Last of Us Part III
 

Hopefully they make it better then pt 2. Pt2 is setting my expectations *very* low for this one.

Its horrible because I absolutely loved the first one.

Something the second game never really bothered following up on is what made Ellie so special that she was bitten and immune to turning? It just never came up in the second game and it's weird because that was the main plot of the original. I assume Ellie is not some "special" case and there's probably more immune people out there, we just never hear about it.

I don't know what they can do with a third game, unless they want to give some type of "happy ending" and have them derive a cure from Ellie to stop the infected. Because otherwise Ellie's story is pretty much done.

Her mom was infected prior to giving birth to her. It's said by Marlene in the first game.

There's a ton of things to do in a sequel. And where even was Ellie heading to at the end of II?

But why would that stop Ellie from being infected when she got bit later when she was like 12 or whenever that was?

I assume to find her wife and adopted son as they left her because she went to get revenge on Abby.

That's when she was bit, not infected. Her bond to the fungus from birth is what makes her immune to the infection.

She got anti-fungus antibodies from her mom's placenta, basically. When she got bit at 12 that was when she realized she was immune. No one realized she was special until that point.

Imagine part 3 being all about Abby.

I wouldn't be hugely against that. As long as Lev gets killed off early on. It's been a few months since I replayed it, but Abby and Lev in Santa Barbara have some dialogue where they mention their plans after finding the Fireflies before they're snatched up by the Rattlers... was it going across the ocean or going across the United States? One of the two things.

I doubt they'll use Abby, her story with Ellie's is over. They were connected by Joel's death but both moved passed it, there's no reason to use her.

I have seen people theorize they could do another time skip and make Ellie a 30-40+ year old woman in the next game, but I'm curious if they'll go that far. I guess they could do anything though, it's impossible to speculate since they can take it in any direction they want.

I just hope it doesn't take until the Playstation 6 for the game to come out, but knowing how game development is, it probably will be for the next console.

I think a big time skip is a definite possibility. Have Ellie become what Joel was, essentially. Or maybe Abby hooks up with some super organized people that can really help the world and the game is like "The Search for Ellie," with no Ellie until later in the game. Also, it'd be nice to have a male character for at least some of the game, after the very estrogen-charged II -- which I did enjoy. A lot of people decry it or get hung up on the blatant virtue signaling (these stories are GOOD and told WELL... they didn't need to add that in there at all for brownie points with weirdos) but I found II to be an exhausting -- in a good way -- voyage into pure vengeance, with very few punches held. The ending was unsatisfying and that was the point, but in this case I found it poetic and not a slap in the face.

And probably they want to push this out so they can have material for season 4 and 5 of the TV show.

So... SOMETHING is happening.

https://www.gamingbible.com/news/the...DU8GlpMSiCEUuQ

Another nugget.

https://www.cbr.com/the-last-of-us-p...lowgwmTkUMUYyQ

https://www.naughtydog.com/blog/neil...EkbLZvJ3ae3z7w

So definitely two more games. If you were to read the comments there as straight-up then it'd mean two sequels to II linearly but probably one of them is something else. Maybe the prequel with Joel's "missing years" people keep blabbing about, as if that'd be anything meaningful, and then a proper Last of Us Part III with Ellie and Abby and all.

The way he's talking there, 2028 at the earliest though for either one. Shesus. Modern gaming is really awful sometimes.