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[Grassclipper]

Just give me some more of that Uncharted goodness.

 

[merrick97]

I really hope they do a port of the first 3 games to the PS4 with 1080p and 60FPS!



That would be sooooo awesome.!

 

[demosthenes]

I knew it was coming. I wanted it to come and I am happy. I hope ND does one more Uncharted game and then moves on to another new IP besides TLoU. I loooove Uncharted.

It's not Drake, probably the antagonist of the game.

That is what I gathered.

 

[Can Crusher]

I was really happy to hear Naughty Dog was doing a new Uncharted. I feel like this franchise still has places to go and improvements that can be made. I'm glad they didn't just throw it off to some B team to work on going forward. Naughty Dog can learn from the mistakes they made in U3, and deliver something amazing on PS4.

And for those suggesting Uncharted should go away, allow me to remind you that sales for this franchise are still growing with each release. This isn't a series that has peaked, and is now headed south. I think it's still got room to grow.

One of the great things about a pulp adventure franchise like Uncharted is that there are many stories you can tell. It's like a James Bond movie, you can always make a new one. And Nathan Drake is the perfect kind of character for it too!

 

[Revven]

I wonder what the MP will be like if this game's focus isn't going to be with guns...

 

[Lumine]

As someone who thought the last of us was an improvement over uncharted in almost every way, this is actually kind of dissapointing news. Was hoping they'd take everything they learned from making both ip's and apply it to a completely new one.

 

[merrick97]

Exactly. There were several moments in U3 where I was literally scratching my head as to why that just happened at all. The story in U3 was bad, the game around the story was rather good though.


Uncharted = Nathan. If you want another lead then you should play TLoU or some other game. Drake is 75% of what makes Uncharted Uncharted. There is no reason to call a game Uncharted if there is no Nathan Drake in it.

I agree completely. No Drake = No Uncharted.

I wouldn't be opposed to some DLC using another character though.

 

[DieH@rd]

I really hope they do a port of the first 3 games to the PS4 with 1080p and 60FPS!

That would be sooooo awesome.!

http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/what-if-uncharted-3-ran-at-60fps

 

[matrix-cat]

U3 felt like they had a lot of awesome ideas for setpieces but couldn't really work out how to fit them all into a cohesive story. The

Spoiler

forget this, let's ride horses!

moment is nothing compared to Nate

Spoiler

jumping off a pirate ship in the middle of the ocean and somehow washing up just down the road from Elena's hotel

. In contrast, controlling Nate in real time from the moment he drives into Nepal until the end of the game (minus the gutshot coma) is one of the best things about Uncharted 2.

 

[PanicFreak]

It's a good move for Sony to go back to Uncharted.

I will buy a PS4 for this. I wonder if it will do to Xbone what MGS2 did to Dreamcast.

Nope.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

part of yoshida's job is balancing studios, he needs to make sure that the system has a good mix of returning things that people know they'll have fun with and new stuff where people can be surprised.

having naughty dog make a reliable hit like uncharted means that santa monica is free to do a new ip, as well as ready and dawn with the order. ssm's game is probably a space game based on them hiring a battlestar galactica writer.

No, Yoshida is useless at his job and he should force ND to stop making Uncharted, remember?!

Probably posted before, but I'm guessing this isn't about Nathan Drake but about Francis. Voice was totally different, the "treasure map," the fact that there is no subtitle which leads me to think it's a prequel of sorts.

As I said earlier, there wouldn't be American accents back in the 16th Century. I guess that the voice in the trailer is the villain's, someone from Drake's past who knows his secrets.

Yes I was hoping for a new ip

A space ip, something like firefly

I would have gone giddy with excitement had this new game been Savage Starlight, but I trust in ND, I think they learned a lot of lessons from U3 and they'll bounce back stronger.

Good news, ND has two teams.

But the other team will be busy with The Last of Us DLC and its full sequel.

