What did you think of the Last of Us ending? (WARNING: Spoilers)

So I just finished the game, and personally.... I really enjoyed the ending.

At the end of games, a lot of people expect the ending to be EPIC, have a lot of explosions, and have epic music, but the Last of Us Ending, when Joel lies to Ellie about the fireflies and that there was no cure.

Wow... I felt it.

Unlike most games, you weren't playing the hero nor the villain... you were playing as someone who truly cared for another individual. 

I'm not saying that what Joel did to save Ellie was a good thing, in fact I felt it was done out of pure selfishness. In fact, he may just have screwed humanity over. But at the same time, you wanted him to save her. 

And when Ellie asked him to swear to to her, and look her in the eyes, and Joel straight up lied. It felt it... 

This was a great ending. 

But those were my thoughts on it, what did you guys think about The Last of Us ending?

So I just finished the game, and personally.... I really enjoyed the ending.

At the end of games, a lot of people expect the ending to be EPIC, have a lot of explosions, and have epic music, but the Last of Us Ending, when Joel lies to Ellie about the fireflies and that there was no cure.

Wow... I felt it.

Unlike most games, you weren't playing the hero nor the villain... you were playing as someone who truly cared for another individual. 

I'm not saying that what Joel did to save Ellie was a good thing, in fact I felt it was done out of pure selfishness. In fact, he may just have screwed humanity over. But at the same time, you wanted him to save her. 

And when Ellie asked him to swear to to her, and look her in the eyes, and Joel straight up lied. It felt it... 

This was a great ending. 

 

But those were my thoughts on it, what did you guys think about The Last of Us ending?

RatedSTARZ

Yeah I agree with pretty much everything you said. In a way it was incredibly selfish of Joel, but I was glad he saved Ellie. She is such a cool character. hrt_rulz01

Glad you guys felt the same way about the ending :). I'm glad Naughty Dog didn't go the cliche route like many other zombie games where one of the main characters die. :D

[QUOTE="hrt_rulz01"]Yeah I agree with pretty much everything you said. In a way it was incredibly selfish of Joel, but I was glad he saved Ellie. She is such a cool character. WiiMan21

I would totally sacrifice Ellie for a cure, wth Joel, Tess died for nothing?

Ellie herself wouldnt mind it

I had no doubts or problems with joel saving ellie. After picking up one of those recorders left in the hospital and the doctor on the recording said they have extracted the brains and tissues from other immune subjects and they are getting closer with each one. 

i haven't completed it yet....so i can't comment lol :/Mickeyminime

then why did you get into a thread that talks about the game ending and it says "spoliers'? huh?

I had no doubts or problems with joel saving ellie. After picking up one of those recorders left in the hospital and the doctor on the recording said they have extracted the brains and tissues from other immune subjects and they are getting closer with each one. 

yonnex

oh really? I got the record but I didnt waste time listening to it

so, Joel was right about them they have dozen of immune kids lol

I thought it was a satisfying ending.

I was really torn as it was happening. I couldnt decide what I would do in real life. It felt like the right thing to do would be to sacrifice Elly for the cure. However, after that epic journey and watching Elly grow as a person, I dont think I could bring myself to let her die. I cared too much for her and just the thought of her being killed got me to cry. I felt bad killing all the fireflies but I didnt care. I had to save her.

Overall I thought it was a great ending. I love how Elly saved herself from the cannibal in the cabin. I thought they would do the cliche thing and have Joel save the damsel in distress. It was a great moment and one that lasted throughout the game. She was still bothered by it as they headed into Salt Lake City. The giraffes were a great distraction and one of my favorite moments of the game. I didnt expect the game to end the way it did and thats a good thing. Really enjoyed this game and will be replaying it soon.

I was really torn as it was happening. I couldnt decide what I would do in real life. It felt like the right thing to do would be to sacrifice Elly for the cure. However, after that epic journey and watching Elly grow as a person, I dont think I could bring myself to let her die. I cared too much for her and just the thought of her being killed got me to cry. I felt bad killing all the fireflies but I didnt care. I had to save her.

