Holy! You must have the patience of a saint, and your roommate has some serious determination. I've yet to play the game on hard mode difficulty, so I've never seen a stalker (I think, sometimes it's difficult to tell), and I don't think I'd have the patience to keep retrying over and over again, heh. I do agree about the 20 years later thing. I thought that was a bit much. And like @J_"Kraken" said, 5-10 probably would have been sufficient for the whole nature thing. (Which I love, it looks awesome.) They could have elaborated a bit more in the other areas though for sure. I think they tried, but they were more focused on the story and characters than all the other details, which over all I don't mind. If the character's stories are compelling enough I can usually forgive the other mistakes. :)
Hah! Mad Max. Buncha crazies. But yeah, that makes sense. And The Last of Us was already depressing enough without all that other stuff. XDThey could be using Mad Max air conditioning filters put into skull masks!
Buuuut really, it's the flaw with any post-apoc. The world's either truly over or society'd recover fairly well. Even the best examples (World War Z, Station 11) don't quite get the details right. That said, it's about the characters and the story moreso than the world ending, as with most things. Sure, you can have something like the Road, where the world really is over, but that isn't always what you want. Sometimes you want humans struggling with a mass zombie plague, sometimes you want insanely over-the-top car fights because really, thinking about the mass city fires and nuclear reactor meltdowns that would ensue a year after humans left them is crushingly depressing.
Yep, that seems like it would be a good guess. Places where people are gathered in large numbers would have resumed making things like that, since they'd have a wide range of skill sets and whatnot, I'd imagine. Twenty years is a long damn time to cover, so they probably just glossed over a lot of stuff, like putting it into tape recordings (there's that battery issue XD) and notes left by survivors and that sort of thing. They KINDA addressed the food issue in the beginning, talking about rations running out, and showing other zones that were destroyed because the people in charge kept taking the food for themselves instead of doling it out like they were supposed to. Not to mention the Hunters who ate people because other sources of 'meat' were hard to come by. Nothing like a little soylent green to start your day off right. =P
All right, awesome. I would imagine so, haha, given his fondness for bashing in the heads of infected. He'd be very handy in a fight for sure. =D
Mmm found her picture while scrolling through Facebook and had an aha moment!
That would be interesting indeed. I like it.
How do you mean? By making the problems more realistically present? Or finding ways to hand wave/lampshade their inclusion?
I love it when things come together like that. :)
I was thinking more along the lines of the former. We could have our characters encounter problems that would fit more realistically within the realms of the environment, such as the problems of food, gas, etc. @Rainjay mentioned the CC Firefly group trying to plant a garden or something similar for food sources, so there's that. But maybe with these other issues our characters will need to come up with creative and resourceful ways to fix problems rather than just 'happening' upon things?
I've never seen the movie or read the book, but I'll probably do both now thanks to all the mentions. XD
I didn't realize their motivations were similar until I finished up that last post, but it makes sense. Winters would get pretty damn awful assuming fires and the like broke out.
That's alright. Have fun with your travels!
