Mike Drucker
Appearances
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
It makes you, you know, even though they're at the very top of things, they're kind of like, Oh God, what if we do this? And it ruins everything. And also, I think, like, you know, when you look at things like Mass Effect 3, you know, that was a game that they proudly released.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
And the fan backlash was so big that it almost, like, you could see it almost ruin their love of Mass Effect in real time.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Like, they changed the ending. It felt like the next game didn't have the same, like, feeling of excitement. I don't think that alone killed it. I just mean, like, it felt like that type of moment that you fear as a creative, which is the people who love what I've made so far hate what I'm ending on. And so it's just a ton of pressure.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
I mean, I have friends who are game writers who like will move to different countries for gigs because all of these studios are spread out, you know, around the world, which is very good. But like someone, I know someone who like moved to France for a job and then the project kind of ended after a month or two. Jesus. And it's like, that's nuts. That is a nuts way to make people live.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
I did. I did. I thought they did a really good job. And honestly, I like Last of Us 2 more than Last of Us 1 in terms of just my preference for games. So I'm very curious to see what they do this season.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
We pitched to HarperCollins and they bought it. So what it basically is, was. I've been reading a lot of books about movies and music where people write about how they influence their lives, like Patton Oswalt's Silver Screen Fiend, you know, a lot of like, I don't know, even like Chuck Klosterman stuff that we all used to like.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Oh, man. I mean, I also, I think someone else I saw, it might have even been the same person, but I saw someone say something along the lines of, like, you can tell Nintendo's over dealing with these other companies. Like, it does not want to deal with, doesn't want to deal with Twitter. It probably doesn't understand Blue Sky yet.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
It's like, you know what, do we have to do this for everything every time something happens? And a very Nintendo solution is just taking their ball and going home. Just follow us. Yeah. You want Nintendo news, kids? Download the app. We'll get it to you. Like, I think it's kind of like that.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
No, I need to still download it. I mean, the music one I downloaded day one. The moment they announced the music one, I grabbed it. But this one I have to still download.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
10 years ago when Nintendo was like, we will never release an app. We will never release an app. And then they were like, hey, we kind of like this.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
And people just don't really do that about games, or at least there's no like book where it's just sort of like about a very on the ground, how it influenced my life in a funny way book. And it's not that I saw a hole in the market that I wanted to fill. It was more like, oh, this is something that I want to talk about. If other people aren't doing it, I would love to do it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
You know, I think... I kind of want to keep that sense of wonder, you know, something like that I've always loved about the series. And this applies to almost every game in the series is that sense of like you walk into the field or the world or you're overlooking on a mountain. And it's just such a sense of wonder and discovery.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
You know, going back to Miyamoto's whole thing of the game being inspired by exploring like caves and gardens near his house as a kid. I think that. that quality is what I want to feel. Like, I want to feel like I'm discovering something new. Like, with the Super Mario Brothers movie, that felt like I was playing Super Mario Brothers.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
They were doing backflips, they were jumping off blocks, and I felt like a little kid again watching it. And I kind of want something that evokes that feeling, but the feeling that Zelda gives.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
You know, that's a good question. It also depends on what Nintendo wants to do. I think my initial reaction would sort of be like what you're saying. I think Ocarina of the Time is both probably the easiest to convert into a movie, a Zelda movie, in terms of, like, capturing the spirit of it, capturing the progression of it. You know, I also...