Overall I thought it was a great ending. I love how Elly saved herself from the cannibal in the cabin. I thought they would do the cliche thing and have Joel save the damsel in distress. It was a great moment and one that lasted throughout the game. She was still bothered by it as they headed into Salt Lake City. The giraffes were a great distraction and one of my favorite moments of the game. I didnt expect the game to end the way it did and thats a good thing. Really enjoyed this game and will be replaying it soon.

OneShotFOGE

I would totally sacrifice Ellie for a cure, wth Joel, Tess died for nothing?

Ellie herself wouldnt mind it

 

 

k--m--k

One of the lamest endings ever. The ending, starting from when you interrupt the surgery, was really awful. You know when you get out of the car and start walking back to town and Joel is talking about how his daughter and Ellie would of been good friends, I seriously thought the game was going to make us kill Joel. I thought that becuz that last part you arent in control of Joel, it has you playing as Ellie. Ellie seemed hesitant and uncomfortable walking with Joel, it seemed like she was having doubts that Joel was a person she could trust anymore.

IDK but once you leave the car behind and cut through the fence, I really thought Ellie was about to pull the trigger on Joel cuz she know he was lying. The game had you controlling Ellie, you were in a beautiful field, there was some music playing, Joel was happy. The set up was there.... It would of been a better ending too.

One of the lamest endings ever. The ending, starting from when you interrupt the surgery, was really awful. You know when you get out of the car and start walking back to town and Joel is talking about how his daughter and Ellie would of been good friends, I seriously thought the game was going to make us kill Joel. I thought that becuz that last part you arent in control of Joel, it has you playing as Ellie. Ellie seemed hesitant and uncomfortable walking with Joel, it seemed like she was having doubts that Joel was a person she could trust anymore.

IDK but once you leave the car behind and cut through the fence, I really thought Ellie was about to pull the trigger on Joel cuz she know he was lying. The game had you controlling Ellie, you were in a beautiful field, there was some music playing, Joel was happy. The set up was there.... It would of been a better ending too.

Nengo_Flow

I totally thought the same and was waiting for it, all the elements were there, but it shocked me more that it didnt happen, I think it was their purpose make us think about it or something, really weird...

he kept talking about Sarah, but Ellie had no interest at all

[QUOTE="Nengo_Flow"]

One of the lamest endings ever. The ending, starting from when you interrupt the surgery, was really awful. You know when you get out of the car and start walking back to town and Joel is talking about how his daughter and Ellie would of been good friends, I seriously thought the game was going to make us kill Joel. I thought that becuz that last part you arent in control of Joel, it has you playing as Ellie. Ellie seemed hesitant and uncomfortable walking with Joel, it seemed like she was having doubts that Joel was a person she could trust anymore.

IDK but once you leave the car behind and cut through the fence, I really thought Ellie was about to pull the trigger on Joel cuz she know he was lying. The game had you controlling Ellie, you were in a beautiful field, there was some music playing, Joel was happy. The set up was there.... It would of been a better ending too.

k--m--k

I totally thought the same and was waiting for it, all the elements were there, but it shocked me more that it didnt happen, I think it was their purpose make us think about it or something, really weird...

he kept talking about Sarah, but Ellie had no interest at all

I dont think Ellie is the kind of person that would kill Joel for such reason

they care about each other too much.

I just wonder if Ellie did indeed believe Joel or not

I don't think Ellie believes Joel but decides to go with it.

She woke up in the back seat of a car he just somehow managed to grab, she was in a hospital gown, there were no goodbyes, no nothing. I'm sure she pieced it all together but still had to ask.

You know a game is really good when people have interesting contrasting opinions about the ending lool

i was pretty happy with it.. i was really expecting Joel to die, but im glad he didnt

You know a game is really good when people have interesting contrasting opinions about the ending lool

megaspiderweb09

I dont think Ellie is the kind of person that would kill Joel for such reason

they care about each other too much.

I just wonder if Ellie did indeed believe Joel or not

k--m--k

[QUOTE="k--m--k"]

I dont think Ellie is the kind of person that would kill Joel for such reason

they care about each other too much.

I just wonder if Ellie did indeed believe Joel or not

WiiMan21

[QUOTE="WiiMan21"][QUOTE="k--m--k"]

I dont think Ellie is the kind of person that would kill Joel for such reason

they care about each other too much.

