The Last of Us Replaced Jak and Daxter 4

[selnor]

dahuman said:

selnor said:
Well that sucks.

They dropped J&D for another overly animated game? I would rather have had Jaks than Last Of Us. I dont like this current direction ND are taking with their animations. Its not scripted but its also not great gameplay. Its like Heavy Rain in every game they make. Unresponsive gameplay tat you have to wait for animations to finish before you can give your character his or her next move.

Jaks we loved you. RIP.

better than constant QTEs, you also must really hate The Walking Dead.

Ive not played The Walking Dead. 

The thing is this. I dont dislike games with QTES etc. I love GOW3 for example. 

But Uncharted is different and so is TLOU by the looks of things. They appear on the surface as a fluid third person game. But to much empasis ( at least for me ) is put on animations that are unbreakable or segments where control is limited. It ends up feeling laggy to me. Laggy in terms of controling the character. I understand its for cinematic reasons, but then Watchdogs looks more cinematic than any ND game this generation without the unbreakable animations and stop go gameplay. 

Still plenty of people seem to like this new sort of shooter gameplay ( no I dont think UC is a platformer, the climbing parts etc are just fillers and certainly not difficult or exploratory ). 

But bottom line is I would much rather a new Jaks game. Same as Id give anyting for a proper new Banjo Kazooie 3. But it seems Rare and Naughty Dog dont want to oblige.

Personally I think their reason for no Jaks is a pathetic joke. Same as Rares reason they changed Banjo 3 which they were making into Nuts and Bolts. Rare said the same thing as ND. Bollocks.