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Uncharted (PS4) announced, developed by protozoans and Druckmann's evil karma
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For 15 years...in a kart racer I suffered....you will pay..
Neither. Development teams don't stay static.
UC3 members, once that was completed, would have moved over to help finish TLoU while others stayed to work on UC3's multiplayer DLC and patches. Members of TLoU's team would have moved on to help pre-production of Uncharted 4, while others would've stayed to work on TLoU's single player DLC and multiplayer.
You move team members around to work on what needs to get done. You don't keep people who all work under one roof on the same team arbitrarily, it's inefficient and there's no point.
Goldrusher
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Seems rather unlikely, as the teaser seems to be about Henry Avery, who was born 60 years after Sir Francis died.
This is going to be rated M. Elena will be killed by the narrator close to the beginning of the game. Drake plunges into anger and depression as he seeks revenge and speaks in brooding, narrative monologues throughout the game.
Uncharted: Maximum Pain: The Fall of Drake
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Uncharted: Maximum Pain: The Fall of Drake
#truthfacts
Broder Salsa
Banned
Korn will make the soundtrack, Jonathan Davis says "I love gaming and Uncharted 4 is the shit".
What about project leads?
Its more Drury than Every. Maybe Every betraued libertatia and screwed everything up also found these
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Dr. Kitty Muffins
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Madagascar wouldn't be bad as they have alot of unique animals found no where else.
Yeah there is definitely tension there. I love that scene when Drake has washed up on shore and finds himself in her hotel room resting on her lap. Her look says it all really. To be honest I was kinda wishing they had followed through and
killed Elena off at the end of part 2 like they pretended to. I'm sick of them faking us out with character deaths now.
Yeah but Chloe's too smart to fall for a guy like Drake. As we learnt in U3; the dude is actual a mess.
The series feels like it wants to get serious about characterisation and themes but chickens out in favour of being happy-happy adventure story again. They need to decide which way they want to go.
Hmmm I guess by clean humor I meant not crass jokes about casual killing and blowing dude's heads off. I was more thinking about in contrast to the humor that would be in something like Max Payne 3 or the GTA series, where "fuck" is every other word.
BloodMoney
Banned
so... this teaser was all that was announced last night?
Played it a couple of times actually. When they get married? Seriously, fill me in... must have missed it.
shinobi602
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It doesn't occur during the games, it's some time between Uncharted 2 and 3.
You didn't notice the ring on Elena's hand and how many times they were talking about it in cutscenes lol? Heck the ending cutscene was all about it
Triggerhappytel
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It doesn't matter whether they "acknowledged" it; they are. It's as simple as that.
Someone who is a project lead isn't necessarily going to keep being one. Even so, the person who is a lead doesn't mean that much - exactly who the team is comprised of as a whole will have a greater effect than who is leading it.
If Justin Richmond was suddenly leading all the team members that worked on TLoU, what does that make them? How do you 'rank' that? The answer is, you can't. And it won't even be that clear-cut. The people who're working on Uncharted 4 are going to be a mix of the UC3 and TLoU teams, depending on who is best suited for what tasks need to get done.
SoraanTribal
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You can pretty much play the Uncharted games out of order if you wanted. It's not like they have some interconnected, overly complex storyline. They are all different. Maybe a line of dialogue that references something that happened in the past (in a funny way, not integral to the plot), but that's it.
Except in this case, there appears to be continuity between the lead for UC3 and the new UC (Justin Richmond). And my major issues with UC3 were almost all "high-level" design issues.
Similarly, there was continuity between the leads for UC2 and The Last of Us (Bruce Straley and Neil Druckman), and both games were brilliant at the "high-level" (but each suffered minimally from smaller design issues).
Those results all sound to me like the direct outcome of their respective directing/creative leads. Am I wrong?
Looks that way, yeah! Good read, btw.
Also, from the article. One dude revealed he was the voice in the trailer and plays a significant role in U4.
shinobi602
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Highly, highly doubt anything on this game will be at the VGAs.
