Baroquemantic
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Uncharted 3 soured a very vocal minority. I'm betting the vast majority of people who played it enjoyed it just as much as they did Uncharted 2.
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Uncharted 4 spoiler free early copy impressions
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Sounds about right, loved Uncharted 3 and don't understand the fuss at all.
Everything in this post is like bizarro world for me. Not only you dislike the fact it's been made by the last of us guys, you're even looking forward to Tomb Raider instead.
But hey, it's your opinion. It's only that I couldn't disagree more.
I recently played all 3 (Remastered), and thought number 3 was still incredible. The story is definitely a lot more inconsistent though, and the lack of proper hit reactions is a bit of a sore point.
crazyivan19
Member
I was relatively late to the party with the PS3 in general, so I had the opportunity to play all 3 Uncharted's back to back to back, and I heavily concur with this. I loved Uncharted 3 nearly as much as I did UC2, and the latter is a game I consider a masterpiece. The last "boss" was the only thing that holding UC3 back from the same status, but otherwise it was a fantastic game. I bought and played through the remaster and foudn the same thing is true on my second (and third) playthrough of the series, as well.
IMHO, of course.
Maybe, but my point still stands about TLOU.
cyber_ninja
Member
Same here. I still can't decide whether I prefer Uncharted 2 or 3.
I was part of that minority - only played through it once on the PS3 and couldn't bring myself to touch it again - the shooting mechanics were horrendous and it felt more like a chore to get through then anything else....
....until I got the UC collection and man I enjoyed 3 a hell of a lot more that time around. Bluepoint did a good job correcting the "issues" I had with the original and I've come to appreciate UC3 more then I did. It's still not god tier like 2 is but it's a damned good game.
My thoughts too. I'm not a TPS fan, yet I enjoyed iy immensely. Sure I liked 2 better, but liked 3 more than 1.
One important factor people aren't considering in the "normal or hard first time" debate is that the encounters are different on Hard and Crushing, with more enemies in different positions than Easy or Normal.
For this reason I'll be playing on Normal first-time. Unusual for me, but this means when I try Crushing it'll be like far newer experience second time round, with unexpected placements to deal with
Unless, of course, Normal is piss-easy, in which case I'll bump it up.
For this reason I'll be playing on Normal first-time. Unusual for me, but this means when I try Crushing it'll be like far newer experience second time round, with unexpected placements to deal with
Unless, of course, Normal is piss-easy, in which case I'll bump it up.
MisterR
Member
Yep, 3 was a fantastic game.
MiamiWesker
Member
I'm playing on hard, I love the aggressiveness of the enemies. When you get spotted they swarm from all sides. Trying to hide in one spot is basically death, you have to move constantly which goes with the games strength.
Uncharted 3 undoubtedly had some issues, as does its predecessors. I just struggle to see how they dampen the game to the degree that some people proclaim, it is rather bewildering. I can see how people could raise an issue with the hit reactions and story though. Personally I found the game to be a step up from 2. The combat sequences seemed less tedious, the presentation was raised to 11, young Nathan's story was interesting and the locations glued with my own taste. Seeing the London skyline for the first time was mind blowing.
Yeap. Plus I actually thought the set pieces were even more elaborate, and the combat more dynamic. I think the metacritic scores for the games are fair tbh (UC3 is at 92). Though for me personally, Uncharted 2 is a straight 10.
Debating between the two would certainly be interesting, both are superb.
Have you been marking enemies and trying to stealth, or just been going in guns blazing?
Ghost Slayer
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One thing people won't deny that set pieces in U3 are more ambitious than U2 on scale. Even til this day, no game has match that sinking ship sequence.
To think that we are so close to a game that could out class them both is so very exciting! You may very well be playing another 10 soon enough, let's hope.
MGSV CQC has lot more depth and every action is player-driven [3X Combos, interrogation, Disarm, Holds, Up-and-Over and Corner Holds, counter, Throws, Into Walls throws, Hold-Up, Trip, The Boot]. what you are doing in uncharted is hitting one button and game is changing its animation accordingly. You have less control over drake than snake
MiamiWesker
Member
Trying yeah, being successful no. There is no way to alter guard routes, you can't distract them or anything so I don't have the patience to always wait for an opening. No silenced weapons so I can't kill from afar either. I get a few down then I get bored and shoot everyone. The firefights are the fun parts anyway.
What hyperbole in this post, lmao. Thisisgaf.gif
Yeap. Don't think I've been this excited for a game since, well, Uncharted 3 lol.
Agreed. Playing them all back to back just a few months ago, it really stamped home just how impressively ambitious and insane U3's set pieces were. The capsizing cruise ship is just magnificent. Not just when you're hanging on that giant chandelier whilst the glass is cracking etc, but even when you're running through and away from it, it whilst the shop and rooms are sideways or upside down. And then the desert plane crash as well. Just awesome.
