"retro replay"
Don't worry they're going to ship you your complimentary cane and glasses strap soon.
Yea It's definitely not underrated, but I think I see where he is coming from. As time goes on I seem to only see people talk about 2 and 3.
I think this is surprisingly common with video games, the guy who voices Eggman in the recent Sonic games has never played any of them.
Idk, I played through it just over a year ago for the first time and it was pretty rough. The game is a bit of a jank fest, the level design and gunplay is rough, and compared to 2 + 3 it just is way inferior. I had so many bullshit deaths because of the controls too.
It has the worst gameplay in the series but the best story and atmosphere (IMO) which, in a series whose gameplay has always been somewhat mediocre anyway, kinda puts it above the rest to me.
Did it though? It was all in one location (or just two islands), the story doesn't really make sense logistically, even more so than the other games, which also don't make sense logistically, and I really didn't like the borderline horror sequence at the end because the actual gameplay of it was so badly designed.
Actually, the focus on the single location is part of what I like about it so much. Uncharted 2 and 3 often felt too fast-paced and confused and never managed to build up that same sense of mystery about their locations that the first one had. It just made the island's backstory feel a whole lot deeper and made things more atmospheric. I personally never quite got why everyone disliked the twist at the end so much. It went well with the rest of the story and the gameplay made you feel frantic and jumpy which is what it should feel like considering the circumstances. And yeah, the story is simple and cheesy but it's well-executed and I'd much rather have a good, simple story than an over-ambitious, half-baked one (*cough* Uncharted 3 *cough*). Not sure what exactly you mean by logistics, though. But yeah, at the end of the day, narrative quality is very much a subjective matter so it's kinda difficult to discuss it since things will always come down to personal opinion and preference.
I didn't find the environment as captivating as the Himalayas in 2 or the whole Madagascar sequence in 4. Nothing ever took my breath away in that regard.
I did like 4 quite a bit. It's the only other game in the series whose story and atmosphere can hold a candle to the first one IMO. But the Himalayas didn't do it for me. I think there was just sth about being stuck on that uncharted island in the middle of nowhere that I really liked. For some reason, most of their other locations haven't really managed to feel as remote and, like I said, mysterious. To me, at least.
