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Is TLOU a top 50 game or not?

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  • 28-02-2015 8:46pm
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    Thepoet85
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    Going to start The Last Of Us tonight. Never played it on the PS3 and heard great things on this forum. Going to be hard to drag myself away from Fifa tho :pac:


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    Fakman87
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    Thepoet85 wrote: »
    Going to start The Last Of Us tonight. Never played it on the PS3 and heard great things on this forum. Going to be hard to drag myself away from Fifa tho :pac:

    You're in for a treat!


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    COYVB
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    Fakman87 wrote: »
    You're in for a treat!

    Or a massive disappointment, depending on how much you bought into the hype


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    tgdaly
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    Thepoet85 wrote: »
    Going to start The Last Of Us tonight. Never played it on the PS3 and heard great things on this forum. Going to be hard to drag myself away from Fifa tho :pac:

    Brilliant game, well worth your investment


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    DARK-KNIGHT
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    COYVB wrote: »
    Or a massive disappointment, depending on how much you bought into the hype

    ?? The hype?

    It is easily the best game is.have ever played.he is in for a treat that's for sure


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    COYVB
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    DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »
    ?? The hype?

    It is easily the best game is.have ever played.he is in for a treat that's for sure

    Yeah, the hype.

    It's not even Naughty Dog's best PS3 game, never mind one of the best games ever


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    Grayditch
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    It's a fantastic game. Might not be as innovative as a Nintendo game, but it's incredible for lots of reasons, not least the fantastic multiplayer. I played the whole thing through again last month to see if it just flattered to deceive the first time around, but no, it was still fantastic.

    Brilliant controls, cleverly developed set-piece battles and considering the decent length of the game, the story and the pace it played out at never really got dull.

    I definitely think the Uncharted series was at times hyped beyond it's merits, but this, for me, was justified.


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    COYVB
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    We differ I suppose. I genuinely don't rate TLOU that much TBH. I think it managed to pull the wool over a lot of people's eyes, and was magnificently marketed, but as a game... nah, not for me


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    jonerkinsella
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    I didn't think much of tlou either . To me it was just old stuff stuck together for a newer generation. Resident evil + Mgs is all it reminded me of . For me Wolfenstein and Dying light are much better games .


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    tgdaly
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    jonerkinsella wrote: »
    I didn't think much of tlou either . To me it was just old stuff stuck together for a newer generation. Resident evil + Mgs is all it reminded me of . For me Wolfenstein and Dying light are much better games .

    Every game does something other games do. That's the nature of the business. No game is absolutely unique. TLOU was game of the year for a reason


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    COYVB
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    tgdaly wrote: »
    TLOU was game of the year for a reason

    Except no such thing exists :)


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    tgdaly
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    COYVB wrote: »
    Except no such thing exists :)

    Except it clearly does :)


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    COYVB
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    tgdaly wrote: »
    Except it clearly does :)

    Oh, really? Show me


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    tgdaly
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    COYVB wrote: »
    Oh, really? Show me

    http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=750221


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    COYVB
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    tgdaly wrote: »
    http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=750221

    You're showing me a list of individual game of the year awards. You said "Game of the Year" exists. That list shows it doesn't

    It shows there's a consensus among a group out outlets, the results of whose own game of the year awards agree, but that's absolutely not the same thing


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    tgdaly
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    COYVB wrote: »
    You're showing me a list of individual game of the year awards. You said "Game of the Year" exists. That list shows it doesn't

    It shows there's a consensus among a group out outlets, the results of whose own game of the year awards agree, but that's absolutely not the same thing

    Then I guess best anything doesn't exist.


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    COYVB
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    tgdaly wrote: »
    Then I guess best anything doesn't exist.

    Not unless there's an official industry standard for it. Case in point the Academy Awards. No such thing exists in games, so there is no such thing as a definitive game of the year

    For the record, despite all those outlets giving TLOU their game of the year, it was outscored by those same publications, on average, by GTA V


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    tgdaly
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    COYVB wrote: »
    Not unless there's an official industry standard for it. Case in point the Academy Awards. No such thing exists in games, so there is no such thing as a definitive game of the year

    For the record, despite all those outlets giving TLOU their game of the year, it was outscored by those same publications, on average, by GTA V

    If you value Academy Awards over Golden Globes, Screen Actors guild etc.


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    COYVB
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    tgdaly wrote: »
    If you value Academy Awards over Golden Globes, Screen Actors guild etc.

    Very good point really. No award is definitive, they're all opinions. IIRC for 2013 TLOU wasn't in my top 15


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    tgdaly
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    COYVB wrote: »
    Very good point really. No award is definitive, they're all opinions. IIRC for 2013 TLOU wasn't in my top 15

    Which game is IIRC? Can't think in my head


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    COYVB
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    tgdaly wrote: »
    Which game is IIRC? Can't think in my head

    Haha, not a game. It's "If I remember correctly"


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    tgdaly
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    COYVB wrote: »
    Haha, not a game. It's "If I remember correctly"

    Haha sorry. Although I think TLOU is a brilliant game it actually wouldn't have been my own personal choice either, but I'd be picking my favorite game which is completely different


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    COYVB
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    tgdaly wrote: »
    I'd be picking my favorite game which is completely different

    It's genuinely not. Game of the Year awards are, quite literally, straw polls of the favourite games of the people writing for the publication. Nothing more, nothing less. Been involved with many of them in the last decade, and there's nowhere close to as much thought that goes into them as you might think


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    tgdaly
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    COYVB wrote: »
    It's genuinely not. Game of the Year awards are, quite literally, straw polls of the favourite games of the people writing for the publication. Nothing more, nothing less. Been involved with many of them in the last decade, and there's nowhere close to as much thought that goes into them as you might think

    Same as any award really


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    COYVB
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    Pretty much. It's also why games released right at the start of the year tend to be forgotten about when it comes to awards. They're all worthless for everyone but the winner who gets to pretend their award is meaningful. I looked up my GOTY for 2013 - I gave it to Rayman Legends, which I stand by. I also abused my position as EIC to make that the publication's GOTY too. In fact I discarded quite a few of my colleague's opinions for that list, but conceded 19th out of 20 for TLOU.

    I'm a terrible professional, and probably a terrible person too.


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    Benzino
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    COYVB wrote: »
    Pretty much. It's also why games released right at the start of the year tend to be forgotten about when it comes to awards. They're all worthless for everyone but the winner who gets to pretend their award is meaningful. I looked up my GOTY for 2013 - I gave it to Rayman Legends, which I stand by. I also abused my position as EIC to make that the publication's GOTY too. In fact I discarded quite a few of my colleague's opinions for that list, but conceded 19th out of 20 for TLOU.

    I'm a terrible professional, and probably a terrible person too.

    I'd be interested in seeing that list if TLOU only came 19th.


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    COYVB
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    Will stick it up later. Note that i didn't think it deserved inclusion anywhere, never mind 19th. That was me conceding ground. I'd not have put it in the top 50


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    Benzino
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    COYVB wrote: »
    Will stick it up later. Note that i didn't think it deserved inclusion anywhere, never mind 19th. That was me conceding ground. I'd not have put it in the top 50

    In that case I assume Bioshock Infinite is ahead of it, so I don't need to see the list :-P


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    johnny_ultimate
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    2013 in summary:

    Papers Please > Everything else


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    #30
    Grayditch
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    Nah.


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    tok9
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    Hold on.. people have different opinions... Well I never!


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