The Last of Us Part 2
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There are actually rumblings that Naughty Dog’s subsequent challenge, along with its flailing Last of Us Factions multiplayer recreation, is a remaster of The Last of Us Part II.
This was pulled from a LinkedIn profile of a Naughty Dog worker itemizing the remaster of the second recreation as a part of his work historical past. And it appears to mix with earlier studies from Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson that this was within the works.
The query, in fact, is why.
The Last of Us Part II was launched barely over three years in the past. While sure, that was on PS4, it already has gotten a 60fps efficiency patch for PS5. The recreation additionally already seems to be like this:
The Last of Us Part 2
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At this level, Naughty Dog doing remasters of its personal work has develop into almost a parody of itself. Between Uncharted and The Last of Us, we’ve seen I believe 4 remasters to date, and The Last of Us Part 2 can be a fifth.
Just, no. There isn’t any purpose on earth that this recreation must be remastered for this console technology. It’s barely three years old, it was the most effective wanting video games in existence on the time it was launched, and it nonetheless seems to be and runs unbelievable now, particularly after the PS5 patch. We routinely see new releases on this technology that nonetheless don’t look, run or play pretty much as good as The Last of Us Part 2. (And god, I don’t know if I can deal with a second spherical of discourse concerning the recreation).
One idea is that along with you understand, making an attempt to make money normally, that this remaster could also be deliberate in time for the discharge of the second season of The Last of Us on HBO, which is able to certainly cowl not less than the primary half of Part 2 of the sport. I’d argue I’d reasonably see them make The Last of Us Part 3 in time for uh, season 4 of the present in a couple of years, however no matter.
Naughty Dog appears to be in an odd place proper now, doomed to infinitely remaster their very own, already handsome video games, and now tasked with a big reside service providing that has already resulted in layoffs and challenge paralysis. Supposedly a brand new, sci-fi IP is coming from the studio a lot later, and maybe TLOU 3, however proper now, issues really feel totally weird, and I hope this remaster concept seems to be a rumor reasonably than reality.
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