Mr.Fletcher
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A solid game, but one that convinced me Uncharted needs to take a long break and come back with fresh ideas.
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Uncharted: Lost Legacy's gameplay is insane (gifs)
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Fancy Clown
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I don't know what cover shooters you're playing breh, but I can't imagine any of them have you spending more time run and gunning, meleeing, climbing, and rope swinging more than actually popping out of cover like in this game.
Fuck I need to buy this now
AdaWong
Junior Member
If he liked UC 1-3, it means he most likely liked UC4's gameplay as well (which is UC1-3's combat but much improved - that's a fact) but didn't like the pacing and slow-ness of UC4. UC:The Lost Legacy takes the best of UC4 (the combat, which is improved UC1-3 combat) and makes the pacing so much better and tighter (the things UC4 sucked at).
Thus, by proof of induction, hipsterpants will LOVE The Lost Legacy.
That post wasn't detailed enough to provide a case/argument. Don't be fooled, hipsterpants.
The Elite
BOSS
I have the game. It looks that good. No joke.
I play on Crushing. My fights look like garbage, necessary to survive though. Attempting damn near anything in the gifs is a quick path to a checkpoint reload.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Uh. I love SunhiLegend's gifs as much as anyone, and Lost Legacy is probably my favourite Uncharted game to date, but there's nothing special about its gameplay....
The gifs are cherry-picked and slightly doctored (slow-motion etc.) to look cool, but that's about it.
The gifs are cherry-picked and slightly doctored (slow-motion etc.) to look cool, but that's about it.
This is true even on Hard tbh. At the very least, a cool rope swing among gunfire would ruin the gif because of how dark and red and distorted the graphics would suddenly become, if you even survive long enough.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Maybe he's playing a good cover shooter.
If he liked UC 1-3, it means he most likely liked UC4's gameplay as well (which is UC1-3's combat but much improved - that's a fact) but didn't like the pacing and slow-ness of UC4. UC:The Lost Legacy takes the best of UC4 (the combat, which is improved UC1-3 combat) and makes the pacing so much better and tighter (the things UC4 sucked at).
Thus, by proof of induction, hipsterpants will LOVE The Lost Legacy.
That post wasn't detailed enough to provide a case/argument. Don't be fooled, hipsterpants.
He never specified what he dislikes of UC4 and this was about gameplay, so I asumed he meant gunplay and all that.
Since both games are very similar in gameplay, I just warned him, that these gif aren't nothing special and easily replicated in UC4.
Just like UC4 those things can be done, if you have grenade launcher or other high AOE damage weapons. Otherwise most of the time they lead to a painful death.
Played the game for about 2.5 hrs last night, had a blast with it but combat was not all that different than UC4.
Pacing is much better in this one. Given its length I don't think you will get bored of it.
Pacing is much better in this one. Given its length I don't think you will get bored of it.
Yeah. I'm curious if he played on easy to get these gifs lol
I like the game, but the presentation is what is exciting here.
The tag team gif has happened a few times for me in-game and is a brilliant looking finisher, but its completely automated and coincidental. I squeel when I see it(the same way I did witnessing the flamingo flock), but there is no skill or interaction to award here other than the animators made hitting the Action button look pretty awesome. The melee isn't really strong otherwise, very lenient counter window and not really much to say about it other than it's kind of 'A for Awesome' in a more agreeable genre experience.
It's just such a great game. I love the open ended nature to exploration, puzzles, and combat in Chapter 4.
Haha, I often wish the same. I tell you though, Insomniac is surprisingly close up there. Some of the best motion blur in the industry.
Haha, I often wish the same. I tell you though, Insomniac is surprisingly close up there. Some of the best motion blur in the industry.
The Elite
BOSS
I don't know what to tell you but I have played it. PS4 Pro - HDR. Looks phenomenal. Just as good as those gifs.
I have been down on Uncharted 3 and 4. This finally got me excited about the series again. The true successor to Uncharted 2.
