To people who have never played Uncharted:

[adobe slabs]

Please don't get excited for this. Uncharted 4 is like a perfect summary of everything that has gone wrong with modern gaming. It is on-rails, barely interactive, and features an insane amount of unskippable uninteresting walking and talking. The shooting has zero depth, the climbing/"platforming" is scripted and impossible to fail, and puzzles are laughably simplistic. It's like watching a movie that's 15 hours long and you have to hold down a button for the entire duration to make it keep playing, and in the end the payoff is simply lame and unsatisfying.

[SLOPPYMCFLOPPY]

To people who listen to this bozo: don’t listen, people have opinions, everyone has their own.

[Cataclysmic Meat Wave Jackman]

Ive been wanting to play the first 3 for years and I cant describe my level of disappointment when I saw uncharted on steam and got excited only to see its the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ new ones

[Chad Miyazaki]

Originally posted by adobe slabs:

It is on-rails, barely interactive, and features an insane amount of unskippable uninteresting walking and talking. The shooting has zero depth, the climbing/"platforming" is scripted and impossible to fail, and puzzles are laughably simplistic..

Like every other uncharted then

[MBriggs27]

Uncharted 4 is just a refinement of what came before in the series. So if 4 is everything wrong with modern gaming, then that means the previous games started the trend in the first place.

[Stoibs]

I lost count of how many things were objectively wrong from the OP.

All the uncharted games are on-rail narrative-focused shooters; And if anything this and Lost legacy are the *least* linear since they actually played around a bit with the open vehicle segments...

You most assuredely can fail and miss platforming jumps, and you're acting as though the walking and talking is a negative..? The writing, dialogues and S-Tier VA work is literally the reason why the series is critically and culturally acclaimed. This is up there with saying something like 'There's too much dialogue in Disco Elysium' in terms of bad takes.

Clearly this type of game is not for you OP, but the narrative heavy, singleplayer story-focused saga's are what Sony games are generally known for, and why a lot of their stuff wins GOTY accolades..

[space]

it sounds like you've never played it

[glowsticky]

Uncharted 4 has waaaay too many cutscenes. played it on ps4 and i swear every time you moved ahead another damn long cutscene would happen. it was so annoying. Lost Legacy is decent but it's short as hell. this game is not worth asking price

[Stoibs]

Is it just me or has the attention span of the average gamer gone waaaaay down in years?
I don't remember the cutscenes being aggressively long at all. There's a thread in the Midnight Fight Express forum about people moaning that they want to skip all the dialogues (You can.. I don't know why that thread exists..) And just recently in the new Triangle Strategy forum the other day there's people talking about there being too much text and story.. in a freaking JRPG..

Can we.. not try to ruin the singleplayer epics that we have left in this day and age of games-as-a-service- multiplayer things dominating the market everywhere?

[❛❛Vénttea❜❜]

Originally posted by Stoibs:

Is it just me or has the attention span of the average gamer gone waaaaay down in years?
I don't remember the cutscenes being aggressively long at all. There's a thread in the Midnight Fight Express forum about people moaning that they want to skip all the dialogues (You can.. I don't know why that thread exists..) And just recently in the new Triangle Strategy forum the other day there's people talking about there being too much text and story.. in a freaking JRPG..

Can we.. not try to ruin the singleplayer epics that we have left in this day and age of games-as-a-service- multiplayer things dominating the market everywhere?

They probably have a short attention span as you said.
Uncharted 4 as I recall has too much dialogue but most of the dialogue is highly relevant to the lore and build up of Captain Avery's treasure, Nate and the people he meets or fights. The one thing I noticed is that players that just jumped to 4 without playing the first three will find the game mediocre or just good. Those that did follow the first three games and completed the 4th had a much better experience, like the players that played Mass Effect 1 to 3 instead of just 3.

[Stoibs]

Originally posted by ❛❛Liechée❜❜:

Those that did follow the first three games and completed the 4th had a much better experience, like the players that played Mass Effect 1 to 3 instead of just 3.

Yeah that makes sense.
I absolutely loved all the heavy Scenes with Elana when she appears midway through, and again during their psuedo marriage counselling talks inbetween fighting off waves of merceneries :P, but I can see how this wouldn't hit nearly as hard for newcomers coming in with this game only.

[Sajonji]

I played both games (and all the previous uncharted games) on console, and they're all great games. Belonging to the best i have played in the last decade.
So, with all respect, you are completely wrong @OP. Mid opinion is mid.

[StarWarsDude19]

Just finished the game on ps4 for the first time.
It was amazing.
Except for Nadine.

[M4son]

Originally posted by adobe slabs:

Please don't get excited for this. Uncharted 4 is like a perfect summary of everything that has gone wrong with modern gaming. It is on-rails, barely interactive, and features an insane amount of unskippable uninteresting walking and talking. The shooting has zero depth, the climbing/"platforming" is scripted and impossible to fail, and puzzles are laughably simplistic. It's like watching a movie that's 15 hours long and you have to hold down a button for the entire duration to make it keep playing, and in the end the payoff is simply lame and unsatisfying.

This guy has never played uncharted, no way he played these titles and saying this.

[Sheriff Hoyt]

So go play some Elden Ring to get cancer, some players still love story based games , not everyone is a hardcore gamer , games are meant for having fun not competition

[Le Rat]

Originally posted by adobe slabs:

It is on-rails, barely interactive, and features an insane amount of unskippable uninteresting walking and talking. The shooting has zero depth, the climbing/"platforming" is scripted and impossible to fail, and puzzles are laughably simplistic. It's like watching a movie that's 15 hours long and you have to hold down a button for the entire duration to make it keep playing, and in the end the payoff is simply lame and unsatisfying.

so it's like every single playstayshun exclusive ever lol