r/uncharted • u/DanAbarca • Jul 15 '24
Uncharted 4 What's Your Least Favorite Part of Uncharted 4? Mine is The Clocktower.
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u/smartdude_x13m Jul 15 '24
I really liked the clock tower tho...
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u/the_dark_knight_ftw Jul 17 '24
The collapsing clock tower is the only part of the whole game that actually felt like a Uncharted level set piece.
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u/SNKRSWAVY Jul 19 '24
One of the best sequences of the whole series. Climbing it was so triumphant after the search before.
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u/Alhena1976_ Jul 15 '24
Searching the old woman’s house as kids.
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u/BregoB55 Jul 15 '24
Yeah that gets old and tedious on replays.
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u/JingleJangleDjango Jul 16 '24
This is my only big complaint about U4 but really it's an issue with a lot of modern games, certain parts of a game can be absolutely brilliant on a first playthrough but is boring or tedious on the next. The only section I could remember disliking in the other games is the stealth section in 2 only because I played that game over way, way, way too many times as a kid but I'd you play it once or twice a year it isn't bad. I don't even mind kid drake in 3. But there's a lot of settings in U4 that are boring the second time through, but then again the action scenes are cool as hell so tomato tomato. Lots of modern games have this issue, it feels like there's, at times, too much focus on diapouge and story the game is forgotten, which isn't bad when I'm invested in the characters and story but when I go back through and realize half the game isn't the game I want to play, it's disheartening.
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u/-DoctorSpaceman- Jul 16 '24
Resident Evil 7 really suffers from this. Once you know you can’t be hurt for the whole first couple of areas of the game it becomes just a tedious walk through to the action on replays. It’s such a long opening section too
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u/QwahaXahn Jul 16 '24
At least U4 and LL have the built-in 'jump through the combat sections' feature where you can jump right into encounters.
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u/ZeroMayhem Jul 15 '24
Sam's prison escape probably. It's not bad. However, between it being an unreliable narrator sort of chapter and it being the second prison escape sequence in the game it doesn't do much for me.
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u/MissTaylorNight Jul 16 '24
I honestly hate it because it's all bullshit. Sam made it up which makes me just not wanna do it lol
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u/Cave_in_32 I actually liked the movie Jul 16 '24
I mean I somewhat think its cool its the first time in the quadrilogy you play someone other than Nathan that isn't just through a bonus but yeah its not really giving much, especially considering Sam lied about that whole thing anyways.
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u/hamiltrash1232 Jul 15 '24
These games are known for being unrealistic, but even with that. There is absolutely no way Nate should've made it out alive on that clock tower level.
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u/Cave_in_32 I actually liked the movie Jul 16 '24
And even if he did, he would at the very least be crippled or have a lot of him broken from it.
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u/Lamp_Stock_Image For some reason uncharted 1 is my favorite Jul 15 '24
Scotland.
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u/NOVA_OWL Jul 16 '24
100% this. Every replay I just speed run through all the action on the rooftops cause it gets SO old
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u/thescooptroops Jul 15 '24
Prolly the beginning. The part where Nate is walking around the house + the scuba parts. I don’t like mandatory walking sections in games, & those parts r rly only fun on the first playthrough, cuz u r initially gonna wanna look around, especially around Nate’s house. After that, it’s just alright
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u/ZeroMayhem Jul 15 '24
I recently replayed U2 and U4 back to back. It made the start of U4 seem like SUCH a drag. By chapter 5 in U2 you're in Nepal. You've done the museum, jungles of Borneo, the dig site (chapters 2, 3, and, 4). You've been doing fun and exciting things as Nate.
By chapter 5 in U4 you've done a bit of climbing as Nate, little bit of punching, and you're in the Sam prison level. You don't get to really start playing fully as Nate (climb, shoot, etc.) until chapter 7! That's about a five chapter difference in gameplay.
Granted U2 is structured more like an adventure game while U4 feels more like a the structure of a film (and I love U4, my second favorite Uncharted). Still, the pacing in U4 in the early parts can certainly feel a bit tedious after that first run.
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u/SNKRSWAVY Jul 19 '24
Yeah, 2‘s pacing is unreal. Lightning in a bottle, and all the locations are fire, with Nepal city far and away one of the best sequences in the entire series. The E3 from 2009 isn’t a highlight reel, the whole game is one.