For some reason I don't think UC4 will match these other set pieces for overall epicness, but I think they'll have a different sort of quality in being more dynamic and mechanically superior in terms of gameplay. Not long now till we find out!
Most of the stealth sections aren't forced...they're encounters where you can choose how to approach...and you can take out pretty much all the enemies that way.
Everyone i know loved Uncharted 3 including myself, i had to know Gaf to know some people didnt like it haha
Uncharted 3 was the best selling and most played aswell.
Too many things left it a solid notch below 2. 2 will always be one of my favorite game. 3 will be forgotten in time by me. Forgotten much already.
Damn, that's the shortest time frame anyone has beaten the game yet. How many treasures did you manage to collect?
It's really easy to highlight Uncharted 3's problems. The story was really bad, constructed around unbelievable set pieces in a way that was nonsense at times and really badly paced.
The gameplay encounters were inconsistent in quality, with really bad stealth (it's much improved in U4).
These are observations that are easy to make. For some people, this didn't bother them. For others, this was the key to U3 being worse than U2.
U4 is definitely a return to form in terms of careful story and pacing design.
derExperte
Member
Don't forget that the launch was a mess, controls were busted and GAF started a campaign to get them fixed. Even after the patch it didn't feel right to me, by that time all hype was gone and the rest of the game felt like lots of left-over ideas that weren't good enough for U2. Huge disappointment overall.
Good to hear that from someone who had problems with 3 too.
Did you try stealth much on Hard? I'm assuming pattern routes don't change since it has no chance of being a deep as something like mgs.
I see a lot of people gushing over Uncharted 4 who say they were also in love with the series before that. What if you think the previous ones were okay/decent? Like I'd rate them 5/10, 8/10 and 7/10 respectively; mostly because of predictable plots and rather one note gameplay. Does this feel like a different game, or very much like the previous ones?
I am now on chapter 22 on the ps4 version and I like it much better than 2. I hated 2 because the enemies took way too many bullets to kill and it really made me hate the gunplay sections.
I like 3 way better than 2. After replaying 2 last fall I had no excitement for 4, but having played through 3 this past few weeks makes me upset excited for 4.
Too many numbers in this post lol.
hey_it's_that_dog
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Look up the word hyperbole and reflect upon why a plainly stated opinion that differs from your own feels like an extreme exaggeration to you.
SlasherJPC
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The change in gameplay choices for shooting is miles above. I was playing Uncharted 2 last night and it's crazy how basic the enemy encounters feel in comparison now.
Much like previous.
Total treasures: 22/109
Total journal entries: 10/25
Total notes: 11/23
Conversations : 14/36
Total of 153 headshots
No, I wasn't rushing. I was actually exploring quite a fair bit. The treasures are really hard to spot and the optional conversations can be glitchy, since sometimes I would go talk to someone and an animation cancels the prompt.
Why are you being a hater on the single player? You suggested that other Uncharted games were better in this regard. That suggests that you had issues with story and pacing because if you're saying the gameplay is worse, I'm saying gtfo. Try not to give any type of spoiler in your response if possible and if you aren't able to do that, just ignore my post, lol.
9-10.
YankeeDonB
Member
How do you feel the "wide linear" approach works with the story pacing? Do things always move at a brisk pace, or is there potentially a lot of pointless dicking around without much payoff?
What I'm most curious about is how the game handles larger areas -- I'm really a story-driven rpg guy, and there the side content/exploration usually has some character progression/new item type payoff.
StrongBlackVine
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To be fair, AKyemeni is probably pretty/really good and doesn't need as much retries as the usual players do for certain encounters.
I guess I feel the need to explain it. So here goes.
I dislike stealth games in general. I'm terrible at them so I don't find them fun. That tended to sour me on TLoU I got about halfway through before looking up what happened via YouTube. It was cool for what it was. It's just not something I enjoyed. In general I preferred Amy Hennings scripts in uncharted 1 and 3 over Druckmans work on U2. So the fact Druckman dumped 8 months worth of Hennings work on U4 makes me look at it in a slightly negative light, As for Tomb Raider. I enjoyed the first and loved Riana Pratchett's work in TR2013 and in Mirrors Edge. So that game has more of my faith right now.
I didn't say it was bad. It doesn't leave a tenth of the impression 2 did, tho.Yeah, Uncharted 3 was bad you guys.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Nostalgia and memory can be a bit silly along with expectations. Me and the wife were playing Uncharted 1 and then started 2. 4 arrived, we jumped into that. Now that I've exp 4, the jump back to 2 is jaring from obviously a visual perspective but also gameplay, shooting, etc. It truly makes me appreciate 4 even more.