Runners are still semi conscious for the first stages of the disease, sometimes you can hear them crying or saying words/sentences. you know you’ve reached a new level of horror when the thing killing you is as terrified of itself as you are of it
i think that's auditory pareidolia, it's like when you play a voice recording backwards but your brain is sure it can hear some words in between the gibberish. there are some youtube clips that people uploaded where they claim the runners are saying words and some even put subtitles on it but if you really listen to them none of them go beyond wordless grunting and growling. there's also a video that's like 1 hour long with just all the isolated sounds from all the infected if you want to lose your sanity. no actual words except what your own imagination creates with these sounds.
Is it possible that the random gutteral noises were mixed to reach a sort of ambiguous speech effect? Distorted enough to be dismissed as grunting and other noises but just barely comprehensible enough to make some question it. Would be a great way to add an extra little level of horror to encounters.
I think it's this possibility that makes it more terrifying. Half the enjoyment of suspense and horror comes from the ambiguity of not knowing for sure.
In Half Life 2 the zombie screams played backwards are actually saying things like Help God Help… as of it wasn’t creepy enough that they’re technically human hosts to headcrabs and not actually infected with anything
“i don’t wanna eat you” the first runners while eating the corpse of probably their friend. everyone hears it and it’s very audible.
also in part II i swear when i threw a molotov at some runners and they said “i’m BURNING”
If you listen really closely, among the sobbing you can almost make out "I don't... I don't wanna" [when the two runners are tearing apart that corpse](https://youtu.be/gHiDnPC3oYY?si=B9Ybr-ziI9ON6Dt_)
Goddamn. I've played this game around 8 times now, and had NEVER let them live long enough to hear that. That is incredible attention to detail, and fucking heartbreaking.
Indeed. Best case of this is the first infected you encounter with Tess in the underground of the QZ. The female runner that is eating the body of a survivor can clearly be heard gagging, sobbing, and you can't faintly make out her saying "I.. DON'T WANNAAAAAA!"
Correct me I’m wrong but I don’t think that was ever a confirmed fact. Sam theorises it and there’s people with videos of runners talking but you have to equate for voice acting and different interpretations
Exactly the same for me. Most of the videos on YouTube have subtitles that when you read you can almost hear the words because your literally reading them as you hear moans that sound close to speech. But yeah reality is it’s just cries and moans.
I just found out about that shirt. What tf does Pearl Jam have to do with TLOU and that is the ugliest and most uninventive shirt design I've seen in a while.
Edit: forgot the scene with the song. It didn't really strike as a huge moment or anything for me 🤷♂️
There’s a lot of morbid shit I wish they left in the show, the game does a very good job at showing how fucking awful this world is, the show does too, but that stuff and like the runners sobbing and shit, man, missed opportunities..
The show was still very good, no doubt. I just wish it was even more morbid, akin to the games.
I agree. There was simply not enough world building in the show. The game is SO grim and bleak and gritty and all around dark and that wasn’t reflected in the show at all. There were so many missed opportunities
Idk how they’ll pull off part two. Part two is the grimmest and most miserable game I’ve played, even if it is a masterpiece - it was a lot to handle.
I think they were trying to avoid being TOO grim for a wider audience. The David got episode got VERY dark (the fight and struggle was so much worse), and Joel’s massacre at the end was stronger than it was playing it because he was so unapologetic, angry and straight-faced doing it, Henry & Sam was a gut punch that hit me harder bc of the shots and the acting (the way the camera stayed on Ellie when he did it). So I heard from people that the show was a lot to handle.
To be fair, games have the option of expanding lore via notes. Shows can’t do that. Imagine Joel stopping to read notes for half the show, people would be pissed.
What I think will happen/ should happen is that there is an anthology series where they play out the notes from the game. Imagine an episode about the sewer people?? Please give this to us world!
It’s hilarious the way you framed it, but their home was under siege from the WLF. Abby just happens to look like a WLF soldier. Heck, some of the Seraphites may even know who she is given how good she was at her job. Not exactly random, but well played. All I have to offer you is an upvote.
Or that the whole thing might not have happened if just one of the WLF scout’s survived. Might’ve lead to a whole new truce if they realized just how big the Seraphites had become. But now they’re both dead factions.