SoraanTribal
Member
Are we expecting a proper reveal trailer at the VGAs/VGX? Or we won't see anything until like E3?
It doesn't occur during the games, it's some time between Uncharted 2 and 3.
You didn't notice the ring on Elena's hand and how many times they were talking about it in cutscenes lol? Heck the ending cutscene was all about it
Hmmm... seems vaguely familiar now that I think about it. I remember a ring. I don't really play Uncharted for the story to be honest...
From a gameplay perspective it's always been like that. The only worthwhile parts of those games are all the cinematic elements.
Not sure where the Yoshida stuff came from though. He's awesome!
Dance Inferno
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Amy Hennig and Justin Richmond? So the UC3 team is back to make UC4? Sigh... Let's hope it's more well put together.
Since this is going to happen, I have only one request for the multiplayer: can we get rid of that little teeny tiny circle inside the reticle? In UC3 multiplayer you had the equivalent of a red dot sight where you had to aim that dot perfectly on the enemy in order to hit him with your bullets. This works for Call of Duty where enemies aren't very agile and can be downed with only a few hits, but in a game like Uncharted where people are jumping and rolling all over creation, and it takes a good 5+ shots to kill someone, this can be very annoying. I much prefer the UC2 system where there as long as you have the general crosshairs over the enemy, the bullets will hit them. It's a lot easier to hit enemies that are jumping up and down when you don't have to line up a single pixel onto that enemy.
Since this is going to happen, I have only one request for the multiplayer: can we get rid of that little teeny tiny circle inside the reticle? In UC3 multiplayer you had the equivalent of a red dot sight where you had to aim that dot perfectly on the enemy in order to hit him with your bullets. This works for Call of Duty where enemies aren't very agile and can be downed with only a few hits, but in a game like Uncharted where people are jumping and rolling all over creation, and it takes a good 5+ shots to kill someone, this can be very annoying. I much prefer the UC2 system where there as long as you have the general crosshairs over the enemy, the bullets will hit them. It's a lot easier to hit enemies that are jumping up and down when you don't have to line up a single pixel onto that enemy.
SoraanTribal
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I play Uncharted for the story/characters myself. I feel like the gameplay is incredibly basic/safe, so that's not the main draw to the series for me.
14/14/14
Whew. I was worried that ND wouldn't be doing a new Uncharted and it would be panned off to somewhere else. Still needs Nathan and Sully though, two of my favorite characters from last gen. Would be cool if it were an open world type experience, but it'll probably be more set pieces, which I'm still fine with.
We may see something at VGX possibly. I mean, they had a team working on this while TLoU was in the works, so they maybe pretty far along already. If not, then E3 will be very exciting as this is when they'll be unloading a bunch of games.
We may see something at VGX possibly. I mean, they had a team working on this while TLoU was in the works, so they maybe pretty far along already. If not, then E3 will be very exciting as this is when they'll be unloading a bunch of games.
I don't necessarily believe they're the direct outcome of their respective directing/creative leads, no.
I pretty firmly believe that many of the issues in UC3 (strange/unclear level design decisions, and some unbalanced combat encounters) were due to the release date of the game being announced quite early on, and the game not receiving the feedback necessary from focus testers to identify and fix those issues in time.
I'm not sure what you mean by you saying you had issues with the "high-level" design, because I don't think it was particularly different from Uncharted 1 and 2's. Mechanically, Uncharted 3 was the same. The only thing was the aiming style which they fixed anyway.
You're also saying that you don't believe that Justin can learn from all the feedback he and others at ND would've read about UC3 since it came out. (We know they read GAF, after all - I would bet money on him and other ND team members reading this thread right now.) I think that's unfair and cynical of you, and certainly won't be the case.
I also think you're putting too much focus on the amount of direct influence the lead director has on minute-to-minute encounters.
On top of that, Amy Hennig appears to be more directly involved in this one, and she's certainly got the experience and knowledge to keep things on the right track. That's actually the thing I'm most excited about regarding this game, she really knows her shit.
