@Abyssfull said:
@RadJoshCon said:
@Abyssfull: I read your review and I really agree with what you said about Uncharted 3 falling back on some of the mistakes made in the first game. The combat in 3 did that stupid trick of spawning a bunch of enemies from the area where you entered, which was one of the biggest problems with the first game and was hugely improved in 2. I just feel like Naughty Dog thought that they needed more combat when really I just wanted to quickly dispatch the enemies present and then move on to the better parts of the game.
Cheers for that! And yeah, it's weird, because during the first half I was thinking to myself how so fewer combat scenarios there were over Uncharted 2. Then as soon as you hit Yemen to join Elena it all goes ape shit, completely overwhelming you with a stupidly huge amount of enemies in every turn. Playing the campaign on hard mode from the outset was the worst mistake I made, too... it completely spoiled my first ever playthrough, and so many set-pieces were ruined because of me dying over and over. But I had no reason to expect such looming frustration, though, because Uncharted 2, while not exactly easy, was very doable and I had loads of fun starting straight from hard mode.
I didn't use that frustrating to tamper with my review, though, because with whatever difficulty you're playing on, a lot of the later combat encounter designs were still outright lazy.
Yeah. I had the same experience cause I played 2 from the start on hard and I did the same with 3, which caused a lot of frustration. I would say that I would play it again on Normal to see if that is more fun, but unlike 2 I don't really feel like the story beats and character interactions are good enough to get me to do that.
Like @Hashbrowns said, the story just didn't come together. They tried to play Salim off like a Tenzen from 2 but the character interaction is almost completely non-existent. And, I don't know about you guys but I get a fuzzy feeling inside whenever I see Drake and Elena interact and, despite the implied developments, I felt like the most interesting couple of characters didn't get enough of the snappy interaction that was present in 1 and 2. Honestly, thinking back, Uncharted 1 may have had better moment to moment dialogue than 3.
Ultimately, like I said in my first post, I think that Uncharted 3 is a technical marvel, but it takes so many steps backwards in terms of its storytelling and combat scenarios.
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