The Last of Us Part II [OT] Violent Delights Have Violent Ends

[CerebralTiger]

Please bring me some duct, kab se 8 PS4 Pros jorh raha hun to get that ultimate fps experience that some old man advised upon...

You need this guy's help to complete the ritual

 

[Major Aly]

You need this guy's help to complete the ritual

 

[Leon]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqnxy/last-of-us-part-2-review

'The Last of Us Part II' Is a Grim and Bloody Spectacle, but a Poor Sequel
Naughty Dog retreads acres of old ground to tell a simplistic, violent morality play about revenge.

https://kotaku.com/the-last-of-us-part-ii-the-kotaku-review-1844006193

Everything in The Last of Us 2 takes work. Every weapon reload, killing blow, and crafted item takes time and button presses. At times the game is painfully slow; even in the most action-packed sections you put in effort to move things forward. You’re paid for this work in a grim story and explicit violence. It can be exciting and beautiful, but mostly I just felt like shit.

https://www.polygon.com/reviews/202...-2-review-ps4-naughty-dog-ellie-joel-violence

The Last of Us Part 2 review: We’re better than this

Did you know murder is wrong?

The Last of Us Part 2 depicts the future, yet it fails to escape its own past.

The sequel feels like a time capsule from 2013, the year the first game was released in real life and the year of the fictional in-game zombie outbreak. The Last of Us Part 2 seems doomed to walk in a well-worn circle, unable to break out of the ever-thickening carapace forming along its skin, just like the victims of the Cordyceps fungus that you fight throughout the game.

That is the game’s central problem, and what makes so much of it such a challenge to get through: This is a story about characters who seem unable to learn or grow, and more specifically, unable to consider the humanity of the people they kill. If you already think violence isn’t the answer to many of the world’s problems, the repeated lesson that killing is bad makes the game almost maddening.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikka...last-of-us-part-2-review-scores/#6bf886976d9a

The review embargo for The Last Of Us Part 2 was lifted on Friday the 12th, one week before the game’s June 19th release on PlayStation 4.

According to Metacritic, Naughty Dog’s latest is a critical darling, nabbing a 96/100 and earning numerous gushing accolades from reviewers calling it not only the best game of the generation, but perhaps even the best game ever made.

Now I’m not trying to rain on anyone’s parade in this post, but there are a couple of things I think readers should be aware of beyond all the gushing and praise as they decide whether or not to pick this game up next week.

First off, the review embargo itself is quite strict. While most video game embargoes contain some kind of restrictions on what you can talk about or use in video footage, this one forbids any discussion of the second half of the game and limits video footage to just three scenes.

The final 12 hours or so are completely off-limits, so the things that reviewers liked or disliked about that portion of the game can only be discussed vaguely. I understand wanting to keep spoilers out of reviews as much as possible, but this strikes me as more than a little over-the-top.

Whether or not this leaves something important out is impossible to say since I haven’t played the game. Here at Forbes, we did not receive a review code for The Last Of Us Part 2 (nor were we told why) so I’m unable to offer up any analysis or impressions. I would not have been able to talk about the second half of the game anyways, thanks to the embargo (which not only prevents discussion of the game’s ending, but also its beginning).

So we’re left with a very big, roughly 12-hour question mark, with some reviewers saying that whether or not you like the game may come down to what happens during the section they’re not able to talk about. Others note that the game’s best bits are in this embargoed stretch.

Second, and arguably more importantly, some reviewers (even those who ultimately liked the game) found the violence extreme to the point of questioning whether they could even finish playing. Since this game is somewhere between 25 and 30 hours long, you can see how that could be a problem.

And it’s not just the violence. Some critics are calling the story needlessly bleak, its characters completely changed from the first game, and its story riddled with plot holes. Let’s take a look at some of the more critical reviews, if only to get more information than “Best Game Ever 10/10!”

Note also, many of the reviews I’ll be quoting don’t include review scores—in other words, some of the most critical reviews out there don’t impact the final Metacritic score at all, for better or worse.

 

[CerebralTiger]

https://www.pakgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155948&p=2844214&viewfull=1#post2844214



Very very fishy fishy :lol:

 

[M619]

Is the game going to be available on disk at retailers on friday in Lahore/Karachi or is it delayed due to corona lockdown ?

 

[Major Aly]

https://www.pakgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155948&p=2844214&viewfull=1#post2844214



Very very fishy fishy :lol:

Hahahahaha (lmao)

 

[SolitarySoldier]

Forbes wrote a review of reviews without playing the game? Noice.

