NowGamer: Following Microsoft UK exec Stephen McGill's question - "who needs Blu-ray?" here's a quick reminder of the games that wouldn't exist without the high capacity disc format...
Kazuyuki Shindo, who worked on games including Legend of Mana, Final Fantasy XIII, and SaGa: Emerald Beyond, has left Square Enix.
In a list of games that defined the PlayStation 3, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves would certainly be one of the top contenders. The blockbuster sequel to 2007’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune not only received critical acclaim and became a massive hit for Sony’s third console when it was released 15 years ago on October 13th, 2009, but it also cemented Naughty Dog’s future as a developer of cinematic, story-driven action-adventure games as opposed to its history of colorful platformers like Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter from previous PlayStation generations. To this day, Uncharted 2 stands as one of the PS3’s best exclusives and one of the most important PlayStation games of all time.
I loved this era on multiplayer games from Sony. People used to call the modes tacked on multiplayer but they were enjoyable. I loved Factions even more. I'm Still gutted that the second one isn't coming out.
Yeah, that one game where it not only has an amazing single player but the multiplayer was also just as good.
A fresh a breath air with it's more "skill focused, less is more" multiplayer in a time during COD fever where every other game with online was trying to be like it.
Shame NaughtyDog eventually did do COD like things with Uncharted 3 and 4, they ruined what made the original so good. It become an over the top arcade fest in the end.
Ironic cause the MP was basically Halo, and Bungie helped on the technical side of things too. MP was more simple back then, I've said this before but I played U2 MP religiously. I sucked at it like you have no idea, but mah gawd did I have so much fun. Can't find an MP game that hooked me like U2s these days. Then Factions came along and while it had its problem I found new religion with it. Agh damn it why did they cancel Factions 2 bruhh.
It is for sure my favorite game in the series. It's such a blast to play. The train levels still hold up and are fun as hell as well as the entire game.
Still remember the first gameplay video ... shooting the chasing truck and then the beautiful visuals & details whilst traversing the dilapidated Nepal streets ... perfection
Too bad Sony never ported the trilogy to PC ...
I'll say, the PS3 really did sequels better than people give it credit for. Resistance 2, Uncharted 2, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, Infamous 2... all were better than their initial offerings and still hold up to this day.
During MCM Comic Con London X EGX, CGM got the chance to be part of a press group interview with the stars of the Uncharted titles, namely the legendary Nolan North, who played protagonist Nathan Drake, Emily Rose, who portrayed Elena Fisher and Richard McGonagle, who took on the role of Victor ‘Sully’ Sullivan,
no god of war 3,why?the damn game is over 40 gigs
except for that,nice list
Who needs discs at all
I have 186 games on Steam
One friend of mine has not purchased a physical copy of a game since 2005
LOL at the people disagreeing
Loading games off discs is 1992 technology, read speeds are around 25MB/s on BD
Playing games off 2TB HDD or SSD you get read speeds of around 70MB/s to 230MB/s
The real future of gaming will be next geenration for consoles IF they ditch optical media to RUN GAMES like Blu-Ray or DVD-9 and us massive HDD or SSD to have games installed.
You get the physical copy of the game on whatever media the system will support, but the games are all installed fully on those drives.
Result: Faster load times. No need to worry about disk space, reading the disk.
Blu-Ray and DVD-9, HD-DVD and the rest are too slow.
Run your games off SSD or faster HDD and thats the real edge...
PC's do it now.
Blu-ray: "Who needs Microsoft?"
Gonna agree with Blu-ray on this one.
that there should always be an OPTION to buy a game either on disc or digital format,a lot of the countries don't have good enough net connections to go digital only
so the guys having super fast connections can have their digital copy and for those without them can have their physical copy,so both win
also,i definitely prefer having a physical collection of games,it just looks nice