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Was Uncharted 3 made by the same team that did 1 and 2?
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Uncharted 2 team did last of us I believe.
DaciaJC
Gold Member
What's the thorough answer? I'm genuinely curious.
But the rest of the game isn't. The game was designed mostly around the set pieces.
For one, the animations seem "choppy"
legacyzero
Banned
It wasn't a terrible game by any stretch, but UC2 was just that good. Tough act to follow, if you ask me.
It's the gameplay that seems different. Less polished...
The Uncharted games are just one big blur in my mind. Other than the different set pieces in each game i don't remember anything about them. I do remember Uncharted 2 being the best, though.
Net_Wrecker
Member
After Uncharted 2, they split the team into two separate teams, the more seasoned veteran leads etc went on to make TLOU while Uncharted 3 was mainly people promoted from within. Uncharted 3 team = B team (but hopefully their next game is much better!).
Granted the heads of the project (Henning, etc) were replaced...
I thought that game was pretty solid besides the forced vita gestures
This game was awesome.
jts
...hate me...
Haven't played that one, but I guess I stand corrected.
SolidSnakex
Member
You can look here and see that they share many of the same members
http://www.mobygames.com/game/ps3/uncharted-2-among-thieves/credits
http://www.mobygames.com/game/ps3/uncharted-3-drakes-deception/credits
Some are in new roles and others are in the same. For example, Amy stayed as creative director as well as the writer while Jacob Minkoff went from being a game designer to a lead game designer. The whole "Team A/B" is brought up a lot, but a lot of the key people worked on both. The major difference is that Bruce and Neil moved on to TLoU.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/ps3/uncharted-2-among-thieves/credits
http://www.mobygames.com/game/ps3/uncharted-3-drakes-deception/credits
Some are in new roles and others are in the same. For example, Amy stayed as creative director as well as the writer while Jacob Minkoff went from being a game designer to a lead game designer. The whole "Team A/B" is brought up a lot, but a lot of the key people worked on both. The major difference is that Bruce and Neil moved on to TLoU.
p_xavier
Authorized Fister
I even preferred it to 3!
It may have been changing tastes but 3 couldn't keep me interested to finish the game.
VHS was a successful platform.
VHS was a successful platform.
I'm sure there was still overlap between the group that worked on TLOU and UC3. Still, some of the decisions in that game came down to the short development time rather than the talent involved. I think everyone took it a little too literally when Naughty Dog said they had a new team working on the TLOU. Sure, the leads and those that didn't need to be involved on Uncharted 3 moved on, but a lot of that stuff is fluid based on where someone is most needed.
FloweryMarston
Member
http://www.mobygames.com/game/ps3/uncharted-2-among-thieves/credits
http://www.mobygames.com/game/ps3/uncharted-3-drakes-deception/credits
If you take a look you'll notice that indeed, a lot of people that worked on U2, also worked on U3, the biggest omissions being neil druckmann and bruce straley (neil was a writer alongside amy henning in UC 2 and designer in UC1, and bruce was game director in UC 1 & 2), both of them went on to work in the last of us where people from UC3 helped them after they shipped the game.
In my opinion, if something "feels" different, it's more of a issue where the game had to be released on 1/1/11 without delays, and the team encountered a lot of problems, from technical ones to even scheduling conflicts with some of the actors. So even if naughty dog said "two teams" during the last of us reveal, the reality was two projects with a single team divided between them, interchanging the focus and specific people when needed, where the heads (directors) would be on the same project all the time.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/ps3/uncharted-3-drakes-deception/credits
If you take a look you'll notice that indeed, a lot of people that worked on U2, also worked on U3, the biggest omissions being neil druckmann and bruce straley (neil was a writer alongside amy henning in UC 2 and designer in UC1, and bruce was game director in UC 1 & 2), both of them went on to work in the last of us where people from UC3 helped them after they shipped the game.
In my opinion, if something "feels" different, it's more of a issue where the game had to be released on 1/1/11 without delays, and the team encountered a lot of problems, from technical ones to even scheduling conflicts with some of the actors. So even if naughty dog said "two teams" during the last of us reveal, the reality was two projects with a single team divided between them, interchanging the focus and specific people when needed, where the heads (directors) would be on the same project all the time.
It's a great game and much better than 3 and 1 for me.
I didn't like a lot of the combat encounters in 3, especially with that new melee system they introduced which was shit and them shotgun fuckers. Didn't have as much fun with it in comparison the others in the series.
The gap between UC1 and 2 is the same as 2 and 3, and Uncharted 2 radically changed the formula, and added an entire multiplayer suite. UC3 should have had more than enough time to dwarf UC2 in quality.
It could be included in the Uncharted HD compilation next year
I love this review more than most things in life. But not more than his Dead Space 2 review.
TLoU directors are directing UC4.
I like the game, but had a feeling it was at least undermanned/rushed. IIRC it didn't even have a cutscene viewer before patch, or cool bonus features like the other games. They also forgot to put in the motion blur and the aiming was also slightly dodgy without the patch and option enabled too.
You raise an interesting point.
OP, go to options and enable the alternate aiming option, they patched it in later, and it's nicer. Still not UC2 nice though.
enemy encounters are completely different.
in u2, and last of us, they were fairly thought out.
in u3, its just waves and waves of annoying spawning enemies
there are various other things wrong with u3, because ya.. different team..or.. maybe cause as others are saying, the game was partly rushed.
I'm only basing off of what I've read in interviews, but it sounds like they had a ton of technical issues, and the end part of development for UC3 was hellish, with a lot of stuff coming down to the last minute. Sony really needed the game for the end of 2011, so a delay just wasn't going to happen. They've repeatedly said that they never want to go through that process again and likely used that as leverage to negotiate for more time on TLOU.
Shock_Wave
Member
Uncharted 3?
Never heard of it.
Never heard of it.
FloweryMarston
Member
It's great to have people saying "yea different teams" but didn't even bother to read the credits for the games to see if they aren't saying bs
The Mango Sentinel
Member
All I know is that 3 is a hell of a lot better than 1.
But I figure the same team made them all.
But I figure the same team made them all.
I dunno man. Unless UC2 was bordering along being a bad game, UC3 can't possibly be in the realm of bad games in comparison. Other than narrative and pacing, it was every bit an Uncharted game as 2 in terms of gameplay.
SolidSnakex
Member
They've admitted that it was rushed
http://www.1up.com/features/mapping-uncharted-3-drake-deception?pager.offset=7
That early date that they gave it was a bad idea, which is why they were so hesitant to announce TLoU's date and why they even delayed it at one point, which is something that they haven't done before. They weren't going to allow it out until they were completely happy with the end product.