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Naughty Dog is Working on ANOTHER Game - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.20.25
Tue, 20 May 2025
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Chapter 1: What game is Naughty Dog currently developing?
But like, I mean, they have so many games that they clearly do have the rights to that aren't there yet.
And I know these are the only ones that matter. No, they're not. Once they, I mean, Activision was like, you know what? We don't want Ghostbusters because we can't annualize that. And then, of course, they have the X-Men and the Ultimate Alliance. That was it.
That was all Activision really had outside of it. I can name another thing or two. We'll get them eventually. I mean, they have been drip feeding them, and I do understand the drip feed mentality to an extent, but I also really question how exciting the Xbox announcements of, like, these games are coming to Game Pass now when it's not the new stuff. You know what I mean?
I wonder how much more exciting it could be if they were to package it in ways that kind of feel like they make sense. Like, we really thought they were going to do a big, hey, here's the Call of Duty drop that's, like, we're focusing on. Let's get the community back together. One last ride. You know what I mean? Themed things.
Somebody pay me. Just get the money out there. Just get the money. They don't care. They're getting the money. If they keep doing play anywhere. And ROG allies, I'll be happy. But that's a conversation for a different time. We're going to talk about all of this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.
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Get in with your thoughts, opinions, more of your takes on the old news. And so we can get you in here and have a whole bunch of different stuff going on here. Like Joshua Mitchell, who super chats and says, holding on to my delusional hope for a Jack and Daxter reboot or crash slash Spyro style remaster as he begins to worry about what Naughty Dog's next game will be. We'll talk about that soon.
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Chapter 2: What are the details about Neil Druckmann's role?
It's a whole thing. Well, you have a banger ahead, and this one directed by Neil Druckmann, so he's definitely having a little whirlwind week. I'm sure that's why some of these interviews are happening.
um but this is exciting news uh for many reasons i'm a naughty dog fan i'm a fan of them working on multiple projects because bless now we're just talking a couple days ago maybe it was yesterday just about the generations in ps4 going to ps5 and how generations mean less than they ever did because the games are what matters and always have and we're kind of just seeing all the biggest games on ps5 mostly being games that are also playable on ps4
But at a certain point, I think that that might end up changing once we get to Sony Santa Monica's next game, potentially multiple new Naughty Dog, whether it's the big IP of Intergalactic or the Heretic Prophecy or whatever this other thing is. God damn it, man. Whatever. What was the little like... Thing to remember?
Yeah, it's IHOP. Yeah, no, I-T-H-P. We have to say it all the time.
I-T-H-P.
You know, Druckmann, I hear you talking about the I-T-H-P.
Yeah.
I'm talking about a brand new I-P.
It's not going to stick. Not going to stick. But yeah, another project. I'm very excited about that because I do think that that leads to a very promising PS5 end of life cycle, kind of back-to-back rollout of bangers.
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Chapter 3: What can we expect from the new Naughty Dog game?
Chapter 4: Is Last of Us 3 in development?
The reality for me is there's no project that we can imagine Naughty Dog working on that I'm not excited for. And I mean that. In the sense of, like, if it goes back all the way to Crash, yeah, I'd be stoked. That ain't gonna happen. Jak and Daxter, I'm not the biggest Jak and Daxter guy. I would love to see what this Naughty Dog team can do working on this.
And I understand that that seems like such a giant jump, but... There's a level of love and creativity and passion for video games that Naughty Dog has that imagine them applying that to a different skill set. It could be so, so cool. I think of Retro, who made the Metroid Prime games, and then the Donkey Kong Country Returns 2D platformers. They're some of the best ever.
And it's like, I can't believe those are both made by the same team, except I can because I see the vision. And I feel like with Naughty Dog, it's the same thing of everything they know now going back to a Jak and Daxter-like property could be very interesting. I don't think it's incredibly unlikely.
Kebabs writes in and says, Super Chat's in and says, reboot Jak and Daxter after finishing the story, please. To which I would say, just don't go back. It's over. Nobody cares except you, Kebabs. Okay? It's over. Naughty Dog learned they can make things for grown-ups. Not...
chibi fucking weirdo cartoons all right we're done with it i love jack and daxter when i was a child too and i say that when i was what junior high moving into high school i was in high school actually i was pretty i was pretty late in high school i love jack and daxter what i'm saying we're done all right we don't need more jack and fucking daxter all right y'all had it with the lost frontier and you didn't even play it remember that psp game you didn't even fucking play it what was the game of the year last year what was the game of the year last year uh persona no some other cartoony weird ass game i don't fucking know ugly little guy
Well, that's a grown-up platformer. There we go. That's a far different thing. It's a grown-up platformer. Yeah. It's not a man who got turned into an otzel and then was just like, I'm fine being an otzel. Yeah. He wasn't at all times going, what? Save me! Help me! I don't want to be a marmot! He never said that. Yeah. He never said that. He was cool with it. He was like, ah, fine.
I'm just living this guy's shoulder. He doesn't talk for the entire first game. Cool. Let me get my own PSP game. Reboot Sly Cooper. Billy, you and Kebab should get together as a company that just loves to lose money because that's what you're pitching over here, all right? That's what you're pitching over here.
Everyone said that about Crash Bandicoot, Greg, back in the day when I was just like, save the goddamn Bandicoot. And then he came back and made millions upon millions of dollars. Some say it's why Microsoft bought Activision for the billions they did. And while that's not true, everything I said before that is.
You're not wrong, but again, they starved us. They starved us for so long of Crash. We've been starved of Jack even longer. Not Sly. Y'all didn't support Sly when he came back. Y'all act like you did. You didn't, though, did you? Y'all act like you did. You didn't, though. Remember, it was cross-play on your Vita and your PlayStation. You didn't support that, though, did you? You didn't?
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