Taking Friday off!
Suck my Luck!

Knocking off early on Friday to get this! & Monday is a holiday

Have the whole week next week off so may pick this up

So who is on their second playthrough? (Without Spoilers for those that havent completed it yet.)

I don't think the Clickers are very believable...
They can hear you move from a room away, but they can't hear you violently filling your pants when they almost step on you...

@Tea, good grief already. I am only about half way through I think.

@Teb I strangled a Runner right in front of a Clicker walked up to him and then strangled him too without him moving. Takes you out of the suspense a bit. Also the fact that the Militia vests "heal" after you shoot them is a bit odd.

@ Magius - Tip almost 16hrs gameplay first time round - starting new game+. Cant wait to unlock all the artwork!

@ Teb - Creepy as hell those things! Those Bloaters are bad ass as well!

Some clickers are VERY accurate and some are dormant.
The ones that stand still are actually "Asleep" (Found this out on the internet, so may not be 100% accurate)

@Teb that makes more sense. At Tea, I am about halfway through, just started walking through Bill's town to get the parts. Game is gorgeous, but combat can be quite iffy at times.

I finished this game last night. Wow. What a journey.

This game gave me so many emotions all the way through. I am still in awe of it all. Not to mention the mind blowing graphics. I often found myself just standing and staring at the environments. The attention to detail is incredible.

Besides the amazing introduction which nearly had me in tears, it did start off a little slow (but only because the current generation of games has made us so used to fast-paced BOOM BOOM BANG BANG gameplay) so I really appreciated the slower pace.

I was surprised at the extra exploration the game allowed and even more surprised at how challenging it was. I sort of expected another Uncharted experience just with different characters but I was so wrong. It made me nostalgic for the survival horror genre when it was at its peak in the PS2's era.

I can't recommend this game enough!

P.S.
The clickers are TERRIFYING. I can't remember when last I was so on my nerves in a game as when I am trying to sneak around and avoid them detecting me. Those sounds will haunt my dreams.

Anybody else get random control failures? Couple of time I press R2 to listen, and Joel starts attacking, or pressing L3 makes him use his items...

@Teb No control failures this side. I have noticed my companions creeping right past the front of some of the militia while trying to get to me going completely unnoticed though.

Wow, wow and wow - this game is amazing so far. A busy weekend so I was getting all my playtime in during the wee hours of the morning (the best time for this game coupled with headphones) and I'm only in chapter 9 of 12 after a solid 14 hours.

Some elements of the game can break the immersion but it's been a rare occurrence (visibility is only based on the player character hence you sometimes see the AI move clearly into line-of-sight and trigger no response). The graphics are mind-blowing, characters and and interactions exceed Uncharted and combat, with both infected and humans, is seriously tension-inducing. I've never spent so much time physically twitching with anticipation or dread, waiting to see the outcome of a situation.

The story fluctuates between incredibly bleak but has it's moments of joy. The game forces you to grow attached to characters and leaves you terrified at the outcome. Sometimes its as tragic as you feared, other times you're overjoyed that things have simply remained peaceful and no lives were lost.

While the game is still strongly linear, areas are more open for some scavenging. The environments themselves are incredible - I can think of few games that make you feel like you're moving through a real place rather than a videogame level dressed up as real place.

Combat allows for stealth, gunplay or a mix of both. The further you go into the game, the more often you'll be forced into combat in the story and even in these sections, gunfights can be terrifying as a few bullets will end you and a good hit will knock over your character (think RE6 but done much better).

Anyone with an interest in a great survival game, a great story or just an all-round experience should give this game a try.

Get it! Nuff said!

I love exploring in games, but in this game its a different story! I'm just happy i made it out that area in one piece!! You see some thing you might need, but there is a Clicker between you & that item. You have one shiv, do you risk possible death & waste a shiv?
Combat is brutal!! To say the least!! One guy (not infected) actually begged for mercy before i bashed his skull in with a 2x4! He would have done the same to me, given a chance! Which i did not give him!

I have found myself looking back on certain situations and realising that my previous game playing experiences have taught me to fight head on far too much, or to take out absolutely everyone in the room one at a time.

This has led me to looking back on an encounter and realise how wrong I was to foolishly risk my supplies just to kill any threat, as I sorrowfully sifted through my depleted resources in my backpack.

Part of this is because I convince myself that there must be more supplies or secrets lying around that I will miss if I do not kill the immediate threat so I can explore. However I find this game has fairly put any serious "finders items" in areas that the player can find with the bare minimum of enemy antagonism.

I do need earphones however (much like Lurch) as in one situation, though I had carefully taken out every single enemy I could find just so I could scavenge for more supplies, I did not hear a noise (which Ellie pointed out) and ended up being attacked head on by around 8 militia in one small room. Suffice it to say I was throwing brick, bottle and anything I could as my waning ammunition dwindled into the abyss with each forced kill.

And then there was that one time.... good grief.... after dying at least 5 times, then successfully killing every enemy in a claustrophobic onslaught, to be left without a single shred of ammunition, only to realise that I could have just bloody run away instead of waiting around to take them head on.

Get this game. That is all.

...Then turn around and heavily apply pressure to the infected area

Hope you all are going to write a review. There is some good stuff here

Silly question – how do you know what chapter you are on? My save file says my progress is 75% but I didn’t see anything about chapter

@Corrosive - I also couldn't find a chapter list in the stats so I went online to check a guide.

There's 12 chapters in total - each of them with a distinct name as you can see in the chapters list "homecoming", "quarantine zone" etc.

It's a monstrous game - story wise I thought I had hit the end, only to discover I was on chapter 9 of 12.

One thing I do have to mention. This is the first game in freaking ages I did not receive a trophy within the first few minutes. In fact, I think I am around 50-60% and have not received a single trophy. Obviously "finding your first gun" and "you shot a guy" weren't good enough for ND, unlike so many other games that give you a trophy for inserting the disc.

Yeah, no trophies for pausing the game
You would think they would give a trophy for completing a chapter at least!