nelsonroyale
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Eric WK said:
Some of the set pieces they pull off in this game are just incredible
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Some of the set pieces they pull off in this game are just incredible
Hypereides
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I'll be on later tonight guys :B
Dedication Through Light
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decon said:
What do you mean?
xenorevlis
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I updated my Drake's Fortune after Uncharted 2 came out, which then triggered the extra money.Miburou said:
ShinoguTakeruKoeru
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Got the Steel Fist Master trophy, but not the in-game medal. Wonder what's up with that.
What I did was just use them after unlocking them from the in-game store throughout playthroughs.Curufinwe said:
bone_and_sinew
breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
That's happened to me too. Also happened with another Trophy/medal, but I can't remember which.ShinoguTakeruKoeru said:
Catalix
And on the sixth day the LORD David Bowie created man and woman in His image. And he saw that it was good. On the seventh day the LORD created videogames so that He might take the bloody day off for once.
Damn, same here.ShinoguTakeruKoeru said:
I got the pop-up message for both the Steel Fist Master medal and the trophy. When I look it up in the menu, the trophy icon is highlighted, but there's no green check mark next it. Some kind weird of bug I guess. But I still got the Platinum trophy, so I didn't care all that much.
Highlight and choose the weapon from the in-game store (after purchasing) to enable it during gameplay.Curufinwe said:
I've been playing Assassins Creed 2 all this week, thinking what an amazing looking game that is, I thought to myself "man this shit is almost comparable to UC2 considering the open world nature of the game".
What a retarded thing to think.
Just now I figured I'd finish up the couple of treasures I have left to complete my platinum. I really wish I hadn't done this while playing AC2.
It's when you go back and forth from the competition that you really start to appreciate Uncharted 2's graphics. All this while the framerate is soooo buttery-smooth. Man this shit feels nice after being subjected to screen tear and stuttering for days.
BTW has anyone else tried out very easy mode? It's fucking hilarious. The game virtually plays itself. The auto-aiming is ridiculous.
What a retarded thing to think.
Just now I figured I'd finish up the couple of treasures I have left to complete my platinum. I really wish I hadn't done this while playing AC2.
It's when you go back and forth from the competition that you really start to appreciate Uncharted 2's graphics. All this while the framerate is soooo buttery-smooth. Man this shit feels nice after being subjected to screen tear and stuttering for days.BTW has anyone else tried out very easy mode? It's fucking hilarious. The game virtually plays itself. The auto-aiming is ridiculous.
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yep! I don't see how anyone would have got the GAU trophy in a reasonable amount of time without it.Justin Dailey said:
Ninja Scooter
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just finished the game. Aside from a frustrating final battle, i loved every minute of it. The most surprising thing was how much I loved the controls and battle mechanics of the firefights. They were insanely fun to the point where I was hoping to run into a group of enemies around every corner so I could stalk them and take them out one by one with stealth attacks or go in guns blazing. That was probably the most surprising thing for me. I kinda wish i had picked up UC1 as my next game instead of MGS4. Nothing against Metal Gear as im only about an hour into it, but going from controlling Nate, smoothly going from cover to cover, or interacting with the environment, kinda spoils me when you go from that to Solid Snake, who's moves and controls are so archaic in comparison. I know they are different kinds of games but its still kinda jarring.
Unknown One
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I never really like the direction MGS3 and 4 went to. Mostly you're on the floor most of the time. Uncharted 2 seems more of a MGS1 approach which I like better.
Ballistictiger said:
The stealth ideas in MGS never evolved, they have stayed roughly the same. What they did is add the camouflage mechanic, which is just really awful and pure nonsense in the way that is used in the games.
Uncharted 2 has better and more natural stealth mechanics than any MGS game.
Finally managed to finish a co-op game on Sanctuary in crushing with a friend, the two of us alone. God... I think it took us more than 40 minutes to finish it, and the thing is, it was our first time getting past the first bridge between two towers. There are times where you are so overwhelmed by gun fire that you're just able to fire a couple of times and go back to cover and that's definitely not enough to kill armored guys. Those are the times where you miss a third partner, at least to draw some attention away from you.
One down, two to go.
Next time I'll try to capture it in HD, but I think I'm gonna need a new HDD for that :lol
One down, two to go.
