What happened to the rest of the world in The Last of Us?

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  • čas přidán 3. 05. 2024
  • The Last of Us is a very character-focused game. But as a post-apocalyptic game, the world is a character itself. But we don’t know all that much about the world of The Last of Us and what happened to it, especially not the rest of the world outside of the US. So this video will focus on what happened to the rest of the world in The Last of Us’ universe. What happened to the rest of the world in The Last of Us, and what state is it in now?
    Hey everyone! In this video, we’ll go over one of my favorite aspects of The Last of Us: its world! But more specifically what happened to the rest of the world in The Last of Us? How did they deal with the CBI outbreak and where are they at now? Well, that’s what this video is about!
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  • @Acciaccatura85
    @Acciaccatura85 Před 3 lety +14705

    I like to think New Zealand just quietly closed its borders and carried on with life.

    • @aramhalamech4204
      @aramhalamech4204 Před 3 lety +2467

      since new zealand is missing from half of all maps ever made it's very likely they would probably just be forgotten.

    • @jessicacooke2757
      @jessicacooke2757 Před 3 lety +2425

      As a New Zealander, I can confirm this is the case. Unfortunately, we would likely undergo drastic societal changes due to losing exports from the rest of the world, though giving how farming is one of our biggest industries, we will likely survive in some form. This of course, assumes that there were no cases within the country, which I highly doubt. Unless the mushrooms figure out how to swim.

    • @TheSuperPsychoKiller
      @TheSuperPsychoKiller Před 3 lety +454

      Part2 should have been an adventure to New Zealand

    • @carfactorycustoms422
      @carfactorycustoms422 Před 3 lety +305

      yea bro we just chilling here with a mint prime minister

    • @kiramiller2875
      @kiramiller2875 Před 3 lety +13

      Acciaccatura85 😂😂😂

  • @matthieugauthier5128
    @matthieugauthier5128 Před 3 lety +8461

    I hope they do zombie games outside of the USA so surviving & getting weapons would actually be a challenge

    • @MapleBeanerPlay
      @MapleBeanerPlay Před 3 lety +335

      DayZ haha

    • @AngelFlipz
      @AngelFlipz Před 3 lety +59

      Nice profile pic lol

    • @matthieugauthier5128
      @matthieugauthier5128 Před 3 lety +69

      Canadian Bassist ayyyyy ;D

    • @AngelFlipz
      @AngelFlipz Před 3 lety +22

      @@matthieugauthier5128 Ayeee ;D

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes Před 3 lety +314

      Eh, anywhere else in the world government armories would be emptied of their contents pretty quickly by survivors.
      Gun control only works when you actually have a government.

  • @gplgs4640
    @gplgs4640 Před rokem +1667

    The concept of some isolated island country actually avoiding the outbreak and being the safe haven for humanity with a still fully functioning and intact society would be insane, and a spin-off story about a survivor on a quest to make their way to that safe haven would be perfect

    • @preceptorprime2894
      @preceptorprime2894 Před rokem +106

      It’s funny because places like cuba would be fine, why is it in a lot of post apocalyptic situations cuba ends up being fine

    • @MuantanamoMobile
      @MuantanamoMobile Před rokem +139

      @@preceptorprime2894 I am thinking many panicked and infected Americans would try to flee to Cuba. Since it's relatively close and they have the means to do so like private yachts etc.
      Others like New Zealand would also face the same situation...unless they chose to execute everyone attempting entry, keeping infection at bay might be a challenge.
      The ones that would likely do the best are those isolated island nations that aren't as attractive or easy to flee to like Comoros or Tristan da Cunha.
      This is ideal because it takes quite a few days (6 days minimum from the closes ports in S. Africa) to travel to Tristan which can only accessed by boat as there are no landing strips/air ports.
      By which time anyone bitten would already have been overtaken by the fungus and visibly manifest symptoms enough time to get everyone on board. Any boats or ships now full of the infected would either capsize or drift aimless in the ocean. And be destroyed safely from a distance if they approached the island.

    • @preceptorprime2894
      @preceptorprime2894 Před rokem +11

      @@MuantanamoMobile or they could just close up their borders, they have military’s

    • @charlestonianbuilder344
      @charlestonianbuilder344 Před rokem +46

      The UK can be a good example too, the main island is a lost cause, but theres many smaller islands thats apart of the UK and since this is one of the rich countries with a pretty good military, i can see them setting up some QZs on islands, and the story following our main character progressing though the country to the safe haven.

    • @animesenpai1163
      @animesenpai1163 Před rokem +31

      Philippines and Indonesia is a contender, the main islands may become infected but the other islands may survive.
      Philippines also has a lot of guns in circulation, I'm guessing the freedom fighters will survive as they are already in hiding from the government and has a supply of ammunition they also usually live in the mountains and/or islands, their main problem would be information, will the information reach them first or will the infected do.(God I hope my government knows what context is and not think I'm one of them for some reason I hate to think they're reading this and is already mobilizing a force to get me)

  • @owen5640
    @owen5640 Před 2 lety +2454

    As a Canadian living in a somewhat small northern city, I can confirm that Canada would survive in some form. There are many small isolated communities almost completely cut off from the rest of the world, some even don't have roads going to them and receive goods through helicopter deliveries. There are also many people that live off the land and homestead. It's also like 80% wilderness up here, making it unlikely to have massive hoards in low population areas.

    • @calcueater2733
      @calcueater2733 Před rokem +77

      +
      Unless the infected decided to move to another place to get more prey to fall into their hands.

    • @rzwitdauncut
      @rzwitdauncut Před rokem +66

      1 year later.....
      Yea I agree. The good thing about a scenario like this is because currency will go back to just trading items. You got something i want you have something I want. Lets trade. The currency we use today will seize to exist.
      By the way I could just imagine living on land. It would be wonderful. Your sitting on your porch, listening to the radio and all of a sudden you here a broadcast coming from the US that the zombie apocalypse has started😂😂
      im curious Owen whats the first thing your gonna do? For me I would find my family ASAP. get a hold of them and find a place to meet up. If the games and movies serve us right the electronical grid should be shut down shortly after. Get all the phone calls in as possible

    • @Josh-hv2ze
      @Josh-hv2ze Před rokem +46

      Most Canadians live near the border with the us though

    • @owen5640
      @owen5640 Před rokem +150

      @@rzwitdauncut I'm actually a millwright (industrial mechanic) that's worked in the energy sector, so I can speak on that topic with some authority.
      Southern Ontario would lose power within 48 hours because most of their energy is generated by nuclear plants on the great lakes. Without the engineers and operators the plants would automatically shut down and cool the fissile fuel to prevent a meltdown.
      Northern Ontario's power is mostly generated by hydroelectric plants. Depending on the plant it could stay operational for years. Larger plants are operated by automatic systems that could generate enough power to keep themselves running for years. Smaller plants are usually run by private companies that sell the energy and are less advanced requiring more human oversight to operate, they could probably run for a few weeks before failing.
      But, even large hydro plants would eventually fail due to lack of maintenance. Rust would eat at the structure, worn bearings and gears would seize the turbines, gearboxes would run dry without grease, electronics would corrode, water intakes would clog (which would also cause massive flooding), the list goes on.
      None of this actually matters because the grid itself would fail first (probably within a few days, assuming no safeguards are tripped) without people to oversee transformers and substations. So even if plants are operating, there's no power being delivered to your house. But, it is believable that people with the right technical, mechanical, and electrical knowledge would be able to restart a hydro plant or wire up abandoned solar panels with the right equipment and replacement parts.
      Sorry for the long winded rant, I hope my mechanical nerdiness was somewhat interesting

    • @rzwitdauncut
      @rzwitdauncut Před rokem +37

      @@owen5640 yes this is great insight. See. This is EXACTLY why owners, managers, and hire ups should respect us more. Seriously. Owen without people like you to run the plants this whole entire place would be in shambles. The operations wouldn't run without proper supervision and insight like you said. If you guys aren't doing the job who will? Not the hire ups. Not the elites. No sir.
      I think the big thing would be communication. Like you said it would take minimum a few weeks for the average ones. Can you imagine? I mean man. That would be tough. Also I made a reddit post that if there ever comes a time when the broadcasters for the news bail out on the studio that would officially mean we are in a serious apocalypse.
      Like the people on the news reported the co19 throughout the entire time. If it comes a time when the only way you can get the news is by the radio then yea we are in a apocalypse for real. By the way is that type of work worth it?

  • @drawde_064
    @drawde_064 Před 3 lety +5409

    They should make a spin off game called something like: ‘The Last of Us: Early Days’ and focus on Joel early on (like a few months after the prologue) and also have three more characters across the rest of the world (One in the UK, one in Kenya and another in China) so that the UK people can show Europe, the Kenyan people can show Africa and the Chinese people can show Asia.

    • @gerryldionisio6125
      @gerryldionisio6125 Před 3 lety +325

      That would be cool, a tv show that’s connected to the last of us and has your ideas would cool as well

    • @libefiken1863
      @libefiken1863 Před 3 lety +37

      Drawde_064 world war Z ripoff? No thanks!

    • @gerryldionisio6125
      @gerryldionisio6125 Před 3 lety +329

      The last of us is far more better than world war z... Plus we just wanna know how other countries and people are coping with the Cordyceps brain infection

    • @xptaco2298
      @xptaco2298 Před 3 lety +35

      @@libefiken1863 wow your so single minded

    • @asgeer5351
      @asgeer5351 Před 3 lety +50

      it would be better than TLOU 2.

