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Uncharted 4: A Thief's End |OT| You're gonna miss this ass

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Lys Skygge

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MegaSackman said:
I bet spanish doubloons
that it's Sam and Sully's job (with Chloe's involvement hopefully).
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The issue with that
is it doesn't add anything to the overall story. It'd basically be another epilogue starring Sam and Sully. If its anything like Left Behind, it'll be something that supplements the main story. It'll likely be about the two years Sam spent with Rafe. But I'd love to see something completely different (like my Avery idea) that adds additional context to the overall narrative.
 
Ascenion

Ascenion

Member
Fancy Clown said:
Alright boyz, which game had the better
ship graveyard
arena, 3 or 4? I thought both were combat highlights of their respective games. I might give the edge to 3's still because it offered so much freedom and I loved the bobbing platforms, but I've played that one a lot more obviously.
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3. The water added an aspect that 4 lacked not to mention 3 was better scaled on all difficulties. 4 shits the bed in that regard.
 
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MegaSackman

Member
Lys Skygge said:
The issue with that
is it doesn't add anything to the overall story. It'd basically be another epilogue starring Sam and Sully. If its anything like Left Behind, it'll be something that supplements the main story. It'll likely be about the two years Sam spent with Rafe. But I'd love to see something completely different (like my Avery idea) that adds context to the overall narrative.
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Avery idea is the best one, no doubt but I don't know if the can make it feel Unchartedish... and besides, it sounds like a really difficult task.
 
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Lys Skygge

Member
MegaSackman said:
Avery idea is the best one, no doubt but I don't know if the can make it feel Unchartedish... and besides, it sounds like a really difficult task.
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My Avery idea is pretty much wishful thinking :p. Like I said, it'll likely be set during the two years Sam spent with Rafe.
 
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Mr.Fletcher

Member
CrichtonKicks said:
Ending spoilers

I can never imagine them doing a Cassie focused series because it throws the series about 20 years into the future. Too much incidental design work is needed at that point and I think anything overly futuristic potentially clashes with the focus on history that the series has.
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Ending discussion.

Not that I'm advocating it, but you could see a head-strong Cassie in her early twenties in her own game in a few years.

However, I don't want that, I'm not convinced it would work and again, where would it go in the end?

The Drake's are done if you ask me. The ending was the perfect place to leave them.
 
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nib95

Banned
I just realised that HipHop gamer was actually right with his inside titbit about the game starting with you on a ship in a storm. Seems like it just wasn't a Pirate ship and instead a regular modern day one, but he was right nonetheless.
 
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Creaking

He touched the black heart of a mod
Fancy Clown said:
Really wasn't a fan of the
epilogue for the same reason I didn't like that shit in Harry Potter. I don't want to see their absurdly perfect lives with their children who follow in their footsteps, it feels like fan-fiction. There's a reason most stories don't show the "happily ever after", some things are better left to the imagination.
so yeah, that DLC idea would be more saccharine nonesense than I could take
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It should have ended with Drake, unshaven and dressed like a bum, shivering and out in the cold. He's homeless, Elena left him, his brother is in jail again, and Sully died of lung cancer after a failed career as a porn star. Some kids walk by and mutter to each other about what a loser Drake is, because kids are dicks. Drake grits his teeth and blinks away tears, then reaches into one of his many filthy pockets and pulls out a coin with Avery's sigil on it. "Well," he says, "I've got nothing else left. Time to spend you, my last friend." Then he pinches one end of the coin and peels it away. It was chocolate the whole time. Drake eats it, sobbing uncontrollably. After 5 heartfelt minutes of crying and eating a chocolate coin, he wipes his eyes, then turns to the camera.

"Is this really Uncharted 4: A Thief's End?"
 
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CrichtonKicks

Member
Mr.Fletcher said:
Ending discussion.

Not that I'm advocating it, but you could see a head-strong Cassie in her early twenties in her own game in a few years.

However, I don't want that, I'm not convinced it would work and again, where would it go in the end?

