I Made it to the End of The Last of Us...

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#1 Rayrota
Member since 2005 • 1456 Posts

...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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#2 athrun07
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that's why naughty dog announced the alternate ending recently.
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#3 athrun07
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that's why naughty dog announced the alternate ending recently.
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#4 Rayrota
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that's why naughty dog announced the alternate ending recently.athrun07
So they're pulling a Mass Effect?
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#5 IncisionX
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Each to there own eh? Sadly you can never make an ending that pleases every consumer.

 

For my brother and I, we both enjoyed the ending but I know people who dislike it ^^

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#6 xiaoyangguang
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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+

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#7 DennisVSG
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Sadly I sold my PS3, need to find someone with a PS3 so I can be part of the hype around "the last of us" seems like a kick ass game
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#8 terminalsigh
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The ending certainly left me feeling... I dunno... weird? With any game (especially) like TLoU, I'm sure most people hope for an ending that feels satisfyingly cathartic. Considering how dark and emotional the journey is, one can't help but yearn for a 'happily every after' type of send off. However, considering that same darkness and emotionality, should we have expected any ending other than what Naughty Dog provided? Personally, I'm glad they didn't make the ending all sunshine and rainbows; it would've just seemed too jarring and out of place.
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#9 crqos007
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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.

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#10 Rayrota
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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.

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#11 crqos007
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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.

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#12 LtMichaelMurphy
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Spot on! The ending was perfect in my opinion. If Ellie would have died, there was no guarantee that they would have been able to make a vaccine, and even if they had, the Fireflies were a bunch of bastards anyway and would have kept it to themselves. They didn't care about "humanity" only their own selfish way of life that wanted to push on everyone else. This wouldn't have solved a single thing. The military would have gotten involved to strong arm them out of the vaccine, more deaths and a dead girl that sacrificed herself for what? Like you said, humanity was lost already and anyone with have a heart would have done exactly what Joel did. There was no "right or wrong" choice, just his choice and he could easily live with that decision.
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#13 Rayrota
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Nothing could have been more cliched than the actual ending. No matter what excuse you make for it, the ending is still a complete cop-out and makes Joel look utterly self-centered.

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#14 pirate1802
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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.

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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.
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#15 Exailez
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I bought a ps3 just to be able to play this game, and it's a amazing game but yes the ending could had of been better ;)
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#16 jekyll
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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

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.

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#17 Ilovegames1992
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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.

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#18 kotyk
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Spoiler alert.....

Cried like a baby as I was running with her in my arms down the hospital hallways trying to escape.

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#19 kotyk
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Thats exactly what makes his character intesting and real...hes flawed and human.

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#21 LeonezBatiste
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crqos007 Level 18 Flicky Posts: 45 Aug 22, 2013 9:15 pm GMT 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. I don't know why but I pictured Ellie ranting at Joel while saying this.
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#22 saruman354
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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.

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#23 camichan
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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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#24 athrun07
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I still feel the ending is a bit anti-climatic though. but it was a good one too.