Will buy for the kids, buy Nintendo... want pattern games, maybe fb games?

I already have a Wii U and a Facebook account. I am considering if I should for the first time ever join the ranks of multiple console owners. That is why I am more concerned about games that would be PS4 exclusives and try to determine if it is worth the money and risk to my peace of mind.

I already have a Wii U and a Facebook account. I am considering if I should for the first time ever join the ranks of multiple console owners. That is why I am more concerned about games that would be PS4 exclusives and try to determine if it is worth the money and risk to my peace of mind.

Thank you for your reply, this is more in line with what I was looking for. If you don't mind, I have a couple of follow up cpmments I would like to hear your take on.

First of all, Assassins Creed is an Action Adventure game, so is Uncharted. While I realize Uncharted also has platforming and first person shooter elements I don't think it's completele meaningless to compare the two games.

So, if you will. There are the specific things in Assassins Creed that I do not particularily enjoy:

- An open world to explore, that requires certain missions to be accomplished that ultimately forces the narrative in the desired direction. I particularily dislike the lengthy cutscenes that is fired up with every new mission you accept

- A word filled with 'side quests' that quikly become very tedious. In Assassins Creed IV thyat I am playing now this is stuff like "Free the pirates" and finding hidden chests or whatever. I grow tired of that stuff extremely quickly

- Climbing, hiding, stalking requires virtually no skill. It's all basically done for you. I am hoping that Uncharted at least has a more complex mechanic for climbing buildings etc. From my limited experience it does, but the platforming still seemed extremely easy when I pleayed it.

- A laughable combat system that offers almost no challenge what so ever.

Finally, worst of all:

When you perform certain things, like a sneak assassination or whatever, it is just a matter of hitting a button at the right time and the games plays an 'awesome' animation of whatever action. This is my number one fear. The QTE. I am wondering if Uncharted utilizes the same mechanic.

These are my main gripes with Assassins Creed. I would like to know how Uncharted compares in these areas.

Edit: I would actually like to know if these mechanics are typical of all Naughty Dog games or not, and if not, what type of game is this new game they are teasing likely to be.

Well if the games that good shouldnt the masses be buying it? 5mill is an average sales count for a good game, its not legendary or great. Half Life 1 and 2 sold more then 12mill each, GTA and Cod sell over 10mill easy, Mario Kart and Halo sell over 8mill easy. Blizzard games sell more then 8mill. Games like RE 5 and 6 sell around the same as Uncharted or TLOU so does Tomb Raider.  NG games to me are no bigger then Resident Evil or Tomb Raider.

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Action/Adventure doesn't always mean the same. In this day and age it also means that a game has a quest of sorts and you input action during a quest whether openworld or linear. Uncharted is closer in genre to Gears of War than it is to Assassins Creed, you can just do more in the linearity of the world you reside (for that moment) than most third person shooters. You can use parkour to leap to other games with the same grace as Indiana Jones, Prince of Persia or a Pitfall game of the past. In a way it is completely meaningless, because the form and function of the two games are very, very different. Openworld games give a certain amount of freedom where you are allowed to roam and exist within it.

As for the questions:

- An open world to explore, that requires certain missions to be accomplished that ultimately forces the narrative in the desired direction. I particularily dislike the lengthy cutscenes that is fired up with every new mission you accept.

- In Uncharted there is no mission to except or a major world to explore. It gives an illusion in the distance that there is choice but you cannot actually do anything but focus on the story, much in the vein of Gears of War. The game uses cutscenes for dramatic progression, which helps because the storytelling in Uncharted is top notch. While you're playing you feel stuck to the story and focused in achieving your goals in the twelve hours in which you are generally gaming.

- Climbing, hiding, stalking requires virtually no skill. It's all basically done for you. I am hoping that Uncharted at least has a more complex mechanic for climbing buildings etc. From my limited experience it does, but the platforming still seemed extremely easy when I pleayed it.

Note: Most of what you wrote on the good and bad can be compiled into one big paragraph so I'll just answer it like that.

- Uncharted has a better system of stealth than Assassins Creed but its not exactly on par with Metal Gear. In Uncharted you don't climb buildings, you're mosing just trying to survive and thats what the parkour and climbing is for. It creates cliffhanger moments where you're hanging off of things for your life and trying to survive. The protagonist is a brilliant, but fun loving guy who just seems to always find himself accepting quests where he has to search for treasure and some supernatural being, rich person or pirate is tailing him. It's great. The platforming is fairly easy, but then again on most console games there is auto assist even in shooting games. It doesn't mean that your hand is being held though. Uncharted two has most of the stealth missions. Every game brings out more out of a different part of the system. The first Uncharted delves more into the shooting and fighting, second is stealth and shooting (mixed-bag) and the third has a lot of everything. Uncharted has a Punching and evasion system where you attack with square and dodge with triangle. There are commands that make it look like a quicktime, but its not. You can punch as you please, you kind of just need to keep from getting shot and pick your fights properly. Uncharted uses QTE's but mostly in part three, but really in two or one. People are seriously overdoing it. God of War is the top Hack N slash right now for Sony and that one has QTE's but no one complains. QTE's just provide sick finishers after a hard fought battle.

The last of Us has a combat system which is based off of Uncharted but bloodier and more focused.

Uncharted Review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=122NZnjjs7w

Uncharted 2 Review:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPp9_ye5Fhc

Uncharted 3 Review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWU-tjHllmY

Last of Us Review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GBXuE6jcl4

The review helps to watch so you see the progression, but Uncharted is one of the most influential franchises of the gen. The Last of Us IS one of the greatest games of this generation, period. If it doesn't get game of the year over GTA (which I loved as well) I don't know...seriously.

Stick with the Wii U. No need for you to waste money and risk your peace of mind.

From what I can gather, Uncharted is probably not a game I would like all that much. I suspect I would play it for a few days to a week before getting bored of it (this is setting in with Assassisn Creed after three play sessions for reference) but I am pretty sure there are other people in my family who would love this. If the game allowes for randomly running around the world gunning down innocent bystanders it would most likely be a guaranteed superhit in my house, but there is a reason why I don't want my kids to play GTA.

For anyone keeping score: If I decide to double down on consoles, surprisingly I would lean towards a PlayStation 4 at this time. I will look into a couple more games and see if it makes sense to dish out to cash.

Uncharted is nothing like GTA if that's what you think :P It's pretty much an action-adventure movie in which you play the main role. Think Indiana Jones type of adventure.

You missed my point. The reference was that if Uncharted allows you to run around and randomly kill charatcers in the world for no good reason, I am sure it would be a smash hit in my household. (My kids spend an unreasonable amount of time in Assassins Creed assassinating for no good reason). But, if I wanted to get them a game where you randomly murder people, I would be getting GTA, which I won't, bacause I don't want them to play games that way.

That said, when people say the game plays like a movie I get a very bad vibe. Games that play like a movie is perhaps my least favorite thing in the world.