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Naughty Dog's next game will offer lots of player freedom - you are not ready for how amazing it looks

Vick

Member
Yeah agree on that. We've gotten treasure-hunting adventures and post-apoc drama, wonder what will be next. Some sci-fi stuff maybe?
I would personally hope for something as detached from society as humanly possible. Be it sci-fi, medieval fantasy or what not, everything is fine as long as it's not artistically compromised by the usual stuff we're all tired of.

I'll say, looking at the Part II making of, one gets a strong impression ND is also tired of controversies, and they genuinely hated seeing their fans turning against them.
I'm always prepared for disappointment, but hoping for the best also costs nothing afterall.
 
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kevboard

Member
if there's a single forced slow walking sequence, I'll not play it. so let's see how true that statement is.
 

Danny Dudekisser

I paid good money for this Dynex!
It's refreshing to see a developer offer bold predictions about their own games. Too often do developers - especially in the AAA space - fail to hype up their games with empty platitudes; and I, for one, am excited to see this complete reversal in PR speak for Naughty Dog.
 
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Fess

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Crash Bandicoot 2
Jak and Daxter
Uncharted 2
Uncharted 4
TLOU
TLOU 2

Those are the receipts...

They've always pushed ahead of what the rest of the industry was doing.
For me it was Jak and Daxter that put ND on the tech map, it was definitely ahead of it’s time, open world, 50/60fps, streaming in the game world data, they were called wizards back then.

Don’t know how the other games you list were ahead, they all iterated on Uncharted 1. And Crash 2, what was special there?
 
I mean if there's one fucking thing you can count on based on their history it's that their games look amazing. That ain't a stretch no matter if you like them or not.

And TLoU2 was fantastic gameplay-wise so despite Cuckmann being a cunt, I'm psyched.
 

Mibu no ookami

Demoted Member® Pro™
For me it was Jak and Daxter that put ND on the tech map, it was definitely ahead of it’s time, open world, 50/60fps, streaming in the game world data, they were called wizards back then.

Don’t know how the other games you list were ahead, they all iterated on Uncharted 1. And Crash 2, what was special there?

Uncharted 2 was a major leap from Uncharted 1.

Crash 2 should have been impossible to do on PS1. Look up the making of Crash 2. That they made it in a year is mind boggling. It was also crazy how they made Crash 1 btw.

They've essentially been the best in the business since Crash 1, although they didn't really separate themselves until I think Jak and Daxter and again with Uncharted 2.
 
Show me the receipts

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Fess

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Uncharted 2 was a major leap from Uncharted 1.

Crash 2 should have been impossible to do on PS1. Look up the making of Crash 2. That they made it in a year is mind boggling. It was also crazy how they made Crash 1 btw.

They've essentially been the best in the business since Crash 1, although they didn't really separate themselves until I think Jak and Daxter and again with Uncharted 2.
What’s the major leap in Uncharted 2?? I see it as a natural evolution of Uncharted 1, which for me is where all the heavy tech advancements were done with the animations etc. Madagascar in UC4 was new, open map, and vehicle and on-foot gameplay mixed is cool, and the indoor clutter at the end is still amazing today, but they had to go back to 30fps after hyping up 60fps so it all came at a cost.
 

Mibu no ookami

Demoted Member® Pro™
What’s the major leap in Uncharted 2?? I see it as a natural evolution of Uncharted 1, which for me is where all the heavy tech advancements were done with the animations etc. Madagascar in UC4 was new, open map, and vehicle and on-foot gameplay mixed is cool, and the indoor clutter at the end is still amazing today, but they had to go back to 30fps after hyping up 60fps so it all came at a cost.

Uncharted was unbelievably janky. Uncharted 2 was one of the most polished games I'd ever seen. And they made it in 2 years.

Uncharted 2 feels an entire generation ahead of Uncharted 1.
 

Fess

Member
Uncharted was unbelievably janky. Uncharted 2 was one of the most polished games I'd ever seen. And they made it in 2 years.

Uncharted 2 feels an entire generation ahead of Uncharted 1.
Uncharted 1 was great, come on. As was 2 but perfectly aligned with what I expected, I don’t see it as a major leap. But as said, Madagascar in 4, that was something else, and wasn’t just iterative work from their past games, they brought in all new game mechanics there and did it well enough that I would’ve like them to make an off-road racer.
 

Vick

Member
Uncharted was unbelievably janky.
Drake's Fortune was most definitely not janky in the slightest. It simply felt this way after Among Thieves.

Also, texture resolution and general texture direction in DF is a generation above Uncharted 2.

Uncharted 3, that's a game that is visually/technically a literal generation above both DF an AT. Just look at this goddamn, black magic shit.

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Mibu no ookami

Demoted Member® Pro™
Drake's Fortune was most definitely not janky in the slightest. It simply felt this way after Among Thieves.

I played a demo of DF then I played AT at launch and went back to play DF... it was indeed janky in comparison. The game felt broken and I had to push my way through.
 
One of the things I loved more in Days Gone over TLoU 2 is the open world and ways to explore it. The latter felt so restricting to play through.
 
I’m honestly hoping it won’t be open world, but you just know it will be. Should be good, but we probably won’t be playing this until 2028 at the earliest to 2030 imo.
 

Vick

Member
R* is it for open worlds.
We'll see what's going to happen if this game is truly open world.

Everything's possible but I would personally expect Rockstar to completely shit on Naughty Dog in the open world field, just as they shit on everyone else.
 

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We'll see what's going to happen if this game is truly open world.

Everything's possible but I would personally expect Rockstar to completely shit on Naughty Dog in the open world field, just as they shit on everyone else.
Well yes, thats what I said lol. Im saying R* is the standard for open world games
 

Mibu no ookami

Demoted Member® Pro™
Not just Sony's. They are the flagship studio for the industry. If you wanna see what games can do you look to them.

R* is it for open worlds.

its just them 2 sitting at the top. Head and shoulders above the rest.

ND is more impressive because they have a quarter the budget and size for their games

I don't know. I'd throw CDPR in there as well.

Bungie is also pretty close.

Infinity Ward isn't too far behind.
 

ProtoByte

Weeb Underling
I have every confidence the gameplay, design and technology will be aces.

They just need to get the Westworld writer far away from the script and worldbuilding.
 
Fans are getting impatient, it's been fucking forever since they've released a game. Remade stuff doesn't count. At least show a teaser trailer or something.
 

ClosBSAS

Member
lol thats what they said about spiderman 2 and shit looked like a ps4 game. maybe i can believe naughty dawg, but man do they like to inflate ps games
 

RCU005

Member
Lots of player freedom:
You can pay via Mastercard, Visa, Amex, PayPal, Bitcoin, and more! Your are free to choose how you want to "pay" all the micro-transactions and season passes"
 
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