600 people have left my company this year (so far), and others have been hired, what do you consider standard turnover?
You seem pretty hell bent on convincing people that there's absolutely no correlation to any of this. Do you know something?
600 people have left my company this year (so far), and others have been hired, what do you consider standard turnover?
They were also responsible for a lot of what was good about Uncharted 2, especially Amy Hennig. It's not like they came out of nowhere when UC3 development started.
Not sure, after 1.05 I stopped playing within a couple of weeks, and I was never big on the sniper rifles. I was a run and gun player so the reduction in health completely ruined my play style.
But yes, it was amazing. I pumped over 130 hours within 3 months into UC2.
Have to keep cutting down other studios to save money best put towards funding The Last Guardian.
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.
That's my thinking too.Rather interesting , something had to happen with UC4 that 2 heads of the game left .
Casualties List:
Amy Hennig (Creative Director) of Naughty Dog
Justin Richmond (Creative Director) of Naughty Dog
Col Rodgers (Creative Director) of Evolution Studios
Stig Asmussen (Creative Director) of Sony Santa Monica
Jaime Griesemer (Lead Designer) of Sucker Punch
60+ Employees of Sony Santa Monica
Jack Tretton as President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America
Nope, nothing to see here guys, standard turnover. Not a trend.
"forced out" Amy Hennig rumor
IGN's shoddy journalism about Amy Hennig leaving ND. Their "sources" blamed Druckmann and Straley for it, which ND in a public statement shot down.
I wonder what the reaction would be if Druckman left. Would people still champion a Last of Us Sequel?
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.
We have great news for all our Uncharted fans Amy, Justin, and the team are hard at work on an amazing new installment of the Uncharted series to be released exclusively on the PlayStation 4 system.
What am I reading? A top talent developer just walked from a top talent studio, and you think this is good in any way? At the very least this means reshuffling and either a delayed or non-cohesive project.So he's the one that came up with the ship Graveyard and the Ballroom fight and the desert fight in U3?
Good fucking riddance. I'm now excited for Uncharted 4.
I don't think layoffs, departures, and studio closures have much to do with other companies poaching talent. Who truly knows what's going on with Sony's software side. You'd think Naughty Dog would be one of the few places people would never want to leave.
Seriously though they should scrap it and start fresh, because right now I can't imagine the game is in a good place.
TLoU team is still intact, so... consider me un-concerned. Uncharted would do well to be a bit more "adult" IMO.
I thought layoff meant someone was fired or made redundant not voluntary leaving a company?
As far as we are concerned he left Naughty Dog for his own reasons, it is not as if any of us speculating know what happened or have met him or know his opinions on his former place of work. It all could be a coincidence or completely mundane a reason.
Casualties List:
Amy Hennig (Creative Director) of Naughty Dog
Justin Richmond (Creative Director) of Naughty Dog
Col Rodgers (Creative Director) of Evolution Studios
Stig Asmussen (Creative Director) of Sony Santa Monica
Jaime Griesemer (Lead Designer) of Sucker Punch
60+ Employees of Sony Santa Monica
Jack Tretton as President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America
Nope, nothing to see here guys, standard turnover. Not a trend.
Casualties List:
Amy Hennig (Creative Director) of Naughty Dog
Justin Richmond (Creative Director) of Naughty Dog
Col Rodgers (Creative Director) of Evolution Studios
Stig Asmussen (Creative Director) of Sony Santa Monica
Jaime Griesemer (Lead Designer) of Sucker Punch
60+ Employees of Sony Santa Monica
Jack Tretton as President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America
Nope, nothing to see here guys, standard turnover. Not a trend.
It has one now.UC4 has no director
But it's Sony that has done almost all of those presumably. DriveClub had to be delayed significantly, someone was at fault for that, the director is no longer there. Stig had four years on a new IP, and it still got canceled, so he's gone.I think you are missing the part where it's the creative directors of each game from each studio leaving.
No one would give a shit if it was the gameplay programmer.
Yes.
Man, you guys really put these first party devs on a pedastal...
I think you are missing the part where it's the creative directors of each game from each studio leaving.
No one would give a shit if it was the gameplay programmer.
Stolen from Wario on Twitter, but...
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/11/14/uncharted-on-ps4-the-last-of-us-left-behind-dlc-revealed/
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Correct me if I am wrong but didn't something like this happen to Naughty Dog when they transitioned to the PS3 aswell Twitter and it's like we're not nearly as prevalent as they are today but I remember a story recently about Naughty Dog moving from Jak to Uncharted ruffled quite a few feathers internally and caused some departures.
Feels like ND reinvents themselves every generation, could just be happening again and the casualties are more pronounced this time because of the wider use of social media.
Casualties List:
Amy Hennig (Creative Director) of Naughty Dog
Justin Richmond (Creative Director) of Naughty Dog
Col Rodgers (Creative Director) of Evolution Studios
Stig Asmussen (Creative Director) of Sony Santa Monica
Jaime Griesemer (Lead Designer) of Sucker Punch
60+ Employees of Sony Santa Monica
Jack Tretton as President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America
Nope, nothing to see here guys, standard turnover. Not a trend.
"Amy, Justin, and the team are hard at work on an amazing new installment of the Uncharted series to be released exclusively on the PlayStation 4 "
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/11/14/uncharted-on-ps4-the-last-of-us-left-behind-dlc-revealed/
...
Casualties List:
Amy Hennig (Creative Director) of Naughty Dog
Justin Richmond (Creative Director) of Naughty Dog
Col Rodgers (Creative Director) of Evolution Studios
Stig Asmussen (Creative Director) of Sony Santa Monica
Jaime Griesemer (Lead Designer) of Sucker Punch
60+ Employees of Sony Santa Monica
Jack Tretton as President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America
Nope, nothing to see here guys, standard turnover. Not a trend.
From my understanding, this is something that happens in the film industry. Pixar for instance have had a few films where directors left in the middle or towards the end of a film and another director had to come in and take over. I think this happened with Toy Story 2, Ratatouille, and Brave? I'm sure there are other examples as well.
No offense to all the gameplay programmers out there. We still love you.I think you are missing the part where it's the creative directors of each game from each studio leaving.
No one would give a shit if it was the gameplay programmer.
hes getting rid of the competition