TLOU Remastered Review Thread: 8/10 Gamespot

Yes , but on system wars it means flop because gamespot reviews and their GOTY awards only matter here . 8 is also a terrible score here .

Lol at anyone who takes ONE game website's opinion(Gamespot) over Multiple(Metacritic)

I won't purchase this as i already have TLOU but this is easily deserving of 95/100 or more on metacritic

@nutcrackr: So well said. Really not much point of a score.

Taking any review serious of a game that was already released 1 year ago.

@Desmonic: Nope. If your opinion is based on incorrect information, then your opinion is wrong by default :P Example: Not believing the damn moon exists because the Bible doesn't mention it. Alas, not the point.

They can, when they write X and don't give the corresponding X number from the scale, picking Y or fucking Σ instead. >.>

Nope. Comparison doesn't work because the moon can be proven to exist simply by looking in the sky. Therefore its ignorance you are correcting. Nobody is ignorant for their opinion of subjective entertainment.

Yeah, it made you look really cool.

Zelda ALBW was GOTY

I'm going to laugh when it starts winning PS4 GOTY awards.

The best available on PS4?

Poor Infamous and KZ:SF :(

Good game overall. Not the best of all time by a longshot. It had some really bad buddy AI. The single player would be an 8-8.5. The gameplay was well crafted, but in general nothing new or inspiring. It didn't do anything new, it just did everything really well.

The story was generic and pretty lackluster until you get to Winter. Out of all of the portions of the game, Winter really was a standout.

What really bumped this game up to a 9 for me was the multiplayer. It was addicting as hell. I loved every second of it. Good purchase for those who have never played it. Complete ripoff for those who have.

Awesome. Will definitely play.

Rage?

LOL

Why would this be unsuspected?

It's the same exact game with slightly improved visuals. Why would that suddenly bump up the rating? I don't even see why they bothered to review it again.

@Cloud_imperium: I was under the impression its only a flop if it has an official, voted on hype and doesn't meet it. There was no hype voted on for TLOUR so its not a flop

Lol flop again. The game is good, but some of the corridor shooter stuff in the first half of the game really got boring for me. It wasn't until it opened up that it got better

Lol come on, you have an ellie avatar, maybe you just loved it more then the reviewer? Look I've seen a ton of 10/10 reviews. i played it last year. it was good and I feel an 8 is a good score for it personally. A lot of the 10/10 guys don't even talk about the combat (and how poor it is with the "auto hard cover system" or how slow the aiming is and the poor AI) nobody talks about the MP (which is a bad clone of UC/TR MP) As a story experience and the graphics for its time on 8 year old hardware, its an extremely impressive game, however the game has a lot of flaws that reviewers have "ignored" but have used against other games to lower their score. I mean the game was buggy and glicthy as hell, suffered from bad framerate drops, the MP is a terrible lag fest and the list goes on. In the end, TLOU was a frustrating game that took me way to long to finish (3 months) because i never really felt the need to play it, I just eventually got around to beating it and never bothered to get the PS4 version.

Cool, maybe when the PauperStation4 drops in price I will get it.

The Floppage returns!

Dang, cows just can't catch a break.

Well Left behind got a 9. Also, many believed it only got an 8 because it was reviewed by mcshea

Yes there is. Goolge system wars TLOY hype thread, and most votes where AAA

@deadline-zero0: is that the original or the remastered? If its being reviewed and scored again, it would need another hype thread.

Regardless of the score given, I skimmed through the review and found this paragraph. Sometimes I just don't understand reviewers...

"Still, if you think too carefully about the importance the story places on the connection between these two characters, things start to fall apart a bit. Because The Last of Us is an action game that adheres to the established template of the genre, over the course of your journey you murder not just one or five or 12 people, but dozens and dozens of them, and it's questionable whether a man who treats the lives of so many of his fellow human beings as so disposable would really be capable of placing any meaningful importance on the life of one particular individual. You can't soil your hands with the blood of hundreds and still have room for love in your heart."

I guess in order to save someone, or care for another individual, you have to be a saint?

1. In my opinion the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.Still think opinions can't be wrong ?
2. Yes.That's ill-treating !

...Oh lord

Yes, they mistreated an inanimate object by saying it's a great game

Your example is a misconception, it's an opinion based on something factual. Someone's opinion on something subjective (how they feel about the game) cannot be wrong.

No she (Carolyn ,the reviewer) just forgot that the hunters would tear Ellie and Joel apart for their clothes and boots (remember that moment when hunters on the jeep shot that woman who was trying to run away ,only to get her boots ?) or the cannibals would eat them for dinner ! And hence ,she thinks Joel doesn't have enough reason to kill them.

I can't believe how haters defend Carolyn and her review.

Not to mention that Joel first views Ellie as a job and then as his daughter, so why wouldn't he protect her. Was he really supposed to just let the people kill them. And Ellie does a fair amount of killing herself, is she not able to love either?

