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I haven't seen any discussion on this around these parts.

This post is a compilation of all the clues given out so far. The tl;dr version is that - it's something to do with London, it's set in the future and is probably Mass Effect related. We will be getting the unveil on Saturday the 11th with the VGA awards. I'm not going to suffer through that garbage, so I'll just wait for the trailers to pop up online. I'm guessing it's Mass Effect 3, featuring some kind of civil war or alien invasion of Earth (since the fans have been begging Bioware to let us land on Earth since ME1 came out).

Additionally, we've had this reveal: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. Set in the desert, reportedly with a bigger focus on the Sully - Drake relationship. Uncharted 2 was one of the best games of 2009, so colour me excited for this one.

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Alien invasion of Earth, must UNITE THE RACES TO RETAKE THE PLANET. I called it.

I was thoroughly underwhelmed by Uncharted 2 and didn't bother finishing it. Not even going to waste time on the third one.

Not wanting to derail the thread, I'mma just say that I disagree with you on that strongly, Zod, and cannot relate to you, as a human person.

adam_grif wrote:Not wanting to derail the thread, I'mma just say that I disagree with you on that strongly, Zod, and cannot relate to you, as a human person.

I agree with Zod - and I don't think he meant to demean the game, but as zod and I tend to be of like mind on games - he probably found Uncharted and U2 to be very Tomb Raider and we both played that game already so *ZzzzZzZZZ*

I couldn't even make it through uncharted 1 before going "If I'm going to play Tomb Raider, I wanna look at Lara Croft booty - not nathan fillion bum.

You don't like third-person shooters in general, though.

Uncharted 1 was mediocre because the shooting wasn't handled well, although it wasn't terrible either. U2 nailed the 3rd person shooting, putting it up there with the best of them, did a better job of doing an Indianna Jones plot and managed to 1up itself visually.

I agree with Zod - and I don't think he meant to demean the game, but as zod and I tend to be of like mind on games - he probably found Uncharted and U2 to be very Tomb Raider and we both played that game already so *ZzzzZzZZZ*

Uncharted has very little in common with the tomb-raider series once you get past superficial details like "they're always chasing down mystical lost artifact #211". The gameplay style is very different, both combat and platforming, with U's combat being the more modern gears style, and the platforming being highly automatic and streamlined.

adam_grif wrote:
Uncharted has very little in common with the tomb-raider series once you get past superficial details like "they're always chasing down mystical lost artifact #211". The gameplay style is very different, both combat and platforming, with U's combat being the more modern gears style, and the platforming being highly automatic and streamlined.

The combat was somewhat smoother in Uncharted but it was still very much a Tomb Raider clone. My biggest hangup was the endless horde of enemies that made it monotonous after a while. The stupid mission where you have to jump from jeep to jeep was the dealbreaker where I finally gave up.

That's like 75% through the game, you should give it another shot one day. That level wasn't even that long, from memory it's like ten minutes max.

Stark wrote:You don't like third-person shooters in general, though.

Eh, I guess that's true (or maybe it just didn't have enough shiny things for me to collectathonz) I liked RDR pretty well (though it didn't have much satying power for me) and...yeah, I fell out of gears pretty quick, too...Huh..I never thought about it much but I guess I don't care for third person shoots all that much.

*snaps fingers*

I know why - nothing has ever lived up to the masterpiece that was BRUTE FORCE

I know why - nothing has ever lived up to the masterpiece that was BRUTE FORCE

This thread is going to some really fuckin' weird places


Anyway, if you're not a fan of gears style combat Uncharted is not the series for you. It's 40% cover shooter, 40% platforming, 15% cutscenes, 5% stealth.

adam_grif wrote:That's like 75% through the game, you should give it another shot one day. That level wasn't even that long, from memory it's like ten minutes max.

It's ten minutes once you figure out what the fuck you're supposed to do. It took me hours to work out how to jump around on those jeeps and by the end of it I said "fuck this shit".

