I unironically love this game and it made me feel emotions I've never before felt in any form of media. While I don't feel it's got a better story than 1, I still feel like it follows the spirit of the original. It's a dark, soul crushing, and downright depressing game, but it's a game that took risks and I respect it for it.
No one can ever change my mind
good for you, man
Nice pasta, fag.
>I would do it all over again
Based
>I unironically love this game and it made me feel emotions I've never before felt in any form of media
That's because you are historically bad at consuming media, not because this piece of media isn't good
1. You don't read books. You've never read a book you didn't have to outside of school that was of any reasonable length; or you read only laughable books, like throwaway fantasy books or tuesdays with morrie/the alchemist tier shit.
2. You don't consume good film and have never tried. It's "boring", there's too much talking
3. You consume media like japanese "slice of life" shit which is so inherently bad as to just be objectively worthless, and you think any of it has any quality
That part fucking crushed me man. Joel loved her more than the entire world. That part where he kills the bloater with a machete before it breaks Ellie's jaw was pure kino.
>but it's a game that took risks
What risks did either TLoU game take in packaging together a mishmash of every single highest budget highest sales AAA game of their generation and making a single player, bad gameplay, zero challenge, zero score or motivation to improve, single player movie game from it?
It's the least ambitious shit imaginable. It's misery porn, which doesn't have value itself as "emotional" because the emotions you're supposed to feel are as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face
Go read "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck and stop looking like a fucking fool who can't speak about media in a room of men wearing suits and holding scotch.
>noooo these books and movies from 80 years ago are much better than this game
nobody cares boomer
Her revenge is fueled by never getting to tell him that she forgives him and she thinks that killing Abby will somehow make up for that.
Did you feel satisfied with the ending?
books and movies from the past 1 year are better
nice blog, faggot
you should read some books
not read about books, but read books
even novellas would do
I've never really cried because of a story in a game before but I can't even talk about The Last of Us 2 out loud because thinking about some of the scenes makes me start crying. I don't care if I'm a basedman faggot. Maybe it has something to do with going off my anti-depressants last month. I fucking loved it.
What an inane, meaningless post. You might as well post this in response to any other thread you disagree with.
I really think this is the answer. In the last flashback, she opens up to the idea of trying to forgive Joel... the day before he died, and she never gets her peace with him. With that in mind, I'm satisfied.
Ellie no longer being able to play the guitar and then learning that she didn't have time to fully forgive her isn't a sledgehammer to the face.
Stunning and brave.
In the face of overwhelming disdain towards product™, you took a stand and supported product™. I salute your courage.
smoothbrain
OP here, not at all. I had no catharsis as a player. In fact it made me feel miserable for a few days after. I was just in a funk and I couldn't get it out of my mind. It actually reminded me of how I felt after beating the first game. I don't consider that a bad thing whatsoever though. The point of a narrative is to tell a story that delivers powerful emotions, good or bad.
A lot of people seem to be confusing the game making them feel bad with the game itself being bad
>What an inane, meaningless post.
oh, really? explain why. let's test your critical thinking skills
You're not contradicting anything I said, curiously enough.
Imagine NEVER HAVING READ A BOOK you weren't required to read. You are a non-person.
>when Joel tells Ellie the truth about what he did at that hospital
>Ellie's reaction
Bros...
I mean I just finished the prologue and that scene hit way harder than I thought it would. Watching it after you've played is something else than watching and reading some leaks. People in real life aren't magical super heroes that always get an awesome death or have things go perfectly or act perfect. Could you argue that it was rushed? I suppose maybe. But it also helps serve how unforgiving and what a shitty world they are in. People irl went crazy just due to toilet paper and hoarded things at the beginning of the virus, so if you think people wouldn't act worse in a world such as TLOU you are mistaken.
I think it's better to at least experience the game for yourself rather than forming your opinion of leaks and videos and what other people say. Thanks for reading my blog post fags.
>Game uses cheap parlor tricks and shock value to manipulate your emotions
>This makes the game profound and deep
Whoa...
It's people who have literally never read a book or even watched a non-brand-new film
>fighting the big fuck-off Infected in the hospital
>goes in for the instant-kill melee
>L1 prompt comes up
>press L1
>die anyway
Great game, Neil
>In fact it made me feel miserable for a few days after. I was just in a funk and I couldn't get it out of my mind.
Dude in all seriousness if a fucking video game with a c-tier revenge movie plot makes you feel that wat you need a fuckin girlfriend or something
That copypasta again
I've read plenty of books I wasn't required to read and I enjoyed the game. That's why I called your post meaningless.
Nice buzzwords - can you explain what's actually bad about the story without using them, though?
90% of the people shitting on the game are parroting their favorite YouTubers. None of them even know why Abby killed Joel. They think it was just a senseless murder for shock value. When in reality context is everything, and contextually it makes perfect sense someone would hold enough resentment towards Joel for what he did at that hospital.
What really bothers me is that they completely gloss over the fact that the fireflies in the first game put Joel in a position where he had to fight them in the end. They took away all the gear he spend the whole game collecting. What was he supposed to do, go all the way back completely unarmed? They might as well have shot him in the back of the head at that point because he would be dead without any of his gear. Rescuing Ellie was only half the motivation.
>tfw instead of being proud of joel for being a man and protecting her she pulls away like a cunt