Post by Steve Farrelly @ 04:16pm 24/05/16 | 15 Comments
Here's a snippet from our review:
Uncharted:Click here for our complete Uncharted 4: A Thief's End review.A Thief’s EndThe Never Ending Escape is, in all honesty, an initial grind. It’s gorgeous to behold, and boldly chooses narrative over call-to-action in the early stages – a factor that never really lets up for a while. You spend most of the first act escaping: from an orphanage, from jail, from your job, from your wife and the seemingly mundane life you’ve both created for yourselves. And the gameplay loop surrounding this is climb, hide, shoot, escape with – barely – minor shifts in approach. And the big new addition of a grappling hook is a missed opportunity that stands as a metaphor for how the whole game treats you, in that you can only ever use it when it’s required, as dictated by Naughty Dog. This might actually be the most on-rails experience in the series thus far.
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Posted 05:22pm 24/5/16
Posted 01:15pm 25/5/16
http://n4g.com/news/1909446/not-all-its-cracked-up
Posted 04:39pm 25/5/16
Posted 04:42pm 25/5/16
U4 is one of the only video games I have enjoyed in ages. I am a big Naughty Dog fan since uncharted 2 though. Last of Us is probably my favourite single player game ever.
last edited by ctd at 16:42:52 25/May/16
Posted 05:46pm 25/5/16
Posted 06:38pm 25/5/16
About a quarter of a way through this and absolutely loving it. One of the best single player experiences I've had of recent times.
I get that the gameplay and style isn't new or revolutionary, and that it's basically the same game 4x over. But it really doesn't need to be any different, it totally works, is more than fun and is an incredible narrative experience.
I don't agree with lamenting it being an 'on rails experience', especially as a guy who doesn't really enjoy MMO's and completely open world games. Different game types are different, you likely wouldn't be able to achieve such a great story experience without it being relatively on rails, just look at the open world games like Division and Fallout. The story or narrative is absent or sucks balls, whilst the open world gameplay is fun. Likewise the story and experience in Uncharted is awesome, however there's no open world, but you don't really miss it imo. Arguably the most successful hybrid of that could be GTA 5, but there's not many others.
I live for games like Uncharted 4, Metro 2033, Deus Ex, The Last of Us, Dishonored, Soma - awesome single player games with great stories that are actual experiences.
Posted 06:16pm 25/5/16
Posted 08:52pm 25/5/16
There's still room in my gaming library for 'on the rails' single player experiences, and this is one of the better ones in recent memory.
Posted 09:20pm 25/5/16
Posted 03:08pm 26/5/16
My opinion is also just really compounded by the pretty forgettable combat. I was just hoping for more beyond being able to hid in grass.
Presentation and story-wise though, it's pretty awesome. Just should have been better.
Posted 05:12pm 04/6/16
While I havent played the game, I did play the other three on PS3, I can sort of agree that you can become a bit jaded. The bullet sponge enemies get it for me, that works when there is variety in the weapons and combat, like in Borderlands (although Borderlands has its own issues), but in Uncharted there isnt that variety.
They are still fun games though and definitely worth buying.
Always great to hear your perspective Steve.
Posted 04:13pm 05/6/16
Towards the end I was starting to a get little sick of finding grounds of bad guys ahead of me all the time.
The other thing that slightly annoyed me is right at the end your wife meets you outside the cave that collapses, but for you to get to the cave in the first place you had to scale a mountain. Why not just go through the back entrance to the cave in the first place and save yourself the hassle....
Posted 04:59pm 05/6/16
pretty sure sam said it was a shortcut going that way because the cave entrance was on the other side of the mountain.
Posted 06:45pm 04/9/16
Posted 08:25am 05/9/16
Obviously Strve knows what makes a good experience, and this review doesn't make me froth and want to rush out and buy a $500 console and a $100 game because I kind of expect the console publishers to do this kind of thing after they've made up such a marketing bubble around an initial IP in a franchise.
The console exclusives are what the developers and publishers create and can later draw influence from to base their decisions about making games like this and to this standard.
Steve says it like it is, he may have some overly negative paragraphs that he can carry on for a bit long before getting back to the point of what he writes these reviews for, but he gets back there eventually and the dialogue carries through to give you a somewhat well rounded or maybe sometimes just a rectangular look at the game.
To call his review retarded is so ignorant and all you're showing is how quick to defend a game that may not add up to what an experienced gamers expectations of a game like this are