  • @chaplainyellow3519
    @chaplainyellow3519 Před 3 lety +1163

    This game really had me wanting to see everywhere an everything

  • @hansmuller1809
    @hansmuller1809 Před 3 lety +3470

    when you realise: The Last of U.S.

  • @mashmash4597
    @mashmash4597 Před 3 lety +1048

    I kinda like the idea that we (The players) have no idea what happened to the rest of the world. Especially now that TLoU1 was set twenty years after the outbreak.
    In such a scenario, realistically we won't know what happens to the rest of the world if we lost all forms of communication except for walkie talkies and radios.

    • @TheiPadCat
      @TheiPadCat  Před 3 lety +138

      Yeah, it certainly adds to the immersion. It’s like in the walking dead. Everyone’s knowledge of what happens to the outside world would be reduced to 0 as radio, TV and internet goes down for the last time.
      For lore reasons I would very much like to know, but I understand why we don’t get to. They’ve left just enough info in there for the fans’ imagination to go wild but not enough to give a definitive answer. Which is a great way to go about it

    • @Rodrigo_Vega
      @Rodrigo_Vega Před rokem

      I find it's such an US American thing to go "Well, we have the most GUN and all problems can be solved by more GUN, right?"
      And all other societal and geographical factors are mostly brushed aside.
      It would be funny if CBI had exploded in the US through anti-pharma conspiracy theories insisting that the spores heal cancer or fends off 5G or something and was further spread by a tendency towards violent confrontation and inter-state movility further compounding the issue. While other countries did just fine by just staying at home and listening to specialists.

    • @harvster997
      @harvster997 Před rokem +18

      Well I mean HAM radio setups are pretty easy to make and they can broadcast across the whole world. It wouldn't be too hard at all to have global radio transmissions

    • @HibiTeamQueso
      @HibiTeamQueso Před rokem +16

      ​@@harvster997 I don't think the Internet would be that unlikely either.
      Yeah the local infraestructure would be fucked but I think the big fat tunnels with fiber optic going across the oceans would be alright.
      Lots of satellites should be fine too.
      People would find ways to communicate

    • @spntageous5249
      @spntageous5249 Před rokem +7

      this is kind of like what's going on in the Metro 2033 books. They take place in the year 2033 where the society is wiped out by a nuclear war and people are living in the remains of the subway in Moscow. In the last book, the main character goes outside and tries to find contact with other survivors via a radio, but basically no one in their society knows if there are even other survivors so there's speculation of cities that were unharmed or other subway people living somewhere else.

  • @grenshaw100
    @grenshaw100 Před 3 lety +763

    There's also a news paper clipping on the wall in Ish's sewer with a headline that says the UK freezes immigration. The rest of the article is illegible though.

    • @coraldiamond1922
      @coraldiamond1922 Před 3 lety +109

      Neil G the same probably happened with Australia. I imagine Australia might have fared better than the uk. I mean once you clear of all infected of an island all you got to do is stop any from potentially entering. Though I do think the uk and Australia still could have fallen due to heavy reliance on imported goods.

    • @Yorkie_TerrierLolXD
      @Yorkie_TerrierLolXD Před 3 lety +45

      I saw that article too. Surprised no one else commented on it. I just wonder, how did Hawaii, Australia and the research scientist of Antarctica do against the virus?

    • @Daniel-fx7xv
      @Daniel-fx7xv Před 3 lety +42

      @@coraldiamond1922 it could be the same in Japan, wich is just hundreds of islands, maybe mainland Japan is not very well but the small little islands probably are still having a normal daily life after the outbreal, so, with no means of sounding like a virgin but anime survived

    • @richmendelson8194
      @richmendelson8194 Před 3 lety +18

      lol the UK? Freezing immigration? LOL. "Pubs closed, borders open" ...

    • @SomeGuyWhoPlaysGames333
      @SomeGuyWhoPlaysGames333 Před 2 lety +14

      Also, in the intro, one of the news reporters mentions panic spreading worldwide about vaccination tests failing at the WHO. If it was only in the U.S., that wouldn’t happen.

  • @christiansle4533
    @christiansle4533 Před 3 lety +1057

    There are survivors in New Mexico, even that former FEDRA-faction «The Ravens» are active there. Dina mentions it in The last of us part 2.

    • @wirej
      @wirej Před 3 lety +137

      New mexico is in the US though i think were looking for other countries survival

    • @doctorfuckmen
      @doctorfuckmen Před 3 lety +23

      L78400 that was fairly early into the outbreak. But yeah.

    • @christiansle4533
      @christiansle4533 Před 3 lety +1

      Jordan Bielik True, they could still be active. Hard to know, kinda have to guess

    • @ethanswingle8234
      @ethanswingle8234 Před 3 lety +34

      Christian Slettebakk Bruh New Mexico is a US state...

    • @christiansle4533
      @christiansle4533 Před 3 lety +1

      Ethan Swingle Yes Karen

  • @Owlberightback
    @Owlberightback Před rokem +503

    I can’t even imagine what the incredibly dense populations of Asia would’ve looked like during a CBI breakout.

    • @kyzerw3816
      @kyzerw3816 Před rokem +95

      Hell

    • @adameve2647
      @adameve2647 Před rokem +60

      Don't forget metro manila philippines

    • @battledroid7628
      @battledroid7628 Před rokem

      Eastern china would cease to exist

    • @AAZ-yu5ss
      @AAZ-yu5ss Před rokem +85

      @@kyzerw3816 Rat King Heaven

    • @thatontariofarmer
      @thatontariofarmer Před rokem

      Natural selection and mass fatalities, China and Japan would be especially hard hit (assuming the fungus made its way to Japan through the food supply)

  • @Da77leraz
    @Da77leraz Před rokem +578

    I actually have a lot of theories about this. Canada probably survived in the majority, as well as in desert nations in the Middle East and Africa, because the fungus has major trouble surviving in extreme cold or extreme arid heat. I also think that some small, remote island countries definitely survived, as infected can’t swim, and they may be able to farm their own food and live in a semi-normal Utopia that other survivors may strive to get to. One example of this is the island at point Nemo, the most remote place on the planet. I also think that South America, where the fungus began, is now a sort of horrific deadly jungle home to early mutated infected in the vein of the Rat King. Maybe the fungus there has even evolved to spread to animals like jaguars and caiman or anaconda. I think overall that different parts of the world would have different types or species of infected that evolved because of mutations or environmental differences. Also, the Fireflies probably weren’t the only survivors working on a cure…. I can envision the up-and-running Kremlin building being used as a base for horrific Soviet-style experiments on restrained or imprisoned infected and even other human survivors. Overall I think there’s a lot of untouched potential in the Last of Us universe, especially on the international / global scale. I hope that maybe the HBO show will continue past where the games left off and give us some new and exciting stories to experience.

    • @antonia10west
      @antonia10west Před rokem +75

      I was actually thinking that countries like the UK and Sweden would have incredible chances of survival. The UK has thousands of islands around the mainland, with 100-10,000 population levels for each one.
      Since the infected hate water, it wouldn't take too much to clear out some islands and make one purposed entirely for quarantine and others for research to protect other researchers discovers and some islands exclusively to protect the general surviving population. They'd also be able to survive off island crops, farm animals, and the surrounding fish.
      Once several islands are secure, they could focus on recouping larger islands with popualtions of 20,000-100,000.
      I could see a large project for the UK being to rid the Isle of man from cordyceps completely. Its population is 80,000. The island is huge. It has an airport and docks and multiple fields for farmland.
      The number of people infected on the Isle of man is finite. It won't succeed 100,000 and will be a large task for the UK, but also a doable one. Plus, the UK has the benefit of the Isle of man having its population spread out. The capital of the island makes up 1/3 of the population, and another three towns added to this number already accounts for over 50%. These 4 locations happen to be at completely separate points to one another, and the location at the airport doesn't exceed a population of 5,000.
      They'd be able to completely rebuild a civilisation from that Isle alone, never mind the multiple islands in Scotland.
      Anglesey is another location, the total population being 70,000. It's the largest Isle in Wales, and the seventh largest in the UK. It's also actually two islands, the smaller part being Holyhead, with a population of 14,000.
      The UK would need to blow up the bridges that comment Holyhead to the rest of Anglesey and Anglesey to the mainland. Then they'll have achieved another large landmass with a finite amount of total invected that they'd be able to work through with the goal of reclaiming in its entirety and rebuilding.
      TLOU states that 90% of the world dies or becomes infected, but I doubt that's going to be a fixed number for each nation. Small island populations or countries with multiple small islands have higher chances for survival, especially in colder climates or climates with extreme heat that don't match the required temperature for the fungus.
      With where the islands are located as well, I could forsee Ireland and the UK working together to reclaim as much of the islands as possible for the benefit of both their nations.
      If the battersea power station can become a location with a contained and functioning civilisation in the middle of London, then there absolute should be a thriving civilisation in the islands of the British Isles. Same for Norway and Sweden.
      I'd imagine mainland Europe would have a harder time, as would any other countries connected to the mainland of their continent.
      I'd absolutely love to see these island rich countries portrayed in TLOU. If one island fails, then the others wouldn't be affected, especially if they set up quarantine islands specifically to check for infections whilst travelling between islands.
      The hardest challenge would be the mainland, and I would love to see a story where the islands have mostly moved on from the cordyceps but have retained/regained communication with communities on the mainland, to see the differences in their survival and if the islands even try to clear out any zones on the mainland or if they see it as a lost cause.

