By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Sony - An apology to Naughty Dog and Uncharted fans

GribbleGrunger said:
Farsala said:


Tinfoil hat here. Has this big of fail happened to any other dev except Sony?

What has that got to do with anything I just said? People all over the internet are asking how it's possible for this mistake to happen but they're not looking at the obvious. I see the obvious. If it isn't by design then it's a mistake of a magnitude I've never witnessed before.


I am just wondering, but it seems you already answered with bold.



Around the Network

There are two ironies here of course:

1. Uncharted is a formulaic game series, it just happens to be a formula millions of people enjoy.

2. Other games that have far more iterations, and annual releases that are arguably a lot more formulaic (CoD, Fifa, Madden) than Uncharted don't seem to have suffered from the same level of journalistic ire as was expressed in this article.

As punishment, and an object lesson to video game journalists, the article should go back up on their website with the statement "BUT YOU PLAYED UNCHARTED 2" written in large red font wherever the article mentions Uncharted 4 or the references Uncharted the franchise. They would also get a lot of site traffic from people going to read the article and having a smug, self-satisfied laugh at the writer's expense.

Naughty Dog should also be allowed to write a concluding paragraph. I would personally write: "We at Naughty Dog are so incredibly proud of the work that was done on the Uncharted 2 remaster that it was able to to be mistaken for an 8th generation game built from scratch. But if you think this remaster looks 8th gen, just wait until you see Uncharted 4. You'll be able to tell the difference then, we assure you."



“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Jimi Hendrix

 

can he be ban for that or he got immunity



binary solo said:
There are two ironies here of course:

1. Uncharted is a formulaic game series, it just happens to be a formula millions of people enjoy.

2. Other games that have far more iterations, and annual releases that are arguably a lot more formulaic (CoD, Fifa, Madden) than Uncharted don't seem to have suffered from the same level of journalistic ire as was expressed in this article.

As punishment, and an object lesson to video game journalists, the article should go back up on their website with the statement "BUT YOU PLAYED UNCHARTED 2" written in large red font wherever the article mentions Uncharted 4 or the references Uncharted the franchise. They would also get a lot of site traffic from people going to read the article and having a smug, self-satisfied laugh at the writer's expense.

Naughty Dog should also be allowed to write a concluding paragraph. I would personally write: "We at Naughty Dog are so incredibly proud of the work that was done on the Uncharted 2 remaster that it was able to to be mistaken for an 8th generation game built from scratch. But if you think this remaster looks 8th gen, just wait until you see Uncharted 4. You'll be able to tell the difference then, we assure you."


Every series uses a formula,which is another example of bad journalism and Bluepoint games did the port,so they should get the credit for it being mistaken for a current generation game.



Gameing journalism in a nutshell



Around the Network
Farsala said:
GribbleGrunger said:
Farsala said:

Tinfoil hat here. Has this big of fail happened to any other dev except Sony?

What has that got to do with anything I just said? People all over the internet are asking how it's possible for this mistake to happen but they're not looking at the obvious. I see the obvious. If it isn't by design then it's a mistake of a magnitude I've never witnessed before.


I am just wondering, but it seems you already answered with bold.

You guys think they got paid to bad mouth Uncharted 4? but somehow ended up mistakeing the 2nd game for the 4th?

Because it sounds like thats what your saying.



This is a massive mistake it's amateur, it's embarrassing and it's insulting. These guys/girls are meant to be professionals at their job. They are supposed to play games for a living and review them, bring people trusted info. How the hell you can make this mistake in beyond me, I'm 100% of the forum users on this site who have played uncharted wouldn't have made that mistake and we arnt even professionals. Clearly it's shown a massive hole in which clearly they hire anybody to do professional and fun jobs like this when there's better people on this forum and all around the world.



PSN ID: Stokesy 

Add me if you want but let me know youre from this website

kitler53 said:

https://www.vg247.com/2015/10/14/letter-from-the-editor-an-apology-to-naughty-dog-and-uncharted-fans/

 

 

We’d like to apologise to Naughty Dog for a massive mistake we published last month.
 

On September 30 we published an article titled “Is Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End too formulaic?” based on what we thought was a hands-on session with Uncharted 4 at the Tokyo Game Show.

