As far as people talking about limited amount of copies for this game. I work at a 20k Best Buy store aka one of the small one's. We only got 4 COPIES of Uncharted. I snagged one myself. So I would say that retailers didn't order enough of this amazing game. So far I am highly impressed.
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dammitmattt
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Basch said:Again, it's not about the review scores. The comments made therein those reviews are supposed to inform gamers: truth is a necessity. Of course, opinions are nice to hear, but they are designed to complement the objective based points. There will always be people who are not interested in even the most popular games, so opinions should not overide what is made to be an informative guide to the audience. What is even sadder in my opinion is the fact that some do not even care about poor journalism. Something could be done to stop it, but, alas, indifference takes its toll.
By the way, after the last comment you made, you just lost all credibility you may have had left with me, which was already considerably low. Matter of fact, I find it ironic how you decided to comment on poor people like me who care for reviews (yeah, right) and then decide to throw your own review out there: at least three times as well. On top of that, earlier, you gave a few impressions, said you were not finished yet with the game, and slapped on a score of a B+. So I take it you finished the game now. I don't know what made you think that a B+ was an 80-85. By all acounts a B+ is around an 87-89. Did you not like the ending? I haven't played the game myself, but I'm having a hard time believing that you even tried to remain unbiased throughout the duration of the game. Maybe, I'm just misreading what you meant, but, if that is the case, then you need to work on your communication skills.
2007 has been a great year for games; I'm still catching up from 2006. There are many games to play, and fortunately I am biased to no system. I enjoy many offerings from each system. But right now, I'm planning on digging into some Resistance: Fall of Man to check out the level designs in multiplayer. Yes, by myself, I find them so fascinating. I can't put any major amount of playtime in the single player campaign, yet, as I have still to beat Half-Life 2's campaign. I can only play two to three games at a time or else I get too distracted and won't get back to one of the games I'm playing. A good portion of the games I'm playing now, though, have to be finished by Christmas, so I can donate my whole time to Uncharted.
I'm off this week on vacation and I chose to play Uncharted over Super Mario Galaxy all day. I liked the game a lot. And the purpose of this thread is to give our opinions, which is why I gave mine. I didn't shit on other people's opinions of the game, but almost everyone in the thread is shitting all over any site that has any perceived bias towards the game or the system.
What in the world do you mean unbiased?!? I spent $60 of my own money and spent about 10 hours of my time playing Uncharted. What do I have to be biased about? The only thing that Uncharted had to live up to was my high expectations of Naughty Dog combining two of my favorite games into one. Yes, I beat it, and yes I loved the ending (though not as much the final boss section), and yes, it didn't quite live up to my expectations but was still an extremely good game.
*Reads your post. Oh wait. You haven't even played the game and you're bitching about the reviews? Riiiiiight.......
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Your statement here begs the question - why did you decide to write about this game in particular?BuddyC said:
Also, question - the manual states that "Drake can advance from low cover and around other corners by pressing on the left stick and X". Does that not address one of your comments that you can't go around the wall when you're in the cover?
dammitmattt
Banned
SolidSnakex said:
Why? Guitar Hero 1-3 are fantastic games that will outsell just about every other title this fall. You might as well question the tastes of every platform's owners because it's selling well everywhere.
Also, 74k for Ratchet already made me question PS3 gamers' tastes.
Hey guys, 8 from gamespot is really good. Although the same dude did give a 7.5 to Tomb Raider.. ;d
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
LMAO ND
"next gen filter"?
im playing on Hard now, some of the rewards...silly:lol
i like ND Drake though
"next gen filter"?
im playing on Hard now, some of the rewards...silly:lol
i like ND Drake though
cjtiger300
Member
Kittonwy said:
Thanks, I am going to try and find all of the treasures before I tackle Crushing. To get the treasures I am playing on Normal, and wow, what a difference. Normal seems to much easier after beating it on Hard. I am so glad I choose Hard the first go around. The experience is a lot better in my opinion!
