We know that Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann is working on a new PS5 project, and some fans think they’ve found concept art in The Last of Us’ remake. Screenshots shared on social media show a selection of fantasy-style images attached to a pinboard, including a unicorn and a lady with her mid-riff exposed. Interestingly, the latter artwork was also spotted in The Last of Us 2 as well.
Of course, this could be a simple case of the Californian developer reusing assets and populating its game with as much detail as possible. But it does have form for this kind of thing: a newspaper clipping in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception hinted at The Last of Us and went undiscovered for quite some time.
Speaking at Summer Game Fest, Druckmann said that it’s too early to talk about upcoming projects. “Unless Sony wants to leak it, then we can talk about it right now,” he joked, in reference to details about the developer’s remake accidentally being uploaded earlier that day.
Does this artwork excite you at all? Do you think it’s related to an in-development project, or are fans simply jumping to conclusions? Ride a unicorn into the comments section below.
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A fantasy game with polish and story telling of ND? I'm all for it, let's gooo
You down with o.p.p. yes naughty know me.😄.that would be cool a fantasy new game.word up son
Hopefully we won’t have to wait till 2027 to play it!
Hope this is true, as much as I love the last of us I would love naughty dog to move on and also leave uncharted behind as well.
A new fantasy IP along with a jak and daxter remake would be perfect
No thanks. Hopefully its just world filler like savage starlight and dawn of the wolf. Unless that unicorn gets blown to bits, im not interested.
@Amin1998 compared to most developers, Naughty Dog has relatively fast turn around I feel. If you don’t count the remasters but do count the remake, then between 2011 and now they’ve released 6 games, 9 if you count DLC and remasters.
maybe just ellies comic book stuff.
i hope a gritty uncharted game thats what i want.
Naughtydog definitely long overdue a brand new IP this gen for sure. Weird to think no brand new IP from Naughtydog in the entirety of the PS4 gen. Although Uncharted 4 and part 2 must have been huge games development wise on PS4 so sort of understandable
Excited to play this in 2026, and read the leaks in 2025.
Bah. That’s not what they’re doing. My random speculation, based upon nothing but dreams, is that they’re doing an open-world Jak remake with photo-realistic graphics and ray tracing and whatnot. Look for it at the end of 2023, unless it gets pushed back to Q2 of 2024. 👍
@Pikki
I reckon they could give anything a go. They certainly proved they can do storydriven horror. I'd like to see them go a little more in to the genre though and get a bit more horror-y (I might have invented a word).
Nd new ip probably coming out 2025 because last of us part 3 is probably coming this gen too because the script for that game is already done.
Looking forward to seeing what they do next. Love seeing new IP from them. While I want to see ND creating new ip each generation, another part of me wishes to see more Uncharted too. If ND doesn't have the time to make any more then maybe Sony should think about starting up a little Naughty Dog Jr studio to keep Uncharted going.
Like many I've been speculating that they would do Savage Starlight, but I would definitely take a fantasy game from ND.
@Beerheadgamer82 they were extremely huge games...but nonetheless, investing in a new ip is a financial risk...tlou2 and u4 guaranteed gigantic revenues. Which way do you think they went? But somewhere on the line they're gonna need a new ip... rockstar probably disagrees.
I hope it's a My Little Pony game!
I'm down for whatever ND wants to do. Day one regardless.
I hope it's good like Uncharted and Last of Us, I don't care about the setting!
Love to see a new IP and after that last of us 3 to finish that story. Lou 2 has many unresolved story parts that were set up but didn't finish. Also love to see Jak 4 but if that happens Naughty dog will probably not be the one that makes it.
I want to see a Last of Us x Uncharted. In the first act Drake steals a priceless artifact from some indigenous people. When he returns home it turns out that unleashed a curse that caused the clicker fungus infection. I guess the ending will be Joel and Drake randomly meet up and Joel kills Drake (for a reason wholly unrelated to killing the world).
I'd be more interested to see them make a sci-fi IP, but I wouldn't say no to Naughty Dog. ND is a studio that has earned my trust.
I wish I was a fan of space games but most do nothing for me.
Now hang on a minute!!!
Where's my Last of us Part 2 PS5 remake!!!
(I'll get my coat).
@Pete_Stooge yh it's not really surprising ND went with U4 and Part2 instead of a new IP last gen with I'd guess U4 being planned a long time before the PS4 gen started and TLoU already being a fresh new IP at the start of PS4 gen. So sometimes it's not always guaranteed for game companies needing to have a gen developing new IP when their latest IP was already fresh in our minds and the part 2 sequel made so much more sense at the time. Guerilla, Bend, Insomniac and Suckerpunch all had new IP for PS4 but with Naughtydog at the start of PS4 gen had TLoU still being a fresh new IP. Edit Uncharted Lost Legacy escaped my mind today, forgot this happened in between U4 and part2
As much as I love Uncharted and TLOU (currently going through Part 1!) I would love to see ND turn their hand to something a little less grounded again. Hope this is accurate
Naughty Dog has fans? I thought they've been disowned by them due to TLoU Part 1. I wish they finished The Last of Us with a part 3 to give this tale a proper send-off before they venture into uncharted areas haha. Seriously though, anything that has a Naughty Dog logo on it is day one for me.
