Jynks

So picked this up on a whim a while ago as I was super bored... I have to say.. This game is excellent. I mean really good. Astoundingly good. I didn't really know games like this existed.

I've never really owned any consoles. Not as I have any kind of “PC Master Race Thing” going on. It is just that I have always found it offensive that you have to pay to use the internet for multiplayer. I mean how the fuck was that normalised! Xbox, Nintendo and PS exclusives are also fucking lame as fuck. And no.. Epic or Galaxy or Origin or w/e is not the same. A 700 buck hardware and then a monthly online paywall is NOT the same as installing a tiny 500kb app that is free to put on your computer.

In addition, I mainly play strategy games and point and click adventure games. The vast majority of games I play are all Turn Based Strategy games of some kind. I play city builders, grand strategy, war games stuff like that. The only real story driven games I ever play are the point and click adventures and most of them are from the 80s and 90s!

Anyway, my point is that I have not only never played this game, but I have not really played any games like it. This style of game is very “console” and I have always played on PC. It is also a action game, and I have basically not played real time games since Command and Conquer as my old man reflexes are arse.

This Uncharted game is astoundingly good.

I do not think I have felt a game that is so much like being in a movie. I mean you are literally watching a cool action movie, but controlling parts of it. I mean technically it is not much beyond a walking simulator. You jump about by pressing one button on a very specific path and then have a short fight.. followed by story, even so it is extremely good at making you feel like you are this guy. Even is technically the entire game is on rails.

I actually like the rails. It is the story and the “film experience” I am into with this one. I know all the kids like open world and all that freedom... but I still just dig games that are fun to play and tell a good story. Games like The Witcher for example I couldn't get into as there was just so much choice, I felt lost. After work I want to sit down and play some Stellaris, run some missions in Chaos Gate or watch some awesome Uncharted story unfold. Not spend 3 hours wandering around a town and talking to a blacksmith to be sent to find some cows or whatever the fuck that Red Dead 2 quest was I quit the game on.

The only thing that sucks is that this is actually Game 4 in the series. I get that this version 4 is probably the most popular one, or the one that needed the least work to port to PC, but I would have much preferred to play from game 1. The port btw is great. I have had zero issues of any kind and my system aint exactly a beast.

Anyway... this game is so good I am going to buy a PS5. It has opened my mind to a type, a style of game I have read about but never really understood. This sort of interactive film type of game. I want to play more and I want to avoid the PC pitfalls of ports.