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I'm sure there's a thread but search wasn't doing its thing. I haven't played any of the previous games so went in blind.
I picked this up as a free game in April not expecting much but it was excellent. A cracking story and great gameplay along the way.
The puzzles are challenging enough and the game sympathises when you die too much lol. Brilliant when you're a seasonal gamer like me.
It's a long game too, 21 chapters I think. It's been ages since I found a game that I properly enjoyed and lost hours to like this.
I picked this up as a free game in April not expecting much but it was excellent. A cracking story and great gameplay along the way.
The puzzles are challenging enough and the game sympathises when you die too much lol. Brilliant when you're a seasonal gamer like me.
It's a long game too, 21 chapters I think. It's been ages since I found a game that I properly enjoyed and lost hours to like this.
Honestly, I got bored of Drake's Fortune and stopped playing. It is showing its age badly.
Uncharted 2 is great though. Not perfect - so far, the enemies are literally the most boring and generic enemies that I've ever seen. I hope that changes in the second half of the game. And the shooting seems to lack any kind of weight to it - the bullets seem to glide towards their targets (really slowly) and the enemies are weird bullet sponges.
Even on normal it can be quite difficult - I can see it being really irritating on harder difficulties.
Great characters, acting, dialog and set pieces. And it looks great for a last gen game. And the levels/chapters are pleasingly short and snappy so far. It gives it a great pace. The only problem with that is that in four hours I am well over halfway through the chapter numbers. I assume it'll get harder but I can't see it taking more 8 hours.
And as soon as I write that, it makes me wonder if that is really a bad thing anyway? I have played nothing but sprawling open world epics for ages - horizon Zero Dawn, RDR2, AC Odyssey and Origins, Divinity 2. It is refreshing to play a well paced and designed action game that just takes me for a ride. It might be linear but, well, who cares?!
Really enjoying it overall, and apparently the second half is considerably better than the first half. Looking forward to smashing through the rest of the series over the next couple of weeks or so.
Uncharted 2 is great though. Not perfect - so far, the enemies are literally the most boring and generic enemies that I've ever seen. I hope that changes in the second half of the game. And the shooting seems to lack any kind of weight to it - the bullets seem to glide towards their targets (really slowly) and the enemies are weird bullet sponges.
Even on normal it can be quite difficult - I can see it being really irritating on harder difficulties.
Great characters, acting, dialog and set pieces. And it looks great for a last gen game. And the levels/chapters are pleasingly short and snappy so far. It gives it a great pace. The only problem with that is that in four hours I am well over halfway through the chapter numbers. I assume it'll get harder but I can't see it taking more 8 hours.
And as soon as I write that, it makes me wonder if that is really a bad thing anyway? I have played nothing but sprawling open world epics for ages - horizon Zero Dawn, RDR2, AC Odyssey and Origins, Divinity 2. It is refreshing to play a well paced and designed action game that just takes me for a ride. It might be linear but, well, who cares?!
Really enjoying it overall, and apparently the second half is considerably better than the first half. Looking forward to smashing through the rest of the series over the next couple of weeks or so.
I recently started at number 1 and worked through them. Half way through 4 now.
I'm usually a fan of open world games, so the linear gameplay with deliberate set pieces would normally not work for me,but they're so brilliantly done and it is frankly refreshing.
As others have said,the acting is great and makes the characters really likeable. Definitely the most "fun" I've had with gaming in ages.
I'm usually a fan of open world games, so the linear gameplay with deliberate set pieces would normally not work for me,but they're so brilliantly done and it is frankly refreshing.
As others have said,the acting is great and makes the characters really likeable. Definitely the most "fun" I've had with gaming in ages.
Finished number 2. Gave up on number 1 and also have played and finished Golden Abyss on the Vita.
2 was an enjoyable game but I can't quite understand the absolute adoration it gets - masterpiece this, greatest game ever that etc.
It's a solid action game with a couple of good characters and some excellent voice acting, some good set pieces and some great presentation and production values.
But the story is pretty disposable, some of the characters are awful (Chloe in particular), and the main bad guy is as rote and clichéd as any bad guy ever, in the history of all of entertainment. The enemies are completely generic and severely lacking in variety (what are there - 4 variations of generic mercenary bad guy?), the gun play is lacking in weight and impact (what is with the weird, floaty bullets?), it has the least interesting selection of weapons I can remember in a video game, it is unbelievably repetitive, the platforming and climbing sections are pretty pointless as you can't really die unless you press the wrong button and accidentally make Nate fall off, some of the deaths are ridiculous (falling 5 foot into a river = instadeath simply because it isn't part of the level that the developer wants you to go) and there are some infuriating difficulty spikes (the tank battle in the village was an absolute howler).
I honestly feel like I'm missing something, playing it wrong or something as the absolute adoration the game receives is off the charts and it is considered one of the greatest of all time. Yet to me it feels like a really good 7/10, switch your brain off action romp.
The Tomb Raider reboot did a similar job much better to my tastes at a similar time. And the 3rd person cover shooter thing was done infinitely better by the Gears of War franchise (which did other things much worse as well).
So out of 3 games, I've thought two of them are pretty good but shallow, and one I gave up on as it was awful. Apparently 3 is more of the same so I'll probably skip that, wait a few weeks and then do number 4 as I really want to see the resolution to the story.
I'm sure it's an unpopular opinion but there you go.
2 was an enjoyable game but I can't quite understand the absolute adoration it gets - masterpiece this, greatest game ever that etc.
It's a solid action game with a couple of good characters and some excellent voice acting, some good set pieces and some great presentation and production values.
But the story is pretty disposable, some of the characters are awful (Chloe in particular), and the main bad guy is as rote and clichéd as any bad guy ever, in the history of all of entertainment. The enemies are completely generic and severely lacking in variety (what are there - 4 variations of generic mercenary bad guy?), the gun play is lacking in weight and impact (what is with the weird, floaty bullets?), it has the least interesting selection of weapons I can remember in a video game, it is unbelievably repetitive, the platforming and climbing sections are pretty pointless as you can't really die unless you press the wrong button and accidentally make Nate fall off, some of the deaths are ridiculous (falling 5 foot into a river = instadeath simply because it isn't part of the level that the developer wants you to go) and there are some infuriating difficulty spikes (the tank battle in the village was an absolute howler).
I honestly feel like I'm missing something, playing it wrong or something as the absolute adoration the game receives is off the charts and it is considered one of the greatest of all time. Yet to me it feels like a really good 7/10, switch your brain off action romp.
The Tomb Raider reboot did a similar job much better to my tastes at a similar time. And the 3rd person cover shooter thing was done infinitely better by the Gears of War franchise (which did other things much worse as well).
So out of 3 games, I've thought two of them are pretty good but shallow, and one I gave up on as it was awful. Apparently 3 is more of the same so I'll probably skip that, wait a few weeks and then do number 4 as I really want to see the resolution to the story.
I'm sure it's an unpopular opinion but there you go.
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