The Last of Us

[soslow]

Originally Posted by aod

It appears so far this is a PS3 only title because they are dedicating their nut swinging to that system only. If it is, I urge the developers to pull their heads from their asses.

Originally Posted by StriderTB

Wait, doesn't the PS3 run Linux?

I was so going to post that.

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[Danno04]

Originally Posted by aod

It appears so far this is a PS3 only title because they are dedicating their nut swinging to that system only. If it is, I urge the developers to pull their heads from their asses.

It will be PS3 only, Naughty Dogs always made games for PS3 only. The use the PS3 or PS3 processor to develop their games.

I guess this is their next project after Uncharted, its the same guys who are making this one right? Which is good, since its a good way to retire the Uncharted series. BUT when developing the last uncharted they said something like, they pushed the PS3 to the max, they could have pushed the game engine for more, but the PS3 couldn't handle. So i'm just curios how this game would be better or are they developing a brand new engine from scratch for this.

I don't really care if it looks better, I was satisfied with uncharted graphics, just as long as the gameplay is good. If this game takes place years after the "event", there better be no 100s of bullets laying around, hard to find food ect.

[AWDPirate]

Originally Posted by Danno04

BUT when developing the last uncharted they said something like, they pushed the PS3 to the max, they could have pushed the game engine for more, but the PS3 couldn't handle. So i'm just curios how this game would be better or are they developing a brand new engine from scratch for this.

I'd like to see them push the limits further this time. They should ask Square-Enix what's up. Two bluray discs perhaps? Think of the possibilities.

[Danno04]

Originally Posted by AWDPirate

I'd like to see them push the limits further this time. They should ask Square-Enix what's up. Two bluray discs perhaps? Think of the possibilities.

How would we be able to make fun of the Xbox crowd then for having multiple DVDs?

[nightcrawler60]

Originally Posted by aod

It appears so far this is a PS3 only title because they are dedicating their nut swinging to that system only. If it is, I urge the developers to pull their heads from their asses.

Meh. Rather its stays an exclusive. I like seeing developers dedicated to getting the most out of a system. Someone always gets the loose end when multiplat

Originally Posted by Danno04

make fun of the Xbox crowd then for having multiple DVDs?

I lol'd at the many disk they have to use for Rage

[nightcrawler60]

http://n4g.com/news/904829/the-last-...me-naughty-dog

Naughty Dog say The Last Of Us is a love story, not a zombie game – and insist that they’re not even going for horror…


Very few details of The Last Of Us, the new Naughty Dog game revealed at the VGA’s over the weekend, have yet emerged. What we did seem to know is that it’s a game with zombies in it – certainly the trailer showed them hunting the game’s pair of lead characters. Yet the developer insists that The Last Of Us is not a zombie game. It’s not even a horror game, they say.
“[It's] not a zombie game,” said game director Bruce Straley.
“If the game was about the monsters, we would have not showed them [in the trailer],” added creative director Neil Druckmann. ”The story’s not about them, so [we thought] let’s get it out of the way.”
Insisting that “we’re not going for horror,” Druckmann said the game is instead a sort of love story – “not a romantic love story,” but “a love story about a father-daughter-like relationship.”
And speaking in a lengthy feature on Eurogamer, Druckmann admitted that the now-infamous Dead Island trailer had the team at Naughty Dog a little worried. “We saw it and we thought, wait a minute, someone else is doing this – it’s really moving, there’s this family that’s been torn apart.” It’s probably safe to assume that ND were pleased with the action-centric direction Dead Island ultimately took.
Keep up to date with all the latest The Last Of Us news!

[kimokalihi]

Originally Posted by EvilCerealBoX

We can't do that til Vampires Vs Zombies comes out!

Vampires are for tweens.

[kimokalihi]

Originally Posted by soslow

I was so going to post that.

You used to be able to. Not anymore after it got hacked. They removed the install your own OS feature after that whole debacle. (run linux)

[nightcrawler60]

Wow.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/122/1221522p1.html

With Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception behind it (with the exception, perhaps, of some DLC), Sony-owned developer Naughty Dog is currently hard at work on its newest title, the PlayStation 3-exclusive post-apocalyptic title The Last of Us.

In The Last of Us, characters Joel and Ellie are endlessly stalked not only by fellow survivors, but by foes severely altered by a fungal infection. Aptly called The Infected, these enemies are truly horrifying, and we've never been given a really solid, still-frame look at what these creatures look like... well, until now, that is.

