As soon as I saw Luke pop out a post from TLOU2’s subreddit I knew most of the answers would be very surface level

Having you play as a new group and at the end getting your head bashed in by Joel would actually be a great twist

The hardest thing about Part II is empathizing with Abby. Not everyone is able to or willing to do that, but if you were one of the people who was able to walk a mile in Abby shoes I think it’s an incredible experience. edit: thelastofus2 subreddit is hot fucking garbage I would urge people to avoid that cesspool

In Part 3 there should be a flashback mission or a cutscene where it shows when Joel and Tommy were hunters and Tommy is still haunted by the things he’s seen Joel do and we also get to see a darker side of Joel

It always fascinates me when people claim Part II was a miscalculation because it assumed everyone would be on board with the Joel/Ellie/Abby perspective situation. Fact is? The game made absolutely zero assumptions and was just telling the story it wanted to. Good stories and good storytellers should not be concerned with whether or not people can get on board or not. I'd much rather a writer or director maintain the integrity of the story they're trying to tell as opposed to pandering to what the audicence will be comfortable with. That's exactly how The Rise of Skywalker happened (situation there is nuanced but it's great example of what NOT to do). I'd rather be challeneged and forced to think instead of getting a safe, by the numbers sequel because creatives were too concerned with whether or not people could approach media and narrative with any semblance of objective thougt. It's not on TLOU Part II that some people were too closed minded to engage with the story (and I emphasize that only *some* people couldnt get on board. The majority of people loved the game and story no matter what the vocal minority would claim). I will always admire Druckmann for sticking to his guns and by his work.

The survivor group rumor by Daniel is most likely the scrapped from factions, I don’t think they will go this route

TBH i'd rather just have a prequel, where we play as joel. There's like a 20 year gap between Joel's daughter being unalived and him meeting ellie. Could tell all kinds of stories with that timeframe.

Naughty Dog didn't expect people to be open to Abby's perspective at all after what she did to Joel/Ellie. They expected/wanted players to feel Ellie's anguish and anger. For the player to hate Abby as Ellie did, but over time, blur the lines between perspectives and make the player uncomfortable with the lengths Ellie was willing to go to exact revenge. It was an exercise in forgiveness, empathy, self-awareness etc.

I would love to get tlou3, but it should definitely be a trilogy capper. They could do other games in this world, but 3 should be the last Ellie game.

Ellie wakes up and realizes it was a bad dream

The rumors are the story for Last of Us Online, no way is Part 3 focusing on a completely new group. The rumors are getting mixed up.

A crazy ending for the third game would be for Ellie to sacrifice herself to develop a cure just for the fireflies to be unable to create one, that would help solidify Joel’s choice in keeping her alive. Kinda mirroring how the opening of the show has a doctor explaining that there is NO cure and humanity loses.

Fundamentally disagree with the idea that we should have got a Joel and Tommy 20 year gap prequel instead of Part 2 or as Part 3. We don’t need to see Joel when he was essentially a bandit. He’s admitted that he wasn’t a good guy. Why do we need to see that? His character arc was perfect in TLOU. It’s what humanises him. It’s what makes us love him. We don’t need to see him be a piece of shit with no character growth. It would purely be for fan-service and to appease those who were butthurt that he died. The idea that this would have been better than the Part 2 we got is ridiculous. The game is a masterpiece, was massively successful commercially and is one of the most acclaimed video games of all time. It was inevitable that a game this ambitious and mature would not hit well with everyone, but it was still a massive hit, regardless of what a vocal minority would have you believe. I’ve no idea what Part 3 will be but I’m confident that Neil Druckman will create another emotional, ambitious and thrilling game, culminating in the greatest trilogy ever made.

I would like to see a story covering at least some of "outbreak day" and the chaotic aftermath. There's a ton of drama and horror to be explored there, and then perhaps pick up with those characters or new ones later on. I think including Ellie again at this point is dragging out a story that already concluded--twice.

I've been saying this across the Internet since Part 2 came out. I believe that Ellie after the end of TLOU2 will enter into pre-TLOU Joel kind of phase. Emotionally cut off from the world, strained relationships with close ons (Dina and JJ) and needing redemption to save her character. I believe that this new group will stumble across Ellie and by that point in the game it offers Ellie a chance to as one might say "save the world" She may finally be given the chance she always wanted because of her immunity. To directly save ppl and make their lives meaningful. Whether she does that by teaching the new group things or sacrifices herself to ensure a type of verse success is up to the writers but "Old Man Ellie" was always a picture in my head as TLOU 2 ended and I think TLOU 3 can redeem the series by making Ellie's death meaningful.

