I mean, money becomes worth less over time, so prices are going to increase at some point. There's a reason PS1 games were usually $40, PS2 games $50, and PS3 $60. The surprise isn't that games will be $70 now; it's that they weren't already $70. We basically got a generation where costs didn't go up with inflation. I don't know how we could expect to get that forever.
You can tell who the younger people are on these stories. People who started playing in the last two gens seem to think games have been $60 since the dawn of time, when really we were lucky to have two gens in row at that price. PS1 games typically started at $40, and PS2 games were usually $50. It was honestly a very pleasant surprise that PS4 games stayed at $60.
And that's just disc-based games. Older cartridge-based games could be more expensive even back in the N6...
It was surprising to me how late in Abby's campaign she found out that the Jackson crew was there hunting her friends down.
You seem unable to stop thinking about it, so that's a good sign.
After they have basically recognized the problems with their third party showcase and the far more positive reaction to the PS5 event, I'm assuming they're going to come out guns blazing.
@Ouchiehurts
I'm loving that your justification for why the game is bad is that people are ripping on it, and you also use the fact that some people like it as evidence that it is bad. Your logic is self-contradictory. And if course none of your comments have any actual critiques of the game, just "well some YouTubers who usually play Apex legends didn't like it, so it must be bad."
@Ouchieshurts
So basically you are either parodying the exact people I'm talking about or you are one of them. Works to prove my point either way.
I think there is an argument to be made that, despite the numbers he killed at the Firefly base, Joel's actions were objectively more ethical than Dr. Anderson's (Abby's Dad), although his motivations were selfish. Dr. Anderson was going to kill a child, while she was unconscious and had no opportunity to consent (and it's debatable whether as a minor she could have consented, but it's telling that she was not given the opportunity), in order to give other people a better ...
And the people who supposedly hate it apparently think about it all the time.
I'll give you points for pointing to underdevelopment with Dina, since that's one of the first valid criticisms of this game I've seen anyone make on here. While the story establishes through flashbacks that Ellie was friends with both her and Jesse for awhile, it did seem like she went from "we kissed a few times and smoked pot together" to "I'm coming on your revenge quest hundreds of miles away." Although I understand why they did it; it's the same r...
They are assuredly also the same people who think they sound smart by talking about "plot armor" when all the main characters survive in a game/movie.
It's too bad, because while playing, I thought we'd all be having interesting discussions about the ethics of Joel's decision to save Ellie at any cost vs. Dr. Anderson's decision to perform surgery on Ellie, or Abby's justification for seeking revenge vs. Ellie's justification, and what it m...
The funny thing is that I do think there are valid criticisms to be made of this game, I just haven't seen anyone making them. And when I suggest that some criticisms are not valid, I don't just mean opinions I dislike. I mean that from what I have seen, people's criticisms fall into several categories: 1) people who obviously didn't play the game and are just going off of the "spoilers" which were only partially correct, 2) people who managed to ignore key story det...
I hope there is no third game. Hopefully they go back to straightforward Uncharted games where the hero wins and the bad guys lose. That's all anyone seems to be equipped to handle.
Quite happy to disagree with Kotaku.
Ellie knew that Abby was a Firefly and she knew it was about Joel's spree to save her (and the fact that the spree prevented creation of a cure). She says this to Abby at the theater. She just did not know specifically that the lead doctor was Abby's father. I don't know why you think she needed to ask specifically for more motivation; she assumed this was enough. It's established that she strongly resented Joel for what he did, so she didn't need to ask a former Firefly &...
I don't understand why you are focusing so much on how Abby was put in a weakened state (well, I do, it's because you are arguing in bad faith because you are determined to hate this game). The only reason Joel was in a position where Abby could kill him was because they were running from a horde and trying to get out of a snowstorm. The only reason Abby was in a position where Ellie could kill her was because she had been imprisoned by the Rattlers. So even though it isn't partic...
It's not about redemption. It's established throughout the game that Ellie basically has PTSD or something similar with respect to Joel's death. This is particularly true if you read her journal, although they do enough to establish it without that. At the last minute, when she is drowning Abby, she realizes that is doing the very thing that destroyed her; ironically, she can't kill Abby as revenge for killing Joel, because the way she was doing it was going to haunt her forev...
I don't understand how Abby being "broken" at that point changes anything; indeed, that's actually what makes it parallel, because Joel was in a position where he couldn't resist Abby when she killed him. As to it being "convenient" that another group (The Rattlers) had put her in a position where she couldn't effectively fight Ellie, that's pretty true to the world of The Last of Us. It's established throughout both games that most survival groups ...
I said that you were going to criticize the game no matter what, even if it had ended in the way you suggest it should have ended, and you agree? I didn't expect you to admit that straight out, but points for honesty.
Saying a system is "designed" for a certain framerate doesn't mean anything. Any system for the last several gens could run a game at 60 fps if the graphics were limited enough. I'm pretty sure every COD since the series became big has been at 60 fps, even COD4 on PS3, which was before most devs even figured out how to use the cell processor. But if you push graphics enough, it will be too much for any graphics card to run at 60 fps. And that's what happens every single ...