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Inside Naughty Dog: The Last of Us EGTV Special

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Published 16 January, 2012 Duration 9:01

Eurogamer meets the creators of the hot new PS3 exclusive.

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ForozM #1 4 months ago

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I just hope there'll be a jump button.
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hippyjump #2 4 months ago

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what was that childish "so that'll be unch4" comment at the end... lol eurogamer
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Nova1977 #3 4 months ago

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Loved this!
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rotmm #4 4 months ago

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Great EGTV episode. Love ND!
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Dave52 #5 4 months ago

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I am pretty excited about this. Great to see the actors doing their Mo-Cap, thanks EG.
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spongebob #6 4 months ago

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So is it a zombie game?
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HisDudness #7 4 months ago

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@spongebob I think it's a love story actually...
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CaLeDee #8 4 months ago

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Survivalove.

Edited by CaLeDee at 16/01/12 @ 10:05
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spongebob #9 4 months ago

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But with zombies as villains?
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dextress #10 4 months ago

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Another fantastic episode - thanks guys. Long live good games journalism.
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GR1up #11 4 months ago

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@spongebob No. They're humans who have been infected.
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rotmm #12 4 months ago

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@GR1up Yes, infected with luuurve
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Snufkin #13 4 months ago

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Can't watch the vid cos I'm in work, but the piece in the latest Edge on this game says it's inspired by the cordyceps fungus, which apparently attacks ants and other species and sort of explodes out their heads.

So, no - not zombies.
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Porko_Rossi #14 4 months ago

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This has got my hoop twitching already. That character artists textures were brilliant.
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spongebob #15 4 months ago

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So, the villains are humans who are infected. Do they act like zombies? Do they look like zombies?
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Porko_Rossi #16 4 months ago

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I thought I got a bit of an alien vibe from what I've seen..
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GenericIndividual10 #17 4 months ago

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@spongebob I believe they're infected by some sort of spore - so kind of mutated looking things.

In terms of behaviour - at a *total guess* - probably the running zombies from 28 Days Later and the like.
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God_Octo #18 4 months ago

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Its effectively a zombie game, and I don't normally do them, but since its ND, and its story based, I'm all in. Brilliant interviews and sneak-peeks EG- thanks!
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Boshtron Verified Graphics Programmer, Blitz Games Studios #19 4 months ago

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You can see the spores in action courtesy of BBC's Planet Earth:
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kangarootoo #20 4 months ago

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Good to hear them talk about creative variety, and how the lack of it can result in talented people jumping ship.

Looking back at Tomb Raider, and how Core were esentially forced to turn the same franchise over and over for years, you can easily understand how the quality was almost guranteed to decline.

Regards The Last of Us, we've seen very little so far and I'm normally super skeptical when all we get is concept art and movies (which to be fair is all we can expect this early) - Dead Island springs to mind, amazing trailer and slightly ropey (somtimes brutally frustrating) game. But this is Naughty Dog, so I can very much afford them the benefit of the doubt. Looking forward to more details about this one.
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coomber #21 4 months ago

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Was there any new info in any of that?
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Ka-blamo #22 4 months ago

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I am legend
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MistaGav #23 4 months ago

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Kudos to Naughty Dog for being ambitious but they are bigging themselves up a bit ny saying it's the best thing ever. I'm just afraid that all this smack talk will bite them in the arse when the game turns out to be 'alright'!
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BillMurray #24 4 months ago

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It's uncanny how much the girl looks like Ellen Page.
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varsas #25 4 months ago

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Regarding evolving story telling I wonder if they are just looking at themselves i.e. UC3 or taking on board games like Heavy Rain?
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ChuckNorris #26 4 months ago

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@Boshtron Absolutely horrifying.
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spongebob #27 4 months ago

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Since it's ND everyone's in denial about the game being essentially about zombies. Yeah, not the Romero type, but zombies anyway.
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UncleLou #28 4 months ago

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Seems to me like it's as much about zombies as Gears of War is a game about orcs. That might be a lot or a little depending on your point of view, but it really isn't terribly relevant either way, is it.
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CamelCarcass #29 4 months ago

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@spongebob In an interview, they said the idea blossomed from watching Planet Earth, there was a fungi (there's a video linked above) called cordyceps, it makes a species go crazy, grow spores, and try to infect others. It's pretty scary, but ND said the idea was, in a nutshell, "What if this could happen to humans?"
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spongebob #30 4 months ago

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I am sure it's a fantastic game and has a superb story and it takes narrative to new heights and what have you. Still, I think it's funny how every ND fan denies it featuring an element that has been used way too much lately in games. It is as if these same people have thought the same thing about this element and now that ND is doing it they have to find excuses and other ways to talk about it.

