Neil Druckmann: The Last of Us Part III Has an Outline for a Story - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 May 2021 / 1,762 Views
Naughty Dog creative director Neil Druckmann in an interview with Script Apart podcast that was transcribed by IGN revealed that co-writer Halley Gross and himself have written a story outline for The Last of Us Part III.
You should not get your hopes up for the game anytime soon as Druckmann added they are not developing the game right now, but hopes that one day the game will see the light of day.
"I don’t know how much I want to reveal," said Druckmann. "[co-writer Halley Gross] and I did write an outline for a story, that we're not making – but I hope one day can see the light of day – that explores a little bit what happens after this game. We’ll see."
Druckmann said there is a "quite a bit" of discussion about The Last of Us Part III internally at Naughty Dog, but the reality is "these games take so much to make. [Part 2], I've been thinking about it for seven years, between when the last game came out and when this came out [...] You want to make sure you’re jazzed by the idea that you have, [that] it feels like it’s challenging.
"We’ve now had two games that I feel speak to something universal as well as telling a very personal story for these characters. With one game, there’s no pattern of what a franchise is. With two games, now there’s starting to be a pattern – now I feel like there are some structural and thematic themes you'd have to stick to if you're making a third game."
Druckmann added that when Naughty Dog releases a big game it takes time to explore what game to develop next.
"After we finish one of our big titles," Druckmann said, "we take a long time to explore different ideas, whether it’s going to be Last of Us III, whether it's something new, whether there's some old franchise we want to go back to. I like to fully explore all of those, then look at, like: okay, we have all of these ideas in front of us. As a studio, what do we want to commit to? Because it’s a huge commitment – monetary, time, passion, talent, so you think about all the opportunity costs that come with that."
The Last of Us Part II launched for the PlayStation 4 in June 2020.
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Hope we get a part 3 this gen.
Probably another late/cross gen entry to wrap up the trilogy. Hope we get a new IP in between the remake and 3.
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What Naughty Dog will do with PS5's power will be crazy to see. I look forward to it!
Look at the last , tlou2 trailer that released that had some cgi thrown it, it may give a glime of what to expect.
The last trailer they released? Hm I don't think I saw it but I'll check it out! Thanks! Last Of Us 3 trailer will be insane.
*If Naughty Dog can push Last Of Us 3 to those graphical levels they'll one up themselves again. Holy crap man.
That is a step ahead of the previous interview when he said no plan for III or something like that.
So is Naughty Dog only making The Last of Us Remaster right now?
Is any of this confirmed or just rumoured? I'm hoping for a proper PS5 upgrade for TLoU2.
I really hope it turns out to be true. I've been holding off for a PS5 version.
Great, more of the same.
There's only been two games 7 years apart, and there was a MASSIVE jump in scope and gameplay. More of the same it was not, a lot of people actually complained about it not being more of the same.
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