fuckyeahlastofus:

For anyone who can’t or doesn’t want to watch the panel, here’s the stuff they talk about:

• Neil says the theme of the game is hate
• We’re playing as Ellie in the game
• Ashley says she missed playing Ellie but didn’t realize just how much until they started shooting the trailer
• Troy and Ashley say they’ve had to lie so much the past two years
• Ellie is 19 now
• Neil says that he knows people are worried about this spoiling the first game and all that and says they all feel the same but that nobody loves the characters more than they do and that they wouldn’t do it unless they felt the idea was right
• Neil says he played with the idea of new characters but it never felt right because TLOU is about Joel and Ellie
• Asks fans to put their trust in them because “we’re gonna do right by you”
• Troy says Joel is the character he misses the most and finds himself thinking about the most. He also talks about how he almost didn’t audition for Joel.
• Neil sent Ashley the trailer scene two years ago and the actual trailer was shot a year and a half ago
• They’re gonna hold off on giving a release date until they’re certain about it
• Gustavo Santaolalla is returning!!
• Neil says that Joel and Ellie are the heart of TLOU and he can’t see it without them
  

okidenshi:

Me: Y’know, I think I’m finally begging to recover from the emotional trauma The Last of Us has caused me.

Out Break Day 2016:

serahdreamshard:

*wakes up before everyone and listens to Ellie’s song from The Last of Us Part 2 trailer 1 billion times*

sathtrash:

One thing I still don’t, and don’t think I ever will, understand about The Last of Us is Marlene’s motivations in the story. Near the end when she gives Joel her ‘It’s not about me, it’s about the vaccine’ speech, she says she’s known Ellie since she was a baby and promised her mother to take care of her, but she’s totally willing to let her die for, what we learn later as Joel, nothing. 

Like playing through the ending part of the game in the hospital as Joel he finds a bunch of clues that they’ve attempted this before and it DID NOT work. Marlene herself says in a recording that they’ve tried it on several people and it hasn’t worked even kind of, so why is she still so vehement on trying, especially when someone she loves is at stake? She’s a very holier than thou character and makes it seem like sacrificing a child for a vaccine that probably won’t work is better than letting the child live. She says she loves Ellie, but if she really loved Ellie she wouldn’t just let her die for nothing like this, she could have left Joel and Ellie where they were, moved the base of operations, shut down the program, anything. But she doesn’t. And it doesn’t make sense.