I like how people are puffing around ND's "credentials" and neglecting to mention the fact that most of the people who were involved in those games have long since left. Like most AAA game studios, people come and go often. ND is one of those houses with a high turnover rate too.
I would disagree personally. That game in particular made me feel more connected to the environments than any other third person game I can recall at the moment.
Overwhelmingly preferring open-world by negative 0.5%
- Black Myth: Wukong — 20.1 million copies;
- Palworld — 20 million copies;
Seriously though - I would like to see more actual interactivity in a NDD game. TLOU2 is where the animation fidelity got good enough that it paints a jarring contrast to how lifeless and static game worlds actually are (and that applies to the two games above too). We've been stuck in the interactivity of the 00s (which was also a regression from 90ies) for over 2 decades now - in anything with an actual $$$ budget.
And it gets even worse if we look at multi-player stuff.
What is this. The new Ghost game might be the best looking game announced this year. You okay?
<gif>Show me the money!!!</gif>
I'm pretty sure Naughty Dog has two development teams. After 2017s Uncharted Lost Legacy one of the 2 teams started development of their next IP. It's been in development for several years. A reveal could be within this next year
Last I heard the new IP was sci fi, that was the rumors a couple of years ago at least.
To those interested, there's a lengthy series of blog posts from Andy Gavin about the creation of Crash 1:
all-things-andy-gavin.com
Atlus would like to have a word.
What a shitty ass PS4 game
How you like themapplesmountains.
hehe, the username represents my approach to my backlog rather than time between game releases.
These just support what I said - outside of water waves, the environments are 100% static and non-interactive.
What sucks is you know alot of it will be good but it will be held back by a ton of eyerolling moments.
I don't care in both cases.
It's not unpopular. Many singleplayer games became more than double in length in the ps4 generation. Look at God of war 2018 vs GOW 3. Or even Naughty Dog's own Uncharted 4 vs Uncharted 3 or 2.
there was a fairly recent last of us 2 documentary, it looked like some top developers are still there . they are older now though and tired it looks like and they themselves say they arent working as fast as they used to
There's a reason why many studios have a sterling track record for 20 plus years. High turnover typically happens in the less important positions. As long as creative leadership is stable, you can swap out the other parts without h a drop in quality.
That's the "tip" of the studio. Most if not all people who worked on Crash? Mostly gone. Those who worked on Jak? Mostly gone. Uncharted? Same deal. AAA developers come and go. Very few stay behind. Druckmann and his inner circle have gotten himself a new batch of warm bodies on their current project until those burn out.
Ouch. Not a fan I assume.
