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Naughty Dog further teases space game?
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SniperHunter
Banned
Amy's B team is quiet
Bend is quiet
The Last of Us team might be working on a sci fi game - Bruce mentioned he was starting work on a new ip
Bend is quiet
The Last of Us team might be working on a sci fi game - Bruce mentioned he was starting work on a new ip
Triggerhappytel
Member
Really? Link please.
I don't think it had much to do with the talent. They admitted themselves that they shouldn't have announced a hard release date so far in advance. They ended up rushing the game which basically meant that the extra layer of polish that we've come to expect from Naughty Dog games was missing in places.
That said. I think a two team studio is basically the preferred set up.
This gif perfectly summarizes how I felt after reading the OP.
ThisWreckage
Banned
Uncharted 3 wasn't hurt by the two team set up at Naughty Dog. Naughty Dog admitted that they never should have set a release date in stone and it's something they'll never do again. From here on out, their games are finishes whenever they're finished.
Hurricane43
Member
In Lam We Trust! 
SniperHunter
Banned
Yea he said that when he was talking about a jak project for ps3 at a event in toronto
Pound_lb003
Member
Doubt it.
Trying to manage enough people for 3 'teams' will probs be pretty challenging.
dragonbane
Member
200 people doesn't seem enough for 3 teams. They need to grow a bit more than that. Also I doubt they make Savage Starlight now, way too obvious. They are just trolling.
Pound_lb003
Member
Agreed.
Linear story stuff in space is no fun. ND need to create a world and fill it with their awesome writing.
I've always thought ND had the writing talent of an old school RPG developer.
electroshockwave
Member
I think UC2 actually had a little longer development time than UC3, and it was the bigger leap from its predecessor. More time wouldn't have really changed the bad direction they took with some of the multiplayer stuff and priority on imitating UC2's set-pieces at the expense of story and gameplay.
I blame Justin Richmond. It's harsh and I know he has an account so he could see this but the guy will remain the one responsible for messing up Uncharted 2's multiplayer and Uncharted 3 to me.
I hope its another Uncharted game
Y'all haters Nathan Drake is a badass
Its not about hating Uncharted, its about giving the game a rest before gamers (and ND for that matter) suffer IP burnout
Should from this point be referred to as A1 and A2 teams.
I'm dissapointed that people don't trust Sony Bend to make something good if they get the next Uncharted. They weren't too different than Ready At Dawn with their work on the PSP. And sure the Vita Uncharted didn't touch the console versions but that was a given really wasn't it.
I still think talent played a big role. You have Neil Druckmann, the co-writer/lead of UC2, as the writer/director for TLoU. Then there's Bruce Straley, game director for UC2 then TLoU. And all the others but these are the ones that stand out. If these guys were on UC3 things probably would have been different, and I'm guessing better based on what they worked on. Perhaps even a release date wouldn't have been anounced.
With a studio of around 200 people it usually would work like this (could be wrong as I don't know their internal set up)
Main team A, bulk of staff of lets say 180 develops on project 1 (in this case TLOU)
Team B of core staff (say 20 ppl )work for a few years on concepts and develop early project 2 prototype
project 1 ships and bulk of team A move onto an already in development project 2 joining with Team B
at this point a core staff from team A ( 20 ppl) split off to develop project 3 while 2 is in full production.
and so on and so forth
In this model project 1= TLOU, project 2 = probably uncharted 4 and project 3= potential space game (at this stage with this model I would assume everything is concept/prototype and anything could happen)
For a studio of around 200, which is not quite big enough to have 2 full scale ''in full production'' aaa games, it allows work to continue and prototypes, so that when a game sips the next one isn't being started from scratch. If the studio is doing trips to space places I would assume this is some concepts for the project after the next one to launch.
