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

[Gehenna]

I myself am skeptical but at this point I wouldn't dismiss the possibility entirely.

There is a reason i said I doubt it, but am not calling it a flat out lie....

 

[unfer]

The Last Of Us II: REVENGE LEV'S MOTHER

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

For the woke: This game is devoted to putting a lesbian through as much misery as possible. Her girlfriend is a bisexual woman, so of course she's written as a huge slut and a cheater, and she looks like a /pol/ big nosed Jew cartoon to boot. The trans boy is presented as having only transitioned to escape from being made a child bride, and you also get to see him getting decked in the face. The trans woman character (let's be real, Abby is a trans woman) is a serial killer, a generally unlikable petty bitch, and a skank who seduces a pregnant woman's boyfriend.

This level of tone-deafness in his attempted pandering makes me think that there's something genuinely wrong with him, like psychopathy. I can only imagine his wrath when one of his minions dared to point out that his smelly, big-nosed Jew couldn't also be a wealthy banker because it's set after the end of civilization, and it's also two thousand years too late for her to have personally killed Jesus.

 

[Tranny Dick Noballs]

Remember that article I posted a few days ago, from some no-name shill site? Basically, a little faggot was bitching about how all the Metacritic user scores are "babies"? You could literally picture him sucking on that Sony cock.

Sure, you can argue, he's not wrong, maybe there's a level of overeaction going on... (lulz) ,but like clockwork, he's crying about death threats? Do these little niggers get a manual? Do they all recieve the same soyboy training? Why are the eventual responses always the same? "Wah.... wah... I got death threats for trying to incite fans" "Wah... wah... I'm the victim here"

I wonder if he's lolcow worthy? I'm going to keep my eye on him, that's for sure.

https://archive.is/EiPAZ

 

[Gar For Archer]

So I honestly don't understand who this game is meant to appeal to.

For fans of the original: the first The Last of Us was a story of the endurance of the human spirit. It had some beautiful things to say about finding the light in the darkness; the importance of connection to other people and how you don't need to be blood related to be a family; the bond between father and daughter; redemption, sacrifice, the greater good, so on. It definitely ventured into dark territory at times, but there was always an underlying feeling of hope.

This sequel is a bleak mess that becomes so grimdark that it loops back around to being funny. The game's tone is so nihilistic that I honestly can't bother to give a shit about any of these people. Characters from the original are either killed off or suffer from such severe character assassination that I honestly don't get why they didn't just make a sequel set in the same universe but with different characters. They really thought it would be a good move to kill off the most beloved character from the original, then make you play as, and try to sympathize with, his murderer, and handwave it with "well he did some shitty things in the past." (For survival. In an apocalypse.)

For the woke: This game is devoted to putting a lesbian through as much misery as possible. Her girlfriend is a bisexual woman, so of course she's written as a huge slut and a cheater, and she looks like a /pol/ big nosed Jew cartoon to boot. The trans boy is presented as having only transitioned to escape from being made a child bride, and you also get to see him getting decked in the face. The trans woman character (let's be real, Abby is a trans woman) is a serial killer, a generally unlikable petty bitch, and a skank who seduces a pregnant woman's boyfriend.

The Last of Us 2 is the latest in a line of various franchises' sequels made to ~subvert~ and ~challenge expectations~ that ends up just taking a massive steaming shit all over the original, then shaming the fans. Every character that fans loved in the original is either dead or utterly broken. And again, we are not only asked, but expected to like the characters responsible. Ffs Abby literally gets crucified like she's supposed to be fucking Jesus.

Tl;dr To call this thing hot garbage is an insult to garbage.

If they only “transitioned” to escape being a child bride, are they even fucking trans? How’s that different from, say, Mulan, who pretends to be a man in order to join the military but doesn’t actually believe herself to be male?

A young girl who masquerades as a boy post-apocalypse in order to avoid unwanted attention is an interesting concept for a character, but of COURSE it’s fucking impossible to do in 2020 without inserting tranny politics.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

Remember that article I posted a few days ago, from some no-name shill site? Basically, a little faggot was bitching about how all the Metacritic user scores are "babies"? You could literally picture him sucking on that Sony cock.