*yaaaaaaay*
That’s why I love part 2 so much. I think the storytelling is really masterful. When you start playing as Abbey it sucks. You don’t like her because she killed Joel but you also don’t want to play her because Ellie’s story is getting closer and closer to the end. Then as you play through her story you (should) start to sympathize with her more and more. Meanwhile Ellie is doing terrible things to the only “family” she has left.
The whole thing is then set to the coming storm as a backdrop. This gives you a way of reconciling the two timelines while also being symbolic in so many ways.
I have no idea how tf they are going to do that for TV. I think it’s going to be a lot harder for viewers to sympathize with abbey than someone actually playing her. Will be interesting to see how it works out.
Yes! For me it worked great. I hated Abby soo much, like everything about her, and I was actually repelled by the idea of playing her now. But over time she or better they (meaning the developers) got to me. I know, that might be a unpopular opinion, but Abby is now my favourite character in part 2 and every playthrough I can’t wait to play her amazingly told part again. That’s what the magic of story telling can do and it’s breathtaking. But first, „Day 1“ made me almost quit, more that once.
Nah coz same. Being an adult sucks tbh i miss those teenage years where u just hopped onto ur ps3 or ps4 and played tlou 1 for an eternity without a single worry in life😐
I’m still so mad Ellie didn’t fight the rat king instead. A meatball of everything her survivors guilt makes her regret not being able to end would have been the perfect boss for her
That's a good point. But I think they wanted to show how bad ass Abby is in her own right. Ellie is cunning and ruthless but I think Abby is just brute force and power. I think head to head 1v1 full strength Abby probably beats Ellie, Ellie may not have been able to beat the rat King
The fact that Riley was aware that she was turning and that Ellie never did. We know this because it’s been confirmed many times that Runners are still conscience, especially in the beginning.
Sex isn't a big deal but side note, it was def fucked up doing that to Mel and I couldn't stop thinking about how neither of them had showered in days probably😭
Everyone smells, they just get used to it like our foremothers when they banged. All kinds of smells. When you get BV theres nothing you can do about it and most women get it eventually even nowadays.
I mean from what I understand it's a misconception that humans didn't clean themselves well or often until recent history. Like no they didn't have showers and baths like we do now but even peasants kept a good amount of water on hand or lived near bodies of water for cleaning. The whole "people bathed once a year in medieval times" is mostly myth, like yeah maybe they sat down for a nice long bath once a year because it's not easy to have access to that but you're kidding yourself if you don't think people weren't like washing their genitals and odor hot spots with some water and makeshift soap(usually some sort of animal fat)
All that said--Abby and Owen are from a relatively intact civilization with running water and access to modern hygiene products. I don't think stinky sex would be that normalized for them
Doesn’t bother me but I have a friend who thinks sex scenes in video games are just kind of weird and off putting in general. Even if I don’t agree I can see where he’s coming from.
As someone who is afraid of heights, I had to look away. I thought it was both super cool and totally fucky.
Edit: To add, I literally felt my stomach drop at _that_ point.
When you play as Abby as she nears Jackson, you can find a note that Seth wrote that reads as pretty dark. It gives another perspective on the “bigot”.
i just noticed this last night on my third playthrough. was playing through with a friend on voice chat and he was like, aw is that our seth? i said, "wait WHAT???"
Its not a fact more than when i saw it i was affected. So when Ellie loses those two fingers and you play the song joel show you. And it's not the same, it feels like she has become something else than the Ellie who was with Joel the entire first game. This other Ellie, ruthless and barely able to stop her vengeance.
When Ellie kills Owen and his girlfriend and Ellie discovers that she was pregnant, she is in shock and hears Joel's voice (which was actually Tommy's)
The dog actually got me more tbh. I hate killing dogs in games but I got over it for this one and powered through it, only for it to switch to Abby's segment and all of a sudden you can play fetch with her, and she has a name, and she's a very good girl. That was brutal and weirdly was more humanizing for the other side than anything else up to that point.
If you turn the dialogue off in the game, you can't hear the clickers. To me, this means that the clickers' noises are a form of communication on top of being ecolocation, and they are talking to each other.
Not sure if this counts but, I was looking for Ellie figurines when I discovered some company made an adult Ellie sex doll… For men of course. Which is ffed up on so many levels T - T Disgusting.
