How about a real world situation with real expectations and conclusions. In times hard times such as those will not see women playing roles as strong independent leaders. Its preposterous and charlatan, like a Feminist wrote their dream into existence.
@Pan Handler....I guess Joan of Arc, Queen Boadicea, Queen Artemisia, Khutulun, Fu Hao and all the other notable women in history just don't exist then huh?
My point isn't the amount of strong women, it's that they exist. Leaders in general are far and few, the fact that these women exist, amongst many many other strong female leaders is evident of that. How about just stop being sexist? While Tlou may have had a high ratio of strong females, that's only because we see the perspective of combatants , not normal citizens. Stop acting like the world today doesn't have female soldiers, police, security guards, world champion martial artists, bodybuilders etc. You may be disappointed to see that there is indeed FAR more than 1%
The depiction of Abby wasn't unrealistic, just improbable. She and her people lived in a pretty isolated environment that was well-resourced. You're acting like she lived in a town barely getting by. And as one of their best soldiers, you don't think that would create the conditions for her to procure or be given priority for resources?
In a world that is destroyed and people live in fear daily and need protectors, I don't see how any of that is unrealistic.
Even if it was, I love that the critics of Part II can compartmentalize their suspension of disbelief where a mushroom outbreak has taken out society before nuclear weapons ever did is realistic, but buff Abby isn't.
Funny how nobody said a peep when Ellie took out all of David's men and David at 14 years old in Part 1. But when Ellie does the same thing at 19 years old in Part II – everyone's up at arms and whining how this is Feminist propaganda.
Also, I'm pretty sure one of the _main_ themes of the part 2 was revenge begets revenge. They sold that message very clear, and what a poison that mindset can be. Understandable, yes, but it's poison. Both main characters were guilty of it, but one character found a reason to stop the cycle. So Part 3 would just be more revenge? I feel the concluded that saga really well. They could go other directions, but they would have to find a really good one to justify it.
You know most people can eat a Feminist Sandwich in which there's transparency with both equal strong female and male characters. But this is where TLOU failed and become a #metoo movement. If you remember correctly during TLOU1 the hardcore push from commie leftist was in full female hulk smash mode. The hatred for men has only gotten worse. But history comes back around and as a man that's deployed several times and saw what can quickly happen in America when things go to hell (IE hurricane Katrina in 2005). Humanity can lose its morality real quick and when that happens the rule of law is null and void and the rule of men takes over you'll see real quick how Ole Ellie would fair. It's not practical and border line fairy tale.
Stories are only finished when the money stops rolling in. And companies are playing by this particular rule more than ever - to the point where we have more remakes and badly-made story continuations than ever being made.
We will probably get a third Last of Us that’s somehow worse than the second due to how little Neil Druckmann seems to understand his own work - something which only seems to be a flaw of his.
I have a pitch for a cool Batman game. Imagine if Batman forgets everything he knows and gets unceremoniously killed in the first hour by a group of the most unlikeable characters ever written. Then you play as Robin trying to get revenge, only for the game to do the old switcheroo halfway through making you play as the least likeable character involved in Batman's ridiculous death, and tries forcing you to actually like them 😃 Then when Robin finally catches up with the main unlikeable character to reap revenge he just says "let's just forget about the whole thing, on your way now." 😃😃😃
@ArchangelMike Yes this please, i want to play as Joel and tommy just after the infection started and Sarah died. I want see how joel loses it and does insane stuff like the raiders which is referenced in last of us first game.
We could also play as Tommy when part of the fire flies. I love both games but hate the story of part 2. Being able to play as both the above would be epic.
That would be a good pitch but what do you think about making the players view the character they don't like due to savage murder of Batman as some sort of tragic hero at the expense of Robin by presenting scenarios that offer a dichotomy? How about making the unlikable character spare a pregnant lady and then having Robin killing a pregnant lady? Maybe you could have the character we don't like playing with a dog and then having Robin killing that very same dog... I think that lazy and not so subtle manipulation like this would go a long way in order to make the unlikable character as some sort of a tragic hero.
