It's evident that Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part 2 has left a mark on fans. Whether that mark is a good one or a bad one depends on your perspective. After the unanimous appeal of the first game, there were those who turned on the series because of Part 2, whether it was because of what happened to Joel, Ellie's sexuality, or they just hated strong, buff women.
We won't be playing them until 2027 at the earliest.
Things became so bad that Abby actor Laura Bailey, and even her newborn son, actually received death threats – for a fictional show. Unfortunately, that hate permeated to the second season of HBO's The Last of Us as well, and, for some reason, to the studio's newest project, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. Studio head Neil Druckmann says there's only one way to deal with this backlash.
In a conversation with Last Stand Media (via GamesRadar), Druckmann was asked about how he deals with all this negativity. Not only did his last game get a lot of hate, but so did The Last of Us series, and now his next project, which isn't even out yet. His answer was rather simple, to...