The Last of Us Remastered... For Me It Isn't Fun

Good afternoon everyone,

So last night we played The Last of Us Remastered... and I'll be honest, I'm not too keen on the game play... in fact the game play itself just sucks, the combat is mediocre at best, the puzzles I've seen are generic... and everything just seems to be just 'breaks between cut scenes'.  In fact, the more I think about it, the the actual 'game' part of The Last of Us serves more as a 'break' between the gorgeous cut scenes and dialog. The controls are cumbersome, with even the most mundane things needing button presses which makes stuff like getting into and out of cover a chore.

I'll straight up say, if I wasn't playing this on its easiest setting I would have switched games probably in the trenches when escaping the city.

Now how far did we get, well we found Bill in Bill's town and wrapped up just before leaving 'the bar' which had a lot of supplies. So I saw basically all the set up, saw Joel and Tess's relationship, and had my first encounters with the Clickers and Runners. 

The game does sound great, but visually... depending on the lighting, things either look awesome, or they look off to where I have a hard time seeing. The swimming section I saw when going into an area that has spores really was tough to see things.

Something that really bugs me is the lack of trophies to give an idea of progress, I thought that it was something done with the Remastered version, but the PS3 version was also lacking in actual story related achievements.

So against my better judgement we will play The Last of Us Remastered again next week, maybe things will improve as we get into the meat and potatoes of the game.

Twitch Clips

• Brawling Joel
• What he says goes 
• Well... fuuuuu
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni as they were playing Crusader Kings III over on twitch.tv/bestibunni!  They also reached affiliate status!

Yesterday I realized I had clips from 2017, 2018 and 2019 over on my personal Facebook page, so I downloaded them with the idea of putting compilations for those three years. Problem is, Facebook compressed the hell out of those clips, and they were like at 480p and below because of the hardware I was using at the time.

Also, the first half of work sucked.. but thankfully things picked up when we had an assignment switch. So it was a 50% good shift.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Intermediate Combo #2 and Hip Shape Focus Combo for a total time of 28 minutes. I've actually put in 400 hours in on Fitness Boxing 2

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 9/18 to 9/24/22

• Punches Thrown: 8162
• Estimated Calories Burned:3306.04 kcal
  
• Evan's Champion Progress:76% (38 out of 50 hours)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 96%
  
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 652
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 810

 Before the invention of the wheel… everything was a drag!

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Song of the Day: Layla by Derek & The Dominos

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For tonight's stream we'll mess around with a few things, probably lead off with MultiVersus. I will need to remember to turn off the music for that game to avoid a lot of issues from a few weeks ago.

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!