One of the sweetest moments he lived Naughty Dog It was during the early 2010s, as it brought together two installments of the saga Uncharted in a short time and dazzled PS3 players with the arrival of The Last of Us. The third installment of the saga with Nathan Drak landed in 2011, but it contained a reference that the developer did not want to reveal.
And the fact is that during the events of the first chapter we must fight with all the NPCs who are present in an English pub. The place is completely destroyed after the fight and it is at that moment when we can approach the right side of the bar to find a copy of The Overseer newspaper. The front page headline reads that “Scientists still struggling to understand deadly fungus,” which was a direct reference to The Last of Us
Obviously, we are talking about the cordyceps fungus that plagues Joel and Ellie’s world, but the truth is that that little nod became a problem for the developer. And the initial plans of Neil Druckmann’s team were reveal the existence of the apocalyptic adventure during E3 2011, although they did not do so until the Spike Video Game Awards on December 11 of the same year. That was a clear difference from the arrival of Uncharted 3, since the game appeared in st ores on November 2.
“The designer came up to us and said, ‘Do you mind if I put this Easter egg in? So, after someone plays Uncharted 3
“These games are so big, right? They last several hours. You have to touch every pixel. Every animation is created by hand. It’s overwhelming. You can’t look at every detail. So no one thinks about that little thing in the background,” he explained Bruce Straley, director of the play. Although that reference should be avoided, the truth is that the players did not know how to relate it to Naughty Dog, since at first they thought that it was a nod to a Sony Santa Monica or Guerrilla Games project.
This is because it was not conceivable that the company was involved in two video games at the same time, although that was the reality. “We had forgotten it. We should have removed it. we screwed up“, Druckmann acknowledged, although they also had time to include a reverse reference two years later. During his time in Pittsburgh in The Last of Us we can find a bar called O’Sullivan’s, which is the same as the one in the initial combat in Uncharted 3.
We barely passed that exact point stealthily and it has no major significance, but the most astute users of the time were able to notice the detail. Of course, there are those who opted for such a strong connection between both titles as to believe that the two contexts belong to a connected universe.
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