I am slightly further in than you seem to be and am also dissatisfied, but less with the gameplay and more with everything else.
Another problem is the human enemies. They seem more concerned with killing you than actually surviving. As soon as someone spots Joel, everybody runs out to get some of him. Maybe the idea is that they're going after every last scrap of food they can find, but THEY HAVE TANKS so they probably shouldn't have too much trouble taking over farms for sustenance. It's not until a while into the game when someone remarks that this one guy just wasted all their guards, but even then no one even considers the possibility of running for their lives, not even just to dismiss it.
Also, for a show-piece title built for a fixed platform, the game is full of weird animation bugs. Characters will jolt between different motions randomly and at one point, a whole section of the map disappeared when I looked at it from a certain angle.
Currently, I'm still clueless as to what is going on other than that I'm apparently working for the bad guys without questioning them. It's established immediately that the Fireflies caused the outbreak, but apparently they're trying to make the world better, but it's all so vaguely defined that it's just confusing.
Another problem is the human enemies. They seem more concerned with killing you than actually surviving. As soon as someone spots Joel, everybody runs out to get some of him. Maybe the idea is that they're going after every last scrap of food they can find, but THEY HAVE TANKS so they probably shouldn't have too much trouble taking over farms for sustenance. It's not until a while into the game when someone remarks that this one guy just wasted all their guards, but even then no one even considers the possibility of running for their lives, not even just to dismiss it.
Also, for a show-piece title built for a fixed platform, the game is full of weird animation bugs. Characters will jolt between different motions randomly and at one point, a whole section of the map disappeared when I looked at it from a certain angle.