was embarrassing to witness.

It's very unlikely I'll get a hypothetical sequel, because of this. Definitely not one with the same characters and environment, because I fell their story should be a stand-alone experience, it would be lame and would break the game's believability.

Still, the game has a good story, good character development and is very beautiful with excellent cinematography. It's obvious Naughty Dog put their usual quality assurance to work with this game.

I recall TotalBiscuit hating the controls to the game too.

I played through most of it when I stayed at a friend's house for a weekend and I enjoyed it quite a lot, especially the multiplayer, though I know not everyone will like the same thing.

Kinda agree, maybe the game has better story but action adventure classics like resident evil 5 and 4 have a lot better gameplay. Imo

Totalbiscuit hates everything unless it's not with a mouse and keyboard lol.

I gotta agree with him to an extent: it's hard going back to the stick after using a mouse to aim.

So you've beaten a game you hate twice, and you're over halfway through your third... odd. That's at least thirty hours if you've been rushing it. You know why he can't run all the time? A fifty year old can't just run forever. You press R1, and he runs for a while. I've never had any issues with it, and I've never heard of anyone else having what you're describing. Obviously that clicker wasn't dead...
I've never heard of anyone having the issues you have in this game. Maybe you're just not very good at the game.

let's not do this whole "dude" routine where everything is just, you know, your opinion, man. a "game" implies that it is a thing, governed by a set of rules, that's meant to be played, and playing a game almost always requires skill and coordination on the part of the player... play seems to be inherently linked to the whole concept of "game." i am simply saying there is not much playing that goes on in the last of us, just as there's very little playing that goes on in something like gone home (which i dislike even more, if it's possible).

speaking about a game like halo, which is incredibly easy at the normal difficulty and has regenerating health and all that, i still can respect it as an overall package because the gunplay is so satisfyingly precise, the mechanics are so polished, etc. etc. these are not qualities the last of us shares. precision, challenge, freedom... none of these are qualities it possesses in anywhere near decent quantities. it's basically an interactive movie, and i could forgive that if the movie were a decent one, but it's a cliché-ridden mess that, were it released as a movie (as seems likely to happen), would never be taken seriously.

and, just to clarify, this isn't just a problem i have with the genre... compare the now decade old resident evil 4 to the last of us and... well, there's just no comparison. it's not even good in the context of its genre.

Why Resident Evil 4? Resident Evil 5 is superior in every way to RE4.