Board 8 > Rate the VG Story Day 3: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

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Next up is Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, ALA Uncharted 1 and a mainstay of the most average story topic. How would you rate the story on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest?
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Previous Results:
Disco Elysium - 8.45 (10 votes)
Final Fantasy X - 8.26 (41 votes)

You can still rate previous days games if you missed them, just write <game name> <rating>. If you want to change your rating you can just specify that you are changing your rating.

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6

Well presented as all ND stuff is, and sold by the performances. It's otherwise a fairly unambitious and simple story, but one that does a good job of introducing and showcasing the 3 very likeable main characters.

Also, could you maybe put spoiler warnings in the topic title for future days?
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Good idea on the spoiler tags, but this is Uncharted 1!

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lol the 3 threw me off for a sec too

uhhh 3/10. Bland at the best of times and the last act is a huge mess that makes this absolutely below average.

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Holy fuck

Please do uc3 soon so I can just reuse that post before it purges >_>

Changed the post to my actual UC1 rating.
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7

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5/10

It's not bad, but the story and the villains are utterly unremarkable. Drake's roguish likability basically carries the game.

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7

Perfect for what this kind of game needed, but it's very by the numbers.

3

Forgettable and one note. The games after it handle everything so much better including story and characters.

How the fuck did Disco Elysium beat FFX? Yes it has good writing and character interaction but the actual story. Really?

I'll give it 4. It was decently entertaining until the mutant Nazis which seemed kind of misplaced to me.

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6

Disco Elysium - 9
Uncharted - 5

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Im going to say 5 for Uncharted, and echo others here. Its fairly standard elevated by its presentation and some of the characters, but it falls apart a bit at the end.

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5

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5

Axl_Rose_85 posted...

How the fuck did Disco Elysium beat FFX? Yes it has good writing and character interaction but the actual story. Really?

Writing and character interactions are story
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5

Average. Does what it needs to do, doesnt elevate the game in anyway but its not hurt by it either.

The sequels are better in every way.

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6/10

Shows the growing pains of 7th-gen storytelling, as ND clumsily tries to balance influence from Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider, old film serials, and high-budget summer blockbusters with clear passion and strong artistic direction & aesthetic but without the proper know-how to truly stick the landing in all areas. For a first game, the characters it introduces clearly worked, and the game excels at making the entire main character and even its villains likable, as Nate, Elena, and Sully become these characters you just want to hang out, and the game even does a decent job at fleshing these's characters backstories out without much clunky exposition in the dialogue. You get a sense there's a world here without it having to be spelled out to you. Its transition to horror/supernatural near the end of the game is very Indy/Lara-esque, however it does not translate here well as it comes out without much signalling and foreshadowing, which can work in certain fictional pieces as a jarring tonal shift that changes one's perception of the story, but here it's not executed well-enough or given the proper justification to be more than "that one horror section in Uncharted."

As one of the first forays into true cinematic storytelling in gaming, Uncharted was a necessary stepping stone, and you can see brief glimpses of genius where gameplay and the plot intersect seamlessly in a way that's commonplace now, and in its own context it stands out as an achievement. Far-removed from 7th gen, it's still an above-average piece thanks to its intense commitment to a standard treasure-adventure plot, but it has been outshined by many other games in the medium and definitely by its own sequels even just by the second game.

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8/10

Y'all really sleeping on just how well executed this is for its time. It doesn't have the ambition of a JRPG or Kojima game, but that's what makes it work.

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Oh and FFX gets a 10 cause that's just the benchmark for overall JRPG plots.

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Any more?

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Maybe one last bump.

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6

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andylt posted...

lol the 3 threw me off for a sec too

5/10. I was digging the story for the first like 2/3, and then I really didn't like the last 3rd. The rest of the series drastically improved

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6/10

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6.5

Sounds about right
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