You forgot to mention quite possibly the best line in gaming. Where Nate is climbing on the outside of the museum at the start and Flynn goes “there’s a guy above you, there’s a guy above you!” And after pulling the guy off the ledge to the large drop below he goes “there’s a guy below you, there’s a guy below you!”
What's funny about that part also is there's no way that guy survived the fall, meaning Nate killed one of the guards at the museum when they were going out of their way to try and not kill anyone lol
@@donniechant1357 If you see carefully downwards, the guards survives it and swims back to shore. Which is weird considering he didn't warn anyone of the intruders??
I think I remember an interview with Nolan North saying the script ended on "Those were 8 what's a ten?" he was told to just say something and it would fade out as the camera pulled back and the music went up, but instead the two actors just kept riffing and they didn't want to cut it.
The devs "explained" how Nate can survived those shot by saying he was lucky. The screen graying is not his health but his luck meaning the soldiers have stormtrooper aim until the screen goes gray enough.
Makes sense if maybe his luck extends into surviving a few bullets that’s graze him or just manage not to hit anything important, since we can see him get hit at times of course.
32:06 And yet Nathan says one of the best lines in the game with Tenzin’s help. Tenzin is trying to throw a rope up to a very difficult area and Nathan goes “Good luck pal that’s almost imposs… oh you did it” when Tenzin nails it mid sentence.
I've been replaying the uncharted series once every couple of years and 2 is definitely one of the best parts. The first one is kind of a slog but its so gratifying getting to Uncharted 2 and seeing literally the game that you loved become better in every single way. Honestly, best way to appreciate the game is to play it right after the first one to see how much better its gotten
Fun fact the last boss fight can be cheezed by making him run through the burning amber nate shot in the cutscene. You trigger it by being opposite of Laz when you shoot the amber and gets him into his inrage cutscene. Man will litterally run at you screaming trying to mellee yo ass but instead he just dies in the fire.
I’d call Uncharted 2 my favourite of the entire series. I binged the whole series after your Uncharted 1 video and man I just found myself constantly impressed with how fun Uncharted 2 was. The villains were fun, the set pieces were cool, the final boss was miles better than 1’s, and the combat is so massively improved. To sum up: Tenzin best husbando, and all my homies hate Harry.
Eddy was Def a more likable villain than Harry; but I do like how Harry gave that lil speech about bad guys arent redeemable; clearly he’s never played red dead redemption (specifically the one with eveyones fav outlaw who catches TB and dies) RIP Arthur Morgan; and Marston, we love you too John
Honestly Bricky your journey from Warframe to now has been an amazing journey to be on, your weight loss journey is an amazing change, your work ethic and content are fantastic. You done good bro
I remember playing this god damn. The first mission was so dope for a starting mission. But the story was absolutely a fun one and I was glued in even as a younger kid! Gosh I can't believe how old I got lmao.
uncharted 2 just has a special feel to it i remember playing it with one off my friends and we never got bored lol we played for 12 hours and finished easily one off the best times i ever had
If I were to change something minor about the story, I’d change Nate’s motivation for going down to the tree of life. I would make it clear that Elena’s injuries are bad, fatal even. And the tree sap could heal her. This way Nate has both a personal motivation to stop Lazarevich as well as the whole “be a hero, save the world” thing.
I think Claudia Black is helped a lot by her own experience in actual film and TV. It's one thing to voice a character from behind a screen, it's another entirely to both look and act the part. I can think of a couple scenes in Stargate and Farscape where she had to act this way so her believability makes a lot of sense.
My sister bought Uncharted 2 for me from a flea market. I didn't know anything about it back then, only games for PS3 I had was Tekken 6 and GTA IV. That was probably the best present I've gotten as I played the shit out of Uncharted 2, just kept replaying it dozens of times. It's honestly a masterpiece, almost perfectly paced for it's entire lenght and the set pieces are so good, Uncharted 3 and 4 copied the convoy chase from 2. I must've replayed just the "Desperate Times" chapter like 50 times just due to that climax of you fighting IN A COLLAPSING BUILDING. I also really miss the skins you could apply... Doughnut Drake is, as I'm concerned, as canon as the normal.
I'm about 14 minutes in. and there's one thing I wanted to note about the bullets and enemies not playing fair: When the game teaches you about shooting "blindfire" out of cover, your bullets ALSO magnetize to enemies as long as its in the reticle. Its not 100% accurate, but depending on the weapon it will happen. So the mechanic of the enemies doing it to you, is also attached to nathan. I think its just the way to fix the "Run and Gun" stuff they touted a lot back then. -Edit Just got to the blindfire part. Yeah, that's accurate. Just beat the game on Crushing myself a few years ago XD
Bricky, I have a friend who’s been trying to convince me to play this series since about 2015 and he’s been pretty unsuccessful. You’ve single-handedly convinced me in just this one video
As a 16-year-old back in early 2020, I cannot tell you how traumatized the difficulty of simply playing on normal mode was for me. At this point nearly 4 years later, I’ve been all the Soulsborne by FromSoftware except Sekiro (if that even counts), and by god, Uncharted 2 still lives rent free in my head for how brutal it felt. On normal. I was so traumatized that I played 3 and 4 on easy because of how much of a sweat-fest 2 felt like. 1 was pretty challenging, but the last few levels of 2 were nothing but stress and a hell of a lot of enemies.