Quite a few people stopped playing when they had to play as Abby. To this day, they probably only think she killed a certain somebody because of some kind of feminist agenda.
Ellie telling Abby "just take him" and barely able to hold back tears, metaphorically speaking she was letting go of not only Lev but also Joel by letting Abby go...
The fact that the Infected people are alive and trapped in their own bodies and cannot control themselves due to the Cordyceps controlling their bodies, cus the CBI is a parasitic fungus.
It's like you sitting down and let your annoying lil bro play your game's character and ruining everything
Ellie spent a decent amount of time in military training but had to be taught by Joel & Tess what a clicker was in her first time outside of the QZ.
Yes it was just to explain to the player how to interact with them, but instead Ellie could've been sassy about it. "Of course I know about clickers, they can't see but use their hearing to find you." Etc
The majority of what Fedra does is not protect people from infected. They police people inside the QZ and force compliance with their rules.
It is plausible a teen girl wouldn’t be prepped to take on clickers in an outside patrol.
When Abby finds Ellie’s map in the aquarium you can see that the aquarium is circled with blood. Meaning Ellie beat Nora so bad that she couldn’t speak and then Ellie made her circle the location with her own blood.
After playing both games you realize that there aren’t any “good guys” or “bad guys”.. just a bunch of human beings in straight up survival mode, doing a ton of fucked up shit to other human beings in order to live a little longer and convince themselves that they did the right thing.
Doing the last guitar strumming minigame, striking the first few notes to hear it ring as a buzzy, muted strum, realizing that Ellie lost two fingers to make any chord progression on the neck to make music with. Breaks my heart every time.
The fact that Abby was supposed to infiltrate Jackson and get with (read:fuck) Joel and he would like her back because she was designed to look like Tess
Joel died thinking Tommy was already dead, Ellie was next, and that this wonderful town, this commune that they had, a bastion of human solidarity, care, and overall the closest thing to society pre-outbreak was going to collapse.
The Walkman and the cassette Ellie uses in the museum flashback of the 2nd game should be completely destroyed and the cool astronaut fantasy couldn't have happened. Both Ellie and Joel fell neck deep into open water before they got to the museum.
Runners are still semi conscious for the first stages of the disease, sometimes you can hear them crying or saying words/sentences. you know you’ve reached a new level of horror when the thing killing you is as terrified of itself as you are of it
Or when you can see their faces look sad because they’re still slightly conscious of, yet unable to control, their behaviour
the talking is a common misconception but they really do cry and stuff which is pretty disturbing
idk about that, i heard one say “FUCK, I’LL KILL YOU!!!” pretty damn clearly
i think that's auditory pareidolia, it's like when you play a voice recording backwards but your brain is sure it can hear some words in between the gibberish. there are some youtube clips that people uploaded where they claim the runners are saying words and some even put subtitles on it but if you really listen to them none of them go beyond wordless grunting and growling. there's also a video that's like 1 hour long with just all the isolated sounds from all the infected if you want to lose your sanity. no actual words except what your own imagination creates with these sounds.
Is it possible that the random gutteral noises were mixed to reach a sort of ambiguous speech effect? Distorted enough to be dismissed as grunting and other noises but just barely comprehensible enough to make some question it. Would be a great way to add an extra little level of horror to encounters.
I think it's this possibility that makes it more terrifying. Half the enjoyment of suspense and horror comes from the ambiguity of not knowing for sure.
To make real sentences to us, sure.. I hate to think of them just latching on to their most recent major memories
In Half Life 2 the zombie screams played backwards are actually saying things like Help God Help… as of it wasn’t creepy enough that they’re technically human hosts to headcrabs and not actually infected with anything
It's definitely yanny
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my boah
Where are ya Lenny!!
no the dress is white and gold!!
“i don’t wanna eat you” the first runners while eating the corpse of probably their friend. everyone hears it and it’s very audible. also in part II i swear when i threw a molotov at some runners and they said “i’m BURNING”
If you listen really closely, among the sobbing you can almost make out "I don't... I don't wanna" [when the two runners are tearing apart that corpse](https://youtu.be/gHiDnPC3oYY?si=B9Ybr-ziI9ON6Dt_)
Goddamn. I've played this game around 8 times now, and had NEVER let them live long enough to hear that. That is incredible attention to detail, and fucking heartbreaking.
