It was definitely one of the highlights of The Game Awards 2024! The revelation ofIntergalactic: The Heretic Prophetthe next game of Naughty Dogcaused quite a stir on the internet. The bad buzz forced Naughty Dog to take this drastic measure.
Intergalactic: Naughty Dog reacts to the controversy
The Game Awards 2024 will have caused a lot of ink to flow. Between the (deserved) victory ofAstro Bot for the GOTY title, the controversial defeat of season 2 ofArcane facing the excellent series Fallout from Amazon Prime Video, the revelation of the first trailer of The Witcher 4 and the announcement of a new game Elden Ringvideo game fans no longer know where to turn. Another announcement that caused a sensation was obviously the officialization of the next game from the legendary American studio Naughty Dog, Intergalactic: The Heroic Prophecywhich offered a very promising first trailer.
This new game is a small event in itself, sincethis is Naughty Dog’s first original license since The Last of Us in 2013. Furthermore, following the triumph of The Last of Us Part II (named GOTY 2020), many of us were eagerly awaiting the new game from the studio led by Neil Druckmann. However, despite the many great promises made by the trailer (a Science Fiction odyssey drawing inspiration from both Cowboy Bebop de Shin’ichiro Watanabe que d’Akira de Katsuhirō Otomo), the announcement ofIntergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is far from being unanimous.
Among the main criticisms of the trailer are excessive product placement (a SONY record player, a Porsche spaceship, Adidas shoes) and the appearance of the main character: Jordan A. Mun, a young mixed-race woman with a shaved head and an epicene first name. Enough to anger many Internet users who are suing Naughty Dog for wokism. While the debate rages on X between those who defend Naughty Dog and those who announce that they will boycott their next video game, theDebates and negative comments also flooded the trailer’s comments.Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophetso much so that Naughty Dog had to close the comments section.
A drastic measure to say the least, especially for an announcement trailer for a AAA video game. Indeed, by deactivating the possibility of posting comments, Naughty Dog is giving up an essential tool for maintaining fan hype. The studio can now only rely on social networks, discussion forums and the trailer broadcast on the PlayStation YouTube page, which has not disabled comments.
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