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[SirMossyBloke]

Well now I'm just uncertain if you actually did understand. Certainly you can ascertain how uncertainty had a certain role?

Of course it does.

However a sequel that we know next to nothing about isn't ruining any kind of uncertainty. We still don't know anything about the future and still might not when we finish the second one. Just because Ellie and Joel are older means nothing at this point.

Hence nothing being ruined.

 

[Get_craycray]

Took some screenshots from the trailer:

 

[Heckler456]

whats with all these ignorant comments?

Accusing the developers being lazy or money-hungry because they feel that there is a story left to tell?

lol they had all possibilities of the world and actually i think by continuing the Story of Ellie & Joel the pressure is much bigger than starting with completely new characters

This is what it's gonna be like for the next couple of years. Once the regulars have left, and the people interested in the actual game have gone to their community thread, all we'll be left with is those types of comments. Just look at any Mass Effect thread. It'll be fun!

 

[PlayerOne]

Im pretty sure that was whats happening in the trailer, joel still looks like joel, but ellie has aged.

Joel is still joel because of what wesaw from his back side? Really??

 

[strafer]

Tattoos.
Dirty fingernails.

#NotMyEllie

Spoiler

 

[Obliterator]

I think it was more of a "I've created a monster" moment.

Yep. He sounds really sad, but I think its him seeing what Ellie has become. He views her as his daughter, and it probably is hurting him seeing her become, in a lot of ways like himself.

 

[Yabberwocky]

Ellie is a teen, Joel is middle-aged. Those two groups don't "age" at the same rate at all.

Ghost angle would be really stupid.

Yeah, I'm bit confused by some of the comments! Joel's not going to be looking drastically different over five or so years, but Ellie absolutely would.

 

[entremet]

Can ppl just be happy that you are getting an awesome franchise back.

It's really wacky, huh?

 

[Kayhan]

Female enemies?

 

[DirtyManos]

Yea you better spoiler protect that...

Wait, is it not spoiler tagged? It looks spoiler-tagged on my end lol.

Anyway what a fucking day.

Fantastic Friday night.

UCLA beat Kentucky.

TLOU Part II announced, a sequel to maybe my favorite game of all time.

It's a good weekend.

 

[PhantomX1313]

Put this piece on pc also so everyone can feel shit

 

[SpaceWolf]

So what was with all the blood running down the side of Ellie's face?

 

[Tonky]

Why are people saying Joel still looks like Joel? We barely got a look at his face.

 

[darkwing-buck]

I liked the inclusion of, "part 2", in the title, as if theirs some of epic or importance awaiting us in this sequel

 

[Naked Snake]

Welp, I will finally have a reason to buy a PS4 when this drops.

 

[Servbot24]

That's not how you spell Drake's Fortune

Ahhhhh. Ok. I'm moving on then, haha.

 

[TOM f'N CRUISE]

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[strafer]

I also hope Joel still carries the picture of him and Sarah.

 

[msdstc]

Yeah, I'm bit confused by some of the comments! Joel's not going to be looking drastically different over five or so years, but Ellie absolutely would.

Hopefully, it's a weak writing technique. Joel is great, better not eliminate him already.

 

[Thornton Reed]

That didn't sound like Troy baker

 

[Lion Heart]

Sony exclusives, the only games not allowed to have sequels on GAF. How can one system have so many haters.

Literally every game, TLOU, Uncharted, Infamous, KZ, GoW, all had posts bitching about sequels.

You have a quality game like TLOU on another console and fans would be begging for it none stop. Even mediocre games like Crackdown gets begged for a sequel. How tiring.

TLOU's combat was so much better than Uncharted's. More weighty impactful, better A.I., and survival based crafting added a layer of strategy on harder difficulties. Encounters could, and often needed to be tackled with creativity. Looking forward to seeing that expanded here.

Uncharted 4 really stepped up the combat, I'd say its one of the best shooting games ever mechanically. Go play RotTR and see the difference.

 

[Cabbagehead]

Yeah, I'm bit confused by some of the comments! Joel's not going to be looking drastically different over five or so years, but Ellie absolutely would.

It's not to far fetched that joel got killed and she's seeing a ghost. But that may be to obivous.

 

[BeforeU]

Well there it is

 

[NullPointer]

We are not longer the Last of Us

We are the second to last of us.

 

[Reebot]

Of course it does.

However a sequel that we know next to nothing about isn't ruining any kind of uncertainty. We still don't know anything about the future and still might not when we finish the second one. Just because Ellie and Joel are older means nothing at this point.

Hence nothing being ruined.

Certainty certainly unseats certain uncertainty.

 

[DirtyManos]

I hope we aren't spoiler tagging predictions. No need for that when nothing is concrete.

Eh I feel like it's more just a courtesy. I can relate to the feeling when other people's predictions start to become ingrained in my mind.

 

[DancingNalwood]

Personal theory:
Fireflies have been hunting Ellie since Joel ran out of there with her. They finally caught up and killed some people she cares about (she felt really at home in that house, possibly her family?) before she could stop them. Now she's pissed and isn't going to stop until they're all dead. Joel tags along for support (including emotional when the anger finally runs out). Cue an emotional roller-coaster that leaves us weeping in the corner.

