Your Most Wanted Remakes and Remasters.

Uncharted 1 and 3 aren’t great. 1 is very primative in regards to level design and 3 is “by the numbers” with some spongey enemies (which feel out of place for the series).

Personally, I was exhausted after 3 and never went back.

1 was ok but as the Devs said they were learning the PS3 as they were making it so they didn't really have the time to really work on the gameplay. 2 is such a massive step up and it's probably my favourite of the PS3 versions. Hated 3, they royally fucked up the aiming and had to patch it because it was so bad. I also didn't get on with it because almost every enemy would attempt to melee if they got close and there was always a cunt in a corner shooting you at the same time, usually a shotgun heavy and it just became a slog. 4 was just excellent but too long and Lost Legacy is probably my overall favourite.

I think the Bluepoint remasters of 1-3 smoothed out a lot of these rough edges, from what I've read.

They still seem dated now, of course - particularly compared to 4/Lost Legacy - but I still enjoyed them, especially 2 and 3.

I thought 2 was going to make my PS3 blow up.

I was in a weird place where I started the Uncharted games with 3, so I like that more than the first two. Actually like 2 the least. 👀

1 maybe played a little clunkier than the latter two, but I liked the vibe, the banter, the Indiana Jones South American setting. My biggest problem with it was that often it’d toss you in small rooms with endlessly spawning enemies and it’d get to be too much at times. There was a bit in like an interior temple area where there was knee-high water around the room; and a shit ton of Ninja Gaiden-style armored military dudes with rocket launchers, snipers and off screen sneak attacks would run in. Really pissed me off.

2 improved the feel and mobility a bit, and offered a bigger variety of locations, but the respawning enemy rate wasn’t much improved from the first. That train section everybody talked about back in the day, I hated. And this being the last entry of that PS3 trilogy, I really burned out on it.

3 had a similar feel to 2, which I think was most people’s complaints at the time. More of the same, not fresh enough. But playing it in that weird 3-1-2 order, not only was it fresh to me, but I saw the gradual improvements. To mobility, aiming, use of explosives, level design, hand to hand combat, story. I liked the little things like being able to grab things in your environment in a fight. Whacking goons with a billiards ball or a frozen fish were fun. The story of Nate being tired and Elena and Sully trying to get him to retire, with flashbacks to his childhood, was great. And most importantly, the balance was perfected, with much more manageable enemy placements.

I played 4 after some time, but I almost didn’t want to for a couple of reasons, the public ousting of Amy Hennig being one, but also the ending to 3 being perfect. In the end, 4 made some nice game design choices, particularly to mobility. Launching off a vine to punch your enemies in the back as a big example. But its story was nowhere near as strong, and the entry as a whole felt unnecessary.

Quake 2 is finally out. Butter my balls.

Oh man, this has cheered me right up. Installing now.

Roland on the Ropes. Imagine what they could do with it with today's technology

I'd also like a sequel to Fat Worm Blows a Sparky

Shut up and butter his balls

Do it yourself, ballsface

I wouldn't ever call you a c word

That's a bit unhygenic. Give the table a wipe down before lunch maybe.

Inspired by one of Spooky's posts in another thread, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a game I'd love to be able to play on PS4/5.

Maybe it'll actually happen at some point, now that Konami appears to have got its shit together re the Metal Gear franchise?