The former director of Naughty Dog‘s cancelled The Last of Us multiplayer sport has vowed he won’t ever let one thing he works on “not see the light of day again”.
Over the weekend, Vinit Agarwal mentioned it was “wild” what number of of his former Naughty Dog staff nonetheless get in touch with him to say “how amazing” The Last of Us Online was going to be.
It’s “still the best multiplayer game they’ve ever played”, Agarwal wrote on social media, earlier than including: “Never going to let what I work on not see the light of day again.” The former Naughty Dog director closed by thanking the Last of Us group for his or her “support and confidence”.
Earlier this month, Agarwal claimed The Last of Us’ online project was roughly “80 percent” finished when it was cancelled. At this time, he revealed he discovered about its cancellation simply 24 hours earlier than the general public announcement. “It was soul crushing,” Agarwal mentioned. “It was just unfortunate and they had to do that because they have to control the messaging.”
Following the discharge of The Last of Us Part 2 in 2020, developer Naughty Dog had plans to launch a standalone multiplayer sport. Prior to the bottom sport’s PS4 debut, the developer confirmed this multiplayer side wouldn’t be launched alongside Part 2, as had been anticipated. Back in 2019, Naughty Dog defined its efforts to evolve The Last of Us Part 1’s multiplayer Factions mode for the sequel “grew beyond an additional mode that could be included with our enormous single player campaign” and subsequently it will launch individually.
The undertaking then hit a quantity of obstacles, with Naughty Dog stating more time was required in May 2023. But, regardless of this, the studio maintained the sport was developing till December 2023, when The Last of Us’ standalone multiplayer project was ultimately cancelled.
Elsewhere in Naughty Dog information, The Last of Us actor Troy Baker recently suggested we will see Joel again, “whether that be Naughty Dog or somebody else”.
