Well main problem was characters and odd gameplay stuff. Like I hate the enemy popping out so cartoonishly to pose and pop a shot (mainly one handed gun guys doing a cowboy like pose) but also the characters just never meant anything to me. Joking and having something to say about everything grated on me and I liked the odd character like Sully and Chloe but Drake and the reporter (forgot her name) just seemed to be there to quick fire jokes back to one another.
I'd like to remind anyone that I said I still like the games but just consider them vastly over rated. No matter what facet you speak of whether it be pacing, characters, story, puzzles etc. they all get gushed about but during play none of it really resonated with me. Drake only became likeable right at the end of Uncharted 2 for me (---spoiler, don't read if not completed---) with the clown joke (---spoiler end---) which I actually found funny and a little character building whereas the rest of his character is just usual hollywood. Gameplay is good but let down by the design which did feel like it was a bit too much just running into a bunch of enemies and shooting them to me. Doesn't help that I like to roam around and hugging the sides of the levels to try and veer off onto different courses led me nowhere but the linear single path to be trodden. The stories seem average because it's just usually a bad guy chasing treasure that drake ends up stopping and there's always a twist of some name dropping of who's treasure it is (like marco polo I believe, in Uncharted 2) followed by some monsters 3/4's of the way in.
I had a massive laundry list of complaints but didn't keep it really since it was a waste of time but in the end I just was disappointed with the amount of flaws I saw on such a highly praised title. Main problem is I find it predictable, there's always a vehicle he crashes and survives in (this time a plane), always a cliche villain (this time a british chick), always sully (like that one actually lol), always some treasure, always some monsters and always some evil mercenaries. The games are so predictable that I could probably write it myself and become a gaming icon for another 'masterpiece' of repetitive design and repeating story structure. To say the museum was the highlight of uncharted 2 would be an understatement in a game that took what uncharted 1 did and just set it in another location.
Sorry if I'm ruining the thread for anyone and I WILL (so long as I'm not asked about the flaws etc.) keep to the positives of the game in this thread from here on.
Uncharted 3, obviously will be a spoilerish.
