'It Doesn't Make Sense' — Uncharted Designer Doesn't Want a Remake of Drake's Fortune

Benson Russell, decorator for 2 of the archetypal Uncharted games and a existent developer astatine Naughty Dog, explained wherefore he’s hesitant to invited a imaginable remake of Drake’s Fortune.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune released successful 2007 connected the PlayStation 3. It’s the archetypal crippled successful the archetypal Uncharted trilogy and a rubric that studios inactive instrumentality inspiration from to this day, adjacent 2 decades later.

Over the past 2 years, rumors person surfaced claiming that Naughty Dog is considering a remake of the iconic game. While this was specified speculation, players yet got to perceive consecutive from the horse’s rima successful August 2026 erstwhile Benson Russell, decorator for Drake’s Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, spoke retired astir the taxable successful a speech with FRVR.

For Russell, remakes don’t marque consciousness if the archetypal games are inactive portion of the taste zeitgeist, making the thought of a Drake's Fortune remake thing of an uncessary task successful his view.

“Uncharted arsenic a happening is inactive successful the zeitgeist,” helium told the outlet. “System Shock… a remake of that present makes a batch of sense, due to the fact that not conscionable tin you play it, but it had horrible cardinal bindings, it kept a batch of radical retired of it from wanting to play it. There’s already a mentation [of Drake’s Fortune] you tin play connected modern consoles [to] get the experience. What’s the constituent of remastering [or remaking] it?”

“I conscionable don’t spot the constituent of remaking [it],” helium continued. “You’d person to rewrite the full communicative to marque it better, which means you’re going to alteration the tone and you’re going to alteration the scenes and what the archetypal 1 was about, right? You’re going to person to adhd each these scenes oregon instrumentality things distant and a batch of the cardinal acceptable pieces — are you going to support those? Are you going to person to redo them due to the fact that they don’t acceptable your story? It doesn’t marque immoderate consciousness [to remake it]. I honestly thought the aforesaid happening astir The Last of Us Part 1… these are aged games for a reason.”

Russell finished his spiel by saying a remake of Drake’s Fortune would consciousness “more similar a currency drawback than it would consciousness similar thing indispensable astatine this point,” saying, “Just don’t recreate the archetypal game. It’s just, eh.”

While it’s presently unclear if Naughty Dog genuinely has immoderate plans to enactment connected a remake of Drake’s Fortune, it seems similar each hands are connected platform for the studio’s adjacent title, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which saw brag Neil Druckmann measurement distant from his engagement successful HBO’s The Last of Us bid to amended absorption on. However, rumors of a Last of Us 3 crippled are besides swirling astir successful the ether aft Druckmann made a fewer comments online that hinted astatine different imaginable introduction successful the critically-acclaimed series.

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