Chuck Norris
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Is that really necessary?
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Uncharted 3 |OT| All Developers Dream, But Not Equally
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Is that really necessary?
They're not going to help you much on Crushing if you're not fast on your feet and keep moving around. Especially if you don't find a hiding place few seconds after the battle starts. The game will respawn you on shitty location behind the pool. There's one 1st wave fucker who'll play hide and seek with you as well after you kill his comrades.
On Normal, why even bother hiding? Just run/gun + melee those fuckers. ND's new battle system which encourage you to melee and getting in their face works on normal but not on any other higher difficulty.
funkystudent
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was getting burned out on BF3 so I finally played U3 online.
its fun. real fun.
looks a lot better then the summer beta.
its fun. real fun.
looks a lot better then the summer beta.
Oh geeze, that was supposed to be too and period. lol. sorry.
I think I just had "pool" on my mind and typed "tool."
Well, some here's some tips to get you through:
There is around only a dozen
flaming heads throughout the entire game, so if you don't like them, you will not be bothered by them again except in two short sections of the game.
Also, Uncharted is most definitely not a cover based shooter. It is a shooter with a cover mechanic, but doesn't revolve around it. So if you are playing it like gears of war, stick to easy. You need to move around, make use of your agility and traverse the terrain instead of staying in cover on higher difficulties. As a bonus, it is more fun to play this way.
Also, if you move around that section of the game, you will notice that power weapons are littered around the arena. They are there for a reason. If you stick to your standard machine guns, you are going to have a hard time. Pick up the tau snipers, grenade launchers, and rocket launchers which are all around and you'll notice they go down in only few shots. Especially the tau snipers.
R_thanatos
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this stratégy really need people with a complete set of booster at level 3. while it's great . Finding those people randomly will be hard for me .
thanks for the tips anyway
this stratégy really need people with a complete set of booster at level 3. while it's great . Finding those people randomly will be hard for me .
thanks for the tips anyway
Agree with most of what you say here. I thought UC3 was very good but its not UC2. I think a replay of it knowing exactly what to expect will see how strong it is.
My biggest complaint is the overall plot never really goes anywhere and the villains are a HUGE missed opportunity. Marlowe and Talbot are charismatic, they can command a scene as well as the heroes. But they're paper thin. You get no real insight as to really why they are doing what they are, or really explaining who they are with (yeah yeah, illuminati or whatevs). I think when they
kidnapped drake in Yemen or wherever they were, there was an opportunity to add some ambiguity to their methods
Overall the narrative isn't as tight, the conflict isn't as compelling. Very good game but, its missings some things.
This was my experience with that section too. Thankfully it is short-lived, and the tau sniper does come in handy as others have said.
I thought there were worse encounters in general play though. Usually when pinned down by snipers, someone will sneak up to within five metres and you are forced into hand to hand combat with them just before you kill the sniper.
So of course, you end up having to punch and when you do, the sniper kills you.
It's a broken mechanic that really irritated me in the last 3 chapters.
opticalmace
Member
Just finished. In fact I played all 3 of the Uncharteds for the first time in the last 2 weeks.
Thoughts on this one:
+ love love *love* the melee fighting. this was a very welcome addition
+ nice variety of locales
+ some pretty exciting moments (
)
+ great character dialogue
+ story showed lots of promise
- story
- felt kinda short by the end of it, i think it took about 7 hours?
Altogether loved it, but was a bit disappointed by some plot aspects. It was a thrill ride that petered out just a bit towards the end IMO.
UC2 is my fave, but UC3 was great.
Thoughts on this one:
+ love love *love* the melee fighting. this was a very welcome addition
+ nice variety of locales
+ some pretty exciting moments (
burning mansion for example
+ great character dialogue
+ story showed lots of promise
- story
wasted so much of that promise. i felt like the ending cut out like 15 minutes of explanations and more shit going on with marlowe etc.
Altogether loved it, but was a bit disappointed by some plot aspects. It was a thrill ride that petered out just a bit towards the end IMO.
UC2 is my fave, but UC3 was great.
UntoldDreams
Member
Just finished Normal game play for single player and a simple summary is "uneven focus".
I think its production values are through the roof but as others noted the problem is where they focused their engineering efforts. It was ultimately an uneven spread between story, game, and environment.
The story did not live up to the grand set pieces of the environment.
The environment had such a strong focus on setting the atmosphere... that it did not live up to the gaming. There were jaw dropping amazing stretches of corridor with stunning visuals which had little or no gameplay.
...And the gaming itself is always "fun" but really was simply overshadowed by the production values of everything else.
Having a "super awesome waterfall" backdrop or just an adequate backdrop of trees... As far as GAMING is concerned its pretty equivalent. Its nice but does not change gameplay.
Which means if GAMING was not the focus and STORY was not the focus then the ENVIRONMENTAL SET PIECES were nothing more than setting atmosphere.
They could have went the KOJIMA route and made an elaborate story to prop up the game or made more gaming activities out of the set pieces. Either way would have evened it out.
I think its production values are through the roof but as others noted the problem is where they focused their engineering efforts. It was ultimately an uneven spread between story, game, and environment.
The story did not live up to the grand set pieces of the environment.
The environment had such a strong focus on setting the atmosphere... that it did not live up to the gaming. There were jaw dropping amazing stretches of corridor with stunning visuals which had little or no gameplay.
...And the gaming itself is always "fun" but really was simply overshadowed by the production values of everything else.
Having a "super awesome waterfall" backdrop or just an adequate backdrop of trees... As far as GAMING is concerned its pretty equivalent. Its nice but does not change gameplay.