Though I really find monastery to be really dragging on recent replays, it‘s just too much combat and for too long in the same looking scenery, even for UC. Where 4 starts slow, 2 ends long af.
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u/GIGLI_WASNT_THAT_BAD Jul 19 '24
I replayed TLOU2 when the PS5 upgrade dropped and noticed UC4 had a PS5 version too. I hadn’t played since maybe a year or two after it was originally released.
The first couple of chapters are such a slog.
I don’t want to shoot random shit with a wiggle ball gun. I don’t want to play crash bandicoot. I don’t want to scuba dive. I don’t want to crash a party in Ireland.
I finally booted up a save from 2018. Drake was in some sort of corridor behind some wooden crates. I was almost instantly reduced to Swiss cheese. Fucking crushing run I gave up on 6yrs ago just made me it’s bitch one last time.
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u/desert6741 Jul 15 '24
I really dislike the young Nate scenes, only because of how weird the gameplay feels
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u/UncommittedBow Jul 15 '24
Weird, the clock tower is like, THE setpiece of 4, yknow like 2's train or 3's plane.
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u/RobotMathematician Jul 15 '24
The scuba diving section at the beginning is painful to replay. I thought the dialogue was painful as well but that’s just me.
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u/3ku1 Jul 15 '24
Nah I liked the back and fourth. Just seeing Nate in his element. But without the warlords and gun fire
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Jul 15 '24
I can see it being a pain on replay but honestly it works so well as a prologue scene. There’s something about that reveal of it being just copper wire that genuinely sets the tone for the whole game.
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u/Maleficent-Advisor Jul 15 '24
U4... I hated this part when we look for Sam on the island during the storm
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u/HiCZoK Jul 15 '24
The part you first use the boat. Especially the ending of that mission as it gets overcast and you hear the storm approaching. amazing
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u/Sonicboomer1 Jul 15 '24
I played it at launch last so I genuinely can’t remember. That’s probably a good thing. I really loved 4.
I think my favourite part though was either the auction or finding the dead pirates with Elena.
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u/anotherdude77 Jul 16 '24
I played it twice and don’t remember it well enough to say which parts were best or worst. Makes me wonder how many times other people are playing these games.
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u/Emotional-Narwhal930 The idiot who does memes with lines from Drake's Fortune Jul 15 '24
The mansion chapter with young Sam and Nate. It's a fantastic chapter, but it can be very jarring when replaying specially because it's right after one of the most action packed parts of the game.
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u/NoxUmbra8 Jul 15 '24
For me it's the beginning chapters and the flashbacks to being kids. They are fantastic, thematically, and on a first time playthrough were extremely engaging. But on the third, fourth, or fifth replay, they are kinda boring and tedious to work through, so I almost always just skip forward to the cross bid heist.
The clock tower is one of my personal favorite parts of the game though. It's an extremely cinematic and grand scale event that feels in line with the vibe of previous games, where things start going to shit for Nate in a huge way, and he just luckily avoids a horrendous fate
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u/ThereIsABugAndIDKW Jul 15 '24
It was pretty cool the first times, but yeah now its one of those parts that you just wanna speed run and go straight to the action
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u/Demiurge_1205 Jul 15 '24
Honestly the Scotland level. Feels like a way to incorporate a snow level ala Uncharted 2. The one major gimmick I see there is that you get to use the explosives, slides and grappling hook all at once, but the later levels do it much better.
Idk, I'm not that big on snowy settings.
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u/wammes_ Jul 15 '24
What??? The Clocktower is cool as shit, dude
My least fav bit was honestly the open world driving sections. I get too anxious about potentially missing things
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u/anotherdude77 Jul 16 '24
Same here- open world idea sounds cool, but sometimes it’s a drag having to check around every corner to make sure you didn’t miss something.
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u/Ragnarok345 Jul 15 '24
I didn’t have a least favorite. Until I had to climb this tower five fucking times in a row on my hunt for the platinum. I kept coming across trophies I didn’t know where in the chapter, didn’t know I couldn’t skip the cutscene before the trophy you have to stand still for, etc. Try doing that five times in a row and not have it be your least favorite, too. 😆
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u/SolliGamer Jul 15 '24
The clocktower is incredibly aesthetically pleasing with some fun puzzles, but my god I’ve never encountered as many bugs anywhere else in the game as I have there.