 

[SolidSnakex]

But the other team will be busy with The Last of Us DLC and its full sequel.

They haven't said that they're going to do a sequel right off the bat. Neil said that they'll sit down and see if they have any idea for it and if not they'll move on to something else. Which is probably the best thing to do with TLoU. Don't force a sequel if they aren't confident in it. I've said before that I think that they'll treat TLoU like Half Life where we'll get a new game whenever they know what they have is something special.

 

[Chinner]

U3 felt like they had a lot of awesome ideas for setpieces but couldn't really work out how to fit them all into a cohesive story. The

Spoiler

forget this, let's ride horses!

moment is nothing compared to Nate

Spoiler

jumping off a pirate ship in the middle of the ocean and somehow washing up just down the road from Elena's hotel

.

yeah agreed, even drake comments on it http://youtu.be/wl5WyGDfA9o?t=3m11s

probbaly the biggest element that put me of UC3. felt like it needed another 2-3 hours of gameplay just to even out the pacing and stitch the set pieces together. after-all, UC2 was like a 12-15 hour game.

 

[jacksepticeye]

http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/what-if-uncharted-3-ran-at-60fps

But dat cinematic 30fps

 

[bombshell]

Interesting speculation piece by TheSixthAxis:

Uncharted 4: What We Know So Far

So noone wanted to read the link I posted? :'(

Here are a few interesting quotes:

The map itself charts a route from southern Africa and along the east coast before settling at Madagascar, or to be more specific, Île Sainte-Marie/ St. Mary’s Island. Between 1577-1580, Drake’s voyage took him around the world, the island being one of the locations marked on his route. Coincidence? Of course not.

More interesting is the line “Every betrayed us all.” At a glance it may seem nonsensical but when you consider that Henry Every (also known as “Avery” among other names) was one of the most notorious pirates to ever set sail, pieces of the puzzle start to fall into place.

Not only was he an infamous pirate (which could also explain the skull and cross bones insignia), Every was one of the few to retire with his loot and riches in tact. Though his crew was eventually found, tried, and executed, Every eluded capture and disappeared. These lost chapters in the pirate’s life could easily set the foundation for another Uncharted adventure. However, this still doesn’t identify our “buried” and “erased” narrator.

Pirate theme is real?

 

[Marc]

An expansion pack and a strategy game?

Haeach is the only main line Halo without Master Chief. There are 4 and another one coming next year with Master chief. Let's not muddy the waters.

I guess if they were to make a cheap expansion to U3, they could have another character. Or if they made like a puzzle game I guess.

C'mon, you're being purposefully facetious. They were full games sold separately, and you essentially said halo being without master chief was unthinkable. Four games with him, three without... so nearly half of Halo games are without master chief.

For what it's worth I would want Drake in it over others just because the universe lore is not very interesting to me. I hope it's him as an older man 15 years from now with technology, gadgets and such discovering Atlantis or something. Open world in the city with the odd area outside to mix things up.

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

They haven't said that they're going to do a sequel right off the bat. Neil said that they'll sit down and see if they have any idea for it and if not they'll move on to something else. Which is probably the best thing to do with TLoU. Don't force a sequel if they aren't confident in it. I've said before that I think that they'll treat TLoU like Half Life where we'll get a new game whenever they know what they have is something special.

All they really have to do is name some things its "spiritual sequel" to give the new IP the rub.

 

[jacksepticeye]

Is there a chance this could have sir francis drake in it? Like sailing around looking for treasure?

 

[IvorB]

If the game starts and Elena and Drake have split up again I'll punch a wall

Don't think they were ever together really. Think it's more 'it's complicated'.

 

[Crisco]

Yay!

 

[Veitsev]

Don't think they were ever together really. Think it's more 'it's complicated'.

They are married.

