The voice of Joel in The Last of Us, Troy Baker, claims "he knows nothing" about a potential sequel for the post-apocolyptic title. Baker's claims seemingly contradict the comments made by Nolan North earlier today.
Troy Baker was questioned on a potential The Last of Us 2 title during his panel appearence at Indy PopCon 2015, and his responses might have left a few gamers slightly confused.
"I know nothing. I don't know if we're gonna do another one or not. If we do, then I trust Neil and Bruce and everyone at Naughty Dog to tell a story that needs to be told," Baker said.
"I can go either way, though, because I think it could stand alone as just at its own thing. Like Journey, the game, not the band, it didn’t need a sequel necessarily. It stood alone as a standalone piece of art that I think is incredible and if you haven’t played it, it’s amazing.”
If there was a sequel to The Last of Us, Baker said he'd be interested to see it cover Joel's life during the 20 years after his ***SPOILER*** daughter died to when he met Ellie.
“But for me, there’s so much… You know, spoiler, when you go from the prologue and then credits and then cut to 20 years later, you see a completely different guy," he continued. "You see someone that was a dad that was just trying to do everything he could to take care of his daughter to now, this feared, brutal man that has, as it said in the character description when I first auditioned for it, a man who has few moral lines left to cross. That’s a very profound statement to make of someone, and if that’s true what led him to that place.”
“So there’s a part of me that wants to see those 20 years, but if you played Left Behind there’s so much about Ellie that I want to know," he added.
"We got to see obviously in that what happened when she mentions at the very end of The Last of Us, when she talks about her and Riley. So being able to see that, I kind of want to see more about Joel, but I almost want to see it… I don’t know, man, I go back and forth. But again, I have to default to this: I trust Neil and Bruce implicitly, so if they were to make a sequel, whatever they decide to take, even if they honestly – I believe in The Last of Us so much that even if Joel and Ellie weren’t in it that would still be a game that I want to play or a story that I would want to experience.”
If there is a sequel to The Last of Us, would you want to see more of Joel and/or Ellie, or would you want completely different characters? Sound off in the comments below.
