The Last of Us's Alternate Ending Revealed (Why didn't they use this?)

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#1 PhazonBlazer
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Of course it contains spoilers.

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#3 mems_1224
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Way better than the shit they shipped. Probably wouldn't have flopped as hard with this ending.
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#4 Chutebox
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Haha, not expected. That was awesome

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That was really good. Good laugh as well

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#6 princeofshapeir
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Way better than the shit they shipped. Probably wouldn't have flopped as hard with this ending. mems_1224
Agreed, the game would have at least gotten a 9.0.
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#7 deactivated-59b71619573a1
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LOL that was good

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#8 blue_hazy_basic  Moderator
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Awesome loved everything about it :lol: Except didn't like Joel's character 8/10
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#9 Chutebox
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[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]Awesome loved everything about it :lol: Except didn't like Joel's character 8/10

Haha, oh you.
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#10 Cheleman
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dafuq...

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#11 deactivated-59b71619573a1
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Awesome loved everything about it :lol: Except didn't like Joel's character 8/10blue_hazy_basic

Pfff Hazy, like anyone cares about your opinion

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#12 blue_hazy_basic  Moderator
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[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]Awesome loved everything about it :lol: Except didn't like Joel's character 8/10seanmcloughlin

Pfff Hazy, like anyone cares about your opinion

I think you missed the not so subtle point of my post sean :P
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#13 Gue1
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WTF did I just watched? Why are they singing anyway?

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#14 Chutebox
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[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]Awesome loved everything about it :lol: Except didn't like Joel's character 8/10blue_hazy_basic

Pfff Hazy, like anyone cares about your opinion

I think you missed the not so subtle point of my post sean :P

Come on sean, you can do it.
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#15 blue_hazy_basic  Moderator
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WTF did I just watched? Why are they singing anyway?

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[spoiler] The director asked the lady to do it as a laugh w/o telling anyone else. The actor for Joel did it spontaneously in repsonse [/spoiler]
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#16 Quaker-w00ts
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lawl. perfect

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Ohemgee! I bet its a epic deleted in-game scene! :o

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[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]Awesome loved everything about it :lol: Except didn't like Joel's character 8/10seanmcloughlin

Pfff Hazy, like anyone cares about your opinion

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#19 tonitorsi
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Slayed by this Grammy-worthy singing.

#PreachNaughtyGod

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#20 deactivated-59b71619573a1
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[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]Awesome loved everything about it :lol: Except didn't like Joel's character 8/10blue_hazy_basic

Pfff Hazy, like anyone cares about your opinion

I think you missed the not so subtle point of my post sean :P

My good man, I didn't even read your post. I just wrote that as a general overview of you

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#21 klusps
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Love Troy's response to it! That was great!

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#22 deactivated-5d78760d7d740
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It's a good thing they didn't go with this ending. Tom would have flopped it even harder.

Troy did an awesome job at improvising though.

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#23 StriateEnd
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shoulda been a NG+ Survivor mode ending.
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#24 PhazonBlazer
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It's a good thing they didn't go with this ending. Tom would have flopped it even harder.

Troy did an awesome job at improvising though.

XVision84

You're right, Tom has such bad taste he probably couldn't see how awesome the alternate ending is :(

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#25 Sakurah_Blossom
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Imagine this was the true ending. People would have freaked, lol.
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#26 clr84651
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The ending of The Last of Us should have been this..... they meet someone along the way that says they heard of a doctor that might be able to save Ellie with a certain procedure he knows how to do. Then they go on a search for him and find out he was killed, but find a way to find his research on how to do the procedure. They then take that research to the hospital at the end of the game and they perform the surgery and save Ellie and human kind. 

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The ending of The Last of Us should have been this..... they meet someone along the way that says they heard of a doctor that might be able to save Ellie with a certain procedure he knows how to do. Then they go on a search for him and find out he was killed, but find a way to find his research on how to do the procedure. They then take that research to the hospital at the end of the game and they perform the surgery and save Ellie and human kind. 

clr84651

Yeah, but that's such a contrived ending. The way it really ended was alot more human than just saying that everyone lived happily ever after.

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#28 clr84651
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[QUOTE="clr84651"]

The ending of The Last of Us should have been this..... they meet someone along the way that says they heard of a doctor that might be able to save Ellie with a certain procedure he knows how to do. Then they go on a search for him and find out he was killed, but find a way to find his research on how to do the procedure. They then take that research to the hospital at the end of the game and they perform the surgery and save Ellie and human kind. 