Best structured and paced game in series; U4 plays better and its character work is "sharper" for lack of a better word but it leaves you wanting more as its peak (Chapter 11) isn't remotely touched throughout the rest of the game. U4 probably needed 6 more months but it was already delayed into another year after shuffling Amy Hennig's work and losing the leads for Sam/Rafe when she departed. U2 just does a better job at being satisfying ALL THE WAY THROUGH than U4 does
This made me realize that there are so many good game sequels that it's hard to narrow it down. Sonic 2, Tomb Raider 2, Resident Evil 2, Paper Mario TTYD, Smash Bros Melee, Silent Hill 2, Dawn of War 2, Postal 2, Mario Kart 64, F-Zero X, the list goes on.
Uncharted 2 was like that summer blockbuster sequel to that surprise indie film that wasn’t initially a box office hit but stayed in the theaters for a while because of word of mouth.
You know what, I fricking loved the multiplayer of this game. I had so many happy hours on there, incredibly underrated aspect of the game which is lost to time.
Fun fact: in the uncharted series, Nate is not tanking 36 gazillion bullets, rather, the “damage” you take is actually bullets *just* missing and or grazing him. The screen going gray is Nate luck running out. When he dies, it not him succumbing to his wounds, it’s one bullet fully hitting him and killing him
My personal favourite is 4 cause the set pieces in that game is great visually and mechanically. Especially the vehicle chase one. I mean I'm not the biggest fan of the series. I think they are pretty fun at the best of times. Definitely not a 10 out of 10 series that every big reviewer claims the series to be
3 is also my favorite, it's a much more personal journey and also has great gameplay segments. It's the best paced out of all of them and also has the best villain, even if she has mcguffins but adventure stories can get away with those. Uncharted 4 is on par with it as well. Also the coop in 3 was great, very underrated!
I felt sad playing 3. Aiming seemed off and the enemy AI was just chaotic and stupid. Also they dared to bring back the worst part of Uncharted 1 combat : a wave of enemies that comes from behind after you defeat everyone in front of you
The natural banter in the dialog, how it flows... it's so obvious that Naught Dog has a different approach to building their games. Most other AAA studios have way more stilted, basic dialog writing and performance isn't something they prioritize the way ND does.
as a turkish person when they went to the museum Turkey I was suprised how accurate the cities looked and how accurate they talked I think they actually hired Turkish people to voice actor the guards in the museum
I find that the smaller dev teams who have a passion for their craft and community do ALOT better than big dev teams who are simply in it for profits... and it shows, it really shows.
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Maybe nowadays but back in 2009 they were a pretty small team they got more after Uncharted 1s success but they only really got few more in
@@ILoveHoneyBunss If way more people worked on Uncharted 4 and that game is considered one of the best in the franchise, then it shows that a team being bigger doesn't make a game worse in any way, it should go without saying it is all matter of how the manpower is used.
The gameplay thing with dying a lot brought me back, there's this...kazoo like thing, it's not a kazoo but it sounds a bit like it that plays when you died In the good old days of sharing a controller with my brother we'd hear the ""kazoo"" so much that we'd just imitate the tune when the other was about to die with a shit eating grin, because "You dead, my turn" Good times
These videos make me wanna play the games now. I’d also love to see bricky do videos on the Assassins creed games since i grew up with those games and love to see his take on it
I can't agree on the napwiss about drake and Elena meeting in the town. I don't believe it's a coincidence that Elena hearing a shit load of gunfire and explosions and then seeing one of the enemy helicopters crash, I'd go over and find out what the fuck happened too. That's good footage. That's why I feel like it makes sense they ran into each other right next to the down heli.
The videos was really nice thank you for taking me back to the years I used to play this masterpiece on my ps3 as a child. Although, I wanted to point out that you never mentioned the music scores used in those games. It may not mean something to some people but it was also a crucial detail for me. The music in this game is really damn good. And so is the music in the next game. Anyways nice video nonetheless! 😁
@23:30 something they also did with that dialoge there is flip the trope on its head in a way everyone expects the indiana jones guy to be the one who left the girl because he was in search of adventure or soemthing, but with that dialog they show it was actually the other way around, NATHAN wanted to stay together and she left him behind
As to the Desert Eagle gut shot. It would definitely do a lot of damage but considering the wound location and that Nate also has blood on his back, meaning the bullet went clean through him, the shot probably wouldn’t mean a quick death. A lot of the time it’s worse to get hit with smaller/slower bullets because they can bounce around and curve inside the body causing much more internal damage. I mean he shouldn’t have survived the entire ordeal for sure, but the gun shot alone isn’t too much of a stretch in my opinion.
You mentioning why nobody's seen shambala from satellite view is what I've thought with every uncharted game. You explore miles of crazy ancient lands in every game, and yet nobody's seen them
I still don't really understand why it's such a meme that Nate kills a lot of people nor do I understand the complaint of ludo narrative dissonance. I mean yes, Nathan does kill a LOT of people throughout the games....but they're trying to kill HIM. It's literally self-defense which is why in the cutscenes Nate's always less murdery unless he has to retaliate. We never see Nate, even in gameplay, kill a person in cold-blood who were innocent. It's just weird Nate's always criticized for this.
