this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
512 points (93.7% liked)

Greentext

3990 readers
1684 users here now

This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

founded 11 months ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Plaidboy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days 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.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

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