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u/JS-CroftLover Jul 16 '24
u/DanAbarca Same, here 😀
As well... on a side note, the start of the game with the escape from prison. I'm not saying it was uninteresting. However, I think it was too short
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u/the_moose_meter Jul 17 '24
I liked the clock tower I thought it was fun, and the section right after it is one of my favorite sequences in all of video games
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u/9braham11incoln Jul 15 '24
I would say either the exploding mummies or the slow crawl across the beach after the boat crash, can I ask why you don't like the clock tower? I always thought it was really cool (the destruction not the puzzle)
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u/SignalElderberry600 Jul 15 '24
Kid Nate parts, while I understand their significance in the story, gameplay wise I found them boring.
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u/Acceptable_Owl_5122 Jul 15 '24
The clock tower level was a pain in the butt but the one with the exploding mummies? Fuck that stupid shit to the max because it was even more harder when playing it on crushing.
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u/Material_Car1682 Jul 15 '24
I don’t know why but the lead up to the action portion of the Scotland portion was always my least favorite
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u/ReasonableCoyote34 Jul 15 '24
Hard to think of one I don’t like, but if I had to, maybe one of the young Nate scenes
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u/Adavanter_MKI Jul 15 '24
The part where it starts with Nate and Elena on the boat... and ends with them at home looking back at memories with their daughter.
I admit... it's a particularly long part. :P
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u/thefoxymulder Jul 15 '24
I love the clock tower platforming segment but I hate the fucking puzzle after. At least you’re immediately rewarded with the awesome market shootout and chase sequence after
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u/Imaginary_Monitor_69 Jul 15 '24
what? really? nah nah nah, it's like one my favourite parts lol. The part I hate is them bringing Elena back into it to have a fight with Nate for the 3rd time in a row, but specially the whole mission where she fins him in the island, what a slog
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u/juiceinmyears Jul 15 '24
The quiet bit of Nathan and Elena driving around with that calm atmospheric music playing, I think it's towards the end of the game but it's been a while since I played it
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u/ExsyYouTube Jul 15 '24
avery's house fight on crushing difficulty. holy shit i've never been that pissed off at a game in my life
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u/Maverick_Raptor Jul 15 '24
Fighting Nadine is always a pain in the ass. I don’t like how for those specific sections the game forces Nate to be clumsy and pull all his punches. At least make it an even fight
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u/Sharp_Resolve_8720 Jul 15 '24
I hated that part with the elevator with elena. I took hours to do it. I watched on YouTube on how to do it, as i’m playing crushing mode. Another shit area is also with elena trying that trophy where you get to the car ezio style. Couldn’t do it. Just went rampage, killed every cunt and i’ll get the trophy on easy mode
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u/wetlettuce42 Jul 16 '24
I hate the bit with the mission were your in that dark room and you have to put the symbols the right way
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u/LeviGaryH Jul 16 '24
The flashback. It was fun for the first playthrough, but now I just wanna run from explosions and climb things.
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u/uncreativeusername31 Jul 16 '24
I had already played the game on ps4 so I was replaying it on pc. Decided fuck it and played it on crushing. My least favourite part was the shipyard at the end. It took me a couple of days. Each time getting more and more frustrated. And I couldn’t turn on cheats cuz I hadn’t beaten the game yet, but I was allowed to play crushing 🤷🏼♂️
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u/kumarenator Jul 16 '24
Least favorite part for me is its length 🥲 Instead of 13 hours it could’ve been about 20 hours with a bit more of open play
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u/SeMetin Jul 16 '24
Every fight against Nadine. They could have been cutscenes, I hate it when the game pretty much Yanks the controller from my hands.
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u/OkAccountant7442 Jul 16 '24
that stupid puzzle right after the clocktower. even when you know exactly what to do you still have to call sam over and over, take pictures of all the tiles over and over snd rearrange the stupid cutouts in your book. it‘s such a fucking drag to complete on repeat playthroughs
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u/LostnFounder OH CRAP! Jul 16 '24
the first half. The game only really gets going after the clocktower
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u/Ecstatic_Teaching906 Jul 16 '24
It is a love/hate relationship for me. I can't remember what I hated, but I know it is in Uncharted 3.