    • @moteroargentino7944
      @moteroargentino7944 Před rokem +48

      Tbf even in South America there would be pockets of human life if not civilization. It's not a jungle continent, you've got essentially a big sample book of every environment on earth. There are lots of isolated areas and places with extreme temperatures.

    • @Akcd11r2002
      @Akcd11r2002 Před rokem +10

      Do you imagine everything in life based on the output of Hollywood and games?

    • @Bayard1503
      @Bayard1503 Před rokem

      Yeah, there's no way an infection like this actually spreads worldwide. Maybe if there really are spores that can resist huge distances. World War Z the book showed the only plausible scenario for something like this: if the incubation period is very long, like a month... desperate people will try to escape, break any quarantine and run and spread it everywhere.

    • @arturocevallossoto5203
      @arturocevallossoto5203 Před rokem +50

      South America isn't just a jungle. Argentina are Chile have tundra climates in their south, the Andes exist and Bolivia sits 6000 ft high. Mexico contains jungle, forest and desert. All this wild range of climates and inaccessible terrains would allow some holdouts to exist some better than other.
      My headcannon has Bolivia and Chile as the only SA countries still having an "official" government functioning. Bolivia still has some considerable population scattered in the mountains due to how inaccessible it is by road in our current world. Chile's government relocated to its Antartican province, and would still hold some islands.

  • @jacoporegini8841
    @jacoporegini8841 Před 2 lety +532

    My native city of Venice would make an interesting location for this kind of Apocalypse. The lagoon is a perfect barrier since infected can't swim and do suffocate under water. Even if the infection does somehow get through, every quarter (or sestiere) of the city can easily be isolated, they are all islands connected by bridges. The sestiere of castello is still today fortified and has a modern military base inside. Also since fuel will be scarce, we will finally need to use actual gondolas as mean of transportation and not just a tourist trap.

    • @cedric_craig
      @cedric_craig Před rokem +111

      And Venice is where the word “quarantine” originated as merchants during the Black Plague were required to isolate for 40 days in a compound before being allowed entry into the city.

    • @KouNagai
      @KouNagai Před rokem +38

      İts a toruistic place where alot of people around the globe gather, i dont think they would last

    • @jacoporegini8841
      @jacoporegini8841 Před rokem +1

      @@KouNagai Ti xe caxo ti ti xe

    • @May-gr8bp
      @May-gr8bp Před rokem +12

      Oh yes, the weakness of infected is swimming, so a fortress of survivors in Venice is very possible

    • @TheNicolau15
      @TheNicolau15 Před rokem +3

      How would you maintain the city from completely drowning without civilization, though? In about ten years there would be no dry land in my opinion, same for Netherlands. I mean, even Tommy says that both US costlines are completely under water, imagine those places.

  • @jacobmoreno9698
    @jacobmoreno9698 Před 3 lety +2230

    I’m honestly sad I’ve finished both games. I wish and possibly hope a third one is made. I don’t play a lot of video games but damn these were perfect for me

    • @rafiyumahmood2446
      @rafiyumahmood2446 Před 3 lety +68

      No doubt bro, the story was completely perfect. I’m just waiting on the multiplayer for TLOU 2

    • @frutur3367
      @frutur3367 Před 3 lety +1

      rafiyu mahmood so is the multiplayer for tlou2 going to be like the first one and do we have a release date

    • @Alya-ew3tz
      @Alya-ew3tz Před 3 lety +23

      If you're looking for RPG games I would recommend Horizon Zero Dawn, the gameplay is really interactive and the story is very well written.

    • @jacobmoreno9698
      @jacobmoreno9698 Před 3 lety

      Alya Nasrawi THX. I’ll look it up and look into it.

    • @SiarPoyan
      @SiarPoyan Před 3 lety +19

      Jacob Moreno LO2 story is the worst sequel to a game

  • @TheBenjaman
    @TheBenjaman Před 3 lety +1314

    I like to think that in stories where we only see America's perspective of these apocalypses,
    That the rest of the world is not affected and is just normal.
    Kinda like a 27 days later scenario.

    • @TheiPadCat
      @TheiPadCat  Před 3 lety +324

      Well, we do know for sure from in game lore that 60% of the world’s population is dead. That means roughly 4.5 billion people. The us only has 330 million. So the rest of the world being unaffected is impossible. But as I mentioned, ND have themselves stated that it’s actually 90% meaning only 750 000 000 people are left on the planet. Now if that means 750 million healthy people or 750 million healthy and infected people is hard to tell. But what’s not is that the rest of the world is definitely as screwed as the US

    • @theluftwaffle1
      @theluftwaffle1 Před 3 lety +35

      you tube have you looked at the US today? 👀👀.

    • @elliewilliams2362
      @elliewilliams2362 Před 3 lety +5

      TheLuftwaffle - Pretty sure he was being sarcastic fool

    • @MollyFC
      @MollyFC Před 3 lety +11

      @@theluftwaffle1 our infrastructure is a mess, we wouldn't do so hot. Just look at our covid response

    • @lucasdellamaggiore
      @lucasdellamaggiore Před 3 lety +56

      @@TheiPadCat 750 000 000 before Last Of Us 1 and 2, 104 after Joel, Ellie and Abby went on massive killing sprees.

  • @Komnene165
    @Komnene165 Před rokem +175

    I like the idea of communities of survivors in Europe centred on old fortifications like castles and star forts which have high, thick walls and were often designed to house fairly substantial numbers of people. Places like Windsor Caste and the Tower of London would be ideal and benefit from having armed garrisons already in place.

    • @cigh7445
      @cigh7445 Před rokem

      They could be surrounded and sieged in by infected until they starve.

    • @emaarredondo-librarian
      @emaarredondo-librarian Před rokem +4

      How would they feed themselves?

    • @Komnene165
      @Komnene165 Před rokem +8

      @@emaarredondo-librarian it depends on the specific location but many are situated near or on hunting grounds, rivers and farm land. Some larger fortifications even have a good amount of open space within their walls. Bamburgh castle is one example of the latter.

    • @emaarredondo-librarian
      @emaarredondo-librarian Před rokem +3

      @@Komnene165 So, they would have to either go out from the fortress to grow food (which takes considerable time, same as hunting), or grow it inside the fort - and raise cattle and poultry, feeding the animals, what?
      I highly recommend you to read about the way old fortifications were supplied in the times they were active, there are videos about what ancient soldiers ate - you bet they didn't grow it themselves. I also recommend you to watch videos/read books about self-sufficient agriculture, and how farm animals are raised - and most importantly, how do you kill them and prepare them for eating. If you think going vegan for the occasion, it would be useful to check which produce you can actually grow in your climate (you'll be surprised at how many items are imported), where to get *seeds* in a collapsed society, and how long it take for produce to be ripe for eating. Knowing how to process cereals, oil seeds, canning, pickling and preserving, all of that without any way to buy anything, makes for a course of education much more interesting and potentially useful than a zombies video game. Definitely.

    • @m0n4rch24
      @m0n4rch24 Před 10 měsíci +11

      That was one of the plot points in WWZ the book actually

  • @itsblitz4437
    @itsblitz4437 Před 4 lety +657

    17:24 those art pictures of Last of Us style apocalypse in Europe are really cool. I like to see some art concepts similarly in Asia like for example China or Japan or India.

    • @SpaceRaptor510
      @SpaceRaptor510 Před 3 lety +23

      I think asia would be much like america in that there society would be collapsed as well.

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 Před 3 lety +5

      @@SpaceRaptor510 I am not entirely sure about that I can imagine it still be different than of America.

    • @SpaceRaptor510
      @SpaceRaptor510 Před 3 lety +19

      @@itsblitz4437 maybe QZ equivalents and what not. I think it would be chaotic and in a societal collapse regardless

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 Před 3 lety

      @@SpaceRaptor510 and probably also ridden with overgrowth from nature

    • @SpaceRaptor510
      @SpaceRaptor510 Před 3 lety +1

      @@itsblitz4437 forbidden palace covered with vines

  • @Richard-pf5xs
    @Richard-pf5xs Před 4 lety +1313

    I hope Naughty Dog will make The Last of Us Part 3, to focus on the rest of the world.

    • @AngelFlipz
      @AngelFlipz Před 3 lety +15

      Yes

    • @aveteranplayer6403
      @aveteranplayer6403 Před 3 lety +80

      Oh god, pls no

    • @AngelFlipz
      @AngelFlipz Před 3 lety +163

      @@aveteranplayer6403 focus on the rest of the world or something, I'd really love to see what it was like during the early days of the virus

    • @CrusardModding
      @CrusardModding Před 3 lety +116

      @@AngelFlipz Yeah exactly. I'd also like to know if Joel thought about suicide after losing Sarah just like Henry. What exactly kept him fighting for over 20 years? I would like to know what things he found to fight for.

    • @huntercovington7460
      @huntercovington7460 Před 3 lety +80

      Part 1 - sets up world, sets up characters.
      Part 2 - controversial story, play as unknown/unliked character for a significant part of the story. Tries to make the player think about morals and shit.
      Part 3 (prediction) - will be a prequel that follows Joel and Tommy (maybe perhaps see more of Bill from the first game) and shows how they survived outbreak day

  • @GeorgeMHarrison
    @GeorgeMHarrison Před 3 lety +316

    If you look closely at the post-apocalyptic Kremlin promotional art, you can see soldiers patrolling the streets with their dogs.

