Something went wrong. Try again later

tophar01

This user has not updated recently.

284 6 14 2
Forum Posts Wiki Points Following Followers

tophar01's forum posts

Avatar image for tophar01
tophar01

284

Forum Posts

6

Wiki Points

2

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

I literally just showed up here because I just got a notification that my yearly Giant Bomb subscription is going to renew and, I haven't been on the site for at least a year. I literally only come here to watch ..... let's call it... legacy content, no offense to the new staff.

However! It's kinda BS that there isn't really any more new "premium" content being made, but I still have to pay if I want to watch the old premium content (which I do). I guess I should just go download all the old video I always go back and watch and then cancel my premium?

Avatar image for tophar01
tophar01

284

Forum Posts

6

Wiki Points

2

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

@sirdaemos:

Right, so from the moment Joel is murdered, she cares more about killing Abby than anything else, more than her own life, more than helping Tommy, she clearly doesn't even want to leave because Dina is sick, cares more about it than having a family with Dina. She definitely gets shook by the things she does, but not once does she ever show shred of doubt about wanting to kill Abby. Until the very last second when, in a flash, she changes her mind.

Avatar image for tophar01
tophar01

284

Forum Posts

6

Wiki Points

2

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

I find myself using HowLongToBeat.com for just this sort of thing. But yea I'd say you were about 50-60% of the way through

Avatar image for tophar01
tophar01

284

Forum Posts

6

Wiki Points

2

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

@cikame: If we're going to start getting into that stuff then there are a lot of other issues. Chief among them...where are all the goddamned animals? You see roaches and squirrels in a few areas, but for the most part this game has zero wildlife. There are enemies who use bird calls, but there are very few birds. We all know from our recent experience that if humans leave an area for like 5 minutes animals will immediately move in. There have been raccoons living in Central Park for a long time, and it's not like New York City is an abandoned wasteland (or at least wasn't until a couple months ago.)

Meanwhile in a Seattle where there are probably a few thousand humans left there are fewer animals than there would be if you went to Seattle today. How are there all these abandoned buildings but only like 50 rats in the whole city?

There seemed to be plenty of animals scurrying around, is it plausible there would be more? Sure, was the amount you see jarringly unrealistic, not really. You don't actually see that many animals if you go out into woods uninhabited by humans. Not to mention for most of the game you are in or near areas inhabited by human, or infected. Since infected apparently just attack any living thing that comes near them like Tommy's horse, and its still necessary to continually send out patrols to kill infected around Jackson then I definitely would not expect to just be seeing animals all over the place.

Avatar image for tophar01
tophar01

284

Forum Posts

6

Wiki Points

2

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

#5  Edited By tophar01

What arc? Ellie is out for Revenge and holds that to be the more important than anything else up until the last second before she is about to kill Abby and then all of a sudden just snaps out of it and changes her mind.

Avatar image for tophar01
tophar01

284

Forum Posts

6

Wiki Points

2

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

#6  Edited By tophar01

I really did not enjoy it, could have a fair amount to do with being bad at the game or just not getting the combat and finding it unsatisfying and frustrating. I also didn't really enjoy the ending

I could sympathize with the sad parts of Joel's death and how much Ellie missed him and anytime she picked up a guitar it got tears to well up, However, having not played the first game since it was released, the only thing I really remembered was what Joel does at the end of the first game. So in that sense, when he gets killed, as far as I'm concerned, he got what was coming to him. So the whole thing being driven as a revenge plot just really didn't work for me, and once it's revealed that Joel killed Abby's dad, I was team Abby all the way.

As far as the ending, I get why Ellie leaves the farm, there has to be some kind of a more satisfying emotional resolution for her right, like she has to make a choice. I was pretty upset having to control that final fight sequence because I thought they were going to actually have Ellie kill Abby, because her decision to spare Abby just comes out of nowhere and kinda feels unearned. I was honestly hoping Ellie would die because of her inability to resist her urge for revenge.

Avatar image for tophar01
tophar01

284

Forum Posts

6

Wiki Points

2

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

#7  Edited By tophar01

He will more or less uphold the status quo

@funguy2020 MTV also used to play music videos

Avatar image for tophar01
tophar01

284

Forum Posts

6

Wiki Points

2

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

I really do not understand these posts, first with the too much Sims, now not enough variety. Like this isn't a website about "coverage" anymore, they got rid of the idea of a news editor years ago, they've been pretty clear that they are not interested in trying to "cover" everything, there are plenty of places to get coverage of stuff.

They play the stuff they want to play and the idea of saying well how come they aren't playing the stuff I want to see them play??? Seems so ridiculous to me, like saying they already have 3 videos of that game, why are they playing it again?! Because they want to, if you want to see "quick looks" of other games that Giant Bomb doesn't have videos for, I'm sure there is somewhere to do that.

Also, like you said, they literally have a show that is nothing but, hey vote and have us play stuff ya'll want to see us play, and UPF where they are usually playing 3 or 4 new games. Not to mention, like with the SIMS stuff, for all the people saying omg MORE Sims? Why don't they play something else, there were also plenty of people who were like YAAY! more Sims!

Avatar image for tophar01
tophar01

284

Forum Posts

6

Wiki Points

2

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Avatar image for tophar01
tophar01

284

Forum Posts

6

Wiki Points

2

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

@onemanarmyy: Thankyou!

Yes you are pushing button and interacting with a screen on the plane. Which is why I believe you should take the perspective of the plane

I also agree, if there were some sort of interface on the external device and that is what you were using, then it would be swapped.