(I'm talking about both the actual game and the remake/port)
The Last of Us Part I is what every modern AAA game should strive to be. A well-crafted, emotional story with some of the best dialogue/acting I've seen in a game, and tense, visceral, and at times difficult gameplay.
In terms of the remake, I played on my mid-range PC (i5-11400, RX 6600 XT, 32GB RAM) and experienced almost none of the technical issues that stopped me from initially buying the remake for Steam. I managed to run the game at 1440p using FSR Quality with very generous settings (mostly medium/high settings with medium/high textures as well) and the game performed very well, never impacting gameplay and honestly, I was impressed with both the performance and the gorgeous graphics. As far as non-ray-tracing games go, these graphics are as good as it gets. What really sells the realism is the facial expressions in both cinematics and gameplay; a whole new layer of emotion and storytelling is able to be expressed and Naughty Dog did just that.
The only issues I faced was some infrequent crashing. Maybe five times in the span of twenty-one hours, so I'm not fussed. To be fair, I was messing around and pushing the graphics way too high with only 8GB VRAM.
Final Rating: 10/10
The Last of Us Part I is what every modern AAA game should strive to be. A well-crafted, emotional story with some of the best dialogue/acting I've seen in a game, and tense, visceral, and at times difficult gameplay.
In terms of the remake, I played on my mid-range PC (i5-11400, RX 6600 XT, 32GB RAM) and experienced almost none of the technical issues that stopped me from initially buying the remake for Steam. I managed to run the game at 1440p using FSR Quality with very generous settings (mostly medium/high settings with medium/high textures as well) and the game performed very well, never impacting gameplay and honestly, I was impressed with both the performance and the gorgeous graphics. As far as non-ray-tracing games go, these graphics are as good as it gets. What really sells the realism is the facial expressions in both cinematics and gameplay; a whole new layer of emotion and storytelling is able to be expressed and Naughty Dog did just that.
The only issues I faced was some infrequent crashing. Maybe five times in the span of twenty-one hours, so I'm not fussed. To be fair, I was messing around and pushing the graphics way too high with only 8GB VRAM.
Final Rating: 10/10