I honestly don't think there's anything to worry about.
Well different strokes for different folks I guess. I love the characters and the way they interact. But in terms of the whole treasure-hunting yarn, I found it quite strained in the third game. It was easy to get caught up in it in the second game because it was such a wild ride. In the third I just loved the gunplay so much; that was the main focus for me.
To be honest, I'm not sure having Drake trotting around the globe looking for some old treasure from some book is really going to cut it. They will need to change this. Maybe someone is coming for Drake and he's The Hunted who must unravel the mystery of his pursuer and escape his clutchs to avoid certain death. Maybe it could be like Resident Evil: Nemesis...
After UC1: Relationship; didn't work out
After UC2: Married; didn't work out; split up
After UC3: Married; ??????
If they're split up in UC4 just to fall in love again over the course of an adventure it would be the same story for the third time.
Polioliolio
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U3's plot left a bad taste in my mouth.
Man, was that lousy.
Man, was that lousy.
But isn't it implied in Uncharted 3 that there is no connection between Nathan and Francis Drake, and that Drake made the whole thing up as a kid?
If that's the case, then why would we play during Francis Drake's time? He isn't related to Nathan Drake in any meaningful way. It would seem a strange dissonance from the third game, which told us Drake has been lying the whole time, to a new game which tries to correlate the two people.
If that's the case, then why would we play during Francis Drake's time? He isn't related to Nathan Drake in any meaningful way. It would seem a strange dissonance from the third game, which told us Drake has been lying the whole time, to a new game which tries to correlate the two people.
Callibretto
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Someone coming for Nathan make sense for this game. Uncharted 3 ending pretty much established that Nathan is settling down. He know what he treasure the most now with elena. So in the 4th game, the focus will be an outside force pulling him back to another dangerous mission. Unlike the last three game where Nathan actively go out there seeking adventure.
It's a logical path for the story to move forward imo, give it a better setting to move Nathan character forward and not trapped by feeling samey from previous games.
It's a logical path for the story to move forward imo, give it a better setting to move Nathan character forward and not trapped by feeling samey from previous games.
Hypereides
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Significant role?
The main character is gonna be a Drake's and Elena's son.
You heard it here first folks!
You didn't notice the ring on Elena's hand and how many times they were talking about it in cutscenes lol? Heck the ending cutscene was all about it
You watched the cutscenes?
I didn't know it as well. But ... I skipped them. heh
Nope.
He'll be somebody who used to work with Drake, who he double crossed and left to die. Basically, the game's villain.
SniperHunter
Banned
He will play as the evil dude
SoraanTribal
Member
Totally agree. After beating Uncharted 3, I thought they really needed to switch up the formula if they make another Uncharted. I suggested something similar to what you are describing on the ND forums a long time ago (Nate and company being chased/hunted and them having to figure out who and why). It just needs a change in the formula because if it ends with
them finding another lost city and destroying it
Yeah, basically. I see no reason to really bring Francis Drake back into the story at this point.
Why would you play uncharted and skip the cutscenes?
TheSpaceBetween
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Hoping for good gameplay from ND on the PS4, but expecting disappointment in that regard.
Callibretto
Member
I'm actually thinking the real descendant of sir francis drake, nathan's childhood friends before he even met Sully. Basically the guy who start Nathan's obsession with Sir Francis Drake, even claiming Drake's name.
Jason's Ultimatum
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More like 12/13/14
We could possibly get some kind of cutscene footage at the VGAs next month.
...what? How would you have any idea what is going on?
Exactly. You don't need everyone right away when working on a project. While some of TLoU team is working on DLC and some is working on Uncharted, there's certainly a small group of people brainstorming the plot, characters, and art direction of the next game under the "TLoU director". That stuff can take a lot of time, and only a small group of the development team can do any work at that point.
When Bethesda was finishing up Oblivion in 2006, work had already begun on Fallout 3 and even Skyrim (which released five years later).
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