I just wonder if Ellie did indeed believe Joel or not

Apeeze

I quite like the ending I'm glad both characters survived.  I just look at it this way Joel already lost his daughter Sarah and he didn't want to lose Ellie who he thought of her as his daughter and Ellie thought of him as a father.  Joel spend the whole journey trying to save and protect Ellie and he wasn't just going to give up on her.  I'm glad Joel killed Marlene I couldn't stand her.  

I'm slightly going off topic here but I thought psycho David was a good character coming across at first as a nice guy and then just turning to evil I thought his death scene was memorable. 

My wife and I were having a discuss about this game and she loved the way it ended. She felt the connection that they made through out the game was to good for Joel to just have her die and lose essentially a second daughter. I personally wanted Ellie to go through with the operation. Through out the story she feels like she's the answer to this. She's scared, but through out the game she builds courage and feels like she needs to do this even when confronted by Joel that they can just walk away. Everyone who has died in her life wasn't going to be for nothing (as she explained in the end). She really felt it was her purpose in life.

Joel lost a daughter and he didn't want to lose another. He's lost so many people in his life that he couldn't bare losing the one person that could understood him for who he was. He left his brother, saw his daughter die in his arms and couldn't save Trish. I feel terrible for what that man been through.

I have mixed emotions, but I ultimately felt deep down that this was Ellie's time to sacrifice herself for the good of mankind. Yeah she wanted to live, but her not knowing what it used to be like before the epidemic happened was okay and I think she understood that - even if she had feelings for Joel.

Just the fact were all talking about this is amazing. I applaud Naughty Dog.

I would totally sacrifice Ellie for a cure, wth Joel, Tess died for nothing?

Ellie herself wouldnt mind it

 

 

k--m--k

[QUOTE="WiiMan21"][QUOTE="Apeeze"] Your idea of them growing apart is interesting. what made you think they were growing apart?joke_man

I kept hitting triangle throughout the Marlene explanation after the drowning hoping for a prompt. Listening to the recordings, how they killed hundreds working on their vaccine. Marlene knew. She knew the whole time from the beginning of the game what was waiting for Ellie. I intentionally hunted and killed every single Firefly in the building. I don't think I've ever felt so cathartic after finishing a video game. Certainly not a recent one, what with the trend to piss off your fans in the name of controversy. I loved it, and I would have done the same thing. This may be the most emotionally manipulative game I've ever played. Bioshock Infinite tried to manipulate player's feelings for the sidekick. Last of Us succeeded in it.

[QUOTE="k--m--k"]

I would totally sacrifice Ellie for a cure, wth Joel, Tess died for nothing?

Ellie herself wouldnt mind it

 

 

deebo_x

I kept hitting triangle throughout the Marlene explanation after the drowning hoping for a prompt. Listening to the recordings, how they killed hundreds working on their vaccine. Marlene knew. She knew the whole time from the beginning of the game what was waiting for Ellie. I intentionally hunted and killed every single Firefly in the building. I don't think I've ever felt so cathartic after finishing a video game. Certainly not a recent one, what with the trend to piss off your fans in the name of controversy. I loved it, and I would have done the same thing. This may be the most emotionally manipulative game I've ever played. Bioshock Infinite tried to manipulate player's feelings for the sidekick. Last of Us succeeded in it. [QUOTE="deebo_x"][QUOTE="k--m--k"]

I would totally sacrifice Ellie for a cure, wth Joel, Tess died for nothing?

Ellie herself wouldnt mind it

 

 

mbrockway

what lol? If human kind is dying of a disease and your death is the solution, you wouldnt sacrifice yourself? not even for your family?

Ellie doesnt have a family and she wanted to sacrifice herself so nobody else suffer like her...

One of the lamest endings ever. The ending, starting from when you interrupt the surgery, was really awful. You know when you get out of the car and start walking back to town and Joel is talking about how his daughter and Ellie would of been good friends, I seriously thought the game was going to make us kill Joel. I thought that becuz that last part you arent in control of Joel, it has you playing as Ellie. Ellie seemed hesitant and uncomfortable walking with Joel, it seemed like she was having doubts that Joel was a person she could trust anymore.

