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We're back! You have been dying to know what's next for us, and I'm thrilled to finally be able to answer: Naughty Dog's next game is Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, currently in development for the PlayStation 5 console. We've been working on this brand-new adventure since 2020! This game is shaping up to be our wildest, most creative story yet. If you haven't already, check out the announcement trailer.

Intergalactic stars our newest protagonist, Jordan A. Mun, a dangerous bounty hunter who ends up stranded on Sempiria – a distant planet whose communication with the outside universe went dark hundreds of years ago. In fact, anyone who's flown to it hoping to unravel its mysterious past was never heard from again. Jordan will have to use all her skills and wits if she hopes to be the first person in over 600 years to leave its orbit.

Beyond that, we're keeping everything about the story under wraps – at least for now. What we can tell you is that this game lives up to the Naughty Dog tradition of creating an emotional, character-driven epic journey. Our narrative goals are rivaled only by our gameplay ambitions. This will be the deepest gameplay in Naughty Dog's history, taking our learnings from our previous franchises and pushing them beyond anything we've ever done before.

Jordan is played by the talented Tati Gabrielle, who leads a stellar cast (pun intended!). Eagle-eyed players might spot some of the other cast members in the trailer. We'll reveal more of our ensemble down the line.

Our incredible voyage into the cosmos also needs an equally incredible soundtrack. As tremendous fans of their work, I'm excited to announce our collaboration with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross who'll be scoring Intergalactic! The guys are cooking, and the trailer is just a small tease of their work for the game.

We know you're eager for more – and trust us, we're very eager to share more with you. For now, though, it's time to put our heads back down and keep cranking away on Jordan's adventure.

On behalf of the entire team at Naughty Dog, thank you to all our fans! Your support allows us to work on our dream games, bringing these wonderful new worlds and characters to life. We can't wait to show you more!

See you on the other side,

Neil Druckmann

Naughty Dog Studio Head

Announcing Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, a new franchise From Naughty Dog

Explore a whole new world from the studio behind The Last of Us, Uncharted, and more.

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lets go bitches

Wait so it's all on that single planet?

 

[BigStef71]

They're almost like some of the people here.. just on the other side of the coin.

Fair point. Honestly I'll give the game it's fair shake but you can't honestly tell me you're surprised at the reaction of the main character? That's a controversial design for a certain faction of gamers.

 

[ByWatterson]

This board shows its ass about every three weeks or so.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Felt nothing. Graphics looked good, but writing is already rockyeyeroll.gif.
We need a proper gameplay trailer, not a reveal with cinematics. So, opinion not fully mature due to the lack of information. Probably a few years off.

 

[Punished Miku]

I hope they port Hellblade 2 to PS5 so you guys can see. Compare her mouth during dialogue. This is a fixed trailer too. HB you can pause at any time for photo mode. Meta Human Unreal 5 is definitely superior to this for faces.

It will look sick though and probably be a return to their more over the top action roots. The fact that the trailer mentions Jak and Daxter tells me all bets are off and they're trying to prepare TLoU fans for more eventful gameplay. I'm looking forward to seeing more. They need to demonstrate why any of this narrative matters though and is not another GotG rip off. This wasnt a great trailer but I bet the next one is better.

 

[Topher]

I actually would prefer if she actually looked like a female, and not some dude with boobs.

But she has boobs. These days that's kinda progress.

 

[nkarafo]

It goes to show you just how sensitive gamers have become over the years.

That's all? That's your take?

You sure nothing else happened that made gamers/consumers lose their trust about the intentions of current day developers/publishers and other media producers?

 

[XXL]

Think you are right. Looks like a bounty hunter space game. I'll take that in a heartbeat.

Yeah...the premise, world, robots and laser swords has me interested.

Let's just hope they don't get too crazy with the woke shit.

 

[Kdad]

Another bigot. How do you know it is female?

From ND's blog post on the game: Jordan will have to use all her skills and wits if she hopes to be the first person in over 600 years to leave its orbit.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Yeah, if it was a white male everybody would be pumping it up. Plus, people calling her ugly are out of their mind. They must think any chick with a shaved head is ugly. The actress is very attractive IRL, as she is in the video game

Nah, that one-eyed 60 year old with a 20 year old's voice and shitty Marvel writing would have still been awful. This is just shit.

