Naughty Dog: "We want to change the f***ing industry" with The Last of Us (with a focus on storytelling)

[Metrium]

Shinobi-san said:

Metrium said:

Me personaly, im starting to find them arrogant. After reading this arcticle, they sound like the entire industry is failing and that they are about to save gamers from bad games. Thats how I felt after reading it.

They are alot of rly good games out there with great story. Also, not everyone wants theyr games to become movie wannabes. Because honnestly, the Uncharted franchise didnt excell at anything except for what actualy makes a good movie. Yes it had great actors, non stop action in cinematics a la Michael Bay, UC2 had a great story. But in my opinion, great actors, nice visuals and great story are all what makes a great movie not a great game (they can certainly be a plus). Uncharted had terrible gameplay for a shooter, uninspired puzzles, bad AI and UC3 had a extremely linear campaign of 8hours. Take away about 1hour for cinematic and you have 7hours of solo content wich for a AAA game so (underservly) praised is pathetic.

I wish Naughty Dog would stop focusing on being B movie wannabes, stop doing interactive movie, and start making VIDEO GAMES again like back in the day with ratchet&clank and Crash Bandicoot.

Also, i know alot of ppl will disagree with me, and idc. I just want you all to know that I did enjoy the uncharted franchise, its just the attitude of Naughty Dog that rly gets on my nerve. How they think so highly of themselves and how they think they do games of better quality because they try to copy movies and how the entire industry should be inspired by them. And worst is those who say that ND are the best game developpers in the world... Everytime I hear that, i cant help but thinking its sarcasm lol.

Will Last of US be a good game? probably... Will it deserve all the hype its getting? I slightly doubt it but only time will tell... Will it ''Change the fucking industry''? I HIGHLY doubt it, except maybe for those who can get easely brain washed by Michael Bayesque cinematics.

I think you misunderstood what they saying...they simply said they want to raise the bar on storytelling in games. And apart from  a few good triple AAA games, story telling is pretty weak in general, even for games that tries to have a significant story component. 

Im pretty sure that arent expecting ALL games to suddenly incorporate an amazing story or some unique way of portraying that story, but only games that focus on it.

Also many people would disagree with you about your views on uncharted and how it doesnt excel at "anything except for what actualy makes a good movie", people like me :)

I also find naughty dog to be one of the more humble developers...and certianly not arrogant just based off how they have dealt with different situations (like the aim issue with U3), interviews and developer videos etc.

Oh and naughty dog didnt make ratchet and clank games think you were refering to jak and daxter

Your right, it was jak and daxter, I need to edit my original post :P thx

 

And when I said that it wasnt excelling at anything, I meant that Uncharted didnt do anything that was better than every other games when it comes to gameplay. For a game that has so many ppl saying that its the best game ever, you would expect it to have something in the gameplay that is either unique or done better than any other games. But instead, everytime I hear arguments on why Uncharted is such a great game, all I always hear is ''great story, awsome graphics, great actors'' and they all seem to give UC3 a pass for its rediculously short campaign, the aiming that is average at best and the fact that not only UC3 in my opinion didnt add anything new when compared to UC2 (except for the multiplayer improvments) it failed to fix alot of problems present since UC1 like the climbing when you jump where your not suposed to for some stupid reason and that you die not because you fell from somewhere rly high but because your character landed somewhere where you were not supposed to go. I remember in UC2, when I was on a roof and I wasnt sure where i was supposed to go, I saw a other roof and i thought to myself ''I can make that jump'', so I succesfully jumped from 1 roof to the other, but I died because that wasnt where I was supposed to go despite the fact that ive seen Drake do jumps way more impressive than this one lol. Those are the kind of problems I had in UC1 and still had in UC3... Also, did Naughty Dog make any changes to the enemies AI between UC1 and UC3, cause I dont think ive ever seen a big difference.

 

But trust me, I LOVED UC2, but I guess because of that, UC3 gave me a bitter taste in my mouth when it comes to this franchise. Yes Naughty Dog made 3 rly good games, but I believe that most gamers instead of praising the game like its the holy grail of gaming (have you seen IGN's greg miller's review... gosh) gamers should talk more about these issues because those are the issues that in my opinion will always prevent a good franchise from being great. Lets all stop letting ourselves getting brainwashed by what this franchise has that makes great movies like actors and cinematics with non-stop action (super mario galaxy had non of that and in my opinion is 1 of the few true masterpiece of this generation) and lets focus on gameplay.

 

And now, the fact that Naughty Dog is talking about how theyr focus for Last of Us is cinematics and storytelling, I fear that history will repeat itself and that despite all of this the game will still be praised for the wrong reasons exactly like Uncharted.