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By the end of the contest, Uncharted 4 ended up looking really good, Mario Kart 8 simply ended up looking way better than anyone had imagined it was capable of. I was defending this game a lot throughout the contest and I feel pretty proud for seemingly having had the correct read on it in the end. There are those that will probably still calling it a bust for being a high seed that dropped its round 1 match in a chalky bracket, but thats quite unreasonable when its solely because of Mario Kart 8 being underseeded and many other games would have done the same.

It seems like the general idea now is Uncharted 2 was pretty good, but the others werent as big and Uncharted 4 didnt improve on the formula enough, so it wasnt remembered as well. I mean, sure, there are surely parts of the internet that thinks so or we wouldnt have the discussion, but Uncharted 4 was big in every way and you cant deny how it was here 4 years after its release. IT was huge in reviews of both critics and users. It has sold more copies than any other Playstation 4 game. It also wasnt supposed to improve upon the formula. It was created as the final entry in series to draw a conclusion to the story of Nathan Drake, and thats exactly what it did. Besides, its not like the game just used the same gameplay, its better than the other games in the series and The Last of Us too, its just not as big as jump, but why should the fourth game in a four game story be that?

GameFAQs has always been less interested in the series than most. People seemed to firmly believe that Uncharted 2 would easily be the strongest of the Uncharted games. I disagreed from the day of this match and claimed that I thought the fourth game has a chance of being the strongest and that I dont think the difference is all too big. Uncharted 2 got the most outside praise, but Uncharted 4 sold better and fans arent really as settled on 2 being the best one as some people want to make it seem like. Plenty of fans prefer 3 or 4. My idea was mostly laughed at back then, but on the other side of contest, it sure looks like I was right.

We cant tell for certain, but lets compare to the games that made both the 2015 and the 2020 contests. We obviously wont use stuff like Witcher 3, Xenoblade Chronicles or even Mario Kart 8, which everyone can see boosted a lot. Compare them though Fire Emblem: Awakening or Borderlands 2, which have about the same distance to each other in both contests. Uncharted 4 looks better. Compare through Bayonetta 2 and Uncharted 4 looks better, and thats even when believing Bayonetta 2 was SFFd a lot this constant and keeping it constant. Compare through Civilization V and Uncharted 4 looks better. Compare through Minecraft and theyre about even, but its widely agreed that Minecraft was underrated in the 2015 stats. Compare through Shovel Knight and Uncharted 4 looks better, and sure, Shovel Knight is hard to read properly this contest, but you can see where were getting at.

Even if you somehow want to say that all of that is within the uncertainties and it doesnt prove anything, it sure as hell indicates that if the games are much different in strength, its in favor of Uncharted 4 and theres not much else than gut feeling to tell us that Uncharted 2 should be stronger. There is no way for it to be by a lot. You can argue that some of the games I mentioned has reason to decline, but not all of them, and you can argue that for Uncharted franchise just as well. How a direct match between them would end is another discussion, but basically everything reasonable you can put on the table points towards Uncharted 4 not only holding up indirectly but looking straight up better.

The board wanted to call Uncharted 4 a bust, but its the opposite if anything. Everyone but me claimed it would be way weaker than another entry from its series and it wasnt at all. It exceeded our expectations and its a darn shame its complete lack of luck in bracket placement prevented it from getting a match where it could upset something. I dont know what this board has against it, but whatever it is it sure isnt a general opinion, not anywhere, but not even on our own site. Whatever happened with Naughty Dog was after this game came out. Uncharted 4 is a good game, and Im glad it would end up showing it was good enough in the end.

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