 

[nial]

Think Stellar blade but in woke version where the woman looks like a masculine butch. Looks great but I stick to my values and principle, so right now, I smell it is woke so Im not interested for now. I really miss those good old days of Sony studio were its dominated by Sony Japan. Now its all woke west.

Sony Japan never managed the Western studios, lol, it was all SCEA and SCEE.

 

[seb85]

Are you fucking serious? Are you already backstepping on your dumb remark about women? Lmfao

Lol posting a dumb comment like this prove that you under nothing

 

[FunkMiller]

It should be said that if anyone is comparing your big first reveal with Concord (even in a jokey manner) you might have taken a step wrong somewhere.

 

[Thicc Enigma]

Another fucking goat in the making

 

[solecon64]

they disabled the comment section lmao

Bet they didn't expect the post-Concord world we're living in, back in 2020 when they started working on this shit.

Reality's going to bite them hard this time.

 

[adamsapple]

Keep my licensed porsche spaceship with the Sony cd player's name out yo fucking mouth!

 

[Fake]

No one gives a shit what the mc gender is
If the story and gameplay is solid , that's all that matters

For someone to make complains like 'Gaf Only Hate Because the main character is a woman', you know, must be a woman to be a valid complain.

So, I do think people care.

 

[LaughingStock]

Naughty Dog's own Star Wars Outlaws it seems.

I'm sure it will have beautiful graphics and animations.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Man, what a fucking letdown, it did absolutely nothing for me, the whole 80s shtick has been done to death the past few years (10+ I'd say), it felt like watching a vignette for a Guardians of the Galaxy game or some shit, the in-your-face logos/advertisment, Pet shop boys' "it's a sin", the sword with the whole equalizer thing are so, soooo banal by today's standards that it came off as incredibly try hard.

It looked and felt like something I've seen and played 100 times already, then again, this is ND we're talking about so it might actually be good in the end.

I'm just gonna paraphrase something that another user wrote in the other thread : "It really shows that this started its development 4-5 years ago" - an obvious reference to the whole and total failure of... "politically correctness" in games, and the way things are going, it might actually bite them in the ass.

Guess we'll have to wait and see...

 

[Generic]

they didn´t with TLoUP2. I hope there are new people on the narrative team.

TLOU2 was one of the best Naughty Dog games.

 

[crazepharmacist]

Alright it's obviously woke but if the gameplay is amazing, which I'm sure it will be, I can overlook it.

 

[Mossybrew]

main character design is AWFUL

Guys I cant jerk it to this character, this sucks, the only characters I want in games must either make my dick hard or be Big Strong Dudes that I can look up to. Because Im 12 and daddy left and I was raised by the internet and it broke my brain.

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Finally something completely new from them after TLOU. But they better finish TLOU story after that.

 

[RoboFu]

From the studio that brought you crash bandicoot even though no one who works there now made crash bandicoot...

Plus they just took Travis touchdown and made him a chick.

 

[FunkMiller]

Fair point. Honestly I'll give the game it's fair shake but you can't honestly tell me you're surprised at the reaction of the main character? That's a controversial design for a certain faction of gamers.

Straight dudes. No shame in saying what it is. Still the largest market for console and PC games by a mile.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

TLOU2 was one of the best Naughty Dog games.

not in the narrative department.

 

[DeVeAn]

Looks good except I don't relate with G.I. Jane.

 

[ByWatterson]

Especially with new political climate and culture coming up in USA, this game will be killed and flop if they dont change the character design and if they plan to include some twisted woke agenda stuff. Right now im not interested. Sony was saved by Asia developers. West is killing Sony studio with force agenda.

Bro this game won't be out until AOC's third term as Emperor.

 

[Little Chicken]

Gross

 

[Balducci30]

I don't see what's wrong with the protagonist? Like at all. Did you guys flip about Alien? Or the Matrix?

 

[Represent.]

Man the "Everything is woke" mob is truly fucking insuffering.

Just infecting every corner of the internet with their fucking bullshit.

You guys see a woman and run the other way. Come out of the goddamn closet already. Goofs.

 

[DForce]

Fair point. Honestly I'll give the game it's fair shake but you can't honestly tell me you're surprised at the reaction of the main character? That's a controversial design for a certain faction of gamers.

It was a predictable reaction.

 

[BigStef71]

Straight dudes. No shame in saying what it is. Still the largest market for console and PC games by a mile.

