There’s no doubt a lot of hype for Uncharted 4 to see the continuation of Nathan Drake’s adventurous life.  Last year one of the key people behind Uncharted, Amy Hennig, left Naughty Dog. She was one of the main writers and directors behind Uncharted, with her work contributing heavily for the series’ success. A few months later she joined Visceral Games where she is currently heading up the yet unrevealed Star Wars title.
Now Nolan North has spoken at MetroCon, the same convention where he let slip the existence of Last Of Us 2, this time to state that a lot of Amy Hennig’s work was discarded for Uncharted 4. Eight months work in fact.
We had shot 8 months of her story and it was all thrown away. The Last of Us guys came in, and you have to understand, new producers, new people, they want to do it. I don’t know what happened exactly. Amy is still a very dear friend of mine and she’s brilliant but the Last of Us guys were the next team there so they took over and they just wanted their own flavour.
From what we’ve seen of Uncharted 4 it does look like they’ve kept the tone almost on point as Amy’s work, and I’d be surprised if the new team didn’t take cues from her work for Uncharted 4.
Source: NeoGAF
beeje13
8 months of mo cap and voiceovers… Surely the actors didn’t work every day during that time?
Still sounds like a huge setback.
colmshan1990
Hennig was director of the first game and co-director of the other two, as well as a writer on all three.
But Bruce Straley was lead director of the best one, Uncharted 2 before leaving Uncharted to do The Last of Us, along with the co-writer of the first two games, Neil Druckmann.
As far as I can see, those two are Naughty Dog’s best.
Hennig will be missed, but these two aren’t just The Last of Us team. They’re the Uncharted 2 team as well. And with pedigree like that, I can’t help but become even more excited.
JustTaylorNow
Guess it’s to make sure she isn’t credited on the game so they had to scrap her work & take her off the payroll
SamBeThyName
Good. I don’t want games made by committy, ND are in the same league as R* for seeing a vision through