Post by crowschmo on Sept 21, 2020 13:56:42 GMT -5
I see no one has written in this board in quite a while.
It's weird of me to write about this, since I'm not a gamer myself. I was just wondering if anyone has actually played this game. I haven't played, but I have seen versions of it on YouTube where the uploader put up the "story" parts, (edit: cut scenes) then interspersed them with the game parts in which they got through a level successfully to make a kind of movie. And I've watched a person's video where they were actually playing the game.
It's an end of the world sort of thing, as usual. Like a zombie apocalypse type dealio. I had heard of it, and knew a bit of the first game from bits and pieces on YouTube, and it seems to be a pretty popular game. (I haven't watched the first Last of Us all the way through, and I'm not done with watching every scene of the 2nd one yet, the whole "movie" version lasts about 24 stinkin' hours ).
There are a group of survivors, and they have to fight off other groups and also fight off these infected zombie like people (it's a fungal infection). There are different stages of infection: You have Runners who are still sort of like people, the Clickers who are turning into some fungus type thing, Stalkers who are half way between Runners and Clickers, and Bloaters who get to a stage where they're kind of gassy and their pustules actually can blow up if you get too close when you're trying to kill them and they can throw them at you.
You can loot things on your journeys and find guns and ammo and bows and arrows; you find snacks that help you live longer and not get worn out, and supplements, and gears to upgrade your weapons; if you find rags and alcohol you can heal yourself when you've been in a few battles. Every time you come across a workbench you can upgrade your weapons if you've collected enough stuff. It's pretty neat.
It takes place in Wyoming and Seattle. (Edit: And Santa Barbara). The POV is two different opposing characters and you're playing as both of them at different points in the game.
I don't know why I started a whole thread for this, as I said I haven't played it myself, it's just that I was pretty impressed with the imagery in the game. It's really beautiful. The design of the characters is pretty damn good (especially during the "story" part when one isn't actually playing, but being moved forward in the story aspect of it, before one gets back to the interactive part). The scenery is gorgeous. The mountains and trees, even the decaying city of Seattle, all have such great detail. Just the way the light plays on everything, even, and one can see the occasional bird or squirrel or rat, butterfly, what have you. When you have your character standing still and can look all around in a 360, it's just amazing all the little nuances that were put into it. And all the buildings you can go in, the rooms and levels. I was just very impressed with the level of detail and what must have went into programming this thing. Gaming CGI has come a long way.
So, anyway - wasn't that exciting?
Has anyone here actually played this?
It's weird of me to write about this, since I'm not a gamer myself. I was just wondering if anyone has actually played this game. I haven't played, but I have seen versions of it on YouTube where the uploader put up the "story" parts, (edit: cut scenes) then interspersed them with the game parts in which they got through a level successfully to make a kind of movie. And I've watched a person's video where they were actually playing the game.
It's an end of the world sort of thing, as usual. Like a zombie apocalypse type dealio. I had heard of it, and knew a bit of the first game from bits and pieces on YouTube, and it seems to be a pretty popular game. (I haven't watched the first Last of Us all the way through, and I'm not done with watching every scene of the 2nd one yet, the whole "movie" version lasts about 24 stinkin' hours ).
There are a group of survivors, and they have to fight off other groups and also fight off these infected zombie like people (it's a fungal infection). There are different stages of infection: You have Runners who are still sort of like people, the Clickers who are turning into some fungus type thing, Stalkers who are half way between Runners and Clickers, and Bloaters who get to a stage where they're kind of gassy and their pustules actually can blow up if you get too close when you're trying to kill them and they can throw them at you.
You can loot things on your journeys and find guns and ammo and bows and arrows; you find snacks that help you live longer and not get worn out, and supplements, and gears to upgrade your weapons; if you find rags and alcohol you can heal yourself when you've been in a few battles. Every time you come across a workbench you can upgrade your weapons if you've collected enough stuff. It's pretty neat.
It takes place in Wyoming and Seattle. (Edit: And Santa Barbara). The POV is two different opposing characters and you're playing as both of them at different points in the game.
I don't know why I started a whole thread for this, as I said I haven't played it myself, it's just that I was pretty impressed with the imagery in the game. It's really beautiful. The design of the characters is pretty damn good (especially during the "story" part when one isn't actually playing, but being moved forward in the story aspect of it, before one gets back to the interactive part). The scenery is gorgeous. The mountains and trees, even the decaying city of Seattle, all have such great detail. Just the way the light plays on everything, even, and one can see the occasional bird or squirrel or rat, butterfly, what have you. When you have your character standing still and can look all around in a 360, it's just amazing all the little nuances that were put into it. And all the buildings you can go in, the rooms and levels. I was just very impressed with the level of detail and what must have went into programming this thing. Gaming CGI has come a long way.
So, anyway - wasn't that exciting?
Has anyone here actually played this?