The Drake's are done if you ask me. The ending was the perfect place to leave them.
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Yeah but
20 year old Cassie is still 20 years from 2016- so you need to create a believable 2036. Seems like a lot of work for not much gain.

MegaSackman said:
I'm counting the whole set piece in 4, from the starting point of the battle above the ship to the fight against the convoy. That might be the most spectacular combat moment in the franchise.
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Agreed. My single favorite chapter in all 4 games.

nib95 said:
I just realised that HipHop gamer was actually right with his inside titbit about the game starting with you on a ship in a storm. Seems like it just wasn't a Pirate ship and instead a regular modern day one, but he was right nonetheless.
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Were there more details? Because, honestly, that would be a pretty easy speculative guess given the information presented in the E3 2014 teaser and overheard conversation from a guard in the PSX 2014 gameplay.
 
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MegaSackman

Member
Creaking said:
It should have ended with Drake, unshaven and dressed like a bum, shivering and out in the cold. He's homeless, Elena left him, his brother is in jail again, and Sully died of lung cancer after a failed career as a porn star. Some kids walk by and mutter to each other about what a loser Drake is, because kids are dicks. Drake grits his teeth and blinks away tears, then reaches into one of his many filthy pockets and pulls out a coin with Avery's sigil on it. "Well," he says, "I've got nothing else left. Time to spend you, my last friend." Then he pinches one end of the coin and peels it away. It was chocolate the whole time. Drake eats it, sobbing uncontrollably. After 5 heartfelt minutes of crying and eating a chocolate coin, he wipes his eyes, then turns to the camera.

"Is this really Uncharted 4: A Thief's End?"
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Or coins surround him and levitate him into the air. It could happen.
 
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Gorillaz

Member
Fancy Clown said:
Alright boyz, which game had the better
ship graveyard
arena, 3 or 4? I thought both were combat highlights of their respective games. I might give the edge to 3's still because it offered so much freedom and I loved the bobbing platforms, but I've played that one a lot more obviously.
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UC4. Shit was like a portrait walking in from above combined with actual good music playing in the background which was absent during like 90 percent of the game.

Highlight arena shootout for me in the series. Actually that entire chapter was great
 
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JTripper

Member
Platinum'd 4, gonna go through and maybe platinum the collection too. Just played a couple chapters from all 3 and my ranking of ND games hasn't changed. Still think 3 is a great Uncharted. Not that 2 isn't, but I'm in the U3 > U2 camp 4lifebruh.

TLoU > U4 > U3 > U2 > U1
 
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Skux

Member
Man, this game.

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(found on r/pcmasterrace)
 
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Mr.Fletcher

Member
Deckard Chapel said:
What makes you think that?
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I think we could see it reworked and inserted into another a game. Much like dungeons cut from the Wind Waker were incorporated (to some degree) into later Zeldas, I could see the concept find its way into a future ND game.

As for why I think that, I'm not sure but in my experience we rarely see anything this major that was cut... and if we do, it'll be a few years from now in a leaked video.
 
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PowderedToast

Junior Member
I remember reading somewhere that ND were humbled and encouraged by the positive reception to left behind, and so they're more likely to do experimental DLC once more for uncharted. can't place the source, but something to think about
 
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CrichtonKicks

Member
Mr.Fletcher said:
I think we could see it reworked and inserted into another a game. Much like dungeons cut from the Wind Waker were incorporated (to some degree) into later Zeldas, I could see the concept find its way into a future ND game.

As for why I think that, I'm not sure but in my experience we rarely see anything this major that was cut... and if we do, it'll be a few years from now in a leaked video.
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Honestly no good can come from revealing what the set piece was. Gamers seem very, very intolerant of cut content.
 
gamerMan

gamerMan

Member
Ricky_R said:
I gotta say... Chapter 4 is one of the best things I've experienced since I started gaming 29 years ago. It hit so many chords.

I could play an entire game with only segments like that.
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I have to agree. it's the best set piece in the entire game and actually requires a fair bit of skill.
 