Next time I'll try to capture it in HD, but I think I'm gonna need a new HDD for that :lol
lucablight
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I just finished this one. Can someone explain to me how Uncharted 2 is a huge improvement on the original? They're both great games but I'm trying to figure out why the first game didn't receive as much universal acclaim as the second one. The main thing the second one has over the first one is the stunning graphics otherwise they seem to be pretty identical in terms of gameplay. I thought the first one had a better plot.
Was the first one mainly ignored because of the PS3 hate that existed at the time?
Was the first one mainly ignored because of the PS3 hate that existed at the time?
Bearillusion
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lucablight said:
I too preferred the story in the first. UC2 is completely awesome though.
TheVisualizer
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lucablight said:
I don't know, we must have played different games because Uncharted 2 was balls to the wall action with near perfect pacing whereas the gameplay of Uncharted 1 walked a fine line between fun & tedious. Nothing in Uncharted rivals the awesomeness of any of the big crazy set pieces/levels they cooked up for the sequel.
I popped Drake's Fortune in a week or so before Amongst Thieves came out to take it for a spin and could only bring myself to play a little past when the plane crashes as thats where it transitions into a chore to play thru for me. I don't anticipate I will have those feelings on my 2nd playthrough of Uncharted 2.
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Bearillusion said:
ya I wish there was more to the story than just a lunatic on the loose. But I will say the pacing was really awesome.
RadarScope1
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Finished it last night. I dug the ending, even though the
was utterly predictable. At least they avoided the temptation to
Overall a great experience. Bravo, Naughty Dog. As someone said earlier, when you consider ND's body of work since the PS1 it's really an impressive string of titles. Not only have they been great games in their own right, but they've defined the PlayStation hardware library throughout.
Any advice for jumping from easy to hard and skipping normal? Easy was indeed easy, so I'm thinking it won't be too big a deal to skip normal.
run-like-hell-while-everything-crashes-down-around-you sequence
rip off Last Crusade by giving a dying Elena some of the amber.
Overall a great experience. Bravo, Naughty Dog. As someone said earlier, when you consider ND's body of work since the PS1 it's really an impressive string of titles. Not only have they been great games in their own right, but they've defined the PlayStation hardware library throughout.
Any advice for jumping from easy to hard and skipping normal? Easy was indeed easy, so I'm thinking it won't be too big a deal to skip normal.
Tenkai Star
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I am gonna stop playing this game competitive online until I get a playlist without explosives. Preferably without autoaim shotgun and pistole as well. They can keep the weapons, just remove the autoaim.
Until then its Coop only.
Until then its Coop only.
Uncharted 2's steep multiplayer leveling curve makes me wonder why console games haven't adopted a world of warcraft style rest xp system.
There are plenty of good reasons for doing this
Yes, it would make the leveling faster, but if you've played into the deep 40s or 50s you'd know that's not such a bad thing.
Casual players would be able to make better progress and would be more inclined to log on every weekend after accruing rest XP. And if they have to take a really long break from the game, they have a good incentive waiting for them when they return. Basically, I think it would help retain a larger player base.
And yeah, a lot of people would play the game once a day for 2 hrs or so and then probably stop after their rest XP ended, but what's wrong with that?
I guess a simple solution would be to make every weekend double XP, but Uncharted 2's leveling system is really making me long for MMO-style rest xp system.
What say you GAF?
There are plenty of good reasons for doing this
Yes, it would make the leveling faster, but if you've played into the deep 40s or 50s you'd know that's not such a bad thing.
Casual players would be able to make better progress and would be more inclined to log on every weekend after accruing rest XP. And if they have to take a really long break from the game, they have a good incentive waiting for them when they return. Basically, I think it would help retain a larger player base.
And yeah, a lot of people would play the game once a day for 2 hrs or so and then probably stop after their rest XP ended, but what's wrong with that?
I guess a simple solution would be to make every weekend double XP, but Uncharted 2's leveling system is really making me long for MMO-style rest xp system.
What say you GAF?
Well I believe the max you can get is 50k a match. This is not really attainable in normal circumstances. You may fare better in the cooperative modes for cash if you're not so good at killing or doing objectives.kikanny said:
Eventually you will unlock a skill called deposit which doubles your objective based rewards. Other than that, there's really not much to it beyond simply playing a lot and being good at killing and getting medals.
