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Stux
Nov 17, 2006

ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

For me I just hate Naughty Dog's unethical treatment of it's employees and even if the story was great I wouldn't want to support it.
A lot of the choices for what happens in the story in regards to character deaths sounded like a cheap way to draw emotion from players and in the hell year 2020 I just don't want to deal with the game opening up and shooting a shaggy dog just to see if I'd get sad or not. Literally everything about the game sounded miserable, and even the glowing reviews that are huffing their own farts none of them are saying it's actually fun or interesting to play- just "it made me big think" and nothing else.

I was still curious to what the ending could even be and it still just comes off across as miserable for the sake of being miserable. Now that I've watched it I just feel like it's right. It's a game that didn't need to exist and goes absolutely nowhere. The ending just feels like them hurting characters just for the sake of hurting characters- not to tell a interesting story or cover any interesting ground. I don't need to have the ending be Ellie winning a million dollars while everyone claps but ending with her just going home, losing her father and ability to enjoy music and curling up on a bed crying I just don't get what I'm supposed to pull from it other than 'life is miserable.'

The first game had that in parts yeah, but it also knew how to have levity- and while morally gray the ending did have that spark of caring for another person. The first game ended on the right or wrong of a surrogate fathers love. The second just ends cold. Alone. Meaningless.

Just not into it.

no theres def plenty of reviews talking about it being fun or interesting if you read them

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Stux
Nov 17, 2006

exquisite tea posted:

I feel like there needs to be a word for the phenomenon where people shape their entire political identity around passive enjoyment of a consumer product, where the focus is no longer placed upon the actual values expressed by that individual but in the expected and uncomfortable alignment of social groups behind a flimsily constructed piece of entertainment that can in no way support the weight of the greater dialogue surrounding it.

[a big siren begins blaring teh word "irony alert"]

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen
Mocap dog is pretty cool

Bonaventure
Jun 23, 2005

by sebmojo

Stux posted:

[a big siren begins blaring teh word "irony alert"]

god dammit someone let Alanis near the siren again

Onmi
Jul 12, 2013

If someone says it one more time I'm having Florina show up as a corpse. I'm not even kidding, I was pissed off with people doing that shit back in 2010, and I'm not dealing with it now in 2016.
Shocking no one, from the success of Chokeposting, Fuckposting and Biteposting are now also things. Because nothing creates OC quite like a trainwreck does.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

ugh... this is justt misery porn!! disgusting!!! how could anyone want to play this!! computer pull up videos of the misery for me... wow... this is so bad who would like this... computer replay video... just disgusting!! who is this for!!! computer show me next video. wow this one is even worse!! next video please computer. unbelievable... i guess some people just love misery... couldnt be me... computer load playlist "tlou2 cutscenes"

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen
the neil druckmann defender has logged on

Peacoffee
Feb 11, 2013


Stux posted:

ugh... this is justt misery porn!! disgusting!!! how could anyone want to play this!! computer pull up videos of the misery for me... wow... this is so bad who would like this... computer replay video... just disgusting!! who is this for!!! computer show me next video. wow this one is even worse!! next video please computer. unbelievable... i guess some people just love misery... couldnt be me... computer load playlist "tlou2 cutscenes"

It’s a good “Picard looking up Abram’s ST” bit I’ll give you that


By the time this is all over I’ll have probably wasted 2-3 hours griping about this game. That’s probably not even enough time to kill more than a few dogs.

Peacoffee fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Jun 18, 2020

tuo
Jun 17, 2016

Stux posted:

ugh... this is justt misery porn!! disgusting!!! how could anyone want to play this!! computer pull up videos of the misery for me... wow... this is so bad who would like this... computer replay video... just disgusting!! who is this for!!! computer show me next video. wow this one is even worse!! next video please computer. unbelievable... i guess some people just love misery... couldnt be me... computer load playlist "tlou2 cutscenes"

Computer, can you do a nude tayne?

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
after weighing the multiple pieces of evidence against one another i have come to a fair and balanced conclusion: this sequel to a hit PS3 game the last of us is a let down and a failed attempt to re-catch lightning in a bottle, AND everyone who has been madposting in this thread should be chemically castrated. thank you

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

were you to go on a long soul-searching journey I think you would discover that chemical castration is Wrong

Peacoffee
Feb 11, 2013


It is funny that ND rescheduled the release for Juneteenth (though they cant be blamed for not guessing a Texas date would stick)

Thinkin about how many white people will be at home having a transformative experience and gaining a deep sense of the world and themselves by sneaking around killing people and dogs...

