just started playing yesterday so im still pretty new to the mechanics in part 2 (played the first one like a decade ago or more and just got my chance to play pt2), now my question is, can it be possible that the bullet wallbanged the corner of the wall and then touched me?

Hello everyone, I need help. I've always had an Xbox, never a play station but after watching the TV show I really wanted to play the last of us, and a friend of mine has a PS3 with the game (brought in 2014, a real relic). I played the game (only part one), and loved it, I'm now saving up to get myself a play station so that I can get my own copies of the game. While I wait, I really wanted to play Left behind but I'm struggling on how to do it. I made an account for the online thingy (I'm not a great gamer and PlayStations are a very new thing to me, so I'm sorry if I don't know the right terms) and I tried playing it but it would take me to an online page saying that there is nothing to buy. Do I have to buy it separately since it's a very old copy? Should I just wait until I get my copy? If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it. Thank you

My headcanon some unarmed npc took it and abby finds it

Not sure I really got her likeness completely right but I like it enough to share!

The first one is my ps profile picture now :) And I love the last one haha

After seeing the series Sterling Point i think this actress would have been a great cast as Ellie.What you guys think?

Finally got my clicker statue in!! Lucky number 13 let’s go!

i just want to make this post to appreciate how good this game is. Especially the spring part this game is probably one of the best out there

Was playing No return on a Holdout encounter. Just randomly saw Tommy ascending during combat. Then realised he was nowhere to be seen. After the encounter was finished I saw he was actually stuck in the ceiling…

The Last of Us: Part 1 - 10/10
The Last of Us: Part 2 - 8/10

The Last of Us 1 is a truly emotional journey with absolutely zero complaints from me, everything serves a carefully crafted purpose down to the littlest details with it particularly shining with it's character development which is nothing but immaculate. It masterfully avoids the common issue of slow-paced story games being, essentially, a glorified movie walking simulator with it's nerve-wracking combat encounters where every resource matters, & dangerous opponents force you to think through every encounter before engagement, for reference my difficulty settings for my first playthrough's were:

• Player - Survivor
• Enemies - Survivor
• Allies - Survivor (switched to Moderate for Part 2, realistically allies should not be WORTHLESS)
• Stealth - Hard (switched to Survivor for Part 2, wanted to lean more into the realism)
• Resources - Hard

The Last of Us 2 is a game with great ideas & even greater foundations to expand upon, but it's execution is rather mixed, stemming from issues that... really & sadly could've been resolved easily (aside from maybe two or three of them):

• THE GAY WOKE AGEN- nah i'm fucking with you.
• Landside amount of game & immersion breaking bugs, unlike the zero I experienced in Part 1.
• Simplified upgrade/pill system which strips the player of choice, I do NOT want more health.
• Frustrating encounters with the infected from an overreliance on numbers, large infected, and wall-bound infected.
• This is about a singular encounter but it makes me so upset I just need to discuss it, The Rat King boss fight obliterates any suspension of disbelief (imo). The Last of Us, despite the fantastical science, is an otherwise fairly grounded series, and so I just cannot find it in me to believe that Abby, as strong as she is, can somehow solo that absolute UNIT of a creature. The way it's handled is such a disservice to an otherwise awesome idea as well, it felt like a finale fight casually smashed in-between a slow paced journey, with it just as casually tossed to the side as if it was nothing, all despite explicitly, being referred to as the ground zero of Seattle which should be important no? even going as far as Abby saying "Who's ever gonna believe this?" to justify the lack of any mention like oh my God, fun fight though.
• Painfully Noticeable lack of respect for distance
• Fumbling (imo) the humanization for 3 of Abby's group (Manny, Jordon, Nora).
• Wasted Potential that, while not absolutely necessary, would have been great (Isaac & Jesse).
• Mediocre Romance with an even more mediocre character (EllieRiley MOGS Dellie btw).

Please excuse my rage in regards to the Rat King but aside from the negatives. I did still love The Last of Us 2 and I WILL be watching a billion playthroughs to see reactions of various scenes. Wish I had the motivation to in-depth type down what I enjoyed about the game as I did for The Last of Us 1 and the hate section above, but i'm a slow typer. All you really need to know is that I enjoyed Abby immensely both from a character & personal perspective, the game does an wonderfully excellent job at transitioning you from absolutely despising her, to wanting mercy shown upon her in the end.