We didn’t realise it at the time; what we’d played wasn’t Uncharted 4, but the remastered Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, from the recently released Uncharted Collection. We were not aware of this until after the article went live.

As soon as Sony notified us of our mistake we immediately unpublished the article as it was clearly based on one massive error on our part. TGS is busy and obviously the majority of signage isn’t in English, but none of that excuses the fact that we seriously fucked up.

It’s cute to say it’s testament to the skill and beautiful artwork of the Naughty Dog team that we mistook a remastered PS3 game for Uncharted 4. But none of that changes the fact that we have massively misrepresented a game to our readers, fans of the Uncharted series and the industry who read VG247.

The buck stops with the editor of the site, so I’m the one apologising. I should have done it sooner. I am genuinely sorry for this mistake, the misrepresentation of the game and the upset this has caused the development team.

Matt Martin

Editor, VG247

---------

wow..

 

 

edit:  I found a markup of the original story here.

 

Is Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End too formulaic?

Uncharted 4 is the first PS4 entry in a series that has traditionally pushed boundaries. Why does it feel so familiar?

I played Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End at Tokyo Game Show this year and it was a tremendous relief to get back to third-person shoot-and-quip after running the gauntlet of Bloodborne: The Old Hunters and Dark Souls 3.

Even playing in Japanese (the voice acting isn’t as good as Nolan North’s) it all felt very familiar. There’s a moment in the demo where you reach the end of a street blocked by a burning vehicle, and Drake mumbles something about not getting through that way. No guidance is offered on where you’re supposed to go next, but the Uncharted veteran in me immediately shimmied a sign post and leapt through a hole in a nearby wall.

In one encounter, knocking out a few enemies with stealth gave me a chance to scout the arena, finding cover, choke points and groups of baddies and allowing for a strategic approach or quick tactical response. This is what I most enjoyed during the entire demo, and although I must admit it’s been a while since I played an Uncharted game, to me it felt like this aspect of combat was more prominent than in past titles. It felt like Naughty Dog tooksome lessons from The Last of Us, which was certainly much less of a shooting gallery than some sequences in the Uncharted series.

And yes, the full game will have Nolan North and a story, too, and judging by Naughty Dog’s track history they’ll probably be excellent. All that will help distract you from the fact that you’re playing yet another third-person action adventure and maybe you’re a bit fatigued by them. I am. The spectacle left me unmoved, and despite my confidence that the complete package will overcome that fatigue, I must confess to a little disappointment in the first PS4 Uncharted for not blowing me away when it had the chance.

It blew Pat away, so perhaps I just don’t have the eye to see what makes Uncharted 4 so tremendous graphics-wise. Maybe I’ve been spoiled by playing so many terrific games already this generation. Maybe it’sjust that I’ve forgotten what PlayStation 3 games looked like, so the jump to PS4 no longer impresses me.

But graphics don’t make the game, and even if Uncharted 4 is the most beautiful thing ever to have happened in the history of video games, it’s not – it’s not new. This is a complaint that has been levelled a lot this generation, I think, that games are just shinier rather than more interesting, and Uncharted may be in for the same critique. Where the first Uncharted games felt like they were blowing the bar sky high, this one just felt like more of the same.

This morning when I threw open the door to greet the dawn I found a courier had wedged the edge of a packet into the hinges yesterday; it was my copy of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection. “Do I really want to do all this again,” I wondered, “Even if it is incredibly beautiful?”

 

edit 2:  i found a pic someone posted from TGS 2015.  I guess i can see now how the mistake was made with the banner being in japanese and all...

LOL, everyone make mistakes, and he'd apologize so i say JUST FORGIVE HIM!

Or else Shia Lebeaouf will hunt you down and eat you up!



hahahaha what a damn joke... gtfo!

pathetic "journalism"



JRPGfan said:

You guys think they got paid to bad mouth Uncharted 4? but somehow ended up mistakeing the 2nd game for the 4th?

Because it sounds like thats what your saying.

What? No, I said they did it to cause damage. I know it's difficult to believe but there are people in the industry who aren't saints and don't need an incentive to play silly buggers. Hits are hits and we all know how much sites like hits. I just cannot believe an 'Uncharted veteran' wouldn't realise they were playing a game they'd played before. Unless of course the person who wrote the article was also lying about being a veteran. 



 

The PS5 Exists.