At least people who were posting conspiracy theories out of desperation are now coming up with critical reviews.

 

[Leon]

https://www.pakgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155948&p=2844214&viewfull=1#post2844214



Very very fishy fishy :lol:

Lol it's funny how you are trying to connect my criticism for the game to CD Projekt Red and The Witcher 3 to the point of stalking my profile for previous posts.

I wish I could state the reason I don't like the game here without spoiling the game for everyone. I loved TLOU and sorry to say the new story they went with is just forced diversity where they rip apart all the character making that happened in the first one.

I have watched all the hours of leaks and it seems like an else words story instead of the continuation of the first one.

Anyways since you don't have any other clue against me nice try connecting it all to CPR and Witcher :fp1:

 

[manigamer]

@manigamer cant beleive u r gonna play game on launch u usually play games over the span of 2 or 3 years , which game u last played on launch ?

haha, somebody said it. yeah last i played was ofcourse GOD OF WAR on launch
[MENTION=10152]Leon[/MENTION] for anything spoilery use spoiler tags and do not leak any leaked stuff at least 2 weeks after the release please.

 

[Leon]

haha, somebody said it. yeah last i played was ofcourse GOD OF WAR on launch
@Leon for anything spoilery use spoiler tags and do not leak any leaked stuff at least 2 weeks after the release please.

Bro there is nothing spoilery or spoiler in my comment , ND probably spoiled the game more in their trailers than my comment did.

 

[manigamer]

Bro there is nothing spoilery or spoiler in my comment , ND probably spoiled the game more in their trailers than my comment did.

i mean't if you are thinking off leaking stuff that is.

 

[Leon]

i mean't if you are thinking off leaking stuff that is.

No I don't want to ruin anyone's experience.

 

[Faddi]

I am really pissed at the reviewers and critics for bashing as well Abuses will lead to baning about the game so much! We all know very well how the first game in the series set standards so high that rarely the sequels after it surpass what we had previously experienced before. Let me give you few examples. GTA 5 was rated 10/10 almost everywhere on the planet and is the most successful game in the history of entertained 7 years and still launching over 2 generations of consoles.

If we compare it with GTA IV its not a substantial leap, just a few upgrades, enhancements and a couple of downgrades as well considering 2007 vs 2013. Secondly take the example of Assassin's Creed Odyssey it is literally a complete copy of AC: Origins with some changes in the map, adding a few gameplay elements and a new timeline. The game was a tremendous success even though the developers didn't put in huge effort like they did in AC:Origins.

Now one of my favorite games of the past decade has to be Dying Light which most of the people wouldn't have even get the chance to play. It wasn't a financial success like many others but a brilliant game.Coming back to The last of US 2, It can never achieve the same praise like its predecessor because we have already experienced that in the first game. It my elevate a few things and improve on other but you cannot expect an entirely different game. It has to stick to its roots otherwise it wont be the same game. Some people will love it some will hate. Lets just at least give everyone the chance to play and experience it themselves before making final judgments shall we? give us 2 weeks max....opcorn2:opcorn2:

I loved The Last of Us so much that I literally thought I was watching a blockbuster Steven Spielberg's movie now we should give the game a chance at least.

 

[Chandoo]

RE:Forbes:

Whether or not this leaves something important out is impossible to say since I haven’t played the game. Here at Forbes, we did not receive a review code for The Last Of Us Part 2

Didn't get a review copy so writes a 'review' article based on the 2, 3 negative reviews seen on the internet. (lmao)

https://www.pakgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155948&p=2844214&viewfull=1#post2844214



Very very fishy fishy :lol:

Leon ITT:

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Because PG's imgur embedding is broken ..

https://imgur.com/1I5kx3d


holy shit, the combat animations. The poor doggo's lifeless body sort of crumples into the square cabinet space after Ellie kills it.

 

[SolitarySoldier]

LMAO.

 

[CerebralTiger]

The first game still has some really believable enemy AI behavior.

Didn't get a review copy so writes a 'review' article based on the 2, 3 negative reviews seen on the internet. (lmao)

Salty dude is salty :lol:

Meanwhile, the usual suspects here on PG have taken the backseat, while Leon has taken charge of the hate brigade :hah:

 

[Leon]

 

[Chandoo]

I imagine a fair few people on this forum are just itching for user scores to be open so they can give their completely fair and unbiased scores

 

[SolitarySoldier]

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[Major Aly]

[emoji14]

Don't blame the PC brigade and old dudes afterwards if you don't want any duct tape from their bondage fantasies...