Haven't picked it up, game's already on hold at the library. I'm comfortably skipping the first game in the collection as I replayed it earlier this year and have had my fill of it. Game's actually still quite good in many cases, but there's too many awful sections I don't want to go through. Shame because I really want to see how they stepped up the environments in its case.
Quite excited for Uncharted 2. Obviously I'll be revisiting it with more than a half decade of TPS games played since its release, and if the demo is any indication, it's both held up quite well in some ways and been surpassed in others. But the 2009 release was a genuine classic for many reasons that will be there for years to come. Game also was quite a looker in the day, I want to see Bluepoint's changes here. 60 FPS wooooooo
Uncharted 3, eh. People know my opinion on the game when it came out. It's basically Uncharted 2 with a lot of charm sucked out, horrible pacing, overt story issues, and tons and tons of filler. It adds "depth" to characters that no one asked for, it creates more questions than it has answers, and just feels so inconsequential in many parts. I did enjoy some of the gameplay sections like the boatyard, because they provided the environmental layers that supplemented Uncharted's not-so-great gunplay. I'm ready to see this game without my Uncharted fanboy goggles on, although some of the big flaws with the game like poor enemy placement, the aforementioned filler, etc. are just poor under any scope.
As for the multiplayer, yeah, for $60 I'm pretty annoyed it's not there. As a consumer it sucks. But with my full-on Sony defense force pants on, I can see the business rationale behind it:
1) Uncharted 4's multiplayer is the main focus on the multiplayer side of this. Adding two prior games' multiplayers would mean those multiplayers would only have communities until March when 4 comes out. After that they'll have two versions of 2's and 3's multiplayer both with empty MPs.
2) The work done on the campaigns is quite large, which is why hiring Bluepoint was the right hire. The fact they did as much work as they did on the campaign and fit it on the disc makes me wonder if they could ever even release the Collection on time with the extra work they'd have to put in for multiplayer.
3) The old Uncharted 2 and 3 multiplayers are still alive, though predictably vacant now. They were never world beaters though, never the main draw of the package for many people, and weren't huge hits at MLG like MCC's multiplayer games were. It would have been straight up crimes not to include the multiplayers of the MCC. Here, it's just a lot less pronounced, no matter how much of a fan you were of them (and I really like pre-patch Uncharted 2 multiplayer).
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