Hey everybody, I’m back again!
I just wanted to drop everyone a quick note here five days before we launch Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (a day earlier than expected even!). I also wanted to point out that our first review has posted with IGN, be sure to check it out.
All of the Naughty Dogs couldn’t be more excited to see the game finally hit the shelves. The marketing machine is starting to move into high gear, so hopefully we’ll all start to see Nathan Drake plastered all around town. On the note of the marketing machine, check back with the blog later this week to catch a sneak peek of our TV spot.
The response to the demo that we released last week has been outstanding. I’m really glad everybody’s enjoying it. And I hope I don’t come across as too conceited to say that the complete game is even better! We really tried to design Uncharted as a comprehensive package and it was challenging to select a slice of it that captures the huge variety of gameplay that we have in the game.
In closing, I’d just like to say congratulations and thanks to everybody who had involvement in the creation of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. And that includes all of you on the forums who have been giving us encouragement and feedback along the way… believe it or not, we were listening, and many of your comments helped us make Uncharted a better game.
@144: so, you get plenty of hits on your site, this makes you very popular online, but let me ask you something, does being a total “videogame guru” as you call yourself get you any girls? any good looking girls? didnt really think so.
sorry everyone else had to see all that vulgarity and rude verbal abuse, but you see when dealing with a troll its usually necessary to use excessive force…again my hat goes off to naughty dog on a great game…..sure pick up for me
four great games this month!!!!! COD4, Assassins Creed, Uncharted and wishfully Haze but that seems to be postponed until december 14th so make that three great games….. lets enjoy gamers!!!!!
hey hey pharmd, R&C: TOD is awesome too.
I remember when this blog had something to do with new topics like the one above, be it a praise or a criticism that was in context of what topic was written…Now it is filled with unecessary spam and self promotion that tears what this Playstation Blog is about. Something has to be done about this spamming and someone’s self promotion. If there was one time where the “handlers” of this blof would listen, let it be now…Please add a moderator to put back some order in these blogs. It’s very easy to differentiate a comment that has to do with said topic than one who conributes spamming and self promotion.
@gamesblow
I appreciate your controversy in this blog. It has kept a lot of people, (including me,) on their toes about finding knowledge on certain games. But please, the ranting and raving about the ps3 as a failure needs to stop. Besides, success is usually found after a failure has occurred.
whoa gamesblow still preaching? go to bed.
The reviewer at ign is a noob. The review should have just said made by ND. All that’s needed. Plus is ign’s reviewer PAT from Saturday Night Live.
oh and gamesblow, the 360 is so amazing, so amazing in fact that the xbox360fanboy blog website (the one that is like a section of joystiq) is still posting halo 3 crap, i want to read up on news about games, such as this post, not watch stupid videos of 12 year olds playing one of the worst shooters i’ve ever played, hell, if you’ve got a 360, get gears instead.
I love the “BUY THIS GAME!” in the first 40 secs of the Video Review, it caught me off guard. Still guys congratulations on making this great game and one of the most ADDICTING DEMOS OUT THERE.
PROPS!
@ Ghostm. IGN.com has a guide for warhawk, they talk about gameplay and weapons, if your a n00b go check it out. TIP: if you have the knife equipped guys cant see you on their radar.
@Gamesblow. You have posted about 10 hate mail messages on this article. Why do you waste your life and Bi.ch about the PS3, go play your 360, o wait you cant because its red ringed on you. Now the 360 is an inferior system.
Sony’s 1st year ps3 games are getting compared to the xbox 360’s 2nd year titles. But the thing is the (1st year ps3 )titles are doing better than (2nd year 360)titles. With the execption of halo 3 and bioshock, but i will compare bioshock to killzone 2 and halo 3 to MGS4. Now thats the way to compare consoles.
Im pretty sure we all know what system has the better games for how long theyve been on the market.
Pharmd – Haze isn’t coming out on Dec. 14th. In the U.S. it’s Dec. 4th. That Dec. 14th was for Europe. Gamestop.com still shows the 4th.
Will you guys for the love of god just ban Gamesblow? I can literally read the comments without looking at his name first and know it is him posting. I gaurantee you are a virgin.
@ Evan Wells
From the demo I can say you have made an amazing game.I already have the money set aside for a day one purchase.