It's not that, it's just that you kill literal hundreds as just some guy and it's no big deal. It's not about morality, it's about how the story brushes it off. Like how the hell do you manage to kill whole armies of pirates, mercs and secret organizations and it's "yeah it happened, who cares, moving on"
@@steelbear2063 That's not the way Bricky paints it. He constantly harps on how Nate is a likable, kind dude in cutscenes so we like him, yet he "murders" hundreds of guys. It comes off like he's painting Nate as a bad person during gameplay. If we're gonna criticize the game for him somehow killing hundreds of people by himself, then yeah we might as well criticize 80% of games for that. I agree it's silly what Nate and Elena survive throughout the series, that's no doubt.
@@steelbear2063 the thing is, this is based off films based on the very same problem: Indiana Jones. However it makes sense. Nobody cares about N@zis and Soviets, same goes here. Pirates and Mercs are universally hated and condemned.
So, something i only figured out near the end but if you just spam r2 without holding l2 to aim on the jet ski in uncharted 1 elena just auto shoots everyone and the barrels with perfect aim. It makes the jet ski segments so much less annoying from then on
Uncharted 2 is a game I have a lot of fond memories of playing. I very often think back on the train sequence and everything connected to it as a great example of thematic storytelling and a super memorable set piece.....
Mrs Henning leaving really hurt the studio from a character writing perspective, there's some real stark difference in how well character's are written from old vs new ND
Loved Hennig as part of the first few games development, but you guys are crazy if you can’t appreciate how well the characters are written in 4. Hands down the most consistent writing in the series
@@SethG3600 The second one is the best written one. and Look at TLOU 2 and tell me that henning didn't ghost write TLOU. or at least advise Druckman to not be stupid.
Uncharted 2 is a blockbuster movie and should be played for the entertainment value. It has holes in the story and the heroes survive implausible odds a handful off times (so much so that by the third game I was burned out and the big spectacle cutscenes just bored me) but it is one hell of a ride if you're willing to go.
Your review is straight hot accurate lmao. Im currently replaying it in crushing , but gsauce , its goddamn hell to play around with the enemy npcs, you really gotta aim for the head, play more stealthy, to use and adapt with your surroundings and think the weapons around you and how to play around with it, which is bittersweet realization
Only halfway through this video and already fuckin love it. Great job as always! I legitimately cannot wait to hear your thoughts on part 3, especially since that game was designed without a story first.
I think this game was the reason I couldn't believe naughty dogs' BS about smarter AI in TLOU2. I could run up a escalator, and gave the "super smart" AI run at me one by one to their deaths with NO repercussion for me at all... Meanwhile, the uncharted franchise exists. I only died 2 times in TLOU2. Just twice. Both were due to BS (bug, and the other one was the super BS "enemies only spawn in once you enter the building, not when you scan for them outside". That worked once, never again). Meanwhile, uncharted 2 DESTROYED me. Uncharted 4 on normal even got me killed in some of the bigger areas because I messed up. Which is brilliant.
I remember I bought all 3 uncharted games at once after 3 first came out to get into the series and I was super dissapointed how "meh uncharted 1 was. I didnt like it that much and was really nervous that I just spent like $100 to not like the franchise so I went into 2 with the lowest expectations and holy shit did uncharted 2 absolutely slap. I agree with a lot of your criticisms but imo definitely is one of the greatest games ever
I've heard say that the Uncharted series plays out like a movie. The person that said this hypothesized that Nate's health is his luck and when that runs out he will die. Makes sense with how the game feels
I can not forget when Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Demo came out; everyone I knew who had a PS3 was on that thing. And it continued on when the game was released. Which is amazing considering it was the first attempt for the franchise and was a part of a great game in Among Thieves.
Uncharted 2 is easily my favorite of the entire series. Also has my 2 favorites villains, Flynn & Lezaravic. Also, after Sully asks which way Chloe went at the end, his reply of "uh huh" is one of my favorite lines in the series.
I’ve gotta say, I also like Uncharted 3 just a little bit more than 2. The three chapters at the French Chateau are just everything Uncharted packed into a small slice of the game, and it’s just incredible.
Interesting to see people say 3 is their favorite. Many think (me included) that it feels oddly unfinished and... Uncomfortable? Like maybe half of the combat sections go on uncomfortably long, there's something about the pacing and the drug trips that just keep you discompubulated or something... 3 feels like the story is rushing while also being too slow at the same time.
@@jesustyronechrist2330 Honestly, Uncharted 2 is probably the better game. The story is a lot tighter than 3, for one thing. But 3 just feels better to me for a lot of little things. I like the puzzles more, the graphics are somehow even better than the second game, which already looked fantastic, the melee feels better including the contextual actions that vary depending on the location you’re fighting in, and the fact that you can throw grenades back is a godsend. Lots of little things like that really add up for me. Also the setpieces. Uncharted 2 and the train and such, absolutely. But 3 also has the chateau I mentioned earlier, and the whole sequence from the airport, to the cargo plane, to the crash, to the desert, is just INCREDIBLE in my opinion.
