The Uncharted Thread

[Baddar]

The one thing that annoyed me throughout the series was Drake's refusal to grab on to a ledge after leaping towards it. There'd be times where I'd make the jump but he wouldn't grab it until the 3rd or 4th attempt, despite it being the right path to take, which would sometimes confuse me.

[Benji]

Doesn't crushing only unlock after beating hard, or is that changed in the collection?

And yeah, same with me Bads, that was what I was talking about with collision detection. I sort of forgot how far that kind of stuff has come in the last eight years or so.

I got to Chapter 20 last night...

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The massive gunfight in the church with snipers and grenade launchers...

Before calling it a night because Sully was about as much use as a chocolate teapot in assisting me. Only two and a half very small chapters to go basically if I'm remembering correctly. Also, the area with...

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The bunker and the descendants was less tough than I remembered.

 

[Baddar]

Fuck, I want this now.

Even if I don't miss some of the puzzles one bit...

[stokeriño]

Crushing is already unlocked in the Collection. An extra level, Brutal, is only unlocked after beating Crushing...  

[Benji]

Ah, I bet that's more akin to Grounded Mode from LoS. Like I said earlier, Crushing feels like a cake walk in comparison to Grounded >_>

[Avenged Probably]

According to the wikia, on brutal you take 4x (its 2x on crushing) the damage of normal half half health (same as hard up-wards) and enemies don't drop extra ammo when you stealth them.

There is no reward/trophy for doing it on brutal though, so yeah.

[apsham]

I got the collection with my PS4 and I.. just couldn't get into the first game. I wanted to power through it, but I just couldn't really bring myself to do it. I'll buy it again later once it goes down in price.

[Benji]

I had the same problem the first time I ever played it. Once you get to about chapter four the momentum picks up.

[Benji]

One platinum down, two to go :D

[Bobfoc]

I find it interesting that quite a few people seem to have earned Platinum Trophies on the Uncharted games because it looks like a really difficult proposition to me. Getting all the collectibles is something I could probably handle, but completing the games on Crush difficulty is something I don't think I'd have a prayer of doing.

[Benji]

Not that hard, just get good at blind firing and abuse cover. Few bits that are frustrating, but every time I reached them I just stopped playing for a while, came back, and cleared it within two tries.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

At least the series is based around pockets of action so repeating sections is pretty squished and you can learn from mistakes.

 

Although Uncharted 3 finally upset me when I totally saw through the series' way of throwing loads of bad guys at you despite no-one seeing you enter an area, or there being no other way out or whatever. It feels cheap at times. NO-ONE SAW ME ENTER. NO-ONE KNEW I WAS THERE SO WHY, SUDDENLY ARE THERE 40 BAD GUYS WAITING FOR ME?!?!?!?!

[Benji]

For real, and after Uncharted 2 made such a huge improvement in the stealth gameplay too.

[Kaney]

I think 3 was the only one I hadn't gotten a platinum on.

[stokeriño]

So as it turns out, attempting even one pitched battle on Crushing makes me want to kill myself.

[Benji]

 Blind fire, or extremely small burst aimed shots, unless there's only two guys left. And cover cover cover.

[Benji]

Uncharted 2 done on Crushing and platinumed! Holy hell, the final boss though, I forgot how hard he was on lower difficulties, let alone Crushing.

[Avenged Probably]

Is that the one where you have to shoot all the blue stuff?

How many attempts?

[Benji]

Way too many. I actually figured out a cheap as fuck way to beat him in the end and discovered that it is apparently a commonly used tactic that I could have been using the entire time It just involves shimmying around a platform back and forth until the blue stuff respawns, absurdly cheap but I'll take it.

[Walker]

I forgot how frustrating Drake's Fortune is for the climbing aspect. "Hey Drake, jump up to the ledge." "No thanks, I'll just jump right past it to my death."