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[Samus Aran]

AbbathTheGrim said:

Samus Aran said:

My post said quite clearly that people play uncharterted for the over the top action sequences and story. Those elements aren't in the online portion of the game. That doesn't mean that Uncharted is bad, but that its focus lies elsewhere. Uncharted doesn't want to be just a third person shooter or even a competitive shooter. It wants to tell a story with a very action cinematic experience.

For example: the gameplay we saw at E3 was mostly an epic car sequence where you had to avoid an armoured car that was firing at you. That had little to do with a third person shooter. Uncharted is more than that.

As for why the Wii U failed:

- Bad marketing

- Which led to name confusement with its predecessor

- Too expensive because of weak Yen

- Underpowered compared to PS4 and xbone

- Which led to no third party support on the console

- Outdated gimmick: touchscreens didn't wow people anymore because smartphones were well established at that point in time

Nintendo's games have nothing to do with the Wii U's failure. Except the quantity (which wouldn't be a problem if they had third party support)

I play Uncharted for both gameplay and story. With Uncharted you don't need to choose only one of them because you get them both.

Just because Uncharted does a masterful job at making action scenes seem seamless between scripted events and gameplay that doesn't take away from the gameplay, the gameplay is there and it is outstanding. I love the freedom I have by controlling Nathan, I love that I can play stealth, go meele, take cover, change weapons, pick up shields, use ledges to surprise enemies by hanging, etc. There is a lot of care put in the gameplay for you to feel like you are PLAYING an action film by making transitions seamless between the different actions you can take with Nathan, instead of just feeling that you are watching a film. 

That epic car sequence came after this 2014 trailer that showed a lot of gameplay and a lot of opened spaces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow2cL-pp6p8

You take your time justifying why people left Nintendo after the Wii by making a long list of possibilities, but then only come up with one sole thing immediately when it comes to Uncharted by claiming as a fact that people didn't keep playing Uncharted multiplayer for a single reason: that the third person gameplay isn't remarkable. That is very convinient of you.

Erm, with action scenes I mean gameplay and not cutscenes. I never said Uncharted didn't have good gameplay.

But strip the story and action sequences away from Uncharted and you end up with the online portion of the game. Which isn't that great and there are definitely better multiplayer games out there (because they focus on it and Uncharted doesn't). I'm sure ND could make a great online shooter if they so desired to.