Utnayan
Sep 26, 2002
PROUD MEMBER OF THE RAPIST DEFENSE BRIGADE! DO NOT BE MEAN TO RAPISTS, OR I WILL VOTE FOR THEM WITH EVER INCREASING VIGOR!
Holy moly did things escalate quickly on why not to buy this game...

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

nice av

Zeta Acosta
Dec 16, 2019

#essereFerrari
https://www.gamereactor.eu/the-last-of-us-part-ii-references-crunch-in-easter-egg/

Wage slaves and bad laboral practices are funny guys!!!!

Also the game is already released on New Zeland. Memes are okay

Dean of Swing
Feb 22, 2012

Starks posted:

If this game sells poorly it will probably be a wake-up call for executives that exploitative labour practices are NOT okay.

Peacoffee
Feb 11, 2013


gamereacter posted:


A very fascinating choice considering how many feel about the subject, so we'll let you be the judge after reading the description and watching the video below.....

yes very fascinating

gamereacter posted:

Once a well-respected researcher, Doctor Uckmann's questionable experiments in the realm of pushing humans limits saw him ostracised from the scientific community. Even the morally-compromised Laurent Foucault of SPARK Laboratories found his work dubious. Undeterred, Uckmann continued his work in secret, creating super-AI to do his bidding and protect his research while he and The New Dogs stage high-tech heists to fund it all. Constantly moving his lab location so no one can find him, he longs for the day where his subjects will be treated as equals.

Peacoffee fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Jun 18, 2020

Utnayan
Sep 26, 2002
PROUD MEMBER OF THE RAPIST DEFENSE BRIGADE! DO NOT BE MEAN TO RAPISTS, OR I WILL VOTE FOR THEM WITH EVER INCREASING VIGOR!
I want to personally thank Neil Druckmann for some of the best entertainment in the comment sections from some forums due to the launch of this title. I am going to get at least 25 hours of read time and will probably need oxygen with tears in my eyes from laughing, and I only had to pay ten bucks in 2002.

Onmi
Jul 12, 2013

If someone says it one more time I'm having Florina show up as a corpse. I'm not even kidding, I was pissed off with people doing that shit back in 2010, and I'm not dealing with it now in 2016.

Starks posted:

If this game sells poorly it will probably be a wake-up call for executives that exploitative labour practices are NOT okay.

1. This game is going to do absurdly well, not matter how good or bad it is.
2. Are you kidding? Do you know what happens when profits are "not as good as they were last year" Not bad, not non-existent, just lesser? They cut all the people who did the hard work and are 'replaceable' while the executives all sit around and give themselves a raise. There has been very very few cases where this didn't happen, and that'd be Iwata when the 3DS and Wii U didn't hit sales projections, he and other Nintendo executives took the blame on themselves and cut their wages down by around 50%. Which is still a heckuva lot of money, but there's very, VERY few instances of rich executives being willing to shoulder the blame of gently caress ups, or not even gently caress ups, "didn't meet unreasonable projections" even.

Brother Entropy
Dec 27, 2009

yeah if the game underperforms the takeaway will be something stupid like 'guess female protagonists don't sell', not anywhere near questioning their own business practices

Rabid Snake
Aug 6, 2004



CountryMatters posted:

If you don't play the miserable dog murder game where a pregnant lesbian is brutally beaten with a golf club, that also was created with the worst employment practices in the games industry, then the chuds will win. You don't want the chuds to win, do you?
Sadly most video game companies have the worst employment practices. Remember RDR2’s development? Valve? Riot?

Video game studios exploit the poo poo out of their workers and it’s sad af

lurker2006
Jul 30, 2019
As funny as it would be, that character only spit on Joel, he's not the one who hosed Abby unless there's another sex scene I don't know about.

lurker2006 fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jun 18, 2020

WaltherFeng
May 15, 2013

50 thousand people used to live here. Now, it's the Mushroom Kingdom.

lurker2006 posted:

As funny as it would be, that character only spit on Joel, he's not the one who hosed Abby unless there's another sex scene I don't know about.

