Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Sad Professor · 09-11-2011 12:56am

No, that update just fixes some 3D issue. Aiming is still the same.

seanybiker · 09-11-2011 1:24am

huggy wrote: »

I'm not entirely sure but I think it goes to 75 and then it resets back to 0. I'm 35 right now

Ah right.
I'm only 17 now. One fella I met from clondalkin is deadly at it. If your up for a game add me. Seany_biker

Burning Eclipse · 09-11-2011 9:55am

huggy wrote: »

Anyone up for Uncharted online? I'm sick of getting paired with a buddy who hasn't the foggiest what he's doing, it's getting very irritating.My Psn is LOPPY_THE_EVIL21, hilarious i know.

I'm pretty sure you killed me more than once last night.

I started playing UC3 MP last night, really enjoyed it. PSN is MadainSari... If anyone wants to play, shoot me a friend request! seanybiker, I'll add you later! Only level 6, so I'm still a scrub.

Roar · 09-11-2011 10:16am

Kinda enjoyign the mulitplayer, i'm still pretty crap at it though (getting about 6 or 7 kills every deathmatch).. think i'm up as far as level 8..

kearneybobs · 09-11-2011 11:43am

Explorer edition is back up on Gamestop.ie. Be quick if you want it.

Notorioux · 09-11-2011 2:18pm

seanybiker wrote: »

What's the highest level online. I seen a 74 so I presume it goes to 100.
Loving online play.
I'm only level 11 or something crap like that but having fun so it's all good

75, but there's a 5 legacy it's like cod prestige.

norrie rugger · 09-11-2011 3:26pm

I really hope that they do not go down the line of Call of Duty and have really short single player games, in favour of a big multiplayer experience.

I really enjoyed all the Drakes games, as I am not much of a multi player fan. This game, short as it was, was still worth it but really seems that already sacrifices are being made for the MP

johnny_ultimate · 09-11-2011 8:17pm

Levelling up has really started to turn me off multiplayer games.

For something like Uncharted, it's not the type of game I'm going to commit hours upon hours to TDM. I'd like to be able to pop in for a quick game and not have to worry about stats or unlockables.

See also: paid map packs

corblimey · 10-11-2011 9:48am

Glad I'm not the only one who think UC3 is a little on the short side, good as it is. I finished it last night, despite MW3 giving me the stink eye from behind its plastic cover

. Great game, and although there were a few annoyances, I very much enjoyed it.

I did expect a

major conflagration at the end - a 'big boss' fight if you will - but it was just a bit of a damp squib

. In fact, I'd consider the

lad at the end of the boat level to be the last big boss of the game, and that's about halfway through!

.

I have no interest in MP (in any of my games, still have nightmares arising from my Counterstrike addiction of the early noughties) so UC3 will go back in the cupboard for a few months now, until I probably tackle all 3 together during next summer's drought.

seanybiker · 10-11-2011 11:20pm

Odd tonight multiplayer.
Tis wicked laggy for team against me. I pumped a load of bullets into a fella only to see that he captured the treasure whilst I was shooting him from a metre away haha.

biggebruv · 11-11-2011 8:22pm

I have UNCharted 1+2 being delivered from play at the mo will have to play them first

Iv never played uncharted before.

anywere in dublin selling the 3rd for 45euro

WolfForager · 11-11-2011 8:23pm

biggebruv wrote: »

I have UNCharted 1+2 being delivered from play at the mo will have to play them first

Iv never played uncharted before.

anywere in dublin selling the 3rd for 45euro

HMV.

seanybiker · 11-11-2011 8:52pm

biggebruv wrote: »

I have UNCharted 1+2 being delivered from play at the mo will have to play them first

Iv never played uncharted before.

anywere in dublin selling the 3rd for 45euro

Your going to love the games. Enjoy

Potential-Monke · 12-11-2011 3:10pm

Finally finished it today (after picking it up on release and playing an hour before going to Limerick for 4 days and coming home to MW3!). Like the previous installments, an absolute masterpiece of a game. Really makes use of the term interactive media. It's like playing a film.

I got extremely frustrated at times though, some crazy hard set-pieces, like the main hall in the ship. However, with the crazy hard set pieces came the fantastic scenes. My stand out moment came when

the cruise shop overturned, and you're back in the main hall and look to the wall (previously the ceiling) and the ocean is half way up along it.

