I just played through the game this past week. Joel definitely gives a long drawn out explanation about how the dam works and she calls him out as to having no idea what he's talking about and he could've just said he doesn't know.
I swore in the game - Joel & Ellie pretty much had the same conversation as the show - are u sure about this
It's timestamped and maybe I was trippin.
i must be buggin , (unless I’m thinking about another scene)
cause i swear I remember Joel saying he doesn’t know how it works.
Give me a few minutes and I’ll see if I can find a place through.
I knew he sounded familiar
I didn't need long drawn out fight, but it wasn't even a struggle. Idk I'm just saying that's probably the biggest moment in the game. It just didn't hit like it should have for me.
. Even death doesn't feel impactful, because you can just restart from your last checkpoint.Still, though….we didn’t really get much of Joel being a badass in this. Even a flashback or two would do it. I want to see him smashing up some dude with a brick tooVideo games give the player a false sense of invincibility to where they are more reckless with their body, because they can just use a health kit and regenerate. I got shot 2 times point blank? Let me hide behind this desk, and use this health kit
One big thing about the show compared to the game, is the characters feel more human. Joel is a haggard 50+ year old man, so of course he's not going to be murking countless infected and hunters by himself. Of course he's going to have to come to terms with his mortality, and of course he's going to be scared at the prospect of getting older and weaker in an increasingly violent world. It's perfectly normal human reaction.
Yeah dudes talking about "the ellie in the real game was sexier"