PhazonBlazer

Yeah, but that's such a contrived ending. The way it really ended was alot more human than just saying that everyone lived happily ever after.

The way it ended is such a selfish BS way. He should have saved humanity. Either by allowing the surgery and her dying or the way I stated above. 

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#29 tonitorsi
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It's a good thing they didn't go with this ending. Tom would have flopped it even harder.

Troy did an awesome job at improvising though.

XVision84

Fvck Tom.

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Anyway, the gameplay alone would have still put this game on its path to excellence.

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#30 lowkey254
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Awesome loved everything about it :lol: Except didn't like Joel's character 8/10blue_hazy_basic
Lol
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#31 PhazonBlazer
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[QUOTE="PhazonBlazer"]

[QUOTE="clr84651"]

The ending of The Last of Us should have been this..... they meet someone along the way that says they heard of a doctor that might be able to save Ellie with a certain procedure he knows how to do. Then they go on a search for him and find out he was killed, but find a way to find his research on how to do the procedure. They then take that research to the hospital at the end of the game and they perform the surgery and save Ellie and human kind. 

clr84651

Yeah, but that's such a contrived ending. The way it really ended was alot more human than just saying that everyone lived happily ever after.

The way it ended is such a selfish BS way. He should have saved humanity. Either by allowing the surgery and her dying or the way I stated above. 

Yeah it was selfish. But that's the whole point, Joel made a choice to save the girl that was basically all he had left in the world. There was no gurantee that this would have worked, so Ellie could have just died for nothing.

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#32 tonitorsi
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[QUOTE="clr84651"]

[QUOTE="PhazonBlazer"]

Yeah, but that's such a contrived ending. The way it really ended was alot more human than just saying that everyone lived happily ever after.

PhazonBlazer

The way it ended is such a selfish BS way. He should have saved humanity. Either by allowing the surgery and her dying or the way I stated above. 

Yeah it was selfish. But that's the whole point, Joel made a choice to save the girl that was basically all he had left in the world. There was no gurantee that this would have worked, so Ellie could have just died for nothing.

They should have given us the option to end it how we wanted. Then have those options carry over for the next installment.

A decision-driven story for TLOU would be much more fitting.

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#33 PhazonBlazer
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[QUOTE="PhazonBlazer"]

[QUOTE="clr84651"]

The way it ended is such a selfish BS way. He should have saved humanity. Either by allowing the surgery and her dying or the way I stated above. 

tonitorsi

Yeah it was selfish. But that's the whole point, Joel made a choice to save the girl that was basically all he had left in the world. There was no gurantee that this would have worked, so Ellie could have just died for nothing.

They should have given us the option to end it how we wanted. Then have those options carry over for the next installment.

A decision-driven story for TLOU would be much more fitting.

I dunno, the game was more about Joel and Ellie than it was about the player which I thought was a good thing. In the end, it was Joel's decisions and the player was along for the ride.

Hopefully Joel and Ellie won't appear at all in the sequel :P

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#34 clr84651
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[QUOTE="clr84651"]

[QUOTE="PhazonBlazer"]

Yeah, but that's such a contrived ending. The way it really ended was alot more human than just saying that everyone lived happily ever after.

PhazonBlazer

The way it ended is such a selfish BS way. He should have saved humanity. Either by allowing the surgery and her dying or the way I stated above. 

Yeah it was selfish. But that's the whole point, Joel made a choice to save the girl that was basically all he had left in the world. There was no gurantee that this would have worked, so Ellie could have just died for nothing.

No one would choose to end themselves and hiumanity. She dies all humanity lives. She and he live a while until the plague gets them and all humanity dies too? No one would choose that! 

OK maybe a socialpathic homicidal lunatic loser. 

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#35 PhazonBlazer
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[QUOTE="PhazonBlazer"]

[QUOTE="clr84651"]

The way it ended is such a selfish BS way. He should have saved humanity. Either by allowing the surgery and her dying or the way I stated above. 

clr84651

Yeah it was selfish. But that's the whole point, Joel made a choice to save the girl that was basically all he had left in the world. There was no gurantee that this would have worked, so Ellie could have just died for nothing.

No one would choose to end themselves and hiumanity. She dies all humanity lives. She and he live a while until the plague gets them and all humanity dies too? No one would choose that! 

OK maybe a socialpathic homicidal lunatic loser. 