@Gamesblow
Who cares what the hell you say.You go on N4G and try to pass your crap ass blog off as news and it gets rejected.You’re a loser and you will probably always work at Gamestop.Every time you posted news on N4G you were talking about how great the PS3 was.You’re two faced and I think you should leave.
This review from IGN was horrible……..Horrible in the way this game was REVIEWED.. one page dedicated to Sony’s struggles and games that haven’t reached AAA status
Good review, but it should’ve pointed out that the so called ‘screen tearing’ is only apparent on those displaying 1080p resolution.
Also, lol to those who said its’ too short. Gears was 7 hours, Halo was barely 6 and COD4 is 5 and they all relied on online as selling points. Sorry, but that is poor. At least with Uncharted we get an imersive game with plenty of unlockables. And I don’t have to hear whiney, horny, high pitched voiced American teenager boys screaming into their ear pieces.
Great work Evan and to all those at Naughty Dog. I doubt you’ll get to see this amongst the sea of other comments, but can you release a hard copy of the soundtrack and consider doing a LE/CE version for Uncharted 2 with all the extras you gave out in the press kit? Review sites should never get a package that awesome, but I doubt any of them love the game as much as we, your loyal and faithful fans, do.
STJ
Congrats on the good review Naughty Dog! I’ll be picking up Uncharted on monday.
I typed more but it was cut off when I clicked “submit”….It was alot but my point was that a review should explore more and in detail on many aspects of this game, which I see in many reviews of other games but for this one was sorely lacking..This game brings alot to the table that wasn’t explored in the review……”facing off against countless enemies” was written like no other game before this one never had you fighting enemies.. and being docked heavily in the graphics point for “aliasing” Hopefully there will be another REVIEW that would make better use of the word REVIEW.
Uncharted – way to go! MUST BUY!
Waiting for the HK release! Cheers!
It seems this game can’t go wrong!.. great game!!! I’m buying!.. and now i’m gone to get Assasins ;-)
@ loser gamesblow
You think yourself “famous” for just playing games better than some random ppl? LMAO… I don’t even bother explaining how more famous I am than you are in many ways… LOLOLOL…
Sony: 1 Tip
==> Make the “Hit pack” : Ratchet + Uncharted for 449$ and € … That will sell like crazy on christmas!
Ok wtf, it’s the first time i read these comments and man they are funny. Gamesblow you’re kinda pathetic, especially this part
“Anyways, everyone here knows my PSN tag… I don’t know what you’re on about me not having one. It’s GAMESBLOW. I’m in Warhawk 3 times a week and Resistance 2. I’m a supper successful smash hit forum poster with a 98% approval raiting in the gameing world. What else can I say, other than you’re obviously jelly of me and my success and fame. ”
CLAP CLAP CLAP, now give your ps3 to someone else
@gamesblow: The thing is you can’t prove that there wouldn’t have been pop in and aliasing if there was a Xbox 360 version. So you can’t really call PS3 inferior hardware based on an Exclusive title.
@gamesblow: And not everyone agrees that Assassin’s Creed looks better on the Xbox 360. They just look different. One site says PS3 has better framerate and another site (who gave it a less than stellar score anyway) said that Xbox 360 has batter framerate.
Oh and BTW a little pop-in and aliasing shouldn’t harm the gameplay experience much. They don’t stop it being an incredible game.
Well done Naughtly Dog, 1st day purchase for me. Sort out the tearing tho in the 2nd installment!
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Naughty Dog i want to congratulate you guys for delivering the awesomness that is Drake’s Fortune.After all the FPS and TPS games playing a game like this is VERY refreshing.Its top tier in gameplay, graphics and story (as far as (p)reviews ,demo and vids convey).And reading you still got plenty of SPU resources left makes me just smile and wonder how much better your future titles will become.
Anyhows day one purchase for me.I even thought the IGN score seemed a bit low when watching their video review.
And last thing ND unrelated, how do i block trolls like Gamesblow on this blog?
CONGRATULATIONS NAUGHTYDOG!
Can’t wait to play Uncharted!
@99 ” A problem was brought to their attention and they fixed it in a timely manner.
Once they were aware of the problem, what would you have recommended they do differently?”
I would’ve said, “Sorry, we made a mistake and we’re in the midst of fixing it.”
NOT
“You’ll have to wait until the 22nd”.
Their initial blase response to the problem is a part of the reason I’m so angry.