@CamelCarcass: It doesn't change the fact that the enemies are pretty much the same. It's mindless mass of humans with no self control trying to kill, maim and infect others in a end of world scenario. The bigger picture is the same and the threat as well.

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Financed_Hoe #31 4 months ago

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Evan Wells looks like crash bandicoot.
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kangarootoo #32 4 months ago

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@spongebob

Are people in denial about it? Or are people just okay with it? You talk as if zombies (or vairants thereof) and inherrently and empirically a bad thing, and that anyone nout as peeved as you must be in denial.

So its a game with zombies in it. So what? That doesn't define everything it is and everything it isn't, any more than a game is defined by having guns, cars, robots or talking animals.

What did zombies ever do to you?
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kangarootoo #33 4 months ago

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@spongebob

"Still, I think it's funny how every ND fan denies it featuring an element that has been used way too much lately in games"

Almost all games are based on the same core features. You are way exagerating hugely about how often zombies turn up in games. Living enemy soldiers running about with guns and grenades feature waaaaaaay more frequently, I assure you.
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kangarootoo #34 4 months ago

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@CamelCarcass

Jesus CHRIST!! That video is the freakiest thing I've seen in a long ol' time, and my skin doesn't crawl easily. Note that at the end it mentions that species specific parasites such as that prevent one dominant species getting too out of hand....... nobody qualifies for that spot more than we humans. Our time is coming, mark my words

On the wider subject of ants being weird, I saw a nature programme a while ago that showed ant behavioour in rain forests. one of the things is covered was a type of ant that, when meeting an enemy colony, would spray them with a secreted chemical instead of fighting. The chemical would make the enemy ants stop "being" enemy ants and start "being part of the rival colony. We've all learned at school that ants behaviour is controlled a great deal by chemical signals that they emit and receive from each other. Well the crazy ant chemical essentially reprogrammed the responses of the rical ant - it simply stopped listening to the signals of its own colony and started listening to the new signals. Ants + borg = THAT.
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spongebob #35 4 months ago

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@kangarootoo: And is that a good that running and gunning soldiers is even more pervasive in games than the zombie-style characters? So, ND didn't go the Call of Duty -route but opted to choose the second most annoying trend currently. And we should applaud them for that?

I am overreacting, I know. I just hoped they had made something really interesting. And yeah, it still probably is great when it comes out. It could just been more.
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kangarootoo #36 4 months ago

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@spongebob

Its neither a good thing, nor a bad thing. The point I am making is that almost EVERYTHING is in games a bit too often if you look at it the right way. Games really aren't as original as we would like to think, and if we focus our eyes in the right way, we will simply see that truth revealed
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Uncompetative #37 4 months ago

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Nice monitor porn @ 4:10
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-cerberus- #38 4 months ago

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Fresh content with a completely generic protagonist and concept. Off to a great start, I say!
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wanderingkid #39 4 months ago

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Wow I see so it's based on the fungi virus shown in the BBC vid (thanks to Boshtron for posting that). It's very cool/clever of them to adapt this particular disease to humans in an end of world scenario.
The last quote on the video is particular chilling: "Parasites like these stop any one animal getting the upper hand. The more numerous a species becomes the more likely it will be attacked by it's nemesis a cordyceps fungus ..."
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Cobalt_Jackal #40 4 months ago

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"He's been called a violent thug, a brutal killer and a torturer".

Please your too kind, stop flattering me .
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Tiberius_Gracchus #41 4 months ago

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Parasites control the world, even humans. There is evidence for this but I couldn't be bothered hoking it out...
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Tiberius_Gracchus #55 4 months ago

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Whoops, sorry on my mobile so can't delete.
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JumpinJackFlash #56 4 months ago

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wattsn26 #57 4 months ago

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@Tiberius_Gracchus Lol
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kangarootoo #58 4 months ago

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@Tiberius_Gracchus

I thought maybe that was some kind of "bugs are controlling my brain" joke
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Tiberius_Gracchus #59 4 months ago

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Haha... love how some of the posts are negged and others are plussed...
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bionic_v2 #60 4 months ago

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I can't wait to play this game
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weebl #61 4 months ago

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They're about to fucking revolutionise the use of swearing in shitty PR quotes which can be read by Joe fuckIng public who probably has a fairly low opinion of the industry as it currently stands.

I'm sorry, but what is it with having to swear to make a point these days? And about getting praised for the Uncharted 3 storyline over its mechanics? You're lucky that was one of the only redeemable merits of the game...
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