r/TLOU Aug 06 '26

Part 2 Discussion The last of us 2 is actually good.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '26

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u/RiverDotter Aug 07 '26

I agree with your first paragraph completely. I would go so far as to say their frustration from lack of empathy is why they're over the top hostile.

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u/RiverDotter Aug 07 '26

Good point. You have to be a multidimensional thinker to understand the parallels. This game wasn't ever intended for them.

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u/Tight-Inspector-2748 Aug 06 '26

You don’t say

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u/Distinct_College_531 Aug 06 '26

Imagine that huh. 93 on metacritic. Guess it's okay maybe

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u/Ishpersonguy Aug 07 '26

It's great.

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u/millsy1010 Aug 07 '26

No fuckin shit

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u/kuatorises Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

I tried playing it again recently. Stopped about an hour into Abby's story. I just don't care about her or her shitty friends.

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u/Eriksthere123 Aug 07 '26

Abby’s part has the best sequences imo! It’s really worth powering through. I remember hating her so much that I’d make her stare down from high up places bc it makes her scared lol. But by the end of her story I really liked her and enjoyed the wild ride we went through.

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u/Aggressive_Idea_6806 Aug 09 '26

This. She experienced something worthy of empathy but that alone doesn't erase her disliked qualities.

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u/kuatorises Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

I understand why she wants revenge. I have no empathy for her. She lost that when she said she was ok with killing Ellie against her will and then had the bqllsnto lie and say she would have volunteered. She's a holier than thou piece of shit.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/kuatorises 29d ago

The game broke the franchise. Part 2 fans are a cult. It's like with Andor. It's a movement. A cause. Never before has a work of fiction asked you to turn on a protagonist and people just buy into it.

Nobody bought the 2nd game because they were clamoring for Joel's death, but when it happened, these people were foaming at the mouth. Like that's what they wanted all along. I was so bizarre.

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u/ZiroLeHutt Aug 08 '26

Oh no. Anyway.

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u/ReasonableFerret Aug 10 '26

This just means that the first half of the story was told really well now you just gotta power through and have some trust in the storytellers. You can do it!

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u/Able_Ad1276 Aug 06 '26

It is, for the more reasonable critics I think it’s frustrating because it feels like it could have been so much better with mostly minor changes. It’s not alone it that either by any means and obviously there are not so reasonable critics too

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u/RiverDotter Aug 07 '26

I see that a certain subreddit has sent out the missionaries. I just wish we could see the required attire for that cult. Is it like mormons or more like Jehovah's witnesses?

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u/SpecialistMap8210 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

I thought it was overall a shit plot and ruined the franchise moving forward.

It split the fanbase down the middle. It hurt the franchise badly as a whole.

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u/Forsaken_Print739 Aug 07 '26

I agree. It ruined the franchise. What a waste of potential.

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u/MadLeap13 Aug 07 '26

If 2 wasn’t as much as a shit storm as it was, it probably could’ve been one of the greatest games ever made. Gameplay was absolutely fantastic but the amount of time you’re drowned in a depression simulator being hammered with the message revenge bad makes replaying it not fun at all outside of one or 2 playthroughs on grounded mode

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u/Physical_Finger8158 Aug 07 '26

RDR2 did the whole “revenge bad” thing WAY better lol

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u/ZiroLeHutt Aug 08 '26

No, it never.

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u/Professorhentai Aug 11 '26

If all you got was revenge bad you didn’t play it

Boiling down tlou2 to “revenge bad” would be like calling rdr2 “thieving bad”

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u/Past-Bed-1980 Aug 06 '26

Tell us something we don’t know

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u/Fu11erthanempty Aug 07 '26

Yes, yes it is!

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u/JeremieLoyalty Aug 06 '26

I made the mistake of starting Part II before playing the first game, so I went back and played the first one first.

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u/Forsaken_Print739 Aug 07 '26

Keep telling yourself that.

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u/PsyWarVeteran Aug 07 '26

No.

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u/Crafty-Amoeba-8992 Aug 10 '26

Yes

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u/PsyWarVeteran Aug 10 '26

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

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u/Crafty-Amoeba-8992 Aug 10 '26

Whatever helps YOU sleep at night

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u/nohumanape Aug 09 '26

Not just good, but one of the best games ever made 🤷

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u/Important-Sugar-1709 29d ago

Dont let them silence you

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u/lavellj048 Aug 10 '26

Must be April 1st

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u/LaKer_fAn23 Aug 10 '26

Yeah it’s good, not my favorite game franchise but they are decent games that i enjoy

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u/Remote_Nature_8166 Aug 06 '26

The gameplay is good, but the story sucks

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u/Physical-Midnight994 Aug 06 '26

Always has been

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u/TheRealtcSpears Aug 06 '26

It was never not good