Just finished my (supposed) 100% collectibles playthrough of The Last of Us: Remastered but the trophy for all artifacts (and subsequently the trophy for all collectibles) didn’t pop. After a bit of research it appears that I didn’t open Ellie’s rucksack and inspect the contents during the Winter Hunt section.
I have to play through again on Survivor+ anyway, so hopefully if I inspect Ellie’s items on this play-through they will be counted with the others I collected last time.
Apart from that minor frustration, loved it… hold it in a lot higher regard than I did after my first play-through back in 2014.
Resident Evil 2 remake on PS5. Last time I played the game was back 2019 on my launch-day PS4 on a 1080p tv. In some ways it's like a new game on the PS5 with a 4K tv.
@colonelkilgore I played with a guide when I went through and still missed stuff, and I couldn’t get one or two of the jokes to trigger no matter what I did.
@Thrillho really, that sucks. I got the jokes, the convo’s, the pendants and the manuals… and I have a save point not too far before the epilogue, so if the trophy still doesn’t pop after collecting Ellie’s artifacts in Survivor+ I’ll just load that save and inspect Ellie’s items then.
Still, all that depends on if I’m able to get through a Survivor play-through 😅
@render started the Survivor+ run on The Last of Us: Remastered this morning and as I said on the trophy thread, I assumed losing the Listen Mode would be the big difference between this and the other difficulties… I was wrong. There is a massive difference in the amount of materials dotted around the game world and every infected (not just clickers) can hear you sneak unless your moving at like an inch a minute.
It’s good though, I’m actually appreciating the absence of the Listen Mode as you really have to think about things a lot more.
@colonelkilgore It’s always interesting to see whether a mechanic like that is essential to a game or whether you just end up using it as a crutch.
It’s like when MGS3 got rid of the radar, it seemed like it would be impossible but actually makes the game much more fun.
Conversely, playing through TLOU2 a second time with modifiers on for unlimited ammo and supplies (as well as starting the game with all weapons already) unsurprisingly makes that quite a different experience too! Very handy for mopping up collectibles for the platinum though
@colonelkilgore@Thrillho I remember when I played TLoU the first time through I actively tried not to use listen mode at all but there are those situations where you end up saying "just this once", and then before you know it you are using it a lot more so totally agree with the crutch thing.
Part of the experience though is the tension of knowing that you've got to make the most of what you've got. On normal and hard it never seemed like there were loads around but there was enough to scrape by so I can totally appreciate how much that would change things. I can think of a few levels on both 1 and even more so 2 where having less of everything would have meant you were having to really use your whits and make the most of the environment.
I've not got all the collectables so will have to do one of those full modifier runs but I might also pick a few levels and try on Survivor+ to see if they are as bad as I think they would be!!
I actually did my first play through without using it. Accidentally. I think I played the tutorial, left it for a few months then played it having forgotten all of the controls. As tapping the button just did a crouch I didn't actually hold it down to go into listen mode at any point. I thought the game was pretty difficult for such a lauded mainstream game.
Later I started a new game+ for collectibles etc and It made me do the tutorial again. Serious face palm moment. @colonelkilgore@Thrillho@render
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
@Thrillho@render@Sorteddan yeah ‘crutch’ is the word… you end up using it on a ‘special occasion’ (ie room filled with clickers and runners) and before you know it your checking R1 every couple of steps 😅. It’s one of the main reasons I hope From Soft never bow down with an easy mode… yes vets and masochists ‘could’ still choose to play it on hard but for some (certainly not me like… oh no, don’t be so silly 😉) it would just be too tempting.
@Sorteddan I’ve done that with other games — where I either forget or don’t pay attention to the tutorials (or some games just don’t do tutorials well at all) and inadvertently play the whole game without using a key skill that would have helped me. Or more often, I just don’t understand how a weapon or a mechanic works so I just ignore it. Like in Horizon Zero Dawn I didn’t really get the full grasp of the rope-caster at first until I realized I could nail down flying enemies and then I just spammed that for almost everything. 😄
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
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Awesome isn't it? That moment of dawning realisation of how much time/effort you could've saved if only you had paid attention or could remember stuff.
Nice to know it's not just me.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
@Sorteddan I think there was a game I played within the last couple years where I didn’t realize I could fast travel until toward the end of the game. So I’d wasted a bunch of time running back and forth.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@render so… close of play on Survivor+, I’ve just met up with Henry and Sam… was hoping to be a bit further through it by now but not too bad.
Difficulty-wise, I found the high school a genuine spike as it’s just so tough to stealth kill infected when your maximum undetectable sneak speed is so slow. Everything after hasn’t been too bad though, including the Hotel basement (which… I’m not gonna lie, was ‘concerning’ me). If I can keep up this progress with a couple hours tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday… I shouldn’t be too far off.
@colonelkilgore That sounds infuriating. I’m not sure I could be as patient you and I’d be raking up the deaths. I remember that high school bit being particularly tricky, especially in the sports hall.
You are going to be doing well if you can get through it before the weekend is out 😉
@Jimmer-jammer so far I'd say Survivor is a good balance, so I'd probably end up agreeing with you about Grounded if I tried it.
I'll be attempting all the Uncharted platinums in the coming years, so good to know that Crushing is still fun and doable.
... and as I'll have played TLoU so recently on a harder difficulty, I'm definitely thinking I should play the sequel on Hard at least. I dunno, maybe Normal will tempt me with its more materials etc by the time I start it but right now I'm thinking hard.
@colonelkilgore@Jimmer-jammer@Th3solution@nessisonett@JohnnyShoulder "Guess who's back, back again..." I am taking a break from my break to play RDR2, Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-reckoning, and FFVII Remake, just started RDR2 and man, those wolves are annoying, any idea how many times you have to fight them in the game? Hope you have all been well and what are you all playing right now?
"Even in the face of death, the samurai stands unwavering, for honour is a blade sharper than steel".
@TheBrandedSwordsman 🤣 taking a break from your gaming break to play three pretty huge to huge games all at once!
Haven’t played RDR2 for a while but I assume your talking about the winter section right at the start… i honestly don’t remember fighting too many wolves but different geographical locations have different wildlife. So I assume that depending on where you are, will dictate what you face. I gotta go back to it myself, couldn’t get into it first time around but I know that if I’m in the right mood I’ll end up loving it.
@TheBrandedSwordsman Great to see you’re back in the saddle again (ba-dum-tshh! 😄)
RDR2 is a really great game. It’s main drawback is the pacing, since it is fairly slow paced in a lot of sections. That beginning one is actually one of the harder parts to get through because it kinda drags for a couple hours. I think the wolves and wildlife in general is pretty variable throughout the game, like the colonel says. You can go out looking for animals to hunt soon and it becomes a big part of the game’s side content.
KoA is also a really great game, although I hear the remaster had a few problems, so hopefully they’ve patched those.
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