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Believe it or not, some posters would have you believe they don't want this a sequel being made, but it's not because they played TLOU or even liked the game. Sadly, it's because they see a potential HUGE series being MASSIVE on a platform they don't like. They saw the 200+ awards, the GOTYs, the sales, the HYPE...they don't like it. TLOU is ammo in a fanboy system war. The Last of Us 2 would be ammo that these extremes would prefer not to exist. I know it sounds strange, to read about some sort of twisted and strange jealousy, but I've encountered these extreme fanboys many times on various forums and that's the game they play. It's strange asking them if they played it and they either lie and get proven as liars by other forumites or they outright admit they don't even own a PS system or the TLOU game, BUT they feel there shouldn't be a sequel. There are of course, extremists on the other side as you might imagine. Then there are the legitimate TLOU fans that pose this TLOU2 question over and over and that is what I'm responding too, the REAL fans.
Regarding how I feel? I'm indifferent and I'll explain why. I don't care if ND wants to make a new Uncharted, TLOU2, Jak 4, or some new IP. Whatever it is, I'm going to buy it. I follow developers and I trust Naughty Dog's choices. If they think they can do it justice and the team is passionate on the project (how ND operates), then I AM DOWN! I was happy to see ND and Sony take a chance creating TLOU when an easy Uncharted 4 could have been cranked out. It's nice to see NEW IPs cranked out at the end of a system's life from a 1st party. That risk was appreciated. I bought TLOU on launch because I trusted ND before they even created the Jak & Daxter games. Even if somehow TLOU2 was god awful from ND (lol, not likely)...that's okay, I'll still cherish TLOU original. It's no big deal, the existence of a sequel won't negate the original masterpiece. I say let them create whatever it is they want to create.
I've spoken on this TLOU2 sequel issue before a month ago (LINK). I will just re-use my older post on this SAME SUBJECT I linked to save me time:
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Naughty Dog operates the way I like developers to operate. They will make a sequel to a game series if they feel they have a story to tell and gameplay ideas to back it up. If they don't, they move on and do a different project. It's why they didn't make Jak 4 and created Uncharted 1 back in the day. They would rather create a new IP like Uncharted, Jak, The Last of Us instead cramming ideas that don't fit in an older IP. ND are granted freedom from Sony as they earned it. ND aren't forced to make sequels they aren't passionate about making. It's one of the stark contrasts when you compare the last decade to say Bungie, who were sort of forced into making Halo's (in the same time ND were making games, Bungie gave us Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo ODST, and Halo Reach) and saw their peers including Naughty Dog create three separate IPs in that same time frame. Bungie freed themselves and are working on a new IP.
My point is, I don't mind if ND make TLOU 2, as long as they do with with that same philosophy they have been operating under since they created Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, Uncharted, and The Last of Us. Make the game they want to create, not being forced to create a sequel they aren't interested in.
Point is, If they decide to create a new IP after Uncharted 4, if they decide to make The Last of Us 2, if they decide to revisit Jak...I'm down with whatever. They have earned my trust since the original Crash Bandicoot PSOne games.
I follow developers, not brands, so they will get my money on their next big game (not counting TLOU Remaster since I own the PS3 version) because they are a developer I trust, much like Rocksteady and various other devs.
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