New posters spotted in the Last Of Us remake have some fans thinking they’re a tease for a new fantasy game at Naughty Dog.
Aside from the Last Of Us multiplayer spin-off, Naughty Dog hasn’t made it clear what its next major release will be.
Obvious assumptions include a Last Of Us 3 and Uncharted 5, both of which Naughty Dog itself has hinted at in the past. However, they’ve also said it could be an entirely new IP.
Following the launch of The Last Of Us Part 1, some fans are convinced that in-game posters are secretly teasing a future game, specifically something fantasy themed.
The posters in question are believed to be brand new, as they don’t appear in the original PlayStation 3 release or the PlayStation 4 remaster, and include a dragon, a flying Pegasus, and a woman wearing medieval fantasy style clothing.
What gives this theory some credence is that Naughty Dog has done this kind of thing before. In Uncharted 3, you could find a newspaper with a headline about a deadly fungus, which in hindsight was foreshadowing the first Last Of Us.
Furthermore, there have been speculation and rumours of Naughty Dog working on a new fantasy IP before.
In 2021, senior concept artist Hyoung Taek Nam uploaded pieces of fantasy style artwork to ArtStation, such as one depicting a woman sitting on what looks like a dead dragon.
Fans assumed that they were for a new Naughty Dog project, but Nam soon stated that that wasn’t the case, and the art was simply inspired by Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Then, in May of this year, the Twitter account Oops Leaks, which has claimed to have insider information on upcoming releases (such as the next BioShock), said that a fantasy game is in production at Naughty Dog.
All they said was that it has a fantasy
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