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ShutterMunster

Junior Member
Wollan said:
If you mean a patch with higher graphics preset (fx) then yes. Practically guaranteed.
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I'm actually holding off on a second play through for that. Hoping for a noticeable boost in fidelity or frame-rate. I don't think the new hardware enhancements will be enough for 60FPS though. We'll see.
 
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Phenomenal Flea

Member
Man, I'm playing Crushing difficulty, and I'm on Chapter 13, trying to meet the conditions for "Peaceful Resolution" and it's doing my head in. I've been stuck on this encounter for several hours. I've got the path down to the sniper with the lazer rifle near the end, though I'm still messing it up along the way. Every time I get to that last earth pillar thing, I die. :(

It's soul crushing! I stayed up until 2am. :S
 
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NickatNite

Member
Has Naughty Dog or Sony said anything about a behind the scenes / making of U4 documentary, much like the Grounded: The Making of The Last of Us.

I'm aware of the few making of U4 videos but there nothing in the vein of Grounded.
 
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CrichtonKicks

Member
NickatNite said:
Has Naughty Dog or Sony said anything about a behind the scenes / making of U4 documentary, much like the Grounded: The Making of The Last of Us.

I'm aware of the few making of U4 videos but there nothing in the vein of Grounded.
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Can't imagine that happening with the Hennig departure stuff. There is just no way to avoid it and I doubt they could address it in a suitable manner (and may not be able to anyway depending on what language, if any, was used in any termination paperwork with Hennig). The initial UC4 teaser makes it clear that plenty of elements made it over from Hennig's concept.
 
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Wollan

Member
Really hoping they do a proper behind-the-scenes stuff in time for the Singleplayer DLC. This will also give them the proper breathing room to reflect further and include post-release reactions/success, insight on
Crash Bandicoot
inclusion and more.
 
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CrichtonKicks

Member
Fancy Clown said:
I appreciate that whereas previous Uncharted games had kinda weak third acts, 4's is probably the best stretch of the game.
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3's third act is...weird. It has some really exciting stuff (plane, settlement fight, convoy) but it just doesn't feel like it properly escalates. I do think the sandstorm was just a total dud of a level and should have been cut.
 
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mstevens

Member
My save file is bugged on chapter 15. When you're fighting hand to hand and you get on the outside of the building, you're suppose to hit l1 to swing around. The prompt will not come up. I've even tried to replay the chapter via chapter select. Wtf?
 
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Spring-Loaded

Member
mstevens said:
My save file is bugged on chapter 15. When you're fighting hand to hand and you get on the outside of the building, you're suppose to hit l1 to swing around. The prompt will not come up. I've even tried to replay the chapter via chapter select. Wtf?
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Are you absolutely sure there's a swing point? I'm not certain, but I don't remember having to use that during that part.

Do you have the HUD on?
 
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Fancy Clown

Member
CrichtonKicks said:
3's third act is...weird. It has some really exciting stuff (plane, settlement fight, convoy) but it just doesn't feel like it properly escalates. I do think the sandstorm was just a total dud of a level and should have been cut.
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Yeah I felt 3's stretch was too action heavy ironically, some of the story developments (like Salim's whole character) were rushed, and a lot of the encounters were ehhhh. But yeah there's plenty of good stuff in there too. Same goes for 2's final stretch except to a much lesser degree and minus the complaint about a rushed story.

4's is just....umph so good
 
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CrichtonKicks

Member
Fancy Clown said:
Yeah I felt 3's stretch was too action heavy ironically, some of the story developments (like Salim's whole character) were rushed, and a lot of the encounters were ehhhh. But yeah there's plenty of good stuff in there too. Same goes for 2's final stretch except to a much lesser degree and minus the complaint about a rushed story.

4's is just....umph so good
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Yeah Salim is just such a random character that really is only there as an exposition delivery machine. And the Sully reunion moment is super flat considering the hell Nate went through to rescue him.
 
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