sorry i love uncharted and im not going to act like they didnt change the gameplay they obviously have and not for the better. This must be fixed or there is no way it can surpassed UC2. The kickbacks and boosters are lame but i can deal with those addition i just want it to feel like it used to that is ALL.

That's too much work on a hard-working studio like ND. A better and faster solution is to become so beastly, that everyone ELSE complains about the controls. It is sweet, I must say.

Dare I say, ND intentionally made the controls "worse" to make a more balanced multiplayer. Throwing grenades is no longer instantaneous, so last second grenade kills are far less common. Also, rolling, jumping, and movement in general is more natural to prevent the cheap things some "talented" players in UC2 were able to do,

The only complaint I have is the AK-47's heavy and sporadic recoil makes it useless at long ranges. If they tone that down, then UC3 will be a different, but awesome multiplayer experience.

I find that the gameplay is more solid, no more bunny hopping!

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.