Current Events > Why did Troy Baker tell fans to keep an open mind about The Last of Us Part II?

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Watch the plot be full of nonsense.

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Or maybe it's because a bunch of dweebs started crying when she kissed a girl?

Sewage posted...

Or maybe it's because a bunch of dweebs started crying when she kissed a girl?

You gotta admit. That girl did have a pretty big nose.

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Why did people act shocked by the trailer for it

We already knew Ellie was gay in the first game

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Because itll be more of Joel is a bad guy and probably kill him off in 2 seconds. Female power

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darkprince45 posted...

Joel is a bad guy

I mean you played the same ending I did right

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He made a pretty human choice, I dont think its inherently bad. Fucked up situation

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The_Scarecrow posted...

Watch the plot be full of nonsense.

I betcha he's just talking about the lesbian love interest.

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darkprince45 posted...

He made a pretty human choice, I dont think its inherently bad. Fucked up situation

I mean agree to disagree but I view it as pretty selfish and destructive

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Doom_Art posted...

I mean agree to disagree but I view it as pretty selfish and destructive

We don't trade lives. Ever.

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undefined posted...

To begin, I NEVER do this. I am sure there will be people on here that immediately call "bs" and say that it's "not really me" but it is, so let's just move on, shall we? Perhaps there will be another forum for this to be discussed, as well, but I happened to stumble upon this and I felt responding to it was pertinent and appropriate. This is specifically in regards to docman's comment in regards to me not being happy with the creative director for Naughty Dog, Neil Druckmann. The article you cite, featuring a comment made by Neil in regards to the scene in the Prologue is not out of context, but I feel you're extrapolating too much or at least jumping to some conclusions. Everything he says in that article is true. The first day we shot that scene was, with no exaggeration, the second most difficult day of my life. The first being the day of the actual event I was "pulling from" emotionally for the scene. As an actor it was one of the worst experiences of my life. It is a dangerous and precarious thing to delve into the darkest recesses of your mind where your conscious has tucked certain memories away in an effort to protect you. When you go poking and prodding around for them, especially in a novel and recreational effort to exploit them for your own purposes, you will discover very quickly how fragile those protective barriers are. Such was the case on the day we shot that scene. And as sweaty and red-eyed and emotionally wrecked as I was at the end of it, I was proud. "I NAILED it!" I said to myself.
...And I could not have been more wrong. I was so consumed with a desire to show the world a performance that made critics stand up and applaud, for gamers to weep because they were so immersed in a scene from a video game that I completely lost sight to what was actually happening in the scene and how it served the story. That I wasn't happy working with Neil to be the only thing you take away from that article would not only be incorrect, it would be an injustice. When Neil came to me and told me we had to reshoot it, to me, was one of the finest moments and purest representations of what a truly remarkable director he is. Yes I was pissed. Yes I looked at him and said "Are you f***ing KIDDING ME?!" Most directors would have cowered and acquiesced, walking away mumbling "f***ing actors" under their breath and would return to the office trying to figure out how in the hell they were going to "fix it in post". He didn't. He had the integrity, the vision, the moxy AND the respect for me to stand up and tell me what was going to happen. He is, in all honesty, the best director I have ever worked with. That scene, with all of its complexity, all of its tragedy, all of its beauty, is what it is not because of me, but in spite of me. Neil took me to a place that I never thought was possible. And it was such an honest place, devoid of ego. I grew as an actor and as a person because of him and I'm eternally grateful. If any awards are to be given because of the performances in The Last of Us, let it be known that at the foundation is what Neil wrote and the space he cultivated for the actors to explore. I would work for that man, for Bruce Straley and the entire Naughty Dog team any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Cheers,

Troy Baker

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lydiaquayle posted...

I betcha he's just talking about the lesbian love interest.

It's possible but he then mentioned that he didn't know if people would like the game or hate it but they definitely wouldn't be ambivalent about it. It's a little worrying to hear that from one of the main VA. Sounds like Naughty Dog took the story in a direction that some people really aren't going to like.

https://www.gamesradar.com/the-last-of-us-2-according-to-troy-baker-i-dont-know-whether-people-are-going-to-like-it-or-hate-it/


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I'm hoping it means they aren't worried about pleasing people who like Joel and Ellie and that they're gonna do some flawed and fucked up things.

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Doom_Art posted...

Why did people act shocked by the trailer for it

We already knew Ellie was gay in the first game

part of it is that explicit homosexuality whatsoever is viewed by dumb people and pandering, and part of it is that an uncomfortable amount of people found Ellie attractive in the first game and are upset about their weird fantasies being derailed

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