Shaun Escayg, the director on the critically acclaimed spin-off Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, has rejoined Naughty Dog. The industry veteran left The Last of Us maker to lead development on Marvel’s Avengers, but has announced on Twitter today that he’s returned to “the kennel” as a creative director and writer.
Welcoming him back into the fold, the official Naughty Dog account said that it’s “looking forward to doing awesome stuff together”. The studio is working on many projects at the moment, including a rumoured remake of The Last of Us for PlayStation 5 and a semi-announced multiplayer game. There were reports recently that it was also, at one point, collaborating with Sony Bend on a new Uncharted.
Naughty Dog has urged patience in recent months, promising that it has “several cool things on the way” and will “share them as soon as it can”. It’ll be interesting to see what Escayg gets up to upon his return.
[source twitter.com, via twitter.com]
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Unsure how much sway one guy has, but lost legacy was fantastic, so this can only be good news for naughty dog. Also its refreshing to hear about someone returning to ND rather than departing. Maybe all those rumours about working conditions at ND were, like everything in the media these days, overblown
Lost Legacy is fantastic. Give this man Uncharted & let Neil work on a new IP.
Lost Legacy was such a great experience, zero bloat and brilliant overall. This can only be a positive.
Great.
Well Jason said afterwards that the uncharted game was only at discussion stage (🙄) and probably 'cancelled' now which is easy to say and much ado about nothing. (Buy my book)
What I mean is I wonder what he's working on. Hopefully new IP
He's probably gonna be a big help when it comes to putting games that are currently in pre-production, actually in production
@Rob_230 Considering that when this guy left he was the director for the DLC of a very successful IP. I doubt the guy would have been dealing with poor working conditions. Lets see if some of the lower level programmers, artist... etc are coming back
Lost Legacy is my second favorite Uncharted game, so I'm happy he's back.
I liked Lost Legacy way more than Uncharted 4. There I said it
@JJ2 I'm happy about that, they need to work on something else than just making another sequel.
After leaving Naughty Dog to go work on Avengers he was probably like, “Oh no, what have I done?!”.
Chloe's Ray traced arse in shiny pants on ps5 please.
Lost legacy is good, I bet he nope the f out crystal dynamics after avengers lol.
Lol screwed the pooch on avengers and is back. XD
This is great news. I enjoyed Lost Legacy and he worked on the best part of Marvel's Avengers: Kamala Khan Single Player Campaign
Good to hear that someone is coming back. Now, lets hope Bruce Straley returns.
@True_Jehuty Same. It had alot of Uncharted 2 vibes while introducing other gameplay mechanics and blending them well with those traditionally associated with the UC franchise.
LL is an amazing game, so this is good news. I would not blame him for Avengers, or anyone at Crystal Dynamics. Squares insane decision to make it a live service game, doomed that game.
@Total_Weirdo
To be fair, he only dealt with the campaign, which was a solid 8/10 in my book.
@SweetSummerShunv Yeah I also got Uncharted 2 vibes from it and thus enjoyed it more. It felt like a more focused experience. Plus it fleshed out Nadine and made her really likeable to me.
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