Uncharted PS4 Collection Is a "System-Seller," Sony Says

I think I am the target audience for this, I never owned a PS3 so I never played these. I picked up the Uncharted Collection and I have played through Drake's Fortune already (short), and I am probably 75-80% finished with Among Thieves. I will say this, these games have great characters and personality but the stories are super linear, not very long, and aren't something I haven't seen many times before, and often done better elsewhere, whether its Indiana Jones, Romancing The Stone, or Tomb Raider.

So the characters and dialogue are superb, and the story is ok - serviceable. Those are the highpoints. Then there are the game mechanics, which to be honest, I found to be frightfully bad. The shooting isn't good, I mean with so many shooters out there to learn from, these shooting mechanics are just bad, the cover and stealth systems are extremely loose, the variety of weapons could be much improved, and little quality of life things like the need to manually pick up ammunition and Drake wanting to walk off of cliff and sometimes grab onto the edge, other times not really. Also the game being mostly a platformer but loving to give you awkward camera angles and perspectives that make the platforming unnecessarily difficult in some spots. When there are so many games that do and have done this type of gameplay; Assassin's Creed for platforming and parcour. Tomb Raider, which is an exact analogue to this game but mechanically superior in every way. CoD, BF, and the litany of other FPS games for shooting mechanics. Splinter Cell and Metal Gear for stealth mechanics, the list could go on forever, and all of them have done it better than Uncharted.

To summarize, I frankly am not all that impressed with this series after all the hype I had heard. Yes the characters and dialogue are well done, but that is IT. Everything else is sub par, the games are otherwise unoriginal and not mechanically well executed. The AI is even insanely dumb.

I was under the impression that a truly excellent game brought all the elements together and did them all very well; graphics, story, characters, mechanics and gameplay. Not just one of those aspects and forget about the rest. I just don't get the praise these games have received.

Lol, IGN. That shit not only has no multiplayer but looks worse as well and i'm supposed to think this is system-seller?

Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, and Uncharted 4, Disgaea 5, and the slim powerful console itself are more than enough reason to PS4. An old collection remake, however, is not a system seller.

Buying a PS4 for other games...

There is an issue with this entire interview.

Where is the advertisement if it is meant to be a system seller?

Beyond the occasional poster on the tube ,with quotes from twitter handles as opposed to publications, I rarely see anything mentioning UC4.

At this moment, Sony has not done the best job marketing its exclusives outside of the gaming community (most of which has already transitioned to the next gen).

It's certainly not a system seller for any one with a ps3... the uncharted games all can be bought for $5 each on ebay... I know because I bought them all two years ago a few months before buying my ps4.

True. Double dipping myself.

Halo 5 is a system seller....

Fkn dude raider lol

No, it really isn't. Uncharted 4 might be a system seller, but just about everyone who has a PlayStation 4 graduated from PS3 and has already played the Uncharted games. I really don't get where Sony pulled that "80 percent of PS4 owners never played Uncharted before" from. I'm sick of the hype regarding this collection. Pathetic generation, this.

I hope people realize that when sells do pick up later, the Uncharted collection has very little to do with it and can be more attributed to the system price drop...

This stuff about exclusives cracks me up. I own both and guess what i will be playing this holiday. Metal gear v. Gta v. Witcher 3. Fallout 4. Out of all goty candidates, there is only one exclusive and we all knew it would be a goty contender even when it was announced. Exclusives do not a fun system make since i spend 98 percent of time not playing them. kjjii

Definitely a system seller. I totally bought a PS3 for it.

This was a system seller for me. I finally bit on the bundle. But I also realize I will be getting uncharted 4, last guardian, kingdom hearts and ff vii.

I think only Sony fanboys would agree, but they most likely have a PS4 already. I wouldn't consider any remake a system seller--not Halo Collection and not this.

I love Uncharted but, no this collection isnt a system seller

I love Uncharted but, no this collection isnt a system seller

Ps3 games in slightly higher definition. Your number one reason to buy a Ps4 this Christmas!