Uncharted 4 is the best console-game right now, so the trade press =)

[DivinePaladin]

BraLoD said:

TheBlackNaruto said:

All taht is of course in your opinion which is fine but don't make it seem like that is a widely shared view....And as far as the OP goes it did say by metacritic console-generation which I am thinking meant not on previous platforms.

It's quite an unpopular view, actually.

The Last of Us is one of the very most accomplished games on every front, and widely regarded as so.

I love when people say other people bought on its hype. I have actually had no contact with the game prior playing it, haven't saw it at E3 or whatever, and that game skyrocket as far as beating everything else I had played up until then with the exception of a single game that is for me as important as a close friend and that shapped my being itself.

The Last of Us is way, way above its own, and very deserved, hype, and very accepted as being so.

I don't see how anybody can seriously rate it highly unless they've literally been in a hole with all other media for years. The plot is incredibly predictable for  anybody that has experience in any genre of media n(I completely predicted every twist a year later after being on a self-imposed full media lockdown for the game for two full years), the gameplay is good-ish, the character development is great despite some flaws, and musically/visually it's a treat but I never saw the PS3 version as something particularly special. (Remastered does it much more justice.) I draw particular problems with the fairly terrible pacing and how the main characters mostly develop offscreen (which is such a crutch for writers to fall back on); the fact that you cannot empathize with human enemies in the slightest as they're objectively all pretty evil; the easily testable, very clearly scripted nature of enemies despite early claims that the fights were entirely dynamic; the awful weapon handling by Joel, a 20 year veteran of the apocalypse, that you have to pay with experience to level up (I much prefer how 14 year-old Ellie handles guns because it feels half-decent!); the disgusting ending plug for Left Behind when Riley is mentioned once in the game before that; the fact that a couple of guns are pay to win in the surprisingly enjoyable multiplayer, and that ND tried to sell DLC SEPARATE from the season pass; and a couple other issues I can't recall off the top of my head. 

 

Of course some of these are subjective but I avoided everything about the game for over a year after launch and a year before it solely so I wouldn't buy into the hype, so like you they're completely independent of the game's hype machine. However some of these are clear issues that all of the reviews magically happened to miss when they vaguely generalized everything en route to a perfect score. It's not a subjective issue that the game hides decent aiming behind an experience wall, nor is it something you can pass off as just my opinion, man, when we WERE definitively told several times that enemies were dynamic AI and that they're all just trying to survive and neither of those are true. That's something game journalists ripped when Watch Dogs had that problem a year later and several times with other games before, so there's no excuse to give games a pass for doing it. 

 

Anyway, that's all off-topic. The point is that this thread is entirely too early unless the goal is purely to suck U4 off as the prematurely crowned king of gaming forever and always because of Metacritic of all things. At least if we waited a day or two somebody could've beaten the game and most could've played it, so that we can have an actual opinion of our own instead of having it spoon-fed to us by reviewers that may or may not be lobbied by Sony. Again, I have little doubt that it's gonna be fantastic - though I'm still skeptical of the direction Druckmann has taken it with Sam - but this thread is less needed than another NX thread.

 

Inb4 "which will sell more, Uncharted 4 or the NX?" thread