To create immersive, story-driven video games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us and its 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Part 2 sequel, Naughty Dog had to undergo several possibilities for the storyline. It's also worth noting that it cost Sony and Naughty Dog at least to produce Part 2.
Unfortunately, just like any other video game or TV series, not every pitched idea made it to the final product. The follo𝔉wing list contains every scenario﷽ that we're sad to see not included in the final product.
10 Joel's Girlfriend, Esওther
Esther is a character who is mentioned in The Last of Us: One Night Live musical event in 2014. According to Haley Gross, the game's co-writer, Naughty Dog tried different approaches to feature this character in Part 2ꩲ but decided to scrap all the ideas from the final cut. "I think she lived out by the dams, by the electric dams🔴, and they kind of had a commuter relationship," Gross told ,
9 ♉ Esther's Death
According to Gross, after tꦓhe scene where Tommy taught Ellie how to hunt, the two were supposed to meet Joel and head over to Esther's dam, only to find that she's bitten and infected already. After that, the two would wrap her injury with a tourniquet. Knowing that she was going to die, Joel would ask Ellie to go to the nearest river, and as soon as she reached the water, Ellie would hear a loud baꦰng coming from the house.
8 Marlene's Alternative Death 🔯
In the final product of the first Last of Us, Joel still had to go through several hospital levels after forcefully taking Ellie from the doctors. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网🔯:Marlene was waiting at the parking lot, and ♑the final conversation between the two resulted in her death🌟.
However, Naughty Dog had actually plౠanned an alternate death for the character. Initially, Marlene would intervene with Joel in the surgery room before the latter ended up killing everyone.
7 Jerry Anderson's Altern🐈ative Death
The death of Jerry Anderson, the head of neu🥃rosurgery, is inevitable in the final product, but it's up to the players to spare the other doctors. On the other hand, one of the very first scenes Neil Druckmann has planned is for Joel to kill every single doctor in the room.
6 O🌟pen World Map
Formerly, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 2 was planned to be an open-world game 'with several different hubs.' Speaking to , Druckmann explained that the original idea was to play as Abby at first and do several missions. After being saved by Tommy and Joel, the two would take Abby's group to Jackson to where her true colors were revealed. Again, the idea was scrapped because Naughty Dog didn't feel lꦑike it would suit the game's story-driven narrative.
5 Ellie Suffer༺ing From PTSD After Hunting A Boar
In the final product of Part 2, Ellie suffered from PTSD at the farm after hearing Joel'sജ scream in the back of her head. However, during an , Druckmann said that the team had planned a playable hunting scene during the Farm chapter. "It was kind of interesting to get into her psyche in that she kills the boar and that kind of squeals and she hears Joel. It was mixed with her scream," he said.
4 Humanizing The Serꦏaphites
During development, Naughty Dog deleted an entire level of Ellie going to the Seraphite island, in a way to humanize the primitive cult. This particular scene is meant to showcase to the players 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the human side of the Seraphites. Unfortunately, this scene is nowhere to be seen in the final product becaus🔥e it didn't progress Ellie's arc.
"It was really cool. Tꦬhe 🦹designers had a lot of great elements to it, but we ended up scrapping it because it didn't move her story along narratively," Gross told The Washington Post.
3 🎶 Ellie Killing Abby 🎃
Instead of Santa Barbara, the final showdown of Part 2 was initially planned to 🎐take place. In fact, Abby's death happened to cross in the mind of the game's writers before scrapping it from the final cut. During the lasౠt fight at the beach, , Ellie would try to drown Abby to death, leaving Lev helpless on the boat.
2 Jꦬoel Moaning 'Sarah' Before Abby Killed Him
Initially, before Abby crushed his skull, Joel's last word would be 'Sarah.' He'd say it while looking at Ellie, implying that his late daughter was all Ellie had ever been to Joel. "It felt powerful, but then Troy [Baker] — to his credit — was like, 'I don't꧅ think he should say anything.' We shot both versions, and Troy was right. The scene was stronger without it," Druckmann told .
1 Playable D💯ancing Scene
At first, Naughty Dog planned the dance scene at the party as a playable one. The game's original script says that players could interact with Cat (Ellie's ex-lover), mix drinks, chase children, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and dance with Dina. Con🤡trary to the final outcome, the party scene was written as the game's opening scene. Unfortunately, for narrative purposes, this scene was put at the end of the game reverted as a non-interactive cutscene.