    • @lakeblackBLM
      @lakeblackBLM Před 2 lety +35

      The red flag flies over the kremlin again

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge Před 2 lety +25

      @@lakeblackBLM There's a red flag over the house of Parliament in the London picture too.

    • @diamondfox1178
      @diamondfox1178 Před 2 lety +1

      @@DaDunge Looks like the USSR came back and took over the rest of the world.

    • @orhankucuksahin6297
      @orhankucuksahin6297 Před rokem +34

      Since all Europeans and Americans know very well that the Russian Government is very stricted and isolated from the rest of the world. They'd probably have some isolation protocol and it wouldn't be surprising if they survived, China has a same concept government, but because the Chinese live very crowded and have more than a billion citizens. It would be just unlikely for them to survive. Russia would be the most likely, cold climates, Siberia would covers their back because the mold wouldn't be able to grow in freezing temperatures. Canada would be likely to survive too. But i'd like to see if they can make a next part to include the rest of the world somehow in it, maybe restore internet etc to contact other scientists from other countries. See if there is any life in other parts in the world. Maybe Ellie travelling to search for a cure. Who knows

    • @letitbeenow
      @letitbeenow Před rokem

      @@lakeblackBLM Communism is the salvation of humanity.

  • @persephone2706
    @persephone2706 Před 3 lety +860

    I really want to see what the infected population is like in different extreme climates.
    Also... I feel like people in the game don't take the spores and mold as serious as it would actually be... You really couldn't go into a store and like... Stock up and chow down if you were starving without serioualy risking getting the virus... And along with so many other basic mundane tasks in TLOU.

    • @jacobmoreno9698
      @jacobmoreno9698 Před 3 lety +48

      P e r s e p h o n e . A n n YEAH. I want to see how desert infected and like, Alaska infected react to all those years of growing

    • @confusedwhiteman7776
      @confusedwhiteman7776 Před 2 lety +34

      Well we have the mountains in both one and two as well as the shamblers, which was hinted to be a new mutation due to the huge amount of rain that Seattle gets

    • @boyanpetrov1683
      @boyanpetrov1683 Před 2 lety +4

      @@confusedwhiteman7776 Then why do they appear in the Santa Barbara part?

    • @fedra5873
      @fedra5873 Před rokem +3

      Many countries were locked up in early years reallisticly maybe some areas got infected but not much

    • @piyo744
      @piyo744 Před rokem +18

      @@boyanpetrov1683 Santa Barbara typically has intense rainfall for short periods of time, which would benefit the creation of Shamblers (who molt from a clicker subject to moisture).

  • @mastercontrO
    @mastercontrO Před 3 lety +2197

    I can't even Imagine how life in Africa would be like in the last of us world.

    • @alprechim2196
      @alprechim2196 Před 3 lety +659

      Probably not that bad... They have a lot of guns because of the civil war and they don’t have the money to buy coffe and cocoa (the thing that spread the cordicep at start)

    • @blazingfire_0712
      @blazingfire_0712 Před 3 lety +498

      Ploeanix HD I think some people in Africa are so spread out from each other that maybe the pandemic didn’t hit them really hard.

    • @alprechim2196
      @alprechim2196 Před 3 lety +432

      BlazingFire_07 some parts of Africa are tightly populated though, but in the other parts probably true

    • @Julian-wz8ue
      @Julian-wz8ue Před 3 lety +373

      Clicker rhinos

    • @fiddagracepaws5241
      @fiddagracepaws5241 Před 3 lety +393

      Fungus develops in wet and dark areas, I don't think africa has many of those, as everything's dry and warm
      If anything africa should be the best place

  • @minibeast21
    @minibeast21 Před 3 lety +817

    Going by current Covid19 pandemic & going by how USA is one of worst countries & governments to deal with it, it may be safe to assume most of the world is dealing a lot better than USA with managing & containing Cordycep outbreak

    • @BusinessDog2000
      @BusinessDog2000 Před 3 lety +208

      The Cordycep outbreak was probably a mild flu that the rest of the world dealt with sensibly and quickly. It mutated and evolved at a rapid rate in the USA due to the massive spread because they believed it to all be a hoax and refused to wear their masks and go to Disney World.

    • @kaitokisser_
      @kaitokisser_ Před 3 lety +83

      The difference here is that cordyceps is transferred through bites and food, not airborne (other than spore areas). The US has frequent recalls for ecoli, so that would be a big factor.
      I feel like if people were to see what the virus does on a physical level (rotting eyes, erratic behavior) everyone would believe it. You can't see covid, so it's up for debate to them. Even if you're disabled from it they don't see the proof because well, brain damage is more common than melting eyeballs.
      A minority of people might just be insane enough to believe essential oils or whatever useless drugs they have will cure it, or they'll pray it away, or purposefully get infected so they'll grow immunity like chicken pox, but they'll die off quickly.

    • @toffonardi7037
      @toffonardi7037 Před 3 lety +44

      That's what i thought...... but remember USA faced spanish flu VERY WELL (compared to many european countries, considering also that in europa it was the end of a global war), it's NOWADAYS with a stupid leadership that the country is in danger......it doesn't t depend on genetics or what you have, always is people and their behaviors the key of success or unsuccess.... you can have the most advance airplane, but if you put a monkey as a pilot, results will not be great

    • @toffonardi7037
      @toffonardi7037 Před 3 lety +5

      @@kaitokisser_ actually, you don't see any viruses, so if you don't believe it because you cannot see, that means that you're really stupid and uneducated......so that's how would you describe americans nowadays?? (I would say yes)

    • @Athrodusk_Carnavoyer
      @Athrodusk_Carnavoyer Před 3 lety +34

      Considering when the virus broke out, the USA would have handled it considerably better than you guys hadn’t handled Covid because Obama was still in charge.
      He put money into WHO and the places that needed support in a pandemic such as this one, like hospitals, third world countries and poorer countries like Africa... he made sure there were enough resources for a pandemic. Trump decimated all of that and pulled all of the funding and groundwork that Obama had put in place.

  • @drauncj
    @drauncj Před 3 lety +248

    This video is missing some very important information that's impossible to miss, regarding the US outbreak. Tommy explicitly says the east and west coasts were already inundated by the time he, Joel, and Sarah are fleeing in the prologue-and that other cities across the country were also being hit hard.

    • @wtfisthis96
      @wtfisthis96 Před 3 lety +24

      And the virus appear in Brazil

    • @balland7674
      @balland7674 Před rokem +14

      @@wtfisthis96 it's a fungus

    • @arthurchadwell9267
      @arthurchadwell9267 Před rokem

      No question -- the coasts are toast!

    • @MrGarfield900
      @MrGarfield900 Před 6 měsíci +2

      see in the heat of the moment I kinda missed that important info back when I played it. If you look online there is a map that outlines exactly where they went when the game started. When it fast forwarded 20 years they went all the way north east. Now it makes since. Anywhere in the west was done.

    • @mrmr4622
      @mrmr4622 Před měsícem

      @@wtfisthis96 Brazil? Where did they mention that? Also the tv series made it Indonesia

  • @elloowu6293
    @elloowu6293 Před 3 lety +476

    Other countries shut down early, tested and
    wore masks. Eradicating the fungus mutation all together within 3 years. In the US, they thought it was a hoax and refused to follow any scientific guidelines before it was too late and the fungus got out of control. Other countries closed down their borders to the US and moved on. Hence the title The Last Of Untied States.

    • @asetelini
      @asetelini Před 3 lety +6

      Rough

    • @tabcon1888
      @tabcon1888 Před 3 lety +29

      No that would never happen, I mean it’s not actually happening or anything

    • @elloowu6293
      @elloowu6293 Před 3 lety +68

      @@tabcon1888 Be happy its just an airborne respiratory disease and not a horrific zombie fungus mutation.

    • @Clashy69
      @Clashy69 Před 3 lety +17

      grrr america bad

    • @j.nx._269
      @j.nx._269 Před 3 lety +4

      LMAOOOO

  • @sablemae8853
    @sablemae8853 Před 4 lety +453

    It'd be interesting to see how certain countries handled the outbreak. If countries more isolated geographically or isolated in trade did better initially. It seems like it would've took longer for the outbreak to reach them. But it is more complex than that. I also wonder what the population looks like. I'd assume that less than 1% of the population is left. Looking at the United States and how empty it is but that could still leave us with millions of people spread out across the world.

    • @TheiPadCat
      @TheiPadCat  Před 4 lety +43

      I mean some places definitely handled it better initially. But what’s interesting w tlou is that those places weren’t necessarily the most heavily and densely populated areas. Boston was arguably the place best off in the entire game but it also happened to be the place (save for Austin) that was the most densely populated prior to the outbreak. And yeah I’d say the same. Unlike something like the walking dead though, the same probably goes for the infected.

    • @mpy2912
      @mpy2912 Před 3 lety +8

      @@TheiPadCat Island wouldn't noticed that the outbreak even happened.. lol

    • @alexandramarkotic
      @alexandramarkotic Před 3 lety +21

      I’d love to see what happened to Australia and New Zealand in this game as they super isolated.

