With The Last of Us PC release date fast approaching and the hit HBO show’s first season coming to an end, Naughty Dog zombie game series co-creator Neil Druckmann , explained how another studio nearly made a The Last of Us Prequel, though the game ultimately never came to fruition.
Spoilers for The Last of US HBO episode nine will follow, you have been warned.
The prequel game The Last of Us grew out of an aspect of the recent HBO show that never made it into the original survival game: Ellie’s mother. In the ninth episode of the HBO show, Ashley Johnson (Ellie’s actress from the games) plays Ellie’s mother, and we see how and why Ellie seems to be immune, as well as her immediate connection to fireflies.
The idea of Ellie’s mother was already something Naughty Dog had been considering for a long time, as Druckmann tells Kinda Funny that it was actually almost part of a Last of Us prequel, although he doesn’t say exactly. how.
“There was a much more complete version of this story that went further back in time that was going to be made into a video game,” says Druckmann. “Not from Naughty Dog, but from a different game studio, and (Kinda Funny host) Greg Miller introduced me to this studio and we had been talking to them for a while about doing this, and then it didn’t didn’t quite work.”
Talking about other studios working on the series, it looks like the PC port of The Last Of Us isn’t being developed solely by Naughty Dog, as a PC specs update for the game adds studio Iron Galaxy, which has also worked on porting the Uncharted Legacy of Thieves collection to PC in 2022.
It’s unclear what the potential division of labor between Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy is at this point, or what that might mean for the PC port slated for release later this month. However, you can get The Last of US PC for free if you also need a new AMD GPU.
Ahead of the Naughty Dog port’s release date, you’ll need to find out if your rig can handle it and we’ll have you covered with a breakdown of The Last of Us system requirements, or you can take a look at some of the best. action-adventure PC games instead.