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[Killer8]

Should've stopped with the first game. Perfect morally ambiguous ending, one of the greatest in gaming, completely undone by Druckmann wanting to explore his muscular women fetish.

 

[Shaki12345]

The game was literally in the bargain bin for years.

Doesn't mean it bombed pal. Do the research. Only Nintendo games can survive going into the bargain bin.

 

[Fake]

Are you only capable of watching young women in a TV show if you want to fuck them or something? Never understood this creepy criticism of Bella Ramsey.

I can't stand Tom Holland as Natan Drake from Uncharted movie, so by your brilhant logic I only capable of watching young men in movies if I want to fuck them or something.

Or this only apply to women?

 

[Zacfoldor]

1 was great, 2 was ruined by narrative decisions so 3 is irrelevant.

 

[TheRedRiders]

Thank fuck.

 

[Warnen]

Thank god

 

[nial]

Not surprising after the second game bombed hard.

The Last of Us Part II sold 251.101 retail copies in Japan as of January 2, 2022.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

Id be ok with it if they moved on

 

[nial]

Your source is a Reeeesetera user? lmao

It says right there that it comes from a database leak. I don't know what's worse, your retarded observation or the fact that Fake unironically liked your post.

 

[Fess]

Gameplay improves a lot. It reminded me of MGSV.

I’ve seen some videos, looks okay but without a story pull I’m not really interested.
The hose physics is cool though!

 

[AgatonSax]

That’s A-OK. I’m happy for him to focus on fucking up Intergalactic or something else I could give two shits about.

 

[Edder1]

Everyone who contributed to the negative discourse around the awful second game be like:

Those damn incels...

 

[DForce]

Your source is a Reeeesetera user? lmao

No, it's from the Insomniac leak.

Your source is just pictures when we have actual sales data to show that the game sold well.

 

[lughnasadh123]

It's tempting to want to hope for a prequel showing what happened to Joel and Tommy after the loss of Sarah highlighting the dark path it took them both leading up to where the first TLOU started. At the same time I think they squeezed just about all of they can from that fruit already. The series is done. Time to move on to new stories.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

One basic rule is that a story must end with the most dramatic event. Ellie can't go further than in TLOU 2.

A hypothetical TLOU 3 should feature new characters and settings, which is also a huge gamble. I understand he doesn't want that.

 

[Represent.]

Everyone who contributed to the negative discourse around the awful second game be like:

Those damn incels...

Those idiots complain about every single piece of media, so that can't be the case, Sony would have to stop making games all together if they wanted to avoid the negativity from that group- they complain about everything.

 

[VulcanRaven]

Your source is a Reeeesetera user? lmao

There was a big leak at the time if you don't remember.

 

[The Chairman]

It says right there that it comes from a database leak. I don't know what's worse, your retarded observation or the fact that Fake unironically liked your post.

No, it's from the Insomniac leak.

Your source is just pictures when we have actual sales data to show that the game sold well.

How about you give me an official number from Sony about how many copies sold before coping about some leaked data lol

 

[DForce]

Then there’s the long-whispered possibility of “The Last of Us Part III.”

“I was waiting for this question,” Druckmann says, sighing, when I bring up the prospect of a third game. “I guess the only thing I would say is don’t bet on there being more of ‘Last of Us.’ This could be it.”

He's not going to give a direct answer, he's just going to give an evasive answer which doesn't confirm or deny that there's a Part III coming. We know they have more than one game in development. lol

 

[LordBlodgett]

Makes sense. Where do they go after TLOU2. There are no likable characters anymore. They killed Joel, ruined Ellie, and didn't create another character that is likable to lead another game. TLOU3 would have to be a brand-new story

 

[Badlucktroll]

I wouldnt want to play a new last of us or a stupid cassie drake solo game

 

[onQ123]

This is basically how Naughty Dog work

PS1: Crash
PS2: Jak
PS3: Uncharted ( Last Of Us came at the end & was mostly PS4 generation)

PS4: Last Of Us
PS5: Intergalactic

 

[Fess]

It's tempting to want to hope for a prequel showing what happened to Joel and Tommy after the loss of Sarah highlighting the dark path it took them both leading up to where the first TLOU started.

I’d like that.

But I was fine with how TLOU1 ended. It was the perfect ending. They should’ve stopped there tbh.

 

[Azelover]

Takes too long to make one. So it's probably for the best. I would like to get something new from them instead.

 

[ozz ex machina]

I can't stand Tom Holland as Natan Drake from Uncharted movie, so by your brilhant logic I only capable of watching young men in movies if I want to fuck them or something.

Or this only apply to women?

It does sound like you have a deep yearning for a more macho, mature, alpha nathan drake you fantasise topping you. When presented with the lithe twink of a boy that is Tom Holland, you clearly were not satiated.

 

[DinoD]

TLOU2 Remake just in time for PS6 launch.

 

[bitbydeath]

Said as much a few weeks back.
The TV Show isn’t going beyond part 2 either.

 

[DForce]

How about you give me an official number from Sony about how many copies sold before coping about some leaked data lol

I posted sales data before.