@Futureshark
Don't give them the idea!🤣
For real though anything NEW from Naughty Dog I'm there 100%. Hope this is true or if not their new IP is equally off the beaten path.
Biting my lip on this one. ND are a customer of my company and know a bit, not a lot but a bit.
hope it’s not open world
Another day another internet speculative non story.
A fantasy IP would be great!
They'll definitely have to try open world.
@OmegaStriver that's how I used to feel till I played Mass Effect 2.
Honestly I want to see ND tell a serious war story.
Utilize the template of TLOU2’s movement and gunplay and set it during something like the Vietnam War.
A retro 50s style scifi game from any Sony first party would be a day one for me. And I don't typically even day 1 games.
Why some people here hating the idea of a Fantasy western rpg game from naughty dog. Sony really need more western rpg of they’re own especially after Microsoft pretty much bought up the western rpg market. You guys don’t want sony to make any live service games either do you want Microsoft to dominate Sony or what because you don’t want them to make games in popular genres Microsoft bought up.
It would be good to see Naughty Dog do something different for once.
I’d like them to do a open world Galaxy High game. Where you can choose to play as Doyle or Aimee.
Unless I can use a shotgun to rip the limbs of professor Dumbledore and the rest of the students, no thanks.
What ever they make, it need to be 18+
A new IP from Naughty Dog would be pretty neat-o.
I am almost certain this has nothing to do with their next game. The thing with the newspaper in Uncharted started as an internal joke and they would have exposed it more (via code) if they had cut it out after the fact.
I am sure they learned that lesson. Also these pictures look very random and kinda not connected to each other at all. Probably just some brushed up drawings of someones kid.
Whatever. This dev died to me when Amy Hennig left.
I don't think Naughty Dog has the talent to Move beyond their shallow gameplay loop they have contined using in both uncharted and tlou. They are both just iterations of the same shallow gameplay held together via interesting story cutscenes.
@KundaliniRising333 Did you play TLOU2?
@Octane sure did. Quite the slog. Felt hours too long.
Personally have little to no interest in anything that they release at this point. I think they absolutely peaked at uncharted 2 and haven't come close to it since.
Also for those who are asking for a longer rpg from them, some of their shorter games have bits that drag, a 100 hour rpg from nd would be downright painful in places.
Maybe this time they'll actually develop some decent gameplay for this setting lol
@KundaliniRising333 shallow gameplay doesn't get the most ever goty awards from people in the industry who do this for a living. Both part 1 and part 2 is in some way meant to be a slog when going through a post apocalyptic world with everything overgrown and many enemy group rivals in amongst all the infected and clickers trying to kill you. You can't exactly find a jet pack or quickly find a car to make things easier smoother in a post apocalyptic game, that's not how these things work. I mean if it was 10 hours instead of almost 30 hours to complete first time then people still be complaining its a little short, damned if you do damned if you dont
@Beerheadgamer82 well said
Was it present in the original version of TLOU? if not and it's been placed in the remake then there probably is a big possibility it's real.
@Beerheadgamer82 I think you misunderstand what I mean by slog. I am not saying it was difficult to get through due to its atmosphere,difficulty, or gameplay, it was difficult to get through because of the repetitive gameplay and the long overly drawn-out narrative, and the extremely boring and self-indulgence walking simulator parts that take you out of immersion when they were designed to do the exact opposite.
To each his/her/their own I suppose. Agree to disagree?
@nomither6 300 hours of padding and grinding? Check 🥱🥱😁
While ND do have form for this type of hidden secret, the TLoU newspaper was never meant to be in the final version of U4. It wasn't some secret for us to find, although we did. It was an in joke during development that was suppose to have been removed before release.
@KundaliniRising333 it's just some of the words you are using to describe a game you obviously hate that I 100% disagree with. Like using the words walking simulator when every game you control a character in has some sort of walking, jogging or sprinting involved to get from A to B. It's fine to not like the game and I don't have a problem if you do or don't but to criticise it in false ways to best suit your dislike for it is the opposite of fair. There's been so many praising the tweaks in gameplay for part 2 but some have disliked the story cause of Joel's death and then Abbey being a playable character after what she just did is where a majority of the dislike comes from
Is it a remaster of the last of us 2 but $70?
Why does the thumbnail of this article have some sort non-descript sci-if imagine when you first click on it that has nothing to do with what it’s saying? Like there’s Guy and girl on it with a giant head of cauliflower alien in the background looming out like on the front cover of the original ‘Mass Effect’. Am I the only one who’s getting it?
well i killed dragons before why not one from naughty dog, id make armor and weapons out of one like Skyrim.
@Shepherd_Tallon Savage starlight is all I desire, would make the world a better place.
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