And you wouldn't really need a super deadly weapon - hell just a damn duct knife from Home Depot is no joke, and most combats would logically not be to the death any more than they are between wild animals.
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Ellie's switchblade is way more special than it has any right to be I mean the fact that it's a switchblade is the only thing that should be unusual about it, it's absurd that Joel doesn't just have a folding knife that does the same thing
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Yeah, and like Even if we allow for the part where humanity is entering a new Dark Age - which is my more optimistic read but I think has support - most human beings *do not want to die*, and do not *really* want to kill that much. Combats would be usually inconclusive.
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He should just have a knife for all the other things you need to use a knife for It's the most basic tool in the history of human technology, combat aside The idea that he needs to make disposable shivs is pure gameplay over narrative
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Hell he'd need a knife to *cut and dress meat from hunting*. He could almost certainly knap a reasonably sharp stone knife if folks aren't forging iron (which to be fair I think is very unlikely; recent YT trawls have impressed me on just how much people can get done.)
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(I'm genuinely impressed and amazed by stuff like dudes manufacturing and testing chimney furnaces and kilns and clay ovens and so on made out of mud.)
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That said, I can buy that Joel doesn't have a blade terribly suited to combat, he certainly doesn't seem to *need* it much.
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I mean it literally appears to correlate with muscle mass, since Abby has to manufacture shivs too In the first game I literally just assumed it was a gameplay shift, toward durable knives, bc of how brief Ellie's segment was. 2 did sorta walk that back
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Honestly you know what would 100% fuck up clickers? *spears*. Goddamn spears. One of the simplest weapons in the human arsenal.
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That is an excellent point
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The Zombie Survival Guide had this whole aside about how the ideal weapon for fighting zombies was the "Shaolin spade" (a polearm with a crescent-shaped cutting head for decapitating)
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I mean clickers aren't even as durable as zeds.
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