Uncharted 4's Lost Cutscene (Beta Discovery)

Detailing a rare leftover piece of Amy Hennig's Uncharted 4.
A long time in the making, Please enjoy.

[@CheatingSoi]

Kempy: Please excuse my awful voice acting Also Kempy: does a good hilariously perfect job voice acting

[@chaoticfantasycosplays]

Even though I personally really like the U4 that we got, I do wish we got to see what Amy's version was in its full glory. Thanks for the amazing work as always!!

[@jostired5236]

No, I disagree IMO it is perfect the way it is. Ofc everyone would love to see different versions, but the one we got is PERFECT. Amys version consisted of Sam wanting to kill Nate etc. Me personally I like the one we got the best.

[@TimothyTCB]

Thank you for making this! It's really interesting to hear and see how much different this game might've been if Amy had continued it.

[@Thekempy]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@toasty-turnpike]

pls never stop making uncharted content

[@azizcoskun805]

This is so interesting, exactly the content I‘m looking for. As soon as you showed those Javanese sculptures, I was instantly reminded of those official concept arts you showed afterwards. One of those arts can actually be seen in the Nathan Drake Collection‘s Artbook. That‘s where I‘ve seen it

[@andresalbornoz2375]

Dude, this research about the "original" Uncharted 4 feels more and more like an adventure Nate and the gang would have. Really big props to you and everyone that helped in this project. Hello from Colombia (That's why my English is a bit rough)

[@AB-fr2ei]

This Even if the Uncharted 4 we know is amazing, this version would have seemed much better

[@RobinGaming]

Fantastic video man! I actually never realised how the Island map's aesthetic doesn't quite match up with the single player setting but I think you're absolutely on point. I do find it funny how the dialogue in the cutscene audio you found actually sounds like an Amy Hennig Uncharted script, if that makes sense. I don't know how to describe it, but I do feel like the different and mature direction they ultimately took with U4 was probably for the better. Still, it's super cool to see what would've been. Thanks again for all the research!

[@Thekempy]

I didn't expect to see you here! Thanks for the kind words.

[@TheGamersDojo]

There was an interview I saw with the voice actor of Sully, and he confirmed that Amy was replaced. He didn't say what the reason was, but he did mention that him and the rest of the cast was upset about it.

[@gkpoo1773]

very interesting find, it was nice hearing nate and sully riffing off eachother once more

[@coler156]

Man I'm starving for uncharted content, it would be a dream to get a non-Canon version that wad Amy hennig's original story. Although that will never happen, thanks again kempy!

[@AB-fr2ei]

Maybe it will, we may never know I hope amy would talk about all of this, maybe it will motivate them to make a director cut version

[@zen4ever3]

I’m very happy to see more uncharted content. I’m kinda starving for more uncharted content in general. Hopefully they make another game at some point.

[@MarkshireW]

You nailed Nathan's/Nolan's voice and tone there nicely in the voice acting segment lol

[@edhacker]

So crazy to hear thanks for sharing! So grateful to have discovered you and your channel as someone who has a strong attachment to these games :)

[@edhacker]

+ I would give anything to know what Amy’s original script looked like 😓

@@edhacker Me too. My guess is that it was a lot better than what we got as a game.

[@akaSilenced]

I miss the "darker" Uncharted 4 that was once promised to us. the E3 Trailer 2014 looked so different from the final outcome

[@Hunterese123]

I mean, people say the Uncharted 4 we got now is darker and less jokey, but I think you mean Sam being the villain fist and then revealing to us he was Nate's brother

[@AB-fr2ei]

This I think even Uncharted 3 feel more "dark" and "sinister" than Uncharted 4 Uncharted 4 is for the much part very lighthearted, its not a bad thing, it doesnt bother me since its part of the uncharted series but, its just not what they promised us

[@Dachin55555]

Uncharted 4 is still the most serious out of all the games so

[@SaggyWaggy-is8it]

​@@AB-fr2eithere's nothing dark about Uncharted 3 lil bro 😂 Did you need mommy to hold you when the plane crashed or something?

[@AB-fr2ei]

@@SaggyWaggy-is8it you dont understand idiot Drake is in a lot more trouble in Uncharted 3 than in any other Uncharted in my opinion and there was some kind of dark occult/supernatural vibe in the game and also a lot of stuff that was cut down

[@joesama8818]

Mysterious leftover stuff from older versions of a game (and not just games) that leave me to imagine what it could've been is something I always enjoy

[@BSAArklay]

As a fellow Uncharted fan also still working on content for a finished series (compiling the ARG and writing a book on Drake's Fortune development). It's awesome to see others are still active as well. Keep up the good fight Kempy!