@@jesustyronechrist2330 id say the pirate´s part and drugs sure yh a bit disconfortable but everything else?? the begining is stellar to me and the end is very good too, of course im not totally seeing this with a critics eye im seeing this with the eyes of a 10 year old boy who played this 24/7 for 2 whole years (and knows 99% of the dialogue) and thinks of this game a masterpiece. i know its flaws and some fo the scenes are draaaaginngg onn pirates its an example, and ubar itself too.
Naughty dog does the best number 2s. Well, back when Amy henning was with them. And jak 2 and crash 2 and 3. That's about it. Can't remember anything else. Not that game that came in 2020. Nope. None at all.
nate surviving a desert eagle bullet wouldnt, and still managing to do all of that he did before he passed out, is the reason that everytime someone says that lara croft would beat nate into a fight i ust be like "bitch please" like, a desert eagle shot would be enough to kill most people, than doing everything he did after it?
Just in case you didn't know Mr. Bricky,, Claudia Black has also played major characters on the shows "Farscape" and "Stargate SG-1". Also she was in the movie "Pitch Black" with Vin Diesel. Due to that background of action sci-fi acting is most likely why she is able to sell the late game scenes so well,, because she has had to do very similar on those projects.
I recently played the series for the first time and I remember playing through the Nepal section with the helicopter, my first thought when playing it was “this was definitely the games gameplay trailer” and I looked it up and it was indeed the gameplay trailer.
Amazing video as always, Bricky! I am really surprised I remember as much of the dialogue in this game as I do. Just going through the banter between the characters, and there are so many lines I just remember so well!
My favorite thing about bricky is to play a game and listen to the rewiew about the game that im playing. It helps me to understand the problems of the game
You forgot to mention quite possibly the best line in gaming. Where Nate is climbing on the outside of the museum at the start and Flynn goes “there’s a guy above you, there’s a guy above you!” And after pulling the guy off the ledge to the large drop below he goes “there’s a guy below you, there’s a guy below you!”
What's funny about that part also is there's no way that guy survived the fall, meaning Nate killed one of the guards at the museum when they were going out of their way to try and not kill anyone lol
@@donniechant1357 If you see carefully downwards, the guards survives it and swims back to shore. Which is weird considering he didn't warn anyone of the intruders??
@@Ishaan_A Oh wow, I never noticed that 😂
When an npc has more plot armor than the mc
I lover that line
I feel like a lot of Nate’s insane survivability can be summed up as
“Built Different”
Built stupid
skill issue
@@jbmw1978 built wrong
He's the kid at playground who says the attack didnt got him cause it wasnt canon due to a multidimensional shield lol
@@AVGNROCKS1996 built incorrectly
that ending scene was so cute and they actually kinda talked like real people, it's great
In fact, it was all improvised by the actors!
I think I remember an interview with Nolan North saying the script ended on "Those were 8 what's a ten?" he was told to just say something and it would fade out as the camera pulled back and the music went up, but instead the two actors just kept riffing and they didn't want to cut it.
You’re too late Bricky, I’ve already made up my mind
The devs "explained" how Nate can survived those shot by saying he was lucky. The screen graying is not his health but his luck meaning the soldiers have stormtrooper aim until the screen goes gray enough.
Makes sense if maybe his luck extends into surviving a few bullets that’s graze him or just manage not to hit anything important, since we can see him get hit at times of course.
that was always my head cannon. Know I know its true.
Sort of plays into the whole "bullets obviously missing Nate yet causing 'damage' somehow" thing...
I suppose all his bad luck is redirected to breaking everything he touches while climbing or, as jacksepticeye named it, "the curse of Nathan Break"
I love this
7:25 "She is a genuine treat to have on screen"
*Shows a scene with Chloes buttocks on the screen*
Well played Bricky, well played.
Bricky got the stiffy
You must be british. There is no way that anyone from and other country would use the word buttocks instead of ass.
"Buttocks" 🤓
Well he did get a little “bricky”
@@maxdxdxdxdbro you collect Pennies. Leave patrik6636 alone🔙🔙
(Ik this was a year ago but I found it funny)
32:06 And yet Nathan says one of the best lines in the game with Tenzin’s help. Tenzin is trying to throw a rope up to a very difficult area and Nathan goes “Good luck pal that’s almost imposs… oh you did it” when Tenzin nails it mid sentence.
I've been replaying the uncharted series once every couple of years and 2 is definitely one of the best parts. The first one is kind of a slog but its so gratifying getting to Uncharted 2 and seeing literally the game that you loved become better in every single way. Honestly, best way to appreciate the game is to play it right after the first one to see how much better its gotten
I love Uncharted 2, but Lost Legacy is almost tied with it for me. It's so damn underrated and more like 2 than any other game in the series
I got all the games
@@ChicagoBulls1984 lost legacy is my personal favorite with uncharted 4 and 2 very very close behind
25:45 Those are called pre-rendered and in-engine cutscenes, respectively, and their names say exactly what they are.
They're both in-engine but one is pre-rendered and the other is Real Time.
Fun fact the last boss fight can be cheezed by making him run through the burning amber nate shot in the cutscene. You trigger it by being opposite of Laz when you shoot the amber and gets him into his inrage cutscene. Man will litterally run at you screaming trying to mellee yo ass but instead he just dies in the fire.
Does it only skip 1 phase of the fight or will he immediately eat shit?
