Am I crazy, or did I just miss the boat? (Gaming)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Friday, May 13, 2016, 01:43 (3120 days ago) @ cheapLEY

I've listened to a few video game podcasts last week that obvious brought up Uncharted 4. Every single one of them held up Uncharted 2 as the standard for Uncharted games. Why?

I didn't play the games as they were released--I played through all three for the first time over the last two months. Uncharted 3 is clearly the best of them by a long shot. The pacing is better, the story is the best (and without the supernatural bullshit), the set pieces are the best. Is it just nostalgia and Uncharted 2 being such a huge leap over Uncharted 1 and being sort of unprecedented at the time in which it was released, or do people genuinely believe 2 is the better game? I mean, I think it's pretty close, but playing them all back to back for the first time, 3 is clearly the stand out for me.

Playing through them all for the first time, and while I'm 44% done with Uncharted 3, I'd say that it's been very small-scale compared to U2 (both the game and band), whereas Uncharted 2 started big (train wreck survival) and continued to have "big" moments throughout (including the fantastic train ride that led to the game's opening).

Halfway through Uncharted 3, and while the character interactions and gameplay are even better than in 2, the only real "big" sequence has been the castle fire. I guess those podcast folks that you listen to are really big on Hollywood sequences rather than on characters and story.

*shrug*

It's funny how playing through them, you see the slowly-developing skills that would ultimately lead to The Last of Us, but the two games couldn't be more different from one another...