#254 | Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Society & Culture, Leisure, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 167 minutes

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Summary

PlayStation 3's Uncharted trilogy is inarguably a vital stepping stone in the history of Sony. These three titles helped breathe life into a once-struggling console, and gave the brand amazing momentum running into the following generation. But Naughty Dog's series about a globetrotting adventurer hit a bit of a snag when PS3 turned to PS4. Partially through development, Uncharted 4 would lose its creative force and writer, Amy Hennig, leaving the half-finished projects in the hands of the two men who just delivered The Last of Us: Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley. It was going to be a hard task to make this one work. But ultimately, the team delivered in spades. Uncharted 4 is a fitting and high-quality end to Naughty Dog's Uncharted arc, visiting an older, wiser, and more reluctant Nathan Drake who's sucked back into 'the life' by his own brother, and by his own inability to let go of the past. Wonderfully paced and beautiful to look at, and with amazing performances and fun gameplay, A Thief's End is a must-play, and we're thrilled to spend a good-long time discussing it here on KnockBack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback, the retro and nostalgia podcast, is brought to you by Well You.
0:04.3	If you want to learn how to support our show, go to patreon.com slash last stand media.
0:15.5	Greetings and salutations, welcome back to Knockback.
0:17.8	My name is Colin Moriardium, joined as always by my brother,
0:20.8	Dagen, the separatist pirate Moriardium, Dagen.
0:24.4	Thank you for joining me today. How are you today, my friend?
0:26.7	Rolling up Dill's sleeves. We got a good one and I conic one for you, my friend.
0:32.1	Yeah, everything's good. I just realized I told you I'm going to be a little late. I was rendering
0:36.4	like a motion graphics real a new real last night and I left the computer on so it was like
0:41.8	I don't know what I was doing. Yeah, the comp was on all night last night rendering like some,
0:48.3	I don't know, 30 gig five or something. So this is for your job hunt, I assume.
0:54.0	This is for the job hunt, did a little motion graphics real. In fact, one of the iterations
0:59.1	of the constellation opening animation is on that real. I don't think it's the one we ended up
1:04.0	going with because I did like three or four different versions. So that's kind of exciting.
1:08.2	A little LSM is represented in that. Yeah, man, just kind of
1:12.8	Ziggin and Zagin career wise, you know, it's so funny though, dude. Like I take out computer hard drives,
1:19.3	especially desktop PCs, so quick. Like the life, the longevity of my computer is probably
1:26.4	half of a normal person. Just because the files I work on are so huge, I think, that you can't even
1:32.4	like, what is it called when you basically take apart the hard drive and
1:38.2	Oh, it's like beyond defragging. Like a year in, I already know like let's just keep driving
1:46.2	this thing into the ground. Maybe I'll have it for three years. Yeah, I'm not even sure I'd
1:49.8	defrag the drive in probably 15 years because that used to be a thing where you would do it because
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