The Last of Us 2 makes bizarre nod to Naughty Dog crunch - blackdampacked

The Last of Us 2 has an absolute ton of collectibles. Some of them fill extinct the world, others are just silly, and a couple ostensibly acknowledge Naughty Dog's ill-famed knack for crunch. Two of the game's Wonder Population-esque collectible card game mention two of the main minds behind The Last of Us and contain some stimulating descriptions.

The Last of Us 2 makes bizarre nod to Naughty Dog crunch

The ordinal stars MD Uckmann, an obvious nod to the game's creative director and Juicy Weenie vice president, Neil Druckmann. The description is American Samoa follows:

"Once a well-respected investigator, Doctor Uckmann's deniable experiments in the realm of pushing human limits saw him ostracized from the scientific community of interests. Even the virtuously-compromised Laurent Foucault of SPARK Laboratories found his work in question. Undeterred, Uckmann continued to do his dictation and protect his research patc he and The New Dogs level high-tech heists to fund it every last. Constantly flowing his laboratory location thusly no one can obtain him, He longs for the day where his subjects will be burned arsenic equals."

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While the final parts are come along look-alike typical comic villain backstory, the first sentence of "pushy human limits" is quite a peculiar. Mischievous Dog has come subordinate fire (as let umpteen other studios) in the recent months American Samoa a brutal cover from March 2020 elaborate the studio's grim working conditions. Employees were pressured to work egregious hours to make the quality level that the developer was known for.

The Last of Us 2 makes bizarre nod to Naughty Dog crunch

Another one of the cards as wel contains other consultation to Naughty Dog's infamous crunch practices. The card in question is a goofy charade of ex-Naughty Dog employee and game director of The Survive of Us Bruce Straley. Straley's card is under the name Randy Styles and mentions crunch just with slightly less inch.

"Erstwhile, he was Doctor Uckmann's research partner, working late nights to develop all fashion of technology for the betterment of mankind, until one day, he just vanished!" reads part of the card's description.

Straley left the studio in September 2017 favorable a sabbatical leave he took after Uncharted 4's release (which he likewise oriented). A noted in newsman Jason Scherier's Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Druckmann's collaborative partner was notorious for working long hours and even rented a second flat near the studio apartment to cut down on the convert.

Given all this linguistic context, IT's flakey to character reference the practical conditions like that (even if accidentally) in the game, especially since the studio hasn't committed to easing up. Druckmann did, however, praise the game's animators two days after the inculpative report dropped but did so without mentioning the crunch that was the focal point of that report.