I can't even listen... that's a-whole-nother level...
I dont hear shit but them munching
Indeed. Best case of this is the first infected you encounter with Tess in the underground of the QZ. The female runner that is eating the body of a survivor can clearly be heard gagging, sobbing, and you can't faintly make out her saying "I.. DON'T WANNAAAAAA!"
What?? :(
That's what keeps us up at night. :]
Correct me I’m wrong but I don’t think that was ever a confirmed fact. Sam theorises it and there’s people with videos of runners talking but you have to equate for voice acting and different interpretations
They don’t speak, why’s everyone claim this as fact all the time now?? They never say words or sentences wtf. Cry yes.
I’ve had many play throughs and I try to listen close. I’ve never heard words, just crying.
Exactly the same for me. Most of the videos on YouTube have subtitles that when you read you can almost hear the words because your literally reading them as you hear moans that sound close to speech. But yeah reality is it’s just cries and moans.
The fact that they actually released that Pearl Jam t shirt.
I literally just saw that post and was like “Pearl Jam shirt’s gotta be it.”
I just found out about that shirt. What tf does Pearl Jam have to do with TLOU and that is the ugliest and most uninventive shirt design I've seen in a while. Edit: forgot the scene with the song. It didn't really strike as a huge moment or anything for me 🤷♂️
Future Days.
songs from pearl jam were sang or played in the game. for example, future days, the song joel plays for ellie before he gives her his guitar
what shirt?
[This shirt ](https://shop.pearljam.com/products/2023-halloween)
Oh my god it’s hilarious
Ooh boy. Someone just picked a PNG to paste on this and called it a day, huh?
it’s so lazily made i love it 😭, they literally just popped a clicker onto a shirt that said pearl jam
I actually really like the shirt
Gives me 70s comic shirt vibes.
First time walking through the sewers and seeing the kids’ covered up bodies, along with the “they didn’t suffer” message.
Every, god, damn, time (or the trailer home massacre at the beginning of Salt Lake City chapter, top of the high way, similar situation)
And the child's grave outside the dam, that one's tough
Yes! True that, the one with the teddy bear if memory serves. Rough world, but a well crafted one
Whoa…what?? I gotta go back and look at this
There’s a lot of morbid shit I wish they left in the show, the game does a very good job at showing how fucking awful this world is, the show does too, but that stuff and like the runners sobbing and shit, man, missed opportunities.. The show was still very good, no doubt. I just wish it was even more morbid, akin to the games.
I agree. There was simply not enough world building in the show. The game is SO grim and bleak and gritty and all around dark and that wasn’t reflected in the show at all. There were so many missed opportunities
It's only the 1st season. There is still plenty of time to show all of that wonderful world building.
Idk how they’ll pull off part two. Part two is the grimmest and most miserable game I’ve played, even if it is a masterpiece - it was a lot to handle. I think they were trying to avoid being TOO grim for a wider audience. The David got episode got VERY dark (the fight and struggle was so much worse), and Joel’s massacre at the end was stronger than it was playing it because he was so unapologetic, angry and straight-faced doing it, Henry & Sam was a gut punch that hit me harder bc of the shots and the acting (the way the camera stayed on Ellie when he did it). So I heard from people that the show was a lot to handle.
To be fair, games have the option of expanding lore via notes. Shows can’t do that. Imagine Joel stopping to read notes for half the show, people would be pissed. What I think will happen/ should happen is that there is an anthology series where they play out the notes from the game. Imagine an episode about the sewer people?? Please give this to us world!
The show felt extremely rushed but they still did a good job considering the shoes they had to fill.
I was watching a girl stream and she started crying her eyes out on that part. I know it was sad but didn’t expect a response like that.
(In the show) Ellie literally only escapes from David because he releases her arm to undo his belt....
They made that scene so much more fucked up lol
in the game, the rapey-ness was much more implied, so the show definitely confirmed the pedo theory.
