The Last of Us HBO series

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Great series. Have never played the games surprisingly since I’m a big video game guy. Next thing to watch is a play through of Part 1.

If you have the chance, play them. Playthroughs give most of the idea, but its a different experience when you are joel and ellie for all those hours.
 
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Just finished the finale and loved it. Only complaint is 9 episodes wasn’t enough to fully build out the character bonds. But understand they have to balance “boring” and “action” in this day and age. Agree with @alarson - should have been 10-12 episode but if your biggest complaint is that it wasn’t long enough, that’s a damn good show.
 
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Trying to play the game on PS5, I remember why shooter should never ever ever be played on a console. Ugh.
 

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My wife and I aren't gamers and we thought the series was great, can't wait for the second season. We didn't know at the time it was based on a video game.
 

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Craig Mazin has been on fire with Chernobyl and now Last of Us. He's sort of like the reverse M. Night Shyamalan in terms of director success.
 
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Haven't played the game as I'm too much of a scaredey-cat to play them, but wow that hospital ending.. I bet if you did a poll it would be split 50/50 on Joel's decisions there.
 

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Haven't played the game as I'm too much of a scaredey-cat to play them, but wow that hospital ending.. I bet if you did a poll it would be split 50/50 on Joel's decisions there.

They said when they were play-testing the first game they did some polling of the people testing it on that question.

Among those without kids it was roughly 50\50.

Among those with kids, it was 100% agreeing with Joel's decision.
 

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I see they released a soundtrack for the series. At first glance looks like all the same song that were on the game soundtracks.

EDIT: I take it back. There is some new stuff. Including Offerman singing Long Long Time
 
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Haven't played the game as I'm too much of a scaredey-cat to play them, but wow that hospital ending.. I bet if you did a poll it would be split 50/50 on Joel's decisions there.
How it was presented I’m 100% with Joel. Had Ellie been asked and told the ramifications of such a decision and agreed to do it, I’d be against Joel. They didn’t ask, they just tried to take. For me this is an easy moral decision. It also helped those guys were bullying the **** out of him as they scooted him off prem.
 

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Been catching up with this show and finished it. Really well done, might have to go play the game now.
 

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Been catching up with this show and finished it. Really well done, might have to go play the game now.

I tried, it has just such horrific controls. It comes out on PC in a month so I think I will just get it there.
 
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I tried, it has just such horrific controls. It comes out on PC in a month so I think I will just get it there.

The Last of Us Part 2 is one of the best playing 3rd person action games ever made. The old version of The Last of Us on PS3/PS4 is not quite as good, but still pretty dang solid. I believe the new version on PS5 has updated to be more like Part 2.
 
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The Last of Us Part 2 is one of the best playing 3rd person action games ever made. The old version of The Last of Us on PS3/PS4 is not quite as good, but still pretty dang solid. I believe the new version on PS5 has updated to be more like Part 2.

Yeah I played the PS5 version. PC version looks like it comes out next week.