{"id":51,"date":"2016-05-18T02:31:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T06:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/?p=51"},"modified":"2016-05-18T02:32:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T06:32:37","slug":"game-ramblings-11-uncharted-drakes-fortune-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Game Ramblings #11 &#8211; Uncharted: Drake&#8217;s Fortune Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uncharted:_Drake%27s_Fortune\">More info from Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Platform: <\/strong>PS4 (Part of The Nathan Drake Collection)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Action-Adventure, Third-person shooter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Uncharted 4 came out, so I&#8217;m doing what everyone else is doing; not playing it! \u00a0Admittedly I&#8217;ve\u00a0always had a bit of a habit of picking up games, having more games come out, and never finishing games that I got sidetracked from. \u00a0For as quick as they are, the Uncharted titles definitely fell into that category. \u00a0Because of that, I decided to start at the top and work my way through, beginning with Drake&#8217;s Fortune. \u00a0So then the question is, how has this one aged?<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll start this off by immediately admitting I have a love\/hate relationship with the gun play of this series. \u00a0I absolutely adore that I can run through the entire game with a 9mm pistol, using it as an effective sniper rifle and getting the vast majority of my kills as headshots. \u00a0That said, it absolutely bugs the game developer side of me that I can do this. \u00a0Throughout this play through, I only really ended up using other weapons on a need-to-use basis. \u00a0The shotgun and MP40 came into play in the zombie-ish end game segments when they had effectively infinite ammo. \u00a0The AK47 and MP4 became relatively effective pray and spray weapons into walls of enemies. \u00a0However, they never really felt more powerful on a per-hit\u00a0basis than either of the main 9mm pistols, and the lack of ammunition available for other larger pistols meant that I really had no reason to use others.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I have a much\u00a0less positive relationship with the actual environmental design when it comes to this. \u00a0Going through the levels, it&#8217;s extremely obvious when you&#8217;re about to get into gunfights. \u00a0In general, you&#8217;ll turn a corner, see a bunch of crates, concrete wall segments, etc in a flat area, and know that once you hit a trigger point, a bunch of dudes are going to come into the field to start attacking you. \u00a0Sure by end game you get snipers in vertical nests, but by and large the combat areas are extremely obvious and scripted.<\/p>\n<p>That said, mechanically I would tend to lean towards the gun play still being very\u00a0fun, but not more than above average. \u00a0At this point I feel like the Tomb Raider series has taken some of the strong points of this series, and with the addition of that game&#8217;s more defined stealth mechanics, there are definitely options\u00a0out now that have vastly improved on the third-person tomb crawling.<\/p>\n<p>So then the question I guess becomes, is this one still worth a play through if you&#8217;re new to the Sony world? \u00a0Aging aside, I&#8217;d say yes. \u00a0The story is a pretty solid Indiana Jones-style story, the characters are entertaining, there&#8217;s enough visual improvements for the game to still look pretty decent, and the craftsmanship of the experience is without question. \u00a0Much like the Jak series, the first\u00a0in the series\u00a0showed the promise of Naughty Dog&#8217;s path, and new people to the series shouldn&#8217;t skip it for its age.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, sniper 9mm is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More info from Wikipedia Platform: PS4 (Part of The Nathan Drake Collection) Genre: Action-Adventure, Third-person shooter Uncharted 4 came out, so I&#8217;m doing what everyone else is doing; not playing it! \u00a0Admittedly I&#8217;ve\u00a0always had a bit of a habit of picking up games, having more games come out, and never finishing games that I got &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/?p=51\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Ramblings #11 &#8211; Uncharted: Drake&#8217;s Fortune Revisited&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,37,6,38],"tags":[18,35,29,40,39],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action","category-adventure","category-ps4","category-third-person-shooter","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-ps4","tag-shooter","tag-uncharted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.dwgames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}