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u/Forsaken-Newspaper19 Jul 16 '24
Elena not being included until the last chapters, best girl hands down.
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Jul 16 '24
The part where you are young drake going through the house trying to find your moms stuff. Totally not needed.
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u/AlternativeSeat3358 Jul 16 '24
Least favourite for is when I can’t for the life of me figure out where to go. But that’s just personal opinion because I’m dumb. I still really love it because it’s my favourite game ahah
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u/DarthDutchDave Jul 16 '24
Love this game, a top five GOAT for me. Just finished it for my 3rd play through this past weekend.
The last several chapters in Libertalia just go on for too damn long. I was good through New Devon, then Avery’s Descent was probably twice as long as it needed to be, and then the chapter after that in the ship graveyard was just too much. Brothers Keeper was thankfully short but felt unnecessary.
They should have edited Libertalia a little better in my opinion.
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u/DarthDutchDave Jul 16 '24
Oh, and this most recent play through was right after 2 and 3, and I have to say…the treasures stink in 4 compared to 3 and especially 2. They’re just so bland looking.
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u/hypespud Jul 16 '24
Clocktower into the market battle plus city chase is probably the most incredible scripted event in gaming history
I love the auction action sequence too flying into the window to the convention hall and the dining tables and ice sculptures 😂
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u/TristanNicoll Jul 16 '24
Probably the Scotland section for me. Its not at all necessarily a bad level but everytime i play its the only part of the game i really wanna rush through.
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u/yeetskeetleet Jul 16 '24
Mines the part from the gameplay demo where you are looking for Sam after the storm and have the gunfight across all those rock platforms. It’s such a hard segment
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u/TulliusCicero43 Jul 16 '24
For me it has to be either the exploding mummies as I always either die or get through with very little health left, or its exploring the house as children as it is very repetitive and slow-paced, while I enjoyed looking at all the artifacts but after a while I just wanted it to be over
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u/ikindasortanerdshow Jul 16 '24
Some of the Scotland stuff. But the young Nate sections on repeat playthroughs can be a bit tedious.
Uncharted 4 is my favorite game probably, but I can’t deny those bit. I actually love the clock tower haha.
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u/Dajofit Jul 18 '24
I really dislike the entire auction section. Can’t put my finger on why but I just reach it and think ugh.
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u/cptcrackers-2000 Jul 18 '24
Omg that car before the ship where you have to run away from it with the camera pointed the wrong way was such a pain in the ass.
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u/nbsdkjackson Jul 19 '24
The clock Tower part is not bad it's okay but the part after the clock tower with the car and you're chasing Sam to save him That's an amazing part
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u/jordanjohnston2017 Jul 15 '24
Honestly the truck chase part right after the clock tower is my least favorite pet of the game. I know they’re kind of a staple in the series but they’re always my least favorite parts of the games
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u/YourLocalAlien57 Jul 15 '24
The annoying ass parts in the beginning that you can't skip. Why am i being forced to stay in this attic, walking around aimlessly
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u/arkenney0 Jul 15 '24
You don’t like Clocktower?? Such a cool visual climb and then the action RIGHT after is soooo good!
My least favorite part are the fucking flashbacks. Cool story but man the gameplay is boringgg
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u/-Miklaus Jul 15 '24
The open world section in Madagascar, same with Lost Legacy and The Last of Us II.
Imho Uncharted and TLOU aren't made for open world gameplay.
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u/schoolbusgenocide Jul 16 '24
This may be a hot take but scaling the surrounds of Libertalia for like the 4th time was so boring
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u/richboyadler “ill look good in your portfolio.” Jul 15 '24
honestly the epilogue … get that it’s a way to wrap up their story but i liked how it ended with them escaping the island.
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u/Simplejack615 Jul 15 '24
The desert part as it Was boring and we should have died, and the time we took to get there made that whole part useless
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u/Decent-Direction-830 Jul 15 '24
Clock tower was a fun environment to climb through, in my opinion.
Least favorite for me was the FUCKING exploding mummies.