I’d call Uncharted 2 my favourite of the entire series. I binged the whole series after your Uncharted 1 video and man I just found myself constantly impressed with how fun Uncharted 2 was. The villains were fun, the set pieces were cool, the final boss was miles better than 1’s, and the combat is so massively improved.
To sum up: Tenzin best husbando, and all my homies hate Harry.
Eddy was Def a more likable villain than Harry; but I do like how Harry gave that lil speech about bad guys arent redeemable; clearly he’s never played red dead redemption (specifically the one with eveyones fav outlaw who catches TB and dies) RIP Arthur Morgan; and Marston, we love you too John
Honestly Bricky your journey from Warframe to now has been an amazing journey to be on, your weight loss journey is an amazing change, your work ethic and content are fantastic. You done good bro
Honestly yeah, he's lose quite alot. Imo he looks good now
Edit: he looks fit*
He's always been dapper
*Epic*
naaaaaw the meatriding is cuh-raaaaaaazy
I love how lazaravich just tries to use a mythical tree to try to become immortal, refuses to elaborate further, and dies
I remember playing this god damn. The first mission was so dope for a starting mission. But the story was absolutely a fun one and I was glued in even as a younger kid! Gosh I can't believe how old I got lmao.
uncharted 2 just has a special feel to it i remember playing it with one off my friends and we never got bored lol we played for 12 hours and finished easily one off the best times i ever had
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If Brazilian money was worth something I would definitely buy this stuff
The free international shipping really convinced me to buy it, dude
Bricky . When u doing a blood and bacon review were all Waiting
Thanks brocky, I can now try gamer supps even though USD sucks
If I were to change something minor about the story, I’d change Nate’s motivation for going down to the tree of life.
I would make it clear that Elena’s injuries are bad, fatal even. And the tree sap could heal her. This way Nate has both a personal motivation to stop Lazarevich as well as the whole “be a hero, save the world” thing.
I think Claudia Black is helped a lot by her own experience in actual film and TV.
It's one thing to voice a character from behind a screen, it's another entirely to both look and act the part.
I can think of a couple scenes in Stargate and Farscape where she had to act this way so her believability makes a lot of sense.
I miss Farscape
@@JonCom3dy Same
My sister bought Uncharted 2 for me from a flea market. I didn't know anything about it back then, only games for PS3 I had was Tekken 6 and GTA IV.
That was probably the best present I've gotten as I played the shit out of Uncharted 2, just kept replaying it dozens of times.
It's honestly a masterpiece, almost perfectly paced for it's entire lenght and the set pieces are so good, Uncharted 3 and 4 copied the convoy chase from 2.
I must've replayed just the "Desperate Times" chapter like 50 times just due to that climax of you fighting IN A COLLAPSING BUILDING.
I also really miss the skins you could apply... Doughnut Drake is, as I'm concerned, as canon as the normal.
Wdym? The skins are still usable in game.
@@SpiffoGaming PS3 era Uncharted 3 didn’t have the bonus menus. They added those in the remaster.
I'm about 14 minutes in. and there's one thing I wanted to note about the bullets and enemies not playing fair:
When the game teaches you about shooting "blindfire" out of cover, your bullets ALSO magnetize to enemies as long as its in the reticle. Its not 100% accurate, but depending on the weapon it will happen. So the mechanic of the enemies doing it to you, is also attached to nathan. I think its just the way to fix the "Run and Gun" stuff they touted a lot back then.
-Edit
Just got to the blindfire part. Yeah, that's accurate. Just beat the game on Crushing myself a few years ago XD
Bricky, I have a friend who’s been trying to convince me to play this series since about 2015 and he’s been pretty unsuccessful. You’ve single-handedly convinced me in just this one video
As a 16-year-old back in early 2020, I cannot tell you how traumatized the difficulty of simply playing on normal mode was for me. At this point nearly 4 years later, I’ve been all the Soulsborne by FromSoftware except Sekiro (if that even counts), and by god, Uncharted 2 still lives rent free in my head for how brutal it felt. On normal. I was so traumatized that I played 3 and 4 on easy because of how much of a sweat-fest 2 felt like. 1 was pretty challenging, but the last few levels of 2 were nothing but stress and a hell of a lot of enemies.
I think 4 is definitely the most manageable to beat on harder difficulties
Idk why I love Uncharted 2 so much more than any of the other uncharted games, idk if it’s just that good or what
Best structured and paced game in series; U4 plays better and its character work is "sharper" for lack of a better word but it leaves you wanting more as its peak (Chapter 11) isn't remotely touched throughout the rest of the game. U4 probably needed 6 more months but it was already delayed into another year after shuffling Amy Hennig's work and losing the leads for Sam/Rafe when she departed. U2 just does a better job at being satisfying ALL THE WAY THROUGH than U4 does
21:20 speaking of Spec Ops The Line Nolan North voice acted captain Walker the guy you play in spec ops.
This made me realize that there are so many good game sequels that it's hard to narrow it down. Sonic 2, Tomb Raider 2, Resident Evil 2, Paper Mario TTYD, Smash Bros Melee, Silent Hill 2, Dawn of War 2, Postal 2, Mario Kart 64, F-Zero X, the list goes on.