That blew me away for some reason. But the game is jam packed with moments like that.

johnny_ultimate · 12-11-2011 3:30pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Like the previous installments, an absolute masterpiece of a game. Really makes use of the term interactive media. It's like playing a film.

As much as I like the series, I think Uncharted actually brings interactivity in gaming back a notch :pac: Sure, you have limited control in some respects (in combat particularly) but you are simply experiencing what Naughty Dog has determined you will experience. Heck, it's possible you might even miss it, because try as they may with nifty camera angles, you're not always going to be looking the way you're 'supposed' to be.

There are few truly interactive games - Minecraft being the main one that springs to mind - but most give the player considerable control over how the experience will play out within predefined limits. Uncharted is certainly at the lower end of the scale in that regard. It's no harm having a few of these types of games when they do it well, but it would be a shame it it became the dominant type.

Roar · 12-11-2011 5:11pm

well said. There's a lot of cutscenes that the game tries to trick you into thinking actually aren't

wandering in the desert, the hallucinating scene for example

but all you're really doing is pressing up on the left stick

LauraW7746 · 12-11-2011 5:34pm

Hey guys my psn is Gamer7746 if ye want to play multiplayer sometime

Daemos · 12-11-2011 5:38pm

I think one of the problems is that it has a lot of contemporary settings in it. For me, part of the joy of Uncharted is exploring unseen, unknown locations, not something you've seen a million times in films and games. I'm at the airport now and can't wait to get into the desert, where I'm hoping it'll be more like the Tibetan levels in U2.

I'd compare it to Vice City - a very good game in its own right, but at the end of the day it's just a variation on the previous, revolutionary game in the series.

LH Pathe · 13-11-2011 10:30pm

truth is the ending caught me out; was still waiting for it to start. And this was never going to live up to U2 in which I was determined anyhow.. but hey it's all geographical.

Also it ears the gizzards ourra me to see this score in the high 90s, seems most 'professional' revievers are kids caught in a tide of hype.

Mr. K · 13-11-2011 10:48pm

I really enjoyed it, the opening levels and the

airport/plane

parts were the highlights.

However, I thought the

Sully death hallucination

was a bit of a cop out.

Much as I like Sully, his death would've added a serious sense of danger to the series

!

kearneybobs · 13-11-2011 11:12pm

Mr. K wrote: »

I really enjoyed it, the opening levels and the
airport/plane
parts were the highlights.

However, I thought the
Sully death hallucination
was a bit of a cop out.
Much as I like Sully, his death would've added a serious sense of danger to the series
!

I honestly fell for it. Thought it was very well done. It was sudden but seemed to fit in well with the motives of the Talbot and Katherine. I was actually gutted they killed him off. He's quite possibly the best character in Uncharted. It's because of him that I like Drake as much as I do. If his interactions with Sully didn't exist, I wouldn't like Drake as much. I though he was hallucinating when he saw him alive afterwards. Maybe I'm too gullible. Anyone else fall for it?

norrie rugger · 13-11-2011 11:13pm

The constant "Large Man" fights bugged me actually. Same technique used for all of them, even the same animation for all of them

kearneybobs · 13-11-2011 11:16pm

norrie rugger wrote: »

The constant "Large Man" fights bugged me actually. Same technique used for all of them, even the same animation for all of them

Yeah. Were actually quite weak as a gameplay mechanic. Alright the first time or two, but it became tiresome after a while.

Mr. K · 13-11-2011 11:24pm

kearneybobs wrote: »

Anyone else fall for it?

I did, briefly. I wanted to murder Talbot. But then I thought about the whole hallucination possibility! Actually, Talbot was a pretty good villain; dapper and smug. It was cool seeing Nate and Sully double-teaming him

!

norrie rugger wrote: »

The constant "Large Man" fights bugged me actually. Same technique used for all of them, even the same animation for all of them

Agreed, these got dull fast!

I don't think it was as good as 2 overall. The lack of a

final boss

was better, but I don't think the set pieces were as good. Also, as stated by others previously,

Chloe and Cutter

were underused. I loved the Chloe/Nate interactions in 2; she's probably my favourite Uncharted character.

krudler · 14-11-2011 12:40am

I liked Cutter, was really hoping

they didnt go down the "he's good/bad/good" route, which it did briefly but he's good overall and his moments of badness weren't his fault

Sully is a great as always, the beginning really added to his and Nate's relationship,

when he tells Nate "dont ever point a gun at me again" and he's deadly serious near the end after Nate hallucinates it added a little spark to the dynamic

I thought Marlow and Talbot could have done with a bit more fleshing out though, Talbot especially, he was a very cool villain.

gloobag · 14-11-2011 9:57am

Finished it there last night. Wasn't too impressed with it to be honest, and I loved the first two.

