• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

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

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        2 months ago

        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.

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          2 months ago

          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!

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            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.

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        2 months ago

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

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        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.

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        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.