2020
November - US 8th - EU - 7th | Player tracker shows 7.2m million players

2021
April - EU - 12th
August - EU - 16th
October - EU - 11th
November - US - 16th - EU - 6th

2022
March - US - 15th - EU - 13th Last of Us Part II sold over 10 million copies | Leak data shows 9.93 million by the end of Feb
April - US - 14th - EU - 11th |
August - US - 10th - EU - 7th
September - US - 11th - EU - 15th | Last of Us Part I Release Date
November - US - 4th - EU - 4th | 12th GSD Europe
December - US - 7th - EU - 5th - JP - 15th

2023
January - US - 7th - EU - 7th | Last of Us Show TV Premiere
February - US - 1st - EU - 1st - JP - 9th | 18th NPD | 7th GSD Europe
March - US - 9th - EU - 10th | Season Finale
April - US - 1st - EU - 1st - JP - 15th | 5th GSD Europe
July - US - 12th - EU - 11th

Sales slowed down in 2021 but increased significantly in 2022 and 2023.

By the end of February 2022, it had sold 9.9 million copies. Digital sales were at 4 million. By June 2023, they sold an additional 2.3 copies digitally. By that 41% digital metric, The Last of Us Part II has likely sold over 15 million by June 2023.

Neil said the game was profitable.

This is backed up by the sales leak from Spider-Man 2, which only needed 7.2M copies at full price to break even, and the Last of Us Part II cost 100M less to develop.

During the first half of 2024, Last of Us Part II Remastered was 10th in Europe

European game sales down just 1.6% during the first half of 2024 | European Monthly Charts

Just under 80 million PC and console games have been sold across Europe for the first six months of 2024, GSD data reve…

www.gamesindustry.biz

The report from UK shows that Part II Remastered was 16th in the UK.

It was also 20th in Europe as of November 2024.

The game didn't bomb, not even close.

 

[J3nga]

Pointless franchise if they leave it like that

 

[Fake]

It does sound like you have a deep yearning for a more macho, mature, alpha nathan drake you fantasise topping you. When presented with the lithe twink of a boy that is Tom Holland, you clearly were not satiated.

He is not a good actor, neither a good fit for Natan Drake. Tom Holland don't have the same height as Natan Drake, don't have the same face as Natan Drake, don't have the same physical body as Natan Drake.

But nice flex you did here.

 

[Melchiah]

"One of the notes that I resent the most is 'We loved this thing — more of it, please!'" he says. "No. You love it because that's the right amount of it. When you do more, what makes it special starts to dissipate. It becomes comfort food."

That sums up part 2 very nicely. It dissipated what made the original special.

Should have left it there, instead of retconning it (the missing Fireflies files from the sequel and the series), and turning a morally grey open-to-interpretation story into black & white one that underlines what's wrong and what's not with a warped logic.

 

[TheKratos]

Thank God

 

[Neff]

They wrote themself into a corner with lou2 with that idiotic modern relativism - aka there is no heroes and everything is morally gray.

So exactly like the first game then.

 

[Fake]

So exactly like the first game then.

Tess sacrificing herself hell yeah exactly the same.

 

[Iced Arcade]

too late... I already bet on there being a PS6 TLOU remake

 

[analog_future]

I honestly believe he next The Last of Us release we'll see is yet another re-release of TLOU 1 and TLOU II but this time on PS6 and they'll be pushing ray tracing/path tracing tech.

 

[Roni]

But..didn't he say the exact opposite just a few months ago?

The perks of announcing it in the last few seconds of a niche hardcore documentary.

 

[rm082e]

I'm not buying it. I expect TLOU Part 3 will come out on PS5/PS6 eventually.

 

[SegaSnatcher]

No, he wants you to play as G.I. Jane in space and you'll like it!

 

[Neff]

Tess sacrificing herself hell yeah exactly the same.

She didn't 'sacrifice' herself, she was gonna die anyway.

 

[Ammogeddon]

Two is more than enough. It’s time to move on to pastures new.

 

[Trilobit]

But wasn't Part 2 a huge success according to people? Why would they be leaving that kind of money on the table?

 

[GHound]

"A loud place: not yet a quiet place story"

You can still call it TLOU even if it's a prequel dude.

Of course you'd say that, star of The Last of Us Part Three.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

They wrote themself into a corner with lou2 with that idiotic modern relativism - aka there is no heroes and everything is morally gray.

Did you stop playing the first game before you reach the hospital near the end?

 

[Fake]

She didn't 'sacrifice' herself, she was gonna die anyway.

How do you contradict yourself?
Saying she was going to die anyway doesn't mean she wasn't willing to give Joel time to escape lol.
The form she chose to die is the act of heroic action you choose to ignore.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

But wasn't Part 2 a huge success according to people? Why would they be leaving that kind of money on the table?

I mean...is that a game you want to play?

Uncharted 4 sold over 20M copies and was ported to PC later. Where's Uncharted 5?
Crash Bandicoot trilogy was a success. Why did Naughty Dog go to Jak and Daxter?

Jak & Daxter was a success. That's why it had 3 games. Why did they stop and create Uncharted?

Maybe everything flopped for Naughty Dog and that's why they keep doing different IPs.

 

[Roni]

Probably can't execute the vision he wants. Wonder if it's push back from somewhere... If so, where?

 

[Trilobit]

I mean...is that a game you want to play?

Uncharted 4 sold over 20M copies and was ported to PC later. Where's Uncharted 5?
Crash Bandicoot trilogy was a success. Why did Naughty Dog go to Jak and Daxter?

Jak & Daxter was a success. That's why it had 3 games. Why did they stop and create Uncharted?

Maybe everything flopped for Naughty Dog and that's why they keep doing different IPs.

Not even a trilogy smh.

 

[Banjo64]

Sony are probably bringing the hammer down after seeing the decline in sales compared to the first game.

After Intergalactic bombs watch Sony instruct them to make Uncharted 5: the quest for more money.

 

[Sharius]

I am good with no more of him also, can he just find his way out of studio, since he love to make movie that much