By far the actor in the most popular and bankable video game in our industry, Troy Baker will remain for many people the Joel Miller of The Last of Us. A strong character who obviously offended all the players who were able to play the two Naughty Dog games. And it is in an interview with GQ that we learn that Troy Baker will indeed be in the next Naughty Dog game, with Neil Druckmann as game director. “I will always work with Troy without having to think about it,” argues the co-president of Naughty Dog.
Close friends with Troy Baker, he describes him as “a demanding actor” who scrutinizes every detail, and despite the disagreements they may have had over scenes like Joel’s death in The Last of Us Part II, they have cultivated a mutual trust that Druckmann has very little with other actors. “Troy is trying to push the boundaries of what this thing is”he said, “and he often succeeds in making it better than I imagined. » Obviously, such an announcement did not leave players indifferent who are already speculating about the return of Joel in The Last of Us 3. Flashbacks or conversely a story which would take place between the start of the pandemic until the meeting with Ellie? All speculation is permitted. In the meantime, we also know that Naughty Dog should announce its new IP soon, the studio having not released anything for 4 years already…