Tidligere i dag kunne vi fortælle, at Nolan North havde bekræftet The Last of Us 2 under et panel på Metrocon. Det lød klart som om, at studiet var i gang med at arbejde på en efterfølger til den populære titel, men nu har Troy Baker, som spillede hovedpersonen Joel i det første spil, sået tvivl om hvorvidt spillet faktisk er under udvikling, idet han insisterer på, at han intet kendskab har til dette.
"Okay, so I'm... And by the way I know nothing. I don't know if we're gonna do another one or not. If we do, then I trust Neil [Druckmann, creative director] and Bruce [Straley, game director] and everyone at Naughty Dog to tell a story that needs to be told," fortalte Baker til sit publikum under et Q&A-panel på Indy PopCon 2015.
"I can go either way, though, because I think it could stand alone as just at its own thing. Like Journey, the game, not the band, it didn't need a sequel necessarily. It stood alone as a standalone piece of art that I think is incredible and if you haven't played it, it's amazing."
Med det sagt understregede Baker dog, at hvis en to'er udkom, ville han meget gerne finde ud af hvad der skete for Joel i årene mellem det første spils prolog og hovedhistorie.
"But for me, there's so much... You know, spoiler, when you go from the prologue and then credits and then cut to 20 years later, you see a completely different guy. You see someone that was a dad that was just trying to do everything he could to take care of his daughter to now, this feared, brutal man that has, as it said in the character description when I first auditioned for it, a man who has few moral lines left to cross."
"That's a very profound statement to make of someone, and if that's true what led him to that place. So there's a part of me that wants to see those 20 years, but if you played Left Behind there's so much about Ellie that I want to know. We got to see obviously in that what happened when she mentions at the very end of The Last of Us, when she talks about her and Riley. So being able to see that, I kind of want to see more about Joel, but I almost want to see it... I don't know, man, I go back and forth."
"But again, I have to default to this: I trust Neil and Bruce implicitly, so if they were to make a sequel, whatever they decide to take, even if they honestly - I believe in The Last of Us so much that even if Joel and Ellie weren't in it that would still be a game that I want to play or a story that I would want to experience."
Baker kender altså ikke noget til en efterfølger, og vi står tilbage med megen tvivl om dens eksistens. En ting er i hvert fald sikkert, og det er, at vi her på redaktionen vil følge nøje med i sagens udvikling, da en efterfølger til Naughty Dogs fantastiske spil vil være meget stort. Vi må vente og se.
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