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The best moment from the original The Last of Us is also the moment I hate the most.
The game's finale sees the lead character and emotional mess Joel rush into a Salt Lake City hospital's hallway, guns blazing. His mission is to save co-star and emotional substitute for his daughter, Ellie, from a surgery that may lead to a cure for the zombie plague that has obliterated the world, but at the price of her life.
It's a trade of equivalent exchange Joel isn't willing to make, setting off on one last charge of murder and bloodshed. The game immediately gives you an automatic assault rifle, signifying that the time for stealth and trap-based theatrics is over. Joel has one goal now: Charge headlong into the dark, kill whoever is in his way, and save Ellie one last time. He gets to the operating room and one final obstacle awaits the player: Three medical staff, including the doctor.
The doctor refuses to back down from the surgery, even as an enraged Joel has a gun pointed at them. There is no way around this moment for...