(Aug 12th, 2021, 01:54 PM)Moonface Wrote:

@Nightingale: I wanted to ask what parts in this game were your (least) favourite to play through.
I figured I'd ask here rather than the What Games Stories Have You Got Invested In? thread just so that that thread doesn't veer into duplicating what this thread can be used for.

(Aug 12th, 2021, 05:47 PM)Moonface Wrote:

I find the one standout moment playing as Abby is everything on Seattle Day 2. The hotel and the hospital are both superb sections, but other than those the rest are either forgettable or just not very interesting. There's barely a single encounter with the Seraphites that I think was good with Abby, despite that faction being the main focus of her campaign encounters.

However, the one point in the game I always dislike going through is Santa Barbara. It's neat to see somewhere else after the game spends so long in Seattle, but that entire section has yet to grab me.

(Aug 13th, 2021, 07:55 PM)Nightingale Wrote:

One thing I will say is that I was BLOWN AWAY by the fact that the Seraphites had demolished some of the old buildings and had started engaging on some pre-industrial farming society completed with wooden shacks and everything.

I never once bought that humanity wouldn't at least give this a try even after 20 years since the outbreak in the first game. Everything seemed damaged/overgrown but not necessarily ruined and that hurt my immersion somehow. I gave 2 full marks for addressing that.

(Aug 19th, 2021, 06:56 PM)Moonface Wrote:

(Aug 13th, 2021, 07:55 PM)Nightingale Wrote:

One thing I will say is that I was BLOWN AWAY by the fact that the Seraphites had demolished some of the old buildings and had started engaging on some pre-industrial farming society completed with wooden shacks and everything.

I never once bought that humanity wouldn't at least give this a try even after 20 years since the outbreak in the first game. Everything seemed damaged/overgrown but not necessarily ruined and that hurt my immersion somehow. I gave 2 full marks for addressing that.

Yeah, the first game rarely feels as ruined as it should be in a lot of places. I wonder if that was a limitation of the hardware; although, I just looked up Salt Lake City just to see if I could compare shots of it in the first and second games, and found out that the amount of vegetation depicted in that location is actually unrealistically high even in the first game because of its desert location making it difficult to even cultivate a small lawn without a lot of care. I think the biggest sin the first game has for an environment is the house outside of Tommy's Dam where Ellie runs off to; that house is practically pristine without even a broken window on it, and I doubt that was that way because of hardware since that's one of the smallest areas in the entire game that gets loaded in. Boston was really the only area that actually looked ruined, but I also think that was only made to look that way because of the whole napalm strike it took. I bet if the game didn't have that event happen to that location, it wouldn't be close to as ruined as it was depicted.

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