I heard some mutterings about it just after release. Stupid website I pre-orered off didn;t deliver for a WEEK after release, so I was seeing a bit of the complaints without getting a chance to play.

So I've played through on Hard. I don't have mad skillz at shooting in games. I didn't die all that often in straight gunfights. I had a hit rate of about 35% and my max head shots in a row was 10, and that was without actually trying to get head shots in a row. In UC:DF and UC2 I had to deliberately replay a chapter (on an easier setting to give me more time to line up the shot without being killed) for the express purpose of getting my 5 headshots in a row trophy. Un UC:DF I even "cheated" by getting my head shots with super-slow-mo turned on. So I was thinking to myself where are these complaints of broken aiming mechanics coming from? In UC3 I did it without even trying.

But it's bee pretty quitet, until I see this http://www.computerandvideogames.com/327016/features/uncharted-3-is-naughty-dogs-shooting-fix-too-little-too-late/

Seriously?

I was able to get headshots while swimming in the water and while on the MF'ing boat while it was rocking all to hell. I just can't tell the difference between UC2 and 3 shooting. And if headshots (being supposedly more difficult to get) is a metric to measure ease of shooting mechanics, it would seem Uncharted 3 is easier.

So have I been misinterpretting the complaints, and people are actually complaining that it's too easy? I really can't see how people think it's broken.

Well up down, left right wasn't a problem but going diagonal felt a bit sluggish and strange.. I adapted within the hour not to shoot diagonal but rather go right then up and shoot..not a huge problem but still it felt a bit off

I don't know why, but I had about 47%-49% shot accuracy in Uncharted 1 & 2 and now I have 36% in Uncharted 3....Guess it's more realistic...I don't mind though.

it's different! so it must be bad/off/broken/horrible/unplayable

I didn't have a problem of aiming at all, my first playthough was on hard and I also beat it on crushing.

It's too loose. Compared to the Wii and the 360, the PS3 has the loosest analog sticks in the business. Maybe some of the older games had some sort of auto-assist turned on or something but, of all of the PS3 games I've played (and possibly all of the PS2/PS1 games), this game is the hardest to put on target. It's not a game breaker and you get used to it, though.

My only problem was the part where you had to snipe some bad guys before they sniped you. You only had a few seconds to get on target from behind cover, fire a shot, and hide again. I've been using analog since the beginning (N64/PS1) and I know I don't suck but I kept getting shot or missing my target.

My theory: A lot of games let you use aim-assist in the single player game but turn such assists off during the multi-player. I think U3's developers just use the same aiming mode during both (auto-aim turned off).

The only time i noticed a difference was while aiming and trying to follow targets, thats seemed a bit slower, BUT other than that it was no different to any of the other uncharteds

I didn't really notice at all, though I did die a lot during the game, but that was due to my uselessness