You probably know Troy Baker. You’ve almost certainly heard his voice. He is absolutely prolific in the video game voice acting industry, having lent his voice to games as wide ranged and varied as Bioshock Infinite, The Last of Us, Batman: Arkham Origins, Persona 4, and the upcoming Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. With someone who is as involved with the games making process as he is, he was asked about his thoughts on the shifts that gaming is experiencing thanks to the new consoles and the advances in PC game technology.

Baker believes that more power under the hood absolutely helps- he points out that the added power can be used not just to showcase prettier graphics, but that it can also be used to render more enemies on screen, better behavior for everything in the game, creating more believable and immersive worlds, and more. He thinks that gamers can tell the good from the bad now, and that they want good games- and these consoles are capable of giving them that.

Personally, I agree with him, in theory. The issue, of course, being, that so far, the ‘powerful’ console have given me games like Killzone Shadow Fall, Ryse, Watch Dogs, Destiny, and Assassin’s Creed Unity, while the ‘less powerful’ machines have given me amazing experiences such as Persona 4 Golden, The Legend of Zelda: A Lin Between Worlds, Mario Kart 8, Bayonetta 2, and Super Smash Bros.

I think it is also on the developers, then, to actually use all that hardware to their advantage.

Voice actor Troy Baker has stated that he’d be willing to return for The Last of Us if Naughty Dog planned a sequel. As the voice behind Joel, Baker believes that the series isn’t a money grab and that the developer wouldn’t go ahead with a new story without a defined purpose.

Speaking to IGN, Baker was asked if he would work on a sequel and said, “Of course [I’d come back]. What I love again is they’re not going to tell a story if they don’t have one to tell. The Last of Us is not a money grab. Left Behind, that DLC, is something that was very very specific and served a purpose. I loved it, I thought it was two of the best hours of gameplay that I’ve had in a long time.

“If there’s a role for me in something in the future to do with The Last of Us, absolutely I would do it, twice on Sunday.”

As of now, it’s unconfirmed if there will be The Last of Us 2. Stay tuned for more updates.