I think, to me, it felt like a buggy version of Uncharted. Why did they **** with the controls?

Drake doesn't seem to know what he's supposed to be doing half the time.

Why the ridculous spikes in difficulty? It really takes you out of the experience. I've beaten the first two on the hardest difficulty, but I struggled with this one on normal.

Did they ever explain what the story was with the dead guy they found in the chateau? If they did, I missed it

Unless they do something radically different with the next game, I think I'm out.

norrie rugger · 14-11-2011 4:01pm

Chloe and Cutter spin off?

seanybiker · 14-11-2011 5:30pm

norrie rugger wrote: »

Chloe and Cutter spin off?

That be cool. Chloe has the best computer generated arse ever hahahaha. Cutter was cool in it.

richymcdermott · 15-11-2011 4:51pm

Finished it yesterday, i thought it was one of the best experiences i had in a long time , some of the stuff they pulled off making this game was sheer jaw dropping. Granted it fell A LITTLE short to beat uncharted 2 for me but that does not take away the amount of enjoyment i had with this holy grail.
Ive little to no complaints , only thing that got on my tits were the controls and even bout 3 hours into the single player i forgot all about it.
For me with the series its..

Uncharted 2 among thieves
Uncharted 3 drakes deception
Uncharted drakes fortune

No doubt in my mind its my favourite game series off all time..

Potential-Monke · 15-11-2011 6:55pm

richymcdermott wrote: »

Finished it yesterday, i thought it was one of the best experiences i had in a long time , some of the stuff they pulled off making this game was sheer jaw dropping. Granted it fell A LITTLE short to beat uncharted 2 for me but that does not take away the amount of enjoyment i had with this holy grail.
Ive little to no complaints , only thing that got on my tits were the controls and even bout 3 hours into the single player i forgot all about it.
For me with the series its..

Uncharted 2 among thieves
Uncharted 3 drakes deception
Uncharted drakes fortune

No doubt in my mind its my favourite game series off all time..

I'd agree with you up to your last statement, the Legacy of Kain series holds that title!

And i know that alot o f the sequences were holding your hand, but to me it felt more interactive than most other games i've played. The same went for Uncharted 2, even though you couldn't do everything you wanted, the way they done it made me feel like i was Nate.

LuckyFinigan · 15-11-2011 7:00pm

Anyone know when the aiming patch will be out? Im dying to give it another playthrough but want to wait for the patch.

richymcdermott · 15-11-2011 7:39pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I'd agree with you up to your last statement, the Legacy of Kain series holds that title!

And i know that alot o f the sequences were holding your hand, but to me it felt more interactive than most other games i've played. The same went for Uncharted 2, even though you couldn't do everything you wanted, the way they done it made me feel like i was Nate.

Never heard of legacy of kain ..

Mr. K · 15-11-2011 8:29pm

richymcdermott wrote: »

Never heard of legacy of kain ..

Amy Hennig, who wrote the Uncharted series, also wrote the LoK series.

richymcdermott · 15-11-2011 8:34pm

Mr. K wrote: »

Amy Hennig, who wrote the Uncharted series, also wrote the LoK.

Ahh thats kick ass...

YouSavedMyLife · 15-11-2011 8:41pm

richymcdermott wrote: »

Never heard of legacy of kain ..

:eek::eek: One of my favourite series of all time! If you can get over dated graphics of each game i would highly recommend picking up some of the games, although there is quite and few and some focus on other characters and exclude others...

richymcdermott · 15-11-2011 8:46pm

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

:eek::eek: One of my favourite series of all time! If you can get over dated graphics of each game i would highly recommend picking up some of the games, although there is quite and few and some focus on other characters and exclude others...

Wouldnt be arsed unless someone were to throw them on my lap :pac::pac:

Potential-Monke · 16-11-2011 1:55pm

richymcdermott wrote: »

Wouldnt be arsed unless someone were to throw them on my lap :pac::pac:

I have them all except the original Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen.

