**** no. I'll copy and paste what I put on Amazon:
"I love TLoU, and consider it to be one of the greatest accomplishments in the entire medium of gaming. That is why I'm so torn and pissed off about the state of release of this remaster, which I was hugely anticipating. After having put some serious time into it (about eight playthroughs to get New Game+ completed on mostly all difficulties) I've come to the conclusion that it was hastily pushed out the door and needed a few more weeks (if not months) in the quality assurance oven.
It is plagued with bugs, and I don't mean the rare anomaly every once in a great while. They are reproducible each time one plays and this speaks nothing more than a rush job. The game suffers from texture pop and fade in, objects and enemies disappear, scripting sometimes doesn't trigger, there's audio glitches, there's a huge issue with the gamma early on that covers the screen with an ugly white sheen (during the leaning buildings just after leaving the quarantine zone with Tess and Ellie) crashes, etc, etc. Even worse, some of these bugs go past the superficial to impact the playability of the game itself. AI can at times seemingly see through walls now, therefore, stealth is affected (this is especially apparent in Winter). I've had guys become alerted when there was no way for them to see me. I've tested this on both versions in the same exact circumstances and the PS3 did not suffer from it.
Today I tried to start a New Game+ on Survivor. Loaded the file, selected "Start New Game+".....it began the game with Sarah waking in her bed. No opening cutscene. Odd I thought, but no biggie as I've played it before. That is, until I got my first gun.....not upgraded. Stats, no upgrades. Yet whenever I boot the game up and continue, I'm told "Continue New Game+". Update: I attempted to continue my game today, and it kicked me back all the way to the start.....opening cutscene and all. Got my gun, all my upgrades present. This is crazy. Chalk up yet another significant bug to the pile. Oh yea, trophies are also glitched.
But by far, the worst offender is the human enemy AI scripting can fail to initiate when the player arrives on scene. Ofentimes you'll wander into an area only to find guys placed, guns drawn, their vision cones working, but otherwise standing still as statues. In David's town this is most noticeable (I'd say at least 25-50% of the time it can be counted upon to happen in one particular building). This is the definition of a game-breaking bug, because it happens throughout and often the enemy placements are right next to one another. There goes stealth.
There's no way these problems passed by Naughty Dog unnoticed, yet the game was allowed to be released in this condition. I've no doubt that Sony was breathing down their necks with a very strict release window and they did their best so I'm not as pissed at them as I am at Sony in this case, but nevertheless I've never seen any remaster that is so unfinished it compromises the integrity of the gameplay itself until now. I can deal with pop-in, FR drops, surface glitches and minor inconsistencies. But many of the bugs I've seen are not these and they impact the game's core playability. Based on the AI patrol scripting bug alone I can't recommend this version. The improvement in the framerate and visual fidelity and other bonuses are amazing, but this remaster breaks a core mechanic at parts; that being stealth. In every single play-through I've seen it happen at least once, oftentimes more. That's inexcusable. This is very unfortunate as the framerate gives a world of difference and makes it much more playable than the PS3 version and if this bug didn't exist I'd be much less harsh and probably would recommend it, even in light of its other shortcomings."
Besides the fact that I don't believe the same game should win GotY twice in a row, this "remaster" is one of the worst I've seen, even though the framerate/resolution is a huge improvement. It better be patched and soon, because in certain parts it's not only buggy, it's outright broken. Pisses me off.
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