Neil Druckmann is well-known for engaged on the Uncharted sequence and as artistic director of The Final of Us video games. Having gained quite a few DICEs, British Academy, Recreation Builders Selection Writers Guild of America, and Recreation Awards, his profession was clearly profitable. Nonetheless, he says that he won’t have many AAA video games left in him.
The Final of Us director Neil Druckmann says he doesn’t have many AAA video games left in him
The Final of Us director just lately gave an interview with the rapper Logic on the latter’s Logically Talking podcast. The interview was over an hour and 20 minutes lengthy, and so they talked extensively about Druckmann’s profession, together with his future.
“I assume that I don’t see myself doing this eternally at this scale,” he says, simply after the 48:50 mark. “It’s only a lot, and it takes loads out of you. It’s very anxious to handle that many individuals and a number of studios worldwide.”
He additionally talked about desirous to spend extra time along with his children, particularly now that his daughter is a young person.
“Yeah, so,” the Naughty Canine government continued,” I’m simply at a degree in my life the place it’s like, you begin taking a look at, ‘what’s the top sport right here? When is it time to name it?’… So, I may see myself transitioning to one thing that’s extra low-key and decrease pressured that also permits me to have this artistic outlet. However you already know, I’ve began excited about what number of extra of those video games do I’ve in me, and it’s not that many.”
Neil Druckmann joined Naughty Canine in 2004, working as a programmer on Jak 3 and Jak X. He then turned a designer on the primary Uncharted sport earlier than rising to co-lead sport designer on Uncharted 2. He then co-directed the Final of Us and Uncharted 4 earlier than his promotion to vice-president and later co-president in 2020. Excluding remasters and a cameo in Return to Monkey Island, his final new sport was The Final of Us Half 2 from 2020.