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

[Broseph]

If he had a shred of business sense he wouldn't straight up murder off Joel with a goddamn golf club with a total nobody and then try to present them as being anything less than a scum-sucking by-the-numbers villain but in fact somehow morally on the same level as Ellie.

Joel's death could have had the right impact if he wasn't murdered by some re.tarded looking character that that they shoehorned into the game in the dumbest way possible, not to mention said character is only in the game so Cuckmann can virtue signal to a demographic that doesn't even play video games.

 

[OmnipotentStupidity]

I just realized something really stupid.

We're never in control of Ellie while Joel is in the same room with her before he gets killed off; we know that for certain thanks to the 2 1/2 hour leaks.

And yet IIRC: in one of the trailers, there's clearly a conversation that happened between Ellie and Joel sometime ago, and as far as we know that's with recent gray-haired Joel - the one closest that closely matches his present appearance, whereas the flashbacks in the other leaks have him and Eliie looking more like how they appeared at the end of The Last of Us 1, albeit slightly more disheveled and maybe about a year older.

Do you guys think that that's the flashback the person who leaked the ending may have been referring to?

 

[TruthSeekingDaimon]

Can someone fix everything in TLOU3?
Like you have cuckmans job and can do whatever you want so go fix the last game.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Can someone fix everything in TLOU3?
Like you have cuckmans job and can do whatever you want so go fix the last game.

Open the game with a protag putting some poor shroom infested girl out of her misery as she cries that a tranny killed her father, wife and child. Then spend the next 20 hours surviving the mushroom zombie hellscape.

 

[Hee]

Can someone fix everything in TLOU3?
Like you have cuckmans job and can do whatever you want so go fix the last game.

As much as I hate to say it, with a game so abysmal as TLOU2, I would rather this franchise be laid to rest. A good original and a shitty sequel is better than a god-awful trilogy.

 

[Tookie]

This "not meant to be fun" crap is really bugging me for some reason.

Schindler's List wasn't meant to be fun either, but there's a big difference between paying $10-$20 to observe a 3 hour movie, and paying $60 to play a 30 hour game in which you are actively gassing the defenseless Jews. Not only in length, but in active vs. passive.

The "not meant to be fun" thing is crap because they are making a game: the medium has to incorporate gameplay, immersiveness, and some element of fun. It can be artistic but if it is a miserable slog it is a failure by definition because of the medium they chose.

You could produce a film with an amazing story but if the production values are shit, it will be a bad film regardless because it is a visual medium. Similarly, a book with shitty prose is a bad book regardless of any other factors in it's favor because the chosen medium is the written word. A game that makes you feel like shit the whole time you're playing it is inherently a failure as a game.

 

[Ruin]

So I think we got this one wrong. Early on we suspected Cuckman hated Joel but Ellie is the one who ends up mutilated, alone, and heartbroken.

Why do you hate smelly Jewish lesbians Druckman?

 

[Salubrious]

This is all pure speculation on my part.

If the new ending leaks are true, then the previous fight we saw two months ago could be the midway point. Like Ellie searches for Abby, they fight, Abby beats the fuck out of Ellie, then after Ellie heals that's the end of Act I, then we take over as Abby.

But that wouldn't make sense either. Why would Abby go after Ellie after already leaving her alive unless there is a timeskip in which Ellie has recovered and then become Solid Snake again?

Then again, why am I trying to predict anything about the story at this point?

I kinda want Darksy de Phil to play it because he clearly would be oblivous to this shit and he hates his job of playing video games, so playing a video game that basically punishes the player for wanting to play a video game sounds like a match made in heaven.

He's going to play it, but based on his pinwheel schedule it will be the end of July before he finishes it.

 

[blablabla]

https://www.thewrap.com/the-last-of-us-part-2-review-not-as-good-as-it-thinks-it-is-ellie/ Another review

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

https://www.thewrap.com/the-last-of-us-part-2-review-not-as-good-as-it-thinks-it-is-ellie/ Another review

Some choice quotes.

