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114: The Last Of Us Director Bruce Straley

Kotaku Splitscreen

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4.6849 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Kirk and Jason talk about the news of the week including Destiny 2's debacle (5:46) before bringing on former Naughty Dog director Bruce Straley (28:17) to talk about his time directing Uncharted and The Last of Us, his reasons for leaving Naughty Dog, and his plans for the future. Then they rave about Divinity: Original Sin 2 (1:07:11), one of the best RPGs in recent memory. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of Kataku Spit Screen, the only podcast that eats delicious, delicious

0:14.2

tide pods. It is January 18, 2018, and today we're talking about PCs, the Destiny

0:20.2

2, Brew Haha, and Nintendo's Mini

0:22.7

Direct. We also talk to former Naughty Dog director Bruce Strayley, best known for his work on Uncharted,

0:28.9

Uncharted 2, Uncharted 4, and The Last of Us, about why he left Noddy Dog and what he's been up to,

0:34.8

along with his thoughts on not being involved with The Last of Us 2.

0:38.3

Finally, Kirk and I talk about Divinity Original Sin 2, one of the best RPGs we've ever played.

0:44.8

Seriously, you've got to play it. Let's go.

1:12.5

And we are back for another episode. My name is Jason Shire. I am the news editor at kataku.com. I am joined, as always, by Kirk Hamilton, the editor at large and in charge of kataku.com. Hello, Kirk. Hello, Jason. How are you doing? I am doing well. It is the middle of January. 2018 is coming to a close. It is. Finally, we made it there. We went so fast. It's just the

1:18.8

fastest year. It's really surprisingly quick this year. We have a very exciting episode of

1:22.7

split screen ready for you today. We have a great chat with Bruce Straley coming up. But first of all,

1:31.0

we should go over a couple of things. Actually, first of all, I wanted to say thank you to all the

1:36.1

people who sent in emails about their YouTube experiences with their kids and like what they

1:42.9

let their kids watch and who they let their

1:45.9

kids watch and how they keep track of all that stuff. I found that really interesting.

1:49.4

What we're going to do is probably next week, unless something changes, we're going to do a

1:54.7

mailbag episode where we read some of those, read some other email questions we've been getting.

1:59.8

So if you have any questions for us,

2:01.6

send them over to split screen at kachaku.com. And we will go through them all and pick out some

2:08.0

to read on the show next week. I also want to say thank you to everyone who has been

2:12.3

adamantly and actively following our predictions and pointing out every time that it

2:17.4

seems like

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