LoK: Soul Reaver on PS1
LoK: Soul Reaver on PS2
Lok: Blood Omen 2 on PS2
LoK: Defiance on PS2

Aside from the first Soul Reaver, I reckon the others hold up pretty well.

I would happily lend them to you. Everyone should have played these games. The voice acting is beyond superb, and the story is possibly the best story ever written!!! I'm hoping for a HD remake of them all, and a sequel. Preferably with Kain killing every Twilight vampire with minimal effort necessary.

17-11-2011 12:24am

Is anybody but me really not enjoying this game? I enjoyed the other two but i just can't get into this. Bad controls, boring uninspired puzzles, too much wandering around doing nothing or wondering where I'm supposed to be going, no objectives or waypoints of any kind, even when you're hopelessly lost for ages, bad combat sequences, Stop-start action, loads of "learning by dying", irritating hit and miss chase sequences, and a good few wierd bugs and glitches thrown in for good measure.

It just seems to be frustrating me and taking me out of the game experience way too often for me to enjoy it.

I've just escaped from captivity and cleared out a shipyard, battling pirates and the control scheme, and then spent 15 minutes having no idea where I'm supposed to go, swimming and jumping around aimlessly looking for a cut scene, or a doorway, or something. There's probably some tiny inconspicuous ledge I need to grab somewhere. Seriously, would a waypoint hurt? Even a hint would be useful. They seem to come up every two minutes when I don't need them.

Can anybody help me out? Where am I supposed to be going? Its rare I would quit a game before I finish it, but I'm perilously close to trading this in right now just out of annoyance.

Potential-Monke · 17-11-2011 12:55am

Deleted User wrote: »

I've just escaped from captivity and cleared out a shipyard, battling pirates and the control scheme, and then spent 15 minutes having no idea where I'm supposed to go, swimming and jumping around aimlessly looking for a cut scene, or a doorway, or something. There's probably some tiny inconspicuous ledge I need to grab somewhere. Seriously, would a waypoint hurt? Even a hint would be useful. They seem to come up every two minutes when I don't need them.

Can anybody help me out? Where am I supposed to be going? Its rare I would quit a game before I finish it, but I'm perilously close to trading this in right now just out of annoyance.

i know the part you're at, and i got stuck there for a while too. If it's the part i think you're on about, where you'd to fight a load of guys by about 5 boats and floating platforms, you

climb the crows nest of the **** near the back of the area where the machine gunner was. Climb it all the way to the top, and there's part of a yellow ladder that you can jump to, there's birds on it. Continue on from there.

Mc Love · 17-11-2011 1:37am

That shipyard part was the most annoying part of the game. I had to leave it for a few hours and come back to it such was my frustration. But I did manage to find the next bit after swimming about for a while.

17-11-2011 8:49am

Potential-Monke wrote: »

i know the part you're at, and i got stuck there for a while too. If it's the part i think you're on about, where you'd to fight a load of guys by about 5 boats and floating platforms, you....

Yep, that's the part, many thanks for your help. Seriously, I had a feeling it would be something small and annoying. I'm disappointed I was right. That's just poor game design in my book. Fighting those guys while dealing with the poor controls was bad enough, but I could have wandered around there for an hour looking for that way out and not found it. That kind of cheap level design is just a way to artificially extend the play time of a game and frustrate people in to the bargain.

This game is on its last warning. Any more of that kind of sh1t and it will be traded for MW3. As it is I can't wait to be finished it so I can get rid of it without feeling like I've totally wasted €50.

mystic86 · 17-11-2011 9:25am

Deleted User wrote: »

Is anybody but me really not enjoying this game? I enjoyed the other two but i just can't get into this. Bad controls, boring uninspired puzzles, too much wandering around doing nothing or wondering where I'm supposed to be going, no objectives or waypoints of any kind, even when you're hopelessly lost for ages, bad combat sequences, Stop-start action, loads of "learning by dying", irritating hit and miss chase sequences, and a good few wierd bugs and glitches thrown in for good measure.

It just seems to be frustrating me and taking me out of the game experience way too often for me to enjoy it.

I've just escaped from captivity and cleared out a shipyard, battling pirates and the control scheme, and then spent 15 minutes having no idea where I'm supposed to go, swimming and jumping around aimlessly looking for a cut scene, or a doorway, or something. There's probably some tiny inconspicuous ledge I need to grab somewhere. Seriously, would a waypoint hurt? Even a hint would be useful. They seem to come up every two minutes when I don't need them.