Uncharted 2 was like that summer blockbuster sequel to that surprise indie film that wasn’t initially a box office hit but stayed in the theaters for a while because of word of mouth.
You know what, I fricking loved the multiplayer of this game. I had so many happy hours on there, incredibly underrated aspect of the game which is lost to time.
Dude the multiplayer was sooo underrated I was not expecting much but god dang it was so fun! Lol
"I don't think they can take 4 or 5 shots of 105"
Had me dieing. I replayed it 20 times and shared just for that
Bricky is so right about the "He should have been dead" part, BUT HOLY SHIT IS THIS MORE TRUE IN UNCHARTED 3!
Fun fact: in the uncharted series, Nate is not tanking 36 gazillion bullets, rather, the “damage” you take is actually bullets *just* missing and or grazing him. The screen going gray is Nate luck running out. When he dies, it not him succumbing to his wounds, it’s one bullet fully hitting him and killing him
This was probably the first video game I fell in love with. In 2009 it was really mind-blowing. Really interesting to hear how it holds up now
42:09 a better excuse for Nate going back is getting the sap to heal Elena
23:43 I loved it when Nathan went “Yippee!” After he moved the shrine statue’s hand
When talking about uncharted everyone is always mentioning that either uncharted 2 or 4 is the best one, but honestly my favourite was always 3
My personal favourite is 4 cause the set pieces in that game is great visually and mechanically. Especially the vehicle chase one.
I mean I'm not the biggest fan of the series. I think they are pretty fun at the best of times. Definitely not a 10 out of 10 series that every big reviewer claims the series to be
Same for me. As someone who has replayed all the games back to back recently, I find 3 to still be my favorite.
3 is also my favorite, it's a much more personal journey and also has great gameplay segments. It's the best paced out of all of them and also has the best villain, even if she has mcguffins but adventure stories can get away with those. Uncharted 4 is on par with it as well. Also the coop in 3 was great, very underrated!
I felt sad playing 3. Aiming seemed off and the enemy AI was just chaotic and stupid. Also they dared to bring back the worst part of Uncharted 1 combat : a wave of enemies that comes from behind after you defeat everyone in front of you
Playing 1,2,3 and 4 within a few days I have to say number 2 is the best of the series by miles
The natural banter in the dialog, how it flows... it's so obvious that Naught Dog has a different approach to building their games. Most other AAA studios have way more stilted, basic dialog writing and performance isn't something they prioritize the way ND does.
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My favorite intro to a game ever has to be Killzone one.
That speech my god, i still go back to watch it every now and then.
as a turkish person when they went to the museum Turkey I was suprised how accurate the cities looked and how accurate they talked I think they actually hired Turkish people to voice actor the guards in the museum
I can’t wait for the uncharted 4 review, that was by far my favorite game in the series.
Also from TV, I mostly remember her from Stargate SG-1 and found the chemistry between her and Michael Shanks' Daniel Jackson hysterical.
Those little credits after Flynn's death gave a real good giggle, well done young brick
Decaf coffee: FUCKING AWFUL. Decaf Gamer supps: probably similar
The line that I always use from this game is “Thanks for the input Jeff”
I always have the biggest shit eating grin on my face every time I hear the ending dialogue between Elena and Nate. It's insanely cute and funny.
I find that the smaller dev teams who have a passion for their craft and community do ALOT better than big dev teams who are simply in it for profits... and it shows, it really shows.
They're not a small dev by any means
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Maybe nowadays but back in 2009 they were a pretty small team they got more after Uncharted 1s success but they only really got few more in
@@ILoveHoneyBunss If way more people worked on Uncharted 4 and that game is considered one of the best in the franchise, then it shows that a team being bigger doesn't make a game worse in any way, it should go without saying it is all matter of how the manpower is used.
The gameplay thing with dying a lot brought me back, there's this...kazoo like thing, it's not a kazoo but it sounds a bit like it that plays when you died
In the good old days of sharing a controller with my brother we'd hear the ""kazoo"" so much that we'd just imitate the tune when the other was about to die with a shit eating grin, because "You dead, my turn"
Good times
16:46 sparse+scarce= _SPARCE_
21:10 Lazarevic mention this at the end of the game tho and Nate mostly kill in self defence
These videos make me wanna play the games now. I’d also love to see bricky do videos on the Assassins creed games since i grew up with those games and love to see his take on it
I can't agree on the napwiss about drake and Elena meeting in the town. I don't believe it's a coincidence that Elena hearing a shit load of gunfire and explosions and then seeing one of the enemy helicopters crash, I'd go over and find out what the fuck happened too. That's good footage. That's why I feel like it makes sense they ran into each other right next to the down heli.