This is all just guesswork,based on my past experience and I could be completely wrong though. ahaha
Main team A, bulk of staff of lets say 180 develops on project 1 (in this case TLOU)
Team B of core staff (say 20 ppl )work for a few years on concepts and develop early project 2 prototype
project 1 ships and bulk of team A move onto an already in development project 2 joining with Team B
at this point a core staff from team A ( 20 ppl) split off to develop project 3 while 2 is in full production.
and so on and so forth
In this model project 1= TLOU, project 2 = probably uncharted 4 and project 3= potential space game (at this stage with this model I would assume everything is concept/prototype and anything could happen)
For a studio of around 200, which is not quite big enough to have 2 full scale ''in full production'' aaa games, it allows work to continue and prototypes, so that when a game sips the next one isn't being started from scratch. If the studio is doing trips to space places I would assume this is some concepts for the project after the next one to launch.
This is all just guesswork,based on my past experience and I could be completely wrong though. ahaha
If it comes out in 2014 there wont have been an Uncharted for 3 years
This is just wrong. One team got 3.5 years to make a game and one got less than 2. They are both teams of equal skill. The Uncharted 2 team split evenly bewtween the two.
Amy Hennig taught Neil Druckman was the other half of the Uncharted 2 writing/directing team
That would still make it 5 titles in 8 years.
Time for something new before the series feels forced.
Pound_lb003
Member
That's total conjecture.
I am sure some wisdom was shared, but Druckmann's been there for years. Amy was hired in for Uncharted 1.
De-mon
Member
Amy worked on Jak and Daxter.
They made a new IP in the Last of Us already, I think its unreasonable to suggest they'll have ANOTHER new IP ready to launch next year. Its gonna be Uncharted next year and a New IP in 2015/2016 imo.
Nope. The new IP will be their next game.
Black Mantis
Member
I really hope it is a sci-fi game, then they can go back to Uncharted.
Yeah, but Amy Hennig is hardly B-Team material. She was the only one in that role for the original Uncharted iirc.
IAmRandom31
Banned
I mentally have whatever ND is working on pre-ordered
I would love a .. Last of Us in space type of game. A harsh universe, let us say a man and his daughter ( actual daughter this time ) or family are headed to another planet for whatever reason and they are attacked during warp and are knocked off track ( something along these lines ). They end up in the middle of space, their computers are knocked out, navigation offline, etc.
They have to find a way back home first off, so they have to begin exploring space around them, cooking up their own navigational paths, etc. They encounter danger, they are able to fly to and into the atmosphere and down into the cities of planets ( if life exists ), they can go down onto ancient worlds without any civilization ( think full world Jurassic Park ) to just explore for food or whatever.
I dunno, but something like this from Naughty Dog I could see as phenomenal. They could even make the whole thing into a musical! * insert laugh track *
But TLOU 2 would be awesome too.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Trends? Sorry, I missed all those other sci-fi games indicating this is a current trend in video games. Could you bring me up to speed on this being a trend?
Okay you're right I do need to get my hands on that.
Bought it but I haven't had time to play it yet. 2D games just don't interest me as much.
HigherLevel
Member
Isn't there talks of Sony Bend making Uncharted 4?
Bend seem to be the obvious ones. I imagine Naughty Dog's name will still be slapped on of course but they'll have little involvement in the project. Probably like what MS is doing with Killer Instinct, using Rare to supervise Double Helix.
SweetTeddie
Member
Amy Hennig is team GOD.
No, but you can't really judge based on past generations.
Naughty Dog didn't want to continue Crash Bandicoot because the IP was completely out of their hands.
Jak and Daxter wasn't popular enough to justify continuing the franchise.
disastermouse
Banned
You've kind of brought up a good point. Most action games will follow action movies and there really aren't a lot of action tropes that are unexplored. I mean, action movies are more frequent than even annualized games and they've been around years longer than 3D action games...so....they got to the well way before game developers did.
eddfromtheriver
Banned
TheRealTalker
Banned
More like Jak X Ratchet in Space