The Last of Us is more popular than ever thanks to both the HBO TV series and The Last of Us: Part I remake. Regardless of whether you are watching the show or playing the game for the first time, there is a ridiculous amount of lore just waiting to be explored that neither medium fully uncover.
Want to know how the outbreak started? Wondering why society fell so quickly? Or are you just curious as to what Joel got up to in the 20 years between the prologue and the main story? Well, thankfully, we have the answers for you as we break it all down in our explainer on the first 20 years of The Last of Us apocalypse.
You can check out this lore deep dive over on the Push Square YouTube channel, where we cover the outbreak, fall of society, and Joel’s early years in a fun documentary format.
As part of a series, we want to know what other games you’d love to see get the deep dive treatment. Maybe one of your favourite PlayStation scenes brought under a microscopic lens? Whatever it is, let us know down below.
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Nice. I'll watch this while I eat tea.
That piece of art has Joel looking like Josh Duhamel from the Transformers movies!
Question, you talk about the first 20 years after apocalypse. It's actually 5 years if I'm correct?!!
@Rombout
I think you are confused. In the lore the apocalypse began in 2013 and the first game is set in 2033. So 20 years later. There is a 5 year time jump between the first and the second game. Ellie wasn't even born yet when the apocalypse began.
@MightyDemon82
Lots of different ones in the artbook. Glad they went with the one we know
That was excellent. Looking forward to p2.
It’s fine to disagree or express that the remake isn’t for you, but I’m disgusted with the gaming community on how they’ve railed against this company. The company who’ve blessed us with some of the finest, most absorbing games ever created. And we turn around & ***** on them at the first opportunity? They’re releasing this for the PC market and players who haven’t played it yet. The upgrades are beautiful - they’re not forcing you to buy it, it’s there if you want it. If not, replay it on the PS4. They can hardly sell the PC version for full price, but give it to PS gamers for half price just in case you’ve played it. To the haters: be grateful Naughty dog exist & grow up. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.
@andykara2003 but they're releasing it for PC straight at £50. On the other hand, they released it on PS5 for £70, just a few months ago. All other discussion about the remake aside (was it necessary etc), I can understand why this would annoy some fans. Naughty Dog are a Sony first party studio - in what way does it make sense to pay £70 for a game made by a Sony studio, on Sony's own platform right now, when I can pre-order that exact same game on a third party platform for PC that takes a cut of each sale, for £50?
A lot of the complaints about the price were specifically about the £70 price tag, not people expecting to get the game for half price
@andykara2003
The problem is that the PS5 can run the Last of us Remastered. So why not just Market that? Rather than making a £70 remake that isn't actually needed when they haven't released the TLoU2 MP mode yet and they are now talking about moving on from TLoU, and then say about a potential part 3. Part 3 should have been getting worked on alongside Factions, really. Not a remake that isn't needed.
Aaaaaand well done to PushSquare for bringing an old article back from the dead and giving it a fresh title and time stamp, so I think I'm responding to someone who commented only minutes ago, only to realise the comment is several months old
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@danlk1ng don't worry, I just did the same thing lol.
@SolaceCreed yours would have made more sense last August at least. Back then we could have all predicted that it would be coming to PC, but they hadn't announced the price for the PC version or anything
@danlk1ng @SolaceCreed Yes, I get that more I’ve calmed down I was just frustrated at the level of hate. It ideally it should’ve been £50. I might buy it later, but I feel the Joel & Ellie don’t look the same as the characters I know & love.
Lol we all know what Joel was up to he was good and bad through out the time before the events of the first game.
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