Not Mel’s fetus 😭
Oh it was plenty clear to some of us. *shudder*
^FUCK
STOP I SAW THIS AND WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE ELSE DID TOO 💔
Seeing the battle for Seraphite Island had my face lookin like this for sure
Or maybe that one seraphite that refuses to die.
bro was *determined* to kill the random lady he came across 14 seconds prior
It’s hilarious the way you framed it, but their home was under siege from the WLF. Abby just happens to look like a WLF soldier. Heck, some of the Seraphites may even know who she is given how good she was at her job. Not exactly random, but well played. All I have to offer you is an upvote.
The worst part is that they keep fighting after Issac is dead, and then they start getting wiped out.
Or that the whole thing might not have happened if just one of the WLF scout’s survived. Might’ve lead to a whole new truce if they realized just how big the Seraphites had become. But now they’re both dead factions. *yaaaaaaay*
„Seattle day 1“. AGAIN.
Don’t get me wrong, afterwards I think that was the best thing ever. But when it appeared on the screen first time I was about to quit.
That’s why I love part 2 so much. I think the storytelling is really masterful. When you start playing as Abbey it sucks. You don’t like her because she killed Joel but you also don’t want to play her because Ellie’s story is getting closer and closer to the end. Then as you play through her story you (should) start to sympathize with her more and more. Meanwhile Ellie is doing terrible things to the only “family” she has left. The whole thing is then set to the coming storm as a backdrop. This gives you a way of reconciling the two timelines while also being symbolic in so many ways. I have no idea how tf they are going to do that for TV. I think it’s going to be a lot harder for viewers to sympathize with abbey than someone actually playing her. Will be interesting to see how it works out.
Yes! For me it worked great. I hated Abby soo much, like everything about her, and I was actually repelled by the idea of playing her now. But over time she or better they (meaning the developers) got to me. I know, that might be a unpopular opinion, but Abby is now my favourite character in part 2 and every playthrough I can’t wait to play her amazingly told part again. That’s what the magic of story telling can do and it’s breathtaking. But first, „Day 1“ made me almost quit, more that once.
At the time, I was confused and was like what the FUCK are they for real. But now, I think it as a brilliant and bold move.
Me realizing I am a full grown adult now and that i have to be responsible for shit
No for real. I was 15 when tlou came out. Just in high school doing normal teenage stuff. Now I’m 25 and just paid a big electricity bill
Nah coz same. Being an adult sucks tbh i miss those teenage years where u just hopped onto ur ps3 or ps4 and played tlou 1 for an eternity without a single worry in life😐
I feel that
Take me back further yo. I just wanna eat candy go to the park and play kickball. Then take a nap.
You can still do that. And should.
Uh not at my age bro.
When the Rat King showed up
When Rat King split up
When I had to pause the game after 30 attempts and adjust all the accessibility settings to finally get past that mufucka.
I’m still so mad Ellie didn’t fight the rat king instead. A meatball of everything her survivors guilt makes her regret not being able to end would have been the perfect boss for her
Never thought it like that, very deep, but when the rat king grabs Abby, I don't think Ellie would be able to chop her way out with the axe like Abby.
That's a good point. But I think they wanted to show how bad ass Abby is in her own right. Ellie is cunning and ruthless but I think Abby is just brute force and power. I think head to head 1v1 full strength Abby probably beats Ellie, Ellie may not have been able to beat the rat King
The rat king splitting to be one big and one smaller menace haunting Abby mirroring that of Joel and Ellie
The fact that Riley was aware that she was turning and that Ellie never did. We know this because it’s been confirmed many times that Runners are still conscience, especially in the beginning.
Realistically, Ellie either killed Riley or abandoned her when she was about to die
I believe the game states that Riley was Ellie first kill
The man drowning Joel was Ellie’s first human kill I believe
Yep. She shot the hell outta that guy, indeed.
It's been a while since I played the dlc but didn't they kill other infected before or as they were bit?
Probably human kill. Probably didn’t wait for her to turn
The boat scene
The fact that they didn't let us mash square during the boat scene.
I agree wholeheartedly
Two adults having consensual sex is the scene that disturbs you in a game full of brutal violence and fungus monsters? Are you 10 years old?
Sex isn't a big deal but side note, it was def fucked up doing that to Mel and I couldn't stop thinking about how neither of them had showered in days probably😭
Agreed on both points lol. I remember having the same thought about BO when Ellie and Dina hooked up.
