Uncharted

I really like Uncharted. I only played Among Thieves, however. I wanted to play both games, but I did not have money for both, so I bought Uncharted 2 because it seemed to be better than the first.

I'm looking forward to Uncharted 3. I think I'll buy both 3 and 1 once 3 is released, assuming I have enough money for that.

Okay, that was pretty awesome.

Everybody's talking about Uncharted 3. Well there's an Uncharted game coming out for the PS Vita called Golden Abyss. "Nathan Drake races into the treacherous river basins, undiscovered temple ruins and karst caverns of Central America in search of a legendary lost city." Any idea which lost city he's looking for this time? On a similair note, what do you think Drake will be looking for in Uncharted 4? Should it ever come out that is.

I tried the demos for both, as well as the second's multiplayer beta, and didn't really get much enjoyment out of them. I just really don't like cover shooters, and for a third-person game hero, I find Drake to be pretty boring to watch.

I'm playing the second game. I'm pretty sure I'm close to the end- Chapter 25 or something. Those purple dudes are really starting to piss me off. At least the crossbow is a one-hit kill.

A crystal skull, probably.

Funny you should make that joke...

Oh The Irony

Calling it now: Elena gets killed. There's got to be a reason why she's barely in the trailers. Plus there's that shot of the villains setting fire to something...

I'm on a complete Uncharted lockdown to preserve myself for the game, but for my fellow Tropers I have a question: do I shell out 110 AUD for the regular collector's edition, or 210 AUD for the bonerific collector's edition?

Uhhhm. I'd just buy the cheapest one. Next year sometime. Maybe March? :P

And then I posted.

Holy crap. I really want to beat the first Uncharted but the damn mutant things are getting in my way. I really wasn't expecting it to turn into a survival horror game.

In general, run and gun tactics are the way to go. Don't aim.

If you're trapped in the large room later, lure them out and take them down - they do respawn, but there's a certain number on the killing floor who won't.

Well, I just beat Uncharted 3. Contrary to popular opinion, I enjoyed the campaign even more than 2's. I admit it has it's flaws- it's overall shorter, the ending segment is spectacularly brief compared to the previous two games, and there are a few plot holes here and there.

It's definitely a lot more cinematic, which I really liked, and had a lot of cool sequences involving delirium and hallucinations. I like that the story is tied more close to home than 1 or 2, and one of the villains really made me want to kill him. Oh, and Charlie Cutter is now my second favorite Uncharted character behind Sully.

Uncharted 3 was better than 2 in a lot of ways, but I still preferred 2. In 3 it wasn't really clear what the villains' plans were (they seemed to be doing everything For the Evulz and weren't after treasure or immortality), and the lack of a real supernatural element was disappointing.

3 doesn't really have anything to match some of 2's set pieces either. The big set-pieces of the cruise ship and the plane come after the mid-game difficulty spike, making them a chore rather than well-paced and fun like the train in 2, especially since it's nigh-impossible to get an accurate headshot on the armoured enemies in 3 (they seem to have a headshot hitbox somewhat above their heads).

edited 18th Aug '12 12:21:23 PM by JimmyTMalice

The magical element in Drake's Deception were the Djinn, which were only actually seen in a hallucination. However, the Djinn were supposedly in the jar that Marlowe and her men were trying to get, in order for them to use their magical powers as a weapon of some sort. Also, the spiders seemed to have been more than ordinary. They seemed like protectors of the secrets everybody was after or something.

The thing I liked about U3 was that the twist was one I wasn't expecting. Oh, dudes are transforming into superhuman beasts again? Nope. And that Drake just decides to thwart the bad guy's plan before the artifact of doom was released. I really didn't expect them >_>

Yeah, but if you're going to pull a bait and switch, I'd have liked there to be a better switch. As is, it's just more of the fighting mini-game.

They could have had a Djinnified Marlowe. That would have been cool.

I like Uncharted 3 better than 2, but the scene towards the end where Drake tries to save Marlowe bothers me. He goes through the game killing hundreds of mooks, but tries to rescue the one who commanded them to attack him. I like Drake when he's more morally ambiguous leaning on good instead of just good.

edited 19th Aug '12 7:55:28 AM by foodbattle

I hated Uncharted 3. My brother agrees. The fights were not that good, there's too many "playable cutscenes" (like the chases, or the hallucination where you take forever to walk through town, or the desert trip, all of which were totally linear and very scripted), and I also hate desert settings, so that element didn't do much for me. We both felt the game was a big step down.

That's partly why The Last of Us is so exciting.

I found 3 to be badly paced, really kinda sporadic with the way it threw things at you. That and there wasn't a strong character based narrative throughout. Elena provides some context towards the end, and the game asks you to feel bad about Sully quite a bit, but neither of those sustains the full game, or even tries to. The narrative is instead interested in flitting between various focusses, before finally settling on Sully through some sloppy bookending that's meant to tie everything together neatly.

Shame that, since the Sully stuff didn't move me. Though the game makes a great deal about how protective Sully is of Nathan, and how protective Nathan is of Sully, it's difficult to see his often teased death as anything but inevitable narrative consequence for a blessed life of skull-duggery. That and the way he inoculated Nathan with the kind of character flaws that are implied to have driven Nate away from Elena positions the text as somewhat unforgiving of the character without forcing the characters to face any of that.

Put simply, for all the pressure that the text places on the bond between Nathan and Sully, the two don't grow as characters. Though the drama seems to be hinting at Nate somehow rejecting Sully and what he represents, and having him finally settle down with Elena, the narrative can't let itself follow through on this, convinced as it is that this represents its ultimate goal. That and the game would have to seriously question the ethics and structure at the heart of its gameplay, something that its flirted with previously (in 2) but realised that it could never properly voice.

The minute Nathan decides that shooting identical strangers for ethically dubious purposes is problematic, the world of Uncharted will simply fall apart.

edited 19th Aug '12 9:23:11 AM by Nicknacks

Phoenixor is introducing me to Uncharted by the sequel. I find it very fun and absorbing to play, despite a few hiccups with the shooters as I am not a fan of those or are any particularly good at them. (MELEE FOR THE WIN!) Still barrels of fun to play. Will pick up Vita version if it's not gifted to me for Christmas or my birthday.

Pho here: Pdam is terrifying when she's allowed to punch people.

edited 22nd Dec '12 12:56:10 PM by phoenixdaughterAM