Just rewatched the show and the scene where >!David slaps the young girl and says he's her father made me wonder what would happen if she survived and later met Ellie.!< Maybe a plot in part three?

Its goot i liked it.

I beat the second game, I am conflicted on how I feel. At the start I absolutely hated Abby, but then I played as her for a while and then the big fight at the end happened. I felt bad for Abby there and I’m confused as to why I would feel like that for the person that murdered my favourite character from the first game Like I get why but still

Well, I want to share something. Is it just me, or is this real? In The Last of Us Part I, during the Outskirts museum scene, when you exit the building and place the wooden plank to create a bridge between two buildings, you see a sunset view while looking for your destination. However, once you get to the next building, the time of day has completely changed—it’s suddenly noon. Is this a bug in the game, or am I the only one noticing it?

All I have to say is that I would play the first game 20x over before playing the second one again. The mechanics are definitely better in 2, but the story was half as good as the first. It lost its magic and I still hated Abby and by the end, Ellie and Tommy too. Ruined all the characters for a cheap “revenge is bad” story. Honestly disappointed

I’ve always tried to do them but never manage to. I’ve tried shooting below the knee but they always either get back up or just die. I never get the enemy to plead for their life before I can execute them with a melee weapon or gun. Am I missing something?

Writing this from the bottom of my heart. Oh my god. the game was an emotional rollercoaster. I fucking love it. 10/10. I recently bought a PS5 solely to play elden ring. I just picked up part 2 because i had heard the background score "unbroken" and I really liked it so thought I might like it. I had no clue i will be playing the best game in my life. I'm sad and feel so empty now that I cannot experience this masterpiece for the first time again. wish I could erase my memory and experience this once more.

Before playing this game I first finished Part 1 via PS Plus subscription so l don't jump into part 2 without context. Part 1 was awesome but part 2 is an emotional experience that I will forever cherish in my life.

I love Ellie so much, her character development how they didn’t make her into an oversexualized (thanks naughty dog!). Felt like she was our friend/sister who has gone through turmoil.

Nearly at the middle of the game, i ordered a pair of converse chuck all taylor and started playing the game wearing the shoe to get the proper effect, shouting "got you motherfucker" every time i took down someone. I was so into it man. I was never into anyother game like this, not elden ring not RDR2 GTAV. this game is so beautiful.

To be honest, i didn't like playing as Abby at first. the levels and gameplay were awesome but still the way ellie cried when abby killed joel left a scar on me wanting abby dead. I was happy when Ellie decided to go to Santa Barbara.

Up until the moment when ellie was going to the pillars in the beach, i was awaiting revenge. but when I saw abby at that condition I was sincerely hoping ellie not kill abby, i was hoping ellie to be alive too. Thank god she didnt kill abby, kudos to the writers for that. thats the thing that made the game wholesome. Ellie letting abby go, put ellie in a pedestal in my heart and kept the character alive. killing abby in that state would have killed ellie as a character.

I thought that was it. But, man, the cutscene with joel in the porch made me cry. it was so beautiful. how could people hate this game???? no game has ever made me cry, I have only ever cried for wall E and toy story part 3.

Im sad that ellie lost her fingers though, wish it didnt happen. its sad.

I TOTALLY CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW THERE ARE HATERS TO THIS GAME!!!

Thanks to Naughty Dog and Neil Druckmann for making such a beautiful game with a strong female role that is not oversexualized. The game is so beautiful. The soundtracks are so awesome, the visuals are so realistic. man the cutscenes were another level. Additionally loved the cover songs released by troy and ashley in spotify. Inspired by the game I bought a guitar and going to learn how to play.

Now on to completing Elden ring, totally forgot about that game lol.

Recently got procreate and decided to try digital art so of course I decided to draw Joel. Let me know how I did :)

A few weeks ago I posted asking for PNGs of some of the posters from Part II so I could make custom content with them, and I'm finally finished! Some people asked me to post when they were available for download, don't see anything in the rules about self-promo so I think it's okay?

