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I was disappointed by Uncharted 3 not because it was similar to Uncharted 2 but because it wasn't as good (the Drake's childhood sections were bad and the fact that Drake spent so much time alone was disappointing). There were some really brilliant parts (the boat and the airplane spring to mind) which make me glad I played it though.
KZ3's problem was that it was too dissimilar to KZ2. The guy in KZ2 felt like a guy using heavy weapons (with heavy recoil) while wearing heavy body armor. The guy in KZ3 felt like the standard jumpy boy one finds in most first person shooters. Also, KZ2 focused on combat and did it very, very well. KZ3 did combat even better but they threw in a lot of vehicle segments and stealth bits. I enjoyed most of the vehicle segments (though the stealth bit in the jungle sucked) but they made for a less cohesive game. Its like Guerilla was so desperate to please their detractors that they ignored their fans (predicatably, KZ3's sales didn't come anywhere near 2's). I had a lot of fun with KZ3 up until I got to the space section though (that felt so bad it felt like it was from another game).
I don't see your issue with Infamous 2. New city, new weapons, new powers, much more destructibility and a much larger sense of scale. Infamous 2 did everything a sequel should do.
My take on sequels getting crazy is that developers/publishers who are bored with franchise A should move on to franchise B rather than mangle the franchise they are bored with. Unless a heavy sense of franchise fatigue has set in among fans (as was the case with the REs which immediately preceded RE4) such a move only triggers a backlash even if the new formula is good (DMC has gotten a lot of praise, but its sales are far below what Capcom was hoping for).
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-05-capcom-reduces-devil-may-cry-sales-target-by-800k
S0lidSnake
I reviewed all these games in the ROF thread, so my detailed impressions are there if you want to read them. I'll be quick here:
Uncharted 3: Yes, it has some of the best setpieces ever in a video game. And yes, leaving Drake alone for half the game was a mistake. My main complaint is how the other non-setpiece segments just felt boring. The first ten chapters are mostly puzzle solving with some shootouts here and there, and I was just bored playing them. They stuck too close to the formula and it got predictable and hence boring. The shooting segments also went back to the respawning arena shooting of the first Uncharted which were terrible. And the last one was how they hinted at exploring this huge desert and what we ended up getting was the most linear BS level in the game. Where is the adventure in that?
Infamous 2: Go back and play this game again, and this time notice how dead the city feels. You can barely hear anything when you're on rooftops. I commend them for giving us a new city and new powers to play with, but the game just didn't come together like I hoped it would. Having only three boss fights, two of which were repeated didnt help either. It was a very by the numbers game that didnt do anything particularly well.
Killzone 3: You know how much i enjoyed this game. It's still my favorite campaign this gen after Halo Reach. But there is no denying that it became too linear, too CoDified and too predictable. The ending was the worst ending I've ever seen. Warzone is boring as hell now that there are no spawn grenades. The campaign felt rushed, just like Uncharted and it was just more of the same instead of an actual evolution of the franchise like MGS3 and MGS4. There was no online coop mode even though Operations is basically horde mode with objectives thrown in. They even have bots, so why not make a coop mode where you fight helghast soldiers on Elite difficulty with four of your friends? I still dont know why they coudn't have included the cIass based gameplay from the MP to the SP. They are doing it now with Killzone vita, but as a full fledged exclusive, Killzone 3 deserved better.
Tell me this, if KZ4 has the same linear campaign of KZ3 albeit with preitter graphics, would you buy it?
Not hearing many things on the rooftop strikes me as an odd thing to criticize a superhero game for, but I'll give Infamous 2 (which I've played through three times) another spin sometime in the near future (right now I'm focused on Ni No Kuni).
Free roaming has its place, but its not something that improves every game type. KZ is an action series, most action games are linear (it allows the intensity to stay dialed up). Bigger battlefields, cool new weapons, interesting new enemies and a return to the old controls in KZ4 would suit me fine. Online coop would be extremely cool, but its not a make or break for me.
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