Man, you people are still talking about me…? Strange… Anyways, congratulations Naughtydog, Eurogamer just gave you a big ol 9 and said that Uncharted was basically better than Gears of War. Visually and in detail!! Good on you, man!
i had to register for this
@gamesblow:
OMG OMG Forza 2 is jaggies hell (ign review) Gears of War streaming textures are always late (any video review) oh and check neogaf Mass Effect has pop-in & frame rate issues, but i dont fault them, i fault the cheap 360’s fault…right
you know what i think, i think you work for MS and i think IGN was paid for that little remark just so you cry a little because we have the demo and there are NO popin or aliasing issues
for the rest of you checkout the eurogamer review to see how a game like uncharted should be treated http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=87533&page=1
gamesblow:
You put yourself in this position with your constant trolling, you should have wised up earlier before you started posting crap all around…
I hope Sony has at least taken notice of this so we can soon start to ban bad users like this.
Uncharted is an awesome game so was R&C gamesblow. Stop trolling please. Grats to ND.
Eurogamer are loving this too!! 9/10
Can’t wait :) :)
A 9 from Eurogamer, unheard of in this day and age for a PS3 exclusive title. It must be good then (we all know it is). Now where’s that 10? Step up Gamespot!
@182
Ummm… who the heck said they weren’t? Stop insighting garbage and tormoil. It’s played out. You’re agitating a situation, much like everyone else who has ruined this thread while I was away all night. Taling about me and bringing me back up just so they could get their 2 cents in. That’s pretty petty, if you ask me.
WARNING: ASSASINS CREED DOESN”T WORK ON HD TV’s !!!!!! I got the European version and the latest samsung 1080 TV and all i get is tearing (?) I tried the PS3 options but that doesn’t help either! HELP WHAT CAN I DO NOW???? I’ll post a video on Youtube… THIS SUCKS!!!
.. I think it’s the 2.0 update that does it.
What rez are you playing in? 1080I or 1080P? 1080I is the worst signal to sue for your ps3 and this game, believe me. 720P is the most stable. 1080P does boot up with Assassins creed but it’s not native and the tearing is much worse and the pop in is atracious. I’ve already talked about this on my blogsite. If you have a 1080I tv, do yourself a favor and crank your sharpness down to about -15. Tell me how that works out for you on the screen tearing.
I know why now.. it’s the PS2 upscale [DELETED] that does it.. i turned all ps2 options off and now it works fine.. great.. but it’s a 2.0 BUG!
Too fix it.. turn off all PS2 options.. still it’s a 2.0 bug!
Sony is disabling to ps2 upscale hardware themselves. They completely destroyed the upscaler on this update. Notice how it looks now? They’re phasing it out. I won’t be surprised if they disable the ps2 playback next firmware update. I couldn’t believe when I went to play R&CUYA and seen how it looked after the update.
Deserves even more than 9.1! But dont expect it from gamespot.
@Gamesblow; Assasins creed is just 720.. don’t know what you are talking about here.. what does anything of what you’re saying gonna help anyone?.. the game should work on ANY tv… and it does… just turn those darn PS2 options off! My Samsung does all signals by the way. And the ps3 when set on automatic should switch between the right options. If I had to set that manualy for every game the PS3 would be a horrible machine.. this is the first time a game had problems for me, and again it’s not the game it’s the 2.0 update.. (just like the warhawk freezes only since 2.0)
Those options aren’t the cause of the problem… The cause of the problem is lack of available ram. Assassins creed boots in 1080P, jackson. Sorry tosay. Also 1080I… it must be tough being in pal regions or something, timmy. “ha” It’s a 720P native, sure… but that doesn’t stop it from being displayed in 1080I or 1080P. Not on my system or any of the review sites systems. you’re without base.
Eurogamer just gave the game a 9 which is extremly good (site is generally viewed as harsh when it comes to reviews):
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=87533
& what are you going on about Asscreed for in an Uncharted topic? And people say I’m annoying? Please…
Gametap just gave you all a 9 too, man! This is awesome news. EGM is the only naysayers so far.
Hi, great game.
But i’ve a question, Why on my japanese console i can only set English/jap’s languages. :(
@118
@ nephlabobo – too bad that YOU are the stuck up gamer that probably still lives at home to
Given that you don’t know a single thing about me, I’d suggest you keep your mouth shut. My points are valid. Your insults are not.