Neil Druckmann: Naughty Dog 'Will Not be The Last of Us Studio Forever' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 June 2024 / 1,472 Views
Naughty Dog Studio Head and Head of Creative Neil Druckmann in an interview with the Los Angeles Times said the studio will not always be focused on The last of Us franchise.
"I promise you, we will not be The Last of Us studio forever," said Druckmann.
Druckmann did tease Naughty Dog has several games in development right now, including "multiple single-player projects."
He added, "We create experiences that are steeped in story and character, especially relationships. The stories have some sort of philosophical core that everything is going to revolve around and feed into."
Naughty Dog did cancel The Last of Us Online in December 2023, so it could focus on single-player narrative games instead of continuing work on this game and be forced to become solely a live service games oriented studio.
Druckmannin in February did tease he had a "concept" for The Last of Us Part 3 that is as exciting as the first two entries in the series.
The second season for The Last of Us HBO TV series entered production last month.
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Does anyone think they were? Heck, didn't even think much of The Last of Us but loved their older library so hope they move on asap. :P
Good, please crack on and no more remasters lol
Factions 2.0 is sorely missed!
Why did u have to make it big!?
Just make it a 4v4 5v5 format an evolution of the gameplay tlou2 style
Personally I'm quite happy about this. After all the hype, I was so disappoited with the first TLoU that I still haven't got the second one. My main gripes were mediocre, repetitive gameplay, and an immersion-breaking amount of killing in an otherwise immersive game. Other than that, I found the game quite good, but I'm not at all sorry to hear it's not all TLoU for them. Of course this isn't exactly surprising either.
I still (and will always) think of them as the Crash Bandicoot studio lol.
Yep, Part 3 should cap things off nicely and any more than that would be needlessly stretching it. There's infinite possibilities for other stories.
From what I understand from the Playstation studios, they no longer want to make Uncharted or The Last of Us. They want something new, it's difficult for those who are fans and want that nostalgia, but the guys must really be out of patience to continue these stories.
Let this serve as a warning to Microsoft and other large gaming companies... open up the possibility of job rotation, as there are people who must really get bored of dedicating at least 5 years to a game, now imagine continuing a franchise to launch every 5 years. At this point, when the studio is independent, there is less room for error, but more room for creativity.
New uncharted but we'll be playing as drake's daughter.
I hope not, the IP had 5 games and has ended, rather see them making something new
It ended, but they left it open, with his daughter seeming to be the next star. I wouldn't mind another lara croft , considering the last few were meh.
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