Sure, you can argue, he's not wrong, maybe there's a level of overeaction going on... (lulz) ,but like clockwork, he's crying about death threats? Do these little niggers get a manual? Do they all recieve the same soyboy training? Why are the eventual responses always the same? "Wah.... wah... I got death threats for trying to incite fans" "Wah... wah... I'm the victim here"

I wonder if he's lolcow worthy? I'm going to keep my eye on him, that's for sure.

https://archive.md/EiPAZ

Ah yes...the tried and true "I got death threats" without showing a shred of proof that they were actually received. The standard recipe of lolcow stew.

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

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He... he fucked himself? Literally?
This is both funny and quite sad.
Where's the reddit link?

 

[Tranny Dick Noballs]

https://twitter.com/neuroseraphim/status/1274711749397225472?s=20

Why am I not even surprised... so basically this whole game wasn't just his vanity project, it was also his way to get his jollies on?

 

[Gamepad]

A young girl who masquerades as a boy post-apocalypse in order to avoid unwanted attention is an interesting concept for a character, but of COURSE it’s fucking impossible to do in 2020 without inserting tranny politics.

... Isn't that LISA: The Joyful, but with a mask instead?

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Something that occurred to me is that a lot of people in this thread point out that TLOU 2 lets Abby go scot-free and the player has absolutely no say in how it plays out. Thing is, there is a way to do that right. I recently played The Witcher 2, and at the climax of the game, the antagonist, Letho tells you his reasons for doing the things he did throughout the game, and it's revealed that he's not really a bad guy, just someone caught in a bad situation. Not to mention he actively helped Geralt's love interest out of respect for Geralt (both of them depending on your choices).

At this point you can either fight him to the death or you can let him go. You'll find that a lot of people preferred to let him go because they sympathized with him and felt that killing him would have been pointless after everything was said and done. But you can also kill him because he did assist in bringing about war (albeit not by his choice) and because it was his actions that caused Geralt to be in the same mess.

The key difference here isn't just that the player has the option of either killing or sparing Letho, it's also that Letho's a charismatic, well-written character to the point that it's a legitimately difficult choice. In essence, he is the complete opposite of Abby. Had Abby been written better and had she been likable on any conceivable level, I don't think people would have had a problem with Ellie letting her go. At least then, the themes of revenge might have had more impact since it'd be between two characters you grew to like constantly at each others throats for reasons they aren't able to justify.

Of course this would also require the entire game to be rewritten because it's thoroughly impossible to like Abby based solely on her actions.

 

[detractorzer0]

Something that occurred to me is that a lot of people in this thread point out that TLOU 2 lets Abby go scot-free and the player has absolutely no say in how it plays out. Thing is, there is a way to do that right. I recently played The Witcher 2, and at the climax of the game, the antagonist, Letho tells you his reasons for doing the things he did throughout the game, and it's revealed that he's not really a bad guy, just someone caught in a bad situation. Not to mention he actively helped Geralt's love interest out of respect for Geralt (both of them depending on your choices).

At this point you can either fight him to the death or you can let him go. You'll find that a lot of people preferred to let him go because they sympathized with him and felt that killing him would have been pointless after everything was said and done. But you can also kill him because he did assist in bringing about war (albeit not by his choice) and because it was his actions that caused Geralt to be in the same mess.

The key difference here isn't just that the player has the option of either killing or sparing Letho, it's also that Letho's a charismatic, well-written character to the point that it's a legitimately difficult choice. In essence, he is the complete opposite of Abby. Had Abby been written better and had she been likable on any conceivable level, I don't think people would have had a problem with Ellie letting her go. At least then, the themes of revenge might have had more impact since it'd be between two characters you grew to like constantly at each others throats for reasons they aren't able to justify.

Of course this would also require the entire game to be rewritten because it's thoroughly impossible to like Abby based solely on her actions.

Shift Abby's focus from revenge for her father and put it on finding a cure.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Or, to put it bluntly, removed every single identifier of her as a woman.

Which is some really creepy, almost Jame Gumb, Silence of The Lambs type shit if you really think about it.

This game's ending reminds me of this episode of MST3K which featured a story where a sad ending comes out of nowhere to kill off the movie's most sympathetic character. The bots get mad and Joel reminds them that they don't have to take the movie's ending at face value: (Linked clip goes to relevant segment.)