 

[TimeEffect]

Female enemies?

I hope so. But we didn't see any females in Uncharted DLC. Just a bunch of men to kill

 

[Nokagi]

I also hope Joel still carries the picture of him and Sarah.

Ghost Joel or real Joel?

 

[Solideliquid]

Any news on 4K for the PS4 Pro?

 

[Tonky]

It's not to far fetched that joel got killed and she's seeing a ghost. But that may be to obivous.

The fact that her head is bleeding and she's just casually playing the guitar may be alluding to that.

 

[Deadbeat]

So what was the plot leak on 4chan?

 

[boingball]

Pretty big announcement for PSX. No date though, so earliest late 2018? Long wait.

 

[Any Questions]

Took some screenshots from the trailer:

Like I said. May go pro for this game

 

[strafer]

That didn't sound like Troy baker

What? That was the most Troy Baker Troy baker has ever sounded.

 

[jacksepticeye]

So what was with all the blood running down the side of Ellie's face?

There's a gash on her forhead

 

[RedAssedApe]

Joel definitely sounded less gravely here. Probably a quick and dirty vo session

I liked the inclusion of, "part 2", in the title, as if theirs some of epic or importance awaiting us in this sequel

It's probably more that just adding a 2 to the end reads awkwardly. That and the community was pretty divided about wanting a sequel. So they can play this off as the story always being planned for parts and not just them milking something that got popular.

 

[Thornton Reed]

What? That was the most Troy Baker Troy baker has ever sounded.

I need to listen to that again

 

[ElephantShell]

I'm glad it looks like it's taking place quite a while after the first one with how old Ellie looks. A sequel that picked up right away would have been weird but with some time and space between the two I feel like they can introduce some new and cool shit.

 

[BigEmil]

whats with all these ignorant comments?

Accusing the developers being lazy or money-hungry because they feel that there is a story left to tell?

lol they had all possibilities of the world and actually i think by continuing the Story of Ellie & Joel the pressure is much bigger than starting with completely new characters

This. Naughty Dog if your reading this ignore GAF please and continue as you do. Thanks

 

[Xeteh]

What? That was the most Troy Baker Troy baker has ever sounded.

You'd have to infected to not think that was Troy Baker at his Troy Baker-iest.

 

[Trigonometrize.]

It's not to far fetched that joel got killed and she's seeing a ghost. But that may be to obivous.

This series doesn't seem like a "ghost" series to me, whether we're talking literal specters or characters' imaginations. Last of Us is too much about subtlety for that and I'm kind of surprised people are that into such a theory.

 

[TimeEffect]

Shit. Top of Reddit. They made it now

 

[psyfi]

Not sure if we should spoiler-tag our story predictions based on the trailer, but I've got a big hunch that

Spoiler

Joel is already dead here. Fireflies caught up to them, killed Joel, failed to capture Ellie again.

Spoiler

Joel looks to 'clean', not that much older, to relaxed in speaking. Looks like either her mind/conscience talking to her. Would be the likeliest thing to motivate Ellie going on a rampage against the Fireflies.

Spoiler

She'll learn more about what Joel kept from her, having to deal with that Joel against her memory of father Joel. Complex relationships yo.

Aw man, I love this theory. I really want Joel to redeem himself, though.

 

[PlayerOne]

Uncharted 4 was wonderful. It cemented the Uncharted franchise into legendary status and even if people disagreed on the pacing of the game; a lot of them still agreed that the ending was great. Uncharted 4 was necessary to the franchise and an excellent send off since ND isn't making another one. Now Uncharted 3 on the other hand... Meh.

More than a few were meh and disappointed on UC4.

Puzzles were nonexistent, Sam's whole arc was nonsensical, villain was basically mini-me lazarevic, pacing wasn't good, lack of setpieces, no twist in enemies at all, too much climbing, etc.

I enjoyed UC3 more than 4 in more ways than one.

I actually wonder where the people are who tried to convince everyone that Druckmann/Straley were going to be so much better and how they were so much better than Hennig.

 

[Astral Dog]

As someone who was bored to death by Uncharted 4 this one looks midly intriguing.lets see what they learbed from TLOUS 1

 

[jacksepticeye]

We are the second to last of us.

"We'll soon be the Last of Us Ellie..... if you kill them all"

 

[ByWatterson]

Agreed. It's lazy work using the same characters, characters who had their ending. It's Uncharted 4 all over again. An unnecessary sequel to characters that had their ending in the game before, just to make a quick buck.

Quick?

 

[Lunafreya Nox Fleuret]

What does this mean for the poster at the end of UC4? Is that relevant to II or we don't know yet? I'm very excited for a 2nd game but I can understand why many think it ruins the first game.

 

[CaptainKashup]

So I don't know if it was already said in this thread but Ellie's tattoo is in fact, a way to cover her

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bite scar

.

Really clever.