Watched my roommate play through most of that section.rembrandtqeinstein said:
The way Ellie attacks people makes me think of a murderous backpack.
The Very Last of Us
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Because as we all know, polygons is emotions, and Ellen Page has lots of polygons!Zachary Amaranth said:
Now, so Ellie had an unbreakable ninja knife of doom the whole time. Question: Why the fuck hasn't Joel looted a Walmart or something and gotten a decent knife? Those stores have a fuckton of them. Maybe he's just an idiot. I don't know.
I found Ellie to be much more fragile since my playstyle was: sneak, get found, isolate the enemy, close the distance then bash their face in to conserve ammo/look badass. With Ellie open melee combat was impossible without being grabbed as you try and cut them with that little dinky knife. I'd really just prefer Joel's fists to that letter opener, especially since her knife takedowns were anything but stealthy.Imp Emissary said:Yeah, that's why I had more fun playing Ellie than Joel.
The game actually makes you feel a bit more powerful when you play the 14 year old girl vs. the grown man. xD
But what can I say, Ellie is awesome.
Invincible Murder Knife!
A difference in experiences I guess.philosophicalbastard said:I found Ellie to be much more fragile since my playstyle was: sneak, get found, isolate the enemy, close the distance then bash their face in to conserve ammo/look badass. With Ellie open melee combat was impossible without being grabbed as you try and cut them with that little dinky knife. I'd really just prefer Joel's fists to that letter opener, especially since her knife takedowns were anything but stealthy.Imp Emissary said:Yeah, that's why I had more fun playing Ellie than Joel.
The game actually makes you feel a bit more powerful when you play the 14 year old girl vs. the grown man. xD
But what can I say, Ellie is awesome.
I pretty much found that Ellie played about the same as Joel in a fire fight, and I was able to kill with the knife without getting noticed that much.
Though yeah, she isn't as good with close combat as Joel,
but she can shank all the clickers she wants!
Just grab a bottle/brick, throw to unbalance enemy, and immediately knive them in the face for an instant kill. Works wonders.philosophicalbastard said:I found Ellie to be much more fragile since my playstyle was: sneak, get found, isolate the enemy, close the distance then bash their face in to conserve ammo/look badass. With Ellie open melee combat was impossible without being grabbed as you try and cut them with that little dinky knife. I'd really just prefer Joel's fists to that letter opener, especially since her knife takedowns were anything but stealthy.Imp Emissary said:Yeah, that's why I had more fun playing Ellie than Joel.
The game actually makes you feel a bit more powerful when you play the 14 year old girl vs. the grown man. xD
But what can I say, Ellie is awesome.
This comic portrays my exact thoughts when I got to...
Why would even a makeshift shiv break after only two uses anyway? Joel's crafting must be pretty weak in the first place.
the Winter chapter. When I got to play as Ellie and realised she had a bonafide knife the whole time I literally shouted at the screen: "Why didn't Joel get one of those!" It's clearly the biggest ethical dilema in the whole game.
Damn, that girl's violent. The way she throws that knife around one of Joel's shivs wouldn't last five seconds. Although I enjoyed her vicious stabbing at Daniel in a perverse kind of way; that was somewhat satisfying after everything he did.
Damn, that girl's violent. The way she throws that knife around one of Joel's shivs wouldn't last five seconds. Although I enjoyed her vicious stabbing at Daniel in a perverse kind of way; that was somewhat satisfying after everything he did.
Why would even a makeshift shiv break after only two uses anyway? Joel's crafting must be pretty weak in the first place.
Yeah it was, but the end result is basically the same. Or should I say, the "feel" of the E3 demo is very much in the final game.Marik2 said:
I seem to be a vitriol magnet. It's my other super power. My first being pattern recognition.thaluikhain said:
Errr...That's nice, but neither of us said anything indicating otherwise.Hunter85792 said:
It's an alternate reality where most items were made out of cotton candy.Maxtro said:
They were a truly disposable (and edible) society, which is why they met their downfall.
Or, at least, that's what I choose to imagine.
This.ThingWhatSqueaks said:
Letting her keep the knife made sense. While Joel could easily pummel folk into submission with his fists, Ellie has neither the reach or the strength to do so. With the knife she's got at least a chance of holding her own if needed.
I found she did jump on things and go stab happy pretty often if Joel got grabbed. Didn't always take them down but it gave me enough time to get up and swing a two by four into their teeth.
Well there's the problem. Joel should have aimed for the neck! They should go down quicker that way! 20 years of drinking really messed up his aim (among other things).JonB said:
Joel had the ingenuity to make his own damn knives AND had all the guns, why should Ellie have given up her only weapon? Story wise, it actually makes more sense that she kept it to herself. Gameplay wise it would have been easier had she given it up, but it wouldn't make any logical sense for her to do it.
If anything, an apocalypse strengthens her property rights, because they are now basically living a free-market society.Combustion Kevin said:
The shivs that Joel uses will break after they are used. Ellie has a knife that never breaks, but only she gets to use it.McMarbles said:
That's it.
If she used it particularly often I'd be all for her just keeping it to herself, but she saved me maybe four times with the damn thing, and I wasted so many poor pairs of scissors. It wouldn't have killed her to lend it to me whenever I needed a shiv, at the very least- maybe with a dedicated "Hey, Ellie, can I borrow that vibranium knife you have?" button.