Well guess I’m making a steam account reminds me of in 2020 when Sony had a play at home thing where 7 games and one dlc were given away for free personally have only played the Lego game out of those but might give the others a try sometime
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The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered comes out in January!
- New Roguelike Mode! Survive various combat arenas as far as you can!
- Three playable unfinished levels (The Lost Levels) are included with the game, with commentary on its context in the original inclusion.
- Character and Weapon skins are enabled in the main campaign.
- Guitar Free-Mode to play the guitar feature anytime!
- Commentary Tracks are available for all the cutscenes in the main game. Features Druckmann, Baker, Johnson, and Bailey.
- 4K 30fps support in Fidelity, upscaled 4K in Performance.
- Additions to Accessibility and Photo Mode.
and a 10$ Upgrade Path!! GOOD!
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Might be an unpopular opinon but to me, it seems too early for this remaster. Makes it look like Naughty Dog is running short of ideas but I wish it luck.
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This is honestly really solid, and a lot more than I expected from it when it was rumored a few months back. I think the remastered box art is a lot better than the original angry Ellie cover. Kinda weird they’re releasing it now and not closer to Season 2 of the show but I guess they thought there’s still enough hype from Season 1
By the way, I find it hilarious that this “simple” remaster offers so many more new additions compared to the Part 1 remake, yet they made owners of the PS4 version still pay $70 for that but for Part 2 they’re letting you only pay $10 to upgrade. I’ll take it!
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Yeah same here!
Mechanically, and content wise, there’s a lot more here than was in its original version, all for just a 10$ price because I already own it? Hell yeah!
But Part 1, that clearly has had a whole visual and environment remake, but is virtually the same game as the original, minus the multiplayer content?
Nah, no upgrade at all for you! Only a 70$ next-gen price awaits!
I’m very glad they’re revealing/releasing this now and not closer to when HBO Season 2 might release… that’ll be a really long time for a game that arguably still doesn’t have all that much to offer that’s different from its original 2020 release.
Now, Factions 2 or whatever it is, that remains to be seen. I hope sooner than later, if they can work out whatever the issue is that they keep going back to the drawing board for…
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Getting up today and reading about this on PC Gamer made me laugh, since I coincidentally jumped back into my HL playthrough last night after many months 
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You can tell Sony doesn’t care about sackboy or ratchet and clank as much as god of war the last of us and Spider-Man because they haven’t made remasters of each of their games 2-4 years later
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The last of us “”“”“”““franchise””“”“”"
2 mid games that keep getting rereleased and a show
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You have unpopular opinions, thats so badass online
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Damn, Ochoa with the impressive clap-back!
(I do agree with khaki tho, it’s still pretty early to call it a “franchise” lol)
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I also agree with him lol
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How? A franchise is still a franchise even if it consists of little media. The Last of Us consists of four games if you are counting the remasters and one going on two TV show franchises plus both the games and the show have official and unofficial merchandise.
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I like how despite the details given. They given us the bare minimum surrounding what this new content really is.
I wonder how in-depth this rogue like mode really is, or is it just gonna be fight and collect resources in reused campaign arenas, then between scenarios buy weapon and health upgrades.
Are there persistent upgrades? Will accessibility modes be active during this mode or will stuff like slow motion and basically invisibility still be enabled causing an imbalance. Will Characters start off with different weapons? Will Abby be able to use Ellie’s weapons or the other way around?
It looks like these “Lost Levels” aren’t really levels with playable scenarios but stuff from the cutting room floor with museum like elements judging from the highlighted developer commentary. Atleast that’s what it seems to be judging from the wording they gave.
Cosmetics aren’t nothing to be excited about, but hey atleast I can be post Seattle Ellie running through the snow with my Golden Ornate Bow and Arrow.
I don’t know this release while not surprising just highlights the state of Naughty Dog where it’s easier to remaster their backlog and outsource their ports to a company notorious for their stellar barely functioning Arkham Knight port. Instead they could have given an update regarding their Standalone Multiplayer which judging from the information coming out from leakers is having a trouble development.
But hey $10 upgrade path for digital owners. Atleast the physical will cost us 70 clams.
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Yea how dare he disregard my Universal Halloween Horror Nights 2023 The Last of Us T-Shirt.
Wait they integrated Last of Us into the Halloween Horror Nights? I hope so because that is really just more evidence for my case. Either way, yes that is just proof that it is a franchise. You can by merch at Universal, through Sony, through Naughty Dog’s own store, at HBO’s store and I even saw a special section of the Hot Topic digital storefront just for the game’s branded merchandise. All of that fits within the definition of franchising.
It turns out “Support yourself through other people’s money that you don’t even have while making a hundred buyouts at once” is NOT a good business model. Who knew?
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Still had to go to etsy to get this bad boy, because just like IO Naughty Dog refuses to give us cool merch.
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In the video trailer for the Lost Levels they showed one second of Ellie running holding a gun and one second of Ellie walking through a decorated Jackson with some NPCs having animations, implying that they may actually have some playable scenarios in them. Though to be fair if they don’t have any actual gameplay it wouldn’t be the first time they made a misleading part of a trailer for TLOU2.
I mean it isn’t out of spite it is most likely because the WLF are supposed to be bad guys and represent the sort of bad impulses of cyclical and generational revenge on a societal level so ND doesn’t want to cheapen the organisation.
Unlike the cool Providence dove tiepins IO are secretly hoarding right under our noses…
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Clearly this is just the tease and reveal of what to expect to get the hype train rolling. We’ll be hearing much more about this in the weeks leading up to mid-January for sure.
Each run will offer a new chance to decide what rewards you get after each encounter, how you spec out your character, and more. Unlock more characters, skins, and more as you progress to use in the mode, customize your own runs, and compete on a global leaderboard as part of a Daily Run2. We’re excited to share more about No Return as we get closer to launch.
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We’re excited to share more with you about The Last of Us Part II Remastered as we get closer to its release on PlayStation 5 on January 19! Preorders will go live on December 5.
If the Roguelike mode ends up being just a bunch of random battle arenas, it’s at least something that seems to have more variety than the same story combat arenas in the game. I’d play it a bunch.
But there does seem to be progression in letting you unlock different ways to play. Possibly different characters have different loadouts or abilities?
I highly doubt it would disable any Accessibility options. ND’s whole mantra with the games recently has been to allow as many people as possible to be able to experience and play the game on their own terms. You’re not locked off from trophies or given any sort of punishment for turning on accessibility stuff like Invisible While Prone or Slow-Mo Aiming.
Now, the Cheats menu, that’ll probably be disabled like how it is on Grounded mode. Those give you things like Infinite Ammo or One Hit Kills.
Lost Levels, I’m not expecting to be complete gameplay experiences, but given they’re even showing off any of this unfinished stuff is pretty cool and might give us some long-awaited explanation to certain deleted scenes in the story that could’ve been…
(Hey I really enjoyed the Commentary/Museum mode from Firewatch and I’m all for more behind-the-scenes stuff being shown on games!)
Yeah cosmetics are just kinda “good, finally”. Since the first game had it, but was weirdly absent from the sequel – probably not to let you have too much fun in the game’s pitch-black themes. Good they’re breaking that though. Astronaut Ellie woohooo
Also also btw, physical owners of the PS4 version can still pay 10$ for the upgrade, so I’m sold already. I never believed there’d be anything extra in a re-release since it’s been said many times by Neil and devs that the game is as complete as they’ve wanted it to be at launch.