errrrr.................... is this the Dust forum?

Shut up you...i use my PS3 account to log in =P

Everyone does. This is the wrong board. Go to http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/The-Last-of-Us-General/bd-p/24815

Or at least post in the locker room on this board.

So I guess for her, when shes older getting freaky with zombies is an inevitability?

Do zombies grow old?

Reading between the lines of that ending, I reckon Ellie grows up, meets a nice fella, gets married, and becomes pregnant - hurrah! Grampy Joel is justified in his decisions and lies! Ellie gives birth to twins, one - a strapping boy, the other - a proper freak. One gimpy arm, blind, zombiefied eyes, drool, the lot. But the freak is also immune to the infection, so the Fireflies want to harvest its brain and cure the infection - only Ellie doesn't want this and goes on a shivving and shooting marathon to protect it. Expect "The Last of Them" to hit ps4 in a couple of years.

No, that is not obvious. It's probably not even correct.

Why did she HAVE to have been the one to kill her? Did she not have fully serviceable legs? Did her best friend have on a damage resistant vest that only attacks from Ellie could penetrate?

She was still a kid. "I've seen worse." Yeah, probably have. Seeing bodies and knowing that it is kill or be killed is one thing. Actually doing it yourself is another entirely. She didn't even kill a human until that first guy that had Joel pinned in that puddle.

That's what it really is though. Traveling with Joel forced her to adapt and see, well, a whoooole lot of things she probably wouldn't normally have. Well, if her combat dialogue is anything to go by anyway. You make it sound like she grew up on the streets and had to make life or death decisions every day. She grew up in MULTIPLE QUARANTINE ZONES. It's that experience gained with Joel that allows her to perform so well when forced to.

She didn't have any problems with killing David because by that point she had already gotten her first kill and the moral dizziness that accompanied it out of the way a loooong time ago (some odd months), saw Joel do what he does for longer than that, and if she didn't they were going to kill her AND the closest thing to a friend/father/family member she had. Course, i'm sure the fact that he was taunting her all throughout that last bit and was about to have forced coitus (I had no idea gRAPE was censored. Made that look a bit more crass than I had intended) with her had something to do with it.

That lie at the end wasn't to protect her from harsh realities. Ellie actually agreed to have the surgery. Joel, Ellie being the daughter to her that she is, had a problem with this. There's a whole lot wrapped into that bit. It didn't really benefit his world view either, just him. Selfish, yeah, but it is what it is. He didn't want to give her up. He found his thing "to fight for".

The ending was pure ****

Tho the really bad AI made the entire game horrible to play, the crap story on top of it and badly written ending just made it worse

I can see your gripe against AI (though, if you turn up the difficulty level it is a bit better). The story was far from horrible, I mean it was practically a movie that became a videogame first, you are entitled to your opinion though.

How can you say the ending was bad? Even if you didn't like the story you can still say that the ending was rational enough.

Did you not like playing as a teenage girl? Or what?

The ending was pure ****

Tho the really bad AI made the entire game horrible to play, the crap story on top of it and badly written ending just made it worse

If it was a film chances are ppl would have looked at it differently

Some will say joel was completely selfish, lost his original daughter and thought ellie could fill the hole so hes ****** all the survivors left over and making all them sacrifices for nothing so i played the game not to save humanity or whats left of it

The true ending what normally everyone would predict is that they take ellie to the end and she makes the choice to sacrifice herself for the greater good and joel has to live with it or ends up dying to protect ellie so humanity as a whole can be saved - think of Children of Men where the man has to help transport a women and in the end he dies she lives and we dont know what happened after, we assume they found a cure and humanity can reproduce

But the scientists in TLOU are bumbling retards so its make the player think what would be the point in ellie getting chopped up if they are useless and cannot make a vaccine anyways so balls to it il kill em all take her for myself and **** off

Either way joel got emotinal and attached to the package and let his feelings get in the way a bit like transporter 1 except saving chinese ppl he possibly ****** over the survivors

I just didnt like the ending, i suppose it was a **** you and im a survivor bs and il do what i can to survive but it makes him no different to the ppl he killed

You do know, that one of the voice recorders that one of the Scientists left, said that their had been others like her, people that were immune. That all of those experiments were a fail. Though the scientist says this in a weird 'does not want to acknowledge' kind of voice, saying that this is another shot. Or something like that.

Either way it means two things:

The Title "The Last of Us" is referring not to all humans, just immune people. Might just be a coincidence, though.

Or more likely

They had chopped up and killed other immune people and gotten nowhere, if they killed Ellie would it have really helped? Joel probably didn't explain this to her because he didn't want her to think that their was a slim hope of her death actually finding a cure, still a lie though a bit more reasonable. Also, he could truly believe their is no way to find a cure and only makes tells the lie that the Fireflies had stopped looking for a cure.

Personally I rather have that over the expected; Joel dies fighting a thousand zombies just attack the Fireflies' HQ at that point in time for no reason. He tells her to save humanity while he is dying and she does... Not a bad ending just in my opinion the one the dev's decided to go with was A LOT better. Plus, it leaves the series open for a sequel :D

@snake

Really? I respect your views and all, but do you really want the same old Hollywood ending churned out at you again? TLoU took a different path than most games take, they deserve to e commended for that alone. And isn't the Mark of a good story one that's makes you think and discuss it?

And since I havent played the game I don't know a lot of the details, but wouldn't you expect the fireflies to be in bad shape given what's happened? The world went to hell, the cream of the crop so to speak of the worlds intellectuals would have taken significant losses in the years of chaos and the majority of those that survived would I've been nabbed by the military. Their poor state could be interpreted as simply the reflection of what a guerrilla force in a post apocalyptic world would be like.

Also might it not possible for Ellie to pass her immunity on to her children? It's not like not sending Ellie under the knife doomed the world

lolno

It was crap, hyped up how it was going to be different

AI was shoddy at best and completely was half arsed and ruined the immersive aspect of it, ellie was crap AI so 'to fix it' they basically made ellie invisible to all enemys so then why the **** was she in it? could have easily made her into the companion cube and you carry it about and you just sneak about getting parcel to the end, jobs a good en

Also it was basically zombies aswell, evetything end of world is zombies or some kind of zombies but now its more or less the 'infected' which is a buzzword for zombies which is the same thing anyways

Tacked on MP doesnt help either, should have stuck to SP and really fleshed out the story more

Hype machine thats all it was and it was a let down