Ellie in the First Game: Light hearted, tries to crack jokes, grows to see Joel as a father figure, says how she wants to learn guitar and swim after they get to the hospital. In the end she knows Joel is lying but she trusts him enough and gets on with it (Ashley Johnson even said this back then)
Ellie in the Second Game: Does a 180 and says she always wanted to die on that operating table, that somehow her life would have "f****** mattered", totally hates Joel for taking that "choice" away from her despite the fact the Fireflies weren't going to give her a choice. Then you have her suddenly making out she never knew Joel was lying to her when at the end of the first game you clearly can see she does know deep down. The game puts Abby ins a positive light during her gameplay while Ellie looks like an asshole, for example Abby plays with this lovable dog, Ellie is forced to kill it. There's part of the game which make her look stupid, like conveniently dropping a map next to Owen's/Mel's corpse of where her and Dina are with a giant red circle saying "We are Here" to push the story forward. She then goes after Abby again knowing full well she will loose Dina and the baby, tracks Abby down, beats her almost to death, looses her two fingers and then just suddenly decides to let her go out of nowhere. She goes home a broken woman, no Dina, no child, no Joel, no warm home, no fingers and because of that she can't play guitar the one big connection to Joel. All for what? To push Abby / Lev as the new Joel and Ellie
Ellie still haunted by the events of her past discovers that Joel had a twin and it was that twin who was killed. Joel discovers that he hates guitars and searches the land destroying all of them so Ellie can't keep playing doom and gloom songs on them.
Lastly at the above.
Yes there are female soldiers, police, bodybuilders(roids) but in a one on one with a Man they stand no chance. You can make certain circumstances where a woman could win. With a bazooka.
It's just the same recycled falsehoods over and over again for 3 years.
"Imagine if Batman forgets everything he knows and gets unceremoniously killed in the first hour by a group of the most unlikeable characters ever written."
Imagine if Joel fell asleep in front of Henry and Sam mere hours after meeting them. Imagine if Batman murdered the father of the person who killed him. Imagine if Tommy gave away their names instead of Joel. Imagine if Joel met Abby during an infected attack so they didn't have time to vet her properly. Imagine if Joel is less hardened after living 5 years of peace.
"How about making the unlikable character spare a pregnant lady and then having Robin killing a pregnant lady?"
How about Abby said "good" when she heard Dina was pregnant and only stopped because of Lev, how about Ellie not being aware Mel was even pregnant until after she killed her, at which point she felt sick, triggered PTSD and was willing to give up her pursuit of revenge until Abby attacked again and killed Jesse.
"Maybe you could have the character we don't like playing with a dog and then having Robin killing that very same dog"
Maybe have the dog attack Ellie and leave her with no choice but to kill the dog. If you feel guilt about choosing your life over a dog, that's on you.
"In the end she knows Joel is lying but she trusts him enough and gets on with it (Ashley Johnson even said this back then)"
Ashley Johnson's opinion is not fact. From 2013 to 2020 there was debate over whether Ellie believed Joel or not. That didn't end until Part II gave us an answer.
You can dislike the direction the story went, Joel's death, Ellie not finishing her revenge etc that's fine. I just wish people wouldn't use this dishonest points to frame a false narrative.
"and says she always wanted to die on that operating table, that somehow her life would have "f****** mattered"
"After everything we've been through, everything I've been through...it can't be for nothing"- TLOU1
Those 2 scenarios are not innocent. You think that ND created them for the sake of them just being there? They were specifically created to make us feel in certain ways towards Ellie and Abby and all the caveats in the world don't change the clear dichotomies presented in them. Abby plays with the dog and spares a pregnant lady and Ellie kills a pregnant and kills the dog. That's emotional manipulation 101 and it wouldn't be obvious due to the caveats you mentioned hadn't Druckmann retconned the ending of the original. From the moment I realized that they retconned the ending, Druckmann's goals were clear to me and his goal was portray Ellie and Joel as some sort of monsters while attempting to portray Abby as some sort of tragic hero and they most definitely used those two lazy and manipulative scenarios in order to try to achieve his pathetic goals.
