Checking in on the Last of Us 2 subreddit a year after release...

Gamers were so buttmad about this.

Joel deserved to die for what he did to the Fireflies. He doomed humanity then lied to Ellie about it, when Ellie probably would have consented to give her life to save people.

"Omg, Joel died so unrealistically. He wouldn't have been so careless as to not have his backpack!" Listen Gamer, Joel died a hundred times throughout TLOU. He just had the power of Player One so he could respawn. Then he didn't have that power.