Of course, it's a lot easier to shrug off and mentally rewrite a vintage movie you didn't pay 60 dollars for which wasn't part of a hotly anticipated franchise featuring sympathetic characters beloved by millions who waited for years to see the continuation of their story.

For a second I thought you were talking about the Girl in Goldboots.

HEY GIRL, I GET YOUR GOLD BOOTS MOVING!

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A perfect illustration of his narcissism.

This level of tone-deafness in his attempted pandering makes me think that there's something genuinely wrong with him, like psychopathy. I can only imagine his wrath when one of his minions dared to point out that his smelly, big-nosed Jew couldn't also be a wealthy banker because it's set after the end of civilization, and it's also two thousand years too late for her to have personally killed Jesus.

There is something genuinely wrong with him, something like psychopathy, which is why I compared him to Ted Bundy earlier and Jame Gumb just now.

It's crazy how negative an opinion I have of him now, because before while I wouldn't have necessarily called myself a fan of his, I had no idea he was such a toxic little shit, I thought he was a talented guy who was responsible for good games like Uncharted 4 and the original Last of Us.

But what I didn't know about Uncharted 4 was how much of the game had already been conceived by Amy Henning, I thought it was all Druckmann's show, now I realize that whatever game he's credited in was good despite him and when he calls the shots something like Last of Us II is what we get.

It's disappointing because it does feed into the stereotype of Jews as parasitical, toxic influences on things, what with him driving all the other main talent out of Naughty Dog, ruining one of the all time great developers.

I don't know what, if anything, his Jewishness means, but that's clearly the elephant in the room, at the end of the day though his Jewishness doesn't matter, the fact that he's a psychopathic narcissist does, who are going to of course use every shield they can use to further their own needs.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

The key difference here isn't just that the player has the option of either killing or sparing Letho, it's also that Letho's a charismatic, well-written character to the point that it's a legitimately difficult choice. In essence, he is the complete opposite of Abby. Had Abby been written better and had she been likable on any conceivable level, I don't think people would have had a problem with Ellie letting her go. At least then, the themes of revenge might have had more impact since it'd be between two characters you grew to like constantly at each others throats for reasons they aren't able to justify.

Of course this would also require the entire game to be rewritten because it's thoroughly impossible to like Abby based solely on her actions.

Yeah, that's the key thing that a lot of people seem to forget or outright overlook about our legitimate concerns about the game's writing and over all narrative. A lot of people are quick to write us off as transphobic when really, it's a lot less with Abby looking like she maybe took a few too many steroids and more that the game does a horrible job of trying to make her out to be this likeable person we could maybe rally behind in some way or at least feel something for. It was a huge difference that could have turned the game from being a dumpster fire into one of somewhat tragedy that we have to watch these generally good people go through such horrible atrocities or succumb to such dark impulses that people are wont to do in an apocalyptic setting. They completely dropped the ball with Abby in her entirety.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

You know, maybe releasing this game right before Father’s Day was a really stupid idea.

 

[Ruin]

You know, maybe releasing this game right before Father’s Day was a really stupid idea.

I'm starting to think that was on purpose. It's the kind of "irony" that would give Druckman a boner.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

Remember that article I posted a few days ago, from some no-name shill site? Basically, a little faggot was bitching about how all the Metacritic user scores are "babies"? You could literally picture him sucking on that Sony cock.

Sure, you can argue, he's not wrong, maybe there's a level of overeaction going on... (lulz) ,but like clockwork, he's crying about death threats? Do these little niggers get a manual? Do they all recieve the same soyboy training? Why are the eventual responses always the same? "Wah.... wah... I got death threats for trying to incite fans" "Wah... wah... I'm the victim here"

I wonder if he's lolcow worthy? I'm going to keep my eye on him, that's for sure.

https://archive.md/EiPAZ

Reminds me of this consoomer I found on plebbit

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastOfUs2/comments/hd5qsj/i_know_everyone_is_allowed_to_have_their_own/fvkkjtz/

 

[derpherp2]

If they only “transitioned” to escape being a child bride, are they even fucking trans? How’s that different from, say, Mulan, who pretends to be a man in order to join the military but doesn’t actually believe herself to be male?

A young girl who masquerades as a boy post-apocalypse in order to avoid unwanted attention is an interesting concept for a character, but of COURSE it’s fucking impossible to do in 2020 without inserting tranny politics.

