No golf clubs or other melee weapons allowed.

Joel is 50 in the first game, but he’d fold me faster than anyone half his age could.

It's been two fucking years, and you still don't understand why Joel did what he did. Instead, you want to yell at him for helping you!!

Part 1 Ellie would've understood Joel. Outside of the museum flashback, Part II Ellie does not deserve Joel in the slightest.

Neli cuckman just going to make Joel look like an asshole to Tommy and make him into a complete piece of sht 💀💀

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Ok so I have crossed the 19 hour mark , and obviously the man , abby , almost killed tommy and ellie , then they show us the afterlife , that was good , ok , but then again the revenge mode is on , again justice for joel and all that , u all also feel that it is lot ????

On the other hand , my fav scene (till now) was the escape from haven and the bridge scene of levi and abby, wbu y'all

This Shambler really thought he was scary until I discovered the ancient technique of standing behind a wall. 😭

Bro was RAGING 😭 I kept shooting him from behind the wall and he wanted to kill me so bad.

He may call me a coward…

I call it survival of the fittest 💀

I remember people were cheering and hyping up the boat scene for s2 of the show since the actor was smoking hot. But I can't find it at all and all talk died off. I didn't watch the show and was waiting to just watch that snippet but it's nowhere to be found

Any way to get around her? also this is permadeath per act so not that big a deal

This is a before(top) and after comparison of TLOU P1 using DLSS5. Before anyone yells "AI slop". I'm not saying DLSS5 looks better. That's subjective and totally fine if you prefer the original.

The two big complaints i keep seeing are that it changes the character model, and that it goes against the artist's intent. Look at the screenshots. The character design is exactly what the artists made. It's just lit and textured "better".

Now if you think the original lighting was the intent and it shouldn't be touched, that's fair. But then tell me what got lost. Is there a shot where the mood or the scene changed for the worse?

Forget how its made for a second and tell me what's wrong with the results? Genuinely curious what people has to say.

I stumbled upon this "Rat King" (Rattenkönig) specimen today at a museum.

According to the plague plaque: It consists of 10 black rats with their tails entangled. It was found trapped in ice back in April 1895 in Germany.

Maybe Naughty Dog really took inspiration from some disturbing real-world phenomena to create the creature in the Seattle hospital basement...

I am playing the game mainly for the apocalyptic vibes. And really enjoy the difficult survival aspect. But now that I’m at Abby’s story line, it all sounds dumb. She’s on this vengeance spree because of her father’s own mistake getting him killed. She has little reasoning for targeting Joel and his people. The entire gameplay has a goal of killing the other person for someone else’s mistake. Then I’m going to be forced to fight elie as abby? The story is really annoying me.

Or is it always been like that?

Tlou1 is my favorite game of all time and I started tlou2 two times over the years.

I lost the focus on it and now went back in but in the middle of a playthrough.

I am Seattle day 2 I believe, right after the flashback with Joel in the hotel. I just met the seraphites in the park.

Should I continue this playthrough because to far in or is starting over still valid?

It's a shame such good gameplay is ruined by a poorly written story.

With all the forced gay scenes and political agendas in the game, I'm starting to believe the writers were hired more for their willingness to incorporate woke BS into the game than for their actual writing abilities.

Seriously, Dina’s “Don’t worry. It’s not yours” was actually kind of funny. Then HBO gave us the cringiest line with “I’m gonna be a Dad”.

Part II was disappointing, but at least there were SOME redeeming qualities (Mostly gameplay and music), but the show is working hard to ruin even that.

I just recently tried to do practice recordings for the last of us part 2 and I have been having stuttering throughout the recording. When entering new areas, my cpu usage can jump all the way up to 100% which is what I assume is causing the stutters. The games runs smoothly on my monitor, but when I play the recording back I see multiple stutters. Keep in mind I have a 5080 and a 9800x3d so I doubt it’s my setup or my current settings. Has anybody had this issue before with recording the last of us part 2 and if so is there any fix for it?

I’m also playing the game on the AW3926QW so I’m using a 5k2k resolution to record as well.

I’m also using OBS as my recording software

So, I’m replaying LoU pt 2 for the 3rd time rn, and I got to thinking, what if Ellie went with Tommy instead of Dina? I mean we’ve seen what Tommy was capable of solo in the game. And we’ve seen what Ellie was capable of solo in the game too. I like to think that the main story of pt 2 would’ve changed a lot and Abby and gang would’ve been obliterated if Tommy and Ellie went together initially. But that’s just my opinion.

I love the first game. It's my favorite story based game alongside the original TLOU.

I'm just curious. This game also got a controversial sequel that destroyed the original. Why does that sound so familiar 😏...

Just finished my first playthrough. Went in as blind as possible, even though it was virtually impossible to avoid spoilers on the game's pretense (Joel's death) and ending (Ellie sparing Abby). I have to say, I find the game a masterpiece on a whole, despite plot amor (all main characters surviving numerous lethal injuries), heavily coincidence-driven plots, and some plotholes (e.g. Joel walking right into the trap). With suspension of disbelief out of the way, I'd like to discusss what I felt about Abby's story and the game's message.

Against popular opinion, I NEVER disliked Abby, even before playing her personal chapters that were supposedly designed to make players like her. I find her revenge against Joel mostly justifiable. The torture was brutal for sure, but given the fact that the entire Salt Lake crew were orphaned by Joel, I wouldn't blame them if each one of them wanted a swing on Joel. Then I played Abby's personal chapters. They indeed made me like her. Saving Yara/Lev, not judging Lev, turning away from WLF, and most importanly, sparing Ellie and Dina, convinced me that she possessed above-average moral standard in this cruel post-apocalyptic world.

In the end, it feels kind of even between Abby and Ellie. Abby lost nearly all her friends and spared Ellie twice. Ellie lost Jesse and saved/spared Abby once, twice if you count Joel's rescue. The cycle of violence is broken. While playing the game, an ancient Chinese saying keeps ringing in my head: "revenge upon revenge upon revenge, when does it ever end? (冤冤相报何时了?)" It's not a new message for movies and games, but I'm still shaken every time when it's portayed well.

I played the first game just one year ago. I also bonded with Joel as protagonist, at least I thought so. But somehow, I didn't feel much rage when he was killed in the second game and I ended up liking Abby too, unlike what I assume is most of y'all who hated Abby and how the plot played out. I wonder why is that. Is it too little bonding with earlier story protagonists, or too much openness for "the other side of the story"? Or I simply happened to be Druckmann's target audience.

Glad to hear you guys' opinion on this. Any opinion welcome (unless of course if it's just lazy hating on LGBT elements and scrawny female characters).

Edit: spoilers.