[@bri-notthecheese]

Yo your voice acting was so good!! A+++ This all was FASCINATING!!!! I always love getting those little tidbits of the game that never was. Kinda of insane that the multiplayer map could've been made from leftover bits of the rain forest level. I also wonder if any of those concept arts or assets got used in Lost Legacy

[@dylanoshea5065]

The whole "mystery of the original Uncharted 4" feels like an Uncharted game in itself. Trying to piece together the pieces of what could've been but instead was just left to be forever "lost". Amy Hennig's story sounds so different yet still vaguely similar to what we got. It just makes me wish we got to see more. 9:55 This part went hard. Imagination is no joke. The ideal of expectations is so nerve sweating because it makes the possibility of disappointment that more painful. You want a character to have a good wrap up to their character arc? Nope. You want a character you don't like to not appear? Well guess what? They end up taking up a good chunk of runtime while everyone else you do care about is pushed to the side. Fun gameplay? Weeeeell... (Note: This is not directly to the Uncharted series, this is just media in general) In the end, it all comes down to the developers and writers to craft these stories. And us, the audience, to stand by and wait to see if the final product pays off in the end.

[@Thekempy]

exactly

[@stephenvalente3296]

It kind of seems Naughty Dog, and Neil Druckmann in particular wanted to give UC4 the happy ending scenario that wasn't forthcoming for The Last of Us Part 2. Having Sam be a villain wouldn't have been satisfying after 4 games I guess. Ousting Amy to accomplish the changes stinks, and paints the senior leadership team at Naughty Dog as people aren't really that pleasant to know. Watched a video yesterday with Richard McGonagle yesterday saying the lead actors considered walking away out of respect for Amy, but due to a combination of contractual obligation and Amy herself being the bigger person, they continued to make the best of what they were given to replace her work.

[@Blag_Cog]

Once again brilliant work! I love this sort of stuff.

[@DelcoAirsoft]

Wow man! Thank you so much for finding this! I've been a massive fan of this franchise since playing Drake's Fortune as a kid the Christmas it launched. I'll continue to be upset that Amy never got to finish out her ideas. Not to mention the fact that Greg Edmonson didn't come back for Uncharted 4's soundtrack. In fact I actually listened to the soundtrack of a movie called "Bounty Killer" that Edmonson did back around 2011 and it sounds a lot like what a fourth game could have sounded like.

[@ShMartinJo]

Finished the game for what I think, is the 6th time. It’s still a great game but my mind always immediately wonders back to what it could have been, which lead me to your amazing find. From their perspective, maybe they scrapped the Javanese content because it’s honestly giving me Uncharted 2 vibes (and I don’t mean that in a bad way). But who knows what else they scrapped or intended. As you said, this is a dangerous thought as it opens cans of mental worms to something we can’t change. I know I’ll be thinking on this for a while …

[@AB-fr2ei]

This reminded me of U2

[@knurdyob]

This makes sense. I actually really like the aesthetic they were going for here. it reminds me a lot of the asian thematic of the 2nd game, which is a lot more exotic than just "pirate themed" stuff. What's interesting is that it still makes sense within the story, since it's about a bunch of pirates from different cultures coming together to build an utopia, so they could grab pieces from a lot of different places, including a bit of the more exotic asian themed stuff like we see in this video, makes sense that this would be something Amy Hennig would want given the other games style. It's a shame we lost some of this art direction in the final game, but like you said, who knows what it would be like, no one can ever really know for sure. Great detective work

[@AB-fr2ei]

I think the original game was about pirates conquering the javanese The javanese settled libertalia first but then the pirates invaded them and butchered them, wich would have probably triggered some surnatural curse

[@knurdyob]

@@AB-fr2ei actually great theory, that's probably right

[@shortwinger3]

7:04 I always had a theory since the MP Beta in 2015 that the Island multiplayer map was made with remnants of Amy Hennig’s Uncharted 4 because the ruins don’t match with anything from anywhere else in the game. This audio now makes me wonder what the backstory of the island from the single player was. In the final game, Libertalia collapsed because the pirate founders stole from the citizens, causing a rebellion. Now we have reason to believe that this wasn’t originally the backstory and that the Javanese knew about this hidden island before Avery did. I also had a theory many years ago that Nadine wasn’t originally going to exist. The reason I thought of that was because of Neil talking about going over character designs for her in PSX 2015 but I didn’t have solid evidence. But many years later Amy Hennig did state that when she was working on the game, there was no Nadine.

[@AB-fr2ei]

I believe the original game had a plot where the javanese and avery pirates would have fought Javanese would have probably lost and pirates would have founded Libertalia on their island, wich would have been some sort of curse

[@LiLGWaez]

Dude, i just watched this video randomly and skipped to the middle to see what its about at first, and the voice lines FELT LIKE IT WAS DRAKE hahahaha, Some lines genuinely fooled me into thinking it was actually drake, i cant believe it, it was only when i rewinded and started the vid from the beginning did i hear you say "excuse my terrible voice acting". It gave me a right laugh. That was excellent voice acting. Hahaha Keep it up man! Your content is great. No matter what its about.

