You Guys. The Last of Us, You Guys.

[Lumenskir]

Ok, so I realize I'm a few months late on this but damn, what a great piece of entertainment that was.

I sort of gave up on videogames when the "more is more is never enough" mentality for the story and mechanics sort of became oppressive, but I heard enough great things about the right aspects that I broke my self-imposed three year exile* to buy it and then tore through it in two glorious days, a feat I usually reserve for great series.**

*Well, exile from buying/playing games. I still listen to videogame podcasts and such, which is how I heard about it in the first place.
**If I had to give a tl;dr review - The Last of Us: As good as television.

I loved pretty much everything about this. The presentation of the world, the characters, the way the mechanics and the narrative intertwined so amazingly. The crafting system was simple and great in how it gave you enough to use things semi-freely instead of hoarding every item in fear that a situation might arise when it really deserves it and then you get to the end and you have like every grenade left unused with no one to use them on*. And that story, the plot and characters and just everything, how it turns into a playable version of Hanna for a segment, and especially how they just flat out avoided pretty much every annoying theme or gimmick you might expect.**

*Which, now that I think of it, might be a me thing?
**See, for instance, how there's never a "Oh no, we can't let the innocent kill and destroy her purity" concern expressed.

So, for those interested in rehashing/restating your opinions on what is by now an ancient relic, what did you all think. Also, serious question: I read one review that said that there was a plot hole that retroactively brought down his enjoyment...but I never noticed the plot hole, and I spent the entire game with that worry in my head. Was I just spectacularly dense/a TLoU-stan to miss it?

[Revising Ocelot]

Originally Posted by Lumenskir

...hoarding every item in fear that a situation might arise when it really deserves it and then you get to the end and you have like every grenade left unused with no one to use them on

Not alone. Show me one of the old Tomb Raider games and I will savescum my entire way through using nothing but the pistols. Even if it's a giant dragon, T-Rex, or Egyptian god. When I used to play WoW my bank would be ludicrously overstuffed with just about every item I could find the tiniest amount of justification to keep. Every single tier set, pet, tabard, gimmick item ever created. And I quit long before that feature where you could display alternate gear over your actual gear was introduced.

Anyway, more on topic, I am looking forward to PS3 discounts when the PS4's been out a year or two. Assuming Steam doesn't suck my wallet dry first (which is very likely). I have heard rumblings that PS3 games might be downloadable on the PS4 as they're not backwards compatible, however. So I might procrastinate on it further.