supposedly there was an epilogue ending where joel and ellie are at his brother's dam three years later. if that is true, i'm confused. i thought by then the rest of the human race would have died off or the zombies or someone would have overrun the world.
shareThe game didn't imply that any such thing was going to happen within a 3-year span. On the contrary, it showed there were plenty of communities still surviving and doing relatively well for themselves, even if most of them did resort to brutal methods to maintain order.
shareso was the ending and title really implying that the human race was going to go extinct if ellie was not sacrificed? the title is called the LAST of us, but there were plenty of cities and settlements like you said. To say that they human race would still survive without the vaccine kind of shoots that in the foot doesn't it?
shareThe game isn't called "The Last of us who are about to die out in a few years". It's called "The Last of Us", meaning the future status is uncertain. And no, the ending didn't say humanity was about to go completely extinct, nor did it even imply it. If you read all the files and recordings in the hospital, none of them even mention extinction at all.
It is true that humanity faces the distant possibility of extinction, but the notion that it is set in stone and will happen within a few years has no foundation. On the contrary, Tommy's town showed that it was indeed possible to build a thriving peaceful community even with the infection ever-present. Certainly he can't be the only one who has built up such thing, could he?
As I stated in another thread, you have to keep in mind that the infection had already been around for 20 years. Clearly people can survive -- without a cure -- as long as they're smart about it.
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Why don't you take a pill, bake a cake, go read the encyclopaedia.
Humanity wasn't going to die off within the world created by the game. The number of humans is vastly diminished from 2013, but there are still plenty of us out there in 2033/34. But let's say that humanity did go extinct in your scenario, the infected would have died out as well and then there would be nothing, and life on Earth would be able to recover from humanity.
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