i dont know what you guys think, but i always liked Uncharted 1 more then its sequels....UC 2 is probably objectivelly a better "game"...but i like the atmosphere, the simple story....... awsome characters etc...

UC 1 actually feels like an adventure game, the story is simple but executed well, an treasure hunter goes to find a treasure on an island and its cursed......

and then UC 2 came followed by UC 3 and suddenly Nathan Drake is superman, discovering Ancient CIties, suriving plane crashes, ship crashes..it got to ridicilous and felt like it lost that magic

Uncharted 1 felt more like an adventure game then Uncharted 2 and 3,

im not trying to put western developers and games under the bus..its just my opinion, from what i seen it seems like japanese games vs. a western game in the same genre, the japanese game will generally have the better game mechanics

Japanese games on average in the genres they do tend to have better mechanics in their games then the west....

however japanese developers tend to only do a few genres, really specific, while the west is more broad

@R3FURBISHED:

No, im sorry, God of war is good at what it does, and i give it credit, its an adventure game...but it doesn't compete with games like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden in depth of combat, not even close

@rilpas: the fact that their isn't a western action game in existence that can compete with Ninja Gaiden: Black is kind of pathetic on the West side

and also Bayonetta came out in 2009 and blows western action games to shame in the mechanics department....

Vanquish blows 99 percent of Western shooters out of the water...

Dark Souls vs. what???? what western action rpg can compete with Souls?

@Vaasman: yes....

@R3FURBISHED: lol no.... name one western action game that can compete with Ninja Gaiden: Black

It seems like Japanese developers tend to make games with stronger gameplay mechanics then their western developers..... western developers tend to focus more on presentation.. i mean their isn't a western action game out their that can compete with DMC 3/4, Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden Black/2......these are often touted as being the best action games out their, even DmC which most would probably agree is one of the strongest western character action games.... the fact is Capcom and Itsuno helped out Ninja Theory alot on the gameplay.....

even genres that Japan developers don't really touch like 3rd person shooters, despite the fact that Japan Resident Evil 4 was the game that really created the tps genre, and Vanquish which is arguably the strongest third person shooter out their, mechanically wise

games like Dark Souls/Demon Soul's combat wise....... maybe Mount and Blade can compete, for the western side, but even that game lacks the precision and movement of DS....

i think alot of it has to do with presentation.... Western Developers tend to focus on presentation then gameplay.... bigger budgets then japanese developers.......

Japanese developers, at least in my eyes, tend to be more perfectionists, thats why alot of a JP games take a while to come out, i feel like developers in Japan spend more time making sure the game is ready, then Western counterparts..

this is all my opinion, but it just seems this way to me

@cainetao11: DOTA 2 is a real game.....not TLOU

@lundy86_4: DOTA 2>>>>TLOU in gameplay