Topic: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Official Best Single-Player Game Ever Thread

[NWR_Lindy]

This is one game where I can say the hype may turn out to be justified.

Adam Sessler from G4 seemed to enjoy it:

http://g4tv.com/games/ps3/57025/Uncharted-2-Among-Thieves/review/

"I’m not 100% certain when it happened. I think it’s when I had Nathan Drake atop a building in a war-torn Nepalese city, cornered and being fired upon by a helicopter, engaged in a fist fight with the screen slowly draining of color, snapping my enemy’s neck and quickly rolling into cover to reload my grenade launcher only to turn and fire upon the chopper one last time as I watched it crash and explode. I think this is when I realized that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the best single-player game I have ever played."

[NWR_insanolord]

The whole damn world is conspiring against me to get me to buy a PS3. Good thing I don't trust Lindy's opinion on games.

User was warned for this post.  It's easy to warn people when they admit to breaking the rules two posts later. ~Pale

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I'm getting Wii Fit Plus (disc) later today.

[vudu]

  I secretly hoped everyone was trolling this thread by not posting.  Insanolord ruined my fun.

I've heard nothing but good things about Uncharted and I'll definitely pick them up when/if I get a PS3.  Unfortunately, that probably won't happen until it gets Netflix streaming.

[NWR_insanolord]

  I secretly hoped everyone was trolling this thread by not posting.  Insanolord ruined my fun.

I've heard nothing but good things about Uncharted and I'll definitely pick them up when/if I get a PS3.  Unfortunately, that probably won't happen until it gets Netflix streaming.

Sorry, I decided to troll the thread (or at least the thread creator) by posting instead.

If you want Netflix streaming so bad you should get a 360. It also has a controller that, unlike the Dual Shock, won't give you leprosy.

[vudu]

If you want Netflix streaming so bad you should get a 360. It also has a controller that, unlike the Dual Shock, won't give you leprosy.

Sorry, but I can't justify a second console for Netflix alone.  I also can't justify it for a Blu-ray player by itself.  But a Blu-ray player AND Netflix? 

Besides, the PS3 has significantly more exclusives that interest me.  Gears of War can suck a lemon.

[NWR_Lindy]

I think 10/10 is justified in only the rarest of circumstances, but based on the fact that both the single-player AND multiplayer are supposedly amazing, I can see it with Uncharted 2.  The first game is easily 9/10 for me, and that's with a few flaws and no multiplayer component.

[Mop it up]

I'm surprised that a topic like this on a Nintendo-focused forum isn't trolling. Shouldn't we all believe Zelda to be the official best single-player game ever?

[NWR_insanolord]

If you want Netflix streaming so bad you should get a 360. It also has a controller that, unlike the Dual Shock, won't give you leprosy.

Sorry, but I can't justify a second console for Netflix alone.  I also can't justify it for a Blu-ray player by itself.  But a Blu-ray player AND Netflix? 

Besides, the PS3 has significantly more exclusives that interest me.  Gears of War can suck a lemon.

Have you actually played Gears of War? Behind the awful story and technically-impressive-though-unappealing graphics is a really fun and well-made game.

I'm surprised that a topic like this on a Nintendo-focused forum isn't trolling. Shouldn't we all believe Zelda to be the official best single-player game ever?

Re-read the site rules; if the Director does it it's not trolling.

[broodwars]

I think 10/10 is justified in only the rarest of circumstances, but based on the fact that both the single-player AND multiplayer are supposedly amazing, I can see it with Uncharted 2.  The first game is easily 9/10 for me, and that's with a few flaws and no multiplayer component.

*shrugs*

I played the multiplayer "beta" a few months ago, and honestly I didn't find the multiplayer anything special.  Still, that could be because everyone was voting for the frickin' deathmatch rules instead of the "capture the flag" or "king of the hill"-type rules I prefer.  I'm much more looking forward to the singleplayer experience, especially if they've truly fixed the incredibly poor pacing the first game had where you had to dive behind cover and blast away at a seemingly-endless stream of goons every 5 steps so you never got to take in the atmosphere.

[GoldenPhoenix]

Sounds like another vastly overrated game is on the horizon, can't wait! Give me Dragon Age over this any day.

[NWR_Lindy]

How is my (obviously) tongue-in-cheek thread title trolling?  Read Sessler's review...that's where I pulled it from.  I thought the hyperbole might spark some discussion, but apparently it just made people sad.

Like I said, I'm reserving judgement.  But more than any other game this generation, Uncharted 2 could actually be worthy of the scores it receives.

