Naughty Dog Taking Inspiration From Elden Ring
According to Ben Hanson, founding father of unbiased video games media outlet MinnMax, Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is impressed by Elden Ring, offering extra selections to gamers.
“At some level on the podcast some time in the past earlier than the reveal trailer occurred, I teased the thought of like ‘I’ve heard Naughty Dog’s subsequent sport could be very impressed by a sport with lots of participant freedom.’ I believe it is tremendous to say now: that sport was Elden Ring that it was in comparison with again then,” Hanson mentioned on the latest edition of The MinnMax Show final week.
“If I might have mentioned ‘Naughty Dog’s subsequent sport is like Elden Ring’ after which that reveal trailer got here out, I really feel like we’d have been lit on fireplace. But now that concept of, okay, it is happening on one planet, form of uncovering the historical past of this world, you’ll be able to form of see a bit of extra the place they is perhaps going with that,” he added.
Before Intergalactic was revealed at The Game Awards 2024 in December, Hanson had claimed on his present, citing a supply who labored on the title, that Naughty Dog’s subsequent sport would characteristic “lots of participant freedom”.
Neil Druckmann on Intergalactic
Following the reveal, Naughty Dog president and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet director Neil Druckmann mentioned that the sport could be the studio’s “wildest, most inventive story but.” Druckmann additionally promised the sport would characteristic an “emotional, character-driven” story typical to developer’s video games and the “deepest gameplay in Naughty Dog’s historical past”.
In reality, lengthy earlier than Intergalactic was revealed, Druckmann mentioned he was concerned about video games like Elden Ring and Inside that delivered their tales by setting, exploration and gameplay, fairly than by a conventional linear narrative and cinematic cutscenes.
“I’m extra just lately intrigued by stuff like Elden Ring and Inside that does not rely as a lot on conventional narrative to inform its story and is–I believe there’s some–some of one of the best storytelling in “The Last of Us,” lots of it’s within the cinematics. But lots of it’s in gameplay and transferring round an area and understanding a historical past of an area by simply it and analyzing it,” Druckmann had mentioned in an interview with The Washington Post in 2023.
Naughty Dog hasn’t revealed a ton of particulars about Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, however from the reveal trailer it does appear the studio goes for a unique strategy with the gameplay from its earlier releases. Both Uncharted and The Last of Us are third-person action-adventure video games that primarily centre round capturing. Intergalactic, nonetheless, appears to be including melee fight to the combination as properly, with the protagonist seen wielding a sword within the trailer.
The sport can be set on a distant planet the place exploration can be key to discovering secrets and techniques concerning the planet’s previous and guiding gamers ahead. Here, Elden Ring’s strategy to open-ended and largely unguided exploration of its world, the Lands Between, might act as gameplay inspiration for Intergalactic.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet doesn’t but have a confirmed launch date, however the sport has been in growth since 2020 and can be launched solely on the PS5.
