Naughty Dog Creative Director Is in Trinidad for 'Research' and a Lot of Fans Think It's for Uncharted 5

Naughty Dog originative manager Shaun Escayg posted a representation of a cannon successful Trinidad & Tobago alongside the tease, “Research,” and fans deliberation it has to bash with Uncharted 5.

The Uncharted bid has been dormant ever since 2017’s Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, which Escayg himself co-directed. While Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection came retired successful 2022, fans of the enactment escapade franchise are keen to cognize whether Naughty Dog intends to marque a caller mainline Uncharted game.

Perhaps it does. As spotted by Kotaku, Escayg’s representation was taken astatine Fort George successful Trinidad and Tobago. A cannon successful a fort successful Trinidad and Tobago surely feels precise Uncharted, but of people this could beryllium for anything. Perhaps Escayg simply has a idiosyncratic involvement successful historical British fortifications. Maybe he’s putting unneurotic a photograph album.

Or possibly Naughty Dog is really moving connected a caller Uncharted game. Escayg is originative manager of… something. And the Sony-owned workplace is rumored to beryllium moving connected aggregate single-player games, including the announced Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. If a caller Uncharted crippled is successful the works, it begs each sorts of questions. Is it a sequel oregon a prequel? Will we spot Nathan Drake instrumentality older and wiser? Or volition we spot a caller protagonist instrumentality the stage, possibly his daughter, Cassie? What astir a Sam and Sully adventure? There are tons of ways Naughty Dog could instrumentality Uncharted, fixed the authorities of things astatine the extremity of Uncharted 4. But then, conscionable this week we got a imaginable The Last of Us 3 tease from Naughty Dog main Neil Druckmann. So, if each this lines up with reality, Naughty Dog has a batch connected its plate.

Triple-A games are taking an progressively agelong clip to make, contempt unit from firm overlords to chopped costs and velocity up development. So we whitethorn not find retired what Naughty Dog’s station Intergalactic crippled is for immoderate clip to come, Uncharted oregon otherwise. Until then, though, fans are convinced the Drakes are connected the mode back.

“It has to be,” 1 instrumentality said. “Palms and cannons = Uncharted. It works 99% of the time.” “Definitely Uncharted oregon I'm conscionable hopelessly wishing,” different said. “This means it's ace early,” said 1 fan, seemingly convinced.

In July past year, Druckmann announced helium would not beryllium creatively progressive successful the upcoming Season 3 of HBO's The Last of Us TV series, opting alternatively to absorption wholly connected crippled improvement of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. But conscionable a mates of months beforehand, helium revealed the workplace had a secret, unannounced 2nd crippled successful the works.

In an interrogation with the Press X to Continue podcast, Druckmann discussed his ongoing roles astatine Naughty Dog. On Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Druckmann works with 2 crippled directors: Matthew Gallant and Kurt Margenau, and is co-writing the crippled with communicative manager Claire Carré. Druckmann did not accidental which manager is moving connected the 2nd game, however.

“There’s different crippled that’s being worked connected astatine Naughty Dog wherever I americium much of a shaper relation and I get to mentor and ticker this different squad and springiness feedback and beryllium similar the enforcement successful the room,” helium said.

“I bask each those roles, and the information I leap betwixt 1 to the next, it makes my occupation precise breathtaking and ever feeling fresh. I’m ne'er bored.”

Is this crippled Uncharted 5? Even if it is, oregon were, it could ever extremity up canceled, arsenic truthful galore games are. Indeed, Naughty Dog has caller acquisition of this, canceling The Last of Us Online backmost successful 2023 truthful it could absorption connected Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet — thing its manager lone recovered retired astir 24 hours earlier the public.

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