The Last of Us Part 2 – there’s got to be another one, right? (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
The Tuesday letters page tries to imagine what Final Fantasy 17 will be like, as one reader contemplates being a Nintendo insider.
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Time is a factor
So, I see there’s a lot of rumours about Naughty Dog’s next game at the moment. It’s called Timeless Travel and Troy Baker, who played Joel, is in it. Could this be leading up to a reveal at The Game Awards, maybe? I heard there’s rumours of Sony readying announcements and it doesn’t seem likely they’d have a State of Play this late in the year.
I also wonder if maybe this is all a smokescreen and their next game is The Last Of Us Part 3. After the success of the show, I don’t see any world in which Sony doesn’t not push for a third game as soon as possible and beg and bully Naughty Dog into doing it.
If they did something else first, and it wasn’t out for a couple of years, it’d be at least seven years or more before they could make The Last Of Us Part 3. By that point the show will have nothing to adapt, the actors will have got too old, and it won’t be the hot thing anymore. Heck, by that point half of the people involved in the original two games will probably have retired too!
Clovis
GC: That rumour about the time travel name seems to be a fake, although Troy Baker being involved is true. But there’s barely a game he doesn’t provide a voice for, so that’s not necessarily significant.
Playing the odds
I should’ve just pretended to be a Nintendo insider months ago, because a January reveal and a March release was always the most likely outcome. I’m not saying that’s what’s going to happen – being likely means there’s only a one in 10 chance when it comes to Nintendo – but without any other information I don’t see the point in betting on anything else.
Everything so far points towards Nintendo trying to do things as similar as possible to the original Switch, including what the hardware looks like. The only thing they can’t really make the same is a reveal this year, but I feel January is the closest to that they can get. What’s going on with the games is the biggest mystery though and we haven’t even got into that yet.
Xane
Rusty Valve
The thing that gets me with Half-Life 3 rumours is that we’ve still never had an answer for what do Valve developers do all day? Considering they haven’t released a proper single-player game in 13 years. I guess their multiplayer experts still have something to do, updating the old games, but who do they still employ that knows anything about how to make a single-player game?
Either they’ve been on gardening leave for a decade or they have some …read more
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