aldro, the biggest naughty dog fan in the world i would like you to hear my thoughts about the winter level. the post is right up above this one

Like I wrote myself =>

Shortly after Ellie fights her way through the enemies, Joel is breathing heavy and the camera fades to black.

Suddenly, you're Ellie, hunting a deer. I lost it at this point. I should've seen it coming, I really should have. Was Joel dead? I had no clue. What I did know was that the brilliant masterminds behind this game just decided to allow me to play the character who'm I had been growing so fond of.

As I took control of Ellie, I instantly noticed that the feeling of the character is very much different.
Don't get me wrong, Ellie is a capable person but she lacks the physical power of Joel and it shows. (She's one heck of a marksman though).

Fast forwarding a while:
Ellie comes across two hunters who want to split the deer meet she just caught.
Ellie says that she'd trade it all for some antibiotics which has me draw the conclusion:
God damn you Naughty Dog, Joel lives. Praise the lord!





After Ellie "bonds" with one of the hunters as the other is to go and get the supplies from the camp:
It turns out that the person who'm you've been working together with is actually the leader of the specific group whose men you and Joel have killed together for the previous oh I don't know, 2 hours or so.

Turns out that the hunter is aware of a man running around with a little girl, taking the lives of his friends. As soon as I heard this: I started fearing for my life. You can see Ellie starts to shake as she backs up.

Honestly: I thought they were going to kill Ellie right there and have Joel die as he wouldn't be treated properly. However it seemed fate had other plans as this leader for some reason lets Ellie go.

After taking care of Joel and putting him back to rest, it turns out that the hunters have tracked Ellie down. Ellie then has to sneak out in order to lure them away from Joel who is resting in one of the many houses. In the midst of all of this: Ellie gets captured and a number of events follow which ultimately leads to Ellie refusing to cooperate with the lead hunter which really has you question how much she values her own life.

I had to pause the game at this point and just take a breather because we are constantly reminded of how brutal and lethal this world is. Nearly everyone we know has died aside from the two of us.
The more I thought about it and the possibility of Ellie and even Joel dying: The more intimidated I got and every section was a real pain in the gutt to play.

I wasnt playing because it was fun (albeit it was though). I was playing because I felt like I had an obligation to help Ellie get through this, to the end, regardless of the price.
This feeling drove me throughout the whole game and I must say that I absolutely loved it.

Joel wakes up and is on the look for Ellie. Ellie manages to break through and has a fight against the leader of the hunters who'm seal the exit and starts to torch the place. Once Joel gets there, Ellie is repeatedly slashing the leader of the hunter with a machete, as tears drop down her face and Joel kind of hugs her, trying to hold her calm. During this whole section, my heart was racing and I kept thinking I was going to lose one or the other. Luckily that was not the case.

Later on Ellie doesnt entirely feel the same from the get go atleast. You can tell she's distant. She starts to soften up a bit and Joel and her discuss what they will be doing after all of this. Ellie says that Joel should teach her how to swim among other things. These kinds of banter between the two characters really immerse you more and add so much to the characters themselves.

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Tl:dr => Totally agree xD

Fucking spot on. This game had me tearing up a few time threw out like Elli beat that guy in the face with the machete the emotion was so raw and real. This is when she lost the last thread of innocence she had left. From this point on in the game her personality changes. I’ve tried to be as manly as I could be throughout the whole tear jerking experience, but when they really rolled down my face was the last encounter with the firefly’s leader. First I was like, “oh fuck, he’s going to hand her over.” Then seeing him driving seated alone in the car almost confirmed my fears. My mind was racing “like where’s Ellie, I know he didn’t do it.” After seeing her in the back seat a wave of relive came over me. I mean I was emotional to a point, But that’s not what got me. It was when it pops back to the seen with the firefly leader, after shooting her in the stomach. She’s begging for her life on the floor. “You’ll just come looking for her again”. And then he finishes her off with a single gun shoot. That’s when a few tears started to fall. And once more when he lies to her at the end, and you could see it in her eyes that she knew. This game has done more for story telling in video games than any game I can remember in the last 30 years.  I’m looking forward to what Naughty Dog has up the sleeve for us next.

perfect, just perfect. looking back at it, the story itself keeps getting so much more impressive. this truly is a materpiece and has set the standerd for not just next generations of games, but for every fucking game to ever release with a "story driven" plot

It's a little annoying how the game panders to women. Tess is the leader over Joel, the wife of Joel's brother runs their camp and the leader of the fireflies is a woman. So they created a world where women are apparently quite capable and in charge but i can't remember killing even a single non-infected female. Of course both villian characters are male as well.

could this be the official last of us thread? i was planning on making one but there were so many threads around that it seemed that it would die. i would love for a thread where we could talk about this game freely and discussing possible future games

I think the recording people were talking about was the one in the hospital during the last part of the game. I can't remember specifically what it said, but a male surgeon (probably the same one that pulled the scalpel on Joel) recorded a message that said something along the lines of :"we tested on other infected, but she's one of a kind. This could be mankind's greatest achievement since the discovery of penicillin". (something like that) They didn't mention that there were others that were immune- so yes it was a total lie on Joel's part.

But even saying that, there was no guarantee they would've found a cure from Ellie anyways. For all we knew they could've killed Ellie and lost the one chance they had a cure. And She definitely knew Joel was lying- why would she even ask a question like that.

Yeah, that is what I remember too, like all other things along this genre they had been doing experiments on infected, not on immune people

it was a great intense game, now i can't wait for a sequel where we play a firefly on his mission to kill the crazy man and get the brain of the immune girl

Haha, that would be a great twist, maybe DLC!

Actually what do people want to see for the DLC? I would be interested in seeing more of the quarantene zones and seeing how life does actually continue