Anyway, thank you to u/EncryptedAnime for getting a lot of the pictures for me. No PlayStation here so I had to rely on others to get clear pics (unless I waited until April).

You can download Curseforge (user is 'seraphiter', I can't add a link and an image), please be sure to read the description before downloading! More photos of the CC are available there too. This is the first time I've made CC so it's not perfect, but I hope it's enjoyed!!

(Cross-posted on tumblr)

So we have season 2 of the show coming soon and I recently started helping my mom play the Part 1 remake after her hearing me talk about it since 2013 and it has created an itch for something that is not TLOU but has a story that is similar enough but still different to scratch that same itch.

I hold TLOU as one of my all time favorite stories, which I am sure many here do as well. I have found other threads that ask about similar games, but I used media for this post because I wanted to expand on that to include things like books, audio books, shows, comics, ect that may appeal to fans that enjoy other forms of media outside of games too.

For example, in the past I have recommended things like the book The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey for people that enjoy TLOU. Similar post apocalyptic setting but with more traditional zombies and has relationships that form between someone who is being transported and those transporting her in hopes to get a cure.

Hoping this thread gets me some good recommendations but also hope it can be a source for others as well.

I don't think Abby should be in Part 3, her story is done imo, she got away with her and Lev's life intact. The story is about Joel and Ellie (more Ellie now), the story isn't Ellie and Abby's story. The only way Abby should be involved is if Part 3 will be about Jackson vs. Fireflies or something like that. Abby definitely shouldn't be a playable character imo. Idk how Naughty Dog could justify bringing Abby in except as a "final boss" type scenario.

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1 remastered on PS5. Aim lock doesn’t work. Anyone else found this?

I think Joel spent some of his time teaching Ellie woodcarving, but I don't think she had the patience for it 😅

Interesting seeing the director list! It adds to the speculation of the plot layout while adding to the hype. SUCCESSIONS’s Mark Mylod doing episode 2? The director of Bill’s episode coming back?? NEIL doing the penultimate episode??? spoilers below for the second game

I feel seeing Craig doing the premiere for some reason doubles down my thoughts on episode one being a straight shot to the emotional end of the beginning of the game. Drawing parallels to Joel’s rage in the premiere of season one to Ellie’s rage in season two. Or the opposite but sadness with Joel and Sarah to now Ellie and Joel.

I wouldn’t be surprised if episode 3 was Abby’s episode with that director from Bill doing his best to humanize and show so much depth in limited time. I couldn’t imagine it being a smart decision to not give more closure next episode if episode one ends like that.

The penultimate with Neil makes me want to think it has the end of Ellie’s Day 3 and Abby, the finale could be mainly flashbacks and setup to make the more Abby dominant season next season make more sense. Completely speculating of course.

Last point, interesting having a no name barely credited director on the finale. I’m not sure how they pick these if it’s an interview pitching different viewpoints but wow what a platform for an early career. Excited to see how to all unfolds!

To be specific, I mean all the characters that have died in both Parts 1 and 2

For me Tess and Sam (Tess would have been a mother figure for Ellie while Sam as a brother figure) and as for the third I can't decide between Bill and Jesse

I'm replaying Half Life games after a long time. Half Life 2, especially, reminded me lot of TLOU 1 and 2. I know it has had a big influence on gaming. But the gameplay sections as tunnels, building corridors, very intricately designed encounters, platforming, environmental and background storytelling which helps the world-building and overall vibe of things going from zero to eleven in no time made me think of both games, part 2 more. Of course the game genres differ on many levels and TLOU is more story focused game but these are some of the influences I thought Half Life games may have had on TLOU. What do you guys think?

What do you think the time in between season - the stuff we don’t get to see — looks like? Did Joel and Ellie really travel the whole way from Pittsburgh to Jackson on foot, do you think they found the occasional car or i dont know, maybe a bike? And used that for a bit? Did Tommy immediately regret hugging Joel because they hadn’t showered since Boston?