In the original TLOU review, didn't McShea believe that Joel was doing shady work before the apocalypse occurred, simply because he said he had some jobs lined up? Now, we have Carolyn who believes that if you kill people in order to save someone, or in general to protect them, that that is not compatible. I guess we have to exclude a good number of action games and movies now because the main character goes through the movements to save someone near the end?

I believe Joel actually admits to doing shady work at some point, similar to the hunters they run into in Pittsburgh

But he was refering to original flopping. And it's still basically the same game. I don't like to think of it as one, but, by SW rules, TLOU did flop and fail to met the hype.

Honestly, i personally don't think the remaster needed a review at all. Probably GS wanting clicks. This was an easy one anyway. :P

Cross generation releases and remastering last gen games, I want a good reason to buy a PS4 but am not seeing it yet .

That is during the 20 year time period from when the outbreak occurs to the present day (old Joel). I was referring to when he got the call right before the outbreak, when he was walking around his living room on the phone. He says he has some jobs lined up; to me, I believed him to be a contractor of some sorts, not some sketchy hitman or body disposal man as McShea wanted us to believe.

@lostrib: I believe Joel actually admits to doing shady work at some point, similar to the hunters they run into in Pittsburgh)

If you're talking about after society collapsed, then yes.

McShea came to the conclusion, in the beginning of the game when Joel came home to his daughter late at night, that he had been out doing shady work...when you clearly heard him on the phone talking to his brother about construction.

Only a McShea would come to such a knuckle headed conclusion.

Yeah, he works construction

"Joel worked in construction, possibly as a carpenter. In the prologue, during a phone conversation with Tommy, he mentions desperately needing to keep his job with a contractor" (from TLOU wiki)

If I'm not wrong ,you mean the bit when he and Ellie encountered the ambush and the car accident that followed.Joel tells Ellie he was aware of the ambush because he'd been on both sides (survives and hunters) But he never tells anything about his job before the apocalypse.Actually Sarah is thing (person ?! ) before the plague that he ever speaks of.

Yeah, i missed that Strife was talking about before the outbreak

LMFAO owned. What a moron.

@mems_1224 said:

@sHaDyCuBe321 said:

@tormentos said:

@freedomfreak said:

Aaah, memories..

Considering how gamespot owned them self naming it Goty i say my post was more than right..hahaha

Zelda ALBW was GOTY

LMFAO owned. What a moron.

Lol

@mems_1224 said:

@sHaDyCuBe321 said:

@tormentos said:

@freedomfreak said:

Aaah, memories..

Considering how gamespot owned them self naming it Goty i say my post was more than right..hahaha

Zelda ALBW was GOTY

LMFAO owned. What a moron.

That gif, funny stuff. :)

@mems_1224 said:

@sHaDyCuBe321 said:

@tormentos said:

@freedomfreak said:

Aaah, memories..

Considering how gamespot owned them self naming it Goty i say my post was more than right..hahaha

Zelda ALBW was GOTY

LMFAO owned. What a moron.

Coincidence

@StrifeDelivery: not a saint but killing would wear on most people. Not like soldiers get PTSD from it or anything. Her opinion has merit, but entertainment requires some imagining of fantasy.

That's the issue I have with Tom and Carolyn. They preach so hard on sexuality and gender equality in gaming and then turn around and make other wild and uneducated accusations themselves.

Speaking of wild accusations, I would bet that if it weren't for one emotional moment in the Left Behind DLC, Gamespot would have scored it an 8 or below. It's almost as if that moment was written for some of the Gamespot staff.

perfect example about an opinion that is wrong. And they get paid to write this kind of nonsense.

And talking about nonsense... DF said there were no improvements on the shadows of TLOU when running at 30 frames. It seems they are even more uninformed than the average joe considering that the improved shadows were coming in a patch during the game's release date.

Gaming media/journalism is a joke.

@elkoldo: 1.In my opinion the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.Still think opinions can't be wrong ?

That's not your opinion, and its not a subjective topic. Entertainment by its very name is subjective. Everything doesn't entertain everyone. You know very well where the sun rises and sets hence you can say its wrong for your example.

Never mind that the reason... you know what? It's not worth the time. Oh, how wrong it is.

I gave my PS3 copy to my nephew and planned on getting this new upscale version, but I'll wait for it to hit the $20 bin. It's the same game upscaled, smoothed graphics same dull textures=rip off double dipping BS once again just like on PS3 upscale rip offs. It's a great game, but this upscale version deserves about a 6/10 rating.

Ok... I feel you're on a different track here. She doesn't say that the killing wore down Joel, that it could have adverse effects on him. No, all she says is that since he has killed a lot of people (regardless of his reasoning, which makes realistic sense), he is incapable of caring for and protecting someone else. I'm sorry, but her opinion does not have merit.