Re: The Last of Us 2 (unconfirmed)
So many people give Joel **** for the ending, it's astonishing and I swear they do it for attention. I can't blame Joel, and from Naughty Dog said once, MANY parents, especially single ones, understand his plight for doing that. People don't realize Joel lost so much at that point, first his wife, which he doesn't even want to talk about, Sarah, the biggest one for him, Tess which he refused to bring up again. He even lost Tommy, at least contact, briefly, and he probably would have lost Tommy again (For good)until he decided to take Ellie himself. You could say he lost Henry after they really bonded, and Sam...but frankly, I actually sorta hated Henry because he seemed like a hopeful moron, and I blame Henry for his treatment of Sam, that led to him dying. Ellie was Joel's breaking point.
Naughty Dog, and an in-game log in the hospital, showed that there were others like Ellie actually, so Joel told her a half-truth; the lie was that they stopped looking. But indeed, humans really were the biggest enemies in the game, in terms of gameplay and story, since they seemed to give Joel and Ellie the biggest problems. It's like Bill says, at least the infected are predictable. Plus...well at that point, what was really there to save? It probably would have caused more problems, such as the hunters maybe stealing cures for example.