Hope this doesn't happen just because it's so damn predictable. This is the story everyone expects.
The Last of Us Part II announced
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Hope this doesn't happen just because it's so damn predictable. This is the story everyone expects.
LookAtMeGo
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Yeah youre right. I went back and he was talking about the first game when he was talking about him treating her as an equal.
He said they wanted to have have moments that resonate with people in the same way in the next game but yeah he doesnt explicitly say they will be interacting with each other in the new one. Fack.
Clicker Cocaine.
Obliterator
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I was thinking possible alcohol addiction
Uno Venova
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Right, and you actually think it's reasonable to act like you know how the game is going to turn out tow years from now. Not sure why I'm even engaging.
If nothing else, I hope they develop Ellie's uneasiness around Joel and uncertainty about him. It was the best thing about the last 3 minutes of The Last of Us.
But even then I don't think a whole story about that is necessary. Man I really don't think The Last of Us needed a sequel.
But even then I don't think a whole story about that is necessary. Man I really don't think The Last of Us needed a sequel.
A lot of people of a lot of different genders have a lot of different kinds of bodies. And honestly, if she was trans it's not realistic that she'd be treated as a girl in a scientific/medical setting in TLOU1. Scientists and medical professionals don't have the best track record of affirming the gender of trans women. Or are you saying that Ellie's a trans man? That could be possible, but I wouldn't take Ellie's bodily traits in the trailer to be any indication.
Just take Air Infected and fly over the Atlantic for a little vaycay?
Well, I sure hope they have the balls to do it.
Psychoward
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So is everyone else who's basing their hype because of the first game. I'm basing my caution based on the first game.
It's the same thing. The first game and other ND games are all we have to go on right now.
man we need this edited to make her truly "punished" ellie.
Chuck Norris
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She is growing up fighting for her life. She isn't going to have dainty fingers
I also don't think the world of TLOU leaves much room for gender transitions
That works too.
Kenzodielocke
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Neil Druckmann is not Ken Levine.
A+ pun
PTSD?
Crossing Eden
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Man i'm so pumped that Ellie is the main playable character. So good. Let's fuck shit up. 
Has this been answered?
What the fuck does that mean?
Audioboxer
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He is not going to promise a Vita game and not deliver.
Getting a lot of arya stark vibes.
Yabberwocky
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That's why I don't want Joel to die (well, I preferably don't want him to die at all, but not too prematurely anyway!), because their dynamic will have changed so much from TLoU1, and it would be fantastic to see it unfold. I feel like a dead Joel just gives angst for Ellie, but if Joel's alive, that creates personal development and conflict opportunities for both characters. Having Joel accompany Ellie like a Bill-esque companion would be fun, too.
Ah, I can still hear the stomping of Bill's boots, now...
I was wondering about that, it could be really interesting.
l support ND if that's the story they want to tell wtih Ellie, but my honest reaction is that she's just a scruffy, practical teenage girl in the apocalypse. I just think we're not used to seeing women in media with unstylzed brows, and chewed, short nails. I love how grown out her brows are, by the way.
Uno Venova
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I'm hoping a bow and arrow is Ellie's weapon of choice, it was noticeable how much better she was at using it over Joel in the first game.
OrlanisWorks
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Eh. I'll try to keep my hopes up since Uncharted 4 was the best ND title I've played.
snow in jamaica
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the second-to-last of us
fluffydelusions
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Where did you hear that? Anyway, I said earlier I got PNW vibes from some of those shots they showed off
Kenzodielocke
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Dude, calm the hell down.
Neil is grounded, while Levine is sci-fi. There will be no dead person talking.
I loved using the bow as Ellie, not so much as Joel.
I hope it has an even greater variety of weapons! And yeah, make the bow come back!
I mean - he's not exactly wrong. They're two different dudes. It would be a mistake to say otherwise.
That'd be really nice.
I mean it would certainly be progressive and interesting, but you can't just choose to be truly transgender in a sense where you just will it to happen. She would need large amounts of hormonal therapy to make those sorts of changes. I feel like that sort of hormonal therapy is not something that will likely be readily available in the game's world.
That was my interpretation also.
Because didn't she kill people a bunch of people in the original game with her rifle and bricks? It's been a while since I played it. But I think the implications are she's done more than just killed someone
fluffydelusions
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Couldn't she just be shaking from adrenaline after killing someone?
Someone in the thread noticed earlier that the tatoo covers her infected bite in the arm.
benicillin
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I mean if you're familiar with the extended sequence they did at the live performance they had a few years ago, where it's a little while after the end of the first game where there's clearly a division between the two characters:
Neil more or less said it may or may not be canonical at the latest panel, so if Joel taught Ellie to play they might be back to a point in their relationship where they've moved past the events of the first game.
Joel brings out his guitar and plays a song for Ellie about their journey together, and he is "clearly communicating how important she is to him," according to one report. Ellie warms to Joel, and he tells her a cringe-worthy pun that could've come from one of her joke books: "What's the downside of eating a clock? It's time-consuming." They laugh, and then Joel hands her his guitar and promises to teach her how to play, before leaving the room. Ellie strums one note on the guitar as the scene ends.
Neil more or less said it may or may not be canonical at the latest panel, so if Joel taught Ellie to play they might be back to a point in their relationship where they've moved past the events of the first game.
PatThePassive
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With all the Joel is dead theories I hope Elie at least killed him.
Neoleo2143
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One thing I hope is that AI improves so that you can both spare people and have the enemy retreat happen more often. I really don't like going through an Area and having all the enemies fight to the death with minimal survival instinct. The infected should be fine like that, but people should have an active survival instinct.
LurkingFear
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Neil Druckmann looks like hes been Hunting Tourists.
That was my interpretation. She either helped or entirely killed those people, and is sort of freaking out. She takes a deep breath, clenches her fist, and tried to Zen out while playing the guitar.
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Joel and Ellie's story was done, they had their ending.
Joel and Ellie's story was done, they had their ending.