The next Naughty Dog game will reportedly have "a lot of player freedom"

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Naughty's Dog's unannounced crippled will reportedly attraction connected "player freedom".

According to MinnMax laminitis Ben Hanson during nan latest section of The MinnMax Show, a root "very successful nan know, who worked connected nan game" said that fans "aren't ready" for nan studio's adjacent project" and that it will characteristic "a batch of subordinate freedom" (via VGC).

"The reside was like, you are each not fresh for really astonishing this point is going to be, and nan reside was - I’m not going to opportunity nan crippled that they referenced to comparison it to because I don’t want group to beryllium like, MinnMax said it was going to beryllium precisely for illustration this - but they compared it to a crippled pinch a batch of subordinate freedom," Hanson said.

When asked if nan crippled successful mobility was Hitman, which has an unthinkable magnitude of subordinate freedom, Hanson said it wasn't.

At this time, Naughty Dog hasn't officially announced its adjacent title. The studio, which is possibly champion known for the Uncharted and The Last of Us series, is celebrated for keeping its improvement plans nether wraps until it's ready.

However, earlier this twelvemonth Naughty Dog's co-president Neil Druckmann confirmed that "multiple single-player" projects are successful development astatine nan studio, saying "I committedness you, we will not beryllium The Last of Us workplace forever".

Last year, Druckmann besides said that he'd for illustration nan squad to attraction little connected cutscenes and a "traditional narrative" successful early projects.

"I’m much precocious intrigued by worldly for illustration Elden Ring and Inside, that don’t trust arsenic overmuch connected accepted communicative to show a story," Druckmann said successful an question and reply pinch The Washington Post.

"I deliberation immoderate of nan champion storytelling successful The Last of Us - yes, a batch of it is successful nan cinematics - but a batch of it is successful nan gameplay, and moving astir a space, and knowing a history of a abstraction by conscionable looking astatine it and examining it. To maine that, correct now, is immoderate of nan champion joyousness I get retired of games - [those] that spot their assemblage to fig things out, that don’t clasp their hand. That’s nan worldly I’m really intrigued by going forward."

In December 2023, Naughty Dog canceled its The Last of Us Online crippled aft concerns that it would effect nan studio’s early single-player games, a task that was reportedly successful improvement for 4 years.