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
You know, I could see something that's more Breath of the Wild-y. I just see that as maybe a little too vast. Like, Ocarina of Time's a little bit smaller, the beats are a little bit quicker. It's also, I know that this will be a live-action film, but it's a little more broad and cartoony, and I think that might play well.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
That's the other thing, is I kind of hope that we still get, like, weirdo characters, and it'll be a fine line to balance. And they sort of mentioned before it being, like, a live-action Studio Ghibli movie. If it hits that vibe, we're perfect.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
And so I wrote this book, which is a series of comedy essays about events in my life where I've humiliated myself in some form with video games. The stories about like crushes that failed, bad cosplay, a time at Nintendo when I got shot, shot during a paintball gunfight. It's just it's kind of it's supposed to be a very, very fun light book about video games and how much we all love them.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think Ocarina of Time, if they did adapt one, it would be the best. What I don't want them to do is my pet peeve with any sort of video game movie or adaptation in general, which is when they have to add lore on top of the lore.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
It's okay if there's a new event in the story that creates new lore, but when they're like, now we're going to have an ancient curse, we're going to have another ancient thing, we're going to have another thing over here, and there's a reason that the Master Sword does this. Yeah, yeah. Like they did with the Mortal Kombat movies where they added an extra layer on why everyone gets superpowers.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
And we're like, we don't need that.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Now, that might not mean it comes out perfect, because Nintendo has released games where we were like, ah, you missed the target a little bit. But, like you said, they're not licensing it to another company with slight oversight. They're co-producing every one of their movies. And from what I have heard from people who are in the know, he is involved heavily. It's not marketing hype.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
It's not them saying that to make it seem better. He is spending a good chunk of time on these movies, Miyamoto. And so... I really do have confidence. At the very least, it's going to be not trashy. I don't know if it'll be my dream movie, but I don't think it'll be bad.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Absolutely. Although there's still moments like I tried to recently pitch a Robotron 2084 show. God damn it, Drucker. God damn it, Drucker. That was kind of their reaction. They were like, this is a great pitch. We don't know if anyone wants this. Use your powers for good, Drucker. It was very friendly. It was a great pitch. I had it all set out and, and they were very positive on it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
It was just at the end, they were like, we don't think anyone would watch this. I was like, yeah, you're probably right. Good day.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Um, no, but as far as Miyamoto and Druckman being involved, I think that's great. You know, they're the creators who kind of understand it the best, you know, um, The reason I think a lot of video game movies were so bad, especially in the past, was in the past, a lot of people didn't really play them unless they were assigned to write them.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
You would get a copy of Street Fighter II, and they were like, write a whole movie based on this with almost nothing to go off of and no internet to search for information. And I think here you have these guys who really understand the thing. They really understand the feeling they want out of it. They know what they personally want out of it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Miyamoto basically made the Super Mario movie a Mario game that you just watch someone else play. And I 100% loved it for it. So to me, having the soul creative in there is really good.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
um you know and that's why i fear things when like companies like bioware fire writers who have been there forever because i'm like these are the people that know these characters the best they're the ones who like created the characters or they're the ones who like brought them through these arcs and you know people with skill can always you know shuffle something and make make their own version of it and do their own take on it but having the creators there i think is really what will make it special
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It felt like a movie based on Uncharted rather than the movie version of Uncharted, and I don't know if that makes sense.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Thank you very much. I think the fact that I sent one person at Nintendo a PDF and then I think everyone at Nintendo got that PDF. And the fact that they've been very nice about it is very nice.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
I mean, they're also tearing down the Looney Tunes lot, like...
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
where it's a transitional it's a rebuilding year um you wonder if it'll be a year or is it gonna be whoever buys them next and does all these things that'll rebuild whatever it is it's but it's been it's been like kind of shocking like i'm i'm genuinely surprised that i didn't play hogwarts legacy but i am surprised that it's not getting an expansion just because i think it might have been the best-selling game of the year it came out yes like that is correct you would assume yeah
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah. And it's an IP that did not have many games about it for years and years. Like, it was the perfect storm for them. To me, I would have maybe... I could have understood if that news story was... mystery Warner brothers game canceled for Hogwarts legacy expansion.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
But canceling that expansion to me is nuts.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
I mean, and games do that all the time. Like, I feel like Dredge has like eight expansion packs or something. They're all like 10 bucks. Yeah. Like, you know, like it's easy to do that. It feels, I don't know. It feels like a weird business decision. I don't know if it's a smart business decision.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah, yeah, I definitely think that's the case. And you kind of wonder, what money is being left on the table? How much did they already invest in this? Who's going to be laid off from this? I don't know. You also wonder how many corporate executives are coming in and looking at this Hogwarts legacy expansion and being like, can we add this? Can we put this in? I want this. Who wants that?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Can we have that? Can you cut that? Can we not have actors in it so it doesn't cost anything? Is there a spell where there's no voice acting? How would AI help this game? What can we do with AI? Can we get an NFT in there too? And I imagine that with...
