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UC4 Game Director Justin Richmond Leaves ND (And famousmortimer leaves GAF #1393)
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Dr. Kitty Muffins
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I think Sony saw that alot of products weren't on track and they held certain people accountable for that depending on their role. They expanded these studios to very large sizes and I think we are seeing that what happens in this industry is that large studios are very hard to keep on track. I've always held a hunch (no more than that) that maybe team sizes are getting too big to manage properly. Until somethings change this gen, this may be the norm everywhere as almost everyone now has teams much larger than last gen. Japan certainly had a hard time managing teams at last gens sizes when those expanded and I think now the West is having the same issue.
Corpsepyre
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What in the fuck is going on at ND? WHY can't they announce that someone has JOINED the company? Are there people joining Sony even? I really hope the next piece of news is an announcement detailing the future of Uncharted 4 and who is going to lead the project going forward.
dark_prinny
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I see. Still, LoL is anything but your typical Triple A game. If you have read any stories about crunch time you'd know that it is pure hell.
markhimself46
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Stop the bleeding
What did he do to the MP ?, UC2's multiplayer was brilliant.
AgentChris
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Awesome. Guy fucked up Uncharted 2 MP with 1.04 Never forget!
Yes? I don't know how many people left ND after PS2/Jak or early in the PS3 era but we know ND devs left to go join Ready at Dawn. Dan Avery was creative director and left sometime after the first Uncharted released to join RAD. I wouldn't be surprised if many also left around that time too.
I get that the circumstances of Justin Richmond leaving are different since he was working along side Amy but...he doesn't seem to be leaving on bad terms.
No date or year has been announced for Uncharted. I think they already are hiring and I don't think it necessarily has to be for Uncharted.
TheWorthyEdge
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FUCK
PanicFreak
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4. They left Naughty Dog to get paid more elsewhere or have a better opportunity to advance.
My theory is that Naughty Dog has been so successful that the top of the company is basically rigid because it has seen such monumental success over the last 7 years. Therefore, people have to leave in order to be promoted.
Poetic.Injustice
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Surely a clash of egos.
Have you played TLOU MP?
Neff
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I'm guessing paycuts or severe budget restrictions due to Sony's financial situation.
RedAssedApe
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Ahmad_742009
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Now I'm expecting "Uncharted 4 got canned" thread
The higher metacritic wins.
Yes, it was brilliant, but they patched it to hell.
boredandlazy
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Yes, 'WAS' brilliant.
It was patch 1.05 and its health reduction that fucked it up, not 1.04.
Argh...
Here's my guess at this point:
The style of the Uncharted series has been challenged by those who want it to look and play more like The Last of Us, and the opponents to this latter idea are jumping ship.
This is my fear, because I enjoyed Uncharted 2 10000% more than The Last of Us.
Here's my guess at this point:
The style of the Uncharted series has been challenged by those who want it to look and play more like The Last of Us, and the opponents to this latter idea are jumping ship.
This is my fear, because I enjoyed Uncharted 2 10000% more than The Last of Us.
A few months ago, the fact that he was going to be the director of Uncharted 4 was terrible news, today, the fact that he's leaving means Naughty Dog is doomed.
He did a subpar job with Uncharted 3, it was leagues away from Druckmann and Straley's Uncharted 2, both in single and multiplayer (even though he destroyed Uncharted 2 multiplayer and nearly ruins U3's multiplayer basing it in his "preferred style of play" of running and gunning without aiming) so this is fantastic news for Uncharted 4 if anything.
He did a subpar job with Uncharted 3, it was leagues away from Druckmann and Straley's Uncharted 2, both in single and multiplayer (even though he destroyed Uncharted 2 multiplayer and nearly ruins U3's multiplayer basing it in his "preferred style of play" of running and gunning without aiming) so this is fantastic news for Uncharted 4 if anything.
Galactic Barret
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I truly wonder what is going on behind-closed-doors at Sony. Sales are great and shit, but people are quitting and being laid-off left and right.
Its confusing.
Its confusing.
TLoU didn't have pure killstreaks hidden behind medals tho. It was no where near as bad.
Graphics Horse
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Maybe there was something to those theories of UC4 being set in Olden tymes, and it's since been squished and rebooted as a regular cover shooter sequel?
#wildspeculation
#wildspeculation
It's just strange that they left in the middle of a project. A bag of money and solidarity with Amy probably led to this.
I know they made the second team so people wouldn't get burnt out working on one game, but those people stuck on Uncharted may be just that.
Colonel Nasty
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Games getting canned suck but I'd rather ND move on from uncharted.
EatChildren
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Hmm. My guess is that there was a conflict of interest in channelling the old ones, Druckmann and Straley desiring to speak tongue with the dead by evoking the nameless black, Richmond and Hennig preferring the ancient talisman's energy be put towards the deciphering the riddles of foresight. Unfortunately the prophecy requires four chosen souls to bridge our world with theirs, and because of their differences they all end up losing. Perhaps for the best, for the true will of the old ones is impossible to grasp with limited cognitive power of a mere human bound by flesh and mortality.
Based on the limited information available, that is my theory. I suspect there may also be a fifth chosen one that has yet to reveal themselves.
Based on the limited information available, that is my theory. I suspect there may also be a fifth chosen one that has yet to reveal themselves.
The Wizard
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The idea that Straley and Druckmann have replaced Hennig and Richmond as leads on Uncharted 4 seems very plausible now.
I tried to see if either of them had hinted at this in any official capacity. Found this tweet somewhat interesting. Could very well be nothing, but it would be a little odd for Straley to tell the Uncharted 4 lead game designer to get back to work if he had no involvement in the project.
I tried to see if either of them had hinted at this in any official capacity. Found this tweet somewhat interesting. Could very well be nothing, but it would be a little odd for Straley to tell the Uncharted 4 lead game designer to get back to work if he had no involvement in the project.
They just made a new IP.
I really hope Sony has more than just The Order for their fall exclusive lineup. E3 can't come soon enough.
Kazuma Kiryu
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You can claim there's something going on at sony internally, because we can speculate a lot about what's going on. Internal conflicts, restructuring, layoffs because of poor planning, less platforms to support, we can find quite a few reasons to discuss, more media awareness, you name it.
However, I was making a joke at your post a few days ago about how you claimed that people leaving Sony was because they were having trouble maintaining their 1st party studios.
TheRealTalker
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It always happens after success... I don't know why I thought Naughty Dog was above it.
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