Uncharted 4. Bought it at launch and still don't even know I feel about it to this day. The game was beautiful graphically, had some great music, and the gameplay was fun. But god DAMN the story was a mess.
It was good in the beginning but went downhill FAST once it hit the Scotland part imo and only recovered for a few brief moments in the rest of the game, the whole Avery pirate story line was boring as shit too, though it led to some cool areas to play through. Every 20 minutes they for some reason felt the need to constantly repeat "AND DID WE MENTION HE HAS A BROTHER!?!?!". LIKE OK DAMN I GET IT. Doesn't help that Sam wasn't even a likeable character either and they basically retconned a portion of the other games (particularly Uncharted 3) just to make room for him. Like, if using a grappling hook was something Nate and his brother apparently did so often then why did he not use it at all in Uncharted 1-3? Did he just fuckin forget? I can maybe forgive this because introducing anything later in a franchise can spawn the same question, but if they were gonna retcon it that hard then at least have an explanation.
Then there was the pointless shit like the "optional dialogue" choices in the cutscenes which felt like nothing other than throwing random shit in just to check another box on the "new feature" list. There wasn't even a single set piece like the other Uncharted games were known for, with Uncharted 2 you had the train sequence, Uncharted 3 the plane sequence, etc. I can't remember ANYTHING memorable like that in Uncharted 4.
Honestly, the overall vibe I get when playing through Uncharted 4 is that it feels like Naughty Dog didn't wanna make another Uncharted game, so instead they tried to make it more like The Last of Us - more serious/grounded but it was just a mess that felt like it had no clear direction. Either that or they wanted to find ways to advance/grow it, but the ways they went about it just didn't work.
Multiplayer is a blast though, started playing that again a bit the past dew days and it's still great, so they did a really good job on that. I've had The Lost Legacy ever since it released but still haven't even bothered playing it just because I think Uncharted 4 was so disappointing to me that I just don't care anymore to play this other one lmao.
