Interview With Director Bruce Straley (Part 2)

(click the blog entry title to read the interview)

The first time I posted this on my Livejournal, the second half of the interview had somehow slipped past my Highly Advanced Method of searching for Uncharted 2 updates by entering "uncharted 2" into google search and hitting the "news" button.

But here it is, as promised.
The TL:DR of this half is that no, there won't be multiplayer, and no, they're not porting it to any other platforms (b/c Naughty Dog is owned by sony. Doi.)

But for anyone who may happen to want my (very important, and fangirlish certainly professional) commentary on the interview, here it is!

So he talks about the AI some more, yes yes very nice we've heard this already (to be fair the interview was conducted before this information was released). I do like the fact that there will be story bits revealed in overheard conversations. I appreciate the fact that there is still attention to the story (which is usually the first thing to go due to Money-Grubbing Sequelitis) and also that the story telling will not be as cumbersomely time consuming as things like MGS4 (which is frequently more like watching a movie with gamey bits thrown in rather than playing a movie that also happens to be a game).

There is still vehicle sections. Hopefully they will be the GOOD kind of vehicle sections with grenades and trucks and fun, and not bullshit upriver jetski sections with cow controls and rocket-launcher death.

Downloadable content got a "maybe." Trophies are probably going to happen. I'm not holding my breath waiting for anything more than that.

No news on a demo. This is actually significant, since the demo for U:DF was generally considered to be lackluster at best. I would like to see a demo, of course, but it's possible that they're going to keep the curtains closed on the game until release just to build up anticipation. If they do release one, I'm betting it'll be super short and during the summer to drum up some more hype as launch date gets closer. We'll see what happens.

Also, Nathan Drake may not be a bigger star than Lara Croft (if only because he doesn't stir up the same kind of controversy she did [lacking nude mods and all that fun stuff {mmm...Nathan Drake nude mods....FOCUS, SARA, FOCUS}]) but he's definitely a more interesting star. and I'm certainly very biased, but I do agree with Straley in that he's something fresh in the industry.


oh, and two more little things:
1) Amazon is taking pre-orders already. Check the links section.
2) One website was all "hey, Naughty Dog released high def screen caps of U2:AT today" and I'm like are you for real? Even i've seen all these screencaps already. all I had to do was enter "uncharted 2" into google search and hit the "images" button.

(This is not actually true. I just tried it and didn't get any of those screencaps at all, surprisingly. But I still saw them in like all the news I've posted, plus I think they were in GameInformer's coverage of it last month. So yeah.)