I just recently found out I have to play as Abby , for 10 HOURS !11!!1!! This is so ridiculous. They make us HATE Abby and then try forcing us to play as her. No fucking way. I will literally hand pick files to delete/modify if it means that I don't need to play as Abby 1 more fucking second. Pls Help.
Seriously, this part just embodies the annoying millennial stoner stereotype, written by the type of person who would unironically say “so many people are in jail just because of the plant, bro”.
Plus, a weed farm during the apocalypse? Seriously? Really nailing home the survival and resources being scarce vibe.
Why not just make it that they found a stash of alcohol and leave it at that? That’s at least more believable..
Literalmente posso dizer que não poderia morrer sem ter a experiência de jogar esse game!
We all know this game is flawed. Like really, really flawed, and I'm willing to admit that. But the birthday gift is a part of the game I really like, where it feels like Joel & Ellie are acting more in character for those we grew to love. Additionally, I really like what these visuals suggest here. I think the moose is supposed to represent Joel, and the wolves, Abby's group. If we look at the one wolf to the right, she's biting the same leg on the moose that Abby shot on Joel, and is the only one making physical contact, like Abby did. There are 5 wolves present here and then 3 separate ones a little further along. There's 8 in Abby's group, and at the time of this part of the game, 3 of Abby's friends are dead (Nick/Jordan/Leah) so i think the 3 looking down on Ellie in the second image represent the dead ones, and the remaining 5 surrounding the moose represent the surviving members.
This might just be some obvious old shit that's been posted before lol but I only just really noticed it. Thought it was a cool little detail, so decided to post about it.
I’ve just finished TLOU2 remastered through PS+ for the first time and watched the documentary of the making of the game. I did enjoy the game overall, not as much as the first part but still a game that’s worth your time.
I also enjoyed the main theme of cycle of violence within the story. Ellie was unnecessarily mean to Joel which I didn’t like, but I think the violent nature of Joel’s death was necessary to really sell the story and make the player feel that hatred and puts you in a ‘eye for an eye’ mindset. I think a lot of people got blinded by the leaks when it first came out, but the plot is pretty powerful. Abby’s story could have been a bit more thought out but it’s still decent IMO.
My main criticism is that they should have obviously let the player choose in the end if they want to kill Abby or not. This would really drive home the message, having seen the full story: do you want to keep the cycle going or let them leave? I’m a big fan of telltale games and there you usually see a heightened level of emotional involvement when you as a player decide what happens. To leave that choice until the very end would have had a big impact I think. This would also open up a dark alternative ending where Ellie kills Abby and I would have loved to see that.
Sidenote: one of the most impressive games ever from a technical standpoint. I did find the gameplay repetitive at times, besides the weapon upgrades there’s no real innovation throughout the game. You likely find a way you enjoy playing and stick to it, I had to remind myself about the smoke bombs, mines & explosive arrows at times as I never used them.
so whats the deal with the stalker that breaks off the main body? stalkers in general are by far the most interesting variant since they act more like humans than zombies (ambushing, fighting, retreating). but the one attached to the rat king was way tougher than normal and displayed abnormal intelligence by playing dead when it noticed the rat king was outmatched. and then it recast itself in fungus? to set up another ambush. does anyone know who that originally was?
Part 1 was an absolute masterpiece.. no complains
Part 2 isn't just disappointing, it's terrible..
I assume people talked enough about joel's death..
So let me point out the other annoying parts of this story..
This story felt so forced to act out a certain way and every character's fate is just up to the writer's decisions whether they'd be offed or kept alive
Abby systematically kills and ruins everybody we loved's lives? She wins almost every interaction and beats the living hell out of everybody we care about
She has thick plot armor that let's her survive impossible odds
We don't mention enough how in every cutscene where a mob attack abby, they would almost always have bats or rods and they only land non lethal attacks on her despite the super vulnerability
Abby goes in a place where tommy, ellie, dana, jesse are all in and she almost kills them all with a gun and her fists
Dana doesn't even attack her with a gun but throws (AGAIN) non lethal attacks at her with a knife
Again I won't mention joel as I'm so pissed off by how absurd it is
Right from the beginning of Abby's section, the writer forces stupid interactions that are clearly made to look cute to force sympathy from us
I mean the words exchanged between abby and her dad are so corny I almost threw up, we all know people don't talk like that irl
Don't get me started on that sex scene
I laughed when the war broke out at the end of abby's section and everyone looked at her and lev and started shouting "kill that traitor" "kill the heretic" over and over, it's a very stupid and blatant way to portray slavery and religious fanaticism.
By the end of the game I was greatly disappointed and annoyed by how bad the writing of this game was
It didn't feel like the last of us at all during some sections and the message was all over the place
If you look at the fanfics and theories before the game's release, you would've never seen something as absurd as "a RANDOM female npc on STEROIDS kills joel with a GOLF club within the FIRST few scenes, and HALF of this story is ONLY going to be about her story"
The whole case surely bothers me, but I find it much easier to pretend this game isn't canon and joel lives happily with ellie.
Just started playing through these amazing games for the first time, beat Part 1 a few days ago and now working my way through part 2. Abby is fuckin jacked lol
i understand this sub is mostly just shitting on tlou2, but why do some of you guys actually hate Neil? I get it if you’re mad at him or just don’t like him because of how he went with part 2, but genuinely hating him is insane to me. i was downvoted for a comment i posted on someone’s post a few days ago, where they were basically just saying how Neil was “evil” and i said it was weird. i mean no shade but lord if there’s people on this sub who think the same of what that person said (that he’s fr evil and you have a deep hatred to him) then WHY? you don’t like his game big deal, but there’s way worse people than him yet you all write paragraphs after paragraphs about how you hate this man. it’s just fucking WEIRD and legitimately unhealthy, it’s never that serious.
this is only targeted to the people who actually hate him, keep in mind i’m just curious on why.