RROD, the issue that will get you jumped on.

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bbsin said:

rocketpig said:

 

I just don't understand why people will defend Uncharted as being so great. It basically straight ripped the cover mechanic from Gears and GRAW, except ND didn't bother to implement it as well as either. The story is a straight rip from an Indiana Jones movie and while it's fun, it's extremely predictable until the end, which was just flat-out stupid. The gameplay was horribly repetitive (enter area, clear area, move on) and the enemies, which were a simple group of bad guys going for money, later switched over to fucking zombie nazis. WEAK. The end boss battle was pathetic (Mass Effect, now that had an epic boss battle) and the jet ski segments were inane. Gee, let's randomly throw in water segments where you have to dodge exploding barrels in the water. Lame. It's not a bad game but with so many obvious faults, it can't be considered great in any way, shape, or form.

To each of his own opinion, you may not think Unchated was great but the general consensus such as press and fans alike would disagree, IMO i think there are much more positive things than negatives. But then again maybe your perception of "great" is different from mine since i think a great game typically has a score of 8 or higher. And the sotry was purposefully made to have a generic pulp action theme as stated many time by ND.

But, as for the Gears and GRAW comparison... I'm sure you realize that Gears copied the cover system in Killzone: liberation which copied from Killswitch, which copied from MGS, which copied from Winback, which took the idea of cover (AKA stop and pop) from Space Invaders....

I realize that the idea of cover is old. I used Gears and GRAW because they're the most recent ones that did a very good job of implementing a cover system.

And yes, there are more positives than negatives in Uncharted. People are acting as if I hated the game... I didn't. After all, I just gave it 8/10. As for the story, well, I actually liked the story. It didn't try too hard and kept a fun vibe going. Then the zombie nazis started running all over my screen. That's the point where I rolled my eyes and just buckled down to finish the game. The fun was gone.

An 80% ranking is far from great IMO. It's a good game but let's not put it up there with the games that have really succeeded in changing our perception of gaming in recent years.