I just wanted to play the first game with my dad, and the loading screen won't load! I've been here for 15 minutes, the music is still playing in the background, but no spores come out of the screen. It's just pitch black, and whenever I hit the options button, it just says "Continue" and "Turn on subtitles Y/N". Anyone knows how to fix this? If so, please tell me! (The game is from a disc, physical)

So I recently finished tlou 1 and now I want to play part 2, me and my brother share our games on Playstation and he bought Part 2, but when I start it it only shows art of it.

The name of the game even switches between just The Last of Us Part 2 and The Art of The Last of Us Part 2 and when I search for it on the PS store it says that I have the game, but it seems like I only have the art.

Hopefully someone can help me out cuz idk what to do with this 😭

There looks to be an item just above the fridge that is not gettable. Seems to low to be something I missed before jumping down the hole.

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Leaving aside the integrity of SW universe and some fan base criticism, seems to me that they took some inspiration from Part 2.

At the beginning we’re introduced to the main antagonist Mae, doing some very controversial act by killing a Jedi, and further on, story is trying to lead us switching between two female characters Mea and Osha, trying to justify that act.

Without going into deep SW spoilers, after the “big revelation” for me all that revenge plot is like killing Joel at the beginning of Part 2, however we learn that actually he just took Ellie away without killing anyone, but these doctors just burned in the fire accidentally shortly after.

But blame went on Joel because he had a torcher in his inventory.

This isn't to upset anyone, and I believe that The last of us two is a beautiful game with great gameplay but the story was a bit lackluster for me. It doesn't sit right in my soul how Joel died. And I honestly hated that we had played as Abby. I couldn't sympathize with her because she took away a character I've come to adore. She hurt Ellie, which in turn made Ellie make horrible decisions in the name of revenge.

I'm upset with Joel's death because it made no sense. I felt he would've never been so vulnerable like that in front of strangers. He's a hardened survivor that can read a room real quick. How he died just didn't fit the character that they built so well in the first game.

With that being said. I could've gotten past that if they didn't make us play as Abby. It felt so forced and unnatural. The game would've been just fine playing as Ellie, or even playing as Tommy. And then we finally get to the end, to exact our revenge....

And she lets her go.

It took Ellie losing everything to realize it wasn't worth it. Also.....them killing off Joel made his sacrifice to save Ellie empty. Especially because she lost everything in the end.

Now here she is, sad she didn't die at the hospital, never got a chance to forgive Joel, watched him get brutally murdered, lost the love of her life and child......I can't express anymore how disappointing that was. To watch everything unravel in such a short time and for absolutely no reason.

The only thing that saved this game for me just a little was the flashbacks we got of sweet Ellie and Joel. I wished they focused on what lead up to the outbreak and the twenty years of Joel and Tommy becoming who they were. That would've been so cool to see. Or even Ellie's mom and her struggle before giving birth to our sweet girl. Or maybe give us some gameplay with Ellie in the military compound. Something....But instead we got a pointless revenge plot.

I get that's how life is. That Sometimes it just really fucking sucks. But damn. Way to destroy a beautiful franchise with such reckless decisions. Once again this is just an unpopular opinion and just that.

I can’t wait to dive into it!!

TLOU2 Whole Game Permadeath Tournament

Starting on January 6th, the TLOU2 permadeath community (primarily over on Twitch) are running a tournament.

Posting about it here in case anyone is interested in either participating or watching.

Participants will have a set amount of time (to be decided) to do a number of attempts (also to be decided) at whole game permadeath. Whoever gets the furthest into the game across any of their attempts, progresses to the next round.

There will be two categories - Moderate difficulty, and Grounded difficulty.

Starting on January 6th, Round 1 will act as a qualifyer, with the top 16 players moving into a bracketed tournament format.

For more information, the TLOU Challenge Run discord is at: https://discord.gg/TG28pNcrA6

Playing on PS5. Is it a bug? Whenever I have a character hide behind a table, they just go over it without me doing it. It's gotten me killed so many times.

I’m trying to change Abby’s skin on the last level where you fight her as Ellie and it’s not working. Any fixes?

I finished The Last Of Us Part 2 two days ago and I can't stop thinking about it so here is a thread of what I think about the game-

What I liked:
- The story is fucking amazing, I don't hate a single thing about it

- The gameplay mechanics are so much better than they were in Part 1

- I love that I can switch my play-style with every encounter, it was kinda hard to just sneak past an encounter in part 1

- The animations and Graphics are top-notch, not much difference b/w PS5 and PS4 versions except haptics of course.

- the final fight is so good that I've replayed it 5-6 times already

What I didn't like:
- Could have shown Ellie return to Jackson, kinda weird to show her lose everything and then leave it kinda open-ended

- The Trap Mine should have been throwable like in part 1 I never used it

- HATED KILLING DOGS :(

- The main issue I have with TLOU 2 is that for the first 50% of the game you play as Ellie and then the rest is Abby until the climax, It is a good decision story-wise but for gameplay, I kept saving my resources as Ellie to fight Abby and did the same as Abby, and I just never got to use them

- As soon as I fully upgraded my Ellie gear I switched to Abby and when I fully upgraded Abby's gear I switched back to Ellie, although the gameplay time is long, this decision makes the game feel short, I wanted more time to be able to play as Ellie and Abby seperately.