This is a little silly but for (very obvious and understandable) reasons we don’t see the mundane things they do inbetween and I’m really wondering. The distances they travel are far, I can’t imagine walking all the way and that only talking a couple months or whatever.

I’m playing part 2 for the first time and I’m almost done. I know some of what happens at the very end, but I’ve tried to avoid spoilers.

I went through the first part of The Farm, and I’m wondering if there more exciting playable moments left? Are all of these chapters super short? Do we do anything interesting besides the cinematic scenes?

I’m trying to get a gauge for how much longer it will take and if it is eventful / action-packed or not.

Lmk! Thanks

Joel and Nietzsche's philosophy

It is possible to make an approximation between Joel in The Last of Us Part ll and Nietzschean philosophy from the concepts of "The Eternal Recurrence" and "Amor fati".

The "The Eternal Recurrence" refers to a reflection by Nietzsche that posits existence as a looping, an eternal return of all the things that make up an individual's life, even the best and worst moments doomed to repeat themselves exactly as they once occurred. As the philosopher postulates:

“What if some day or night a demon were to steal into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it you will have to live once again and innumerable times again; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and Every thought and sigh and everything unspeakably small or great in your life must return to you, all in the same succession and sequence – even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!’ Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine.’ If this thought gained power over you, as you are it would transform and possibly crush you; the question in each and every thing, ‘Do you want this againand innumerable times again?’ would lie on your actions as the heaviest weight! Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to long for nothing more fervently than for this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal”

In the wake of this postulation, the Nietzschean concept of "Amor fati" comes to the fore, which, according to the author, is the adherence to a determined and unrepentant posture towards life and its occurrences. As Nietzsche points out:

“Amor fati: let that be my love from now on! I do not want to wage war against ugliness. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse the accusers. Let looking away be my only negation! And, all in all and on the whole: some day I want only to be a Yes-sayer!”

“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity. Not merely to endure that which happens of necessity, still less to dissemble it − all idealism is untruthfulness in the face of necessity – but to love it…”

From the events of The Last of Us Part ll, it is possible to see the Nietzschean concepts reflected in Joel's actions. First of all, in the last conversation with Ellie, after the girl complains that his decision to save her was against her will, Joel stands up and says that if God gave him a second chance at that moment, he would do all over again. Such a statement is similar to Nietzsche's postulation about the "The Eternal Recurrence", because, at this moment, Joel is willing to accept the possibility of repeating his life and making exactly the same decisions he once made. In this same statement of the character it is possible to identify the concept of "Amor fati", since his posture towards life, towards the destiny that reserves him, is to accept and love it as such, without any regret. In Nietzschean terms, he becomes a Yes-sayer.

Later, when ambushed by Abby and her friends, Joel again demonstrates the posture of "Amor fati" and, in the face of the clarity of his death, does not accuse Abby of anything and, on the contrary, tells the girl to get that over with. This posture indicates the acceptance of his fate as it is, an affirmative attitude in the face of his suffering, and points to his willingness to pay the price for what he did to the Fireflies to save Ellie.

The bottom line, from all of this, is that Ellie's journey to bring justice to Joel's death sounds completely in vain, since, if Joel would be willing to repeat his life and save Ellie countless times, he would also be willing to die countless times as a consequence of what he did, so that, Joel, who saved Ellie to give her a meaningful life, would claim nothing from the girl after his death and, on the contrary, would be disgusted if she put herself in danger to seek retaliation for something he had already accepted without any regrets. Perhaps, in the final moment she was killing Abby, she realized it. She remembered the conversation with Joel and his attitude towards his decision.

Where does everyone think Ellie goes to at the very end of the game? Back to Jackson or somewhere new? Living on her own?

I just finished the game again and I alway wonder, every time I finish it. Same thing with Abby too. I grew to love both characters and care about how their story is going (yes I know it’s a fictional story).

It’s not that serious of a question so please be nice lol