...and I can now see why Gamespot gave it an 8/10, that ending was bull****. My jimmies are mad rustled right now. The game is still great, but that ending is just infuriating.
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So if she had died then it would have been better? Whatever way they had chosen there can't be a completely perfect ending.. And even if the ending had been as bad as you say it is, it shouldn't lower the whole game to an 8 instead of a 9+
That ending was not bull****. Tell me that if you were in Joel's position, with everything you've seen, everything you've experienced, you wouldn't do the exact same thing. Joel got his humanity back, while the human race had lost it's. The ending does not drop the game from a 9 to an 8.
Regained his "humanity" by denying humanity a chance, possibly the ONLY chance, of finding the cure to a devastating virus that wiped out almost half the population for his own selfish desires? Keep in mind that Ellie was willing to go through with the surgery. Lastly, Joel and Ellie got away and lived happily ever after, facing no consequences for their actions, like killing hundreds of people. Complete cop-out ending in my opinion.
You'd rather have the cliched hero dies to save the world ending? That wasn't what the game was about. Humanity was lost. Finding a cure wouldn't save it. The best example I can point to is the scene with the giraffes. Nature is moving on. Life is moving on. The world hadn't ended, only humanity had. Saving what was left of humanity wasn't worth losing one more innocent girl. But the greatness of the ending is that it makes you think. Joel's decision isn't black and white at all. It stimulates discussion, it's ambiguous and allows for multiple interpretations. That's what is so great about it.
Joel did what any caring father would do, after seeing it all. People are just too used to seeing supermoralistic characters always doing the "right" thing. Sometimes characters may have a human side and be swayed by human emotions.That ending was not bull****. Tell me that if you were in Joel's position, with everything you've seen, everything you've experienced, you wouldn't do the exact same thing. Joel got his humanity back, while the human race had lost it's. The ending does not drop the game from a 9 to an 8.
crqos007
Ellie was willing, but without the knowledge it would kill her. And who are these "hundreds of people" they killed? They never killed anyone who wasn't hunting them first.Regained his "humanity" by denying humanity a chance, possibly the ONLY chance, of finding the cure to a devastating virus that wiped out almost half the population for his own selfish desires? Keep in mind that Ellie was willing to go through with the surgery. Lastly, Joel and Ellie got away and lived happily ever after, facing no consequences for their actions, like killing hundreds of people. Complete cop-out ending in my opinion.
Rayrota
If the game was called Mass Effect or was affiliated with Bioware or EA in any way, I wonder the reaction would be to the (in my view) pretty poopy ending. I get it, dystopian futile nature of the world blah blah. It was pretty unfulfilling though.
Would you rather them be able to use Ellie to cure the infection with no reprucussions? Because I think that would have been BS. If the ending made you upset, then the game did it's job. That was the point. The remaining survivors are the last of us, because there is nothing left worth saving. If you think it could have ended any other way and still made narrative sense, you are deluding yourself.
Even if you hated the ending, that's not why Gamespot gave it an 8. Either way, it's still one of the best reviewed games of the generation, so obviously someone thought the ending was good.
I can see why some might not like the ending. It does leave you to think and interpret the meaning on your own (Was Joel's decision the moral action or not, and if not, why not). Personally, I liked it. I think it worked as well as other possibilities. It reminded me of the movie No Country For Old Men which also had an abrupt ending of this sort. I loved the movie and the ending, but my dad hated the ending. I wasn't surprised to see in the wiki for The Last of Us that the Coen brothers and No Country For Old Men were inspirations for the game. Many of the inspirations for the game were also movies, games, books (i.e. The Road) I enjoyed. But it comes down to taste perhaps. I loved some of the subtlety in the performances in the Last of Us -- for example how Joel touches his watch when he tenders to Ellie his struggle with finding purpose after suffering a devastating loss. I thought the acting and narrative of the Last of Us was among the best, if not the best I've seen to date. The game offers a Naughty Dog's take (in my opinion) to the minimalist design by subtraction we've seen previously in games like Shadown of the Colossus. Minimal soundtrack, focus on quality, detail, and experience. In my opinion the game ranks right up there with classics like SoTC.
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