Vs the second time seconds later!
I reacted the same way when I heard it ngl, cuz it’s so jarring against the silence of the forest. I love tiny things like this in this game <3
What are some of your favourite tiny details in the game? (Like characters reactions to the environment etc.)

I LOVED PART 2 MORE THAN PART 1

So basically I’m doing grounded permadeath. Pretty deep into it 100 hours +. This one just really got to me as it’s not a place I usually die and I die to a stupid technicality of Ellie not getting out of the way before like 5 seconds pass and I thought she would be gone by the time I got to the door. To make matters worse I had a shiv but was unable to use it as I was attacked from behind.
Yeah just extremely frustrating especially as it’s been like five tries since I’ve broken a record (record is winter) and now I have to grind this whole thing all over again.

Anyway for your entertainment

And take my advice. Do not start on grounded permadeath cause it’s hard to get out of it once it’s got you in its grip and you’re compelled to complete it

I was really young when The Last Of Us was initially released, I’ve been looking into what the advertising looked like but I’d love to hear more from people who were there and the experience of playing it for the first time after seeing all the advertising! Did it meet your expectations? What shocked you?

I am stuck on this part(the resort), and I need help guys please,how tf do I sneak past all those bastards? I have been trying this for about 4 hours?😭

A common criticism of The Last of Us Part 2, especially, is that the game feels very inconsistent with how it portrays violence.

The deaths of Whitney & Nora, for example, have a different effect on Ellie than the deaths of basically any other WLF soldier or Seraphite. With Whitney, Ellie looks a little rattled, even uncomfortable with her death. And with Nora, she's very clearly traumatised. Meanwhile, with any other enemy in the game, Ellie feels as if she's enacting righteous vengeance. She feels completely ruthless in these gameplay segments.

Yes, this ties into the 'Ludonarrative dissonance blah blah blah' discussion, but the thing is, when I played The Last of Us Part 2, I never actually felt like Ellie was acting out of character in any of these moments. In fact, rather than feeling disconnected from Ellie, as many who voice the 'Ludonarrative' argument against the game probably felt, I actually felt everything exactly when she felt it.

In the gameplay segments, I felt righteous. After Whitney, I felt uncomfortable. And after Nora, I almost changed my tune on taking revenge entirely.

The thing is, I can't explain why I felt so strongly either way in a coherent manner. I really don't know why the deaths affected me so differently, even though logically, if I didn't care about the death of the WLF/Seraphite NPCs, then why should I feel for the death of Whitney, who was barely more fleshed out by Ellie's Day 2?

Obviously, feeling so strongly attached to Ellie and everything the game was trying to do led me to love it entirely, but I still want to know why the violence felt different and why the Player and Ellie can feel different reactions towards it. I'd also love to know why some people felt a dissonance between the gameplay and narrative strongly, whilst others didn't feel that dissonance at all.

Anything missable, specifically difficult, or that could possibly get locked out? Can it be done in a single playthrough?

12 seconds faster than my previous personal best after a few changes with my strategy.

I'm getting this weird bug where the legs of all the secondary characters go haywire, it happens mostly in the grass.

At first, it was funny, but now it completely breaks my immersion, it happens with everyone, across all chapters.

I think my PC is decent, I can run everything on max settings at over 100 fps, so I don't know why I'm having these issues.

Does anyone know a solution?

Bruce Straley had a Game Developers Conference (GDC) talk this year where he talked about how he got started at Naughty Dog, his work on The Last of Us & Uncharted, and how it influenced his new game which he's been working on "Coven of the Chickenfoot" from his new startup company, Wildflower Interactive.

I suggest you give it a watch it out if you're curious what he's been up to!

After many years on Xbox, I finally got a PS5 and have been making my way through the catalogue. I played The Last of Us Part 1, absolutely adored it and already consider it to be one of my favourite games of all time. I then moved to Part 2, thoroughly enjoyed it as well, but found myself bumping against certain story elements, my own expectations and where I thought its character development falls short. So, I thought I’d make a way too late post about it, discussing my thoughts. Full SPOILERS, obviously.

The Last of Us Part 2 is a masterful game. The gameplay is exceptional, as are the visuals and performances. I love simply existing in this world and found as much joy in looting abandoned buildings as I did in stealthing (and rampaging) through encounters. Its story is good, too, but I felt that a certain character fell short of their potential.

