20 Things You Didn't Know About Uncharted

16. Actor Troy Baker Was A HUGE Fan Of The Series Long Before He Was Cast

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One of the most experienced voice actors in the gaming industry, Troy Baker has appeared in a ridiculous amount of titles over the last ten years, from Far Cry 4 to Batman: Arkham City, and Death Stranding to The Last of Us.

It's been a long and successful career so far, and in a way, he has Uncharted to thank for it.

On numerous occasions, Baker has mentioned that he played Drake's Fortune around the same time it launched, and that it made him want to get into video game performance capture - which, at that point, was still in its primitive stages:

"I remember sitting in a hotel room in Texas on a really terrible movie and the only solace that I had was that a friend of mine let me borrow their PS3 – this is back in 2007 – and he said: ‘You have to play this game.’ So I started playing Uncharted... I really had no idea of their process and how they made this, and as I dug in a little bit deeper I found out they were really the tip of the spear when it came to, at that point, motion capture and that created the process of performance capture. All I knew is that that’s what I wanted to do. I had to find a way to do that."

It's rare that fans of something actually get to end up working on the thing they adore, but in this case, Baker hit the jackpot when he joined Uncharted 4 as a long-lost Drake brother.

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