Sometimes actors let things slip by accident. That’s how long before Pixar would confirm it, we learned about Toy Story 4 through Tom Hanks in an off handed comment during an interview. Now, Nolan North, the man that Naughty Dog believes changed the industry has let it slip that The Last of US 2 is in development.

 I know they’re doing Last of Us 2, but my character in Last of Us kinda met an untimely demise 

While actors can at times have inaccurate information about a project, those sound like pretty definitive and specific words regarding The Last of US 2. However one prominent actor on the project, Troy Baker (Joel), disagrees about the project’s future. His statement after the jump.

 I know nothing. I don’t know if we’re gonna do another one or not.

If we do, then I trust Neil [Druckmann, creative director] and Bruce [Straley, game director] and everyone at Naughty Dog to tell a story that needs to be told. I can go either way, though, because I think it could stand alone as just at its own thing. Like Journey, the game, not the band, it didn’t need a sequel necessarily.

It stood alone as a standalone piece of art that I think is incredible and if you haven’t played it, it’s amazing 

One likely explanation for all of this could be that either Nolan has been brought in on the project at a much earlier stage than Troy or that the plot of this game could be completely separate from the events of The Last of Us and simply happens to take place in the same world. Either way, it shouldn’t be news that Naughty Dog is working on The Last of US 2 but at the same time, I wouldn’t hold my breath. Much like the two delays that have hit Uncharted 4, Naughty Dog is far more concerned about getting the game right than adhering to a release schedule. With so much of The Last of Us being self-contained, doing a sequel to one of the best-reviewed games of all time is no small task so don’t be surprised if you don’t hear much for some time to come.

Discuss:

Would you like to see The Last of US 2 center around Joel or be a completely separate tale?

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