4 hours into The Last Of Us: impressions (no spoilers)

[arcelonious]

Munkeh111 said:

arcelonious said:

Munkeh111 said:

I haven't tried it on normal, but I thought that the hard setting was fairly difficult.  I died countless times, and I always felt that I was low on blade parts to make shivs or explosives.  I just started replaying the game on survivor and the fact that you can't use Joel's hearing "radar" already ramps up the difficulty.

I am fairly sure you can use it, but it is just turned off by default

Listen mode seems to be a toggle in the options menu for hard and lower, but the listen mode toggle disappears from the game options menu when you are playing on survivor (as well as melee prompts).  Enemies also seem to detect you much easier on survivor (have to feather the analog to sneak when enemies are close, whereas on hard, I could often crawl faster near enemies without being detected).