IDK but once you leave the car behind and cut through the fence, I really thought Ellie was about to pull the trigger on Joel cuz she know he was lying. The game had you controlling Ellie, you were in a beautiful field, there was some music playing, Joel was happy. The set up was there.... It would of been a better ending too.

Nengo_Flow

Ellie was *never* asked. And if she said no they would have done it anyways. That's what makes them (and by extension you) monsters.mbrockway

It's very mixed, and I feel they did this on purpose. I feel like they're definitely rolling with the "There are no good guys or bad guys in this universe" idea, as to Joel looked almost psychopathic near the ending (which he did for the love of ellie).WiiMan21

Is it too much to ask for a little closure though? I feel like the game was left wide open, like the game ended in the middle of their journey. I can totally see the surviving fireflies coming after Ellie, Ellie finding out Joel lied and thus more friction between the two. There was absolutely 0% closure. I hate that.

After all that Joel and Ellie went through, after all they survived, a whole freaking year of enormous hardships hile they just could have stayed in relativley safety at their home QZ the fireflies knock him out and just seperate the two, not giving them at least a chance to say goodbye for each other and explain them together what they're going to do with Ellie so they at least would have a final chance to say goodbye to each other?

Shows that desperarte human beings, no matter how good their purpose might be, are the BIGGEST MONSTERS the planet has to offer, the infected in TLOU really look like innocent children next to how heartless it was from the Fireflies in the end to do something like that.

And good lord, never had me a final stage of a video game that much emotionally engaged, I swear, if I would have found out that I was too late and Ellie would already have died, I'd have cried my heart out. All the way from Joel's wake up scene till the end in the OP room I was literally again and again loud saying "Oh please don't die, please don't die, please don't let Joel be to late" again and again. After all they've went through I just couldn't let that happen.

In the end it also shows, in this desperate world where everyone has thrown his or her own moral code overboard just to survive, Joel might indeed be The Last of Us that still is a caring, human being who stands to the values of humanity we hold up so high.

Also the ending was really great, in the end you see them being so close to the city already, alomst in relative safety and the game still plays on your feelings "Will still anything bad happen?" Couldn't literally stop asking me and being afraid there might be one last, bad surprise. Glad there really wasn't though and both survived and made it through this hell trip.

Sigh... I'm not sure. I definitely didn't hate the ending. Its understandable because Joel had already lost one daughter... but it's saving f*cking mankind- Ellie and Joel couldn't have just had a team meeting and said, "Listen, this sucks, but its all of mankind, so we gotta do it"

I found that bizarre. Her dying had not been discussed, then it was just avoided. 

Also, I think the game's quality dips towards the Winter sections, and it becomes Uncharted: Zombies.

I really liked it, but its flawed. 

Lol yeah this topic kind of just took off like crazy hahaha xD. Love all the feedback from everyone :D

The ending was kinda unexpected and it was pretty okay. Nothing to wow about. 

FYI - Naughty Dog has confirmed that Ellie is the cure to the infection. If she would of been cut open she would of been the cure. http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/06/21/the-last-of-us-spoilercastMethodManFTW

Yeah, but who would want to live in a society built by the Fireflies? They showed what they were all about by not asking Ellie, and letting her be the hero. She would have said yes. You can imagine it would've been like Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

[QUOTE="MethodManFTW"]FYI - Naughty Dog has confirmed that Ellie is the cure to the infection. If she would of been cut open she would of been the cure. http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/06/21/the-last-of-us-spoilercastDaRq_MiNoS

Yeah, but who would want to live in a society built by the Fireflies? They showed what they were all about by not asking Ellie, and letting her be the hero. She would have said yes. You can imagine it would've been like Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

society built by Fireflies is better than the world they living in now with all the zombies and cannibals 

[QUOTE="DaRq_MiNoS"]

[QUOTE="MethodManFTW"]FYI - Naughty Dog has confirmed that Ellie is the cure to the infection. If she would of been cut open she would of been the cure. http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/06/21/the-last-of-us-spoilercastk--m--k

Yeah, but who would want to live in a society built by the Fireflies? They showed what they were all about by not asking Ellie, and letting her be the hero. She would have said yes. You can imagine it would've been like Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

society built by Fireflies is better than the world they living in now with all the zombies and cannibals