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J_Allard on 31 March 2013
Talal said:
J_Allard said:
KylieDog said:
Again with the last line especially you're just being narrow minded.  Lots of games have cover mechanics, stealth, climbing, gunplay etc.  Uncharted didn't create these but Uncharted had its own style that no other game had, the previous Tomb Raider games had their own style too.  The new TR has ditched the series own style and just copied the style which Uncharted created.

No one is saying Uncharted invented those mechanics except YOU and a few other denying the copying, all you're achieving is proving you're incapable of seperating a checklist of features from style and mechanics.

lol, copied the "style" that Uncharted "created". Please. And with the bolded... you're just making my case for me. I already posted a video showing Tomb Raider modernized in a remake that came out before Uncharted 1 was even released. Yet somehow it's still copying Uncharted style LOL. It's precious. The praise the game has gotten and lack of talk in the media about your supposed copycat theory really seems to bother some people here lol.

I've already posted a developer interview where they go into good detail about the differences, and a video that shows the game modernizing its mechanics before Uncharted even came out. Not going to bother trying to educate the unwilling anymore ;)


Dude did you even play Uncharted? The new TR was definitely inspired by Uncharted how can you not see that?

I have all the PS3 Uncharted games. There is a difference between a game being an inspiration and a game being a clone. Was Uncharted an inspiration? Sure. Just like the Tomb Raider franchise was an inspiration for Uncharted.

But there is just as much Resident Evil 4, Batman, among other games in there as there is Uncharted :)



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S.T.A.G.E. on 31 March 2013
o_O.Q said:
Nsanity said:

NowGamer

Uncharted has become the series it is today thanks to Sony feeling pressure from the success of Xbox with its 'gritty shooters', an ex-Naughty Dog developer has revealed.

Talking exclusively to Play, Don Poole, former Environment Modeller at Naughty Dog, explains how Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was originally a 'fantasy' game until orders came from Sony to make it more 'realistic'.

"We were talking about a more 'realistic' game in terms of how it was modelled and rendered but the concepts were much more far out. One was a forest world where the antagonists lived underground," explained Poole.

"It had elements of Tolkien in for sure. Sony kept pushing for a more realistic game in all respects. The market had changed a lot by then. The demographic was older and gritty shooters were really dominating. Sony wanted very much to get into that market share, it pushed all of its developers in this direction."

"So the big push from Sony, not just at Naughty Dog but at all of Sony's development companies at the time, was to craft games for PlayStation 3 that were much more realistic. The pressure from Xbox's success with gritty shooters was a very real force on our direction at that time."

We had a lot of internal grumbling about the realist bent. More of the old dogs were from the Crash and Jak era and preferred that more whimsical style. But alas, that was a losing battle."

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1063301/naughty_dog_gritty_xbox_shooters_shaped_uncharted.html

 

which is odd... since i really can't think of any xbox exclusive that plays like uncharted

 

you could argue that the cover mechanics are similar to gears... but gears derived its cover mechanics from killswitch anyway


I've heard a rumor that Microsoft might be making a game inspired by Uncharted. 



Nsanity on 31 March 2013
S.T.A.G.E. said:
o_O.Q said:
Nsanity said:

NowGamer

Uncharted has become the series it is today thanks to Sony feeling pressure from the success of Xbox with its 'gritty shooters', an ex-Naughty Dog developer has revealed.

Talking exclusively to Play, Don Poole, former Environment Modeller at Naughty Dog, explains how Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was originally a 'fantasy' game until orders came from Sony to make it more 'realistic'.

"We were talking about a more 'realistic' game in terms of how it was modelled and rendered but the concepts were much more far out. One was a forest world where the antagonists lived underground," explained Poole.

"It had elements of Tolkien in for sure. Sony kept pushing for a more realistic game in all respects. The market had changed a lot by then. The demographic was older and gritty shooters were really dominating. Sony wanted very much to get into that market share, it pushed all of its developers in this direction."

"So the big push from Sony, not just at Naughty Dog but at all of Sony's development companies at the time, was to craft games for PlayStation 3 that were much more realistic. The pressure from Xbox's success with gritty shooters was a very real force on our direction at that time."

We had a lot of internal grumbling about the realist bent. More of the old dogs were from the Crash and Jak era and preferred that more whimsical style. But alas, that was a losing battle."

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1063301/naughty_dog_gritty_xbox_shooters_shaped_uncharted.html

 

which is odd... since i really can't think of any xbox exclusive that plays like uncharted

 

you could argue that the cover mechanics are similar to gears... but gears derived its cover mechanics from killswitch anyway


I've heard a rumor that Microsoft might be making a game inspired by Uncharted. 

You have a source for that?



J_Allard on 31 March 2013

MS already has Gears.



S.T.A.G.E. on 31 March 2013
Nsanity said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
o_O.Q said:
Nsanity said:

NowGamer

Uncharted has become the series it is today thanks to Sony feeling pressure from the success of Xbox with its 'gritty shooters', an ex-Naughty Dog developer has revealed.

Talking exclusively to Play, Don Poole, former Environment Modeller at Naughty Dog, explains how Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was originally a 'fantasy' game until orders came from Sony to make it more 'realistic'.

"We were talking about a more 'realistic' game in terms of how it was modelled and rendered but the concepts were much more far out. One was a forest world where the antagonists lived underground," explained Poole.

"It had elements of Tolkien in for sure. Sony kept pushing for a more realistic game in all respects. The market had changed a lot by then. The demographic was older and gritty shooters were really dominating. Sony wanted very much to get into that market share, it pushed all of its developers in this direction."

"So the big push from Sony, not just at Naughty Dog but at all of Sony's development companies at the time, was to craft games for PlayStation 3 that were much more realistic. The pressure from Xbox's success with gritty shooters was a very real force on our direction at that time."

We had a lot of internal grumbling about the realist bent. More of the old dogs were from the Crash and Jak era and preferred that more whimsical style. But alas, that was a losing battle."

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1063301/naughty_dog_gritty_xbox_shooters_shaped_uncharted.html

 

which is odd... since i really can't think of any xbox exclusive that plays like uncharted

 

you could argue that the cover mechanics are similar to gears... but gears derived its cover mechanics from killswitch anyway


I've heard a rumor that Microsoft might be making a game inspired by Uncharted. 

You have a source for that?


Yeah, it was a rumor I read in some book or on the internet after Uncharted blew up and part three was on its way. Just thought I would say it for sake of conversation, hence why I said rumor.



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J_Allard on 31 March 2013

Maybe he's referring to this game, "Adenturer" or something like that:



This, kiddos, is an actual Uncharted clone.



S.T.A.G.E. on 31 March 2013
J_Allard said:

Maybe he's referring to this game, "Adenturer" or something like that:



This, kiddos, is an actual Uncharted clone.

...and Starwars 1313. Tomb Raider is more Uncharted than Tomb Raider. 



J_Allard on 31 March 2013

If you go into it wanting to make it out that way, sure. Some of us are a bit more open minded though.



S.T.A.G.E. on 01 April 2013

IGN Posting Old Lara vs New lara turning into a reluctant mass murderer. LMAO!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEN5obhFRj4