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rionaleonhart) wrote2011-12-27 05:41 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2011-12-27 05:41 pm
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Trust You To Find A Jungle In The Middle Of France.
I received Uncharted 3 for Christmas! It managed to win my heart within the first hour by means of the following sure-fire methods:
- putting Nathan Drake in a suit and having him beaten up by thugs
- the Colombia flashback, oh my God my heart.
Nathan/Elena is still the only Uncharted pairing I really 'ship, but at points I found myself oddly sad that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
th_esaurus was unlikely ever to write a, er, forty-year-old Victor Sullivan/fifteen-year-old Nathan Drake epic, in which they hunt treasure and commit crimes and they don't have sex but there's always the sense that they might, on account of not having played the Uncharted games; she would do it such justice, even though it would be wrong wrong wrong. I suspect I would read it and love it and then hate myself for loving it. Probably for the best that it doesn't exist. Ignore this paragraph.
I didn't like Sully at all when I first started playing the Uncharted series, but by this point I seem to have warmed to him. I suspect a large part of my attitude shift is due to the fact that he really does love Nathan. If you want me to care about a character, show me what that character cares about. Having the character assist me in firefights doesn't generally hurt, either.
I find it interesting that Sully's 'Lead on, Macduff' reference (and the subsequent 'It's "lay on, Macduff"' correction, which I appreciated because it was exactly what I was thinking) went completely over Nathan's head. Nate's no fool; he's extremely informed in the fields that interest him (history, geography, languages), but literature seems to be a bit of a blind spot. He can tell you in a moment what century a structure was built in (and whether it'll hold if he tries to climb up the outside); just don't expect him to recognise a Shakespeare quote.
The short section near the beginning where you're running around an abandoned London Underground station was rather lovely; the streets didn't seem particularly Londonish to me, nor the fact that every person you encountered was a bald Cockney thug, but the old tube station really did make me think yes, we're in London. And the scenery in France was just gorgeous. I love the locations in Uncharted so much; I always seem to come away from a playing session with an intense desire to RUSH OUT AND SEE THE WORLD, even though I've been led to understand that men with guns will try to shoot you everywhere.
- putting Nathan Drake in a suit and having him beaten up by thugs
- the Colombia flashback, oh my God my heart.
Nathan/Elena is still the only Uncharted pairing I really 'ship, but at points I found myself oddly sad that
th_esaurus was unlikely ever to write a, er, forty-year-old Victor Sullivan/fifteen-year-old Nathan Drake epic, in which they hunt treasure and commit crimes and they don't have sex but there's always the sense that they might, on account of not having played the Uncharted games; she would do it such justice, even though it would be wrong wrong wrong. I suspect I would read it and love it and then hate myself for loving it. Probably for the best that it doesn't exist. Ignore this paragraph.I didn't like Sully at all when I first started playing the Uncharted series, but by this point I seem to have warmed to him. I suspect a large part of my attitude shift is due to the fact that he really does love Nathan. If you want me to care about a character, show me what that character cares about. Having the character assist me in firefights doesn't generally hurt, either.
I find it interesting that Sully's 'Lead on, Macduff' reference (and the subsequent 'It's "lay on, Macduff"' correction, which I appreciated because it was exactly what I was thinking) went completely over Nathan's head. Nate's no fool; he's extremely informed in the fields that interest him (history, geography, languages), but literature seems to be a bit of a blind spot. He can tell you in a moment what century a structure was built in (and whether it'll hold if he tries to climb up the outside); just don't expect him to recognise a Shakespeare quote.
The short section near the beginning where you're running around an abandoned London Underground station was rather lovely; the streets didn't seem particularly Londonish to me, nor the fact that every person you encountered was a bald Cockney thug, but the old tube station really did make me think yes, we're in London. And the scenery in France was just gorgeous. I love the locations in Uncharted so much; I always seem to come away from a playing session with an intense desire to RUSH OUT AND SEE THE WORLD, even though I've been led to understand that men with guns will try to shoot you everywhere.