 

[gundamkyoukai]

Yup

People like Yoshida, but he isn't doing a good job running Sony. An intelligent leader would never green light Knack. He needs to grab Naughty Dog by the balls and force them to abandon Uncharted or give The Order to another publisher

Did you really say Sony should abandon Uncharted a 5 million plus seller ?
Sony can market both Uncharted and The Order and if they 2 or 3 months apart both of them will get there time to shine .

 

[funkystudent]

Don't think they were ever together really. Think it's more 'it's complicated'.

Wasnt it heavily hinted that they got engaged between U2 and 3 but split up because Drake was a dick who just wanted to steal treasure all day?


Then they completely dropped this plot point mid way through 3 in favour of just doing the Uncharted 2 ending again.

 

[jacksepticeye]

Don't think they were ever together really. Think it's more 'it's complicated'.

They have a happily ever after in all the games more or less then at the start it's back to "it's complicated" just so they can do the same dynamic between the two of them again

Drake seemed to have a better relationship with Chloe a lot of the time in 2

Wasnt it heavily hinted that they got engaged between U2 and 3 but split up because Drake was a dick who just wanted to steal treasure all day?


Then they completely dropped this plot point mid way through 3 in favour of just doing the Uncharted 2 ending again.

This guy gets it

 

[Kazuma Kiryu]

But the other team will be busy with The Last of Us DLC and its full sequel.

TLoU came out almost 6 months ago. Even before it came out, they already had DLC plans for it, so I'm guessing they might have had someone working on it, in a conceptual stage. As for the development, I don't think they're going to need the full team that worked on the game to make the DLC.
As for the full sequel, they never acknowledged they were making one.

 

[Tripolygon]

As someone who thought the last of us was an improvement over uncharted in almost every way, this is actually kind of dissapointing news. Was hoping they'd take everything they learned from making both ip's and apply it to a completely new one.

What they learned from Uncharted helped create TLOU, i think you see where im going.

 

[LastNac]

The entire endgame is combat focused, there are no puzzles after chapter 11 or so as it's all frontloaded. The pacing is skewed completely because of that.

It isn't just the cruise ship, it's the entire shipyard including the boat encounter. Calling it combat in transit makes no sense when the midgame exists completetly separate from the rest of the game, and it's a hefty chunk of time. The desert is a lull inbeween, but it juts you back into combat right after and doesn't stop at that point.

The entire "endgame" is not combat focused at all, the last ten minutes certainly, but not the end and its dishonest to allude to. There are several lulls I'm action, hell practically 3 missions that see nothing drastic at all in terms of shootouts, not to mention the return of drugged Drake. Frankly the action is used to get you from one set piece to another in the end, the way it should he used.

 

[Veitsev]

Wasnt it heavily hinted that they got engaged between U2 and 3 but split up because Drake was a dick who just wanted to steal treasure all day?


Then they completely dropped this plot point mid way through 3 in favour of just doing the Uncharted 2 ending again.

They aren't engaged. They are married. This was made clear at the end of U3 with the wedding band scene. Its a wedding ring, not an engagement ring. They were separated because of Nate just wanting to do dangerous treasure hunting stuff.

 

[.la1n]

Still haven't finished Uncharted 3 because of the check point locations are infuriating in portions of the game especially when cheap AI abounds like aboard the large ship deck 3/4 way through. I also find it hard to make it through games longer than 4-5 hours nowadays unless the gameplay is kept fresh, let's hope they attempt to do that because I do like Nathan Drake as a video game character.

I also agree he is Uncharted and without Nathan it isn't the same to me.

 

[andycapps]

As I said earlier, there wouldn't be American accents back in the 16th Century. I guess that the voice in the trailer is the villain's, someone from Drake's past who knows his secrets.

Well British accents are always used for Spartacus and stuff like that, so it's not a first if accents don't particularly match up. I do still think this is not with Nathan Drake. It's either from Francis Drake's perspective, or someone that Francis Drake screwed over.

^bombshell - I read it, and I think they're on to something.

