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[Draugoth]

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I did some other interview where someone asked me about The Last of Us, and would there be any more stories or something. I mentioned we have written a story that takes place after Last of Us II that stars Tommy. I hope one day we get to make it. The headlines across the industry were like, 'Naughty Dog Has Outlined The Last of Us Part III.' And that's actually wrong. It was always a small story, it was never a full title.

At the time, we had higher priorities at Naughty Dog, to fix our pipeline, to fix work-life balance issues. Just based on where we were, I didn't wanna prioritize this story, so that story was shelved. I still believe one day it will see the light of day. I don't know if it'll be a game or a show… TBD.

The first game had such a clean concept of the unconditional love a parent feels for their child. The second one, once we landed on this idea of the pursuit of justice at any cost, justice for the ones you love, it felt like there's a clean concept here and there's a through-line from the first game about love. If we never get to do it again, this is a fine ending point. The last bite of the apple, the story's done.

The great thing about working at Naughty Dog is that we don't have to. It's always like, we would love another Last of Us, but if you guys are passionate about something else, we'll support this other thing. Very privileged position to be in. I never take that for granted.

I've been thinking about, "Is there a concept there?" And for now years, I haven't been able to find that concept. But recently that's changed. I don't have a story, but I do have that concept, that, to me, is as exciting as I, as exciting as II, is its own thing, yet has this through-line for all 3. So it does feel like there's probably one more chapter to this story.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

What a glorious day today is!

 

[analog_future]

Awesome. Can't wait to see what they have up their sleeves.

 

[Senua]

 

[Heisenberg007]

Whatever Naughty Dog does, I'll be there on day one!

 

[tmlDan]

I trust Shinobi knows, even if it wasnt directly stated in the interview.

Really happy about this

 

[saintjules]

Good to hear all around. Neil is known to lie in interviews though, so I always take that with a few pinches of salt until my eyes see something official.

 

[Paasei]

That's nice. New stuff is always welcome.

 

[Cyborg]

Aliens, space, graphics and epic story! Lets gooooo

 

[Represent.]

Everyone with sense knew that.

New IP --> TLOU 3.

TLOU 3 is definitely a PS6 project. Or end of this gen at the very earliest

 

[Flabagast]

Awesome. I love Part 2 but getting sick of the IP for now

 

[Fake]

Thank the gods. Tired of this shit.

 

[Gudji]

ND fantasy RPG would be cool.

 

[Nankatsu]

Time to go Space Sci-fi Naughty Dog.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

This is not new information. Their next title is the new IP, was reported on months ago.

 

[SlimySnake]

Wow. i was convinced they were making TLOU3. Starring Tommy too. Crazy.

Lets hope we get to see their new IP soon.

 

[T-Cake]

Marvel's WandaVision. You heard it here first.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

I'd love for the next one to do a time jump and have Jesse and Dina's son JJ be the playable character and have Ellie be in the Joel role. Obviously Dina would be dead, nobody liked her anyway lol.

 

[Fbh]

That's cool.
Though if Druckmann will still be directing my excitement remains low.

 

[IFireflyl]

I think I heard they were working on a sex working game mostly involving tranny "lesbians". It's supposed to have a lot of dong, especially for a lesbo game.

Spoiler: NSFW?

I am woman.

 

[TwiztidElf]

Uncharted 5

 

[nial]

Uncharted 5

New IP, Naughty Dog is done with Uncharted.

 

[ManaByte]

I trust Shinobi knows, even if it wasnt directly stated in the interview.

Really happy about this

ND hasn't been working on nothing for four years.

 

[GymWolf]

Meh, hopefully it's not another fucking uncharted with the non-binary daughter.

 

[SHA]

The first of them, gotcha.

 

[Frwrd]

Jesus fuck, please no more bullshit-ass sci-fi / space / fantasy games.

/rant

 

[Daniel_Mallorca1985]

Uncharted 5

Nope!

 

[Physiognomonics]

It's Part 2?

 

[Insane Metal]

For fucks sake just give us something already

 

[Hudo]

Of course not. It's The Last of Us Part II - Remastered : The Definitive Edition Part 2

 

[Bernardougf]

Meh, hopefully it's not another fucking uncharted with the non-binary daughter.

Pleading to the wrong studio and director bruh ...

 

[Jigsaah]

NEW IP LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Ristifer]

Probably TLoU 2.5.

 

[GutsOfThor]

Uncharted 5: Unchart Harder

 

[Saber]

As long it's not Last of Cuck or Uncharted with new "modern" takes, thats ok.
Unfortunatelly that doesn't mean they can't rererelease another LoU for like 7 times, since it's not a sequel.

 

[Flabagast]

I really dont think that Naughty Dog wants to do another Uncharted unless Sony forces them to, so all bets are on a new IP, which would be glorious

 

[sachos]

I think Neil said that he was impressed by Elden Ring design back when it launched, maybe they will go for open world RPG?

 

[Eiknarf]

Can the OP or a mod add a poll, or do I have to make a new thread?

Would NeoGAF’rs want a NEW IP or TLOU Part III to be Naughty Dog’s next release?
Which would you rather ?

 

[Kaiserstark]

Meh, hopefully it's not another fucking uncharted with the non-binary daughter.

No they said at the beginning of last year that they were "done" and had "moved on" from Uncharted.

Naughty Dog says it’s ‘moved on’ from Uncharted and could do the same with The Last of Us | VGC

Studio co-president Neil Druckmann says Sony wouldn’t pressure it into making Last of Us Part…

www.videogameschronicle.com

 

[Gojiira]

Savage Starlight Yeeeee Boiiiiiii!
Personally hoping they have a go at a rpg but who knows

 

[balls of snow]

New ip hype.

 

[BouncyFrag]

Thank gawd!

 

[March Climber]

That's right they're joining Insomniac in developing Marvel games.

Instead of TLOU 3, they're making Suicide Squad Thunderbolts: kill the Justice League Avengers.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Savage Starlight has much potential.

 

[sncvsrtoip]

Sad news, so lou3 likee 2030 ?

 

[TropicanaTwista]

I'm really cool with whatever ND does, they're that good that I'll buy whatever they make. But please for the love of God, no space/sci-fi games.

 

[Badlucktroll]

What if its a Cassie Drake game they spent all this time working on?

 

[SHA]

The Last of us on space, let that sink for a sec, I mean dude, they're the only ones already, what're they doing on space ?, I can't think of how's this gonna come together, flip assets and see how's this gonna work, I don't see any other way.

 

[Kuranghi]

Savage Starlight has much potential.

How exactly does it have potential? I thought its whole existence was just one photo in TLOU. Is there more art for it elsewhere in the game apart from that one that I don't know about? Or a bit of text or a bio or something?

Sorry I'm not trying to have a go or anything I just don't understand what you mean when it has potential, fair enough if you just mean it could be really cool to play a sci-fi game with a character that looks like her.

 

[Strategize]

I'm almost certain it'll be a Souls-like. Neil LOVES From's games. They even said they were messing around with that kinda design for Part II in the documentary, but scaled it back because it didn't fit TLOU.