The Last of Us Franchise - Because it's apparently a franchise now. This thread has been double-DMCA’d by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

The Doom Slayer said:
So ND is getting hit as part of the new Sony layoffs.

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Cuckman's just using it as an excuse to hide how he really doesn't have a functional company anymore tbh. He's just using the mass firings to make the excuse of cancelling a game he can't make since he only has maybe a few gfx artists left to do skins.

I do like the mental image of him just being alone in the decaying office though, stubbornly refusing to move on from people telling him the game he made was shit.
 
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Lol we can only hope

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The Doom Slayer said:
Lol we can only hope

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This reeks of him starting to set up his golden parachute in the wake of finally realizing he can't ride TLOU forever anymore, as well as the legendary snubbing he got on the red carpet after all he'd done to establish himself as the big man for a franchise only to find out nobody fucking cared.
 
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Optimus Prime said:
This reeks of him starting to set up his golden parachute in the wake of finally realizing he can't ride TLOU forever anymore, as well as the legendary snubbing he got on the red carpet after all he'd done to establish himself as the big man for a franchise only to find out nobody fucking cared.
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Considering how much of a former shell ND is now, especially with the recent layoffs, I doubt he'd be able to worm his way into any significant dev studios worth giving a damn, including indie studios. Especially since he's only really known for tanking TLOU all on his own with the second game and being an absolutely terrible writer on his own.
 
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The Doom Slayer said:
Lol we can only hope

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In an interview with rapper Logic, Naughty Dog’s president said he could envision himself transitioning to something more low-key, which enables him to continue being creative in a less stressful environment while also spending more time with his kids.

Asked if he sees himself making games forever, Druckmann said that recently he’s “really enjoyed” working on other creative projects like HBO’s Last of Us TV show and a Halloween Horror Nights experience at Universal Studios.

“I guess that I don’t see myself doing this forever at this scale,” he said. “It’s just a lot, and it takes a lot out of you. It’s very stressful to manage that many people and multiple studios worldwide.

“So, you were talking about how you’re entering this new phase in your life, where your kids are number one, and I’m in a similar place where my kids are number one. And I know that, especially, my daughter’s now 13, and I feel like life is pulling her away from me. I know that time is limited, so it’s very precious to me, and I don’t want to waste it when they do want to spend time with me, and that’s number one.

“Yeah so, I’m just at a point in my life where it’s like, you start looking at, ‘what’s the end game here? When is it time to call it?’

Druckmann said he’s a big Quentin Tarantino fan, and he’s keen to find out if the director sticks to his public comments about making no more than 10 films. He thinks the Pulp Fiction director will, but that he’ll end up making TV shows or doing something else creative.

“So, I could see myself transitioning to something that’s like more low-key, and lower stressed, that still allows me to have this creative outlet,” Druckmann said. “But you know, I’ve started thinking about how many more of these games do I have in me, and it’s not that many.”

Druckmann went on to say that everything changed following the release of 2009’s Uncharted 2, and that he’s been a victim of his own success.

“Uncharted 2 was the most fun I had making any of the games I’ve worked on because Uncharted 1, a lot of people loved it, but it wasn’t this huge success. It was successful enough again that we made Sony happy, we made enough money. But with Uncharted 2 we felt like we had something really special, like we all knew it, and we knew we were flying in under the radar, and no one was going to expect what we were about to deliver.

“And I remember we’d spend late nights playing the multiplayer as well, and there was just this camaraderie and the stress wasn’t there, and afterwards everything has been incredibly stressful, after Uncharted 2, because now you’re no longer flying under the radar, now everybody is expecting something to be great.

“And you have to think, ‘how do we make it great and how do we do it in a way that doesn’t feel like we’re just repeating ourselves?’ So you always have to make it great and new, which is really, really hard.”
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Gondolindrim said:
You know what I hate the most about TLOU; It is one of the most depressing settings for a story I've ever seen. Humans going extinct, infected getting stronger, the world is quite literally going to get worse and worse until no one's left. But sure, I'll totally cheer at Ellie and and Dina 69ing.
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Eh, I wouldnt go that far. The first game did establish that humanity is recovering but very slowly and painfully but there are communities like Tommy's that are actually pretty peaceful and functional but they are pretty spread out. Humanity did adapt the the fungus as it didnt seem to evolve any further from what we saw in the first two games so I can imagine that eventually the infection will be slowly burned down.

It will take a long time and dont get me started on human on human conflicts but overall, humanity will survive. And probably remain blissfully unaware that the only immune was ready to die for a botched surgery to be but not ready to be at least bisexual for the sake of reproduction.

In a world that made sense, Ellie would not be remembered fondly by history.
Computer Guardian said:
Considering how much of a former shell ND is now, especially with the recent layoffs, I doubt he'd be able to worm his way into any significant dev studios worth giving a damn, including indie studios. Especially since he's only really known for tanking TLOU all on his own with the second game and being an absolutely terrible writer on his own.
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Oh please, dont act like there arent individuals that have done worse in the entertainment industry and yet keep failing upwards.
Computer Guardian said:
Considering how much of a former shell ND is now, especially with the recent layoffs, I doubt he'd be able to worm his way into any significant dev studios worth giving a damn, including indie studios. Especially since he's only really known for tanking TLOU all on his own with the second game and being an absolutely terrible writer on his own.
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I see him trying the Kojima route and starting his own studio and doing his own project. Now, say whatever you want about Kojima but he had the following to believe he could make this transition safely, Cuckmann does not, even if he likes to believe he does.

Nvm the number of bridges he burned and backs he stabbed within the industry to get where he is. People talk, especially big players.
 
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IDanceonTrannyGraves said:
My guess is he's trying to worm his way into Hollywood but all the SJWs are pro-Palestine, so he's fucked.
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Perhaps, but he doesn't have the clout.

Like I mentioned earlier, he's actually gotten that far thanks to the HBO series and his glorious day on the red carpet had him publicly embarrassed because nobody cared about him...which is hilariously ironic given what a fucking piece of shit he is that there's literally a trading card in the game describing him as a supervillain.

Like, that's Mike Dawson tier of 'trying to make yourself famous within a videogame and you end up making everybody hate your guts'.

He's ultimately going to fade into obscurity, which a piece of shit like him deserves.

The handsome tard said:
I see him trying the Kojima route and starting his own studio and doing his own project. Now, say whatever you want about Kojima but he had the following to believe he could make this transition safely, Cuckmann does not, even if he likes to believe he does.
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The difference is that Kojima is fucking insane in an extremely entertaining way. That trailer for Death Stranding 2? I don't know what the goddamn hell any of that was but damn if I didn't find it weirdly captivating just to see what other bullshit was going to come out of the walls. In contrast, a good example of doing Kojima badly is the game D2 for the Sega Dreamcast which is like, Resident Evil put through a Metal Gear Solid 2 filter but all the wrong lessons were taken from it.

Druckman won't even get that far. Man's a fucking hack who forced TLOU2 into shoving his knockoff versions of the characters down people's throats and notably under his management, Naughty Dog has done nothing but remasters and hollow announcements, without delivering on promised content.
 
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That Chris Guy said:
It was Sony's choice to infect all of its own franchises with AIDS, and losing a few peons won't change that.
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not necessarily, I doubt even sony makes every hiring decision. that still mostly up to the studios themselves.
but you're right, it won't fix anything since the self-inflicted rot has festered too much.
 
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