Hell, you could even go to how fucked up multilating yourself to look less appealing to other people can truly be, and just go the LISA route. Have Lev go slowly crazier as people still find her attractive.
Culminating to asking Abby to chainsaw her face - like this shit is the opposite of the ken doll mental illness, but the premise is the same attaining impossible beauty standards (no matter how ugly you look, someone will want to bone you - especially as a women). Also add that the arranged marriage was to her dad. For bonus reference points, then add the wedding actually went through, and there was a honeymoon face, with all the horror that is implied.

If they really wanted grimdark, there is a distinct lack of actual grimdark and more SURPRISE MOTHAFUCKA *punch* cutaway gags.

Is this going to be the new norm? Horror gamewank had jumpscares, edgy gamewank now has uhh.... jumpedges?

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I am fucking loving this tidbit of information (if true).

Imagine your dev cycle being such a pervasive clusterfuck of revolving doors for employees, disgruntleted people - to the point of there being leaks, and being such an unwanted piece of shit in writing that no ACTOR wanted to join it, that you had to go and fuck yourself on camera.

For brownie points.
In a grimdark novelgamethrillerhorrorgrindfest.
It will totally succeed though, and totally not burn out a beloved Game Studio.





Also for people going on about how sales are still increasing, this kind of effect is staggered, nobody really reads reviews, because again they are shit. So by extension, they also don't read user reviews, as they are on said shit website.

But if the game is genuinely shit, people will not come back for the sequel, and will probably look at anything made by Naughty Dog more carefully.
See: Bethesda, Bioware, I guess Star Wars (both vidya and movies), and I guess literally every other Dev bought by EA and shuttered.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

The key difference here isn't just that the player has the option of either killing or sparing Letho, it's also that Letho's a charismatic, well-written character to the point that it's a legitimately difficult choice. In essence, he is the complete opposite of Abby. Had Abby been written better and had she been likable on any conceivable level, I don't think people would have had a problem with Ellie letting her go. At least then, the themes of revenge might have had more impact since it'd be between two characters you grew to like constantly at each others throats for reasons they aren't able to justify.

If the whole game had been the same except for Abby killing Joel with a single shot, it would have been arguably acceptable for the rest of the game to ask for a drop of empathy for her and her crew.

But we got the torture watchparty instead.

 

[QuokkaCaptain]

If they only “transitioned” to escape being a child bride, are they even fucking trans? How’s that different from, say, Mulan, who pretends to be a man in order to join the military but doesn’t actually believe herself to be male?

You say that as if there aren't people who, hand to fucking God, will argue with a straight face that Mulan is a story about a trans guy.

It was months ago, so I don't have links, but I remember a scrap on Tumblr where some Chinese person basically put their foot down and said "stop re-writing a classic Chinese story to fit your dumbass modern politics, it's about a woman pretending to be a man so she could serve in the army, Mulan is a WOMAN".

Context means nothing to these people.

 

[{o}P II]

Threads. It's 1983, and the Cold War goes tits up. Global thermonuclear war occurs. We are clinically informed "Total yield hitting the UK: 80 megatons." We follow two families from Sheffield before and after the bomb goes off. After it goes off, it's basically literally looting and brawling over the juiciest rats. A girl belonging to one of the families is pregnant at the time and has her child in a ruined barn. The kid survives. Fifteen years later, it's obvious that her child is suffering from malnutrition and fallout-caused brain damage and after battling with some other teenage lad over the corpse of a dog to eat, she and the lad fuck, she gets pregnant, and she finds her way into one of the few functional medical settings left in the country. She has the child and the final freeze frame is looking aghast at the horrifically birth-deformed (which we don't see, just her expression of ultimate horror) offspring she's just given life to. The end.

One of my favourite films, I've seen it close to 50 times. The description you posted is not including the attack scene where (in no particular order)

- A mushroom cloud is in view familiar British pedestrianised high-street with blood-curdling screams of shoppers echoing while it rises.
- A giant fire envelopes a residential district which includes shots of people climbing through rubble, burned and suffocating.
- A central character is lost in the chaos of the switching perspectives and is never seen again

And a particular scene in the post attack segment where a character succumbs to radiation poisoning and after his last moments the screen cuts black & picture of a mass grave with him being just another face in a crowd of corpses