The last game I played (and completed) is Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.

I don't quite understand how they can get such good production values on a console game that make PC games look relatively stone age. If you consider a PS3 has 256MB of RAM and a pair of 7900GTs (equivalent) it's miraculous. Never played a game which has practically zero loading time between game scenes so much so that there's just a horizontal swipe across the screen in changing scenes like a movie transition.

They pretty much followed the same formula as Uncharted 2 but that wasn't a bad thing, it was a truly enjoyable game and one of the reasons I'm glad I got a PS3 over an 360 (That and Metal Gear Solid 4).

The last game I played (and completed) is Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.

I don't quite understand how they can get such good production values on a console game that make PC games look relatively stone age. If you consider a PS3 has 256MB of RAM and a pair of 7900GTs (equivalent) it's miraculous. Never played a game which has practically zero loading time between game scenes so much so that there's just a horizontal swipe across the screen in changing scenes like a movie transition.

They pretty much followed the same formula as Uncharted 2 but that wasn't a bad thing, it was a truly enjoyable game and one of the reasons I'm glad I got a PS3 over an 360 (That and Metal Gear Solid 4).

Ed my only beef with Uncharted 3 is there is no real boss.  if you look at the ending most of it was quick time  it only made you feel like it wasn't by given you the final shot with a gun. But that was well done move let me put this as an example Wet was a game that ended it almost like uncharted 3 (talking about quick time events) but Failed to be what it wanted to be. First it over hyped you to think this last battle was going to be a blast and when you got to the end of the game quick time events and compared to the rest of the video quality some how feels reduced on the ending like it should of took another 100 renders for being shipped out and the feeling of no control at the end, made you feel like shit. At least Uncharted 3 made you feel like you did something at the end and hell you probably weren't expecting some epic battle since hell it was just an old lady that acted like a prick and and assassins. RIP talbit.

The last game I played (and completed) is Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.

I don't quite understand how they can get such good production values on a console game that make PC games look relatively stone age. If you consider a PS3 has 256MB of RAM and a pair of 7900GTs (equivalent) it's miraculous. Never played a game which has practically zero loading time between game scenes so much so that there's just a horizontal swipe across the screen in changing scenes like a movie transition.

They pretty much followed the same formula as Uncharted 2 but that wasn't a bad thing, it was a truly enjoyable game and one of the reasons I'm glad I got a PS3 over an 360 (That and Metal Gear Solid 4).

It's beucase Most game engines are produced to be cross platform and as such have to work on the lowest common demoninator, code is shared across all platforms and as such don't work to there most efficent, so you can't squeze out as much performance as you want, so you have to lower the graphical fidellity of the game so it can work on all systems without compromising performance (or so they hope).
It's why EVE online can look so beautifull without compromising on performance, it runs on quite a low spec machine but can still look good, even with whole fleets on screen and running fraps in the background but games like boarderlands runs like shit on the same computer all becuase the person has an ATI card (true story).
Drakes uncharted and last of us look amazing becuase there built just for PS3 platform, meaning they only have to code for one console, they can use all kind of tricks to draw out all the machines capabilities without having to comprimise due to shitty code that allows it to be cross platform but at reduced performance.

p.s. I FUCKING HATE SCALEFORM

After Deus Ex: Human Rev' I'm happy to play a game that isn't punctuated by bosses.

HR does not do bosses right.  idk if you've ever played the original Deus Ex, but the moment I realized I truly loved the game was when I snuck in a back way to the the room where this dude who's been pumped up the entire game as your equal is sitting.  the dude is an augmented soldier who's bad as fuck, and it's been signposted multiple times that you're going to have trouble with him.  instead i went in through an air duct i had no idea lead to that room, saw the guy sitting in the center of it, and shot him in the head with my upgraded sniper rifle.  that was cool.


in deus ex the first boss is this idiotic dude who you have to lure near exploding barrels and then shoot the barrels (there are other more tedious ways to kill him, but the barrels are the quickest).  imagine a zelda boss with a flashing weakpoint, and then imagine it done poorly.


there aren't a lot of bosses, but there are enough where it's a serious pain in the ass any time you have to fight one since it totally takes you out of the game.

Well I think Uncharted 1 and 2 did boss fights right and they where only 1 in each so I wouldn't of mind a boss fight at the end of Uncharted 3. But let's be honest the story would of had to change.

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Think I remember reading about this somewhere, why would a gaming company do this? creating boss battles really much different from creating the rest of the game?

looool that's awesome, didn't know they could do that (outsourcing parts-shit), ahhahah. also dumbo it's obv- u don't have to pay for a designer to make 'em.

that's what ya worth >:^B

I won't be able to buy anything till tommrow, don't get paid till then.

ugh I bought dear esther and portal 2 for $2.50 and $5. I hate video games. I'm gross.

I bet dear esther will be part of bundle 7 too

I want to play this.

this is the first year I've splurged on games I wouldn't have otherwise bought. im so ashamed

not sure you know about this btw http://www.humblebundle.com/double-fine none of the currently downloadable prototypes are really worth any money tho