![]() Your actions always have consequences and while he was doing what he thought was the right thing, it wasn’t his choice to make, and in doing so set up a series of events that were entirely avoidable, but again, that’s the point isn’t it? I’m a father and I related with Joel a lot in TLOU, but I also recognized how wrong he was. The pacing and the way the story was told wasn’t my favorite, but I respect what it was trying to do, even if it failed in some aspect of that, I finished the game within the week it was released. I will say, the game was a tad bit too long, which is not something it typically say for a single player, narrative driven game. Yes, I know about their crunch culture, but this is not a place for that. Say what you will about the direction Naughty Dog has taken over the years, but you would be hard pressed to find a studio that makes games graphically better than they do. I think that's what people lost along the way. How many games can do that? The Last of Us Part 2 was meant to invoke emotion, not necessarily joy. Some of my favorite moments in the series I experienced with a character I wasn’t overly fond of. The entire hospital section (2nd time) was so susensful, I had to put my controller down to gther myself. There were genuine moments of suspense and terror that I felt that no other game has ever given me. There are plenty of fair criticisms to be had about the story and various things within the game itself, but I thought the gameplay was so tight and crunchy. Its better in every single way over its predecessor, except the overall story. I’m in the minority that I very much enjoyed my experience with TLOU2, quite a bit actually. ![]() The Last of Us Part 2 may be the most polarizing game in the history of the medium, but for the absolute wrong reasons. I get it, that’s part of his growth, but Miles thinks he can just solve his problems by revealing his identity and it almost certainly never works out. Peter Parker tells him the one thing he SHOULD NOT do is tell people he is Spider-Man. He is an extremely smart young kid, but so incredibly naïve. However I could’ve use one or two more story missions to help flesh out some characters, but it wasn’t required and didn’t change my opinion one way or the other. The issue with most ‘open-world’ games is that they are entirely too bloated with unnecessary filler content (I’ll get to that in a later game), something I felt the first game suffered from, but I also understand why they are there. I enjoyed the fact that it was short and concise. Gameplay felt obviously like Spider-Man, but Miles has unique abilities that made the game feel different enough, especially the cloak and stealth. In a world where everything sort’ve feels similar, Control stands out of the crowd.Īnother quality title, albeit a spin-off, from Insomniac to add to their Spider Man universe. Outside of Prey, I can’t think of another game that stuck in my brain more after I’d finished it. I spent an insane amount of time within the Federal Bureau of Control building and even more time after that with the Foundation and AWE DLC and it STILL wasn’t enough. The game does have a weird difficulty spike when fighting bosses and the checkpoints were too far apart at times, but those were later patched. It take some time to piece everything together, then everything just clicks. The story is Control is just the right amount of mind f*!$ for me and builds a universe I didn’t know I needed. ![]() Max Payne 1&2 and Alan Wake all oozed with weirdness and intrigue, but never enough for me to finish them. I’ve always liked Remedy games, but from a distance. ![]() I knew within the first 20 minutes this was going to be the shit when I went down a hall, walked into a room and talked to the “janitor” left out a door behind him and the entire building had shifted. And Holy smokes what an insanely fun and trippy game once I finally started it. I wanted to play it in 2019, but initial reports that it was a little rough on base consoles put me off until it was fixed. Control may very well have been my 2019 Game of the Year, had I played it in 2019.
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