Joel saves Ellie and by doing so he possibly screws the humankind because in that moment he just wants Ellie to live no matter what (as his surrogate daughter). He choose himself instead of higher ideals and shit.
You can feel the humanity and desperation of Joel when he does that. That ending doesn't belong to TLOU, it belongs to Fallout. Honestly, it's that good.
That ending elevates the entire game and it's on par with the greatest game endings ever made. I know. Heavy words but true nonetheless.
Now, the truth is:
that ending doesn't belong to Neil Druckmann.
"Ellie's arc originally was that she didn't kill any non-infected people until the end, when she was going to kill Tess when Tess was torturing Joel," Druckmann explained. "What we realised is that we had to get Ellie engaged more in the combat because when she was disengaged from the action for that long you didn't care so much. So that changed pretty early on. We decided it wasn't going to be about the first time she killed someone, it was more about this coming of age story of the impact that the horrors of violence has on her over the course of the game."
Another quote from him (
apparently Ellie was robbed):
Then we come to that ending and that lie and that okay and what does that okay mean? It’s definitely not a complacent ‘yea I’ll go along with you’, in fact, it’s the opposite. It’s Ellie waking up for the first time, waking up and realizing she can’t rely on him anymore. While she loves him for what he’s done for her, she hates him for robbing her of that choice. She knows that she has to leave him and make her own decisions and mistakes.
Basically the TLOU ending was an accident: edgy retarded writers went for an dark ending and accidentally they struck gold.
They will never be able to replicate the conclusion of the first game because they have no idea why that worked. And even if they realize the above then they will not be able to repeat it because they don't have the necessary skills.
Tl;DR: TLOU2 will be creatively bankrupt creation sperging about lesbian coming out of the closet or strong independent Ellie. Probably Ellie going crazy after her first love gets the D.
My only hope is that it will tarnish the career or Neil Druckmann. I know, it's not the most orthodox thing to wish someone but that little shit should get stomped at some point.