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

[Slimy Time]

Man this fucking ending. What an absolute mess from a narrative standpoint.
Joel dying is a no brainer. Whenever you have this father figure character in a post apocalyptic scenario, he's on a time limit for when his "kid's" coming of age story takes place. That's not at all surprising that he dies. What is absolutely shocking is that the "kid" character dies in the middle of their coming of age/revenge story, and the character who kills the father figure is "the real protagonist".
I suspect that someone high up at Naughty Dog could not think of a way to continue the series to a 3rd and maybe final story, so they just decided to more or less kill the story now. What hook is there to play a third game? There is none.

As for the politics/optics side of this. This pleases no one. Can you see REEEEEEsetera types being happy with this ending? What about people who enjoyed the first game and maybe wants to see where it goes (me)? What about the hard "alt-right" Gaymergaters? They probably won't like it either. Awful decision all around. Naughty Dog are going to get shit for this for a long time.

 

[LightDragonman1]

Man, talk about a classic case of Torch The Franchise and Run, huh?

 

[Nobunaga]

@RudeRoasts
Are you okay? Or have you still not hanged yourself

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Spoiler: Spoiler speculations

I seriously can't fathom the thought process behind this ending. It's essentially a middle finger to anyone who gave a shit about the characters from the first game, the people who were personally affected by the story and poured countless hours into getting absorbed into their trials and tribulations. I can think of games where you play as someone who gets progressively more evil, like God of War III, but at least there you didn't switch to play as Zeus and kill Kratos yourself. Joel and Ellie aren't even near the level of evil Kratos was at the end of God of War III. I'm not even a fan of this fucking series but I feel horrible for all the people who cared about the first game. Your ultimate reward for sticking through hours and hours of gutwrenching story is playing as someone else killing the character you've grown emotionally attached to and framing that person as the hero.

The only thing more disappointing than this ending is the fact that the game's been delayed indefinitely so who knows when we'll see that shitstorm (if they decide not to scrap the ending entirely that is).

 

[Ligoskj]

I feel horrible for all the people who cared about the first game

You shouldn't feel that way, afterall, since the footage has been leaked to the public, barely any sane fan of the franchise will spend his/her money on this atrocity known as "The Last of Us Part II".

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

You shouldn't feel that way, afterall, since the footage has been leaked to the public, barely any sane fan of the franchise will spend his/her money on this atrocity known as "The Last of Us Part II".

Well that's the thing. I have a sibling who is a massive fan of the first game and I really don't have the heart to tell him about these leaks. He's pissed enough about the game being delayed indefinitely, and I doubt he'd let me even tell him the leaks.

 

[Ligoskj]

I have a sibling who is a massive fan of the first game and I really don't have the heart to tell him about these leaks.

Just warn him it doesn't worth it.

 

[Keystone]

Whoever leaked the footage of this shitty game is a hero. Neil Druckmann deserves a cock in his mouth.

You say that like it's something he wouldn't enjoy.

 

[user176]

Jesus Christ, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!

The story's far worse than I ever expected it to be, I figured Naughty Dog would go full blown woke and have the cultists kill off Ellie's dyke girlfriend with that being the big story of revenge, with Joel helping Ellie kill all the big evil cultists. Shoehorned in would be cringey political symbolism like the religous cultists representing conservative evangelical Christians and be some ""compelling statement"" about how right wingers are horribly homophobic!

This is a complete fucking disaster! The new Star Wars Trilogy handled killing off the old characters and bringing in a new cast better than this! At the very least you didn't have to see Rey or the Black Man killing Luke or Leia, and having them be framed as the heroes. The tard rage is gonna be hilarious at least.

2020 is shaping up to be the year of big gaming disappointments. RE3 (2020) fucked up because Capcom cut out far too much stuff; FF7R fucked up because it lied about being a remake and went full Kingdom Hearts. XCOM fucked up by pussying out, lowering the difficulty and going full woke. Now a sequel to what many people consider one of the best games of the last console generation fucks up by giving a big fuck you to everyone who had the least bit of interest in the first game! The only game that's lived up to the hype this year is Doom: Eternal!

 

[Trashfire Garbagefuck]

I like how the woke stuff turned out to the least of the game's problems. they fucked the story on a fundamental level.

 

[Muttnik]

What I hate the most in this era of woke-storytelling is the continuous presence of writers killing off/demonizing the characters the fans care about in order to make a statement. You see this in Terminator, Star Wars, etc. It doesn't make a statement. It just kills off all the hype surrounding the story. People came to watch the characters they love struggle and persevere, not watch them get figuratively and literally assassinated.

 

[Ligoskj]

You say that like it's something he wouldn't enjoy.

Neil Druckmann is a feminist and homo-lover on paper. He does this shit just for the sake of attention and money, not because he secretly wants to live in some LGBT paradise. This is why he geniuely deserves something big and stinky in his month.

 

[Slimy Time]

I like how the woke stuff turned out to the least of the game's problems. they fucked the story on a fundamental level.

Pretty much killed the franchise with that writing.

 

[Randy Lahey]

Alright, where’s my ten bucks at?

 

[Keystone]

2020 is shaping up to be the year of big gaming disappointments. RE3 (2020) fucked up because Capcom cut out far too much stuff; FF7R fucked up because it lied about being a remake and went full Kingdom Hearts. XCOM fucked up by pussying out, lowering the difficulty and going full woke. Now a sequel to what many people consider one of the best games of the last console generation fucks up by giving a big fuck you to everyone who had the least bit of interest in the first game! The only game that's lived up to the hype this year is Doom: Eternal!

I think Eternal will win the unofficial "only good thing about 2020" title. The only other contender is Cyberpunk, and it's screwed either way since people have hyped it up so much for so long that it'll be a disappointment even if it does end up being good.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

The only thing more disappointing than this ending is the fact that the game's been delayed indefinitely so who knows when we'll see that shitstorm (if they decide not to scrap the ending entirely that is).

Building off of this for a moment, could you imagine what would have happened if the game wasn't delayed indefinitely? If people got to see the ending firsthand without having it leaked to them? I guaran-goddamn-tee you that the outcry would have rivaled Mass Effect 3's abortion of an ending. Where Mass Effect 3 essentially buttfucked the concept of choice and gave the most retarded plot twists in the final hours, TLOU 2 takes a giant shit all over the characters people grew to love for two straight games with a straight face. I mean hell, just as Casey Hudson desired debate over ME3's ending, we've been getting countless warnings to be open-minded about TLOU 2 from Troy Baker and the Druck Man himself.

Either way, this is gonna be fascinating to watch. Even without the game being released, the ending is still horrendously awful and it's going to haunt the game from now until it is actually released, whenever that will be.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

Dead Space 3 didn't fuck the franchise as badly, and that ended with human civilization being devoured by alien moons.

I doubt this will hurt sales but it'll definitely shit over the goodwill.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I doubt this will hurt sales but it'll definitely shit over the goodwill.

This is something I really want to watch for. FF7R's ending was leaked about a week before it released, and even though a good chunk of the Internet knew about the insanity that happens, it still wasn't enough to stop the game's runaway success. Part of it might be the fact that it was largely spoiled close to release so people who weren't looking for spoilers were able to avoid it.

TLOU 2 doesn't even have that. It's not days or weeks from release. At this rate, it might be months if not next year. And the knowledge about the ending's gonna fester within the community and it will boil over at some point.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

So the troon kills the cissie lesbo and her hetfag dad.
Wewe ladle.

 

[Rei is shit]

The animation in these leaks looks really poor for something that is supposed to be "cinematic".

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