Poll: Brütal Legend or Uncharted 2?
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Have only played Brütal Legend, and I loved it so I am going to vote that.
To those who have played U2, could you tell me what makes this game fun and unique? I've heard people saying it's great, but I can't really seem to see what exactly that makes it great. I'm maybe picking it up, so don't see this as criticism, I'm just curious. Just prove it's worth a buy!
Oh, and to anyone who hates Brütal Legend just because jack Black is in it. Seriously, grow up. I think he did a great job voicing Eddie, and it's not like he wrote the script, so you can't blame it on that.
To those who have played U2, could you tell me what makes this game fun and unique? I've heard people saying it's great, but I can't really seem to see what exactly that makes it great. I'm maybe picking it up, so don't see this as criticism, I'm just curious. Just prove it's worth a buy!
Oh, and to anyone who hates Brütal Legend just because jack Black is in it. Seriously, grow up. I think he did a great job voicing Eddie, and it's not like he wrote the script, so you can't blame it on that.
I played the first Uncharted and my reaction was actually kind of "meh". Truth be told Yahtzee joking around about how all the bad guys (except one) were non-white, making the game racist, was more interesting than the game. Truthfully I had to look at an online walkthrough a couple of times to figure out where to jump in places simply because I couldn't bloody tell what objects were grabbable and which ones were not.
As a result Uncharted 2 wound up on my personal "wait for $20 used copies, or not at all" list.
As a result I recommended Brutal Legend, which I *HAVE* been enjoying, though it is a bit short, and fairly easy if you put it on anything except for Brutal. I'm playing on normal, and have found like 3-4 hours to invest in the game and I am over 50% of the way through (and I'm a lousy collectible hunter so those aren't padding my percentage).
Others are going to disagree, but that's my thoughts. If nothing else I recommend supporting Double Fine, Uncharted is ultimatly kind of uninspired to me. I mean the first game to me was simply average, combined with a kind of random "guess where to jump" framework I personally did not care for. I spent more time trying to figure out where to jump in that game than I did trying to solve the actual puzzles.
As a result Uncharted 2 wound up on my personal "wait for $20 used copies, or not at all" list.
As a result I recommended Brutal Legend, which I *HAVE* been enjoying, though it is a bit short, and fairly easy if you put it on anything except for Brutal. I'm playing on normal, and have found like 3-4 hours to invest in the game and I am over 50% of the way through (and I'm a lousy collectible hunter so those aren't padding my percentage).
Others are going to disagree, but that's my thoughts. If nothing else I recommend supporting Double Fine, Uncharted is ultimatly kind of uninspired to me. I mean the first game to me was simply average, combined with a kind of random "guess where to jump" framework I personally did not care for. I spent more time trying to figure out where to jump in that game than I did trying to solve the actual puzzles.
I WAS going to pick up both on the same day, but then I heard about Brutal Legend's 8 Hour Length and decided to only pick up Uncharted 2 (which looks like it'll be clocking in at around 10-11 hours).
I'm sorry, as good as Tim Schafer is, 8 Hours is not a very respectable length especially when you're on a budget in the middle of prime gaming season. Though personally, I didn't pass up Brutal Legend for Uncharted, I'm passing up Brutal Legend for Borderlands tomorrow.
I'm sorry, as good as Tim Schafer is, 8 Hours is not a very respectable length especially when you're on a budget in the middle of prime gaming season. Though personally, I didn't pass up Brutal Legend for Uncharted, I'm passing up Brutal Legend for Borderlands tomorrow.
Uncharted 2 is basically Uncharted with more scripted sequences, which is quite nice, but there are a hell of a lot of ways to break those sequences by doing things the designers didn't anticipate, which lead to you either falling out of the gameworld, dropping dead unexpectedly, or reloading a checkpoint.
Personally, I'd reccommend anyone with a PS3 to actually play it, it's engaging and fun, but I'm quite glad I bought Brutal Legend and borrowed Uncharted 2 off my mate.
Personally, I'd reccommend anyone with a PS3 to actually play it, it's engaging and fun, but I'm quite glad I bought Brutal Legend and borrowed Uncharted 2 off my mate.
If I owned a PS3 I'd go for Uncharted 2 for sure.
In fact I want a PS3 just because of that game.
In fact I want a PS3 just because of that game.
Uncharted 2 hands down. Brutal Legend just seems gimmicky to me, I can't imagine the story is too spectacular (granted, I haven't played either of the games), there are several different genres of games all glued together, and in my experience it is often better for developers to focus on only one, and get it perfected. Uncharted 2 has a fantastic storyline, solid climbing/shooting gameplay, and if it's anything like the first game, will be addictive as hell, and only frustrating if you play on higher difficulties.
I'm more metal than most people I know/run into online, and I prefer the 360 over ps3, but I still gotta give the nod to uncharted 2. By all accounts I've heard it's a better, deeper game.
But if you're going to end up with both anyway, a coin flip really is the best determinant.
But if you're going to end up with both anyway, a coin flip really is the best determinant.
A lot of people enjoy it. I don't as much. With games (and movies) of this genre, I feel like I've played the same game earlier, maybe with worse graphics, less polish, worse game mechanics, and a slightly different story but it's still just not unique enough to have the premise interest me.Thamous said:
If they tried more unique mechanics than action movie gunplay + cover + Prince of Persia: SoT cinematic platforming, had a more nuanced story/theme than Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ending in Nepal (not having Nazis as the villain was good), or did something more unique with the graphics than increasing the realism and making really pretty, colorful vistas (to be fair, very, very few games do anything like this), then I'd be more interested.
It's still a really good game. They successfully copied and incrementally improved the themes behind Indiana Jones rather than just copying the set pieces, which is the best form of imitation and is usually pretty difficult to pull off. It's just not to my taste, partly because it's not original enough in gameplay, theme or story, and partly because it's emulating both a movie and video game genre that I'm not greatly enthused by.
It's also short and has a poorly done forced stealth section near the beginning.
well i cant get uncharted so it has to be brutal legend, but to be honest if i had the choice it would probably still be brutal legend
i just dont like indiana jones and i already have the tomb raider and gears of war games so why would i want a combo of gears and tomb raider...
i just dont like indiana jones and i already have the tomb raider and gears of war games so why would i want a combo of gears and tomb raider...
Tim Schafer isn't that credible. Especially since he had to explain an entire gameplay element because it was so poorly executed.lordlee said:
Uncharted 2 is the better game. Plain and simple. Naughty Dog games always have a stunning level of polish and attention to detail. As for "Dude Raider," you might want to form your own opinion instead of relying on something stupid that someone else made up.