Neil Druckmann is well-known for engaged on the Uncharted collection and as artistic director of The Final of Us video games. Having gained quite a few DICEs, British Academy, Recreation Builders Alternative 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 not too long ago 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 suppose 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 nerve-racking to handle that many individuals and a number of studios worldwide.”
He additionally talked about eager to spend extra time along with his children, particularly now that his daughter is a youngster.
“Yeah, so,” the Naughty Canine government continued,” I’m simply at some extent in my life the place it’s like, you begin , ‘what’s the tip recreation 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 realize, I’ve began serious 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 recreation earlier than rising to co-lead recreation 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 recreation was The Final of Us Half 2 from 2020.
