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Tim Schafer on Uncharted

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Lemming_JRS

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http://www.doublefine.com/news.php/site/half_tuck_is_the_new_mullett/

I just finished Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and I will tell you this: I liked it a lot. It had beautiful environments, fun platforming, and the awesome phrase, “I’ll kick you to sleep!” You should all go play it right now. It was all super next-gen, but the most next-gen thing about it to me was Drake’s shirt. Check it out: Somehow it’s tucked in, and yet not tucked in, at the very same time. Of all the technical marvels contained in Uncharted, this was the one that really mystified me.

Yes, the shirt was dirty, like he had partied in it all night, passed out, threw up on himself repeatedly in his sleep, and was then left in a ditch outside of town by his mean friends. And by the time he walked home his shirt was dry, so he just said, “The hell with it. Let’s go find some treasure.”

So, on his left side, he tucked the shirt in, to show his trim figure and stylish belt buckle. “What a handsome young man,” you might say, “If he gets that shirt washed, he may date my daughter.” But his right side is untucked, like the shirt of a wild man, a renegade, a scoundrel. “What is that guy up to? Why is his shirt untucked? Does he not give a damn about me and my rules?”

At no time during the game does Drake stop and tuck in the loose part of his shirt. Nor does he ever just say, “The hell with it!” and untuck the whole thing. It remains in a state of half dress for the length of the game, through all sorts of climbing, jumping, and scampering. Jet skiing, swimming, and almost kissing--nothing can dislodge or fully tuck Drake’s half-casual shirt. It is draped in a purgatory state, half in, half out, never completely free. It’s like an unfinished symphony.

Then I realized what a clever invention the half-tuck is. How better to show off your rock-hard abs, but still create an air of nonchalance? Much like how a mullet shows the world your business side in the front, and your party side in the back, the half-tuck tells one story on the right side, but a completely different story on the left. In encapsulates the contradiction that you are: The shy extrovert, the organized slob, the guy who likes to shop at Banana Republic but also likes to fall into the Gap when he’s feeling a little crazy. The half-tuck reassures the ladies that you’re a man who cares about personal grooming, but who, at the same time, couldn’t give a f##k. Who doesn’t like that?

Of all the treasure I found on this quest, I think this little fashion tip is the one I will cherish the most.
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Ryu1999

Member
"Much like how a mullet shows the world your business side in the front, and your party side in the back"

:lol
 
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Fuu

Formerly Alaluef (not Aladuf)
That's great. :lol

This reminds me Mr. Schafer got an account here by the same time I did (the Juniors flood). I don't think I've ever seen him post, though. :(
 
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Odrion

Banned
So, on his left side, he tucked the shirt in, to show his trim figure and stylish belt buckle. “What a handsome young man,” you might say, “If he gets that shirt washed, he may date my daughter.” But his right side is untucked, like the shirt of a wild man, a renegade, a scoundrel. “What is that guy up to? Why is his shirt untucked? Does he not give a damn about me and my rules?”
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Best part. :lol
 
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platypotamus

Member
Tim Schafer, fashion consultant?



On a related note, I think I'm totally going to rock the half tuck now. I've always been an untucked kind of guy, but he sold me on the benefits of half tucking.
 
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SolidSnakex

Member
Oni Jazar said:
pic?

I don't remember Drake's shirt half untucked.
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Y2Kev

TLG Fan Caretaker Est. 2009
TIM SCHAFER :bow

I shall practice the belief of Schrodinger's Tuck every day until I die.
 
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electricpirate

Member
More Tim greatest hits, this came after someone won a drawing of a naked lady by tim schafer by sending in a copy of OXM with the psychonauts article.

Piece of advice: get that post-it note insured. Once Psychonauts comes out and the world recognizes it for what it is--not merely the greatest game ever made but easily the most significant document produced by mankind--and they burn the Mona Lisa and they smash Michelangelo’s David because no other work of art is worthy of sharing the same planet with something as beautiful and true as Psychonauts--and after they rip the Constitution of the United States out of it’s class case and replace it with a copy of our game--when all of that happens, you are going to be able to put your kids through college with that naked lady, my friend. Hell, you are going to be able to BUY your kids each their own college. They could have a summer college, a winter college, a college just for your dogs, and a college out by the pool that they just use to change in and out of their swimsuits.

But-- you’re never going to have kids, Martin M., if you don’t shake your addiction to porn and go find a real lady. That’s the real lesson here today.
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ibu

Member
He has confirmed my purchase of this game... now if only I had my ps3 here (recently moved to london) and some money :(
 
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Flavius

Member
There are those that only think that they themselves are knee-slappingly hilarious...

And then there's Tim Shafer.

That dude is awesome.
 
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PistolGrip

sex vacation in Guam
that was an awesome review. I must I admit I do the half tuck from time to time. Only works with T-shirts with me :D
 
ManaByte

ManaByte

Gold Member
So I guess Uncharted is the new Too Human on GAF? Someone makes fun of one of the best games of 2007 and now it sucks?
 
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SolidSnakex

Member
ManaByte said:
So I guess Uncharted is the new Too Human on GAF? Someone makes fun of one of the best games of 2007 and now it sucks?
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What? He's not making fun of it, he even said he really liked it.
 
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Lemming_JRS

Member
ManaByte said:
So I guess Uncharted is the new Too Human on GAF? Someone makes fun of one of the best games of 2007 and now it sucks?
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easy man. Read the first sentence again.

I just finished Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and I will tell you this: I liked it a lot. It had beautiful environments, fun platforming, and the awesome phrase, “I’ll kick you to sleep!” You should all go play it right now.
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