Five minutes into The Last of Us and I've already shed a tear. (spoilers)

[Chandler]

Figgycal said:

Chandler said:
Out of nowhere? Totally unexpected? What?

Come on. Even if you were on a total media black out for the game, basic mathematics would foreshadow what happened in the prolog.

I only saw 2 trailers of the last of us before the game came out. If you already knew Ellie wasn't Joel's daughter- then yeah, it ruined the surprise because obviously she wasn't in any of the trailers. But if you were like me and avoided getting the game ruined for you, it was a definite tear jerker. I don't even know what forshadowing you're talking about tbh about Sarah's death.

EDIT: So you didn't know about Ellie either and her death was still expected?

Uhh yeah? The cover shows Joel and Ellie, not Joel and Sarah. Everything I've seen of the game as a drive by watcher who wasn't really interested in the game showed Ellie, not Sarah. Game starts with Sarah, not Ellie. What am I supposed to think? That Sarah wanders off to live happily ever after in this fungal induced zombie apocalypse by herself? When it's really obvious that the developers want to pitch some kind of emotional burden that just fits like a glove for future interactions between Joel and Ellie?