What will Naughty Dog's next game announcement be?

[the-pi-guy]

The Last of Us Online has been announced without a title, and that's something they've been talking about for a couple years now.

Neil has been mentioning that he is working on something else. What do you think/hopeit will be?

- New Uncharted game?
- New Jak and Daxter game?
- The Last of Us game?
- New IP/what kind of new IP?

[nnodley]

Its most definitely TLOU Part 3 or a new IP. They both are probably in development in some capacity.

[kitler53]

The Last of Us Online has been announced without a title, and that's something they've been talking about for a couple years now.

Neil has been mentioning that he is working on something else. What do you think/hopeit will be?

- New Uncharted game?    DEFIENTLY NOT
- New Jak and Daxter game?   DEFIENTLY NOT
- The Last of Us game?   MAYBE SOMEDAY BUT BASED ON THAT STATEMENT BY NEIL I DON'T THINK IT'S THEIR NEXT GAME
- New IP/what kind of new IP?  YES YES YES!!!

i think the real question is what kind of game will their next game be?


based on sony overall and some recent statements by neil i think their next game will be open world.   i still think it will be heavily story driven,.. that's the heart and soul of ND these days.   so last thing to guess at is theme:
- space/future
- historical theme: like renaissance or feudal japan or whatever
- fantasy: like magic and shame
- ect

I don't know where they go next but i hope it is unique.   I'll bet ND could make a good space game but there are quite a few games in that space (pun intended) already i'm afraid they'd get punished for it.

[the-pi-guy]

I think:

- TLOU Part 3 will come later
- Uncharted will come from someone else.
- New IP from Naughty Dog will be the next announcement.  

There was some fantasy concept art by one of the artists at ND:

[BananaKing]

The last two ND franchises were third person shooters with brawling melee combat. I hope they move on from that.

At least be in a setting that allows you to use other gameplay elements, like fantasy can be melee and magic, sci-fi can allow for flying and use of different types of weapons/machines.

[Legend]

Neil Druckmann on Naughty Dog's next big game:

"I know fans really want The Last of Us: Part 3, I hear about it all the time[...]. The decision has already been made. I can't say what it is[...]we picked the thing we were most excited for".

Timestamp: https://t.co/D14Eehi2of pic.twitter.com/x0En3rcq4p

— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) March 13, 2023

[the-pi-guy]

realism and sound is actually very difficult to recreate faithfully, because when you do it incorrectly, it's immediately noticeable. When there's, you know, when you're working on a big game that involves magic or, you know, sort of hyper realism in a really substantial way, it's easy to hide behind, you know, big sound.

Tin foil hat time.  

[Legend]

Tin foil hat time.  

It'll be very interesting to see how they differentiate from god of war. Since TLOU1, ND has only made emotionally difficult games. I doubt they want to do something as dark as TLOU again yet if they do something slightly lighter like Uncharted 4 it'd be very similar to modern GOW.

[kitler53]

Tin foil hat time.  

i mean,.. he's not wrong.  

no one can criticize insomniac for accurately portraying lombaxes...

[the-pi-guy]

i mean,.. he's not wrong.  

no one can criticize insomniac for accurately portraying lombaxes...

You need to tighten your tin foil hat.  

- several pieces of fantasy concept art
- audio director mentioning magic

The evidence is piling up.  

[kitler53]

It'll be very interesting to see how they differentiate from god of war. Since TLOU1, ND has only made emotionally difficult games. I doubt they want to do something as dark as TLOU again yet if they do something slightly lighter like Uncharted 4 it'd be very similar to modern GOW.

not sure I can agree with that.  maybe at the highest levels:
- 3rd person perspective
- has a story
- has combat

...but is ratchet and clank just a GoW clone?  Or horizon?   Or Returnal?  Or Elden Ring?  Or Forspoken?

sure,.. if ND makes a game with an axe that can be thrown and called back with a archer for a side kick the games will feel really similar.  But it won't take much for it to feel different.  Hell,.. just being a shooter like TLoU or Uncharted would already make it a very different game.

You need to tighten your tin foil hat. 

- several pieces of fantasy concept art
- audio director mentioning magic

The evidence is piling up.   

did i say it wouldn't be fantasy?  I think i clearly state above that fantasy could be ND's next theme. 

ND will want something with mass appeal.  I figure fantasy and space are the obvious choices.   i also think they are some of the most overused choices which I think ND is keenly aware of.  They didn't exactly make a zombie game they did a "fungal infection".   I don't know what direction they go but I do expect they will find some way to be broadly appealing but also distinguished.

[the-pi-guy]

I just thought you were implying he was talking matter of factly. Which is a silly thing for me to think.  

Sony has a lot of sci-fi/sci-fi adjacent games.
Horizon, Destiny. They just had Returnal.
I think Ratchet would be more of a sci-fi game than a fantasy title.  
They are publishing a handful of sci-fi titles (Death Stranding arguably, there's that leaked Mass Effecty looking title, rumored Helldivers 2.)
Depending on what one considers sci-fi, you could probably count 8 or more games that have some sci-fi elements.

I think on that basis alone, they only really have 1 actual hard fantasy title, God of War.  If they're looking at it like that, it feels like a better area.

[Legend]

ot sure I can agree with that.  maybe at the highest levels:
- 3rd person perspective
- has a story
- has combat

...but is ratchet and clank just a GoW clone?  Or horizon?   Or Returnal?  Or Elden Ring?  Or Forspoken?

sure,.. if ND makes a game with an axe that can be thrown and called back with a archer for a side kick the games will feel really similar.  But it won't take much for it to feel different.  Hell,.. just being a shooter like TLoU or Uncharted would already make it a very different game.

Obviously I'm only talking about the story's emotional focus.

[kitler53]

not obvious to me.   

i think a game can have an emotional story and not feel like GoW.   sony's has been pumping these games out forever.