It was partially because they did the voice acting and the motion capture acting at the same time. So the actors were really acting the scenes out instead of sitting in a sound room reading off of a script pretending.

they are 100% right but i still would rather they just ignore the rest of the devs in the industry. you know people will try and spin this into them trying to bash others or that they are cocky. ND is the only devs who should be talking about how to make a really high quality cinematic game but still shouldn't. they should just let their games continue to do the talking as they have been. everyone noticed ND created a masterpiece and are now trying to do the same using uc2 as a blue print without having ND say anything to them they just see the huge gap in quality between ND and the rest of the industry.

edit: not once in the article did ND mention other devs doing anything wrong. they are just talking about how they did voice acting and why they think it helps the performance.

I didn't really look at it as bashing at all. I think they were pretty brave to reveal all their methods, to me it sounds like they just want the gaming industry to improve overall and are willing to help other developers...

It's not like they're boasting about something that nobody else can do, mocap is pretty common, just not in the gaming industry, I'm sure with a bit of extra effort developers will move towards this after seeing the success of Uncharted and its quality. I'm sure most of them already have.

do not demean the production values Rockstar puts into their games. The cut scenes were amazing, and the attention to detail is still unheard of.

More than that, it's logistically untenable. Inevitably, when teams get too large, how do you keep tabs on accountability? I suspect this massive team size is a consequence of the perfectionism streak Naughty Dog has.

I wish we could have so many people working on something and it turns out great because I'm all for collaboration in spirit - the problem is too many people as part of the larger team and smaller units. Suppose for example that you have too many people in the art department; you will very often come up against fiercely competing visions for how things should look. That competitive vision will cause friction between team members, team doesn't work as a unit, the back and forth can further delay parts that the other departments are waiting for, etc etc.

A 200-person team says, to me, that we need to scale back game development. Even if it means we go back to PS2 era costs and scale, why not? Those games are still great fun, the budgets were in check, and you could literally break the 200-man team into like 10 20-man teams working on different projects.

I know they've expertise in third person games.
But given the lack there of in PS catalog, I'd want the other project to be a narrative first person ND game.
Look, there are lots of 3rd person Sony games in variety of flavors. And ND is already doing intergalactic. And since they're pretty expert at gameplay and tech wise in whatever they do, they can easily venture a new genre and ship a first person game/shooter.

funny thing is with failures like Concord and soon to be Marathon, Factions could have been Sony's guaranteed huge success with a shooter! I don't ever play online shooters anymore, but I would have come out of shooter retirement for a new Factions game.

...Way of the Warrior 2: Electric Boogaloo

I’m assuming it’s the unannounced game in the title you posted.

“Naughty Dog Reportedly Canceled a Single Player Game This Year, But Another Unannounced Game Is Still in the Works“

Devs cancel games all the time early stages if it doesn’t turn out the way they envisioned it. We just don’t hear about every one of them.

so a 2028 release at the soonest

'We have several directors on Intergalactic. I work with two game directors: Matthew Gallant and Kurt Margenau, [and] I have a co-writer in Clair Carré.'

Stupid.

Zero experience

Going to be? The damage is already done lol.