Our own Jim Sterling recently postedan article about how he sometimes feels alienatedfrom the gaming community because he doesn’t appreciate “classic” games likeShadow of the Colossus. It’s a great piece, but admittedly, a little part of me felt bitter while reading it. “You think it’s hard not liking a PS2 title that sold under a million copies in the United States?’ I whined to myself “What do you think it’s like to be a non-fan ofUncharted,GTA,Mass Effect,Elder Scrolls, and just about every other ‘realistic’, overblown, action-focused, power fantasy game on the market today?”
The thing is, there is a chance I could have likedUncharted, if it focused less on pretending to be an action movie, and more on taking advantage of the fact that it was a videogame. This whole “try to make every game like a Hollywood movie” thing that Sony has picked up in the PS3 era has been pretty rough for an oldApe Escape/Gitaroo Man/Parappa-days Sony fan like myself. Sadly, it sounds like Ialmosthad a chance of enjoyingUncharted, but according to Naughty Dog, “Sony kept pushing for a more realistic game in all respects. The market had changed a lot by then. The demographic was older and gritty shooters were really dominating. Sony wanted very much to get into that market share, it pushed all of its developers in this direction.”
Now that the Wii, the DS, and the iPhone have been “really dominating” for most of the past five years, I wonder if PS4 games are all going to be “pushed” to look likeWii SportsandAngry Birds?I might be down with that.
Once upon a time, Uncharted was a Tolkien-inspired fantasy romp[Joystiq]