[vudu]

But more than any other game this generation, Uncharted 2 could actually be worthy of the scores it receives.

How's Mario Galaxy coming along? 

[Mop it up]

How is my (obviously) tongue-in-cheek thread title trolling?

I've never been good at picking up on that sort of thing, especially on a forum where I can't see the presenter's expression or hear their tone of voice, so it wasn't obvious to me.

[NWR_insanolord]

But more than any other game this generation, Uncharted 2 could actually be worthy of the scores it receives.

How's Mario Galaxy coming along? 

He said "worthy of the scores it receives," not "worthy of higher scores than it receives."

[mac<censored>]

Sounds like another vastly overrated game is on the horizon, can't wait! Give me Dragon Age over this any day.

Ugh, just looked at the wikipedia page for that.  Dwarfs, mages, paladins, blah blah blah, again?!?

Creak, creak, creak...

[GoldenPhoenix]

Sounds like another vastly overrated game is on the horizon, can't wait! Give me Dragon Age over this any day.

Ugh, just looked at the wikipedia page for that.  Dwarfs, mages, paladins, blah blah blah, again?!?

Creak, creak, creak...

I've looked and it has one of the most promising good/evil/inbetween moral system around. Bioware is a pioneer of moral choices and Dragon Age looks to be the best blend of it where you can not only be "good" or "evil" but also benefits from being in between when it comes to story and the way people treat you. One thing that sort of game has lacked is the fact that good people can do "bad" things and vice versa, in this from everything I've read takes that into account so a rational choice won't give you "dark" or "good" points but may impact you realistically in other ways. Also I find it funny that Dragon Age's setting is bad but Uncharted's overall atheistic isn't.

[ShyGuy]

So my coworker is all hyped for this game. Should I slash his tires?

[GoldenPhoenix]

So my coworker is all hyped for this game. Should I slash his tires?

Yes you should.

[Dirk Temporo]

I want to be excited for Dragon Age because I really like Bioware and WRPGs for the most part, but the whole thing just looks sooooooo goddamn generic. They could have at least TRIED to make it something other than straight high fantasy.

Anyway, from the videos I've seen of the first and second game, Uncharted looks pretty solid, and it definitely LOOKS amazing. It seems to be over-the-top action scene after over-the-top action scene punctuated by puzzles, which is pretty neat.

[bustin98]

I want to play the single player of Uncharted 2. The beta-demo of the multiplayer is so-so. Throwing grenades is a difficult thing to do, even more so in the heat of battle. I found some maps are great, others not so. One in particular was just too large for 10 players. The game looks great and handles fine.

[KDR_11k]

I've looked and it has one of the most promising good/evil/inbetween moral system around. Bioware is a pioneer of moral choices and Dragon Age looks to be the best blend of it where you can not only be "good" or "evil" but also benefits from being in between when it comes to story and the way people treat you. One thing that sort of game has lacked is the fact that good people can do "bad" things and vice versa, in this from everything I've read takes that into account so a rational choice won't give you "dark" or "good" points but may impact you realistically in other ways. Also I find it funny that Dragon Age's setting is bad but Uncharted's overall atheistic isn't.

Good and evil still seems too simple compared to e.g. The Witcher.

[D_Average]

If your initial reaction to this is frustration, you are a Nintendo fanboy. At the end of the day you should want to play fantastic games. Who cares what system it comes out on.  It's no differnt than the legions of people like Sean Malstrom who champion motion controls but for some odd reason they openly state they want Natal and the Sony wand to fail.  Gamers need to grow up. Movie buffs could care less what company releases new movies. They just want them to be good.

That said, if the sequel is anything like the first one, it will certainly live up to the hype.  Can't wait! 

[NWR_Lindy]

I wouldn't say that Dragon Age is generic, but I would say that it's yet another entry in a genre that's been done to death.

Meanwhile, the "jungle adventure" sub-genre really hasn't had any worthwhile entries for a long time outside of the Tomb Raider franchise (maybe a couple of Indiana Jones titles, but they're very spotty in terms of quality), so it blows my mind that anybody could dismiss it as generic.  Even the first game, while repetitive, was a vastly different experience from anything that I'd played previously because of how all of its elements were so seamlessly blended.

Anybody dismissing this game as a pretty graphics demo really needs to get their head out of the sand.

[KDR_11k]

At the end of the day you should want to play fantastic games. Who cares what system it comes out on.

Someone who doesn't own every single system out there?