“Actually, the real monsters are people” is a joke I’ve made innumerable times over the past seven years because it’s a trope that writers in fiction media continue to exploit over and over again. “The Last of Us Part 2” might be the pinnacle of the cliche, going so hard on it for so long it that I thought I was losing my mind.

But even worse is that it’s only as long as it is because director Neil Druckmann and co. delivered the most exhausting “actually, the real monsters are people” screed that I’ve ever experienced. Every aspect of this pointlessly long story is built around it.

The video game stuff in “The Last of Us Part 2” gets in the way of the storytelling stuff. This has been an issue for decades for this medium, and Naughty Dog has done nothing to address that fundamental flaw here.

(I like this one because it's an unfortunate truth that plagues way too many story-based video games)

So, yeah, “The Last of Us Part 2” delivers a solid stealth/action experience. It’s got characters I like and care about. And it looks really, really nice. But lots of games have a solid gameplay experience and good characters and pretty graphics.

Sounds to me as though Part 2's just not as engaging or interesting as the first, and it spends way too much time huffing its farts over themes that have been explored in post-apocalyptic fiction for literal decades.

 

[Haramburger]

Can someone fix everything in TLOU3?
Like you have cuckmans job and can do whatever you want so go fix the last game.

With all new characters, you could prequel it and show how the infection originates as some "hubris of man" experiment meant to healp people, but then it's weaponized and breaks containment. Then the release of the infection across the U.S., and finally engineering/explaining Ellie's cure.

 

[Superman93]

>all those gorey deaths
>nobody does a flip
C'mon people are paying 60 dollars to play a Tranny and you leave out the signature move.

I laughed so hard at this I almost choked

 

[Beautiful Loser]

Yeah, the 20-odd year gap between the start of the infection and the begining of TLoU is ripe with stories to tell. Could go the safe way and have it follow Joel for those 2 decades or try a new cast with a new perspective kinda like RE2/3, maybe with a Joel cameo, big or small.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

25 years into the end of the world, and Ellie manages to know what a bigot is, but not the reasoning behind an ice cream truck.

Stellar writing.

 

[Marissa Moira]

25 years into the end of the world, and Ellie manages to know what a bigot is, but not the reasoning behind an ice cream truck.

Stellar writing.

They have a fucking pristine library in the game with an actual physical encyclopedia in it, as well as a state of the art gym, yet some how frozen food is a fucking mystery on par with how the Egyptians built the Pyramids.

They really put the icecream truck thing in there to show a "OMG DA DEATH OF CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE, DA WURLD IS MEEN" thing but it really doesn't fail to come off as stupid.

 

[John Merston]

So, has anyone uncovered the terrible, awful, unforgivable thing Joel did that's supposed to make us cheer for Abby when she kills him?

 

[Tard]

I'm going to guess that this is an archive of the /v/ thread. The description of the ending matches, the thread was ~300 posts, and the original appears to have been deleted.

"when you "damage" someone you can make them beg for their life before smashing their heads in"
What the actual fuck
This dude is right when he later says "This sequel seems like such a pointless exercise in torture porn"

 

[TruthSeekingDaimon]

How about Dragonballs showing up in TLOU world and then people use it to wish the population back?

This dude is right when he later says "This sequel seems like such a pointless exercise in torture porn"

Well yeah thats why SFM guro looks like a good fan content for this game. The guro fetishists are better than Cuckman at coming up creative ways.

 

[The Fresh Maker]

Wait, there were leaks of Dinah before E3 2018, when she was revealed? I don't remember that at all. Because if these leaks succeeded that at all (which the ones that fueled the thread just before the video leaks do) it's not an argument in favour of them.


What? Is this one of Schreier's bullshit pre-Metoo Neogaf bait pandering articles? Because I can give you a bevy of ones that are absolute shite, if I went looking for them.

I don't agree with the guy's shitty, vidya journalist opinions. He is simply a source of info for the facts to me.
Ya know, yesterday when AC Valhalla was getting drawn for 6 hours, he said that the trailer released today would be CGI, and we'd have a full gameplay reveal the week after. He was spot on.

 

[Salubrious]

So, has anyone uncovered the terrible, awful, unforgivable thing Joel did that's supposed to make us cheer for Abby when she kills him?

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