Prequel of the 20 year time jump. Would center on Joel meeting Tess, their relationship, his fallout with Tommy, the birth of the Fireflies, meeting Marlene, his partnership with Bill, etc. SO SO MUCH to explore to make a full game.

Hoping we have new characters who run into a much older Ellie. They sit down and have a convo after seeing how experienced and badass she is after all these years. Wonder what the plot is gonna be

For TLOU3, I would pitch it as a story of hope vs fear. For Abbie and Lev, I would have them reach the settlement they were headed to at the end of part 2. They then find that the doctors at this new settlement never stopped working on a cure - but they still need someone who is immune to complete the cure. Lev convinces Abbie to go on a mission to find Ellie. For Ellie, I would have her, Tommy, Dina, and her baby all come together as a family. Ellie has lied to Tommy and told him that Abbie is dead to stop the cycle of revenge. Dina knows the truth. As far as the main human threat, I think it would be cool to see a cult of immune people. I would have the cult leader be similar in character to “Joel if he never met Ellie.” The cult leader discovered his immunity when he was bitten and never told anyone. After a few days of not turning, he then started putting people in situations where they would get bit to see if they would be immune. Over years, he’s found several people who are immune - but his group has killed thousands in the process. At first, he seems capable but can be kind - then reveal that he wants to bring together all immune people while killing off everyone else because “the dead don’t get infected.” The story ultimately ends with Abbie and Ellie taking the cult down. Ellie goes to the settlement to help develop the cure. We see her prepped for surgery. We get one final look at Ellie before the screen cuts to black. We hear Ellie give one last line about how the world needs to hold onto hope but we never know whether the cure was actually successful.

Just realized this guy is promoting one of the most toxic subs for The Last of Us there are. The sub who literally everyday finds a reason to hate the game because they don’t like Abby. You can’t have a normal level headed discussion through this Reddit sub.

Only just finished both games for the first time and oh my god I’m in love with this world and the lore, whilst I’m still not sure how I feel about the events of the second game, I do look forward to the concept of the third game purely for getting to re-enter this world

This may be a hot take, but I really don't want another one of these games, kind of ready for new IP from NaughtyDog

Those leaks were for a story mode for Factions 2 which was cancelled, not the Last of Us Part 3.... or they could be using code names for existing characters to avoid the whole story being leaked again.

I don't think anyone can guess what Part III is gonna be about. Part II surprised everyone. And Naughty Dog definitely doesn't want to do anything obvious or expected (like this Tommy and Joel prequel everyone talks about). I dont think there's even any point in trying to guess

I don't think we need another your hero's are the villains arc. That's exactly what part 2 was.

It was very good Joel impression 😄

I wouldn’t mind seeing Ellie have to make Joel’s choice. Maybe she has to choose between giving herself up for the cure or saving Dina and their son. Would take some acrobatic writing but it could be done.

The survivors would have to know how to create a cure, or know of somebody or some faction that has the ability to create a cure, but lack the resource (Ellie) to do it.

Luke, Ellie would not spread her immunity to Abby because she is not immune by her genetics. The fungus in her brain is mutated so it does not evolve. So, if Ellie could infect someone, probably the person would in fact become immune

I hope that the last of us part 3 will be about Ellie mirroring Joels story from the first game where she becomes a surrogate mother of another kid and towards the end she has to choose between the kid and a bunch of other people and she finally understands Joels decision, that would be cool. It could even work that she is similar to how done with the world Joel was in the first game at the start because everyone in her life has pretty much left by the end of the second game. I think Abby's story is finished so I would be a bit disappointed if they had the third game be about her and lev.

That tv show brought new life to the game. I had 3 people I knew who never played video games bought/borrowed a ps4 to play part 1 and part 2 lol so I’ll be curious what the sales numbers will be for part 3. Probably won’t be as good as part 1 but outsell part 2

After recently replaying both games on ps5, there’s no way that naughty dog can be satisfied TLOU2 being Ellie’s last game. As fans, we deserve a concrete ending to her story.

