S0ULZB0URNE
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Appreciate the effort but goofy faces and terrible animation kill it.
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Fanmade Uncharted level using 3rd Party assets and Unreal Engine 5
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AREYOUOKAY?
Member
Well… Maybe not the best time for that considering Sony and Microsoft are in FIRE THIS MAN mode at the moment.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Exactly! This is amazing for what it is. Not sure why people are hating on it.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I feel like I’m looking at Uncharted: Fortnite Edition.
Fredrik
Member
It is impressive and I’ve dabbled with game creations myself so I absolutely understand the insane work that has been done here.
But I just don’t understand why someone this skilled isn’t just making something unique instead where people won’t instantly start focusing on every little thing that isn’t like the original.
Okay, I'm not the only one who thinks Drake seems sassy as hellNathan Gay is here
chilichote
Member
Looks like Unearthed 2^^
ChorizoPicozo
Member
his fucking face 
EDIT: Looks like it was made on Dreams
EDIT: You better prepare folks, this is the output quality for PS6.
EDIT: Looks like it was made on Dreams
EDIT: You better prepare folks, this is the output quality for PS6.
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saintjules
Member
People see the name UE5 and automatically expect pre-rendered CGI-looking stuff I guess.
Hah true. But then again, Unreal Engine showed mostly that kind of stuff during their presentations.
FalconPunch
Member
People are laughing here because they have 0 development experience. Is it polished? Absolutely not but, if one person did that by themselves, it's most certainly impressive. All the scripting work, level and asset creation, testing, etc. As a proof of concept, it shows that the individual has the base technical knowledge required to work with UE and be a productive member of a team.
saintjules
Member
Agreed. I just thought it was cool to share since it was beyond the occasional GTA V Unreal Engine vids that we're used to seeing. This was an actual complete level.
sono
Gold Member
Consumers are the ultimate test
Jinzo Prime
Member
Honestly feels like a greybox/pre-alpha for a real game. I like the camera angles.
RoboFu
One of the green rats
If I wanted to take a week to rip off assets I would'easy'. Go make one yourself and post it here. we'll wait
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Appalling.
CamHostage
Member
5K watches in 24 hours (surprised it's not more, actually,) versus 4.2k over 2 years for his next-nearest clip that was an original work.
Daniel Arriaga works at MachineGames, so he is making something for an audience elsewhere, but working on known properties lets you examine how those things work and apply lessons to your career project. Also has you engage in areas of business outside your skillset (in this case sound and character animation and things like that not connected to his Level Designer role.) These projects are also a calling card, and there's no concern back at the office about moonlighting or property theft if you work on something you have no plans on distributing. And it's just more fun sometimes making Star Wars or Uncharted instead of some generic concept you came up with (especially if graphic design or character-based storytelling is not your specialty but you get enough of it to get started from the root works.)
Daniel Arriaga - MachineGames | LinkedIn
4.5 years in AAA games + solo designs praised by the games press (80.lv, IGN, etc., links… · Experience: MachineGames · Education: DigiPen Institute of Technology · Location: Sweden · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Daniel Arriaga’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion...
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Tribute experiments are not completely unknown in graphic design or cartooning or audio or music or short films; putting the effort into doing something big like this for no reason other than to say you did it is more rare.
MayauMiao
Member
Its good for resume, shows potential employer what he is capable of alone even if its with asset flips.
Insane Metal
Member
That looks like shit hahaha
Also, Nate reminds me of Alex Bugalooga from DF
Also, Nate reminds me of Alex Bugalooga from DF
Deerock71
Member
“What If [Game] But Better Graphics” part 1,536
Wow, how incredible. How inspired.
What if [GAME] but better graphics indeed! So fascinating.
Not surprising at all that people lap this crap up, but still very depressing.
That’s seriously the best some gamers can hope for - better graphics. The number one thing we are guaranteed to get. Not good games, not better games, not amazing new mechanics - but just better graphics.
Whoo-yeah. Really exciting. And with the same bullshit engine. This whole YouTube genre makes me want to jump off a cliff.
Wow, how incredible. How inspired.
What if [GAME] but better graphics indeed! So fascinating.
Not surprising at all that people lap this crap up, but still very depressing.
That’s seriously the best some gamers can hope for - better graphics. The number one thing we are guaranteed to get. Not good games, not better games, not amazing new mechanics - but just better graphics.
Whoo-yeah. Really exciting. And with the same bullshit engine. This whole YouTube genre makes me want to jump off a cliff.
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Fredrik
Member
I totally get that he gets more attention. But if it wasn’t Nathan and if the source work wasn’t best animation in the industry then people would go ”Wow omg you made that yourself?!” instead of ”Nathan’s face looks weird and look at his spagetti arms lol”.5K watches in 24 hours (surprised it's not more, actually,) versus 4.2k over 2 years for his next-nearest clip that was an original work.
