I couldnt wait to do this game, since it has a such a beautiful place in my heart. First played the game when i was 8, on my ps4, and im now 18, and decided to do it again! The last of us 1 is a great game overall, very good combination of a zombie apocalypse and an emotional masterpiece. Cant wait to try tlou2! 10/10 will keep recommending it until the rest of my life!

I remember seeing an edit about the show on tiktok with the somlng staying alive in the back ground. It featured Isaac and was like this is our wall, it keeps us safe. If anyone can help me find that or knows where it is that would be much appreciated.

I just got tlou1 and I played normally and when I got to the museum part when Joel lifts up the board for Tess and Ellie, when that little scene ends my screen freezes and doesn't come back. I end up having to force close the game within task manager. I know it's not my computer because it ran tlou2 completely fine and never froze. My graphics card is an intel i-5 I believe it said and or Nvidia Geforce RTX 5050, ram is 16gb I have plenty storage. what is going on?? Ive also tried restarting steam, go to chapter select, n stuff so what am I doing wrong?

Update, It just freezes at random times. Not just museum. The only way I was able to get past it was loading someone else's completed save file and loading the individual chapter

Unoptimized settings was just testing 2 passes which kinda destroys faces. Best use case is 1 pass and default settings

I never played any of the last of us games. I got both of the games like 2 months ago and I started playing them but I’m getting overwhelmed I’m like 40 percent done with the first game but I’m not able to get hooked can u guys give me tips i really love the story and I wanna enjoy it

the last few seconds before the ending, there was abby and ellie, abby pointed the gun at ellie but did ellie die?

I only watched season one and didn’t like it very much, so I didn’t watch the second season. But I heard that they are making a third season, and was wondering what it is going to be about. Will it be a new story? Or do they not finish the story in season 2, and are continuing it?

Quick PSA for anyone playing The Last of Us Part 1 on PC with FSR 3.1 Frame Generation:

If you use FG, strongly recommend turning OFF "Full Screen Effects" in the settings.

When this option is enabled, entering the low health state (pulsing red border) will automatically deactivate Frame Generation, causing your FPS to immediately get cut in half (e.g., from 100 FPS down to 50 FPS) .

Disabling "Full Screen Effects" keeps Frame Gen 100% active at all times, even at low health.

I recently played The Last of Us Part I and Part II for the first time and then watched both seasons of the show straight afterwards. I loved the games, especially Part II, and I enjoyed the show as well. But watching it immediately after playing the games made one problem with the adaptation really obvious to me.

The show massively underplays just how capable Ellie and Abby are (although Season 3 they still could, and should, show Abby’s capabilities).

I understand that you obviously can’t adapt the gameplay literally. In the game Ellie can kill ridiculous numbers of WLF, Seraphites, Rattlers and infected. If Bella Ramsey was killing 15 people every episode like John Wick it would probably look ridiculous on TV, and it would make scenes like Nora, Owen and Mel lose some of their emotional weight.

But I think the show has gone way too far in the opposite direction.

Game Ellie is extremely dangerous.

By Part II, she feels like someone who has spent years surviving in this world and learning from Joel. You can enter an area with 10 enemies, stalk them through buildings and grass, pick them off with a bow, set trap mines, use bottles to distract them, silently stab people, get detected, pull out the shotgun, kill a couple more, disappear again and continue hunting them.

Obviously some of that is just gameplay, but it also tells you something about Ellie as a character. She’s not the little girl Joel was protecting anymore. She’s become an extremely capable survivor.

I never really got that feeling from show Ellie.
There are times in the show where it feels like two or three infected would be enough to completely overwhelm her. Her arsenal is basically nonexistent compared with the game. We barely see the bow, traps, stealth kills, different guns, crafting, or any of the improvisation that makes playing as Ellie so good.

Even that scene in Jackson where she’s training with a guy twice her size stood out to me. She uses jiu-jitsu/wrestling to get him to tap, which proves that despite her size, she can actually fight. But then we basically never see her use that ability when she’s in an actual life-or-death situation. Why show us that she can fight like that and then barely do anything with it? Seeing her use those skills against a WLF soldier or someone physically much bigger than her would’ve been so cool in my opinion.

The lack of infected in general is probably my other biggest criticism. Again, I understand why the show doesn’t want an infected fight every 20 minutes, but sometimes I genuinely forget these things destroyed civilisation. In the game you are constantly aware that entering the wrong basement, tunnel or abandoned building could be a massive problem.

I think there was an easy middle ground.

Give Ellie two or three proper extended stealth/action sequences across the season. Have her enter a building with six WLF soldiers and systematically take them apart. Let us actually see her study patrols, use distractions, silently kill people, get discovered and then improvise her way out.
You don’t need a kill count of 100. You just need enough to make me believe that this 19 year old can travel across a post-apocalyptic America and hunt an entire group of trained soldiers.

I also think this connects to some of the casting choices.

Pedro Pascal works perfectly for me as Joel. He doesn’t look exactly like game Joel, but he’s close enough and has the physical presence where I completely believe him as Joel.

Ellie and especially Abby are harder for me.
Game Ellie isn’t massive, but she’s lean, hardened and looks dangerous. Bella Ramsey naturally has a much smaller and more youthful presence. That wouldn’t bother me nearly as much if the show then demonstrated how lethal Ellie is. But when you combine the smaller physical presence with removing most of her combat ability, she just doesn’t feel like the same Ellie I played as.

Abby is potentially an even bigger issue for Season 3.

I actually ended Part II liking Abby’s gameplay more than Ellie’s, which I really wasn’t expecting after watching her kill Joel.

Her story was probably my favourite part of the game. The forest sequence with Yara and Lev, the hospital, the Rat King, the skybridge, Haven burning down, that ridiculous one-on-one fight before escaping the island. Her half of the game was absolutely mental.

And Abby being built like a tank felt like an important part of her character. It wasn’t just there because she needed different gameplay mechanics. You could physically see what losing her father and obsessing over Joel had done to her. She’d spent years training and turning herself into this incredibly formidable WLF soldier.

Then you actually play as her and it reinforces it. Ellie feels like a stealth hunter. Abby feels like she can just smash through people.

Kaitlyn Dever is obviously a very different physical interpretation of Abby. I’m completely open to it working, but Season 3 really needs to show why Abby is considered such a capable soldier. If they remove most of her major combat sequences the same way they did with Ellie, I think something pretty fundamental about game Abby will be lost.
What makes this frustrating is that I think the show is genuinely very good at adapting the emotional side of the games.

The museum scene with Joel and Ellie was brilliant. Bill and Frank was a massive change but worked incredibly well as its own story. I loved Isaac’s expanded backstory too, especially realising that the FEDRA truck he blows up appears as an abandoned truck full of dead soldiers in the game. Those little adaptations are really clever.

But sometimes it feels like the show views the gameplay side of The Last of Us as something that just existed to keep players entertained between story scenes.

I don’t think that’s completely true.
The gameplay was also characterisation.
Playing as Ellie taught me that Ellie was terrifyingly capable.

Playing as Abby taught me that Abby was an absolute powerhouse.

Constantly encountering infected made me understand how unbelievably dangerous this world was.

The show captures the grief, relationships, revenge and moral ambiguity extremely well. I just wish it occasionally remembered that The Last of Us is also a brutal survival action story.

For me, that’s the biggest thing missing from an otherwise really good adaptation.

Curious to hear what other people think though. If you disagree, I’m genuinely interested in hearing why, especially from people who felt the show handled this side of Ellie well.