Mystacon

I have to be honest, I’m really surprised you wrote these words down and hit submit.

And let’s not forget West of Loathing. Some Oscar-worthy performance capture in that.

Fair enough. I imagine they’ll be looking to keep it closely aligned with Part 2 or if not then have some solid story reasoning behind a tonal shift. Definitely feels as if the main reason for this existing is to create a more cohesive package.

Just out of interest, where do you think they should’ve gone with the art direction in this new remake? Can we at least agree that it still needs to feel like The Last of Us?

Ah, I see what you mean.

Yep, it’s included.

I feel as if I need to ask just to be sure…you are taking the piss, right?

Apologies, it was meant as more of a general comment on those that are moaning about it rather than targeted specifically at you.

Well can you not at least wait and moan about it once the final game is released? Or will that not allow you to fulfill your moaning quota for the month?

You’re absolutely correct, a lot of people criticising it won’t buy it. And they quite rightly shouldn’t. I’m not sure I said anything to the contrary, so I’m glad we’re on the same page. And as for ‘talking about it’, are you implying that I’m saying we shouldn’t? Because I’m not. I’m simply saying it’s a bit much to grab your pitchfork and ‘complain’ about something that you don’t know all the details of.

As much as I’m defending it, I totally get why people are upset by the £70 price tag, it IS a lot for a game that’s already seen a remaster. But it pisses me off a bit when we don’t know the whole story of what’s changed and how much work is really involved, and everyone gets in line with their pitchforks. You might think it’s a dick move regardless, but YOU. DO. NOT. HAVE. TO. BUY. IT. Vote with your wallet! Send them a message! And yet in the end I BET there’ll be a bunch of those same people who’ll get whipped up in the hype and buy it anyway.

Well in that case nobody will buy it and Sony will learn their lesson right? Supposedly this has been rebuilt from the ground up for PS5. Are you implying that this requires a minimal amount of work? Because I don’t remember anyone complaining when Bluepoint remade Demon’s Souls and charged £70 for it. Or is that different somehow? Would it be ok if Bluepoint had developed the remake instead?

Shadow drop of Somerville please!

It does include the ‘Left Behind’ dlc, which was excellent.

But it isn’t a given is it? I mean you even admit yourself that people will buy it anyway. And I don’t think it’s the response to ‘any’ criticism. You may not like a particular aspect of a game but that doesn’t mean you don’t want to play it. In this instance however, it seems like a binary choice. You either want to pay £70 for an old game with updated visuals, or you don’t. Maybe you think the people that do choose to do so are mugs, and that’s your opinion, but I’d be willing to bet you good money that there ends up being an awful lot of ‘mugs’ out there. So why are they buying it? I mean it can’t possibly be worth it can it?