Wil Wheaton sat down with a couple key members from the Naughty Dog team during Sony's Conversation with Creators to talk about the creation of the Last of Us and the upcoming release of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.
The 37-minute discussion covered both games pretty well, but there's one thing that was stressed by Naughty Dog’s Anthony Newman, real-time cutscenes and how 'that super great-looking Nathan Drake' from the cutscenes is the same Drake in gameplay.
“We’re actually doing real-time cutscenes in Uncharted 4, which is a new step for us.
You’re not going to see those black bars that we used to have in between gameplay and cutscenes. That’s going to let us be so much more expressive and really get that seamlessness between the storytelling and the gameplay. Which we already do very well, but it’s going to allow us to take it to that next level.
…That super great-looking Nathan Drake that’s in the cutscenes–that’s going to be the guy you have the whole time. The lighting model is nearly identical. All of that emotion you get across in the cutscenes, you’ll have in gameplay all the time.”
That's great news for the main character whose chest hair blows in the wind. Uncharted 4 is set to release on the PlayStation 4 in Spring of next year.
