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[–] Plaidboy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'll take your word for it but I never played it myself since I'm not really into the whole survival genre 🤷

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh my god you’re missing it. It isn’t a survival game. It is a masterpiece of story telling.

I haven’t played it since the month it was released, but thinking about it still makes the hairs on my arms stand up. Within 5 minutes of playing the game I was on an emotional rollercoaster. It might be the only game I ever played that hit me that hard, with Red Dead 2 trailing it by a mile despite being the best game I’ve played in years.

You are cheating yourself if you never play it. I do not like survival games either, at all. Not even a little bit. The Last of Us might be the greatest game ever made.

[–] Plaidboy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's like you get to play the main character in a movie - a really good movie. I would agree, it's one of the best games ever!

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yes! This is how it felt to me. I would have been almost as happy just to see it as an animated movie. It was amazing and took games as a whole forward, and you knew it within the first few minutes of playing it. Like, I legit felt like that was the moment that games truly crossed over into art. That is kind of an exaggeration, but not by a lot. Damn I want to buy it and play it on my Steam deck haha. I still have my ps3 copy but no ps3.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

If you like story driven games, it's pretty good, if you look for good gameplay, this is not it.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Your comment made me go and buy it for my Steam deck. Even knowing what is coming I’m having a blast 11 years later. I have already bawled my eyes out and I’ve forgotten enough that I can’t wait to get into it fully again.

Thank you.

Please play it. Seriously. Do it for me and come back to me. If I wasn’t so damn poor I’d buy it for you. If nothing else watch the opening part on YouTube and see if it doesn’t hook you.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Last of Us is as much of a survival game as Elden Ring is a toddler-level Peppa Pig clone. You are crazy to pass from playing TLoU it is a fucking magnum opus chefs kiss of a video game.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago