Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
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This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
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HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
Love is a phenomenal factor, particularly within the grim world of The Last of Us. So it’s heartwarming to see a loving tribute from the 2013 PlayStation unique make its approach to Craig Mazin’s HBO drama—particularly when it’s an Easter egg a developer admits is “silly.”
Read More: The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful Finale
HBO’s The Last of Us, which wrapped up its first season finale episode over the weekend, takes a number of liberties with the sport’s narrative. Instead of retreading the identical story beat-by-beat, the TV sequence fleshes Joel’s character out, expands Bill and Frank’s relationship, and does Tess fairly soiled. But whereas there are a lot of variations between the sport and the present, loads has additionally stayed the identical, together with a selected Easter egg former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field added to the unique The Last of Us. Spoilers for the sport are just under.
An lovely, ‘silly’ tribute in The Last of Us
Field, who now works at Media Molecule as a principal designer on the creator recreation Dreams, tweeted “a silly Easter egg” that was within the 2013 recreation that discovered its approach to the 2023 present. The Easter egg is the identify of a baseball area Joel and Ellie stumble throughout. Field (get it?) named it “Bethany Clare Field” after his spouse, sneaking in a bit nod to his lover in a reasonably inconsequential area.
It appears the folks behind the HBO sequence care loads about remaining correct to the unique recreation, as the sphere in query made its means into the present.
“I’m still reeling from this,” Field tweeted on March 13. “A silly Easter Egg I put in the original The Last of Us game has somehow survived the transition to live-action TV. It’s blurry, but it’s definitely there! I can’t imagine the HBO team knew the name of the baseball field was a tribute to my wife.”
The Last of Us area isn’t actual, however the love is
The baseball area Field is speaking about is in Salt Lake City, the final location throughout Ellie and Joel’s journey in The Last of Us recreation. After chasing the Fireflies again to Utah, the duo discover themselves within the lush metropolitan metropolis that’s overrun with marsh, timber, and vines. The two navigate via some rundown buildings earlier than coming as much as a phenomenal clearing lined with a vibrant inexperienced area and a household of grazing giraffes. On the fitting facet is a scoreboard that, when zoomed in and enhanced, clearly reads “Bethany Clare Field.”
In the final episode of The Last of Us season 1, titled “Look for the Light,” Ellie and Joel journey via Salt Lake City in what’s, very similar to the sport, the tip of their journey. Without divulging an excessive amount of, the duo stroll to a equally beautiful clearing of grass and grazing giraffes. As Field factors out, the textual content is blurry, however in the event you zoom in and improve it, you possibly can see his spouse’s identify on the scoreboard.
Field instructed Kotaku over Twitter DMs that as a result of the Naughty Dog staff didn’t need to test with authorized to place Easter eggs into the sport, builders “added loads of [them] back then.” On his half, he snuck in “album covers from photos of friends and family and their cats” that appear to have been faraway from the PS4 remaster “due to texture budgets.” The solely motive he thought the baseball area’s identify made it via was as a result of his and his spouse’s final identify is Field, so naming a baseball area as such “felt appropriately believable and hidden,” letting them chuckle each time they caught a glimpse of it. However, Field didn’t truly see the Easter egg himself. Though he’s seen the HBO present, it was another person on Twitter that pointed the “small detail” out.
“Seeing the Easter egg in the TV show really blows my mind,” Field mentioned. “Of all the tiny details to have been preserved across two ports of the game, and then a TV show, Beth’s baseball field, the one that probably means the most to me but the least people knew about, is the one that made it through. I was pointed to a Reddit thread by the VFX artist at WETA FX that worked on the shot. They mentioned that they had no idea it was a meaningful tribute. They just wanted to make the space as authentic to the original game as possible, so they copied that particular prop exactly. It looks like it could actually be the exact prop from TLOU Part I! After that, a few more people that worked on the show reached out to say they had no idea, too! I love how this unlikely little detail has managed to endure and survive across multiple mediums. So fucking cool!”
Read More: The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
This is such a touching tribute. The Last of Us is a devastating recreation, an illustration of the lengths of us will generally go to guard these they love. In honoring his spouse with this Easter egg, I’d say Field resides as much as that theme.
Update 03/15/23, 10:00 a.m. ET: This story was up to date to incorporate some quotes from former Naughty Dog designer Peter Field in regards to the Easter egg.
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