Naughty Dog responds to the Amy Henning thing

Naughty Dog responds

Earlier this week we had to confirm the regrettable news that Amy Hennig has left Naughty Dog. She will be missed and, as we stated before, we appreciate the significant contributions that she has made to Naughty Dog and the industry in general. We wish her the best. <br /><br />However, we feel it necessary to clear up a very important point that was unprofessionally misreported when the story broke. Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann were NOT involved in what transpired. It was very upsetting to us that dozens of stories were run, linking back to the same hurtful accusations in the original report. As co-presidents of Naughty Dog, we are responsible for all studio affairs. <br /><br />Normally, we wouldn’t respond to rumors and speculation on matters that are internal to Naughty Dog, but because the personal reputation of two of our employees is being damaged we needed to set the record straight. There is nothing left to be said on this subject. Now we’re going back to what we should be focused on – making games.

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And this from one of their employees

“Amy’s one of my favorite people,” he noted. “ love Amy. How can you not love Amy, right? [She was] an amazing contributor to Naughty Dog and PlayStation. I’m always going to have the deepest admiration for her. But things change, and sometimes change involves very high profile individuals. That’s all that’s happened here. There’s nothing else. There’s no more to dig at.”

<br />Pressed for more information on the fact that Hennig was seemingly fired – our sources note that she didn’t leave on her own accord – Rohde said that he’s “never going to agree with the term ‘pushed out’” when it comes to Hennig.

Wow that Irrational story is amazing. Bioshock Infinite had a major multiplayer component that got scrapped like a year before it shipped. In fact it seems the game was a mess just one year before and in that year they figured out the combat, removed multiplayer and got everything done. The rest of the years were spent going in circles. Big time help came in that last year and the new guys were able to get Infinite on track.

Amazing read.

edgecrusher said:

I read that the pc version of watch dogs is still going to look incredible, and its only the console versions that got a major downgrade? If so I wonder if this is a result of trying to release the game on too many platforms instead of consentrating on a few. It also has me wondering if I should cancel my PS4 preorder and get it on PC. I wasn't expecting that much of a difference.

Probably some PC dudes hopeful wishes.

Here's another Watch Dogs gif....this one looks great so who fucking knows how the game will end up? Still has 2 months to launch...

aspro said:

I do remember that the first time the launch got bumped it was under the premise of them working on a multiplayer mode.  Then later they denied it.

Then they brought in the guy from whereever it was to finish the game (and as soon as the game launch he left) -- shit I cannot remember his name.  Just before they brought him on 2 or 3 notables left Irrational.  So basically they fired the dudes who were at the top, brought in the closer and he hired a bunch of people (remember the insulting want ads that said "if you have not worked on a game with a metacritic above 88 then don;t bother applying).

IG was a clusterfuck under Ken Levine, he's not a project manager, he's not even a creative lead.  He's just a lateral thinker.

That would be Rod Fergusson formerly from Epic.The dude is just that damn good which makes me happy that he is currently employed at Microsoft and overseeing the Gears of War franchise.

edgecrusher said:

This doesn't look bad IMO:

And this one could easily be the PC version at high settings.....I've played a ton of games on my rig that have this kind of difference between the PC and console. Sleeping Dogs, Witcher 2, Dragon Age Origins, etc.

buts thts bween 360 and a PC. this is PS4 vs PC

Using my ill-gotten profit from being a notorious crime lord, I have become Ubisoft's new CEO. From now on, every game developed by Ubisoft will be optimized to run on my rig. I'll start with Watch_Dogs.

SteelAttack said:

I'm starting to make new business cards.

Monsieur Acier

Ubisoft CEO

Let's see some shit.

edgecrusher said:

This doesn't look bad IMO:

And this one could easily be the PC version at high settings.....I've played a ton of games on my rig that have this kind of difference between the PC and console. Sleeping Dogs, Witcher 2, Dragon Age Origins, etc.

Edge that last gif never really exsited, that was the reveal E3 trailer and as we can see now it was all a tech demo. Its BS, no version will ever look like that.