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Just JEDITED the title and hijacked my own The Last of Us thread so that I can have a place to talk about The Last of Us.
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This rather pointless thread contains early game spoilers for the PS3 game The Last of Us. If you haven't played at least through the fourth chapter of the game, then minor spoilers follow.
So, The Last of Us is about a smuggler and a fourteen year old girl who have to travel across the post-apocalyptic cordycep infected United States together. At one point in the game you require a car and the main character decides to cash in a favor with an old acquaintance of his. The acquaintance is reluctant to help but is eventually guilted and pressured into the task. This man, Bill, is a crotchety middle aged asshole, and is a complete dick to both your characters as he helps you trek across dangerous neighborhoods filled with deadly infected on your way to acquiring a working car battery. But I imagine if I lived outside the quarantine zone and had to deal with cordycep infected humans at all hours of everyday, I'd be a bit of a grump too.
After a long and daunting journey across this treacherous neighborhood, you enter a house and discover a dead man hanging by the neck from the ceiling. This seems to really upset Bill, and when you ask him he admits that the man was his "partner". A note from Bill's dead lover is discovered that basically says he is sick of Bill and can't stand to be around him anymore and was going to steal the functioning car battery and run away, but was bit by the infected and had to kill himself. Ouch. Soon you part ways with the very distressed Bill, and after you get a ways down the road you discover the 14 year old girl stole a comic book, a cassette tape, and a beefcake magazine from Bill's home. After taking a peak and the centerfold, cracking some jokes about how Bill is going to be missing it tonight, she tosses it out the moving vehicle's window.
So after all Bill did to help our protagonists, he gets to wander the long and dangerous journey back home, this time all by himself with no one to cover his back, while grief stricken and heartbroken from learning of his loved one's demise and true feelings. Assuming he eventually makes it home alive, the poor guy is going to attempt to turn to his gay porn mag for a little relief, and discover it is missing, just because some silly girl wanted a giggle at it before tossing it on the roadside. I am sure porn mags have got to be a hot commodity in the post apocalyptic world, with no more free internet porn out there, the things must be treasured like gold. Gay porn mags are probably an even bigger rarity. Poor Bill may never stumble across another in his lifetime.
What is up with Naughty Dog choosing to knock this poor guy down and then kick him repeatedly? The guy was kind of a dick the whole time, but having the main characters steal his porn and have a laugh about it after the extremely sort of shitty day he had just had seems like a bit much.