    • @DLI002
      @DLI002 Před 3 lety +8

      the thing with island countries is that when the virus hits u have limited space and no where to run

    • @alexkompare-pavlic3935
      @alexkompare-pavlic3935 Před 2 lety +2

      well usa is quite empty by deafult by seing hom much apart cities are

  • @mixedbagclips2511
    @mixedbagclips2511 Před 3 lety +342

    16:33 Interesting how England in the game behaved exactly as they behaved now with this pandemic...

    • @TheiPadCat
      @TheiPadCat  Před 3 lety +58

      Well I think the measures put in place against a sickness that turns people into mindless monsters would be a bit harsher than what’s happening now. But yeah I guess the fundamentals are the same

    • @goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320
      @goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 Před 3 lety +28

      @@TheiPadCat "the worst affected countries tend to be the origin of the disease". Today China is one of the least infected, while the US is the worst. Telling, isn't it, how this narrative of blaming those who first discover the infection works... Blame sure doesn't help you deal with it neither.
      Be funny if China in this world is pretty much unaffected after also stemming the outbreak early on instead of looking for a scapegoat

    • @Sebastian.A
      @Sebastian.A Před 3 lety +50

      Gold & Silver VS Crisis & Collapse sorry to burst your bubble but China is most definitely lying about there numbers

    • @goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320
      @goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 Před 3 lety +12

      @@Sebastian.A nope. Prove it. Go on. You see what you are feeling deep inside is a reflexive sense of patriotism, or hatred for a nation that is far different from your own. Do you really think China can silence a hundred thousand infected families? A million? One moronic doctor tries to start a panic at the beginning and ya'll latch onto him but fail to notice the startling lack of evidence for a coverup

    • @Sebastian.A
      @Sebastian.A Před 3 lety +35

      Gold & Silver VS Crisis & Collapse there’s already been countless whistleblowers not sure how you think China works but they’re very good at silencing opinions heck they don’t even allow there own people on American social media websites and do a very good job

  • @astrometries1944
    @astrometries1944 Před rokem +92

    Coming back to this as last night we got our TLOU HBO episode that showed how Jakarta, Indonesia reacted in the early days of the pandemic, or at least how their medical professionals reacted. Will be very cool if we get more lore like this!

    • @diegogomes228
      @diegogomes228 Před rokem +20

      The sad thing is, at least regarding Indonesia, that the government probably didn't bombard Jakarta as the lady suggested. The reason I believe this is because knowing how governments in general would react, they would be all like "muh but the economy, surely we can control the spread". And assuming that Jakarta was where the infection started, even bombarding the city wouldn't do much considering they would've already exported contaminated products to other cities and nations.

  • @jeyjey7238
    @jeyjey7238 Před 3 lety +100

    In the Last of Us 2 it's confirmed that Canada's society didn't fall yet!.
    In the part of the ghostship, there is a note of the captain, it basically says that they were able to make contact with the authorities in Vancouver.

    • @jamesthorpe4378
      @jamesthorpe4378 Před 3 lety +62

      Unfortunately, I think that note it almost 25 yrs old so it may be out of date

    • @jeyjey7238
      @jeyjey7238 Před 3 lety +35

      @@jamesthorpe4378 That would explain why Owen didn't consider Vancouver as an option.

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes Před 3 lety +24

      That doesn’t mean that Canada is better off than the US, just means that the quarantine zone in Vancouver hasn’t fallen when the note was written.

    • @JD-gh4tr
      @JD-gh4tr Před 3 lety +10

      It was early outbreak, so chances are there are no survivors in Vancouver. Or there may be..

    • @fedra5873
      @fedra5873 Před rokem +1

      @@JD-gh4tr there are off

  • @okllo
    @okllo Před 4 lety +354

    your channel is criminally underrated and I'm glad I found it!

    • @angelpayano6813
      @angelpayano6813 Před 3 lety +8

      That's a fact. This channel is just great. Keep the hard work and some time from now you will see amazing results.

  • @Arkthus
    @Arkthus Před 3 lety +297

    I'd love a spin-off happening in this universe but in another continent, like Europe)

    • @TheiPadCat
      @TheiPadCat  Před 3 lety +38

      Same. Not main game but spin off for sure

    • @JackRabbit002
      @JackRabbit002 Před 3 lety +25

      My ideas for a different setting would be that the UK has faired a tad better (some personal bias there) and your part of a military unit or something going to mainland Europe in search of something like a cure.
      Could centre around a close unit of characters and you could have missions in various Cities, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome etc Think it'd be pretty cool!

    • @sunshineskystar
      @sunshineskystar Před rokem +7

      @@JackRabbit002 they wont, UK is even more dense than america and there's almost no guns there, they are at worse position than america.

    • @Cminorputitincminor
      @Cminorputitincminor Před rokem +4

      @@sunshineskystar true, but the UK exports (or did, at the time) mostly flour and sugar (which are implied to be the carriers of the initial mold) from the EU, not from South America; only about 5% of the UK’s flour is exported, and much of their sugar comes from mainland Europe. Also considering it’s an island, in the context of the game, it’s likely the UK would’ve been infected later and probably therefore had a lot more time to prepare, though you’re right in that it would’ve been harder to contain the virus once it had arrived.

  • @Ariwaffles
    @Ariwaffles Před rokem +18

    Watching this in 2023 and hearing about COVID only killing a few thousand at the time is just crazy

    • @darthclone5081
      @darthclone5081 Před rokem +5

      Right! I had to check when this video was posted

  • @BlackWolf-kr7wo
    @BlackWolf-kr7wo Před 3 lety +60

    I would love to play a Last of Us pre sequel about Joel's time during the 20 years after losing his daughter.
    Very little was said about that time period, but during Joel and his Brother's arguement at the Dam, his brother can only explain it as Living in Hell.

  • @gilvanalves6023
    @gilvanalves6023 Před 4 lety +146

    Thanks for the great vídeo and your analysis. In the destroyed gallery, I noticed Buckingham palace has a stronghold on top, with barbwire and satelite dish. Also the flag is not British, so probably some faction. You can see people outside near the canal in Moscow, and a dog!. You can see also people in the firecamp on the last picture of the gallery. Fantastic!!

    • @TheiPadCat
      @TheiPadCat  Před 4 lety +23

      I’m glad you enjoyed it Gilvan! And yup, a lot of the other ones have similar fortifications but they all look kinda abandoned-ish. The one depicting the royal palace in Stockholm also has a ton of barbed wire and lookout towers on the roof. But it’s hard to tell if it’s still inhabited. And yeah, I also saw some military trucks at the very corner of the Moscow one :) didn’t notice that last one though!

  • @elijahsantiago296
    @elijahsantiago296 Před rokem +92

    What scares me is that eventually every infected will turn to bloaters

    • @seanberdo5380
      @seanberdo5380 Před rokem

      I dont think every infected turns into a bloater! Only the ones, where the fungus has a really favourable host for growing... we see many infected just dead and molten into a wall.
      But yeah for sure there would be more and more of them!

    • @promistansloona4812
      @promistansloona4812 Před rokem +51

      most hosts eventually rot/die before that happens tho. bloaters/shamblers are very rare cuz they have to survive like 20 years with the fungus

  • @leonardoa5201
    @leonardoa5201 Před 3 lety +145

    10:05 "a virus that's only killed a few thousand people so far."
    That comment really puts the time difference into perspective.

    • @lakeblackBLM
      @lakeblackBLM Před 2 lety +12

      Imagine if coronavirus was cordyceps. America and Europe would be totally overrun (while debating if gas masks protect you from spores) while China would be chilling

    • @alexkompare-pavlic3935
      @alexkompare-pavlic3935 Před 2 lety +1

      @@lakeblackBLM i dont think so no at the start europe was actually handling the virus america did not as the ignored everything but yes right now it is as you say but in europe outbreak started in italy which is geofrapjily secluded from the rest of europe so i think europ would fall way later than america if it would fall to the same extent in the first time(well if you compare it with curent situation it is a bit blrak) but the food inported from usa is quite monitored in general as we have a bit more regulations so i think we would stop the import of food from USA immideatly after receivin the news of infected crops i think at least

    • @hotsaucejosh8982
      @hotsaucejosh8982 Před rokem +2

      @@lakeblackBLM China would definitely not be chilling lol

    • @JacobDaDJ
      @JacobDaDJ Před rokem +2

      @@hotsaucejosh8982 as a chinese person, I have to disagree. Our military is a lot stronger than during ww11

    • @hotsaucejosh8982
      @hotsaucejosh8982 Před rokem

      @@JacobDaDJ China’s military has nothing to do with it; considering how densely populated China is a virus that basically turns people into killers wouldn’t be easy to control. Even with restrictions to keep the number of infected to a minimum that would simply result in riots and protests breaking out (like in real life) so it would all be futile. Literally no one would be chilling except maybe Switzerland, Nepal and ect due to their small population and geography.

  • @laural604
    @laural604 Před rokem +6

    I love how this video came out 2 days before the COVID worldwide quarantine

  • @larsrikardgjerstad9648
    @larsrikardgjerstad9648 Před 2 lety +26

    The picture from holmenkollen actually tells a lot about the situation in Norway. As seen in the picture it looks as if it was just abandoned before the outbreak. There isn’t any junk, barricades, shacks or signs of infected. This implies that the city got a heads up and it’s richer population likely evacuated to their cabins. This makes me believe that although the country lost its city’s due to the fungus, the state is probably alive and is running stuff from further inland or a smaller city. And a few cities is probably alive like Jackson in tlou 2.

