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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Nathan Drake storyline is as good or better than TLOU as are the characters. Both are top notch, and obviously made by the same studio.
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Nope.
Early Uncharted games had a ton of cheesy writing, the fourth is the only one that's even worth discussing in the same conversation. And Uncharted 4 is exactly what it sets out to be: basically a knock-off Indiana Jones story. It's fun, fairly mindless and very entertaining blockbuster-style stuff that's pretty well excuted, but that's all it is. And not surprisingly, the characters have about the same depth as what you'd find in a knock-off Indiana Jones summer blockbuster.
That's one of the big issues - there seems to be an unwritten rule that in order to write a video game story it needs to be a blockbuster style of thing. And it's not even clear that that's wrong - if you're investing the time and money it takes to produce a title that involves an enormous amount of motion capture and facial animation and the thousand other things required to execute something like Uncharted 4, it's understandable that you want it to have a type of blockbuster appeal rather than being focused on character studies and the exploration of deep thematic questions - for the same reason that people don't make movies like that with the expectation of billion dollar box office returns.