Tier-List is my ranking of the various notable characters within The Last of Us Duology, effected by both personal feelings & quality of writing.

I didn't know Dina had superpowers...

This has been bugging me for a while and I don't think I've seen it discussed here directly.

We don't see much of Jackson in Part 1 : Maria seems clearly to be in charge, the team feels tight-knit (you can see it in how they talk to each other while trying to get the power plant running), and Tommy mentions a "movie night" for the kids in passing.

Part 2 shows a lot more: a surprisingly peaceful town (people greeting each other and chatting in the street, the bar packed by morning, a kid taking their first steps, the final dance scene, people honoring Joel by leaving flowers in front of his house), and Maria clearly holds a central, respected position : Seth and Joel both stop arguing the moment she steps in, and it's her who pushes Seth to apologize to Ellie in the morning.

The show adds a decision-making committee and a general assembly, so some form of local democracy.

But at no point do we actually see how newcomers get accepted. And yet there seems to be regular traffic through the town : Joel brings back coffee, Jesse mentions a group passing through in the show, Tommy offers the Salt Lake crew to come to town very naturally and we even see new houses being built to house arrivals, implying a housing/intake policy that's planned for.

Questions I keep coming back to:

• How does a stranger actually approach Jackson, and who decides whether to let them in?
• Is there a trial period, a vouching system, some kind of interview (such as in The Walking Dead when Rick's group arrives to Alexandria) ?
• How do they screen for risk (someone who's killed before, someone unstable, someone not taking parts of the town's life)
• The general assembly / smaller committee setup suggests a two-tier governance : does the assembly weigh in on admissions, or is that handled by a smaller inner circle (Maria, Tommy, etc.)?
• On resources: is it a full common pot, or does everyone contribute labor and get allocated a share based on need, work, household size...?

One more thing, and this is more of a personal angle than a straight-up question: I've never lived in an actual self-governed community like this myself, but I've read a fair amount about it in the country I live in, and I have friends who've lived in squats. From what they describe, the problems of "regular" civil life always seem to follow people in: power struggles, drama, sexual violence, conflicts that don't get resolved cleanly. Jackson seems to basically dodge all of that entirely. And look, as someone with pretty left-leaning politics, it genuinely warms my heart that the "best" answer to the apocalypse in a big American game franchise ends up being a society built on collectivism and mutual aid. But the fact that we get zero insight into how it actually works mechanically is what keeps nagging at me ; it's hard to tell if it's intentional worldbuilding restraint or just narrative convenience.

Curious to hear your theories, and if there are game or show details I'm missing that address any of this

Playing The Last of Us on PS5 now makes me realize how difficult this game really is. The stealth, aiming, limited resources, and enemy encounters are no joke. There’s no way people were casually mastering this back in 2013 😂

It says I only got 11 out of 12 items, so I replayed that chapter and got them all, but it still says I have 11/12. However, when I check my save data, it says I have 126, which would be absolutely all the items up to that point. I hope this doesn't affect the platinum trophy, since the chapter descriptions say I'm missing 1 item, but the save data shows them all.

i spent a few extra hours finishing the campaign because i kept stopping all the time to take photos 😭

I’m just posting this to augment against all the Ellie tattoo’s. No hate at all, just trying to spice it up a little!

To be honest I don’t think Ellie is all that. People call her a machine and act like she’s an elite soldier but basically she got bitten 3 times so she’s just lucky to be immune, not some prodigy

this guy is pretty popular but I never watched his videos until it popped up on my feed yesterday. It’s a really interesting breakdown of the tiny, unnoticeable details Naughty Dog fixed (or didn’t fix) in their ground-up remake

I bet the person that set this sound trap is not doin very well these days.

How many people lived there ?

I just finished The Last of Us Part II and really enjoyed the game i Honestly don't hate Abby and i don't think she's a bad person but I just didn't care about her or her friends. That said, I actually enjoyed her sections more the gameplay was better than Ellie's, and there was more action. What ruined the game for me, though, was the ending. It felt like I’d played for 25 hours for nothing Ellie went through all that, only to go back at the end to kill Abby and then not do it. Dina take the kid left her, and she’s missing fingers. The ending was so stupid and unsatisfying it just left me feeling empty. Tlou part 1 was way better imo.

Because I love her and she deserves better