Can anybody help me out? Where am I supposed to be going? Its rare I would quit a game before I finish it, but I'm perilously close to trading this in right now just out of annoyance.

sounds to me like you suck at gaming.

17-11-2011 9:32am

mystic86 wrote: »

sounds to me like you suck at gaming.

Wow. Flame baiters are coming up with such clever stuff nowadays aren't they? The quality of their material never ceases to amaze me.

Thanks for your post. It's all so clear to me now, I'd never thought of that. Suddenly it all makes sense...

*roll eyes*

mystic86 · 17-11-2011 10:35am

Deleted User wrote: »

Wow. Flame baiters are coming up with such clever stuff nowadays aren't they? The quality of their material never ceases to amaze me.

Thanks for your post. It's all so clear to me now, I'd never thought of that. Suddenly it all makes sense...

*roll eyes*

I was just being honest.

funky penguin · 17-11-2011 2:50pm

No, you're being needlessly insulting because s/he has criticisms for a game you love. Good luck in life with that.

mystic86 · 17-11-2011 3:02pm

funky penguin wrote: »

No, you're being needlessly insulting because s/he has criticisms for a game you love. Good luck in life with that.

incorrect, policeman.

I have no problem with:
"Bad controls, boring uninspired puzzles, bad combat sequences, Stop-start action, loads of "learning by dying", irritating hit and miss chase sequences, and a good few wierd bugs and glitches thrown in for good measure. "

That's his opinion. But to see this:

"too much wandering around doing nothing or wondering where I'm supposed to be going, no objectives or waypoints of any kind,

no idea where I'm supposed to go, swimming and jumping around aimlessly looking for a cut scene, or a doorway, or something. There's probably some tiny inconspicuous ledge I need to grab somewhere. "

imho - it's a problem with the gamer, when talking about Uncharted 3.

17-11-2011 4:40pm

mystic86 wrote: »

imho - it's a problem with the gamer, when talking about Uncharted 3.

Why's that? because it's a perfect flawless game, and shouldn't be criticised? Would you ever cop on?

Look, i didn't appreciate the game, you did, that's fine. And yes, i posted opinions. So did you, so does everybody here. We're perfectly entitled to disagree with each other, and that's all fine, but you WERE being needlessly insulting, as has been pointed out, and that's what i took issue with. It's clear i wasn't the only person who did so, and it's also clear that others agreed with my opinion on the part of the game in particular that my post referred to being frustrating.

Make your points, state your opinion, and back it up as robustly as you like by all means, but don't insult people needlessly by slinging mud and calling people's skills into question when you have no basis or knowledge to back your insults up.

Now, if you don't mind, i can't be bothered arguing with you anymore, I've wasted enough of my time on you already, so I'll bow out of our little téte-a-téte gracefully. Have a nice life, and enjoy being the world's best gamer.

mystic86 · 17-11-2011 4:44pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Why's that? because it's a perfect flawless game, and shouldn't be criticised?

jumping to conclusions, I made no such claims. Nor do I agree with that. other people have pointed out problems with the game, of course they have. And you pointed out similar ones. And they are fair. But someone getting 'lost' in Uncharted 3? Ridiculous. Some of the puzzles fair enough but not what you described, that just seems like someone who is not very bright. Vast majority of people criticize it for being too linear and along you come with this....

richymcdermott · 17-11-2011 5:20pm

Thought uncharted 3 had a fresh take on the series with the puzzles than the previous games , in the past it was just swarms of enemies to take out and being more action packed , not thats that a bad thing uncharted 2 as i said still my favourite but through out uncharted 3 i was never bored..
As for the complaints yes its not perfect but no game is , always bout the good overtaking the bad in the eye of the beholder .
It balanced itself out with the puzzles, action and story blending in perfect together.

This is my game of the year

I just hope i dont see uncharted 4 for a few years ...

NotorietyH · 17-11-2011 7:31pm

God I really need to finish this, but have Skyrim and Assassin's Creed sitting there too and have barely had a chance to play anything all week and not looking much better for the next few weeks!

I gave up at a very frustrating part which is really putting me off going back to it though. Was a stealth part, and one of those annoying rooms wher ethey keep throwing armoured guys and snipers at ya. Drove me nuts!

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