I expected a masterpiece but TLOU is only a good game and not that good

[sblantipodi]

As title.
I expected a masterpiece but TLOU is only a good game and not that good

It's clear that the last of us has been nominated a masterpiece by Sony console gamers that tends to say masterpiece on everything that is a Sony PlayStation exclusive.

The last of us is not a masterpiece, and it's not an excellent game, just a good one and not that good.

Why?

Because there is nothing that makes it a masterpiece.

Story is ok but in the 20 hours I spent to complete the game the story is a very small part. You can tell the hole story of the last of us in 3 minutes, there is very very few to say.
The incipit is not even new, it's based on the withdrawn concept of an infection that mutate the infected. This is nothing new, nothing special.

Story telling is very good but as I said previously the story is very simple, so the story telling can't be that articulated.

Music is ok but I sincerely never felt engaged by its music, nothing special, not an high budget music production.

Gameplay is very basic and you ends doing the same things for 20 hours, the problem is that the things to do are very very few.

Ok it's an old game but the remaster is heavy and it doesn't have good graphics, it's not something that is on par with the current generation of games.

To all people that says that the last of us is a masterpiece I would ask why.

How can a game that simple be a masterpiece. There is nothing special on this Game not a single thing.

[Nyxo100]

Yeah i feel the same i was expecting so much more but is a ok game.

[Αη Ιnτellecτual Tsiραr]

I wouldn't even say it's a good game. The story is moving but aside from that it's boring. It's like uncharted. Those games are spectacles. I wouldn't say they're must play 3rd person shooters tho

[Dad0ne]

That's what i said from day one and to my friend that borrowed me his ps3 to play this game a decade ago because "BRO YOU HAVE TO PLAY THIS!!!!111!!1!".

I will never understand people that depict this game like the second coming of christ of gaming. Sure the story is good, but other than that it's neither innovative or something that wasn't already out there. It's a third person cover shooter with some VERY LIGHT rpg elements (if we can call a very minimalistic ability tree and a barebone crafting system rpg to begin with).

I think a lot of tlou players were simply teens at the time and most likely their first compelling game they played mixed with some nostalgia feelings. But for someone like me, that has been playing games since the amiga days (yes, im a boomer lol) this was nothing more than a good story driven game and that's it. But hey "de gustibus not disputandum est". So im not judging. I simply, like you, don't understand it.

[DM Hunk]

yeah it's just a good game, not the greatest "game" of all time.
The story carried the game and the gameplay is basic like you said.

[Jeffer'son Airship]

Like a lot of big blockbusters, other games took a lot of the good ideas and executed on them better.

TLOU mostly sold itself on presentation back in the day and that ages fast.

[waldo]

you could only do so much during the ps3, xbox 360 era. at the time it was insane but now with all these modern games of course its going to show its age and limitations to what we are so used to today. this so called "remake" aint really a remake the controls still feels as slugish (same) as it did on the ps3.

[sblantipodi]

Originally posted by waldo:

you could only do so much during the ps3, xbox 360 era. at the time it was insane but now with all these modern games of course its going to show its age and limitations to what we are so used to today. this so called "remake" aint really a remake the controls still feels as slugish (same) as it did on the ps3.

This game was not that good 10 years ago neither.
What is the innovation that it bringed 10 years ago?

[Dad0ne]

Originally posted by sblantipodi:

Originally posted by waldo:

you could only do so much during the ps3, xbox 360 era. at the time it was insane but now with all these modern games of course its going to show its age and limitations to what we are so used to today. this so called "remake" aint really a remake the controls still feels as slugish (same) as it did on the ps3.

This game was not that good 10 years ago neither.
What is the innovation that it bringed 10 years ago?

im telling you, people look at this game through teenager rose colored glasses that were used to play to cod and fifa for the most part. It's the same as my friend i told in my original reply. He never really played any story driven games before tlou, so when it did for him it was like this masterpiece.

[sblantipodi]

At the end I gived this game a negative review.

It's a ten year old game, sold them years later at full price with crappy graphics compared to the resources it requires.

All in all I would give the game a 7 out of ten.
Good game, nothing special and far off from the masterpiece that some kids talks about.

[Nightwulf1974]

You're delusional, must be a generational thing.

[Hostile_18]

The remake dosnt have good graphics? Compared to what? Perhaps if you stated what games you believe are a master piece it would put it in some kind of context.

Games are all subjective at the end of the day. For me Uncharted and Last of Us games are the best games ever made. Something like The WItcher 3 comes very close though.

[that wasn't "Cash Money" of you]

Its a fantastic game, you need to not force the pacing. Its a slow game about survival not a zombie looter shooter that you race through. Slow down, explore, take your time and its great. Especially with these amazing visuals.

[GamerGate Valkyrie]

And the worst of all this, is their WOKE TV Show.

[sblantipodi]

Originally posted by Buschguy:

Originally posted by Dad0ne:

people used to play to cod and fifa for the most part.
...
He never really played any story driven games before tlou, so when it did for him it was like this masterpiece.

Story driven games from that time and before:
Uncharted series
Metal Gear series
GTA series
Yakuza series
Final Fantasy series
Deus Ex series
System Shock series
Bioshock series
Metroid Prime series
The Walking Dead by Telltale - story driven, zombies, actual unique plot

and probably so many more that just won't come to my mind right now

The fact that people simply haven't played a story driven game before, doesn't make LoU the first or best big story driven game.

I agree with this.
There are so many titles that have a good story and a good story telling, TLOU has only a good story telling because the story is banal and a cut and paste of the usual zombie series.

Is there someone who remember Max Payne?

[Jinxlord]

Originally posted by Dad0ne:

That's what i said from day one and to my friend that borrowed me his ps3 to play this game a decade ago because "BRO YOU HAVE TO PLAY THIS!!!!111!!1!".

I will never understand people that depict this game like the second coming of christ of gaming. Sure the story is good, but other than that it's neither innovative or something that wasn't already out there. It's a third person cover shooter with some VERY LIGHT rpg elements (if we can call a very minimalistic ability tree and a barebone crafting system rpg to begin with).

I think a lot of tlou players were simply teens at the time and most likely their first compelling game they played mixed with some nostalgia feelings. But for someone like me, that has been playing games since the amiga days (yes, im a boomer lol) this was nothing more than a good story driven game and that's it. But hey "de gustibus not disputandum est". So im not judging. I simply, like you, don't understand it.

Being about the same age, a cannot agree more. Funnily enough when I replayed some old games that I had very fond memories of thanks to GOG, I found quite a few of them not nearly as fun or accessable as back in the day when standards of what was "good", "playable", or a functional interface were much lower. Hence most of these titles are simply not as good by modern standards.
In regard to TLOU, yeah it's an OK game, but an extreamly linear and gamy experience. I mean come on, you can only take along 1 extra mag for your standard handgun and have to leave anything more that you find behind. even when like three more bullets would not realy wheigh you down. That makes no sense in a survival situation, where scarcity of recources is the norm. Instead you lug around 8 different weapons. Yes very believable. But hey, that's just my two cents.