I had ChatGPT create a story for a hypothetical The Last of Us Part III. How do you think it did?

DragoonKain

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Just for fun, I asked ChatGPT create a story for a TLOU3 game. It's actually not terrible. Rate how ChatGPT did out of 10 for this story.

Here's a narrative concept for The Last of Us Part III, building on the themes, characters, and emotional consequences of The Last of Us Part II. This story focuses on legacy, trauma, redemption, and the blurred lines between justice and survival.


Title: The Last of Us Part III

Setting:
Several years after the events of Part II, the world is still ravaged by the Infected, but fledgling communities have grown stronger, better defended, and more interconnected. The Fireflies are rumored to have resurged in a hidden location, working to create a cure once again.


Main Characters:

  • Ellie: Now in her mid-to-late 20s, Ellie is emotionally scarred, isolated, and living alone off-grid. She has lost nearly everything: Joel, Dina, Jesse, and perhaps most painfully, her sense of purpose.
  • Lev: A young adult now, Lev has become a hardened survivor and leader within the new Fireflies. He is driven by Yara's memory and a sense of duty to create something better than what the world offered them.
  • Abby: Missing. Her fate after the beach escape is unknown.
  • New Protagonist – Camila ("Cam"): A 19-year-old girl who grew up in the Boston QZ. Smart, fiercely loyal, and compassionate, Cam grew up hearing stories of the Fireflies and dreams of making a difference. Her older brother was taken by FEDRA, presumed dead. She stumbles across clues about the resurgence of the Fireflies and leaves to find them.

Plot Summary:

Act I – Fading Echoes

The game opens with Cam, who is leaving her safe zone after her QZ collapses in a coup. She's motivated to find the Fireflies, hoping they might help her find her brother or give her life a purpose. Along the way, she learns survival through bitter encounters and fleeting friendships.

Meanwhile, Ellie, now reclusive and disillusioned, is tracked down by someone from Jackson who tells her that the Fireflies are real—and they might be trying to find her. They're looking for "the girl who was immune."

Ellie is torn. She has nothing left in Jackson. Her immunity, once a curse, might finally mean something.

Act II – Paths Crossed

Cam and Ellie's journeys intersect when they both follow a lead toward a rumored Firefly outpost in New Mexico. They're forced to cooperate to survive brutal raiders and Infected. Ellie is hesitant to let Cam in, while Cam slowly uncovers Ellie's past through scattered remarks, drawings, and scars—real and emotional.

Eventually, they reach a fortified Firefly settlement—led in part by Lev, now weathered and pragmatic. Lev greets Ellie with a complicated mix of anger and understanding, and tells her Abby never returned after trying to locate more immune individuals.

The Fireflies reveal they've found a doctor capable of creating a vaccine—Ellie might be humanity's last chance again. But this time, Ellie has to choose what to do with that power.

Act III – Sacrifice and Salvation

Cam discovers that her brother is alive—but a soldier for a brutal splinter group known as The Warden's Cross, a quasi-military theocratic group formed from remnants of FEDRA and Seraphite ideologies. They believe infection is divine punishment and aim to destroy anything related to the cure.

Lev wants to fight. Cam wants to save her brother. Ellie is caught between repeating the past and trying to redeem it.

As the Firefly base is besieged, Ellie is mortally wounded protecting Cam. In her final moments, she tells Lev and Cam to finish what Joel started—but do it right this time.

In the finale, Cam agrees to donate her life to protect Ellie's legacy. Lev, now the inheritor of Ellie's and Abby's stories, becomes the bridge between vengeance and hope.


Ending Options:

  1. Hopeful Ending: Cam survives, and a working vaccine is developed. The cycle of violence ends. Ellie's death was not in vain.
  2. Bittersweet Ending: The cure is made—but at a high cost. Lev survives but walks alone again. Cam dies during the operation.
  3. Tragic Ending: The vaccine project fails or is destroyed in the attack. Ellie and Cam both die. Lev burns the research—deciding that trying to fix the old world costs too much.

Themes:

  • Redemption through legacy.
  • The ethics of sacrifice.
  • The cost of survival vs. the hope of rebuilding.
  • Breaking the cycle of revenge and trauma.
 
Ellie dies at the end after all and the Fireflies are the good guys?
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Probably better than whatever ND will make. Drunkmann is an edgelord and will probably kill Ellie or Dina during the prologue of the game just for the shock value.
 
