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Uncharted 3 reviews
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Biggest disapointment with EG's review wasn't the score, it was the admission of mentioning the 3D. Might be in the minority, but I definetly would've want to know his opinion on it. I know Shane from Gametrailers mentioned it was among the best he'd seen in a game on one of the IW episodes.
Oh well.
Oh well.
SolidSnakex
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DangerStepp said:
Someone in this thread posted a comment saying that they understood why Greg Miller's (the IGN reviewer) wife divorced him. Another person called him (Greg) a douchebag.
flabberghastly
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The problem I have with all the cinematic experience claims and defenses I see of Uncharted is precisely the kind of cinematic experience it provides. I honestly agree with what Simon Parkin said in Eurogamer's GOTY2009 article:lowrider007 said:
There's nothing wrong with a big, dumb feel-good matinee, and Uncharted 2 certainly deserved every accolade laid at its feet, but is that really what we're going to point to as our very medium's best in the last 12 months? Dead Nazis, yetis, stubble and one-liners? It's like picking The Temple of Doom over the Seventh Seal.
While I won't go so far to claim that there was any Seventh Seal-level game released in 2009, I do find it very telling that the sorts of cinema that developers most often emulate is the standard style-over-substance action blockbuster. The scripting and corridors might be more forgivable if Naughty Dog was achieving more - or even just attempting to achieve more - than letting me play a polygonal Indiana Jones. The games are fun (don't get me wrong), but they're stupid fun, that makes me feel like I should finish it with buttered popcorn grease dripping from my fingers and someone else's spilled soda sticking my shoes to the ground.
An absurd degree of cognitive dissonance exists in the Uncharted series. It's an adventure game, but you're never really permitted by the developers to go off and adventure. You stick to their banal movie script, with one and only one task: be Nolan North's stunt double.
LeonSKennedy90
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Ricky_R said:
No I am not. But let me say he has excellent taste in choosing usernames!
Ryu Hayabusa
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Drake has too many animations btw
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/u...archive/2011/10/24/uncharted-3-rev-dummy.aspx
flabberghastly said:
Isn't the game an action adventure third person shooter? The adventure aspect is the theme of the game, the locations, story, etc.
ND never intended to make an open world game in which exploring was one of the main aspects of it, or they would have done just that.
DangerStepp
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Jeez, that's grim. C'mon, people, I thought we had more class than that.SolidSnakex said:
Wasn't there a point in time where that kind of stuff was ban-worthy?
SuicidalSteve
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BruiserBear said:
You see, and here lays the "problem". You mention "storytelling" and "cinematic tone" are "above and beyond almost any game today", but not everyone likes when those things are the focus of video games. It seems this was the main problem for the Eurogamer reviewer - that the game tries too much to be cinematic to the point it restricts the gamer.
It's similar to the GoW vs DMC/Bayonetta thing - one is clearly focusing on epic storytelling and set pieces, the other ones are focusing on tight combat engine and don't mind having cheesy story. Can you think both are great? Sure. But if someone who prefers challenging games with deep combat engine was to review God of War game you should not be surprised if his opinion on the game was that the game is just good. And the opposite - I know people who can't get into DMC games because they aren't cinematic enough and are too hard. Two different words, the same genre (according to some gamers).
The same goes with Uncharted. It focuses on scripts, linearity and cinematic set pieces, and that's great. But there are people who prefer their action adventure games to be more than interactive movies and you can't say they don't have the right to speak it up. This is also why I'm worried about the new Tomb Raider game, because it seems it takes too much inspiration from Uncharted and replaces challenging platforming and puzzle solving with scripted sequences and QTE.
BruiserBear
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DangerStepp said:
and you would be wrong about that. You haven't seen me arguing about any 9/10 reviews, have you?
Sneds said:
Well, I guess a reviewer reviewing an RPG had better account for my lack of interest in RPG gameplay formulas, right?
smh
lucius
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darkwing said:
There are much more 10/10's than 8/10's for this game so the 8 people are in minority, but they have every right to their view. The only low review that concerned me was Sessler's review since I usually agree with him except for LA Noire which after time has passed hasn't stood up as much as he hyped it. I am actually going into U3 with lowered expectations which will probably be good since after the Batman AC reviews I was expecting it to blow away Batmam AA and while the city is cooler and with more things to do the first game seemed more focused, there is less stealth also which is a shame so it isn't in all ways better than AA like the hype lead me to believe.
SuicidalSteve said:Podcast for eurogamer is out and talks about the Score of U3...Heard that the person talking didn't play much multiplayer hmmm?
Here
Personally i couldn't care less about MP.
The Uncharted games for me were always about delivering a great SP campaign and this looks like it's no exception.
Uncharted 2 is one of my favorite games of the past few years.
DangerStepp
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I missed those, but your most recent posts have argued that Uncharted 3 is the end-all be all of gaming and 8/10, 4/5 reviews are click-bait.BruiserBear said:
How am I to assume anything different ? :lol
The perfect Dark
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they will sell the game tomorrow...do we now have an early release (27./28.) or not?
spielegrotte.de
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they will sell the game tomorrow...do we now have an early release (27./28.) or not?
Square Triangle
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Where is my OT?!
They need to start marking games using a rubric system.
I do not have any problems with the U3 reviews but I am noticing lately in game reviews in general the writing is having no connection with the score at all. And the outcry over publications giving a game 8/10 is just ridiculous.
I do not have any problems with the U3 reviews but I am noticing lately in game reviews in general the writing is having no connection with the score at all. And the outcry over publications giving a game 8/10 is just ridiculous.
LeonSKennedy90
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jett said:
If we told you, it wouldn't be a secret, now would it?
perineumlick
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I don't know why people keep trying to change the type of game ND has made; Uncharted is their vision, and that's it. I don't think they should apologize or be docked points for it either. If you want an open world game, there are plenty of options out there. To belittle the Uncharted game experience as just big dumb fun that's undeserving of high praise is pompous and pretentious too; since when are videogames supposed to be judged on how high-browed they are to be considered GOTY quality?Ricky_R said:
web01 said:
I don't think the point is the score, frankly. I would be amazed in the same way if they gave it a 10/10. It's the point that comes out of the review that gives me a huge, MGS-like "?" on the head and makes me wonder what he was searching for in the game and didn't find.
I am a huge Uncharted fan and Uncharted 2 is my favourite game of all time. The only way Uncharted 3 could be better to my mind is provide a better final boss.
For those complaining that Uncharted is too linear, I really don't know what you expected from the game. Its part of the Uncharted's make up and fair enough if you don't like it, but I for one don't want to see Naughty Dog make this world into an open world. In in it for the story, characters and experience. Id rather see Naughty Dog make another IP then destroy the focus of Uncharted.
As for the Eurogamer review, 8/10 to me means that despite Simon not feeling the game much, he cant deny that it is good. How the hell are people complaining about a game recieving an 8/10 - especially when the reviewer didn't like the game much. If an 8 is as bad as people think the game is, I cant wait for November.
For those complaining that Uncharted is too linear, I really don't know what you expected from the game. Its part of the Uncharted's make up and fair enough if you don't like it, but I for one don't want to see Naughty Dog make this world into an open world. In in it for the story, characters and experience. Id rather see Naughty Dog make another IP then destroy the focus of Uncharted.
As for the Eurogamer review, 8/10 to me means that despite Simon not feeling the game much, he cant deny that it is good. How the hell are people complaining about a game recieving an 8/10 - especially when the reviewer didn't like the game much. If an 8 is as bad as people think the game is, I cant wait for November.
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