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Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann says his next game is “structured more like a TV show” than anything else Naughty Dog had made.
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So I'm guessing releasing in parts and not all at once. Nothing wrong with that. Great for discourse.
TLOU1 was four stories across each season.
TLOU2 was basically two games in one.
TLOU3 is a big story told over a year with one "episode" a month?
TLOU2 was basically two games in one.
TLOU3 is a big story told over a year with one "episode" a month?
Yeah, GaaS have "seasons" so structuring Factions like a TV show would make sense.
I have no idea what this means, imo Uncharted and The Last of Us with their chapters are already very much structured like a television show.
This would be a logistical nightmare to deliver and people would probably get sick of coming back once a month for an hour or so of gameplay.
Sounds to me like jumping around multiple protagonists. I actually don't mind this too much if its done right. Extending a "movie" to 30+ hour games that these AAA endeavors have been doing can be rough for the story and pacing but maybe a more TV-like approach would work better. TLOUII already fit a bit more like that although I didn't like how it handled the pacing all that much.
Episodic would fit a Space game pretty well...
Episodic would fit a Space game pretty well...
Can't wait for this to mean a GaaS where the seasons are called Seasons and updates within a season are called Episodes (or something like that). It could also potentially mean episodic, which could work or be a complete train-wreck.
Whatever it is, he's not talking about TLOU MP. At Summer Games Fest he did speak about TLOU MP, but he was also asked what he's working on next and said that's not ready to be discussed yet. TLOU MP will be narrative driven, but whatever Neil's working on is something else.
My guess continues to be that it's a brand new IP, and once that's out then they'll get cracking on TLOU Part 3. At the same time ND in collab with another Studio will make a new Uncharted. TLOU MP will have a several year run with ongoing content. Almost certainly a TLOU 2 Director's Cut/Remaster/Remake will also be made, and that will be the PC version of the game that goes out, and of course it'll come to PS5 as well.
I do wonder if they'll get a new Jak and Daxter game out, and possibly some remasters/remakes since it's been indicated that a J&D movie is gonna happen.
My guess continues to be that it's a brand new IP, and once that's out then they'll get cracking on TLOU Part 3. At the same time ND in collab with another Studio will make a new Uncharted. TLOU MP will have a several year run with ongoing content. Almost certainly a TLOU 2 Director's Cut/Remaster/Remake will also be made, and that will be the PC version of the game that goes out, and of course it'll come to PS5 as well.
I do wonder if they'll get a new Jak and Daxter game out, and possibly some remasters/remakes since it's been indicated that a J&D movie is gonna happen.
ND games already follow this kind of structure to a degree. I don't for a second expect their next game to be episodic.
So yeah, there's the full quote. It's a writers room sort of process?
They did a live-action TV show embedded into the game itself. This doesn't sound like that.
Playing the newest God of War honestly felt like playing through a prestige television show, and I absolutely do NOT mean that as a compliment. That game's pacing felt super calculated to be consumed in hour chunks with its sporadic peaks and far-too-consistent valleys. It was actually fatiguing, ironically.
This quote does the opposite of make me excited to be honest. I've been kind of over Sony's "house style" for a bit, and Sony's content has been my favorite stuff in the biz forever so it's a bummer. TLOU Part II also felt like a long-in-the-tooth, kind of "too into itself" television show too despite me really loving it.
For me, Sony's tropes have been over played at this point and I'm ready for the next thing/shakeups to their formula in their biggest studio's titles. But they keep selling well so I'll be shocked to see them deviate anytime soon.
For a long time I thought the cynicism levelled at Sony's first party house style wasn't justified. But in the last several years I've kind of turned around and am with the cynics.
This quote does the opposite of make me excited to be honest. I've been kind of over Sony's "house style" for a bit, and Sony's content has been my favorite stuff in the biz forever so it's a bummer. TLOU Part II also felt like a long-in-the-tooth, kind of "too into itself" television show too despite me really loving it.
For me, Sony's tropes have been over played at this point and I'm ready for the next thing/shakeups to their formula in their biggest studio's titles. But they keep selling well so I'll be shocked to see them deviate anytime soon.
For a long time I thought the cynicism levelled at Sony's first party house style wasn't justified. But in the last several years I've kind of turned around and am with the cynics.
This is exactly what I came to post.
Episodes are literally just chapters of stories which games already have, so how can they make it more like TV unless they're planning on putting in ads every 10-15 minutes.
What? TLoU already felt serialised as fuck to me.
Is the next Uncharted going to be more structured like a movie too?
Is the next Uncharted going to be more structured like a movie too?
Same goes for Kojima and his desire to make movies, yet he makes video games as well.
*yawn*
I mean, his past games have all been structured like (incredibly long) movies. Would that be so different?
I mean, his past games have all been structured like (incredibly long) movies. Would that be so different?
I thought there was a recent story saying that Druckmann wasn't working on Factions.
Edit: never mind, I re-read the article and it mentions Uncharted being handled by a different studio, not Factions.
Neil will not have live action videos in his next game. This will be nothing like Quantum Break.
This doesn't help the argument that ND and it's influence over Sony Studios are about making anything but games.
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