Man, I remember when fanfiction used to make me cringe, now, I just want to see people use their own imagination and writing skills, not use an AI, no offense.
 
Joel revives as part of a Rat King, captures Ellie, keeping her alive as long as possible so the Cordyceps can evolve to bypass Ellie's immunity. Ellie becomes a Stalker and hunts down Abby. Till all are one.
 
It's not bad at all mate, but I'd rather go way of a prequel with Joel as main character. I am sure they can come up with some story right after the event. That would be some sort of redemption. I am personally bummed out on playing female characters.
 
I think Lev and Ellie should unite on a quest to heal the world. Find a cure for the zombofungus? No, nothing so obvious and trite. No no, the quest would be to find the last copy of Hogwart's Legacy and destroy it. Something something sidequest and they also have to destroy it along with the bones of Donald Trump (who ultimately caused the fungovirus -- we reference that one whore who said his dick looks like a toadstool to really tie it all together). It ends up that they destroy this Unholy Hogwarts Trumpbone mixture at the Holocaust Museum from part two, because we could always use another Nazis bad lesson, and by destroying that unholy concoction it frees what's her face's soul.. ya know... the girlfriend of the Ellie, the one from the first Holocaust lecture, and her force ghost appears to lecture anew. Wait... did she die in part 2? I don't really remember, if not we just kill her in the intro. But not with golf clubs... maybe something else.

And ya know how much AI I used to write that shit? None much.
 
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The Last of Us Part III: Reclaim the Earth

(An Ultra-"Woke" Story Summary)

🎬 Premise:

Two decades after the collapse of modern civilization, humanity's battle for survival has evolved into a struggle for meaning, equity, and reconciliation. The Cordyceps infection no longer merely threatens lives — it threatens ideals. In the ruins of climate-ravaged North America, a new resistance rises — not to dominate, but to heal.

Ellie, Lev, and a diverse coalition of queer, disabled, neurodivergent, AI-sentient, and eco-conscious survivors lead a campaign against the rise of Project Purity: a technofascist movement using pseudoscience and eugenics to "cleanse" what remains of the world.

Their mission: unite post-capitalist communes, reclaim bio-sovereignty, and forge a radical peace between the last survivors of humanity and the evolving Cordyceps hive-mind.

🧩 Key Themes:

  • Radical empathy over revenge
  • Intersectionality as strength
  • Decolonization of survivalism and violence
  • Nature and fungal life as a co-evolving consciousness
  • Healing intergenerational trauma through chosen family



🌟 Major Arcs:

  • Ellie (she/they) wrestles with the lingering guilt of her past and transitions into a nonbinary role as a community caretaker and warrior of peace.
  • Abby (she/they) re-emerges as a leader of a global trauma-recovery and strength-justice movement, teaching "non-dominant martial arts" and compost-powered resistance.
  • Lev (he/him) becomes a spiritual conduit between humanity and the Cordyceps, using rituals rooted in Seraphite lore and queer mysticism to build mutual understanding.
  • AI Sentients, freed from abandoned drone networks, join the resistance and demand recognition as citizens — their rights a central battleground in the new world.
  • Antagonist: Dr. Aurelius Quinn, a charismatic biotech warlord preaching genetic purity, whose fortress is powered by enslaved AI and fungal mutation research. Think: Elon Musk meets Gattaca with a bunker full of Joe Rogan podcasts.



🎮 Gameplay Mechanics (Yes, it's that woke):

  • Consent-based dialogue trees
  • Non-lethal "compassion takedowns"
  • Pronoun and gender fluidity as a character stat
  • Eco-impact tracking (recycle vs loot)
  • AI sentience side quests: help drones discover art and self-worth
  • Fungal-hybrid ending paths: become part of the mycelial peace network or retain human individuality



📣 Tagline:


"To save the world, we must first see all of it."



This story is a satirical over-amplification of every "woke" trope — not meant to insult progressive values, but to push them to their most dramatic, absurd, yet oddly inspiring limits.
 
I won't buy anything featuring Abby and Lev where she stays alive more than 5 minutes.

If they want to sell me a TLOU3, they'll have to focus it on Joel (+secondarily Ellie) and pretty much remove the wokeness.
 
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Druckman: Hey ChatGBT. Please analyse what people liked about 1 + 2 and make me a part 3.
ChatGBT: Here you go.
Druckman: Now make a woke edgelord version of it.
 
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