I'm sorry but anyone who played Last of Us Part 1 and what they took from that game is that Joel is a "beloved father figure" to either Ellie herself or people playing the game, I just don't know what to say. He certainly is a father figure of sorts but "beloved" is such a bizarre reaction to the events of Part 1. Joel is a complex, impulsive, violent, savage guy not some sort of messianic heroic figure.

They should prob try a story between Ellie, Dina and the kid where something happens to either Dina or the kid or both (leaning on the kid). The game builds up the relationship between Ellie and the kid and I can see either Ellie has to rescue the kid from an opposing force or maybe the kid himself (maybe he is on some type of revenge plot like Ellie in the 2nd game). This is an ideal I just thought of rn and its very rough so I'm aware there are prob some holes so I'm not willing to die on the story I presented, but I do stand with exploring their relationship. Also I'm pretty sure it would allow us to see more of Joel.

Really hope they make Ellie's story a trilogy and just finish it off. Im very open for sequels and prequels and spinoffs after that

I would love to see what Ellie is going to do with her life, if Abby and Lev find the fireflies, if Ellie could still become the cure, and even flashbacks of tommy and Joel’s life after the outbreak

If any of yall have watched Vinland Saga, and especially season 2, I think the game should focus on Ellie going through a similar arc Thorfinn goes though where she's basically on her own and eventually goes on a journey of redemption after the events of Part II and trying to find peace and acceptance while she's with a new group and maybe try to find her purpose again.

In regards to tLoU 2 narrative, I don't think they thought the player would just want to 'go along' with Abbie's narrative, but was rather a bald faced challenge to force you to play as her and see if they could get you to empathise by the end. And in regards to me, they succeeded

Part II's execution of the story when it comes to playing as Abby after what she did, I think was a great choice. It challenges the player and was very effective over the course of the story.

I think that after the release of the remastered there are new signs that could point to a dlc like left behind or a bigger dlc. This being Abby’s Badlands outfit. It’s very built up and has some interesting signs that could point to her life after she gets of the rattlers camp. Such as the firefly logo, short hair. Etc.

I think it would be a cool idea if the game followed an older ellie, almost around Joel's age as she comes across a group of young kids/teens and now she's the one acting as a parental figure. Maybe something could happen towards the end where she gives her life to save theirs or something but ultimately I like the idea of Ellie growing up and taking the role that Joel once had

Oooooooor, hear me out. Naughty dog can make another new IP🤗

I just can’t really think about any more stories to tell that have good gameplay potential. Like sure, we want to know if she reconnected with Dina, but… what does that have to do with Joel and/or the infected

Regarding timing of actual news about the game: it seems obvious to wait until season 2 of the show releases so that the hype can amplify both game and show.

I still think Part III drops less than a year after the end of Season 3 of the show. Q4 ‘27 or H1 ‘28. It would actually be awesome to release a Part III trailer the same day the Season 3 finale airs.

Luke, even if in your head canon it makes sense that the Fireflies wouldn't be able to make a cure, you are still wrong. Because the game never attempts to make you consider the idea of the Fireflies being wrong, and it's not even beneficial to the plot. What they were going for, it's not a retcon; it's the point the game was making. Without a doubt, the Fireflies were going to make a cure, just because Joel's decision will have more weight.

If they don't do new characters I always thought the good way to wrap up the story of Ellie and Joel for a third game. is Ellie's search to make up for the cure she could have given. not her choice but she feels a responsibility to help the world heal as she was the only known person who could. She sets out to find a purpose and eventually gets involved with the fireflies the ones left or what has been reborn from the ashes. She maybe let's herself be studied maybe keeps it secret but the main point being she and Abby come face to face once again and are forced to work with each other for whatever thing the fireflies are doing they have major bad blood but both believe in what they are working towards so they stomach each other and start to grow a bond. The theme of this story being a reflection of the second. The second was revenge destroys everyone in the process. the cycle of violence continues. While the 3rd game would be about how forgiveness and unity for mutual good will mend these once unhealable wounds. They may not be friends by the end but they do move on with their life for the better.

On the subject of the release of the next game. We have to remember that The Last of Us franchise isn't only a video game anymore so any promotional material about Part 3 will be closely tied to the TV show. It only makes senses financially. Since tv show season 2 will be spilt in two that makes it 2025/26. I recon the game will be start seeing some promos around mid season of Season 2 of the show with the release of the game early 2026 or xmas 2026. if the gap between two part season 2 is longer than few months.