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
A lot of these games, like if they're doing a Batman game, because Rocksteady probably is on thin ice, I could imagine them being micromanaged to the point where it actually breaks the game.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah. Although, I mean, what I feel like the lesson they should have taken from the Batman is that maybe you don't need a connected universe approach. Sure. You know, maybe you just do your Batman movies and your Superman movies and they don't necessarily need to build up to, you know, Doomsday or something. You have this library.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Right. As long as I don't, but as long as I don't like tie their shoes together with like early movies that are supposed to be the foundation. And then people see one out of the three. Yeah, you know, I will admit that the Justice League Snyder Cut was of the movies. I was like, this is the one where I get what you're doing.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
I know you and I disagreed on some of the Snyder movies, but the Snyder Cut was the one where I was like, I get it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
But it does seem like and again, you obviously the vibes of a trailer can be different from the actual movie. But it does seem to do something that I'm excited about, whereas it makes me feel like a little kid where I'm like Superman. Yeah. Like you have crypto coming to save him. You know, you're like, you know, you that's sort of I mean, even going back to Legend of Zelda movie.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
That's what I want from a Superman movie, too, is I want to look up the sky, look up at the sky and be like, it's Superman. 100%. I don't want it to be dark. I don't want it to be mean.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah, I want to see him die in a completely preventable scene to teach him a lesson.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
The two things I think we've tried and have not worked so far are way too dark and way too boring.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Um, you know, it's weird because I don't think I have. I've definitely used, you know, the streaming services with PlayStation and Xbox, but I have not used Luma. I probably own like 20 Luma games somehow, but I haven't used it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
See how I'm doing with that?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
I have not yet given up on games. Right now, the two games I've put the most time into are still Avowed, I'm still in the middle of Avowed, and Two Points Museum.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
No, yeah, I use xCloud, I use the PlayStation 1. And I was a Stadia early adopter. I actually had a Stadia. I still have a Stadia controller in some fucking drawer somewhere. Yeah, I really... I really was excited for this idea.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
I think I was a little too all in on it, and maybe I got burnt out on it because I got games and stuff, and I was like, I can play games at work now, which is kind of what I liked about it. I was still in the office at my job, and I could secretly play Samurai Showdown on my laptop. So I love that stuff. But now I mostly work from home, so it's a little bit less of a value proposition.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
But that said, I still love it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yes, I have. Why? Was I supposed to have a good response to that?