The set piece layout deals with a lot of those issues. Multilayered sand boxes with less bullet spongers and a lot more dynamic combat. I vastly preferred combat here to the last two games. They got it right here.
AdaWong
Junior Member
What IF....
...it is...? :3
But seriously, I SWEAR the game looks just as good. Actually. Better, lol.
Nice, I might pick this up. Something new to play between Sonic Mania and Mario + Rabbids. This could make a nice weekend game.
To be clear, I liked UC4 overall, especially its environmental art. Its pacing was just so slow (with some exceptions — I thought the heist chapter was well-paced).
If this is a brisker take on the formula, it could be something special indeed.
Giftofgab24
Member
Anyone know roughly how long it is?
Surprised that there's nothing from the final setpiece in here.
Insomniac's tech is awesome this gen. Love their AA, motion blur, and their temporal injection technique is really impressive. I think ND's games would look amazing with some of those features.
Insomniac's tech is awesome this gen. Love their AA, motion blur, and their temporal injection technique is really impressive. I think ND's games would look amazing with some of those features.
Took me a little over 8 hours.
Dangansona
Member
Wait, so you are telling me you don't just play the game by sitting behind a piece of cover the whole firefight?
eXistor
Member
I mean it looks good, but most of it is canned. Just finished it btw, great fun, but I gotta say, gameplay is the weakest aspect of these games by far; it's nothing more than servicable. It does its job of supporting the story, which is the main draw of these games as it is. I doubt anyone is playing Uncharted for its "insane gameplay" anyway.
Probably doesn't wanna spoil it for people. He could make some ridiculous gifs from that sequence tho.
Having things like optional engagements, forts and open fields in UC4 help -distract- you from how dull it is but the end feeling you're given is about the same. I've never been a huge fan of the series so take from that what you will. Horsing around in the rented Jeep was cute though.
RedAssedApe
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check the MP thread
GinoFelino
Member
This game is amazing
It's mind-boggling how they produced something of this quality as quickly as they did. Shared assets and engine be damned
Feels really fresh due to the new leads, too
It's mind-boggling how they produced something of this quality as quickly as they did. Shared assets and engine be damned
Feels really fresh due to the new leads, too
Just ordered it. I see it costs less than a full-price game because it's shorter (around seven hours, I'm reading). But you know what, that sounds mighty appealing to me these days. Lately I prefer shorter/stronger experiences (i.e. Metal Gear Rising) vs. ones that seem to go on forever.
I'll have my copy... tomorrow! Figured I'd pay a few extra bucks for speedy shipping since the game is cheaper anyways.
The Xtortionist endorsement is strong. (Although he's yet to tempt me into Persona 5!)
(Exceptions being generation-defining titles like Zelda: Breath of the Wild.)
I'll have my copy... tomorrow! Figured I'd pay a few extra bucks for speedy shipping since the game is cheaper anyways.
The Xtortionist endorsement is strong. (Although he's yet to tempt me into Persona 5!)
badcrumble
Member
I think UC4 broadened the horizons of what could be done in combat with the enemy tracking and the rope swinging and generally bigger combat areas, but TLL successfully refocuses that on the combat-sandbox thing in a way that UC4 occasionally floundered with.
The Elite
BOSS
And I have been down on the series. Uncharted 3 and 4 were good but never captured me quite like Uncharted 2 did. I wasn't a big fan of the combat in those games but I have to say it just clicked for me here. The melee brawls feel better. You are never engaged in a firefight for that long that it becomes boring. There is nothing like those endless enemy spawn situations like in some of the previous games. The bullet sponge enemies show up towards the end but it doesn't even take that long to take them down. They weren't as frustrating as I previously remembered.
It's all packed into a six hour adventure which helps a great deal.
This sounds great. Sounds like a game that understands itself. Like it has a balance that Uncharted 4 struggled to find.
Yeah, the tropes (even the ones from UC4) are very obvious now, almost immersion breaking.
Still, beautiful game with good characters.
