I loved UC4, the story is especially good if you have any interest in learning more about Nathan Drake's backstory. I don't remember having any real problems with any of the gameplay. Uncharted is one of my absolute favorite game series of all time. I still need to play The Lost Legacy.
Well, the gameplay is fine. The story of UC4 is really, really frustrating. The flashbacks are fine, but fuck domesticated Nathan Drake and his whiny "There are no permits, and I refuse to do something remotely adventurous without all paperwork in order" philosophy. I was so pissed off that I purposefully tanked the Crash bandicoot section, since it wasn't what they probably meant it to be (a charming little throwback) and was more of a "Remember when Naughty Dog gave a crap?". I also skipped the post Bandicoot cutscene because screw Elena (worst female character in the series) and screw Nathan Drake, 50 year old suburbanite.
At least that one character showed up in the very next cutscene and will presumably force Nathan to do something besides fucking paperwork and bantering with his boring, why-the-fuck-are-they-even-married wife. This whole game is feeling less Indiana Jones and more "What if Bilbo was a real prick and kept refusing to go with the dwarves at the beginning of The Hobbit because they hadn't filled out certain paperwork in triplicate". I honestly think I'm permanently soured on Nathan now, even retroactively. He's such a whiny prick. Even Elena points out how he's being a moron. Who thought this was good writing? Even UC3, which was so painfully mediocre I didn't finish it, never got this bad with the writing. This is going to be hard to get through, assuming I can bring myself to do it. How can Uncharted 2 be generally really good but everything after be such utter crap?
The worst thing is I know how this shit ends. Nathan retires and helps produce some brat with Elena. I guess UC4 is taking a lot of influence from the Indiana Jones films, in that the fourth one sucks. Actually, that's unfair to Indiana Jones. At least the character of IJ was still adventuring and willing to go do stuff in KotCS even though he was past retirement age at that point. Nathan would probably just be at a retirement home in Miami complaining about his bad knee.
On a more positive note, I got Pinball FX3 and most of the boards on PS4, and I'm really getting into it. I've never played much pinball, but I like the unrealistic style Pinball FX has, and the themed tables.
