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Naughty Dog have a Last Of Us Part 3 “concept” and it’s not the previously revealed “small story” about TommyBut Part 2 would still make “a fine ending point”
But Part 2 would still make “a fine ending point”
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Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II
“The great thing about working at Naughty Dog is that we don’t have to,” he went on. “It’s always like, ‘we would love another Last of Us, but if you guys feel you’re 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 just thinking about it, ‘is there a concept there?’ And for now years, I haven’t been able to find that concept. But recently, that’s changed, and I don’t have a story, but I do have that concept that to me is as exciting as 1, as exciting as 2, is its own thing, and yet has this throughline for all three. So it does feel like there’s probably one more chapter to this story.”
“The headlines across the industry were like, ‘Naughty Dog has outlinedThe Last of UsPart 3,’ and that’s actually wrong,” Druckmann said. “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 want to prioritize the story, so that story was shelved. And I still believe one day, it’ll see the light of day. I don’t know if it’ll be a game or a show, TBD.”
A standalone spin-off like Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, perhaps? Or another season of the well-received The Last Of Us HBO adaptation?
Druckmann’s hints followNaughty Dog’s cancellation of long-awaited multiplayer live service offering The Last Of Us Online in December, which will allow the studio “to focus on [the] single-player narrative games that have defined Naughty Dog’s heritage”. The studio have yet to release The Last Of Us Part 2 for PC, but a port seems likely, now that they’ve remastered the console edition.