Smh. They just keep coming up with these “must” this and that, trying to control the narrative, then they get upset when the real author(s) tell their story.
Please people, just remember you are not entitled to how the story goes in the end.
I didn’t like 2 and do say, to this day, that the majority of The Last of Us apart 1s best moments were from people other than Neil Druckmann, simply because his voice is so much different when writing alone. That doesn’t mean that I want to write a list of must do and mustn’t do’s
Yeah, I loved Part 2, but if I hadnt, I would still not feel entitled to tell the writer(s) what should have happened. Its their story, and my right to like or not like. Personally, while sad, the story and everything in that game was top notch. But it was definitely sad, and that is fine.
Technically 3 games including the one that is coming.
I don't care for the last of us world as much as I do joel and Ellie and there story lines are done for me so I'm ready to move on.
Yea I'd love to see them make a new ip as the my first and oreffered option but if there not gonna do that and they are gonna rehash an exsisting ip then why not jak?
It's 20+ yrs old now, kids have been born and are old enough to drink now that how long it's been hence it would almost be like a new ip at this point.
If you want the last of us then say that, no need to get bothered by me wanting something else lol
You can be pessimistic or hate if you want but iv played every naughty dog game since the first crash bandicoot on ps1.
They have never disappointed me with a new ip or game for that matter, they are one the best studios in the world and remain so until proven other wise.
Just sounds like u want whatever they do next to suck for some reason.
They’re so popular now BECAUSE we played them as kids. Also, people have less responsibility and more time on their hands now. They’re most popular amongst lonely people.
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. First no one said an rpg, second, the hell doss age and loneliness have to do with liking a genre? Lmaoooo. I'm a married man with children and multiple jobs, I still enjoy rpgs.
Your comments are so strange lmao. That's like saying SciFi is for old people lmao.
I can't imagine being this thin skinned. They can literally add 20 new straight characters with just 1 gay character and I bet that will trigger you and your ilk.
TLOU2 was the most awarded game off all time before Elden Ring released, and the TV show was the most popular tv show of the past 2 months on tv and it will most likely sweep Emmys. Stay Mad! Lol
Part 2 explored the very real concept of ‘the cycle of violence’ and it did so without being preachy.
This article is basically saying they should ditch all that and go for a nonsense Hollywood redemption plot that bares no resemblance to reality. Yawn.
It needs to show that TLOU2 was just a bad dream and start the game after the original ending. There are games which don't need a sequel and TLOU along with RDR "in my opinion" are such games
(I understand it's business and companies need to make money)
No, Naughty Dog just needs to tell their story and let it find its fans. I will always support the artist's right to make what they want. As much as I hated Joel dying and despising Abby, I still support ND's vision. It's THEIR story to tell, not ours.
Ellie doesn’t need a new redemption arc. The ending of part 2 was as much redemption as you can get. Especially after how many people Ellie killed in the name of revenge. The depths she went to for revenge was pretty awful.
And to leave her best case scenario for revenge to not even take it was its own poetry. Ellie’s story is done, and greatly so
Instead of Guns lots Guns from Neo in the matrix , Ellie in the TLOU 3 will be like, we need Protein lots of Protein.
Pretty sure that cycle was wrapped up with #2. Do you want to play a game of her being completely pacifist?
The Last of Us Part 3 needs to be put on the back burner. I’m ready for some new IP from Naughty Dog.
can we just have new characters in a new game without trans and less gays?
A new IP would be better than continuing the story of this game, especially after the train wreck that is Part II.