The Last of Us (PS3)

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About the end

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Yeah Joel's decision was a selfish one, but it seemed everyone's decisions were selfish, nobody ever wanted to simply let Ellie decide for herself.

There was some stuff about how they had done blood cultures and stuff, but no way was Joel out long enough for them to extensively study her and what the fungus was doing. I mean, if they don't at the very least exhaust all study options before killing her, if they dissect and it doesn't give them what they need they are ****ed.

That confusion is just part of their bigger problem, people being selfish and only seeing the world from their perspective. The Firefly doctors saw Ellie as a lab rat, Joel saw Ellie as a surrogate daughter, Marlene saw Ellie as a weapon against FEDRA, nobody saw Ellie as a person who should make a decision for herself.

Really, at that moment my reaction was the same as Joel's, no way were they going to vivisect Ellie like that.

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I get that, but I think she would've gone through with it, which is why he had to lie to her in the first place. What I didnt get as well is why they couldnt just take tissue samples or blood samples instead of extensive surgery?

I guess everyone was selfish, but that guy in the snow could've killed her without her ever knowing he knew who she was the entire time, but he let her go. In the end it was just a game of a people without hope, no answers and nobody really trying to find any accept those at that hospital. Everybody else was desperate and selfish.. but still all of that killing, the ending was a let down

[The_Wise_One]

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I wasn't, actually I felt quite the opposite that it was better than I could have hoped.

Well I didn't actually play the game so my opinion isn't as valid but I just felt like they became a routine enemy. The fact that you could sneak by them (even when very close) without their supersonic hearing alerting to your presence made them feel like less of a problem. Early in the story, one clicker is a huge deal but later on they didn't have that same intimidation. Once again, I wasn't crouching behind cover crafting shivs and throwing bottles around so I just speak from a story perspective.

[Burns11]

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I get that, but I think she would've gone through with it, which is why he had to lie to her in the first place. What I didnt get as well is why they couldnt just take tissue samples or blood samples instead of extensive surgery?

I guess everyone was selfish, but that guy in the snow could've killed her without her ever knowing he knew who she was the entire time, but he let her go. In the end it was just a game of a people without hope, no answers and nobody really trying to find any accept those at that hospital. Everybody else was desperate and selfish.. but still all of that killing, the ending was a let down

End

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The guy in the snow, he didn't kill her because he wanted her to lead him back to Joel. He then tried to **** and eat her, so....yeah.

As for the Doctors at the hospital, we don't know that they were the only ones looking for a cure, in fact we know VERY little about what FEDRA, the government, the CDC, etc were doing. All we know is The Fireflies had a couple doctors that wanted to experiment to find a cure, they could have been drummed out of the CDC cure research for being stupid, shoddy research techniques, or for being cruel resorting to Mengele-esque experimentation out of desperation. We can't assume anything about these doctors without them talking to us, but we are expendable just like Ellie.

[franch1se]

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ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!!

I turn on the game and hit Continue and it takes me to where I am...ok cool. I play through it and get pretty far but when I die it takes me back pretty far. Ok whatever. I hit restart encounter one time instead of dying and it takes me back even further! and then autosaves from THAT point! I mean, further back from where the initial continue game was from.

[Cubfan]

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Ugh stuck im playing on Hard and i have 2 shives and 3 clickers to deal with and Joel is the only one. Oh yeah i only have 2 bullets as well.

[LingeringRegime]

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Since I finished the story, I decided to play some multiplayer. I really like the direction they went with this. Here is some gameplay footage I uploaded.

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[Candyman5]

Ugh stuck im playing on Hard and i have 2 shives and 3 clickers to deal with and Joel is the only one. Oh yeah i only have 2 bullets as well.

Try to sneak around them and avoid them all together. If you can't then try to scavenge the area to make a third shiv or find ammo. If all else fails try to find a melee weapon (In every encounter I have found at least one in the area), kill 2 of the clickers with shivs and beat the hell out of the third with the weapon. If you have a molotov try to group them up and take them all out. theres usually loads of ways to get past certain situations so just think and look around. Hope that helps.
Also some tip: save you ammo for Clickers. Don't waste them on runners. Also try to be tactical with all your shots when fighting humans, flank them and try to get them in hand to hand combat when possible. Bricks and bottles are also your best friend to either distract a enemy or stun them.

I have been sneaky 90% of this game so far. I think I have killed like 30 people with weapons so far. Everything else has either been sneak killed or avoided all together. I got full ammo on everything including Molotov's, full med kits and shivs incase I get to a point to just say F this and go on a all out killing spree. Lol. Love how the game rewards me for being stealthy/conservative with items.

[JMD]

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I want to join in on the ending of the game discussion but first, how do you do that Spoiler button thing? I don't want to post unless I can hide it like that. Thanks

[Tommyklaid]

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Think I'm gonna go pick this baby up... (but I still haven't finished Far Cry 3....

I'm enjoying the heck outta Far Cry (due to the fact it's seems more open world-like AND I feel the replay-value is better.

I know it's difficult, but.........

FAR CRY 3 or THE LAST OF US

[Heroesandvillains]

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ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!!

I turn on the game and hit Continue and it takes me to where I am...ok cool. I play through it and get pretty far but when I die it takes me back pretty far. Ok whatever. I hit restart encounter one time instead of dying and it takes me back even further! and then autosaves from THAT point! I mean, further back from where the initial continue game was from.

This may be my biggest and only complaint with The Last of Us.

What you've described has happene to me a few times, but check this...

On two seperate enemy encounters, I've managed to have the game reload me after dying at a checkpoint AFTER the enemy encounter. Meaning, they've killed me and when the game reloads the enemies are all dead/cleared. I think this is being caused by me having Joel reach the advancement part of the level while simultaneously (or just before) dying.

I like freebies like anyone but I do not like not earning my progress (though I'm not going to lie...one time it happened after I had died at the same part like 7 times. It was like the game had mercy on me and said, "Clearly you're never going to get through this. Go ahead, carry on.").

Very strange.

[Heroesandvillains]

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Ugh stuck im playing on Hard and i have 2 shives and 3 clickers to deal with and Joel is the only one. Oh yeah i only have 2 bullets as well.

2 shivs, 2 bullets < 3 clickers

[Heroesandvillains]

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I want to join in on the ending of the game discussion but first, how do you do that Spoiler button thing? I don't want to post unless I can hide it like that. Thanks

Obviously I can't show you exactly what it looks like. For this example, just ignore the the * symbol.

[*spoiler] Text goes here [/*spoiler]

[franch1se]

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Just beat it...Standing Ovation. Fantastic Job Naughty Dog

[Boltman]

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Great story, this could have been made into a movie and it would've been a blockbuster. The story was so compelling, I was captivated from beginning to end.

[Eman5805]

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I think I can say this without spoiling a thing.

Winter is without question the greatest single stretch of sequences I've ever experienced.

Anyone who hasn't gotten there yet is in for a treat. Now to see if Spring can live up to it...


Edit: And something else, this game gets pacing. It understands the roller coaster of emotions of the players and it leaves just enough space between encounters or long, quiet relaxation periods to keep you from becoming a nervous wreck.