I must say, I went into this game with the highest expectation and it shattered them all. Through all of the frustration and agony I went through. I can honestly say that this was the best video game I've ever played.
Every minute that I spent with the characters drew me closer to them and I couldn't bring myself to skip a single cutscene, even though I went through the game 3 times once on hard, then survivor and finally survivor +. The story is that gripping that I couldn't shy away from the screen not even once.
The multiplayer is balanced to such a key that I rarely ever felt cheated, if I went down it was because of myself and my team, I never blamed the game or any of the guns. The multiplayer is very team oriented, you need to be able to coordinate with your team to get the win. Much like the single player, you can't just run out in the middle of the battlefield and expect to "pwn sum noobz". I really felt a level of immersion in both the multiplayer and single player that I've never experienced.
Suffice it to say, this game truly is a masterpiece in my eyes and if you haven't played it you should borrow it from a friend or go pick it up immediately. I sunk 65+ hours into this game and cherished every second of it, I can't wait for the DLC.
TheNoobHolocaust said:
When you encounter a glitch its best to just restart the encounter and try again. I myself found a glitch where Joel ascended up to heaven like Jesus lolol. I was trying to climb a ladder and he just started floating up to the sky. It was humorous and not at all game breaking because I simply had to restart from the last checkpoint. Now as far as Colin Moriarty arguing that you have to play the game 4 times to get platinum because you won't have enough supplies to make shivs for the shiv doors or fully upgrade weapons and Joel, that simply isn't true. The game always gives you enough supplies leading up to the shiv doors to make a shiv, you just have to find them and never, I repeat never use shivs on clickers when on survivor, its a waste of a shiv. As for ugrading Joel and the weapons that is easily achievable on your 3rd playthropugh on survivor +, again I stress that you never waste your shivs because inside the shiv doors you will find 10-15 pills to upgrade Joel and 50 parts to upgrade your weapons. |
TheNoobHolocaust said:
When I started Survivor mode which is the hardest difficulty, I immediately realized that I couldn't be so wasteful with my ammo or molotovs. Survivor mode really forced me to think like a survivor, to ration my supplies. I only allowed myself to use a certain amount of bullets for each encounter because having already completed the game I knew I would need them for my next encounters. I love that Survivor mode made me do that, if I felt that I used too much ammo I resorted to stealth only. The bow became my best friend because it was an easy way to take out opponents silently with one shot. I highly reccomend trying the game on Survivor mode, it's a very tense, realistic experience. |
TheNoobHolocaust said:
Well that was a horrible idea, I ended up dropping from 99 population to 28, with all of my population hungry on week 11 and I only had 1 week left until I achieved the platinum. Because the multiplayer in The Last of Us is really team centric, when I went out there without my usual team I found myself losing 5 games in a row. Now maybe you're better off than I was but I am by no means bad at the game, I just didn't have the right team. Thankfully I was able to make a comeback and I finished my final week with a fully healthy population of 56. The multiplayer is so much easier when you have a group of friends that you can communicate with. The only reason I got to 99 population was because we were such a good team, I wasn't the best player on the team but I did my part. I was a sniper and a medic, I pumped off headshots and healed my teammates and I was good at it. Without my teammates I didn't do as well so again I strongly recommend you play with a group of friends. |
