The Last of Us Franchise - Because it's apparently a franchise now. This thread has been double-DMCA’d by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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Anyone who says the hate this game got "was undeserved" is a fucking moron who doesn't deserve to be taken seriously. Even looking past how Joel was killed in the first two hours as a result of him acting completely out of character and the second half of the game forces you to sympathize with a vile piece of shit, everything about it is abhorrent. From the way it portrays Ellie and Tommy as the villains while trying to portray the pregnant woman throat slitter as a victim, to the groutites violence and grimdark bleakness, to the broken story structure, to the painfully linear game design, to the way it treated Ellie and Joel like shit, to the hundreds of ways Neil Druckmann actively lied to people and gave the middle finger to anyone who was rightfully upset with the mountain of cow manure he chose to put out while pointing out the dozens of things wrong with it.
 
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Least Concern said:
no, i'm pretty sure this will be the first game in all of gaming to have a Black lead and that's worth writing an article about
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Just like Shang Chi had the first asian lead in a martial arts movie.

Just to keep this on topic tried to play this game because it was on PS Now and you'll be shocked to learn it isn't very good. Got to the start of the Abbie section and gave up. Everyone knows the deal with the story (if one even exists) but the gameplay was so slow. The first game had a good pace often switching locations and putting you in new scenarios but basing the whole game in Seattle makes everywhere you go feel the same. Areas are bigger which might have mattered if there was anything to find besides crafting material you're already maxed out on. Proably not saying anything that hasn't been said so i'll stop now but what an unnecessary game.
 
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JamFlowMan said:
The first game had a good pace often switching locations and putting you in new scenarios but basing the whole game in Seattle makes everywhere you go feel the same.
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That was one of the things that was cool about the first game was the cross country trip.

I always thought a Last of Us II should have been about another cross country trip to find the remnants of the US government, which is referenced as still existing, much like the first game was about finding the headquarters of the Fireflies, maybe Ellie learns the truth and sets out, hoping the US government could help create a cure, with Joel tracking her and trying to convince her to stop, ultimately Ellie has to choose whether to sacrifice her life for the hope of a cure.

Instead we get shit about troons and golfclubs, a massive waste but Last of Us at the end of the day works best as a standalone story that never needed a continuation.
 
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That was one of the things that was cool about the first game was the cross country trip.

I always thought a Last of Us II should have been about another cross country trip to find the remnants of the US government, which is referenced as still existing, much like the first game was about finding the headquarters of the Fireflies, maybe Ellie learns the truth and sets out, hoping the US government could help create a cure, with Joel tracking her and trying to convince her to stop, ultimately Ellie has to choose whether to sacrifice her life for the hope of a cure.

Instead we get shit about troons and golfclubs, a massive waste but Last of Us at the end of the day works best as a standalone story that never needed a continuation.
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Imagine how many Trump and wall references they would have crowbarred in had they gone with that angle.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
That was one of the things that was cool about the first game was the cross country trip.

I always thought a Last of Us II should have been about another cross country trip to find the remnants of the US government, which is referenced as still existing, much like the first game was about finding the headquarters of the Fireflies, maybe Ellie learns the truth and sets out, hoping the US government could help create a cure, with Joel tracking her and trying to convince her to stop, ultimately Ellie has to choose whether to sacrifice her life for the hope of a cure.

Instead we get shit about troons and golfclubs, a massive waste but Last of Us at the end of the day works best as a standalone story that never needed a continuation.
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The Penultimate Warrior said:
Imagine how many Trump and wall references they would have crowbarred in had they gone with that angle.
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They did make a game like that, it's Life is Strange 2.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
They did make a game like that, it's Life is Strange 2.
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And Wolfenstein New Colossus. But just imagine how stunning and brave it would have been for Joel and Ellie to have made it all the way to Washington, only to find the city walled off and the guards refuse them entry, because they don't want their type coming over.
 
The Penultimate Warrior said:
And Wolfenstein New Colossus. But just imagine how stunning and brave it would have been for Joel and Ellie to have made it all the way to Washington, only to find the city walled off and the guards refuse them entry, because they don't want their type coming over.
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It's really up to what the TV series does now, that's where all of the changes is going to come from. The PS5 remaster doesn't have the budget for massive reworks of the whole game and DLC it seems. And If the TV series is well received people are clearly going to want more games.
 
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