General Zod wrote:

adam_grif wrote:That's like 75% through the game, you should give it another shot one day. That level wasn't even that long, from memory it's like ten minutes max.

It's ten minutes once you figure out what the fuck you're supposed to do. It took me hours to work out how to jump around on those jeeps and by the end of it I said "fuck this shit".

I'm pretty sure the A.I. shouts at you to jump onto the other trucks and shit. That part of the game was actually fun, the worst was the "boss fight" with the guy who eats 200 grenades and bullets to the face until you realize that the game wants you to finish him off with hand-to-hand.

adam_grif wrote: I'm pretty sure the A.I. shouts at you to jump onto the other trucks and shit.

It wasn't all that helpful because I kept jumping to the wrong jeeps.

That part of the game was actually fun, the worst was the "boss fight" with the guy who eats 200 grenades and bullets to the face until you realize that the game wants you to finish him off with hand-to-hand.

I didn't have nearly as much trouble with him.

I don't think any of us are necessarily bashing Un, it's just not our thing. I recognize that U2 is beautiful, nice too look at, and probably lots of fun, but I don't feel like spending an entire game building up to fight a bunch of Smurfnavi. And, sadly, I didn't particularly care for any of the characters. they just didn't "Grab" me. So, U3 I'm meh about and ME3 I'm meh about only because WE ALL KNEW IT WAS COMING. I'm actually surprised that EA hasn't "Activisioned" it already. (We call it Kotickfied)

EA hasn't made it a yearly franchise because they wouldn't be able to crank out 25+ hour quality RPG's every year, and as hard as this may be to believe, the current CEO of EA isn't a short-sighted ravenous douchebag, and actually did his best to steer EA away from what it has been in the past (set up the EA partners program, approved the creation of Dead Space and Mirror's Edge, the acquisition of Bioware).

Madden et al are yearly franchises because their contracts with the NFL demands that they do so, and people are happy to pay for a yearly roster update (not really sure why, but w/e).

Take that pic off that post immediately. I just spontaneously punched my friggin' computer screen.

I'd love to oblige, but you know, edit window and all that

Yay Uncharted 2 discussion! U2 was fun but the one fucking thing that bugged me were the nearly invincible enemies near the end. And that super-douche on the train. A neat way to break in my PS3, though.

According to Naughty Dog’s creative director Amy Hennig, the theme of deception plays out in multiple ways throughout the threequel, from Drake doing the deceiving to Drake being deceived to some mysterious deception about Drake’s very identity.

Really. Ok then. Deception appears in the series.

Supernatural third act bad guys always suck, but if you pick up the crossbows they go down in like 1/2 hits. Sticking with AK's is a nightmare for fighting them of course.

They've started, Niel Patrick Harris got destroyed by the audience, Dane Cook remains unfunny, Bioware won Studio of the Year.

EDIT: Bethesda is announcing a new game. A new elder scrolls game. "Skyrim" or something is the title.

Kratos is a nominee for Character of the Year.



EDIT:

AssBro won Action/Adventure game of the year.

Mass Effect 3 announced. As if we needed further confirmation...

lol Reapers what Reapers, oh

I wonder how many Alliance ships were destroyed just by letting Harbinger fly into them.

Mass Effect 1: "We must stop the Reapers from returning through the Citadel."
Mass Effect 2: "We must stop the agents of the Reapers from building another Reaper, which will presumably let the Reapers return through the Citadel."
Mass Effect 3: "Oh, the Reapers are here. Hmm, I guess they could have just flown back whenever they wanted."


They better have a damn fucking good explanation for this, otherwise it's going to be a gigantic plothole hanging over the series. The only way I'm thinking this can make sense is if the Reapers started breaking, running out of fuel etc and had to cannibalize each other for spare parts on the return trip, and there are only like 20 of them left or something by the time they got here.