Naughty Dog Talks About the Uncharted Franchise

It is "end of an era" for Naughty Dog.

Naughty Dog's co-director Neil Druckmann has said that Uncharted 4: A Thief's End represents the "end of an era" for Naughty Dog as a studio.

"We get more and more that feeling of this definitely [being] the end of an era for us as a studio," Druckmann said in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine (via GamesRadar). "We've been with this franchise for almost ten years now from inception all the way to this point. Luckily, we don't get too much time to dwell on that feeling because we're so busy, but every once in a while... you know?"

Druckmann also revealed that the story was drastically changed after Amy Hennig's departure.

"I remember when Bruce and I came onto the project. A few weeks later we pitched a pretty new story to the team, kind of like a new direction for the project," he recalled. "A lot of things were pretty rough and just slotted in, so there was an ending but it wasn't as well defined, and at some point we defined more of the [plot] thread and a more definitive ending, and we did a second pitch for the team."

Uncharted 4 will be the final entry in the series to star Nathan Drake, it will be available in March 2016.