But rest aside I absolutely enjoyed myself for the time it took me to finish this game, it has its flaws but they get overshadowed by the good stuff, I keep saying that RDR 2 is the best game I've ever played and now The Last Of Us Part 2 is a close second.

Low key pretty proud of myself :3

1- the first reason why I hate ellie is because she has sex with dina even if she is infected and can turn her into an infected. I know that in her diary, she said that cat wasn't infected even if they kissed but it means nothing, maybe cat could have been immune too and maybe that cat was just lucky. cat not turning into a zombie doesn't prove that kissing isn't infectious

she put dina in danger and also, we can assume that they did much more than kissing in the mouth in that scene, like maybe that kissing isn't infectious but licking in other areas can be dangerous.

2- the second reason is how dumb she is, tlou is supposed to be realistic but many scenes make no sense but one scene I have in mind, is the theater scene with ellie and abby fight.

so in all that sequence, ellie has a gun, a shotgun and a knife. ellie escapes after abby kills jessy and shoots tommy in the head. so after that, ellie runs away and exits the theater through the curtains then opens a door, abby does the same thing then ellie attacks her by surprise.

guys, I will do a quizz for you, which weapons she used to attack abby by surprise?

answer a) she used a gun and shot her in the head

answer b) she used the shotgun and shot her in the head

answer c) she used a knife and stabbed her

answer d) she used a piece of wood which inflicted no damage

GG well done, it was the answer D. that's all I have to say thank you.

those two scenes make me dislike her lol

I’ll go first, It’s kind of petty but the fact people call the vaccine a “cure”, it’s not a cure. What they were trying to make was a vaccine to prevent already healthy people from turning, if they were bit. It wouldn’t have “cured” an already turned person back to human.

So I've fully played through the last of us part 1 and now just be The last of Us Left behind. I thought it was going to be more of a story of Ellie and her friend got bit and then Ellie never turn into the infected and then she would tell the government and they think she crazy and would try to kill her and then she tried to find the fireflies. I didn't know Joel would be in any of it.

So, I've been really into The Last of Us part 1 again because it's such a masterpiece. In the past week, I've watched cutscenes from the game at least three times. I'm a whore for Joel and a good story.

I've been wondering though. The thought came to me at the end when Joel said "You have to keep finding something to fight for." I had questioned it before but didn't think much of it.

But why did Joel continue to fight? Especially after losing his daughter? I think I would've took the route Henry did if I'm being honest. At first I thought, maybe Tommy probably convinced him to continue on, and that probably did play a role in it but I can't accept that that's enough...

I have two theories. Hear me out.

First. Joel continues to survive so Sarah is always remembered. If Joel or Tommy dies, the memory of Sarah does as well. All the time they spent with her. The unconditional love. It'll all be gone if he just gave up. I made the connection when he touched his watch after saying what he said to Ellie at the end of the game. That's his reason to fight. And he's fights hard to stay alive too.

Second. He continues to fight and survive as punishment for not being able to save his daughter. This one is kind of a stretch but not to far.

He also seems to believe in a higher power to an extent. But maybe if he were to die, he wouldn't be able to face his daughter in the after life, out of shame for not being able to protect her. We know it's not his fault but I would assume as a parent, the guilt is never ending.

Both are possible but I like to believe in theory one a bit more because it's very wholesome. Morbid? Depressing? For sure. But nonetheless, wholesome.

I don't know. Random thought. But let me know what y'all think if you will!

Looking for a podcast that actually goes in-depth and does analysis or breakdown of the HBO show instead of just 2 guys recapping and going "Oh I loved X", "I cried when Y happened" etc without actually saying anything new that you already know if you've watched the episode.

I've played the game so I don't mind spoilers. I checked out the Bald Move podcast but so far it feels too casual. I also know there's an official podcast but I'm not interested in knowing about the behind-the-scenes/creative process stuff.

While we're at it, TLOU is my fav game of all time so if there's a great podcast on the game(s), I'll add that to my listen-list as well!

Thanks!

Hi! I'm 24M. When left behind came out, it was at a time where I hated myself for being gay and had problems at school cause some people realized it and spread the rumor. My twin brother was homophobic at that time and my parents were quiet on the subject.

I also did anorexia and was depressed. TLOU was my confort game. There's an optional dialogue in Pittsburgh where Ellie ask Joel why the woman on the wall is so skinny and joel explains her that some people chose not to eat it for looks and she says "pff so stupid" it was really stuck in my head for a while. When I was feeling sad, I'd just play the game and i'd feel better ! I also did my first tattoo this summer and it's related to TLOU! Thank you if you've read until the end! :)

Hi everyone, I beat the TLOU Part I for the first time in PS5 and just started a NG+ and got curious on the Full Loadout Mode, it says: "Play through the game again with all your weapons, upgrades, and recipes obtained in a previous playthrough. Weapons and recipes unlock when Joel retrieves his backpack in Boston."

However, I’ve already picked the backpack and I don’t have all my weapons, just the pistol and the health kit, the basic stuff. Perhaps someone else has been through this, I’d appreciate your help. I’d like to know when exactly I’ll get all the weapons and recipes.

Thanks :)

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