[@simonrockstream]

Incredible video, thanks for all your hard work!

[@rawwar6642]

And now I'm depressed again about this game again.

[@jonatasfaustinomoraes]

We already know Charlie was in the game. I wonder if Chloe or anyelse character was too. The more and more I know about the vanilla version, more I get sad they did wrong to Amy there. She said to rolling Stone she would never leave a project in the middle and Richard McGonagle there were machinations agains her in teh sutdio. Did you see his interview to Dan Allen?

[@Thekempy]

yeah, the Dan Allen interview was a good watch.

[@RaewCZ]

I bet you're right

[@adrnacad3434]

It's gonna be forever for Amy Hennigs NDA to expire...

[@Anderson-vj8sh]

Dude an uncharted 4 remake with the original story and gameplay would be so cool...

[@AB-fr2ei]

Gameplay would have remained pretty much the same tho ?

[@Anderson-vj8sh]

@@AB-fr2ei not necessarily cuz i think there would have been a bigger focus on melee combat and maybe some new locations

[@chitosrock3]

Hey man there another Mp map has Sully plane crash on the forest , coud be another cut level and explain how Sully and Nate get separet and lost , Sorry for the bad inglish

[@DelcoAirsoft]

That could be how Nate ended up knocked out in the river in the original reveal trailer.

[@chitosrock3]

@@DelcoAirsoft yeah maybe the multiplayer maps have more clues about another cut content , hope the guys find more

[@chitosrock3]

@@DelcoAirsoft maybe was a plan to have a reference to the first game when Nate and Helena was in the plane going for the island but this time Nate and Sully was in the plane , Something happens and Sully make Nate jump off the plane , later Nate try to find the local of the crash and find out Sully survive the crash but is lost on the forest

[@sarahsarah-nm6pg]

hi! don't know if you take requests, but is there a possibility you could mod nadine as nate (and chloe maybe) and post all the cutscenes?

[@Thekempy]

if you mean turning nate into nadine or chloe, then there is an issue with their hair not working right currently.

[@sarahsarah-nm6pg]

ooh okay gotcha! i saw your video where you modded nadine as elena it was very cool! could you post the all the elena cutscenes where nadine is modded ? c:@@Thekempy

[@Thekempy]

I'm hoping to do more of that rafe + nadine mod in the future, so yes!

[@xXshadowkhanXx]

cool!

[@Chris-zc7xj]

I still think Amy Hennig left because of a "creative disagreements" of how the story was gonna be. I find it weird how many ppl left once the switch to Neil and Bruce happened. There's other reports from ppl like Alan Tudyk of why he left as well as Nolan North saying they scrapped a whopping 8 months of work on it. I believe Neil wanted to end Uncharted, because originally 4 wasn't supposed to be the end. TLOU is ND's "bigger" franchise so that's why I believe this happened. Also Bruce left right after Uncharted 4 was completed as well, though he was the co-creator of The Last of Us. Funny how Bruce's name was also missing in the Last of Us HBO show's credits as well even though he was a co-creator. I just felt like the whole situation got swept under the rug overall, since there was definitely problems if that many ppl left during the new direction of Uncharted 4. But i hope we really see some more Uncharted soon, whether it be a new entry or complete reboot.

[@Hunterese123]

Uncharted 4 was always gonna be the end, in Jason Schriers book Blood sweat and tears, they say they were mulling the idea of ending Uncharted 4 with Amy Henning's version too, Neil and Bruce made it official

[@AB-fr2ei]

Sometimes, i dont want a new uncharted because im afraid they would ruin it

[@AB-fr2ei]

@@_Quiet_Wolf_ yeah prequels about Sully or about adventures of nates

[@knurdyob]

hands down Kempy for nathan drake 2027 (or whenever the inevitable sequel trilogy comes out)

[@AB-fr2ei]

It would have so much better if they kept the temple/java level, the artworks looked beautiful and also the original script Such a shame that amy left Cuckmann should have never touched Uncharted or Naughty Dog I wish we will find more and more about the original game and maybe that amy will talk openly about it, maybe leading to a new director cut version of the game

[@Anderson-vj8sh]

yeah i agree, i'd also hope for the same, i mean its techincally possible to make a directors cut. The game was like halfway through its development when Amy left, so a lot of the orginal cg models, locations and mocaped cutscenes probably already exist somewhere. Nolan North said that they had done like 8 months worth of mocap work for the original game

[@mrsandman3579]

UNCHARTED VS ASAV MOD PLEASEE!!! IN THE BOSS FIGHT OF UNCHARTED 4 IN AVERY'S SHIP OR BOSS FIGHT IN LOST LEGACY TRAIN

[@imnotcarlos]

uncharted 6?

[@isaacduraes7685]

4:19 pirate enemies ?!

[@AB-fr2ei]

Like in 1 and 3 Modern pirates

[@vanillascrump]

can you make more abby mods pls?