Daniel Arriaga works at MachineGames, so he is making something for an audience elsewhere, but working on known properties lets you examine how those things work and apply lessons to your career project. Also has you engage in areas of business outside your skillset (in this case sound and character animation and things like that not connected to his Level Designer role.) These projects are also a calling card, and there's no concern back at the office about moonlighting or property theft if you work on something you have no plans on distributing. And it's just more fun sometimes making Star Wars or Uncharted instead of some generic concept you came up with (especially if graphic design or character-based storytelling is not your specialty but you get enough of it to get started from the root works.)
Daniel Arriaga - MachineGames | LinkedIn
4.5 years in AAA games + solo designs praised by the games press (80.lv, IGN, etc., links… · Experience: MachineGames · Education: DigiPen Institute of Technology · Location: Sweden · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Daniel Arriaga’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion...
Tribute experiments are not completely unknown in graphic design or cartooning or audio or music or short films; putting the effort into doing something big like this for no reason other than to say you did it is more rare.
It’s kinda like playing the guitar and decide to make a Dream Theater cover. No matter how insanely impressive your guitar playing is in isolation you’re still going to have people frown at it because you won’t match or exceed John Petrucci.
Magic Carpet
Member
This reminded me of that Pauly Shore cartoon.
CartesianMan
Member
People don't know how much work takes to make stuff like this. Respect to the man
Toots
Gold Member
I didn't even notice they gave him the low testoterone "all trunk no branch" body type
CrustyBritches
Gold Member
That could help this guy get his dream job at a developer making awesome games. Would be ironic if he ended up at ND.
WitchHunter
Banned
Nicely done, but... sigh... it's the collection of tiresome elements that nowadays populate action adventure games.
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Naughty Dog had an extremely limited bag of tricks, each of which they reused 10,000 times during the 4 Uncharted games.
Do people want to watch retirement age Nathan Drake ‘almost’ fall off a crumbling handheld as he says “no, no, no” again? For the 325th time?
Do people really not get tired of this shit? Totally scripted, predictable and shallow.
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Pejo
Member
Obviously doesn't have the polish of a AAA multi million dollar budgeted game with a studio of talented people behind it, but I think the guy nailed the feel of an uncharted game, particularly the level design portion which I think is the focus of the video.
If it wasn't layoffs-city in the Game Dev circle right now, I'd say this would be one hell of a resume booster.
If it wasn't layoffs-city in the Game Dev circle right now, I'd say this would be one hell of a resume booster.
It’s genuinely hilarious to me that anyone would find this gameplay interesting or exciting.
As for the whole overall approach, vibe, spectacle etc - do you really want to do this shit all over again?
Ooh, stuff is happening in the background! Things are exploding! I’ll be talking about this amazing gameplay for years to come.
Ultra basic platforming, ultra basic stealth, basic shooting, bazillions of scripted events, slow walk-and-talks, the same old tired cliches, staring at assets (“vistas, so many vistas”) explosions, quips, gameplay as deep as a puddle.
Exciting things are happening around the player! Except not really. It’s just like a movie! Yeah, why not just make a movie then?
Big yawn to this tedious shit.
Guys this is crazy but there was a thing that Nathan was going to use to climb across and then the thing fell down and he quipped that he would need to find another way across! Wow, funny AND original!
I congratulate the creator on showing up how laughably basic the Uncharted games are, mostly relying on empty spectacle (money burning on screen), because obviously the comments on this video are people clapping like seals for this slop which just demonstrates that Uncharted 5 could come and be exactly like this (only with better graphics) and be applauded as some kind of masterpiece.
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WitchHunter
Banned
A brave reboot/alternative like GOW2018 would be very much welcomed in this space.
There is nothing wrong with those spectacular scripted scenes. Uncharted evolved a lot with those and I liked them, especially in the last game. What I didn't like were the contrived wall climbing parts. It's ok to do it a few times in the beginning, but later on, just quicken the process or drastically trim it down/throw it out altogether, because, just like you mentioned it, some elements were very overused. But that's just me, I hate repetitive filler shit. Maybe the target audience is mostly youngsters who have zero experience and gulp up whatever is thrown at them. Average people buy GTA just to roam around the city... they also play fifa and these ancient brawler games in a shiny new skin like tekken 12.
Maybe they need some infusion from the series called Banshee where the excon turned cop fella is a bitch magnet, fucks everyone at arms length, and bashed everyone's face in.
saintjules
Member
Sorry to hear that's what you took away from the video. You could just ignore the thread and move onto something else, right?
Morrie’s wig shop
Member
Why not just create something original from your own mind…..
I’ll never understand why you would
waste time and energy on something you can never say you created this, here is an idea and a character I came up with..
I’ll never understand why you would
waste time and energy on something you can never say you created this, here is an idea and a character I came up with..
This is a discussion forum. People discuss things; are you familiar with the format? I posted.
You could just ignore my post and move onto something else right?
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Redneckerz
Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
Love how a lot of folks here are taking this to down and leaving disappointed. Its literally a single developer.
- Doing the environments
- The voice overs
- The characters
- The textures
- and so and so forth.
Attention. He might possibly get a job of of this