I mean I’d like to see a part 3 forsure but I just don’t know where you go next with Ellie. There’s really no lingering threads left to unravel from the first game that are directly related to Ellie unless we go back to the whole possible cure angle

I loved playing as Joel, falling in love with the pair, and then having him bludgeoned to death in part 2. I consume media to feel uncomfortable - and I loved that TLOU2 tried its best to. I hope their sequel does something just as fucked. Honestly, lol. These aren't my character's, they're the directors characters , and I love to see their minds at work. I get getting attached to characters, but a story is a story. it's watching the lives of someone you don't know unfold. And that's surprising. I don't want to be catered to. Twist my mind up, fuck me up.

They never thought people would just go along with it... They said it would divide the fanbase all along... It was a intellectual challenge to the audience. A Sort of experiment braving judgement to see how far they can push it and how many could emotionally distance themselves from their bias build up in the first game.

I wish your commentary around The Last of Us 2 was more fair and balanced. There are many people that loved the game, and would want to see the story continued in a 3rd entry. Don't go too far down the rabbit hole of hate for it from some parts of the internet, because it will blind you to the love so many people have for it. "Everybody...didn't like how they did it" no, that is not correct. Some didn't like the game, while many did.

Anyone else notice that for Abby’s outfits in no return she has a short hair outfit that looks like it forms after her stay with the slave camp I think it’s a tease for lou3 it’s gonna pick up after Abby left from her fight with Elle

Druckman and ND knew the player wasn't going to want to play as Abby after what she did. That wasn't a mistake. That was the whole point of the last half of the game, to turn the player and make you sympathetic towards her. While it's true that it didn't end up working for some, most people I've talked to ended up in Abby's corner and didn't want to play the last Ellie stage.

Ellie’s story being finished on a high note and flashback missions to Joel and Tommy’s 20 years of survival would be perfect for part 3.

They didn’t miscalculate by making the player play as Abby. Not at all. Every. Single. Person who complained about it played the whole game through and most played through a second time as well. Most who say they hate the game actually love it. They just hate what happened to the characters.

dang i want those keycaps. good colors

Oh no, Luke has been browsing “r/TheLastOfUs2”…

Part one was spectacular and gave us wonderful characters with a pretty straightforward story that was good. Part 2 told a better more complex story there were things in it that I didn't like but I just ignored them and focused on what I did like and the game is definitely my fav of the two. I actually liked Abby alot and found her character to be more likable than Ellie which is surprising because I love Ellie . That being said if someone doesn't like part 2 I understand I just wish people weren't jerks when expressing they're opinions. Im on board if they do a part 3 I think they should just continue on from 2 with Abby and Ellie's story I don't think 3 should be the conclusion I think it should be about Ellie linking up with the fireflies for a cure and she's told she has to save Abby because she holds some sort of special antibody needed to complete the cure bitter enemies forced to work together to save the world sort of thing.

As Neil Druckman said in Grounded 2, he thinks that the third installment would be more concerning Tommy, it wouldn't be to unlikely that he is now going to hunt Abby and the Fireflys as he was very broken, when coming to the farm to Ellie and Dina.

I wouldn’t mind a spin off like how what we had with Batman Arkham origins all in the meantime they work on the last of us, part 3 Taking Pl. after the event of Ellie while the spinoff takes place in the early years where we play as Joel and see his tough rugged demeanor of him

I don't really think they retconned anything from the end of Part 1. The doctor said that he figured about what's going and needs to replicate it in laboratory conditions. Too many really try and bring down the Fireflies to avoid the fact that Joel did a bad thing for selfish reasons. Hell, those same people get mad at Ellie for being upset at Joel for his decision, completely disregarding her opinion and feelings on the matter.

I'm not gonna lie, I wouldn't trust any predictions from r/TheLastOfUs2 because that whole subreddit was spawned from hate for the game when the leaks happened before release. And it's just an echo chamber of people hating the game. My personal hope is that the next TLOU game is a prequel following Joel and Tommy during their younger days, maybe interspersed with whatever Ellie is doing.

There are so many notes about. Ezra in the first game wandering through the cities. He’s like. Part of a couple trying to find each other

I think it will be about Ellie finding meaning. She was angry at Joel for taking away her agency and her death meaning something. She temporarily filled that gap with wanting to kill Abby, but that only lead her to her worst fear - being alone. She is now going to go on a journey for her death to mean something.