Hellaiced said:
Now that you mention it, when I went to pick up my copy from Gamestop. I remember seeing two display cases. In the past, I was always given the display cases when I bought the game. So I was surprised to see so few. But when I went up to the desk to pay for the purchase, they gave me a new sealed game. So I don't know what that means, but it sounds like to me that the retail space is limiting them, which then gets me thinking. Why wouldn't they just enlarge the space so they can try to draw more attention? I'm starting to think, retailers don't expect the PS3 to sell well this holiday, and I wonder why. Maybe if they just took a chance and enlarged the space they would see how much more the sales would increase. You know, it is not too hard. Just get rid of that extra column/row of Mass Effect preorders. :lol Seriously, there was like ten copies of just preorder display cases. I mean, come on. They are hurting their own sales by doing this.
cjtiger300
Member
~Devil Trigger~ said:
Yeah, that shit is pretty funny!
dammitmattt said:
Your failure to comprehend continues to surprise me. I never said you couldn't have an opinion. Matter of fact, I don't even really listen to other people's opinions unless their interests align with mine. Regardless, though, I encourage people to have opinions. I just didn't like you complaining about others who care about the reviews when, right after, you post your own. Sounds like double standards to me.
Means nothing to me. Being biased is a psychological issue. I don't know how your brain works. There is no way for me to tell based on technicalities. I was simply giving what I thought after reading a few of your posts. Maybe I am wrong, but it seemed like to me, you were trying to justify the low end of the reviewers' scores, which is why I commented in the first place.
Yes, I have not played the game. And I was not commenting on an opinion. I was commenting on some misinformation going around that you seem to be missing.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Y2Kev said:
Holy shite no kidding. I just got done with that part I almost died several times cause my eyes kept straying off the main path and onto the lush scenery.
One thing about this game I cant stress enough:
THE MUSIC IS FANTASTIC!
Their is this one song in the
fortress
I am definitely picking up the soundtrack on itunes when it comes which along with the Castlevania Symphony of the Night SD will make it my second game SD.
Pristine_Condition
Member
YYZ said:
No.
You check your PM box, bub.
;P
(hope it helps)
Dr. Strangelove
I'M COOCOO FOR COCO CRISP!
Y2Kev said:
I just finished that sequence. Holy shit was that awesome.
This game is FANTASTIC. Really feels like you're right in the middle of a big budget popcorn film.
LOLElbrain said:
As soon as I read your post about anybody seeing the commercial.
It came on tv....the weird thing is that i've been wanting to see it on actual tv for sometime now. Been looking for it.
I keep missing the ass. creed (hehe) commercial.
It happened RIGHT after i read it....which was right after you posted it.
psychic!
I'm currently up to chapter 5 and it's one hell of an experience. If you think the demo was good, this is way better. A lot more action, much better platforming. A few slow parts, but far apart and in-between lots of fun sequences. The graphics are top-notch and a lot better than anything else on consoles I've seen so far.
polyh3dron
Banned
All Sony needed to do was run a high def ad of this on NBC Monday during Chuck, Heroes or Journeyman and it would have turned a whole lot of heads with its amazing graphics. But, that would cost money.
Robobandit
Member
Kintaro said:While I haven't gotten my Final Thoughts down on the game yet to post (FFXI patch has pissed me off so I went to do something else), I will post my review score.
I give Uncharted: Drake's Fortune a...
Are you sure? Cheesecake is serious business.. and that looks like really good cheesecake.
gray_fox224
Junior Member
Robobandit said:
Hungry desu.
polyh3dron said:
I doubt it. With the Gamespot review, this year's lineup is a complete bust for Sony. I think Uncharted is a great game, but at this point, after seeing R&C do 75k, I'm not expecting big sales for it anymore.
This is the age of the metacritic review average. The highest rated PS3 exclusives are in the high 80s. The Wii has three exclusives in the mid to high 90s with Zelda, Mario and Metroid. The 360 has five console exclusives in that range with Bioshock, Gears of War, Halo 3, Mass Effect, and Orange Box (a de facto timed exclusive at least). Plus there are a few multiplatform games like Call of Duty 4, Rock Band, and Oblivion that have averages in the mid 90s, considerably higher than any PS3 exclusive title.
Now J6P uses sites like Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, etc. to choose what movies he watches and what games he plays. With seven console games in the second half of this year that averaged well into the 90s, he's probably not even considering buying anything with an average even in the high 80s. This is affecting games on other platforms than the PS3 -- 360 games with lower averages like Blue Dragon, PGR 4, and Virtua Fighter 5 are doing poorly as well. From this perspective, an 8 for a game like Uncharted is as damaging as a 4 for a game like Lair, which is why gamers are getting so incensed when games get high but not spectactular reviews.
I was thinking this morning about how they could have improved that sequence. I think it needed some Pursuit-Force style platforming. Imagine jumping onto the back of one of those speeder bikes, punching the driver in the face and then driving off on his bike. Then the camera pans behind you and you start shooting at enemies with your AK one-handed. I wanted something out of Raiders in that scene. Hanging off and under jeeps, jumping through windshields and punching people out. I thought it was a missed opportunity.tanod said: