Video Games...Discuss Them

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Resident Evil... with vampires?

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California now, searching for Abby

] . Funny thing, what with how fucking rainy this game is, I [

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reminisced about a Future installment and how it would be a Nice change of scenery if this series went there.

] I got my wish sooner than I thought. I feel like I'm nearing the end so can't wait to find out!! :). Something's up with [

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Abby though, that's my guess with the way she's always the one opening gates and pushing stuff outta the way.

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As for the game being unpleasant, it's in a league of its own allright. But is it more so than a particularly vicious season of walking dead? So far, no objections. It feels like a storytelling and word-building Milestone. Would have been even more so if it had been the first installment.

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You'll know when you know.

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It ended. What did I miss?! As damn near as I can tell, [

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Abby has short cropped hair, is a helluva lot thinner, Ellie and Abby slug it out, Ellie can't kill her, Abby leaves with Lev. Some flashbacks with Joel, Dina's gone. The end.

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Wife told me to get the boys a Switch for their birthdays this year (their 2 weeks apart), so I ordered that, Mario Kart 8, and Mario. The games will be here next week. The system next month :/.

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Wife told me to get the boys a Switch for their birthdays this year (their 2 weeks apart), so I ordered that, Mario Kart 8, and Mario. The games will be here next week. The system next month :/.

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Make sure you get Hades for yourself!

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Originally Posted by megladon8

Make sure you get Hades for yourself!

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Oh I'll be getting some shit. I hesitate spending big sums of money for new systems, but if they wife says go, I RUN. Zelda is happening for sure.

Morris, it's been fun to read your Last of Us 2 reactions now that the hype/backlash has dissipated. Most people who reacted negatively to the game primarily cite [

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the manner in which Joel is killed and Abby's prominence as a playable character/Ellie's role as anti-hero

] as reasons why. IMO these criticisms are paradoxical: despite their personal shortcomings in the first game, Ellie and Joel came to be so dear to people's hearts they were less willing to give full authorship to Naughty Dog, who continued the story in a logical (if challenging) direction based on E&J's established character flaws. ND made such great characters that audiences felt as if they knew them and therefore had strong opinions about what their motivations ought to be (common criticisms include "MY Ellie wouldn't have done that," or "I'll never be able to forgive Abby for what she did," etc.), and we always want to believe the best about people we love. It's a boundary-pushing exercise in perspective -- in these games everyone does bad things to survive, yet we still side with the ones we know best.

I think it's a masterpiece, on par with the original. A bit too long though.

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Originally Posted by Idioteque Stalker

Morris, it's been fun to read your Last of Us 2 reactions now that the hype/backlash has dissipated. Most people who reacted negatively to the game primarily cite [

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the manner in which Joel is killed and Abby's prominence as a playable character/Ellie's role as anti-hero

] as reasons why. IMO these criticisms are paradoxical: despite their personal shortcomings in the first game, Ellie and Joel came to be so dear to people's hearts they were less willing to give full authorship to Naughty Dog, who continued the story in a logical (if challenging) direction based on E&J's established character flaws. ND made such great characters that audiences felt as if they knew them and therefore had strong opinions about what their motivations ought to be (common criticisms include "MY Ellie wouldn't have done that," or "I'll never be able to forgive Abby for what she did," etc.), and we always want to believe the best about people we love.

I think it's a masterpiece, on par with the original. A bit too long though.

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Well said Stalker. Well said.

Thanks. Hey did you all know you can catch ammo in midair if you're quick? Been discovered just recently. Just read about it.

I guess I was expecting another bombshell to drop with Duke saying 'to keep going' and Eric that 'I would know when I knew' indicating it would be a can't miss moment.