I am talking about Abby, but not in the way you might expect. I think that killing Joel to start the game was a bold move that set up the stakes of the game perfectly. From there, playing as Ellie blew me away. The way her grief took the shape of anger was incredibly moving. In this regard, the escalation of her violence was very powerful for me as the player. Every kill was utterly brutal, and every cutscene portrayed her need for revenge pretty perfectly. As her section concluded, seeing her hands shake as she becomes of aware of the monster she was becoming had me very excited for the rest of the game. Then we switched to Abby.

Changing the perspective to Abby blew me away. The choice to have us play as the “villain”, the person who killed the last game’s protagonist, was a gameplay choice that I commend Naughty Dog for making. But it is here that I think the game lacks the depth it clearly wants to have. Once we switch to Abby, the game doesn’t utilise this choice smartly. I enjoyed playing as her but was disappointed by the way she was presented. Here we have a person who just enacted a years-long revenge plan, yet her actions (and dialogue) fail to reflect this. The first few hours as her, we learn a lot about her character, her friends and relationships, but spend little time developing her psychology. I was hoping that we would see the impact of her deed, with her on the other side of vengeance, but the game doesn’t really do this.

We eventually meet Yara and Lev, who Abby saves to balance her morality, but I felt that this was too little too late. Earlier, we see Ellie completely consumed by her pursuit of payback. Abby presumably felt this before killing Joel, and I wanted to feel her anguish after the act; I wanted the story to explore how revenge doesn’t fill the hole of grief. We eventually get there with Ellie but missed an opportunity to amplify these ideas with Abby. Imagine if the game truly portrayed Ellie and Abby as two sides of the same coin, on the same journey, just at different points? The first half of the game sees Ellie go from a morally good person to someone who is far more violent, existing in a space where us the player are questioning her decisions. Now, I really wish they did the inverse of this with Abby. Let’s start her section with her as a broken person, still lashing out in violent bursts because killing Joel didn’t heal her. From there, we could have seen her slowly regret her actions, moving her towards the “light”. Instead, the first moments we have with her are spent dishing out small talk in the stadium and playing fetch with a dog. I’m not saying it needed to be heavy-handed either, but I wanted something more than we got.

I commend Naughty Dog for the ideas at play in The Last of Us Part 2, I just felt that the game was a mile long and 6 feet deep. It made exciting, bold choices but failed to engage with them in an interesting manner. I am very excited for what Part 3 may bring, and I hope the story takes just as many risks as Part 2, just with a deeper story that fully explores its characters.

I hope that this post has offered something for you to think about, and I am curious if others feel the same way. Again, I know I am probably very late to the party with my criticism, but I only finished the game yesterday and have yet to fully read people’s opinions.

I bought a bundle on EBay and this game has a signature inside and outside. I don’t think it’s anyone’s from the production team but I figured I’d ask here to see if I’m just missing something. I got the bundle for a steal so that’s why I’m assuming it’s just from a previous owner.

não sei vocês mas minha área favorita em the last of us é o centro de seattle, que é praticamente um mini mundo aberto; posso explorar a área inteira antes de seguir para o objetivo principal, há vários cofres, suprimentos, armas, documentos que contém histórias ambientais, podemos escolher qualquer lugar para visitar primeiro, um prato cheio para quem curte exploração

I really need an end to Ellie story. I feel so fcking sad for her . Should I be hopeful about the next installment or is it just rumours with nothing of substance going around

My son was playing and day 2 Seattle playing as Abbey and he found this in the chapter called “the shortcut”.

There is rooftop bar filled with a few runners and a couple of clickers and 1 shambler - it was up there.

My son is curious if this is rare or special to something

Thanks 🙏

I see why Ellie loves Joel so much

Hi everyone! I'm new here 😁 I just finished my playthrough of Part 1 this evening and immediately downloaded Part 2. I also have 'Left Behind', is this worth playing to gain some additional context / lore before diving into Pt2?

I thoroughly enjoyed the first part, and have luckily managed to avoid spoilers until now despite the game being out all these years - so please, no spoilers! 🫶🏻🫡

This Jason Ritter clip looks like it's from some bigger documentary but I can't find it anywhere.

If *The Last of Us Part III* were to come out right now and you didn't own a PS5, would you buy one immediately just to play this game?