Which brings back the point that Joel was selfish. He didn't care what would happen to the world if he saved Ellie. Ellie was the only thing that he cared about and letting her die was obviously more painful to him than seeing the world end.

The name of the game is "The Last of Us," implying that the survivors up until this point are the last human beings who have lived or will live on Earth.

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#36 biggest_loser
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Alyx Vance can sing! :P That's not even the very ending though. That's the climax.
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#37 verbalfilth
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[QUOTE="PhazonBlazer"]

[QUOTE="clr84651"]

The way it ended is such a selfish BS way. He should have saved humanity. Either by allowing the surgery and her dying or the way I stated above. 

clr84651

Yeah it was selfish. But that's the whole point, Joel made a choice to save the girl that was basically all he had left in the world. There was no gurantee that this would have worked, so Ellie could have just died for nothing.

No one would choose to end themselves and hiumanity. She dies all humanity lives. She and he live a while until the plague gets them and all humanity dies too? No one would choose that! 

OK maybe a socialpathic homicidal lunatic loser. 

I only played through the game once, but wasn't there a diary entry/notebook stating the girl wasn't the only test subject? I thought there were others like her who they operated on and, consequently, died with nothing to show for it.

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Brilliant.
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#39 killzowned24
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Joel's character did a great job being on the spot,the very ending was perfect with rhyme .
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#40 lowkey254
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[QUOTE="clr84651"]

[QUOTE="PhazonBlazer"]

[QUOTE="clr84651"]

The way it ended is such a selfish BS way. He should have saved humanity. Either by allowing the surgery and her dying or the way I stated above. 

Yeah it was selfish. But that's the whole point, Joel made a choice to save the girl that was basically all he had left in the world. There was no gurantee that this would have worked, so Ellie could have just died for nothing.

No one would choose to end themselves and hiumanity. She dies all humanity lives. She and he live a while until the plague gets them and all humanity dies too? No one would choose that! 

OK maybe a socialpathic homicidal lunatic loser. 

That last line defined Joel perfectly. Maybe that's why Tom gave the game an 8.
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GOAT.

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GOAT.

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[QUOTE="lundy86_4"]

GOAT.

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I can't watch the video (well I can but from my work computer no sound)... anyhow, I'm just guessing focus groups is the reason, focus groups. Focus groups do things like have people with nothing better to do in the day cram in a room for hours without rest, do stuff like participate in exercises like "here's 5 different container designs for Tide Ultrasoft Fabreeze Scent HE wash, of the five which one are you more favorable to buy on looks alone... okay good, now here' 5 different logos for the Tide Ultrasoft Fabreeze Scent HE wash, of the five which one would you buy based off of looks alone..." and so on. They do this for hours upon hours to the point people eenie-meenie-minie-moh the answers just so they can get their $20 in coupon vouchers to Chilis or TGI Fridays or whatever. In the case they probably sampled the opinions of stay at home moms and senior citizens, like that "what moms think of Dead Space 2" commercial without the satire, where their opinions mattered in shaping the final makeup of the game.
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#45 Basinboy
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[QUOTE="lamprey263"]I can't watch the video (well I can but from my work computer no sound)... anyhow, I'm just guessing focus groups is the reason, focus groups. Focus groups do things like have people with nothing better to do in the day cram in a room for hours without rest, do stuff like participate in exercises like "here's 5 different container designs for Tide Ultrasoft Fabreeze Scent HE wash, of the five which one are you more favorable to buy on looks alone... okay good, now here' 5 different logos for the Tide Ultrasoft Fabreeze Scent HE wash, of the five which one would you buy based off of looks alone..." and so on. They do this for hours upon hours to the point people eenie-meenie-minie-moh the answers just so they can get their $20 in coupon vouchers to Chilis or TGI Fridays or whatever. In the case they probably sampled the opinions of stay at home moms and senior citizens, like that "what moms think of Dead Space 2" commercial without the satire, where their opinions mattered in shaping the final makeup of the game.

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Why are they singing the dialogue? I'm confused.

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Loool. Awesome. I wasn't expecting that.

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Ending should have been a huge Song/Dance Number.

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#49 Blabadon
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That was the greatest thing I've never seen.
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#50 drekula2
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If we're talking about Tess betraying Joel, two problems arise:

1. Why would Joel have the motivation to take Ellie across the country?

2. Why would Tess have the motivation to go all the way across the country?