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If you’re a longtime Naughty Dog fan, that statement likely gets your mind racing with possibilities. This can't be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 3, right? Druckmann would almost certainly be writing and directing that, so no. Could it be something entirely new? That ? Or could Naughty Dog be going back to one of its dormant franchises? Though 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Bandicoot is likely off the table, as the IP is now owned by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Microsoft, Naughty Dog could go back to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jak & Daxter.
The Last of Us actually — which lived on in Joel and Ellie, a big character🍨 and a litt🏅le character, working together to solve problems.
Games Got Darker And More Mature
I don't expect that to happen. The video game medium grew up with its audience. We see this in Naughty Dog, which went from Crash Bandicoot to the slightly more mature Jak & Da✨xter, then jumped to rea♓lism with Uncharted, and turned up the grimness with The Last of Us.
But it's funny how neatly you can map the grown-up-ness of video game content to the console generations they were being developed for. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sucker Punch's first four games were cartoon-y platformers. It debuted with the E-rated N64 game Rocket: Robot on Wheels, a collectathon starring a big-eyed unicycle robot. It broke through with the E-10-rated 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sly Cooper games, which cast players as a raccoon thief.
But Sucker Punch's last Sly Cooper game launched at the tail-end of the PS2-era, and it spent the PS3 years making the T-rated Infamous games. It introduced 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghost of Tsushima, a bloody M-rated samurai saga, for the PS4, and will keep the realistic violence high for its sequel 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghost of Yotei.
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This progression tracks, even for series that started off being targeted to older players. Even though the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:God of War games have always been M-rated, Kratos transformed from a cartoonishly violent tornado of fury into a broken man and absent father (who was also s🧸till e🥀xtremely violent) in God of War 2018.
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This isn’t just the audience maturing, it’s the developers growing up, too. Cory Barlog, who co-directed 2007’s God of War 2 when he was in his twenties returned to the series as a middle-aged dad to lead God of War (2018). People grow up, old themes take on new resonance, and the ⛄work reflects those changing priorities.
With The Last of Us, Naughty Dog showed that big triple-A action games could also be meditations on grief and fatherhood, ༒and so if those were themes you were interested in, there was a clear path forward. And, once developers take that step, they don't seem all that interested in returning to their more lighthearted roots.
But I think there’s a better way. Like Naughty Dog, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Insomniac broke out on the PS1 with the success of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Spyro the Dragon, then matured a bit on the PS2 with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ratchet & Clank. In the PS3 era, it matured further with the M-rated FPS series, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resistance.💎 But it never stopped making Ratchet & Clank games. It played in the middle, with the Spider-Man games. It never lost touch with its kid-friendly roots while, at the same time, building games for teens and adults.
It's difficult to imagine Sucker Punch or Naughty Dog doing the same. But wouldn't it be cool if both developers had gone back to their PS2-era mascots every once in a while? Wouldn't it be cool to see the Naughty Dog that made 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us Part 2 take everything it had learned about interactive storyte🎉lling and apply it to a silly story about an ottsel? I think💟 so.
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