You know what would have been a GOOD ending for Part II If Abby learned that Lev was immune too and now she has to live with the dilemma Joel kinda had. Would she give up Lev for a Cure?

I'd love to see Abby find out there's a different way to make a cure that doesn't cause death, and having to find Ellie. Meanwhile Ellie's home has become a developed safe haven but is attacked and she ends up teamed up with Tommy to simply try to survive while a group try to claim all the land in the region and create a superhaven.

I didn't think this video had a spoiler 😭

I really do think the right move is to do a tommy and joel prequel game, they have elluded to it so many times in the last two games.

They didn't miscalculate anything with Abby. They knew people would not like it. That's why they did it.

Maybe do a multiverse thing with multiple Joel’s and Ellie’s. And time travel as well. That would get the crowd goin

I would've loved to see more of Isaac

It should focus on Ellie’s life in Montana as she eventually and gradually moves on from her past, and Abby’s life with the Fireflies on Catalina Island, with her and Lev’s storyline being concluded.

Man. You guys are so weird about Part 2.

They definitely need to make a TLOU part 3 and give it closer and a Tommy and Joel DLC their stories coping with the outbreak and what they had to do good and bad .

In the first episode of the show on the talk show the scientist says they could never make a cure for it

I want Ellie to learn Joel was right maybe they do something with J.J but I really also want to see Ellie redeem herself and get back with Dina. I’m debating if I want Abby to come back or not I don’t think they should bring her back but seeing a still Vengeful Tommy go after her seems like a fun Idea

Pretty sure next is TLOU2 Remaster-Remake Director’s Cut Part 2.

I haven't played the first parts but I can't wait for TLOU3 remaster deluxe edition.

I liked the whole darkness of part 2 definitely made the whole universe of the last of us feel more like real life instead of a video game

Would love to see a bit of Joel and Tess before Ellie happened

My prediction is abby and ellie will be forced to join forces against a foe....i think the rattlers will be the foe. With more control of the infected!

Why does he always assumes that the majority of the millions of players who have played Part 2 didn’t like it? Lmao. You’re living in a goddamn dream world if you think people who actually played the game didn’t dig the story by the end of it. Not all but the majority of the millions did. Just because the haters are always loud and half of them never even touched the game, don’t make them relevant. They just won’t buy the next game. It is what it is. There’s a new fanbase post-Part 2 and HBO’s series.

that theory around 5 was literally how i thought part 2 couldve been handled playing through as abby first with flash backs have no joel and ellie in marketing then the halfway switch is starting to play as ellie

That initial trailer with Abby was perfect. A short scene with a beginning, middle, and end. It needed little context to understand and it showed off the graphic

I'm pretty sure ND will not do the same again (i. e. "switching perspective" like in Part II). They will come up with something entirely new. Also, I really like the pacing of Part II and it wouldn't have worked out that well, if they had us play Abby a long time before killing Joel. It's pretty much perfect as it is :)

You’re just wrong in your estimation of how Druckman thought the game would be perceived. He’s been open that he wanted it to be challenging and completely subvert expectations. They knew people wouldn’t like it. You think they didn’t think in the process that they had no idea people would be upset that a beloved character gets killed off in the first 2 hours. Druckman has mentioned multiple times that he thought about Metal Gear Solid 2 and how people were upset when you play as Raiden after only being shown Snake in the trailers. They are a smart studio. Wether you like it or not, or if it doesn’t work your you they knew that would happen. They wanted to do something that would subvert expectations in order to deliver the theme and message.

I've no issues with people that have given Last of us part 2 a real honest chance and then for what ever reason it didn't work for them, that's all fine but I do know that many people just followed the hate train because their favorite youtuber said so and never really gave the game a chance. I've seen comments from people talking about how they hated part 2, just because someone else said so but when they gave it a chance they loved it. Not saying that this will be the case for everyone, but part 2 gets a lot of hate from people who haven't even given the game a chance or knows the whole story and believes in all the false leaks or stuff from the story that is taken out of context. Personally I love part 2 more than part 1 but both games are amazing in my eyes. The level of detail in them, and I love that they never take the easy way out in the story especially in part 2. It's a dark world were humanity has lost its ways, and I think people just need to be more open about other group of people and what they have suffered just like Joel & Ellie and realize that yes while we love these characters they have done many things that is questionable & bad to other people and vice versa.

lol, TLOU part 2 is not disliked by the majority like you seem to suggest. Its still up there as one of the best games to come out in the past decade

TLOU 3 coming out on PS5, PS6 & PS7

I agree that naughty dog "made a mistake" by trusting their audience to be mature and open minded. Yes. They made the mistake of thinking gamers were smart, which they are not.