Tweets went out today from Naughty Dog Co-Presidents Christophe Balestra and Evan Wells showing off a bust of an Infected that Naughty Dog commissioned. You can take a look at the four pictures the co-presidents Tweeted to the public below.

[Predwolf]

Humpity bump.

Since the OP video is down, here's everything, including around seven minutes of gameplay.

The Last of Us VGA 2011 Trailer - YouTube

The Last of Us VGA 2011 Trailer - YouTube

The Last of Us - The Truck Ambush Trailer - YouTube

The Last of Us - The Truck Ambush Trailer - YouTube

YouTube

YouTube

Notes:

• AI on both sides is great.
• Very heavy atmosphere.
• Note that he doesn't just walk over a gun and it magically disappears and adds ammo to his counter. He picks it up, empties the bullets, and drops the now empty gun on the ground.
• Very human reactions during the fights, that last headshot as the guy begged for his life made me cringe.
• Item creation/mixing system, guy combines a bandage and a bottle of alcohol to create a molotov.
• Late 2012/Early 2013 release date.

I'm pretty sure this has topped my list as a "must have" now, and we haven't even seen gameplay vs the infected.

[Kostamojen]

Holy crap, that gameplay footage was damn good.

[Zarno]

Originally Posted by Predwolf

Humpity bump.

Since the OP video is down, here's everything, including around seven minutes of gameplay.

The Last of Us VGA 2011 Trailer - YouTube

The Last of Us - The Truck Ambush Trailer - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZYkj0glnqs

Notes:

• AI on both sides is great.
• Very heavy atmosphere.
• Note that he doesn't just walk over a gun and it magically disappears and adds ammo to his counter. He picks it up, empties the bullets, and drops the now empty gun on the ground.
• Very human reactions during the fights, that last headshot as the guy begged for his life made me cringe.
• Item creation/mixing system, guy combines a bandage and a bottle of alcohol to create a moltov.

I'm pretty sure this has topped my list as a "must have" now, and we haven't even seen gameplay vs the infected.

WANT

[burtonrider3889]

God I'm glad I own a ps3.

[bwrx03]

Holy **** that looked awesome.

[Cuddles]

Originally Posted by Kostamojen

Holy crap, that gameplay footage was damn good.

So good it looked scripted. I hope the whole game plays like that though. It was so damn good.

[bakadayo]

Looked awesome, but yes I'm afraid that it will be too scripted. I love the animation details.

[Zarno]

I knew the bridge near the beginning of the 7:23 video looked like one from Pittsburgh! One of the signs in the street points to the Fort Duquesne Bridge and even looks just like the signs they have downtown - awesome.

[wildnuts]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler60

Wow.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/122/1221522p1.html

Imagine genetically crossing jock-itch with cordyceps, and we'd probably have that.

[Its Vanilla]

When the first screenshots came out, they mentioned part of the game being set in "Pittsburgh". I've been looking forward to it ever since, since you know, I live there. Naughty Dog's done great stuff with the Uncharted series, so I'm pretty pumped about this one.

[skimmilk68]

Originally Posted by Cuddles

So good it looked scripted. I hope the whole game plays like that though. It was so damn good.

there's no way there will be dialogue like that........ *crossing fingers though*

[Predwolf]

Interviews:

The Last Of Us Video Game, E3 2012: Gameplay Walkthrough (Stream) | Video Clip | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com

The Last Of Us Video Game, E3 2012: Gameplay Walkthrough (Stream) | Video Clip | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com

• The city Ellie and Joel are in is called "The Hunter's City", and it's a former quarantine zone once run by a splinter faction of the US Military
• Many factions(hunters in the E3 demo)
• The melee fights were all in-game fights, not scripted sequences
• The melee system, Ellie throwing the brick, being ambushed at the doorway, etc were all generated in real time based on the game engine analyzing the geometry and characters and dynamically choosing the most appropriate set of animations and reactions, as well as the AI making choices based upon if there's flank routes, how much ammo do they have, how many allies are left, is it a narrow area or wide open, etc
• Other NPC allies like Ellie
• The game will be "a wide linear space" --- while you have some events that all players will see, there's a large amount of freedom to dodge enemies or bypass entire sections
• The entire sequence in the E3 demo could have been avoided with stealth
• Will have multiplayer, but they're not announcing how it will be implemented yet
• Length will be about as long as the Uncharted games
• Very few man-made light sources in the game, most of it will be bounced sunlight

[Mr.Sparkle]

I read an article in Game Informer about this. They state that you will see very little of the actual infected in the game. It isn't about the plague but rather the human interaction between Joel and Ellie. The developer promise that Ellie will not get in the way and as Predwolf stated above can actually help out.

