Uncharted : Drake's Fortune*

[Kittonwy]

Yes, his movements and aggressions are nothing like real people. He's very at ease grabbing a gun, shooting and killing people, free-climbing around sheer drops and recklessly leaping from ledge to ledge! He has nice humanisms, but he's far from an ordinary Joe. That would make for interesting games. How about a difficulty level in a game that changes the fitness and skill level of the player character? At 'easy' you have fit athlete or butch space marine; at 'medium' someone in okay shape but with a noticeable bulge in the tummy and with far less than perfect aim; and in 'hard' you've a balding, tubby guy who's afraid of everything, whimpers and ducks a lot of his own, shoots wildly and quickly gets out of breath. ND's water rendering technology would be great for realistic sweat patches under the arms and on the chest!

Interesting perhaps but definitely not a fun game at all.

The worst thing to do is give the player unresponsive controls for the sake of "realism", at the end of the day this is still a GAME, and responsive controls is way more important than convincing your audience that your character is an everyman, that's why despite Drake having all those animations blended together the character has to remain very responsive.

If you somehow make the character control like a fat out of shape guy who can't shoot for beans, it would frustrate the player, it's the same problem as being shot in the Getaway and losing mobility, and having to limp around slowly, it makes no gameplay sense.

 

[deepbrown]

Interesting perhaps but definitely not a fun game at all.

The worst thing to do is give the player unresponsive controls for the sake of "realism", at the end of the day this is still a GAME, and responsive controls is way more important than convincing your audience that your character is an everyman, that's why despite Drake having all those animations blended together the character has to remain very responsive.

If you somehow make the character control like a fat out of shape guy who can't shoot for beans, it would frustrate the player, it's the same problem as being shot in the Getaway and losing mobility, and having to limp around slowly, it makes no gameplay sense.

Agree. And Indy isn't fat...I mean really Nathan is just that typical movie treasure hunter.

I think we can all say that the most unrealistic one of them all is Lara Croft. She wouldn't be able to stand up, let alone back flip lol

 

[Daozang]

Interesting perhaps but definitely not a fun game at all.

The worst thing to do is give the player unresponsive controls for the sake of "realism", at the end of the day this is still a GAME, and responsive controls is way more important than convincing your audience that your character is an everyman, that's why despite Drake having all those animations blended together the character has to remain very responsive.

If you somehow make the character control like a fat out of shape guy who can't shoot for beans, it would frustrate the player, it's the same problem as being shot in the Getaway and losing mobility, and having to limp around slowly, it makes no gameplay sense.

I agree, but I think Shiftys post was humorus and not to be taken seriously.
If not...

 

[Arwin]

Shifty's post reminds me of San Andreas, which had that implemented brilliantly, I loved that ...

 

[MJP]

You're not getting the Simpsons game then?

Touche!

 

[patsu]

Dum dum dum dum !

Gamer TV Specials. These videos are great because not only do they show the gameplay, they also talk about behind the scene stuff (e.g., show the AI's line of sight on-screen ;-) ).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BetFuPWknLI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtjBxDlpCoA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QzLChD90Ks

 

[DJ12]

It tickled me when she said you can unlock a "next-gen" filter that applies overdone/unrealistic bloom.

 

[deepbrown]

It tickled me when she said you can unlock a "next-gen" filter that applies overdone/unrealistic bloom.

And an unlockable bald space marine to play as

Anyway, please don't watch those vids! SPOILERS!!!!!!

 

[Nesh]

So whens the demo? Tomorrow? 7th or 8th of November?

 

[Gradthrawn]

So whens the demo? Tomorrow? 7th or 8th of November?

I'm going to guess on Thursday, the 8th, as with normal updates. I doubt they'd push it up a day, even if expectations are high for the title.

....Not that I would mind if they did.

 

[tha_con]

I think the 'every man' has been taken somewhat out of context. I think ND meant that he is more 'down to earth' in a sense that he's not a secret agent, he's not a space marine, a trained killer, or anything else.

Basically, he's a person. I don't think they meant 'every man' in the sense that Drake is some sort of used car salesman who got a fly up his butt and decided to go treasure hunting.

 

[deepbrown]

I think the 'every man' has been taken somewhat out of context. I think ND meant that he is more 'down to earth' in a sense that he's not a secret agent, he's not a space marine, a trained killer, or anything else.

Basically, he's a person. I don't think they meant 'every man' in the sense that Drake is some sort of used car salesman who got a fly up his butt and decided to go treasure hunting.

Well it will influence his moves. They say he won't do everything perfectly, he'll stumble etc

 

[tha_con]

Well it will influence his moves. They say he won't do everything perfectly, he'll stumble etc

Well, yea, that's just part of the whole humanity aspect, it's how people move in the real world.

I just see a lot of people who are like 'for an every man, he sure can run across walls pretty well' and I don't exactly think that's what ND was trying to get across with that phrase.

To me, he's more like Indiana Jones, who wasn't a secret agent or anything, just an adventurous professor.

I think it's meant more to reflect his character and what not more so than his physical ability and what not.

 

[deepbrown]

Well, yea, that's just part of the whole humanity aspect, it's how people move in the real world.

I just see a lot of people who are like 'for an every man, he sure can run across walls pretty well' and I don't exactly think that's what ND was trying to get across with that phrase.

To me, he's more like Indiana Jones, who wasn't a secret agent or anything, just an adventurous professor.

I think it's meant more to reflect his character and what not more so than his physical ability and what not.

It's both. But not at the same time.

 

[XeRo]

Someone from GAF said Edge did a preview on the game and the overall preview was negative.

 

[Arwin]

It doesn't sound like something that Edge would approve much of ... not enough originality. But we'll see.

 

[Ben-Nice]

Someone from GAF said Edge did a preview on the game and the overall preview was negative.

It's one persons opinion. They also think Conan was as good as God of War 2

 

[deepbrown]

It doesn't sound like something that Edge would approve much of ... not enough originality. But we'll see.

The preview got a lot of things wrong, wasn't spot on at all. Also sounded old.

 

[AlphaWolf]

Here's a link to the edge preview. Doesn't seem to be all that negative, they are on the AI and animation a bit but say it should be a solid title.

 

[deepbrown]

Here's a link to the edge preview. Doesn't seem to be all that negative, they are on the AI and animation a bit but say it should be a solid title.

You serious? They are obscenely down on it, and off the ball for some of it (after speaking to people who have played the final game)