  • @ZeronikHaDa
    @ZeronikHaDa Před 3 lety +88

    Honestly if they made a third The Last Of Us I'd love to see the other countries.. Maybe we could have new characters from different countries, like a smaller group

    • @ALT1308_
      @ALT1308_ Před rokem +3

      They're making a TLOU3

    • @Us3r739
      @Us3r739 Před 10 měsíci

      I just hope part 3 isn’t it for the franchise. I’d love a Joel prequel movie (video game universe) or game, and possibly a series that’s canon in that universe but not really connected

    • @staydetermined6717
      @staydetermined6717 Před 9 měsíci

      @@Us3r739
      Agreed, I hope we get a third game and then a prequel with Joel and Tommy of the first 20 years

    • @MrGarfield900
      @MrGarfield900 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@ALT1308_its been a year later. Is that confirmed?

  • @Virsho
    @Virsho Před 7 měsíci +5

    one thing I am sure is that people on north sentinel island are living the same lives they lived for last 50,000 years

    • @clarenceboddicker1162
      @clarenceboddicker1162 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Yeah it would be fun to make a last of us mod about the north sentinelize trying to keep out non infected from coming to their island. My understanding is they can’t have contact with the outside world bc of all the diseases we carry that they aren’t vaccinated against?

  • @CeeLoGreen666
    @CeeLoGreen666 Před 3 lety +32

    "City of Thieves" is a book written by David Benioff (a head writer of the Game of Thrones show, among others) that depicts his grandfather, Lev Benioff's, life during WWII Russia as he was sent out on a strange mission through Leningrad. The name Lev also was used as inspiration in TLOU2 for the Seraphite character that becomes Abby's sidekick. ALSO, in the first moment of the Abby gameplay in TLOU2, where is she is seen sleeping on a cot with a book on her chest, the book she's reading IS "City of Thieves." The inspiration runs deep.

  • @scottfrye
    @scottfrye Před 3 lety +31

    Imagine a game based on a family crossing the border into Texas outbreak day. Would be a very interesting story

  • @scoutbricks4603
    @scoutbricks4603 Před 3 lety +83

    Actually if you look closely in some cities you can see smoke coming from what I'm assuming a fire made probably by man, in the castle at 17:38 you can see I think a satellite and a medical flag and the photo from Sweden on the building you can see another satellite and some wire, I am actually glad some people found and rebuilt these places and lived there for a while just like Jackson

    • @TheiPadCat
      @TheiPadCat  Před 3 lety +10

      Yeah, the reason I didn’t say any others beside Russia and England showed any signs of life is those two are the only ones we can see for sure. Yes many others have signs of people having lived there at one point or another, but for all we know it could be long since abandoned - because we don’t see any humans, electricity nor any other stuff pointing toward people still being there. Yes there may be smoke, but what’s to say that’s not just someone like Bill, living all by themselves in the town? I would hardly call that civilisation

  • @gg836
    @gg836 Před rokem +8

    This is interesting to revisit. The running show states that the infection spread through tainted wheat flour and points Jakarta as ground zero.
    And i love how Joel in the show brings to light that everything went south in just a weekend.
    Considering that many people got infected at the same time across all over the world. And with a a very short incubation time. It was over before it even began.

    • @nancybarnes7109
      @nancybarnes7109 Před 2 měsíci

      I'm glad you mentioned this because I'm reading lots of the other comments and not one of them is taking into account the part about how you can get infected through the flour. In which case, I don't think it matters how isolate your country is, if you import any of this stuff, you're doomed.

  • @TheSunnyOne
    @TheSunnyOne Před rokem +8

    You're unlikely to see this on a 2 year old video now, but I'm replaying the series at the moment.
    As you enter thr Sewer System after pittsburgh, the shiv door you unlock that leads to one of Ish's first notes, there's a pin board with a tonne of newspaper clippings on it.
    One of those clippings is about the UK ceasing immigration.

  • @Clarksacchi
    @Clarksacchi Před 4 lety +53

    You have such an amazing talent for storytelling and analysis, you should consider making this available in a podcast as well! You’ll be the best person to have an TLOU podcast where you can invite people to discuss the game and theories with you.

  • @vincentcenni8649
    @vincentcenni8649 Před 4 lety +80

    Very good analysis and details to expand on our understanding of the game's lore. I agree totally with your points.
    By the way, there is an Australian actor named Grant Bowler who was in a US SyFy channel production called Defiance that would make a good Joel. He plays a character named Nolan, who was special forces and survives an alien invasion to reluctantly become the surrogate father of a precocious alien girl.

    • @TheiPadCat
      @TheiPadCat  Před 4 lety +4

      Thank you Vincent! And that sounds like someone that could fit the bill for Joel, I’ll have to check him out!

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 Před 4 lety +1

      I actually watched Defiance. It's not a bad show. I like the setting of Earth and alien races in it.

    • @NiceGuyAndyPodcast
      @NiceGuyAndyPodcast Před 3 lety +1

      The guy who plays the butcher in the boys would kill it as Joel

    • @persephone2706
      @persephone2706 Před 3 lety +1

      @@TheiPadCat Defiance is a great show. Or at least tbe beginning was. I didn't watch the later seasons, I think I remember the plot not being super engaging, unique, or intelligent.

  • @lachlann4335
    @lachlann4335 Před rokem +4

    If the cordyceps happened in Australia, most of it would be okay. The majority living in cities wouldn’t survive but for some of us, myself included, living in isolated towns would live high in the mountains or in the desert with the natives and wait it out, or just go to Tasmania or another island off-shore and live there. Plenty of options for us. Oh and the wildlife here will take good care of the zombies.

    • @ManMan-vs2fq
      @ManMan-vs2fq Před 10 měsíci +2

      js imagine a kangaroo fucking up a cordyceps feels like something i would see in a fever dream💀💀💀

  • @michalurbanful
    @michalurbanful Před rokem +2

    Funny. You've uploaded the video on Friday 13th 2020 - the last day before before our (Czech) government issued a sudden lockdown of many establishments.
    I went to a pub with a friend that day. She proposed to get a beer, I first refused as I was tired from work. But then I got thirsty (we Czech are like that lol) and so we went to grab a few. There was a 21pm "pub curfew" issued already. So we called it a day around 21pm, I went home, went to sleep and when I woke up, we were under lockdown.
    We were both so glad I decided to go drinking that Friday. I originally offered Saturday. :D

  • @BeeBee-zw8pc
    @BeeBee-zw8pc Před 4 lety +4

    Really well done analysis! You def deserve a lot more subscribers :)

  • @jvvayne555
    @jvvayne555 Před 4 lety +10

    Great video Very very interesting stuff man and very appropriate for what has been going on lately.

    • @TheiPadCat
      @TheiPadCat  Před 4 lety +2

      Thank you rhino! And I suppose so

  • @segro123
    @segro123 Před 3 lety +112

    We get a dialogue scene, from the outside world, with this: ...
    GET A LARGE ONE TOPPING PIZZA FOR ONLY 9.99, ONLY AT PIZZA HUT! 🍕

    • @meantcabbage711
      @meantcabbage711 Před 3 lety +17

      I see the infection couldn’t out pizza the hut

    • @ManofSex69
      @ManofSex69 Před 3 lety +4

      GET YOUR CRISPY TENDER CHICKEN FRIES AT BURGER KING. CRISPY TENDER CHICKEN FRIES

  • @GR8TM4N
    @GR8TM4N Před rokem +14

    One thing that end-of-the-world zombie stories intentionally left out is that, probably lots of nuclear power plants across the world ( maybe all of them ) would go full meltdown. Since very few, or likely all of their human crew tending them.... would be dead or zombiefied. So, the survivors wouldnt only have to survive against a horrible infectious disease, but also quite heavy radiation pollution, many time worse than Chernobyl.

    • @vastheeternal4972
      @vastheeternal4972 Před rokem +13

      Modern reactors don't work like that at all, an active but abandoned plant would enter a safety shutdown and turn itself off after a short amount of time although in the worst case scenario a "meltdown" still wouldn't spread much radiation

  • @cvrbo1331
    @cvrbo1331 Před 2 lety +5

    The world building in tlou is on another level, the game continues to impress me with all the small details

  • @lewisbaldwin9683
    @lewisbaldwin9683 Před rokem +15

    It would be really interesting to see how isolated countries survived. Like that island with no contact with the outside world. Or maybe a country like North Korea thriving

    • @nancybarnes7109
      @nancybarnes7109 Před 2 měsíci

      Only if said countries didn't import any of the corrupted food sources.

  • @thegammakat
    @thegammakat Před rokem

    Just watching your videos on TLOU now cause my friend got me into the series and I just wanna say These are all such great videos! You do such a great job of delivering information in an engaging and straightforward way for topics that ARE pretty hard to find a lot on! Know its plenty late and idk if you have somewhere, but as someone just getting into it (and with the popularity of the tv shows) I fine it really hard to find interviews and promotional material for any scraps of additional information and if you every use or come across any good ones I'd love some links!

  • @abelaidloera5930
    @abelaidloera5930 Před 3 lety +130

    The US has by far the most powerful army but there are countries which are survivalists from the start, better suited to fight the infected.

