During the early stages of The Last of Us production, Neil Druckmann feared that the game would ‘review poorly’.
Speaking in the latest issue with Game Informer, creative director Neil Druckmann said, “The thing when you do a new IP is that you really don’t know. You hope for the best and fear the worst, as cliched as that sounds.”
It depends on when you asked me during production. If you had asked me a few months out, I would have said that we were going to review poorly and I don’t know how it’s going to sell.
As we got closer to finishing it, it felt like it was coming together. I remember going into E3, and I was telling [game director Bruce Straley], ‘I don’t think it’s going to be received well.’ I get Uncharted – it’s got that summer blockbuster feel. It’s got the spectacle. Here, it’s got this very different, intimate feel to it.
There are long stretches where there isn’t much action and I don’t know how gamers are going to relate to that.”
Instead of worrying about the game’s reception, Druckmann’s team was focused on making the game they wanted to play.
“The thing that Bruce and I always said was, ‘Let’s make the game we want to play. Let’s do a game that isn’t out there. It will be the game we want to play, and that’s the idea guiding us.’ That’s all you can really do and hope people will get into it.”
You know the results, The Last of Us sold over 3.4 million units worldwide and it is the fastest selling PS3 title of 2013.
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The exact opposite happened. It became one of the best games of this generation. :)
I venture to say that is one of the best games of all time, not only this generation.
Best game I’ve every played. By a long way. In fact, possibly the most emotionally, psychologically and philosphically profound entertainment experience I’ve every had! – including movies, novels and even poetry.
Best game I’ve played since Far Cry 3. Exceptional!
I have faith that whatever you make will be amazing. Just like Uncharted and The Last of Us. Looking forward to seeing what comes next.
straight up
Naughty Dog uncharted is also one of my best story mode game, but I am very sorry, their Multiplayer sucks.
To compare The Last of us and Far Cry 3 is like comparing Super Mario Brothers and Call of Duty Black Ops 2 ;)
TLou is the best game i played for years.
Bull****……..Farcry 3 is way better.
farcry is the good FPS. last of us is the good survival action
This shows that you just start gaming few years ago. Unlike me who start gaming since I was 7.
why would naughty dog be scared? i mean all the games they made was a huge ps3 sucess :) and the last of us just made ps consoles stand out more then xbox cuz
awesome game play
scary game play
sick story line
crazy twists
really fucking realistic
nice graphics
i wish this wins game of tha year !@!#$!@@!#%@#!
it could have been a little scarier
I just hear for the game the last of us i know that this game must be so awsome and i buy ps3 with the game the last of us and i must say the game of the world the best game i ever play the best game i ever play this game is bethen then all game i played for now and i must great job guys you made the game perfect evryting is so cool so amazing evryting is is so awsome and make more of this games like that one like XDXDXDXD
:)
There there, Naughty Dog. You done well.
I can sort of feel where they were coming from. During that year, Dead Island’s trailer really caught a lot of hearts. So many other zombie/survival horror games were being released at that time as well. Naughty Dog needed to do something to stand out of all the competition.
Far cry 3 sucked such an awkward and weird storyline.
Yeah, I didn’t ‘get’ FC3 at all. Annoying, shallow characters, challenging but clumsy gameplay. Saying which, I only played about 3 hours, but was totally fed up with it by then. For me The Last of Us is in a different – perhaps unique – league.
Is people like you who read “The Diary of a mad man” and “Jean-Jacques Rousseaua Confession and set them on fire. You need to think insane sometimes to understand a story line authors are trying to convey. I can see from your picture that you are still a baby LOL……..Read more books and Play more games and you will have the ability to understand weird storyline.
My upvotes speak for themselves.
What I don’t understand is that why people like you care to post in an article which is so old,telling them to stop hating on a game YOU like,what’s the point in that.
I hate Farcry 3 and I don’t care if you think its too complicated for me to understand,so please stop caring about my posts further on thank you.
Great stuff happens when a creator, an artist of any sort, decides to stop pandering to the perceived standards of others and holds their work up to their own standards, the only standards that we ever truly know. George R.R. Martin has said the same of his Game of Thrones series: “I wanted to write books that I would want to read”. That Druckmann and the others did the same thing for The Last of Us was a bold move, but it all worked out: the game that they wanted to play was, in retrospect, one and the same with the one we’ve been missing in a time filled with immature, cliche and forgettable experiences. Developers will try to replicate The Last of Us’ beauty, and they’ll fail because the game’s success doesn’t come from comparison, but from innovation. It comes from looking within as opposed to without. To me, The Last of Us is a resounding response to the play-it-safe tactics that developers have been abusing. I hope its success let’s developers know that it’s time to try something new, and if you’re more concerned with making money than making something you’d be proud of, your product is going to suck.
Sick game, have to play it through atleast twice!!!!!
After the Crash, Jak and Daxter, and Uncharted games I had no doubt in my mind that whatever Naughty Dog did it would be amazing- and they not only confirmed this, the blew it out of the water!
The last of us is the best game of this generation undoubtedly.thanks ND
People talk bad about Farcry 3 because they cant master the multiplayer lobby. I witness people getting rid of their game plates because they can even come first instead being punished by pro players like me who already have Far-cry 3 map logic and experience….Practice make perfect. Call of duty is not a game. So, you that say, ‘To compare The Last of us and Far Cry 3 is like comparing Super Mario Brothers and Call of Duty Black Ops 2 ;)
TLou is the best game i played for years.” You just a cartoon players. Call of Duty multiplayer sucks. the way the characters move doesn’t look real. the way they die is fake. You can not even revival players, how about that? Farcry remain the best and I remain the Number one in New York.