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
We News! It's time for We News! You crushed it. You crushed it, Mike. Great job. I almost had a different guess that was halfway.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
So I've got a little handgun I've upgraded in one hand, and I've got a big grimoire in the other, and I'm just going to town on people. Yeah.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Hey, Tim.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
I'm like 10 hours in. But like any time I've turned it on, I lose like an hour and a half. Like each time I'm like, I'm just going to like futz with my museum a little before I have to head out. I just get sucked in. But it's it's so fun. And I grew up loving museums. Like as a kid, they were one of my favorite places to go.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Scott was super nice. He brought you up really early on. I think you were kind of an influence on him.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
It's fine. He was super nice. It was a super fun interview. It was very nice of him to ask me to do it. I was very happy to do it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah. And, you know, the Zelda series itself has no real solid canonical timeline because they just keep futzing with it. So I think like this movie could be its own story. And as long as it contains a lot of the elements, it could still work really well.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah, that all makes sense to me. I want to play Monster Hunter Wild, but I'm holding off for now just because I have so many other things. And I don't want to do something that I do every year, which is I buy a big AAA game and then buy another AAA game and then buy a third AAA game and beat the last one and never play the first two. I'm trying to be better.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
And as an adult, like if I have extra time in a new city, I'll try to go to a museum. And hell, my favorite part of Animal Crossing was building that museum. Like that was what I was obsessed with when we were all having the pandemic was making my museum look good.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Now that I'm in my fourth decade of life, I am trying to not just buy games and never play them.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
And Irene. I read the audible version. So if you like this voice, imagine seven hours of it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
You can keep up with me on blue sky. You can just search Mike Drucker. I'm also on the dead site at Mike, just at Mike Drucker on Instagram, on Tik TOK at Mike Drucker is dead. And I don't know around. I'm around. You can find me. You can find me in your house.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
If it looks like an arcade where someone died, I'll probably hang it out.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
I'll be honest, I saw someone else wearing this at, it was either at PAX or some convention, and I just googled Silent Hill Seinfeld logo hat and found it, so I recommend you do that. I apologize for not knowing the origin of it, though.
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Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Next week, it's very high. I also have some friends from Nintendo in town, and I'm supposed to get drinks with them, and I'm going to try to do the most around-the-world prying. You know, just being like, I know you can't talk about anything, but like... It's a mouse, right? I just want that. I don't know. I'm very hyped for it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
The only thing I wouldn't say, the only reason I'm probably not as hyped as I was for the Switch is this does feel a little more like when I upgrade from a crappy phone to a really good phone, where I'm super excited for that new phone, but I also know it's not going to be a life-changing thing like the Switch was.
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Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Hello. Hello. I don't think that last part's true, but hello.
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Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Not a good time. Not a good time. Don't make games people.
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Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah, I kind of think like what it sounds like he's doing is better. Like to me, it sounds like there will someday be a last of us three. But sure, any progress they've made at it, they've either not found the right idea for it or they haven't been happy with, like, you know, the basic concept yet.
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Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
But I think that's better than something like, you know, one of my favorite games is that vampire game, Vampire the Menace Great Bloodlines. And that RPG came out before Half-Life 2. That game was a Source Engine game before Half-Life 2 came out.
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Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
That's how old it is. And the sequel has been announced again and again over the years, and it's been announced, then it's been canceled, then it's been moved to a new team, then it's been delayed. And to me, that's no different than being like, there might be Last of Us 3, there might not, but it's a little more embarrassing to do that.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah, it was like delayed until the end of 2025, but still no release date, I don't think. Got it, got it, got it, got it, yeah.
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Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah. I mean, you know, and maybe it is something like an Uncharted and they just don't want to announce it to avoid, you know, canceling and rebooting it. Of course. Or getting brigaded by because Nathan Drake's too old or something.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Yeah. Drucker, as... You know what I'd like? I'd like a very cinematic Crash Bandicoot. Like, I'd like them to combine all of their history.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
I mean, that could look like a couple things, you know, it's, you know, it could also, it could be just the pressure of it all, you know, like, The Last of Us, and I love The Last of Us, but whether or not you like The Last of Us, it's now one of the big triple-A series. And it's also one of the big prestige television series.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
Sure thing. So basically, during the 2023 writer's strike, I wasn't allowed to write movies or TV shows or at least pitch them. And so I wanted to write something that I knew I could like sell and like focus on during the strike. And so I had a few ideas for books and this was the one I was most excited about. So I pitched it to my agent who then helped me put together a pitch.
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Naughty Dog Unannounced Game in Development for 3 Years?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.28.25
And so when you feel that much pressure, especially pressure from some audiences that didn't necessarily like some of the characters and kind of... maybe went a little overboard with things regarding that. Maybe a little bit, you know, like it's, it's like, it's, it's, it makes you nervous. It makes you question yourself.