Its a secret ending you unlock by gathering all the botte caps

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

~🚚special delivery~📦

lurker2006 posted:

As funny as it would be, that character only spit on Joel, he's not the one who hosed Abby unless there's another sex scene I don't know about.

listen mister you get your non-made-up assertions out of here, this is the thread for getting mad because neil druckmann told us we have to like the kkk

Zeta Acosta
Dec 16, 2019

#essereFerrari

dogstile
May 1, 2012

fucking clocks
how do they work?

lurker2006 posted:

As funny as it would be, that character only spit on Joel, he's not the one who hosed Abby unless there's another sex scene I don't know about.

Ah, so its only cringeworthy instead of creepy and cringeworthy

Fat_Cow
Dec 12, 2009

Every time I yank a jawbone from a skull and ram it into an eyesocket, I know I'm building a better future.

Really make me THINK



quote:

>Doctor Uckmann

>Real name: Dr. Uckmann
>Brains: 100
>Brawn: 60
>Affiliation: The New Dogs

>Once a well-respected researcher, Doctor Uckmann's questionable experiments in the realm of pushing humans limits saw him ostracised from the scientific community. Even the morally-compromised Laurent Foucault of SPARK Laboratories found his work dubious. Undeterred, Uckmann continued his work in secret, creating super-AI to do his bidding and protect his research while he and The New Dogs stage high-tech heists to fund it all. Constantly moving his lab location so no one can find him, he longs for the day where his subjects will be treated as equals.

>Neutral villain

Starks
Sep 24, 2006

Druckmann's game, which is getting terrible reviews, is a compilation of misery porn and cliches, all intended to make Gamers look bad. Many of the ridiculous scenes in the game are very cringe, the cringiest things I've ever seen. He should get fired like the sick puppy he is!

SUNKOS
Jun 4, 2016


Okay so all this stuff about ND is a mixture of gross and embarrassing but I preordered this poo poo and I saw Cohh is streaming it on Twitch so like, is it out now or do we need to wait a bit longer to play?

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

~🚚special delivery~📦

SUNKOS posted:

Okay so all this stuff about ND is a mixture of gross and embarrassing but I preordered this poo poo and I saw Cohh is streaming it on Twitch so like, is it out now or do we need to wait a bit longer to play?

Midnight local, so I think Australia’s starting to get it unlocked.

SUNKOS
Jun 4, 2016


Thanks :)

Nail Rat
Dec 29, 2000

You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!!
Preloading this dumb snuff simulator. I feel too invested to not play it.

Bifner McDoogle
Mar 31, 2006

"Life unworthy of life" (German: Lebensunwertes Leben) is a pragmatic liberal designation for the segments of the populace which they view as having no right to continue existing, due to the expense of extending them basic human dignity.

exquisite tea posted:

I feel like there needs to be a word for the phenomenon where people shape their entire political identity around passive enjoyment of a consumer product, where the focus is no longer placed upon the actual values expressed by that individual but in the expected and uncomfortable alignment of social groups behind a flimsily constructed piece of entertainment that can in no way support the weight of the greater dialogue surrounding it.

"Passive-Progressive" is my fav so far

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

I want to find a good Let's Player to watch.

Peachfart
Jan 21, 2017

Rabid Snake posted:

Sadly most video game companies have the worst employment practices. Remember RDR2’s development? Valve? Riot?

Video game studios exploit the poo poo out of their workers and it’s sad af

Play indie games that don't do this stuff.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

Starks posted:

Druckmann's game, which is getting terrible reviews, is a compilation of misery porn and cliches, all intended to make Gamers look bad. Many of the ridiculous scenes in the game are very cringe, the cringiest things I've ever seen. He should get fired like the sick puppy he is!

finally someone speaking sense

DrManiac
Feb 29, 2012

For the record even David cage hasn’t inserted himself into his own game to gently caress his waifu yet and that dude is horney as hell.

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen
https://twitter.com/lumpythecook/status/1273642736357380096?s=21

I love these

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

DrManiac posted:

For the record even David cage hasn’t inserted himself into his own game to gently caress his waifu yet and that dude is horney as hell.



How quickly we forget the best David Cage content ever produced, Da Hidden Dance Floor from Fahrenheit


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Cnidaria
Apr 10, 2009

It's all politics, Mike.

CJacobs posted:



How quickly we forget the best David Cage content ever produced, Da Hidden Dance Floor from Fahrenheit



the woman he dances with and briefly grinds on is also apparently modeled after his cousin lol

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