When Intergalactic was introduced, Naughty Canine touted it as a brand new franchise. Granted, we don’t even know when the primary recreation might be launched, however it does make you marvel if the studio is planning further titles to increase on it additional. Selection delved into this additional with director Neil Druckmann and requested whether or not there’s an opportunity for The Final of Us Half 3 or a brand new Uncharted as an alternative.
“We don’t are likely to plan an excessive amount of sooner or later, as a result of we discover — and that is one thing I inherited, it’s simply the Naughty Canine tradition — that we do our greatest work when it’s one thing we’re actually enthusiastic about, actually obsessed with,” stated Druckmann.
Following the success of The Final of Us Half 2, he recollects the group debating about “whether or not we must always simply go straight into ‘The Final of Us 3,’ and we had a extremely lengthy interval the place we checked out concepts for possibly what may very well be in that recreation. We checked out — now we have ‘Uncharted‘ as an IP, now we have ‘Jak and Daxter‘ as an IP. However the group was actually excited to do that sci-fi factor that we’ve been speaking about for some time, and that’s the place our passions lie, in order that’s the place we’re transferring ahead.”
If Intergalactic is a hit, then Druckmann is certain that gamers will “see it once more,” however that doesn’t imply will probably be Naughty Canine’s subsequent recreation. “Whether or not that might be our subsequent recreation proper after that, I can’t say, and I depart that door open. To not be coy for this explicit query, we need to see how we really feel as soon as we’re executed with it and take a look at the choices in entrance of us, as a result of now we have another concepts that we’d prefer to discover as nicely.”
Druckmann beforehand stated he had a “idea” in thoughts for The Final of Us Half 3, however not the total story. After all, he would extra lately inform Santa Monica Studio’s Cory Barlog that he didn’t have the arrogance to plan sequels prematurely. Talking to Selection final March, he revealed that The Final of Us Half 2 may very nicely be the top of the sequence, however as his newest statements point out, there’s no assure.
Regardless, it’ll be some time earlier than Intergalactic launches on PS5, so within the meantime, head right here for Druckmann’s ideas on the way it’s the studio’s most formidable and expansive title but.