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Originally Posted by Idioteque Stalker

Morris, it's been fun to read your Last of Us 2 reactions now that the hype/backlash has dissipated. Most people who reacted negatively to the game primarily cite [

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the manner in which Joel is killed and Abby's prominence as a playable character/Ellie's role as anti-hero

] as reasons why. IMO these criticisms are paradoxical: despite their personal shortcomings in the first game, Ellie and Joel came to be so dear to people's hearts they were less willing to give full authorship to Naughty Dog, who continued the story in a logical (if challenging) direction based on E&J's established character flaws. ND made such great characters that audiences felt as if they knew them and therefore had strong opinions about what their motivations ought to be (common criticisms include "MY Ellie wouldn't have done that," or "I'll never be able to forgive Abby for what she did," etc.), and we always want to believe the best about people we love. It's a boundary-pushing exercise in perspective -- in these games everyone does bad things to survive, yet we still side with the ones we know best.

I think it's a masterpiece, on par with the original. A bit too long though.

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Joel did in the original so they can stay mad about what happened in Part II, and completely refuse to look at the overall story from another perspective, when that's the entire POINT of the game! I think The Cosmonaut Variety Hour analyzed it the best in this segment of his Last Of Us II vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiq0...outu.be&t=1022

"Let's go to an alternate universe, where the original Last Of Us features a doctor and his daughter in a post-apocalyptic world. The doctor's trying to do the right thing, but the world is decaying fast, and it's hard for him to recognize right from wrong. Then he finds a girl who's immune to the virus, but he realizes that he has to sacrifice her to save humanity. It's a tough choice, but he knows he has to do it because he's one of the last people alive who cares about saving mankind. But then, that girl's guardian kills the doctor, because people are selfish, and don't want to be saved. But then a few years later in this alternate universe, The Last Of Us Part II comes out, and we have to play as those other people, and the fans are saying "How DARE Naughty Dog make me play as these lunatics?! They were clearly the villains of the last game! Abbey's dad was the hero! These people killed him, and now they live in this peaceful country town, are you fucking kidding me?? Joel is evil, why would Naughty Dog try to make me feel bad for him?! And now I have to play as Ellie?! She's a psychopath!" Do you hear how silly that sounds?"

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Although I can imagine a slightly different ending where [

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Abby remains on the cross Spartacus-style, where she's slowly beginning to turn, and she's just about able to whisper to Ellie to kill her, making it a mercy killing.

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And moments before, when [

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Ellie rescues the prisoners, they inform her that they think Abby was bitten, so it might have made for a more poetic and haunting ending. Now it does kind of go on just a tad too long with another bout of punching and kicking.

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Exciting times, because I get to start a new game. And I choose:

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DOOM ETERNAL

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I still haven't finished the Doom Reboot.

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I still haven't finished the Doom Reboot.

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You mean the 2016 one? Or Eternal?

2016

Shit is brutally tough and chaotic right from The start!

I felt like I should be main lining Monster Energy drink while playing Doom. Never got too far #gettingold.

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Originally Posted by Morris Schæffer

Shit is brutally tough and chaotic right from The start!

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2016 is? Boy. I found it boring and easy and partially why I stopped playing.

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Originally Posted by Dukefrukem

2016 is? Boy. I found it boring and easy and partially why I stopped playing.

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Eternal. Tho I play on nightmare.

Doom 2016 was maybe my favorite game that year. Freaking incredible.

Control Ultimate Edition was officially released today and we don't already have a five paragraph essay from meg and therefore I am upset.

It's funny, if I had a PS5 right now my first two purchases would be Demon's Souls and Control -- two games I've already played a lot.

Oh did thet release the PS5 update finally?

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Joel killed her dad

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It might have made an eenie weenie bit of difference.

I think I need to check out these new Hitman games.

Complete NES collection for sale lol

only 60k!

It's finally happening...
https://youtu.be/1tjkSpoa7V8
https://youtu.be/FAe1VgVzYpw

This is why Epic acquired the Serbian company 3Lateral... I have good friends and former colleagues who have been working on this for years, nice to see it official.