Come hell or high water, rain or world-devastating pandemics, one thing is for certain: Nothing can stop video games! On the eve of a new console generation, Sony still has two big cards to play in its hand as its final first-party offerings for the PlayStation 4 are looking to send that console off in the grandest fashion possible: The Last of Us Part II and Ghost of Tsushima.
Games which now finally have a concrete release date set and pencilled in. The Last of Us Part II will be arriving on June 19, while Ghost of Tsushima will be slipping back from its original June release to July 17 instead.
And there you go! Two more games for the Sony pile, ready to end an era and pave the way for a new one. Just try to be wary of all those spoilers for The Last of Us Part II, yeah?
Last Updated: April 27, 2020
MechMachine
April 28, 2020 at 09:26
Yeah, In terms of story, The Last of Us 2 kinda took a left turn.Not sure how I feel about it.
CodeDisQus
April 28, 2020 at 10:45
Wait, how do you know this?
MechMachine
April 28, 2020 at 13:19
A Disgruntled Naughty Dog employee leaked the story. I went and searched for said leak. I didn’t like what I saw at all. Having said that, I only saw the broad strokes and not the nuanced details. It feels like a betrayal.
Son of Banana Jim
April 29, 2020 at 20:52
Honestly, I think the disgruntled employee is a hero, he or she is basically saving me R1000. I’m going to wait for the game to hit the free list on PSN Plus.
MechMachine
April 30, 2020 at 13:29
Yeah, I am very much of the Ricky Gervais school of thought. If ever there was a time where we see who the truly important people are, this is it. Let the fools sing imagine in their mansions to the ire and contempt of the average hard working people who are losing their livelihoods. I bet after this Corona epidemic, our appetite for bullshit will be far less tolerant. And all this crazy weird politics that has crept into the world where we see people lying just to score political points, especially mainstream news, will go away.
MechMachine
April 30, 2020 at 10:06
When it comes to exploitation in work, I am all for the rights of the employee. Having been put in many a situation where I have worked until 4 am with no overtime. Especially when I was a junior. These days the occasional late nigher rolls along and I work until 23:00 pm and I find myself working more weekends. I don’t even ask for overtime. Such a toxic Situation in SA. I once asked someone who worked as a HR person while we were chatting casually and she all but confirmed SA does not abide by labour laws all that well.
Kenn Gibson
April 28, 2020 at 13:19
If the leak is true then it’s not great, but I’ll hang on to see how well the game plays and the actual narrative of the game turns out.
MechMachine
April 28, 2020 at 13:19
It’s true.
Stoompot
April 29, 2020 at 13:47
Bwahahaha, watched a few videos covering the leaks. No spoilers but Neil Druckmann who is the Creative director and lead co-writer for the game is chums with Anita Sarkeesian. So that explains the characters and the story in the game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Druckmann
Stoompot
April 29, 2020 at 13:47
Bwahahaha, watched a few videos covering the leaks. No spoilers but Neil Druckmann who is the Creative director and lead co-writer for the game is chums with Anita Sarkeesian. So that explains the characters and the story in the game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Druckmann
Son of Banana Jim
April 29, 2020 at 16:14
Oh god… so basically it’s going to be an open sewer of wokeness…
Stoompot
April 30, 2020 at 08:02
I don’t know what they were thinking. The game isn’t marketed as being brave and stunning. Yet you have lesbians and trans people hunting homophobic Christians? Oh, and big bad Joel must go. White man bad. Does this game even still have clickers? Maybe Anita sat on Neil’s shoulder and whispered sweet wokeness in his ear during development. Hopefully she and her friends will buy millions of copies.
CodeDisQus
April 28, 2020 at 10:45
Very excited for this one, I’m really excited for the lack of world markers, such a weird thing but I feel that this will actually change how the games feel and hopefully other games will follow suit (if it works out)!!