Which means if GAMING was not the focus and STORY was not the focus then the ENVIRONMENTAL SET PIECES were nothing more than setting atmosphere.
They could have went the KOJIMA route and made an elaborate story to prop up the game or made more gaming activities out of the set pieces. Either way would have evened it out.
oh man..
I am just one trophy away from Platinum.. complete a coop game.. sounds easy, but last night the game decided to fuck me. I needed 5 tophies last night for my third ever platinum trophy. I got the first two fast (shot 75 in a row without dying and kill 50 without reloading) .. the third trophy was a bit harder than I expected, had to throw 10 grenades back and kill people.. I simply could not get the enemies to throw grenades. Took me 1 hour to find a good place for this trophy. But once I found the place it was easy enough.
So down to 2 trophies.. play an online multiplayer game. Played deathmatch and that took like 5 min. and that trophy was checked of the list.. so down to the last trophy.
Play an online coop game and finish it. Started an online coop adventure game, and discovered that that game mode is great fun. Played for about 20-30 min. and was just at the end of that game, when the message You have been disconected from PSN popped up.. that meant my trophy was lost.. played coop horde mode (or what ever it is calle) .. played for 20 min. and was at the second to last horde of enemies, when I threw some grenades and used my hammer at a large group of enemies. They all died and then I was back at the menu and a message popped up "You have been kicked form the game, because you killed a teammate. .. I switched off my PS3, and still need that simple trophy for my easy platinum ..
I am just one trophy away from Platinum.. complete a coop game.. sounds easy, but last night the game decided to fuck me. I needed 5 tophies last night for my third ever platinum trophy. I got the first two fast (shot 75 in a row without dying and kill 50 without reloading) .. the third trophy was a bit harder than I expected, had to throw 10 grenades back and kill people.. I simply could not get the enemies to throw grenades. Took me 1 hour to find a good place for this trophy. But once I found the place it was easy enough.
So down to 2 trophies.. play an online multiplayer game. Played deathmatch and that took like 5 min. and that trophy was checked of the list.. so down to the last trophy.
Play an online coop game and finish it. Started an online coop adventure game, and discovered that that game mode is great fun. Played for about 20-30 min. and was just at the end of that game, when the message You have been disconected from PSN popped up.. that meant my trophy was lost.. played coop horde mode (or what ever it is calle) .. played for 20 min. and was at the second to last horde of enemies, when I threw some grenades and used my hammer at a large group of enemies. They all died and then I was back at the menu and a message popped up "You have been kicked form the game, because you killed a teammate. .. I switched off my PS3, and still need that simple trophy for my easy platinum ..
Chuck Norris
Banned
Thats why you take out the sniper first.
Seconded.
Let him decide.
We're just trying to help.
Oh? What does that do and when is it out?
That's what I'm doing. But if they don'y release it until this week next monday I'll begin my play through. I'm tired of waiting... :-(
So it's radically different to the previous 2 games?
I'm thinking the lack of motion blur is just a proper bug, it's not going to get a toggle switch.
You dont think I was aiming at the sniper before the other guy dragged me into a fight when I was happy to stay shooting?
edit:
Basically I was in the middle of shooting down 4 snipers. I had taken 3 down, and the last one was about to be shot by me (whilst both of us were crouching behind cover). Sniper pops his head up, I line him up, and another guy comes out of nowhere from the staircase, and this automatically drags me into a fistfight. Then before even the first staged button mashing sequence ends, the laser scope from the sniper is on me, I knock the other guy out and am promptly shot dead.
It should never have happened if the game didnt insist on making your decisions for you as per priority of how you want to take on the encounters.
It was an example of broken design repeated several times in my playthrough; something neither previous game had.
what lack of motion blur..? are there certain sections of the game that would look better/different with blur..? I really don´t remember the blur in UC2..
The animation will look a lot better and the iq will too.
There IS no motion blur in the game.
Have you ever paused a movie during a fast scene and noticed that the image is blurry? If you pause a game without a motion blur you get a perfect still frame that looks like a screenshot. Motion blur is used to interpolate between frames and smooth out fast action and deliver a more realistic looking experience.
This was expertly used in Uncharted 2 and looked incredible yet was completely missing in the final version of Uncharted 3 (it was present in the beta).
pslayer666
Member
Have to try it yourself lots of different opinions on the aiming.
Thats all I can tell you man.
As much as I do see the difference compared to Uncharted 2 in the whole aiming thing, it's really not bothering me that much.
It did in the beginning, but I got used to it, i'm almost half-way through the game now
where you have to chase Talbot in Yemen and it's kinda platformy I suppose
Been having trouble in the co-op missions though, probably because I play with just one friend and we don't have a third person around, we're getting our asses handed out to us all the time
thank you very much for the description.. 36 years old and still learning new tricks..!
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Yep, Naughty Dog knocked it out of the park with the multiplayer as far as I'm concerned. It's extremely fun and so well put together.
Playing only once a week on game night with friends. We did chapters 13 through 16 before moving on.
That ship is just a crazy level. That is what ND does best: Take something big, give it a lot of detail, turn it sideways and then pour a lot of water on it. Just a crazy scenario that was done so well.
There are still a few bugs if you're in a party, but it's still leagues above UC2's matchmaking.
Hint:
use your light on the black squares on the ground.. they will show some symbols.
Mikey Jr.
Member
Use the fire in your hand and look at the symbols on the floor. Look at each symbol around the main one.
BruiserBear
Banned
This is very likely correct. If we don't get it today, we're probably not getting it til sometime next week. :/
Mikey Jr.
Member
Fan-fucking-tastic.
opticalmace
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