Buckle in, this is gonna be a long rant.
The Last of Us is a game that has alluded me for damn near a decade now. As someone who didn't have a Playstation, I kept hearing about how legendary the game was, how it's story was unlike anything else for the time.
Fast forward to now and the game finally comes to a platform that I can play it on! Granted I expected it to not run as smooth as it would on console, but I was excited to experience the story nonetheless.
I want to make it very clear right now, as far as I got in the game, the story is really good, it's worth all the praise that it gets. Actually playing the game though? Oh dear god where do I begin...
I couldn't finish this game, because it's DREADFUL. I wanted to give the game the benefit of the doubt as glitches and bugs are obviously a PC only issue and most people who play this game no matter the version won't have to deal with that. But jesus christ this is inexcusable. The characters that travel alongside you are dumb as rocks, and constantly caused me issues. Events just wouldn't trigger when they were supposed to and I had to waste a lot of time just waiting around. Enemies are glitchy as hell and do whatever they want, including shooting through walls, and killing me without even firing their weapons! Character models glitch into terrain all the time. I have fallen through the map twice, and the game has crashed my whole system twice!
The more of this game I played the more miserable it made me, and not in the way that it's supposed to. I can see how the game is SUPPOSED to work but I couldn't tell you how much I'd enjoy the game if it worked properly, because this port never does, I never actually experienced that. And I played this game for 10 hours!
Even if I eventually get to play a version of this game that works, my first experience of most of this story is ruined by this broken pile of garbage and I will never get to properly experience it blind. I don't know if Iron Galaxy is just bad at porting or if Sony rushed the game out the door, or both. But either way, thanks guys, I'm glad I finally got to see what the fuss was about!
Should've just watched the TV show.
The Last of Us is a game that has alluded me for damn near a decade now. As someone who didn't have a Playstation, I kept hearing about how legendary the game was, how it's story was unlike anything else for the time.
Fast forward to now and the game finally comes to a platform that I can play it on! Granted I expected it to not run as smooth as it would on console, but I was excited to experience the story nonetheless.
I want to make it very clear right now, as far as I got in the game, the story is really good, it's worth all the praise that it gets. Actually playing the game though? Oh dear god where do I begin...
I couldn't finish this game, because it's DREADFUL. I wanted to give the game the benefit of the doubt as glitches and bugs are obviously a PC only issue and most people who play this game no matter the version won't have to deal with that. But jesus christ this is inexcusable. The characters that travel alongside you are dumb as rocks, and constantly caused me issues. Events just wouldn't trigger when they were supposed to and I had to waste a lot of time just waiting around. Enemies are glitchy as hell and do whatever they want, including shooting through walls, and killing me without even firing their weapons! Character models glitch into terrain all the time. I have fallen through the map twice, and the game has crashed my whole system twice!
The more of this game I played the more miserable it made me, and not in the way that it's supposed to. I can see how the game is SUPPOSED to work but I couldn't tell you how much I'd enjoy the game if it worked properly, because this port never does, I never actually experienced that. And I played this game for 10 hours!
Even if I eventually get to play a version of this game that works, my first experience of most of this story is ruined by this broken pile of garbage and I will never get to properly experience it blind. I don't know if Iron Galaxy is just bad at porting or if Sony rushed the game out the door, or both. But either way, thanks guys, I'm glad I finally got to see what the fuss was about!
Should've just watched the TV show.