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Jay520 on 14 December 2011
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Rainbird said:
Jay520 said:
I wish people understand that linearity is a style, not an issue, and stop pushing their preffered style down everyone's throat as if it's objectively superior.

Seriously, people need to stop complaining that a game brilliantly executes what it's trying to accomplish. Uncharted was intended to be a linear game, and it's a damn fine one. Everyone knows this fact before going into Uncharted, or any linear game for that matter. Yet people still complain, a lot of times aggressively, that Uncharted isn't the game that they want it to be, something not-Uncharted.

If you prefer games that you can play multiple times with each time producing a different outcome, that's fine, but don't start complaining when Uncharted, or any linear game, doesn't satisfy these wants. If you prefer games that offer tons of multiple playing options, that's fine, but don't start complaining when Uncharted, or any linear game, doesn't satsify these wants. If you don't like games because they're linear, that's fine, but don't go around claiming linearity to be an inferior style of gaming just because you don't like it.

But that's just me.

There's nothing wrong with linearity strictly speaking. My personal beef with linearity starts showing when linearity is used in a way that locks the player out of the experience. For example, Uncharted 2 relies a lot on scripted events, and is very restrictive when it comes to letting the player be a part of the experience. On the other hand, a game like MGS4 is very linear as well, but it still allows the player to play the way they like best or feel is best for the game. You can go through the game without ever being spotted, without ever making a kill or just going at it like a third person shooter for example.

Don't get me wrong, Uncharted 2 is a great game, but the model behind it just doesn't excite me anymore. Which is why I hope The Last Of Us can be something more than the Uncharted games have presented so far, because I think we can do better. And if we can do better, I will continue to support that progress which can be made.

Even if The Last Of Us is scripted as hell, I'll still get it if it's a good game, but if Naughty Dog want to make it a must buy for me, they need to do more.



My post was mainly directed at Pullus. I can understand why someone could dislike Uncharted and I understand his views. But lately, he's been complaining so much that it's become an annoyance, and I just really needed to address his post about Uncharted/Crash/Jak. I respect what your saying though (although I'd say comparing any game's freedom to MGS's freedom is a little unfair for the former game, considering MGS is usually considered the epitome of a free, yet linear, game).