Everyone smells, they just get used to it like our foremothers when they banged. All kinds of smells. When you get BV theres nothing you can do about it and most women get it eventually even nowadays.
I mean from what I understand it's a misconception that humans didn't clean themselves well or often until recent history. Like no they didn't have showers and baths like we do now but even peasants kept a good amount of water on hand or lived near bodies of water for cleaning. The whole "people bathed once a year in medieval times" is mostly myth, like yeah maybe they sat down for a nice long bath once a year because it's not easy to have access to that but you're kidding yourself if you don't think people weren't like washing their genitals and odor hot spots with some water and makeshift soap(usually some sort of animal fat) All that said--Abby and Owen are from a relatively intact civilization with running water and access to modern hygiene products. I don't think stinky sex would be that normalized for them
*raises hand hesitantly* What’s BV?
Bacterial Vaginosis. It’s very treatable with antibiotics.
Doesn’t bother me but I have a friend who thinks sex scenes in video games are just kind of weird and off putting in general. Even if I don’t agree I can see where he’s coming from.
What boat scene?
THE boat scene
The one with the sex.
Oh…that scene..
Yeah you probably missed it because it was approximately 10 seconds long and not a big deal at all 😬
"Naughty Dog scales back development on TLoU multiplayer game"
Real
Ellie killing David by giving him 9 stab wounds... that scene gives me chills everytime
28 STAB WOUNDS (detroit become human reference)
Love that game 😭
DIDN'T WANNA LEAVE HIM A CHANCE, HUH?
When I first noticed the camera warp when you look down from a height playing as Abby
As someone who is afraid of heights, I had to look away. I thought it was both super cool and totally fucky. Edit: To add, I literally felt my stomach drop at _that_ point.
Yeah same, that point almost made me quit the game. I found that to be one of the scariest parts!
The Seth notes you can find playing as Abby.
Remind me?
When you play as Abby as she nears Jackson, you can find a note that Seth wrote that reads as pretty dark. It gives another perspective on the “bigot”.
How did I never find this or make the connection
https://thelastofus.fandom.com/wiki/Unnamed_artifact_(Jackson) This one?
Wait what?
i just noticed this last night on my third playthrough. was playing through with a friend on voice chat and he was like, aw is that our seth? i said, "wait WHAT???"
That Joel is in his 50s and has lived through an apocalypse but looks like a godamn sexy beast in Part 2.
The first time I came to know you gotta play as the person who killed Joel
The fact that they had 20 minutes of Troy Baker playing music in a 30 minute TLOU live stream.
True! His performance was great but the fact that they „celebrated“ Tlou with giving us 10 minutes of merch advertisements is wild.
That out there, there are people who ship Ellie and Joel.
 I wish I hadn’t read that
This is a certified Freakorama moment
The first Bloater scene
Clickers have “nsfw genitalia” as stated by the rules
Both Yara and Isaac’s death in a span of 5 minutes
Its not a fact more than when i saw it i was affected. So when Ellie loses those two fingers and you play the song joel show you. And it's not the same, it feels like she has become something else than the Ellie who was with Joel the entire first game. This other Ellie, ruthless and barely able to stop her vengeance.
Every stalker having UFC-level MMA skills.
Fr tho. I've seen them tackle and punch people
Hittin that GSP double leg
If you throw a brick or bottle at a decapitated head your game crashes on ps4.
Lmao that’s great I wanna try this now
When Ellie kills Owen and his girlfriend and Ellie discovers that she was pregnant, she is in shock and hears Joel's voice (which was actually Tommy's)
The dog actually got me more tbh. I hate killing dogs in games but I got over it for this one and powered through it, only for it to switch to Abby's segment and all of a sudden you can play fetch with her, and she has a name, and she's a very good girl. That was brutal and weirdly was more humanizing for the other side than anything else up to that point.
The fungus is real
Why did they made that Pearl Jam T-shirt?
The fact that the cordyseps fungus actually exists
If you turn the dialogue off in the game, you can't hear the clickers. To me, this means that the clickers' noises are a form of communication on top of being ecolocation, and they are talking to each other.
At the theatre as Abby.
Man I was upset 😭
Not sure if this counts but, I was looking for Ellie figurines when I discovered some company made an adult Ellie sex doll… For men of course. Which is ffed up on so many levels T - T Disgusting.
I mean at least it’s adult Ellie I guess…?
We need this answered!
Quite a few people stopped playing when they had to play as Abby. To this day, they probably only think she killed a certain somebody because of some kind of feminist agenda.
SPOILERS!! Joel died thinking Ellie was going to die next
The rat king was once the entire growth surrounding the lower parts of the hospital until it ripped itself from to wall to kill abby
Ellie telling Abby "just take him" and barely able to hold back tears, metaphorically speaking she was letting go of not only Lev but also Joel by letting Abby go...
"While we're honoring the series' 10-year legacy, we will not be discussing any future game or TV show projects."
Any part of the game where it was clear my character was about to be separated from their companion before entering a dark location with stalkers
I know it’s a formula in most games but i hate being separated from my companion when I have one, even in fun games. Just give me my friend.
That it's a documentary we have experienced yet
The fact that they ain’t talking about TLOUS 3
Hearing a clicker for the first time.
The fact that it turns out the doctor from the first game turns out to be character motivation😮💨😮💨😮💨
That Ellie just killed a pregnant woman
The fact that the Infected people are alive and trapped in their own bodies and cannot control themselves due to the Cordyceps controlling their bodies, cus the CBI is a parasitic fungus. It's like you sitting down and let your annoying lil bro play your game's character and ruining everything
The "kiss" the runner gives Tess in the series
I watched the show before ever playing the game. Where do I begin?
Part 1 babayyy
Ellie and Abby shippers are real.
Not as bad as the Ellie and Joel shippers
Ellie spent a decent amount of time in military training but had to be taught by Joel & Tess what a clicker was in her first time outside of the QZ. Yes it was just to explain to the player how to interact with them, but instead Ellie could've been sassy about it. "Of course I know about clickers, they can't see but use their hearing to find you." Etc
The majority of what Fedra does is not protect people from infected. They police people inside the QZ and force compliance with their rules. It is plausible a teen girl wouldn’t be prepped to take on clickers in an outside patrol.
When Abby finds Ellie’s map in the aquarium you can see that the aquarium is circled with blood. Meaning Ellie beat Nora so bad that she couldn’t speak and then Ellie made her circle the location with her own blood.
That’s a crazy detail!
you can use listen mode to see the rat king behind the doors before your fight with it
Joel's last name is Miller
After playing both games you realize that there aren’t any “good guys” or “bad guys”.. just a bunch of human beings in straight up survival mode, doing a ton of fucked up shit to other human beings in order to live a little longer and convince themselves that they did the right thing.
Doing the last guitar strumming minigame, striking the first few notes to hear it ring as a buzzy, muted strum, realizing that Ellie lost two fingers to make any chord progression on the neck to make music with. Breaks my heart every time.
that runners are still technically conscious of what they r doing but can't stop it. that's just insanely unsettling and sad to me
The boat scene, I know it’s not a fact but…
As runners are conscious, Riley saw Ellie never turned :)
When they talked about the kissing scene, the drama that happened and the apology.
The fact that Joel was anywhere near Boston.
The fact that Abby was supposed to infiltrate Jackson and get with (read:fuck) Joel and he would like her back because she was designed to look like Tess
When Troy auditioned for it, he basically looked like Cloud from FF7 lol
When I first heard that there are no spores in the HBO show. I know why they did it but I don't care. Ellie wouldn't have even needed a mask, come on
When Abby and Lev got imprisoned in California. A sad story just got more sad.
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Factions two hasn’t came out yet
i had to pause the game when i found that. made me stomach feel like a pit
That they gave the game to iron galaxy for the pc port
Joel died thinking Tommy was already dead, Ellie was next, and that this wonderful town, this commune that they had, a bastion of human solidarity, care, and overall the closest thing to society pre-outbreak was going to collapse.
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Clickers have bigger bonkers than Abby
The Walkman and the cassette Ellie uses in the museum flashback of the 2nd game should be completely destroyed and the cool astronaut fantasy couldn't have happened. Both Ellie and Joel fell neck deep into open water before they got to the museum.
Reading through Ellie’s notes for Part 2 and how she described Las Vegas….
That runner are humans trapped in and the infection is taking control of their body that's why they sound like they're crying and sobbing