They did a lot of tweaking to enemy behaviour and all the little cues that go along with it. One recurring issue with UDF was that people would swear up and down they pumped clips worth of bullets into an enemy when they actually did nothing but miss. They simply misread the "dodge" animation for a "stagger".lucablight said:
Audio and animation cues are clearly tweaked to make the game clearer, while maintaining difficulty.
I think the rest is all level design. UDF was fine, but with Uncharted 2 they hit it out of the park.
Dedication Through Light
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kikanny said:
You should have taken advantage of the Halloween weekend thing, I went from level 1 to 30 that weekend. Anyway, the rest is just scoring kills and medals
I never had any issues with Drake's Fortune, so I'm definitely not in the camp that says "holy crap what a massive difference in control", but going back to DF after U2 it's pretty easy to notice the improvements. First off is the increased closeness of the camera when you aim, it's much more like GeoW in U2, and it really does help to aim somewhat. Taking cover is also way smoother. In U2 Drake he just walks over somewhere and crouches down, it's actually pretty lame to watch after playing U2. Even just the way Drake moves around, everything flows better in the sequel. They're minor things, but it makes a difference. Just controlling Drake feels so smooth and just feels right.
Or then again maybe those people are playing U2 on very easy or easy mode which have a disgusting amount of auto-aim, making them believe they are better at playing Uncharted now
Even just the way Drake moves around, everything flows better in the sequel. They're minor things, but it makes a difference. Just controlling Drake feels so smooth and just feels right. Or then again maybe those people are playing U2 on very easy or easy mode which have a disgusting amount of auto-aim, making them believe they are better at playing Uncharted now
KilgoreTrout
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Starting tomorrow, I'm back in Uncharted 2 land. I've missed my baby deeply.
The first one had horrible pacing that made the game less than fun to play from start to finish. The integration of the platforming with the shooting was half-assed. The first one is a good game. the second one is an amazing game. Good pacing is the difference between a B game (Uncharted) and A+ (Uncharted 2).lucablight said:
Multiplayer Question. I finally played a bit of competitive multi with some friends a few nights ago. My friend and I could NOT talk to each other. It didn't even detect that we had mics. However, my other two friends could hear us both perfectly. We were actually communicating to each other through the echo in one of my friends' TVs. Has anyone had this problem where they can't connect to certain people and if so, how did you fix it? It's really annoying.
sloppyjoe_gamer
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Just platinum'd this tonite!!!
I was soo pissed...i got to the end of chapter 25 on crushing and it fricken froze on me!!! I hadnt saved in a bit, so when i restarted my PS3 i was back at the beginning of 25 again.
Anyhow, glad thats over with....:lol
I was soo pissed...i got to the end of chapter 25 on crushing and it fricken froze on me!!! I hadnt saved in a bit, so when i restarted my PS3 i was back at the beginning of 25 again.
Anyhow, glad thats over with....:lol
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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unomas said:
Nope. Infact, a little big harder.
unomas said:
And graphically, it's not too bad as well. The sequel may have more "wow" effects/features (e.g. SSAO), but I found that the textures in the original were equally detailed. Also, in my opinion, Uncharted: DF had far fewer noticeable repeating textures (other than the open sea, which you only see two-to-three times).
http://www.cynamite.de/_misc/galler...nal=/imgserver/bdb/108500/108594/original.jpg
Uncharted was the first game I bought for the PS3, and it was great to play through. After five times, it never got too boring, and it's $29.99 now as well.
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Yeah, I kinda feel like that with every other game I play now. It's always like going from controlling a living being in UC2, to controlling what seems like robot, everywhere else. They nailed controls and animation so much, it's unbelievable.Ninja Scooter said:
I tried it, and while it's funny how easy the shooting becomes, it's an ideal addition for someone who wants to go through it just for the story, characters, scenery etc. but has no aiming/shooting skills, or no interest in dying and retrying. I think it's smart they added it considering I can totally see someone who has never played a game before enjoying this game.jett said:
This happens when you go into chapter without saving and win the medal/trophy. When you load your save next time you play the game, the trophy will be remembered (as it's saved system wide) but medal won't be as it's saved in game's save file. If you want to, you can just get the medal again by doing what you are supposed to do for it, but make sure you have your save file active while playing.Catalix said:
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