AdaWong
Junior Member
See you in the OT with your impressions! I can't stress how much you'll like this, knowing your taste from the Revelations 1 and 2 days.
badcrumble
Member
Yep. I think it's got the most refined stealth takedown/melee combat mechanics in the series, too, and that makes a difference, but the biggest thing is the consistently fantastic level design/enemy layout and the pitch-perfect pacing. It feels like this game's designers understood that it's better to make a given enemy encounter challenging by adding a single very specific variable to it (that APC! that helicopter!) that the player has to deal with than to just throw tons of enemies and/or do the bullet sponge thing.
I adored the basic go-in-and-out-of-stealth freedom of UC4 but this feels like that freedom combined with UC2's sheer tightness of encounter design.
To be fair it has been around 15 months since UC4 came out. This is pretty standard.
Just saw this. Always like hearing your take, Gino. This makes me feel extra secure in my purchase. Gonna try to squeeze this one in before the Rabbids invade my Switch next week!
Astral Dog
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uh thats not something i expected to hear from a sequel to Uncharted 4
Awesome, glad to hear.
This game clearly has the characters and art down, which were the greatest strengths of UC4, but it sounds like the pacing is brisker now to let the combat and traversal shine. I also like that it can be done in under 10 hours. Hype has gone from 0 to 100!Could've sworn it said spoilers in the title at first. Probably for the best though, people need to experience it during gameplay themselves.
More_Badass
Member
The pacing and arena design is better. More conducive to switching between tactics on the fly
Yeah its not like anyone plays the multiplayer...
Underwhelming GIFs considering the title, but I enjoyed UC4 well enough despite Nate and his dumb ass quips and the struggling pacing. Actually enjoyed it much more than the earlier games, probably because it was a joy to look at.
No Nate, better pacing, still a joy to look at? Might check this out tomorrow.
e: and this still has MP? Because I really got into that in 4, but dropped it for some reason. Maybe this'll be my MP game for the winter.
e2: downloading lol
No Nate, better pacing, still a joy to look at? Might check this out tomorrow.
e: and this still has MP? Because I really got into that in 4, but dropped it for some reason. Maybe this'll be my MP game for the winter.
e2: downloading lol
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Uncharted 4 is the same, in fact there are gifs around with the same awesomeness in them from U4, people just haven't seen them or can't pull stuff like that off.
for me thats the fun of playing, U4/TLL has the best combat gameplay around, nothing touches it if you know what you're doing.
for me thats the fun of playing, U4/TLL has the best combat gameplay around, nothing touches it if you know what you're doing.
badcrumble
Member
I *do* think Uncharted still struggles a little bit with a 'why' for the huge wide-linear exploration segments, but this game absolutely did a better job with that than UC4, even if Uncharted's fundamentals as a series and lack of RPG/resource-gathering elements mean it'll never be able to reward exploration as well as TLOU does.
This sounds good, but can you elaborate? Sounds like you're saying the exploration stuff feels better paced and more purposeful/impactful, even if it still serves the same purpose (i.e. primarily to link setpieces, combat arenas, and story moments)?
When I think of poor pacing in UC4, I think of how Scotland had me climb the same walls in the same sort of way a million times. It all felt very samey climbing and sliding through those caves. They could've reduced that section by 25% and it would've still felt long in the tooth.
PeskyToaster
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Who uses cover when you can SWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
The game seems like a really good build on the approach 4 took as well as a well reasoned response to the criticisms of it. They didn't just make a game with constant combat like the first two games, they just made puzzles, traversal, and exploration more interesting and all the elements more interwoven.
This sounds perfect. I'll try to keep my expectations in check, but this pretty much sounds like what I had hoped UC4 would be. I frankly haven't been following this game since I assumed it would suffer from the same bloat UC4 did, so I know next to nothing about it.
badcrumble
Member
Well, there's a sidequest, and it *does* unlock something useful. And the wide-linear area does have you achieve several goals in an order of your choosing.