from ign

 

Naughty Dog has revealed that a new Jak and Daxter game was almost made instead of The Last of Us. Following Uncharted 2, Naughty Dog split into two teams and got ready to move onto its next game. That game was originally planned to be the next Jak and Daxter, but the team ran into trouble while attempting to design the game.

 

"We dug around trying to find the core of Jak and Daxter," The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann told Game Informer. "Who are the characters? We had to reboot it essentially. Every time we got excited about an idea we'd take a step back and look at it and be like 'It's not Jak and Daxter, are we just slapping the name on it for marketing reasons?'"

 

"It started feeling like a compromise," Druckmann added. "The more we tried to make Jak and Daxter like we wanted to, it didn't feel like things were matching up. We have folders and folders filled with scrapped ideas."

 

"All the ideas just started to feel like they were going so far away from what made Jak and Daxter Jak and Daxter," added studio co-founder Evan Wells. "Even though we wanted to give fans another Jak and Daxter, we felt we weren't going to give them the game that they wanted, and that we would end up either limiting the direction that the company had this passion for while simultaneously not creating the game that fans wanted. We just realized we were going to just do everybody a disservice."

 

Wells says that fans shouldn't lose hope, and that a new Jak and Daxter game could still come eventually.

 

"Never say never," he said. "It could happen. Naughty Dog's got a long history and I think it's got a long future so to say we'll never go back is kind of crazy but right now we've got [The Last of Us] that we're definitely going to be supporting. I guess there's a possibility that the Uncharted team could move on to Jak and Daxter. It's still up in the air, but I wouldn't think that's going to happen, because I think we'd run into all of the same problems with that team that we did with this team."

I'd rather have a new Jak and Daxter then that "The Last of Us"!!!!! rgtfbnfrbmjfvthhcwcttfdghvcexsxdcf!!!

I really can't imagine what their train of thought was that Jak and Daxter would lead to The Last of Us Really interesting.

D= they're doing us a disservice of NOT making a new Jak & Daxter! They should try to get both games developed at the same time or something! D,=>

D= they're doing us a disservice of NOT making a new Jak & Daxter! They should try to get both games developed at the same time or something! D,=>

 

They very could be since one team is working on The Last Of us and another on post Uncharted things? We will see what they do.

Eh oh well. They're still coming out with the Jak and Daxter Trilogy Set for PS3, so I'm happy.

IGN is giving way too much hype to The Last of Us. We know hardly anything about the game! I'd laugh so hard (at IGN) if it turns out to be bad.

IGN is giving way too much hype to The Last of Us. We know hardly anything about the game! I'd laugh so hard (at IGN) if it turns out to be bad.

 

IGN doesn't care about whether or not the games they review/hype live up to what they say. All they care about are the checks that people send them to write good reviews.