Uncharted

That is a pretty formidable lineup.

You've got actors who work includes Baldur's Gate 3, Uncharted, Overwatch, Red Dead Redemption 2 and many, many other things.

But what made this panel particularly interesting wasn't just the games they worked on.

It was hearing them discuss their careers, the enormous amount of rejection actors face, and what success actually means when you work in such an unpredictable profession.

There's a great story from Nolan North about the importance of finding the right actor for a particular role.

He reflected on working with Amy Hennig on Uncharted and how being involved in the casting process gave him an entirely different perspective on auditions.

Amy Hennig, Uncharted, cast me.

It's probably my most important role I ever had.

No,

it's another Uncharted.

Why? Can they just be done with it?

Yeah, everybody's like, they finished his story, so it's gotta be the daughter, but it's like, they finished the story.

Can we get a new Jack and Dad? Can we get anything else?

Like, alright, cool, if it's a good story, whatever, kudos to them for continuing it, but like, go outside of that.

Do something else besides The Last of Us or Uncharted, because that's all Naughty Dog has done for the past, what, ten years, I feel? Yeah.

Yep, those two.

Yeah, that's true.

I mean, there was a whole thing, wasn't there, recently about, I can't remember the terminology that they used, but the kind of way that you play as a protagonist, the good guy, inverted commas, in a game like Uncharted, and you're just killing thousands of people throughout the course of the game, and yet you're still a hero.

All the people you kill in Cold Blood, is it Cold Blood? I don't know.

defending yourself i suppose but yeah it's like as well from a tangent there sorry

How do you think this genre has evolved since Tomb Raider? And what do you think this did so well from the beginning?

So, you know, Uncharted, you had that yellow paint across everything.

the clips and resident evil you got the white paint and in other games you got some kind of paint that's what's happened um uh like you said there are there is now a character that will talk to you in your ear and say hey you thought about jumping over there yeah um or even worse like the games that the games that don't give you the opportunity to look around and it's just a meaty like hint or the glowing thing starts going off and all that stuff.

Like it, this genre for as like intuitive or as advanced mechanics have gotten, uh, it's gotten so dumbed down and it's just in handholding and he's, you do not have games like this where you just feel lost or like they're out there.

They never found the fun, as far as I could tell.

You compare that with Naughty Dog, who said, okay, we're going to do Uncharted, and then they pivoted and did Last of Us.

It's like they had these four pillars underneath them, and they said, we're going to take this one and going to change it out for this one.

So they became more of a stealthy game with a different kind of fiction and that kind of stuff.

So we have to look up climb speed again.

See, climb speed gets tricky when you're using it to specifically just like shimmy, right? It's the Nathan Drake, it's the Uncharted, you know, video game like shimmying across a ledge or something.

Rules, definitions, climb speed.

I want to be prepared because they're probably going to be looking for this.

Drugs or

alcohol? I grabbed the Uncharted collection.

It was on special, so I grabbed it.

It's very cheap, isn't it? Like $7.50.

It's cool, but the PS5 version is so much fucking better.

But it's just

weird because they have Uncharted 4 in that, but then you can still get the Lost Legacy for PS4 on the store, even though that's part of that.

It's so weird.