Abby and Lev are now with the Fireflies. They have a doctor who's capable of performing the surgery to develop the cure. Abby and Lev are sent to find Ellie and bring her back. Core relationship of the game be between Abby and Ellie as they journey back to the fireflies. They're initially confrontational but grow to forgive and eventually care for each other as they journey back. Ellie can redeem herself for her actions in Part II and also correct Joel's actions in Part I.

Ellie went back to Jackson, living in Joel's house, maybe living with Tommy since him and Maria broke up. Part 3 still involve with Abby and Ellie. I bet Abby will be looking for Ellie since she's the only one knew beside Tommy and Dana that she's immune coz now Abby is with the Fireflies with Lev. They still could be looking for a cure. And I bet Eugene will be at the Part 3 since he is also a member of a Fireflies and have a connection with Tommy.

The game didnt need a part 2. Now imagine a part 3...

We need more bad guy stories with compelling backgrounds. The “bad guy wants power” trope ruins just about every series it touches, whereas the former adds a complex grey area.

What if the entire plot of part 3 revolves around Ellie's fingers being found and used as a cure?

Some people were naturally resistant to small pox. Other people were unaffected by it bc they contracted cow pox. In this case it could literally work out to be something as simple as Ellie got mushroom poisoning as a kid so her body violently rejects the spores. Something similar happened to a family member of mine and they would have a violent reaction to the fumes of cooking mushrooms or even the oils left on the surface of where they were chopped up. And the thing is, they never had any reason to believe they knew what caused her resistance. It could literally be something as simple as an overabundance or a severe lack of a something specific the fungi needs to survive. They completely threw out the scientific method, meaning I have zero reason to trust any conclusion they may have. And Joel was completely justified in his actions. What we know about the Fire Flies is they have moved across the country and became outcasts when they weren't violently thrown out. They moved into an area, would completely consume everything the people there had and then move on leaving nothing but a trail of corpses and messages/hints about where they were heading. There was never anything redeemable about them and it became more obvious as you proceed through the game. You go from working with one, to working with people who knew some, to meeting people who heard about them and things only seem more and more dire the more you follow in their wake. And the fact that we see society and humanity still exist long after Joel kills those doctors only further reinforces that what they intended was completely unnecessary. There is no reason to believe that had they been able to create a cure that humanity would be better off bc, at the end of the day, the biggest threat to humanity remained humanity. So chances are that they would have murdered a child and the result would still be exactly the same. They can provide nothing to justify murdering a child and nothing in the second game changes that. What they think or what they believe means less than nothing bc a third grader could show how they completely discarded the scientific method to come to some rushed conclusion that they can't in any way support. And when you consider that, the only reason the second game exists is so they can sell violently killing off a character. It completely lacked anything that made the first game special. Particularly a relatable story with characters who, despite as extreme as they may appear, react in a realistic way. It's literally shock value with a retail sticker. And that's something Naughty Dog should be ashamed of when you consider their history of being some of the best story tellers in all of gaming.

It’s over. We need new IP.

Explain to me how you can make a part 3 for a story that has been concluded at the end of 2? Joel is dead. Joel and Ellie's relationship literally ended in a flashback cutscene. Ellie's story is done : she's now depressed, has PTSD from Joel's death, has been left behind by Dina, and denied her own desire for revenge twice only to regret it the next day and will regret it for the rest of her life, as evidenced by the fact she left behind Joel's guitar when she couldn't play it anymore. There's nothing left to develop here. She's done. Abby got her revenge, left with Lev - a character noone cares about - and...that's it, because her story was limited to that : killing some guy she didn't know and moving on with her life. Now that she did, her story is concluded. So, who's left? Abby, the character noone wants to play or really cares about? Tommy, who has seen his brother die in front of him for no reason and Ellie destroy herself for an unfulfilled revenge plot, and who anyone barely finds interesting? The Last of Us as a series is done. The writers wrote themselves into a corner.

that leak is factions 2 scraped content. might be rehashed as a sub plot or something.

I think a prequel that showed the world's descent into zombie apocalypse would be awesome.