    • @jacobmoreno9698
      @jacobmoreno9698 Před 3 lety +52

      Abelaid Loera. bruh We can’t even get people to wear masks for the safety of their peers.

    • @AngelFlipz
      @AngelFlipz Před 3 lety +3

      @@jacobmoreno9698 time to go to Canada!

    • @thetype97chiha2
      @thetype97chiha2 Před 3 lety +32

      Jacob Moreno Just Imagine getting those type of people to wear a gas mask “ItS ToO rEsTriCTiNg AnD TigHT!”

    • @Yomens123
      @Yomens123 Před 3 lety +14

      @@jacobmoreno9698
      TBH from what I am seeing with Covid, I am far more scared of the government then i will ever be from Covid.

    • @CC-hi9fh
      @CC-hi9fh Před 3 lety +5

      @@thetype97chiha2 yeah but they would just get shot point blank if they got infected. So at least they wouldn't last very long lol

  • @rodrigososa6098
    @rodrigososa6098 Před 3 lety +16

    You're forgetting the Cordyceps fungus lives on very wet environments. Reproducing itself on dry cold-hot places would be a mejor obstacle for the fungus to overcome. Thus, I think more countries than we could expect survived, more specifically those located very far from the Ecuador latitude.

  • @alexnedin
    @alexnedin Před 4 lety +16

    So many details I didn’t know or missed! Part 2 has a chance to clear things out a bit.
    Maybe we’ll find a plane crash site that would tell more about it.
    And again, an episode where you travel from town to town on a car could be one of the ways to tell things about the world as well. 🤔

    • @TheiPadCat
      @TheiPadCat  Před 4 lety

      Well I’m glad there’s still stuff we all can learn about this game despite it closing in on being 7 years old :) and yeah that could be really cool! Reminds me of a scene in fear the walking dead that provides the characters with information on what happened elsewhere in the US, so it could totally work!

  • @BU66E
    @BU66E Před rokem +1

    Tack så mycket för din tid du la ner på detta! Från en gamer till en annan. Mvh BUGGE

  • @saucycardinal3322
    @saucycardinal3322 Před 11 měsíci +1

    the artwork for other locations post outbreak remind me of that show back in the day called life after people. Great show and great video theipadcat

  • @enderwasused9537
    @enderwasused9537 Před rokem +4

    I found a highly likely that Endland as a island nation wouldn’t have to declare martial law as soon as if it shut its borders sooner than other nations, plus everyone I meet in England seem to be strong, and we actually have some gun problems in some city (where I live is a smaller city in a good location for setting up a QZ zone so I found a highly likely with the styling and the power of the United Kingdom would survive somewhat like America did.

    • @lukemcgahern2357
      @lukemcgahern2357 Před 11 měsíci

      Seeing how we handled covid19 I’m sure it would make it in, however the government could relocate to balmoral castle or or an aircraft carrier or even an overseas territory like the Falkland island. So mostly alright.

    • @enderwasused9537
      @enderwasused9537 Před 11 měsíci

      @@lukemcgahern2357 I agree with you, but also we have to remember there is a lot of strategical places in the British Isles itself, so it’s more likely for the Polish government to relocate to another smaller city less affected (kind of like how America did with Boston)

  • @VNCTHE1
    @VNCTHE1 Před 2 měsíci +3

    7:08 Seeing that this video posted 3/13/2020, right before covid is crazy.

  • @martaramalho5011
    @martaramalho5011 Před rokem

    What an interesting video! I think it's the first one of yours I've come across, and I'm totally watching more and probably subscribing.
    I didn't know about the promotional artwork showing locations across the world. There were a couple from my hometown (Lisbon, Portugal) and it was so chilling to look at them and imagine what might have happened here in the game's universe. I can only imagine how unreal it must have felt for people who grew up in the game's visited locations to play it and walk around a post-apocalypse scenario of their hometown. I had wondered about this before, but hadn't felt it myself until I saw those images of Lisbon. Wow.

  • @MrHammerman97
    @MrHammerman97 Před rokem +7

    Imagine being on the international space station...knowing your watching the earth collapse and no one is coming to get you.

    • @saaaraha
      @saaaraha Před 16 dny

      THAT WOULD GO SO HARD. I’m gonna write this

  • @MrTJPAS
    @MrTJPAS Před 2 lety +7

    I have to imagine that some small island nations, like those in the south pacific, might have endured the CBI pandemic fairly well compared to the rest of the world. Those islands would be same from roaming infected and would have land that they have to guard, so they could more easily root out any infected that are on the island. They also could rely on fishing for a lot of their food, which would be a lot less vulnerable to cordiceps fungus contamination. A lot of those islands also benefit from year-round favorable temperatures for growing crops and not freezing to death.
    I would imagine the US has at least one of the Hawaiian islands secured and used as a main base, since they're remote, warm, and large enough to have a fully functioning society yet small enough to control with limited forces.

  • @Yorkie_TerrierLolXD
    @Yorkie_TerrierLolXD Před 3 lety +13

    I'm not sure how many didn't see the newspaper, but when you guys go collect the Sewers Note. There's a newspaper stating something about the European union has closed off Air Travel to the Americas. The writing is hard to read, but I was able to see some parts of it. Also Ellie is still immune, just trying to hide her immunity. (I haven't played part 2 yet but I'd love too.)

    • @saiyanroyalty229
      @saiyanroyalty229 Před 3 lety +1

      Go into part 2 with an open mind.... The game can be very divisive with many hating it but I believe it is a masterpiece in every sense of the word. A must play even if just to find out where you stand

    • @Yorkie_TerrierLolXD
      @Yorkie_TerrierLolXD Před 3 lety

      @@saiyanroyalty229 ok

  • @ishaanrock9997
    @ishaanrock9997 Před 3 lety +51

    England declares martial law
    Karen's: I pay taxes

  • @thorstena.2962
    @thorstena.2962 Před 3 lety +2

    I had this question several times and asked this to myself in the Walking-Dead-Universe too. In the universe of 28 days-/28 weeks-Later you see already at the end of part 2, that the Infected arrived in France and left Great Britain. But we can make out for sure, that apart from islands - maybe Australia too - the whole world is lost.

  • @danielmoore5022
    @danielmoore5022 Před 3 lety +16

    An overgrown new orleans/lousianna always interested me, with the swamps and flooding engulfing the area with wildlife and seeing how people survive in that environment

    • @andrewf9423
      @andrewf9423 Před 3 měsíci

      The infected there would definitely be nasty with the swamp humidity

  • @bladerunner3314
    @bladerunner3314 Před rokem +8

    But what I never heard anybody mention - not only did the world end on Joel's birthday, he lost his daughter the same day.

  • @AodhanBeag
    @AodhanBeag Před rokem +5

    If there’s one message to take home from the Last of Is series it’s to shop from your local supplier and support local businesses….especially when it comes to flour based products

  • @freddiebernhardt4202
    @freddiebernhardt4202 Před 3 lety +13

    I'm Italian, and looking how Coliseum and the Mausoleum of Hadrian are reduced, make me sad as fuck. Beside my emotions, I think they would be perfect place for protecting people or base for Italian Fireflights/WLF. It would be really interesting in a specular history/path in the European Union, maybe starting from Rome, then Genoa, Milan, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, and finally London! Just dreaming, don't mind me you guys. :D

  • @litchtheshinigami8936
    @litchtheshinigami8936 Před 3 lety +14

    i can actually find small signs of life in some of the other promotional arts mostly in the backgrounds on top of that the fact there is still fire going on in some of them like the paris one could also be a good indication that there are still people alive somewhere.. the olimpic ski jumping one too in the background it almost looks like in that building there is a light.. now it could be a reflection but the fact that it's a picture that looks like it's nearing evening hours it kind of makes sense.. on top of that you said it was 20 years after the outbreak.. a fire especially in a city wouldn't go on for that long.. in a forest yeah maybe but i'm guessing those are signs of the remnants of humanity

  • @theaddictedgamer2222
    @theaddictedgamer2222 Před 3 lety +10

    Hey I just subbed love videos like this that explains what happens in the tlou universe and I love how well thought out the world of the last of us is. Also I wondered what happened to New York in tlou

  • @BahamutBreaker
    @BahamutBreaker Před 2 měsíci

    I usually avoid speculation type videos about popular fictional universes.
    However, your presentation is both well-constructed and leans into the available canon and near-canon lore, even though that lore is scarce.
    You didn’t over-sell your personal opinions, and everything you discussed was valid based on the limited available facts.
    Very nicely done!
    Have you created an updated version of this content following TLOU2 and the HBO show’s 1st season?

  • @pushvedula5640
    @pushvedula5640 Před rokem +2

    Well in Part II according to either Ellie or Dina, Jess always wanted to see the water falls up in Canada! And it’s so coincidental how you released this video on my last day of school(in person) 2020 due to Covid Lockdown, it was my sophomore year of High school lol

  • @ephraimboateng5239
    @ephraimboateng5239 Před 3 lety +7

    Canada apparently got the infection much later. Even by early october, there were 0 infection in Vancouver, which is the 3rd largest city in the coutry and a VERY busy port. Had to the fact that winters are very harsh and the population is scatered in an emormous land: the cortycept might have a hard time spreading efectively. Just a though

    • @TheiPadCat
      @TheiPadCat  Před 3 lety +8

      Well considering the source is questionable to begin with and over 25 years old by the time we find it, it’s hard to confirm whether or not it’s accurate. It’s strange for sure that Seattle was hit so hard and not Vancouver. And I doubt the winters had any effect considering what we see during the winter sections in both games, but who knows.

