Uncharted 2 Live Chat Summary
We've summarised the Live Chat with Naughty Dog so you don't have to.Published 30/06/2009 at 23:25 by djhsecondnature
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This evening, Naughty Dog Creative Director Amy Hennig and Co-President Evan Wells kindly participated in a Live Chat on the US PlayStation Blog, and like the kind folk that we are, we’ve cherry picked and summarised it for you. Many questions were asked and great responses were provided by the two Naughty Dogs, but we’re just going to cover the main ones – feel free to check out the entire Live Chat via the source link.
Lets not beat around the bush any more and get straight to it; the length of the game will definitely be longer than the first Uncharted, including over 90 minutes of cinematics alone – sounds like Metal Gear has some competition. Whilst the release date is still currently pinned for “Fall”, an official date will be announced very soon – which is great news as I can then book my holiday around it. When questioned about the inclusion of split-screen Evan replied, “We are only supporting online multiplayer. We didn’t want to compromise the visuals going from single player to multiplayer and to include a split screen option at this time would have meant making that sacrifice.”
For all of those of you that missed out on the multiplayer beta are in luck as there will be another multiplayer demo before the game hits the shelves, yet a date for such hasn’t been finalised. Several unannounced multiplayer modes will be present in the competitive mode and at least two more cooperative modes when the game ships; with a Cinema mode allowing you to play back any of your matches and view it from any angle. You’ll also be able to upload those recordings so others can download them and view them on their PS3’s, as well as upload screenshots from that mode as well.
We all know that if Carlsberg made snow, it would probably be the best snow in the world. However, Naughty Dog told us that the snow in Uncharted 2 would be the best snow we’d ever seen, but how on earth will they do it? Evan begins by saying, “Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, deferred rendering, cloud computing, parallax mapping, high dynamic range tonemapping, per object motion blur, cascade shadows, sub surface scattering simulation…” before continuing to explain more effectively, “We’re using a variety of rendering techniques to give our snow and ice a realistic look. Drake and the enemies will leave footprints in the snow with 3D clumps that build up around their feet, and it even has gameplay implications when the weather really whips up and visibility becomes an issue.”
When queried on the incredible quality of the games graphics, one user asked whether Naughty Dog share their tech with other PS3 developers, to which Evan responded, “We’re very fortunate to have a great group of first party developers within Sony that we’re able to collaborate with. We’re frequently exchanging technical ideas and even share some code from time to time. We’ve even posted the entire source code of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune to Sony’s internal servers so that any first party developer can look through it, or borrow from it… and we plan on doing the same thing when Uncharted 2 ships. We also have a group of programmers here at Naughty Dog called the ICE team. They’ve been busy writing highly optimized code for the PS3 for the last 5+ years, and that code has been shared externally with the PS3 dev community in the form of the EDGE libraries. So, in short, yes we share our tech.”
Source: US PS Blog
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Pookinator | 01/07/2009 10:26
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I like the idea of the cinema mode. You can then show off to your friends the matches that you did really well in.
deepmenace | 01/07/2009 13:50
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indeed!
how many times in a shooter have you thought “NOW THAT, WOULD HAVE LOOKED FKCING COOL!!!”
now it sounds like we’re going to be able to cut together a film showing a 10 kill flawless rampage??? pure awesome.
BadBoyBoogie | 01/07/2009 11:00
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I am so looking forward to this!! I really loved the first game, and this is shaping up to be even better!!
Hope the official release date is announced soon, then I can start counting down the days!!
Rob92 | 01/07/2009 12:03
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The first game was absoloutely amazing. My favourite game ever I would say.
If Naughty Dog can deliver a single player game that was as good as the first AND a multiplayer mode thats fun, I’m calling my new favourite game
Its wrong to be so excited for a game!
shields_t | 01/07/2009 12:36
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The best snow ever?
That depends on whether Uncharted 2 can offer me a fortnight off work as a consequence of it’s snow. Not sure it can, sadly.
Ducer15 | 01/07/2009 12:49
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This is gonna be good.
PS3 game of the year? I think so.
cc_star | 01/07/2009 13:10
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Even better than Terminator?
Michael | 01/07/2009 13:01
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My goodnes, not “gameplay implications” – whatever will they think of next?
X_Yoshy_X | 05/07/2009 21:52
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woo your a VIP and you’v got a blue bar
i want one
Argon123 | 06/07/2009 16:00
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yea. why are VI?
cc_star | 01/07/2009 13:19
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“Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, deferred rendering, cloud computing, parallax mapping, high dynamic range tonemapping, per object motion blur, cascade shadows, sub surface scattering simulation…”?
bah! bring back parallax scrolling, as immortalised by Shadow Of the Beast.
deepmenace | 01/07/2009 14:01
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awesome Amiga soundtracks ftw.
suck it Atari ST boys.
Gastos84 | 01/07/2009 14:35
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This is my most anticipated game of the Year. Unless GoW3 is out this year in which case it’s my second most anticipated game of the year!!
Anyway…I can not wait. The graphics in the first were amazing, standing at the end of the U-Boat looking over the jungle was amazing. Haven’t seen the snow in any of the released vids yet so I am very intrigued. I feel a Kill Bill-esque serene scene coming (you know the bit where the Bride takes on Oren)!
DarkMac | 01/07/2009 18:02
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man i can’t wait for this game to come but also they need to make a new jak and dexter on the PS3 for all us fans of the game need the duo back but on PS3
chilimacncheese | 01/07/2009 20:23
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I can’t wait for Uncharted X : Racing…
Lorcan | 02/07/2009 01:22
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How fantastic!
Anything Uncharted gets me excited!
colmshan1990 | 06/07/2009 16:03
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Because he set up the site with nofi but then quit to go to a different site.