The videos was really nice thank you for taking me back to the years I used to play this masterpiece on my ps3 as a child. Although, I wanted to point out that you never mentioned the music scores used in those games. It may not mean something to some people but it was also a crucial detail for me. The music in this game is really damn good. And so is the music in the next game. Anyways nice video nonetheless! 😁
36:57 blue dudes looking a lot like the doom slayer
Good to see some people recognizing this game
Nathan and elena are the reason i enjoyed uncharted 4(mostly). Their split up/make up felt so real. And their cozy home life was so nice to see
Excellent video as always Mr. Brick, NAPWISS totally understandable and the editing was excellent. Loved all of it
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something they also did with that dialoge there is flip the trope on its head in a way
everyone expects the indiana jones guy to be the one who left the girl because he was in search of adventure or soemthing, but with that dialog they show it was actually the other way around, NATHAN wanted to stay together and she left him behind
As to the Desert Eagle gut shot. It would definitely do a lot of damage but considering the wound location and that Nate also has blood on his back, meaning the bullet went clean through him, the shot probably wouldn’t mean a quick death. A lot of the time it’s worse to get hit with smaller/slower bullets because they can bounce around and curve inside the body causing much more internal damage. I mean he shouldn’t have survived the entire ordeal for sure, but the gun shot alone isn’t too much of a stretch in my opinion.
You mentioning why nobody's seen shambala from satellite view is what I've thought with every uncharted game. You explore miles of crazy ancient lands in every game, and yet nobody's seen them
I still don't really understand why it's such a meme that Nate kills a lot of people nor do I understand the complaint of ludo narrative dissonance. I mean yes, Nathan does kill a LOT of people throughout the games....but they're trying to kill HIM. It's literally self-defense which is why in the cutscenes Nate's always less murdery unless he has to retaliate. We never see Nate, even in gameplay, kill a person in cold-blood who were innocent. It's just weird Nate's always criticized for this.
It's not that, it's just that you kill literal hundreds as just some guy and it's no big deal. It's not about morality, it's about how the story brushes it off. Like how the hell do you manage to kill whole armies of pirates, mercs and secret organizations and it's "yeah it happened, who cares, moving on"
@@steelbear2063 That's not the way Bricky paints it. He constantly harps on how Nate is a likable, kind dude in cutscenes so we like him, yet he "murders" hundreds of guys. It comes off like he's painting Nate as a bad person during gameplay. If we're gonna criticize the game for him somehow killing hundreds of people by himself, then yeah we might as well criticize 80% of games for that. I agree it's silly what Nate and Elena survive throughout the series, that's no doubt.
@@steelbear2063 the thing is, this is based off films based on the very same problem: Indiana Jones. However it makes sense. Nobody cares about N@zis and Soviets, same goes here. Pirates and Mercs are universally hated and condemned.
So, something i only figured out near the end but if you just spam r2 without holding l2 to aim on the jet ski in uncharted 1 elena just auto shoots everyone and the barrels with perfect aim. It makes the jet ski segments so much less annoying from then on
Uncharted 2 is a game I have a lot of fond memories of playing. I very often think back on the train sequence and everything connected to it as a great example of thematic storytelling and a super memorable set piece.....
I just realised, Flynn choose commit suicide and kill drake instead of trying to drink the resin
Mrs Henning leaving really hurt the studio from a character writing perspective, there's some real stark difference in how well character's are written from old vs new ND
Tbh, the new naughty dog feels off. Shame she is not with them anymore.
Henning is the uncontested queen of dialog and was basically carrying naughty dog in her back
Loved Hennig as part of the first few games development, but you guys are crazy if you can’t appreciate how well the characters are written in 4. Hands down the most consistent writing in the series
ironic considering the best written uncharted and best written game the have ever made in tlou, neither had anything to do with her.
@@SethG3600 The second one is the best written one. and Look at TLOU 2 and tell me that henning didn't ghost write TLOU. or at least advise Druckman to not be stupid.
The shootout in the collapsing building is one of the few instances in gaming where I was like "Wow this is fucking amazing".
Uncharted 2 is a blockbuster movie and should be played for the entertainment value. It has holes in the story and the heroes survive implausible odds a handful off times (so much so that by the third game I was burned out and the big spectacle cutscenes just bored me) but it is one hell of a ride if you're willing to go.
36:55 his pack-a-punched shotgun, that got me
I have been waiting respectfully for this.
Your review is straight hot accurate lmao. Im currently replaying it in crushing , but gsauce , its goddamn hell to play around with the enemy npcs, you really gotta aim for the head, play more stealthy, to use and adapt with your surroundings and think the weapons around you and how to play around with it, which is bittersweet realization
I love Uncharted 2 one of the best games ever made especially during the first playthrough!
That fucking train guy is the real villain of uncharted 2
Great game, great multiplayer too
I can explain how a guy like Nathan can survive all his parkour while injured.
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.
Only halfway through this video and already fuckin love it. Great job as always!
I legitimately cannot wait to hear your thoughts on part 3, especially since that game was designed without a story first.
33:49 oooooh that aged like fiiiine wine.
Can you do a review of the Gears of War franchise
I think this game was the reason I couldn't believe naughty dogs' BS about smarter AI in TLOU2. I could run up a escalator, and gave the "super smart" AI run at me one by one to their deaths with NO repercussion for me at all...
Meanwhile, the uncharted franchise exists. I only died 2 times in TLOU2. Just twice. Both were due to BS (bug, and the other one was the super BS "enemies only spawn in once you enter the building, not when you scan for them outside". That worked once, never again).
Meanwhile, uncharted 2 DESTROYED me. Uncharted 4 on normal even got me killed in some of the bigger areas because I messed up. Which is brilliant.
Bricky. You do realise 95% of the problems you mantioned would be solved if you just lowered the difficulty?
He's a RUclipsr reviewer, do you expect them to understand what they are talking about?
