GOWTLOZ on 17 July 2016
| Veknoid_Outcast said: It's very much like the rest of the series: technically brilliant and gorgeous to look at but torn in two competing directions. Part of it wants to be a cinematic roller coaster and part of it wants to be cover-based shooter. When those things overlap well, as they did in Uncharted 2, the results are spectacular. When cinematic pretensions spill over and affect negatively gameplay, as they did in Uncharted 3, the overall experience suffers. Uncharted 4, for me, is the most Uncharted-iest of all the Uncharted games. It's beauty and technical achievement is staggering, and its tactical shootouts are thrilling. But all too often it transforms into something you watch instead of something you play, and that's not what I want in a video game. So, overall, Uncharted 4 is an excellent game that's held back from greatness by its deep focus on cinematic storytelling. |
Well you concluded in the other thread that we have very different tastes, but I totally agree with your overall view on the series, and that is the reason I think Uncharted is good but overrated, as the pacing sometimes is just too slow and limits your freedom in how you do stuff to focus on the story, and I think that the story itself isn't that great, its just typical Hollywood action romp.
I do think 3 is better overall than 2, but it started out a lot slower. Uncharted is at its best when you are in elaborate arenas and shooting enemies which has some tactical depth to it.