 

[Morfeo]

Disappointed, would have hoped ND would move on and try something more innovative. Will get in the bomba-bin like the other games.

 

[LilWayneSuckz]

I was hoping for a new IP. I don't want Justin Richmond and Amy Hennig to get franchise fatigue and leave Naughty Dog due to creative differences.

However, I hope they vastly alter the gameplay to appease people who are sick of Uncharted.

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

I'm sure if you looked closely at the map in the video, you could get some sense of a few of the locations they will be visiting in the game.

 

[shinobi602]

I'm sure if you looked closely at the map in the video, you could get some sense of a few of the locations they will be visiting in the game.

Well, Madagascar is clearly visible.

Next-gen Uncharted jungles....hnnnnnng

 

[TheBrain76]

So which team is this? UC2 or UC3?

 

[RocBase]

Haha, conflicted. Love Uncharted and I def won't say no to more of it but at the same time I'm a little more bummed that this isn't a new IP.

 

[jacksepticeye]

So which team is this? UC2 or UC3?

UC3

 

[Grisby]

Really hope the combat encounters are better here. Premise for a prequel sounds cool and I'm sure it'll be a looker but I was let down with UC3.

 

[Appollowexx]

I do wonder with such a vague teaser and what with The Order releasing next fall, which is a game that took a great deal of it's game design inspiration from the Uncharted series, whether UC4 will actually even be a 2014 title or not.

I remember Naughty Dog saying after UC3 they would never rush a game out for a specific launch date again.

 

[SoraanTribal]

I hope they spread the puzzles more evenly throughout the adventure like in Uncharted 2. As much as I loved UC3, all the puzzles were in the first half, and absolutely none in the second. And I want bigger environments with more to explore and find. I know the game will likely be linear and that's fine, but just give us a little bit more breathing room for exploration (like in TLOU).

 

[DJ Lushious]

Nooooooooo! Uncharted is one of the only series left with a shred of somewhat clean humor left in it

Have we played the same games? Nathan Drake is a sexual deviant. He's constantly quipping about the female character's butts or making some other sexual remark. And then there's the borderline sex scene in Uncharted 2. This is the only aspect of Nate I am not terribly fond of.

Having said that, in response to the teaser, yes! I loves me Uncharted. It has easily become one of my favorite game series. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's got a great heart to it, is a ton of fun, the characters are all amazing, and the graphics are always gorgeous.

 

[shinobi602]

I remember Naughty Dog saying after UC3 they would never rush a game out for a specific launch date again.

True, however Uncharted 3 came out in 2011.

3 years may be enough for them...maybe not, we'll see.

 

[paperheart]

This was the best thing about last night. I wasn't expecting them to announce the next Uncharted game at all. I got goosebumps when the teaser played. I can not wait to see what this game looks like. I'm expecting to be blown away. In ND I trust!

 

[BadWolf]

Loved both UC2 and UC3 so would have been happy with either team working on it.

Playing as Sir Francis with a story centered around Atlanitis would be pretty cool.

 

[Off-Kilter]

I'll get excited for this once its confirmed that its not a sequel. I haven't played the other games and would like to jump into the series without having any prior knowledge of the story; here's hoping its a reboot or even a prequel of sorts

 

[IvorB]

They are married.

Sh*t really? How did I miss that? When did that happen?

 

[shinobi602]

Sh*t really? How did I miss that? When did that happen?

I'm guessing you didn't play Uncharted 3?

 

[funkystudent]

Theory.

The VO in the trailer is actually a pissed off Crash Bandicoot.

 

[conman]

Bummer that the director of UC3 is back on it. Seems like the UC series is now permanently ND's B-Team project.

 

[Bundy]

So which team is this? UC2 or UC3?

There is no "UC2" or "UC3" or "TLOU" team.
I thought this was clear/known by now.
They swap their members all the time. Especially after one game/project is done.