  • @Niobesnuppa
    @Niobesnuppa Před 2 lety +6

    I would think many island nations could still be okay, as keeping the infected out would be much simpler than countries connected to other countries. Madagascar, Seychelles, Maldives, New Zealand, Samoa, even places like Svalbard and the Faroe Islands, despite their heavy reliance on import products, could still be functioning reasonably well.

  • @ig7024
    @ig7024 Před 3 lety +33

    Lmao imagine being stuck at the top of burj Khalifa tower when this stuff happens

    • @topsdaily_productions
      @topsdaily_productions Před 3 lety +8

      That could be a great game. The Last Of The Burj. Like each mission is a floor and you scavenge for supplies then you have hope when you reach the bottom floor and look outside only to see 100,000s of Zombies. The screen goes dark and you hear a single gunshot!

    • @Daniel-fx7xv
      @Daniel-fx7xv Před 3 lety +17

      @@topsdaily_productions yeah but that would have no story and the entire game would be just based in exploiting a small scenario

    • @ig7024
      @ig7024 Před 3 lety

      @@topsdaily_productions it would be so cool if there was a last of us game of ppl around the world and one of the stories/chapters, will be about ppl stuck at the burj

    • @jaccobmarrero6021
      @jaccobmarrero6021 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Daniel-fx7xv Its possible. Maybe the Burj could be a "town" of sorts with various floors representing a caste of society (top floors are elites and bottom are workers). And there could be an incident where the infected break inside and the main character has to climb to safety where the elites dont want any lower class members inside. It could have a Halo Reach story where the dooms inevitable but it could still work.

    • @fedra5873
      @fedra5873 Před rokem

      @@topsdaily_productions not possible 1 these ain’t zombies 2. Most of them died 3. No

  • @mixedbagclips2511
    @mixedbagclips2511 Před 3 lety +41

    “Pandemics in the past...” Oh oh...

  • @mrweirdo1548
    @mrweirdo1548 Před rokem +3

    This also explains why CBI was said to have started in the south and spread northward, rather than spontaneously appearing all over the place and converging together on the maps. It started in South America and spread from there

  • @bartolomeestebanmurillo4459

    A spinoff in a different country would be interesting to say the least, to see how the cordyceps impacted different nations and perhaps unique variations of infected thanks to the local climate! I remember they mentioned in the first game that 60 percent of the world was killed in the early days of the outbreak.

  • @vico7727
    @vico7727 Před 2 lety

    Cool video. A lot of information I didn't know about my favourite game.

  • @DragonKastle
    @DragonKastle Před rokem +1

    Thank you for this!

  • @couldntthinkofacoolname9608

    Considering our handling of CoVID-19, I reckon NZ had about a 25% chance of survival, depending on who's in power. Our borders are fairly easy to close off, though we are somewhat dependent on certain imports, and our economy is largely predicated on export and tourism.

    • @DDoubleEDouble
      @DDoubleEDouble Před 3 lety +3

      Yeah, exactly. I feel like most island would have similar changes. Most Caribbean island, for example, closed the borders very very early and many island still have their borders closed until further notice, like St Kitts and Nevis.
      In a situation like The Last of Us, the main issue for Caribbean islands wouldn’t be the disease but food shortages and the destruction of the tourism industry

  • @emadahsan5885
    @emadahsan5885 Před rokem +7

    Feels so weird watching this video now, especially after waves after waves of Covid. Crazy.

    • @purpleplanet128
      @purpleplanet128 Před rokem +3

      It was posted like THE day of it being announced

    • @emadahsan5885
      @emadahsan5885 Před rokem +1

      @@purpleplanet128 just saw the video release date after reading your comment. Holy crap, dude.

  • @suppressinglight1007
    @suppressinglight1007 Před 2 lety +1

    Had this in watch later a long time ago, finally watching it.

  • @serobboshnakyan1048
    @serobboshnakyan1048 Před rokem

    just because of this video i love you alot now im biggest fan i never thought someone would do this like explain and all about this game 🤝

  • @shredder3371
    @shredder3371 Před rokem +6

    The fact that this video was uploaded on March 13th 2020, two days before the U.S. shut down due to COVID...

  • @yoda9218
    @yoda9218 Před 3 lety +9

    The flag on Buckingham Palace changed, there's also some scaffolding and a radar dish

  • @crimsonholocene949
    @crimsonholocene949 Před 3 lety

    Underrated video + underrated channel

  • @luffyiscool
    @luffyiscool Před rokem +2

    4:07
    Oh damn, thanks for pointing out this list.
    Now I know where Joel and Tess got the alcohol that Tess pours into a glass near the start.
    “This one’s OURS, Joel!” 😂

  • @deathwatch_9736
    @deathwatch_9736 Před 4 lety +13

    I fear Portugal migth not have survived... still got happy to see a couple of promotional artwork depicting Portugal.

    • @gabrielomarturratorres5138
      @gabrielomarturratorres5138 Před 3 lety +3

      Why do you think so? I mean, I know Portugal isn't a very big country in terms of territory and population size, but I would like to know the specific factors that make you fear that outcome (Military, Health Security, Transportation, etc.). Just to know, of course.

    • @wtfisthis96
      @wtfisthis96 Před 3 lety +4

      @@gabrielomarturratorres5138 Portugal is in Europe and right there, with Spain, so of course Portugal will be bad, like the rest od Europe, I think New Zeland, Hawaii, Greenland and other islands will be safe.

    • @gabrielomarturratorres5138
      @gabrielomarturratorres5138 Před 3 lety +1

      @@wtfisthis96 Fair point. Kind of sad and tragic when you think about it. I personally don't like to think too much how my country would fare in such scenario, cause I'm pretty sure we would be one of the worst to respond adecuately to it (greetings from Chile 🇨🇱).

  • @szariq7338
    @szariq7338 Před 3 lety +6

    7:57 And civilians. Here in Poland at most only 1 out of 200 Poles have any amount of guns. At least there are still firearms without a need to register such as firearms with separate loading produced before 1885 or their replicas or air guns.

  • @andresr.perez-aybar7513
    @andresr.perez-aybar7513 Před rokem +2

    It's almost poetic that this video came out two days just before the initial COVID quarantine (at least in Puerto Rico)

  • @binchillin888
    @binchillin888 Před rokem +1

    Canadian whiskey doesn't necessarily have to come directly from Canada during TLOU timeline. It could exist from pre-infection time inside warehouses, abandoned ransacked stores, private barter systems, or private storage.
    Of course it would have to be originally produced in Canada and entered the US at any time after its production and stored somewhere.

  • @MC-gy5ik
    @MC-gy5ik Před 3 lety +29

    I wonder how much we can infer from the current Covid-19 pandemic? I imagine here in Europe they may develop a range of bows/crossbows for self defence. I could see people in European quarantine zones having daily archery practice.

    • @lucasfragoso7634
      @lucasfragoso7634 Před 3 lety +2

      Return of chivalry maybe?

    • @MrPolicekarim
      @MrPolicekarim Před 3 lety +2

      @@lucasfragoso7634 I wish!

    • @Yomens123
      @Yomens123 Před 3 lety +3

      Comparing TLOU's cordyceps lethality rate of 100%, to covid's lethality rate of 0.3% (for the most vulnerable) ?
      I keep hearing from people, more and more that if you get Covid-19 it is pretty much a death sentence, if you get it you better pray because you will most likely not survive it, this is what I keep hearing everyone say.

  • @akeneo1169
    @akeneo1169 Před 2 lety +3

    I would like a game with Joel and tommy at the beginning of the outbreak, there’s 20 years of material there. We can see how Tess and Joel met or why tommy and Joel split up. The creation of the fireflies and just more post outbreak stuff.

  • @razuer2920
    @razuer2920 Před rokem +2

    To add on to the Canadian Bison. Bison is very VERY rare in canada, if there are bison being hunted and butchered in Canada that means their populations are going up massively since the outbreak.

  • @realBorisLegasov
    @realBorisLegasov Před 3 měsíci +1

    The image of Battersea Power Station is such a powerful (forgive me) piece of storytelling, and implies so much about the status of civilisation on the island of Great Britain. Notably, two things occur to me. First, that the visibility of the columns of black smoke suggest that this is far from a clandestine operation, that those who are operating the station are likely doing so either at the behest or with the permission of whatever authority remains in place. Thus, an organised society within the city of London is possible, and the possibility is compounded by the fact that a station the size of Battersea would likely easily be able to supply the power needs of whatever remnant population exists within London, even quite a sizeable one. Second, and perhaps much more significantly, is that the image implies the existence of a coal-mining operation capable of supplying fuel to the station. The fact that all of Britain’s coal mines are located hundreds of miles away from London further implies an infrastructure able to deliver significant quantities of coal over long distances. One possibility is that the railways in the UK remain in operation, or were re-started at some time in the preceding years. Whether the British government has existed continuously in some form since the outbreak, or whether a rebel group seized power at some point, or indeed whether some organised force arose to fill a power vacuum, the image of the power station implies a reasonable effort of recovery within Britain and probably a decent quality of life for its citizens, maybe even with pockets of Jackson-quality living.