This game looks great, I can't wait to get my hands on it.

[Predwolf]

The embargo is up, so previews are coming out now.

IGN:

The Last of Us made quite the impression this week when it closed out PlayStation's E3 press conference with a dramatic seven-minute demo. So, I was a bit disappointed when Naughty Dog started the same demo behind closed doors. That is, until the seven-minute runthrough blossomed into a 17-minute showcase. While Naughty Dog focused on beating the hell out of people head-on at the Sony show, it turns out you can tackle The Last of Us in a number of different ways.

The first change was an innocuous one. In the conference demo, Ellie references a movie poster for "Dawn of the Wolf," and Joel blows past it. In the behind closed doors demo, he doesn't. Instead he stops and has a conversation about it. Naughty Dog told me that these moments are there for gamers who want more of the story -- who want to get to know these characters. In this instance, Ellie asks Joel if the girl gets "gutted" at the end, and Joel scoffs, telling her it's a "dumb teen movie." Ellie asks Joel why he saw it then, he grumbles, and the group is off. In another interesting change, Joel looked at the bridge before Ellie asked him about it in the private demo, so the conversations from the conference never happened.

OK, so you know how in the conference demo Joel and Ellie immediately went left in the old hotel? That wasn't how it went in my private demo. They scavenged more and that ladder wasn't there. The duo had to find a way up to the stairs to continue moving through the hotel. After scoping the place out, Joel spotted a ladder, rolled over a laundry cart, and boosted Ellie up on it to grab the tool. If Joel hadn't spotted the ladder but still boosted Ellie up, she would've announced her discovery.

When Ellie asked Joel if he wanted to go around the looters last time, he seemed to do just that. This time, he went straight at their location. Rather than go through the doorway, Joel ran up to the broken windows and waited for the enemies to disperse. Then, he hurled a beer bottle into the room on the far left and waited for a guy to come investigate. Joel hopped in, took him hostage, and choked him out. Rather than engage the rest of the enemies, Joel and Ellie took off in a new direction.

Here's where I can't show you screengrabs. The pair was into uncharted territory and eventually cut through a bathroom containing the body of a woman who took her life years ago. When Ellie comes upon it, her and Joel have this conversation about this being "the easy way out." Joel tells her it's far from easy.

After seeing both of these demos, there's a part in the conference footage that stands out to me. After Joel tosses his Molotov cocktail and burns a man alive, Ellie exclaims "S***, Joel!" In the heat of the original presentation, it didn't seem out of character -- it was her reacting to the situation. But after watching the 17-minute demo -- where that scene never happens -- Ellie's line doesn't sound like she's freaking out about the situation but more about Joel's action. It sounds like she's responding to him acting way more aggressive than he normally does.

After the dead body, the pair continue their way through the building. Joel finds a pipe (probably the one the enemy used on him in the other demo) and bandage (a bandage he could've combined with the bottle he threw and some alcohol for a Molotov). Here, Joel's more like you'd imagine a survivor to be. He's quiet, calculated and looking for anything that could keep him alive.

Of course, the duo does run into that second round of bad guys from the first demo. They brawl and shoot, but this time the fight features Joel on the defensive. After taking a shot, Joel uses the bandage he found to wrap his bleeding arm. (It's a live inventory system, so enemies keep coming as Joel dresses his wound.) There's a pipe beatdown and some shooting, and when the final enemy falls, Ellie comes out of hiding and reacts to the bleeding body at your feet.

With the bad guys dead, Joel and Ellie move on -- past where dude bro's head got blown apart. They open an elevator shaft, climb onto a suspended car, and then jump to its also suspended sister. Ellie gets up, but before she can help him up, the car gives way and Joel tumbles with it to a watery basement. Holding his side in pain, he clicks on a flashlight, calls up to Ellie and begins swimming into a debris field beyond the doorway.

[Kostamojen]

Good god, I want to play this NOW!

[The Dayman]

This is the first time I have ever regretted selling my PS3 several years back.