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

[Hangula Hungui]

Imagine the next Avengers movie came out but halfway through the movie, it’s suddenly revealed that Hulk is a virgin so the Avengers band together and try to get him laid, with a feel-good ending.
It’s tone deaf and out of touch.
The entirety of Joels character development and the themes of the first game just get thrown out of the window.
Hell, even the title „The Last Of Us“ made some sense considering Joels loss and the entire story.
But this? This is fanfic level bullshit.

„REVENGE BAD“
-Neil Druckmann, 2020, winner of best story and GOTY awards for TLOU2

 

[Salubrious]

Better look at the butch ma'am beating the shit out of Ellie and her gf for those interested in watching and/or want to send it to the shills.

Let's somehow ignore ALL of the woke LGBTQ+ aspects of this.

The climax of this game is the player beating the shit out of two 19-year-old girls, one of which is pregnant, and while not finishing them off you still leave their broken bleeding bodies in some basement somewhere with no guarantee of medical assistance.

This sounds like a good idea even without the woke elements?

 

[Muttnik]

Sarah didn't die so that her dad's valued character development would mean utterly nothing in the end

 

[Dom Cruise]

Imagine the next Avengers movie came out but halfway through the movie, it’s suddenly revealed that Hulk is a virgin so the Avengers band together and try to get him laid, with a feel-good ending.
It’s tone deaf and out of touch.
The entirety of Joels character development and the themes of the first game just get thrown out of the window.
Hell, even the title „The Last Of Us“ made some sense considering Joels loss and the entire story.
But this? This is fanfic level bullshit.

„REVENGE BAD“
-Neil Druckmann, 2020, winner of best story and GOTY awards for TLOU2

Or put it another way, it's not about the world, it's specifically about the characters of Joel and Ellie, the world is just a backdrop to their story.

You can tell a story where the main draw is the setting and have many different characters, but that's not what The Last of Us was about at all.

It's completely tone deaf that they would do this.

 

[Jaimas]

Because homophobic Muslims aren't woke.

You're missing why I asked, and that's partly my fault, Metalocalypse friend.

It's this:

Every single time one of these works goes to fucking insane degrees to shove in wokeshit, and I'm talking the worst of the worst of wokeshit, it's always to push the most basic, non-controversial, basically-already-accepted angle possible, like "Racism is bad." Well shit, I didn't know that lessons we learned from the Super Mario 3 Cartoon were fucking groundbreaking lessons in storytelling, but according to these clowns, they are.

This is always how it is with them. They don't tell anything groundbreaking. They don't even do it in a new or interesting way. It's the vidya equivalent of a fucking virtue signal.

 

[Hangula Hungui]

Sarah didn't die so that her dad's valued character development would mean utterly nothing in the end

„Daddy? Who is this man with that golf club?“

 

[Dom Cruise]

The world really did go to shit after 2013, didn't it?

I consider 2013 to be the cut off point for the "good old days"

 

[Hangula Hungui]

The world really did go to shit after 2013, didn't it?

I consider 2013 to be the cut off point for the "good old days"

2012 was the peak, everything afterwards was mostly lacking innovation or creativity. Lots of remakes, ports and reused assets. Sure, we still had those brown/grey FPS games by then, but 2013 was the point where almost everything went to shit.

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

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„Daddy? Who is this man with that golf club?“

If they told me that all of this was Joel's dying dream after an overzealous response from gov'munt that got him and his girl killed for a virus that was an empty bun... well, it would still be bullshit, but I'd prefer it.

 

[A_throwaway_name62919]

Better look at the butch ma'am beating the shit out of Ellie and her gf for those interested in watching and/or want to send it to the shills.

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Did anyone else notice that Dina takes an arrow through the shoulder there? Which is sticking a several inches out of the front of her shoulder, before being slammed a few inches back into it when she's slammed into the ground. Followed by a pool of blood spreading beneath her from the wound as the cutscene ends. Now, I don't know what other the spoilers say, as I've never been interested in playing these games and am just here because I'm curious about the shitstorm. But I'd say by all rights, that should be a fatal wound on Dina without quick, modern medical attention. Either from bleeding to death, or from the wound getting infected. So they either need some seriously contrived writing to keep her alive, or she dies post cutscene.

 

[Hangula Hungui]

she dies post cutscene

As much as I hate it when video games do this, it’s better than having your previous protag die like a bitch on the ground. Yes I‘m salty. And I‘m salty too that Tommy dies alongside Joel for no reason.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

“If an apocalypse or world-changing event happens, it’s better to just die then as life will never let you be happy no matter what no matter how hard you try and it’ll all be pointless.”

Great message, TLOU2

 

[LightDragonman1]

Not to mention that the themes that they decided to go with for TLOU II in order to justify all these plot developments are some of the most overplayed and cliche ones in the book, as far as themes in post-apocalyptic settings go. And yet here is Druckmann bringing them in as if they are some sort of "revolutionary social commentary not seen before in the medium."

 

[Noideawhattopick]

people getting creative...

this is entertaining.
I love German gaming sites saying there are "supposed leaks of tlou2." media again too slow.

 

[HumanHive]

“If an apocalypse or world-changing event happens, it’s better to just die then as life will never let you be happy no matter what no matter how hard you try and it’ll all be pointless.”

Great message, TLOU2

It's the message for the modern age.
Don't make long term investments. Rent, don't own. Don't marry. Don't have children. Sterlize yourself. Commit suicide.
Humanity was the real monster. Zombies are the cure.

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

I'm looking at Abby again and... Ugh. I like muscly warrior chicks but she's making even me go "eugh."

 

[Marissa Moira]

Nonono you see it's intentional in the tutorial section one of the first thing the player sees in the original game is a golf club and the last thing joel sees is a golf club.

The symbolism is like African Griot Seven Stance Writing, you fucking plebians probably never heard of it because you never went to an Ivy league School.

 

[Dom Cruise]

It's the message for the modern age.
Don't make long term investments. Rent, don't own. Don't marry. Don't have children. Sterlize yourself. Commit suicide.
Humanity was the real monster. Zombies are the cure.

Nihilism is what's hiding behind SJW ideology, it's fundamentally anti-human.

And this has been a long time in the making for Sony, all of their recent games have had irritating SJW bullshit in them, just not enough to totally ruin it, but I had a feeling it was only a matter of time until it caused a game to go full retard.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Nihilism is what's hiding behind SJW ideology, it's fundamentally anti-human.

And this has been a long time in the making for Sony, all of their recent games have had irritating SJW bullshit in them, just not enough to totally ruin it, but I had a feeling it was only a matter of time until it caused a game to go full retard.

The Full Retard decision was entirely Druckman's decision.

God of War really didn't have anything like that. it looks like Horizon is removing the fugly characters and fixing the lore so the Nora Tribe doesn't come off as feminist tryhard.

 

[Hangula Hungui]

I'm looking at Abby again and... Ugh. I like muscly warrior chicks but she's making even me go "eugh."

Theres a fine line between muscular women and ugly dudes with vaginas.

absolute qt, would cuddle with, 10/10 death by snu snu

asks for spare change, calls all men weak and is secretly sad nobody would cuddle her, takes out aggression and daddy issues on anyone, 1/10 would suggest therapy sessions