End of grounded doc basically confirms next game from naughty dog is a new IP. making a thread. all others are vacant / not real threads

Full Quote from neil:

I did some other interview where someone asked me about The Last of Us, and would there be any more stories or something. I mentioned we have written a story that takes place after Last of Us II that stars Tommy. I hope one day we get to make it. The headlines across the industry were like, 'Naughty Dog Has Outlined The Last of Us Part III.' And that's actually wrong. 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 wanna prioritize this story, so that story was shelved. I still believe one day it will see the light of day. I don't know if it'll be a game or a show… TBD. The first game had such a clean concept of the unconditional love a parent feels for their child. The second one, once we landed on this idea of the pursuit of justice at any cost, justice for the ones you love, it felt like there's a clean concept here and there's a through-line from the first game about love. If we never get to do it again, this is a fine ending point. The last bite of the apple, the story's done. The great thing about working at Naughty Dog is that we don't have to. It's always like, we would love another Last of Us, but if you guys are 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 thinking about, "Is there a concept there?" And for now years, I haven't been able to find that concept. But recently that's changed. I don't have a story, but I do have that concept, that, to me, is as exciting as I, as exciting as II, is its own thing, yet has this through-line for all 3. So it does feel like there's probably one more chapter to this story.

Interesting to note

Neil said that the game they're working on right now is taking inspiration games by by FROM games and Inside in an interview from last year

and in the TLOU2 doc they said TLOU2 was originally taking inspiration from Bloodborne and focused on melee combat, and they were trying to make their own twist on a FROM Software game.

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could we get a naughty dog souls like

whatever itll be, im sure itll be developed with a later possible LA adaptation in mind with how Sony and ND are moving now. could possibly keep the IP grounded in reality somewhat

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If this is a soulslike open-world rpg with naughty dog storytelling and f***ed up, horrifying elements inspired by Inside… easily a 10/10 incoming

Of course I’m in

Its Naughty Dog - one of the most laser focused studios if not the best

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Out, never liked souls game

Give me a game like LA Noire, detective style, ala True Detective s1

its not confirmed to be souls at all just discussion cause neil is obviously a big fan.

I wouldn’t expect this to be a straight up Souls type game.
I will be very very very surprised if their next game isn’t cinematic af. Neil loves using mocap and directing scenes

But I don’t think it’ll be a detective type game tbh. ND really raised the bar with their combat system in TLOU 2 so I’d imagine their next game will have a lot of fighting

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Neil talking about what is influencing him last January. I think this is a very big hint at the kind of game this could be

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Elden ring, inside, and environmental story telling where the gameplay can tell a story.

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Gonna be a photorealistic open world crash bandicoot

Should be a photo realistic open world jak and daxter but they’re not cool enough for that anymore

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This could be something magical

no straley its about to be dogshit

This project is going to bang

kinda impossible not to trust naughty dog

i really hope they get out of their comfort zone with this one

heard rumors that this is supposed to be a medieval game

is this true?

They don’t miss, I hope it’s science fiction

All I'm saying is, they better knock it out of the f***ing park.