25:22 So... Lazarevich would say that Drake is just... a little guy
I remember I bought all 3 uncharted games at once after 3 first came out to get into the series and I was super dissapointed how "meh uncharted 1 was. I didnt like it that much and was really nervous that I just spent like $100 to not like the franchise so I went into 2 with the lowest expectations and holy shit did uncharted 2 absolutely slap. I agree with a lot of your criticisms but imo definitely is one of the greatest games ever
I've heard say that the Uncharted series plays out like a movie. The person that said this hypothesized that Nate's health is his luck and when that runs out he will die. Makes sense with how the game feels
what's the song name starting at 3:40-4:03?
trying to find it as well. Shazaam and any other music-finding software I've tried aint finding it
found it, twerkout revolution. some sort of remix of that. the melody is correct though
@@voosten1123 thank you mate
I can not forget when Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Demo came out; everyone I knew who had a PS3 was on that thing. And it continued on when the game was released. Which is amazing considering it was the first attempt for the franchise and was a part of a great game in Among Thieves.
It may be "one" of the best but Mass Effect 2 will always be the best sequel game for me.
Uncharted 2 is easily my favorite of the entire series. Also has my 2 favorites villains, Flynn & Lezaravic.
Also, after Sully asks which way Chloe went at the end, his reply of "uh huh" is one of my favorite lines in the series.
I've always been more of a Drake's Deception guy myself but Among Thieves is objectively one of the best glowups in gaming
Same here
Uncharted 3 was my childhood
I’ve gotta say, I also like Uncharted 3 just a little bit more than 2. The three chapters at the French Chateau are just everything Uncharted packed into a small slice of the game, and it’s just incredible.
Interesting to see people say 3 is their favorite. Many think (me included) that it feels oddly unfinished and... Uncomfortable?
Like maybe half of the combat sections go on uncomfortably long, there's something about the pacing and the drug trips that just keep you discompubulated or something... 3 feels like the story is rushing while also being too slow at the same time.
@@jesustyronechrist2330 Honestly, Uncharted 2 is probably the better game. The story is a lot tighter than 3, for one thing. But 3 just feels better to me for a lot of little things. I like the puzzles more, the graphics are somehow even better than the second game, which already looked fantastic, the melee feels better including the contextual actions that vary depending on the location you’re fighting in, and the fact that you can throw grenades back is a godsend. Lots of little things like that really add up for me.
Also the setpieces. Uncharted 2 and the train and such, absolutely. But 3 also has the chateau I mentioned earlier, and the whole sequence from the airport, to the cargo plane, to the crash, to the desert, is just INCREDIBLE in my opinion.
@@jesustyronechrist2330 id say the pirate´s part and drugs sure yh a bit disconfortable but everything else?? the begining is stellar to me and the end is very good too, of course im not totally seeing this with a critics eye im seeing this with the eyes of a 10 year old boy who played this 24/7 for 2 whole years (and knows 99% of the dialogue) and thinks of this game a masterpiece. i know its flaws and some fo the scenes are draaaaginngg onn pirates its an example, and ubar itself too.
12:09 I’m disappointed bricky didn’t spell combat with a K
Naughty dog does the best number 2s. Well, back when Amy henning was with them. And jak 2 and crash 2 and 3. That's about it. Can't remember anything else. Not that game that came in 2020. Nope. None at all.
lol
@@flynnmayne2055 what? I'm right aren't I? lol
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Gotta love bullets that come out of the chamber at an angle.
24:33 Nate with a pen in his mouth sounds like Bane lol
Nate even says in chapter 6 “the girls is trapped, the power is out… I swear if there’s a zombie around the next corner” Like dude… come on now 😂
Btw yes this is one of my fav games and I remember lots of the dialogue from all 4 games
This is honestly probably my favorite review of any game, by anyone, ever. Big ups. This was perfectly done.
RUclips people will call plot elements that are integral to the plot and story and call it a nitpick
If I'm honest, when I got to shambala I didnt think of the sky and the hiding... I was wrapped up in the moment
I love how nate glitches through the wall in the gameplay while bricky talks at 14:24
nate surviving a desert eagle bullet wouldnt, and still managing to do all of that he did before he passed out, is the reason that everytime someone says that lara croft would beat nate into a fight i ust be like "bitch please" like, a desert eagle shot would be enough to kill most people, than doing everything he did after it?
Just in case you didn't know Mr. Bricky,, Claudia Black has also played major characters on the shows "Farscape" and "Stargate SG-1". Also she was in the movie "Pitch Black" with Vin Diesel. Due to that background of action sci-fi acting is most likely why she is able to sell the late game scenes so well,, because she has had to do very similar on those projects.
I recently played the series for the first time and I remember playing through the Nepal section with the helicopter, my first thought when playing it was “this was definitely the games gameplay trailer” and I looked it up and it was indeed the gameplay trailer.
Amazing video as always, Bricky! I am really surprised I remember as much of the dialogue in this game as I do. Just going through the banter between the characters, and there are so many lines I just remember so well!
My favorite thing about bricky is to play a game and listen to the rewiew about the game that im playing. It helps me to understand the problems of the game
"Maybe I broke hers" Lmfao I died when I first heard him say that. Had to pause from laughing so much