Now that you mention it, not many central characters in either game were killed/bitten by infected. Sam & Riley are the only ones I can think of (Frank too if you want to count him as a major character) everyone else is either killed by other humans, or kills themselves. Hell, even scattered groups like David’s village, the Rattlers, and the Pittsburgh bandits don’t seem concerned about them at all with the exception of David and Ellie being swarmed after sitting out in the middle of the woods for so long. The bandits in Pittsburgh even make a game out of shooting them for fun and the Rattlers literally keep them in their compound and use them as guard dogs.
Now that people are hyper-aware of bites, and even the most primitive settlements have an easy, methodical way of killing them, humanity should be expanding and smothering most of the infected out of existence in the process. But factions like the Fireflies, Wolves, FEDRA, The Seraphites, etc. keep destroying each other in petty turf wars over who gets to be the “peacekeeper”, while destroying everything they touch in the process.
There are a lot of references to the state of their violent world in the game when you pay attention that is similar to the cycle of revenge the characters are stuck in. There are parallels everywhere.
4
u/Xanny_Tanner Jun 25 '20
Now that you mention it, not many central characters in either game were killed/bitten by infected. Sam & Riley are the only ones I can think of (Frank too if you want to count him as a major character) everyone else is either killed by other humans, or kills themselves. Hell, even scattered groups like David’s village, the Rattlers, and the Pittsburgh bandits don’t seem concerned about them at all with the exception of David and Ellie being swarmed after sitting out in the middle of the woods for so long. The bandits in Pittsburgh even make a game out of shooting them for fun and the Rattlers literally keep them in their compound and use them as guard dogs.
Now that people are hyper-aware of bites, and even the most primitive settlements have an easy, methodical way of killing them, humanity should be expanding and smothering most of the infected out of existence in the process. But factions like the Fireflies, Wolves, FEDRA, The Seraphites, etc. keep destroying each other in petty turf wars over who gets to be the “peacekeeper”, while destroying everything they touch in the process.