With the upcoming PC launch of The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered, the franchise is all set to have a brand new wave of followers. Director Neil Druckmann, nonetheless, isn’t positive {that a} third recreation within the franchise will ever get made. In an interview with Etalk, Druckmann spoke about how he works on each undertaking prefer it is likely to be his final one.
“Each recreation I make, each undertaking I work on, I deal with it prefer it could possibly be my final,” he stated. “So I simply pour all the pieces into it, I go away nothing on the desk.”
“After we did the primary Final of Us recreation, that’s how I handled it,” he continued. “I wasn’t positive I may ever get to make a sequel, so it needed to have a definitive ending. Likewise, after I labored on Uncharted 4, similar factor. After I labored on Final of Us 2, I used to be like I don’t know if I’ll ever get to do that once more. It had this definitive ending.”
Druckmann goes on to develop on his working course of, the place he likes to give attention to particular person initiatives, regardless if the undertaking is a brand new IP altogether, or a sequel to an older recreation.
“That’s the ending we’re working in the direction of,” he stated. “For there to be one other one, one other factor, one other undertaking, so many stars should align, I can’t assure it. So proper now, my focus is on this season, and hopefully if HBO renews us, subsequent season. After which I’m engaged on a brand new recreation known as [Intergalactic].”
“One undertaking at a time. Received to make it the perfect that it may be. After which if I get the possibility to do it once more, I’ll give attention to the subsequent undertaking.”
The assertion got here as a solution to the interviewer asking Druckmann about him having beforehand stated that followers of The Final of Us shouldn’t guess on there being any of the franchise down the road.
“Don’t guess on there being extra of Final of Us,” stated the interviewer, quoting Druckmann. “This could possibly be it.”
Druckmann had beforehand spoken about how he doesn’t prefer to plan out sequels prematurely. Talking with Sony Santa Monica’s Cory Barlog, Druckmann stated that he by no means noticed video games as franchises. He echoed comparable statements on this dialog about treating each undertaking as if it will be the one one within the franchise.
“I feel you’re jinxing your self for those who’re beginning to consider the sequel whenever you’re engaged on the primary recreation,” defined Druckmann. “So after I was making The Final of Us 2, yeah, positive. Each occasionally, an thought pops into your head of the place it’d go if we get the possibility to do one other one. However I simply method it as, ‘What if I by no means get to do one other one?’…I’m not saving some thought for the longer term. If there’s a cool thought, I’m doing my finest to get it into right here.”
The Final of Us Half 2 Remastered is on its approach to PC on April 3. Try the required PC specs right here, and in addition take a look at a number of the options and choices that shall be accessible within the PC launch right here. And within the meantime, keep tuned for the second season of HBO’s adaptation of The Final of Us, which is able to premiere on April 13.