I agree. I just didn't want to come off as a dick

 

[shamoomoo]

Wish I could be actually excited, but Druckmann makes it so hard. It feels so insanely thematically outdated already, like it should have released in 2021 or something.

But I have no doubt gameplay is going to be out of this world. And as for the characters, I think I got the eye-patched lady:

I don't see the problem? A gaming studio hyping up their product isn't unusual and the highlighted part doesn't sound too arrogant.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

But she has boobs. These days that's kinda progress.

Could this be?! The Silver Lining??
Never change! Topher !

 

[fallingdove]

All those ad placements fucking suck

Nah — they were cool. Ad placements are great when they make sense. Reebok in Alien, Atari and Panam in Balde Runner.

Sony picked Adidas and Porsche — some pretty iconic brands synonymous with the 80s vibe they are looking to build this world around. It's not like they threw in Dollar Shave Club, or Comcast, or whatever highest bidder is out there. I dig it.

 

[yogaflame]

GOY and now Intergallactic, I really hate what woke agenda is turning women into binary and masculine butch. Forcing and still pushing this agenda especially with common sense is back with new political climate in USA. Good luck with that.

 

[Topher]

Yeah...the premise, world, robots and laser swords has me interested.

Let's just hope they don't get too crazy with the woke shit.

I'm sure there will be something in there to rile folks up. lol

 

[Saber]

Lol posting a dumb comment like this prove that you under nothing

Keep up the good fight to protect...whatever the mc character is I guess. I'm happy for yah.

 

[RickSanchez]

if i may offer some non-culture-war ctiticism : this trailer failed to tell us anything about the actual gameplay.

Is it a standard single-player narrative ghost train ride ? is it a co-op open world live service ? first or third person or both ? is it like returnal with a combat focus or like TLOU with a stealth focus ?

this is why i hate cinematic trailers for games. This is not a movie, it's a game. Show me some fucking gameplay. Even the story themes are not clearly coming out from this trailer.

Underwhelming.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Man, what a fucking letdown, it did absolutely nothing for me, the whole 80s shtick has been done to death the past few years (10+ I'd say), it felt like watching a vignette for a Guardians of the Galaxy game or some shit, the in-your-face logos/advertisment, Pet shop boys' "it's a sin", the sword with the whole equalizer thing are so, soooo banal by today's standards that it came off as incredibly try hard.

It looked and felt like something I've seen and played 100 times already, then again, this is ND we're talking about so it might actually be good in the end.

I'm just gonna paraphrase something that another user wrote in the other thread : "It really shows that this started its development 4-5 years ago" - an obvious reference to the whole and total failure of... "politically correctness" in games, and the way things are going, it might actually bite them in the ass.

Guess we'll have to wait and see...

Guardian's of the Galaxy is about to destroy not one but two big PlayStation titles, WTF?

 

[kazuyamishima]

So everyone was waiting on a new ND game just to shit on it.

 

[FunkMiller]

I don't see what's wrong with the protagonist? Like at all. Did you guys flip about Alien? Or the Matrix?

 

[Kdad]

I actually would prefer if she actually looked like a female. If realism is your argument, then her muscular arms are completely unrealistic, unless you're into roided up trans-men.

Me I don't care, she's just look unappealing and stereotypical woke-trash.

She does...theyre not all waifu

 

[Gravemind]

Wait so it's all on that single planet?

Come on now you didn't think ND would actually take a risk like developing space travel and space combat did you?

Itll be another visually pleasing 3rd person action adventure game.

 

[BigStef71]

It was a predictable reaction.

Yes because it's a controversial design

 

[Fake]

TLOU2 was one of the best Naughty Dog games.

If is the only ND game you ever played, I totally agree.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Our narrative goals are rivaled only by our gameplay ambitions. This will be the deepest gameplay in Naughty Dog's history, taking our learnings from our previous franchises and pushing them beyond anything we've ever done before.

so....an actual videogame?

 

[peish]

From ND's blog post on the game: Jordan will have to use all her skills and wits if she hopes to be the first person in over 600 years to leave its orbit.

She will probably get her pronouns in the actual game, ban bet!

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Fair point. Honestly I'll give the game it's fair shake but you can't honestly tell me you're surprised at the reaction of the main character? That's a controversial design for a certain faction of gamers.

They actively made her look ugly. She was very pretty in the show You.