Stalker 2 is great.
Uncharted 2 is the best one in the series.
Tomb Raider are good as well.
You got old.
Stalker 2 story isn't very interesting as to why Skif is involved. An artifact falls on his front step and his house is burned....unless I missed it, I was under the impression he lived alone - so no one was killed in his family (not even a dog) and now he just wants revenge for his house being ruined. That's weak as F for a storyline. Some of the story as you progress through the game is kind of interesting, but the reason for the protagonist to go out slaughtering people in the zone, this isn't a compelling reason. The only thing going for STALKER 2 is the fact that it is basically a prettier version of SoC/CS/CoP games and I enjoyed all of them. Right now I'm waiting for the bugs to get fixed, especially for missions once you hit the mid area of the story....so many broken aspects need to be fixed.
Uncharted 2 - game played just like the first and the opening of the game didn't really do anything exciting. It just felt like more of the same and I already played through the first game so I lost interest.
Tomb Raider - what a laughable story. Escape from being caught. Do some traveling, find another survivor (you actually do this a couple of times if I remember correctly) and tell them where to go and you'll meet up. The survivor somehow magically makes it through to the meet up location unscathed whereas Lara has to traverse through crap after crap....how the hell did a survivor that is unarmed make it across the island without getting killed whereas Lara has to traverse difficult terrain and fight off bad guys at every turn? It's been a long while since I played the game, but here are some of the dumber things that I recall....
* At one point you get snared and you're hanging upside down while bad guys are dropping in and rushing to kill you. But no need to fear because while hanging upside down you have remarkable John Wick shooting skills and you can drop every bad guy with a headshot.
* Speaking of John Wick, level up your hand to hand combat and you can now disarm, takedown and kill a bad guy in a way that John Wick would be so proud of you, even though you've had no training whatsoever.
* Maybe you just want to stand in one spot and do power draws on your bow and take out guys like you're Rambo.
* How about the time you're falling through the sky and you fall through trees, bouncing on the way down and you don't die or get knocked out, not even seriously injured....only to be eventually captured and then knocked the F out with a punch. You get this petite girl that takes a beating falling through trees, getting swept down a raging river, taking bullets during combat and shaking it all off like the Terminator, only to get knocked the F out by a guy that punches her once. I laughed and laughed and laughed when this happened. What awful storytelling.
* Let us not forget that there aren't any tombs in Tomb Raider. All you get are some small roomed areas with a simple puzzle that can be completed within 90 seconds to get a small treasure cache that doesn't offer anything unique to help you get through the game.
The game was bad and the only reason I finished it was because I started it. At least I got some good laughs out of it.
If you want a somewhat decent Tomb Raider game that isn't one of the originals, play Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light. At least the puzzles here are better and the combat is better.
Your comment about "you got old" is stupid. Just because someone doesn't enjoy a game as much as you do doesn't mean they're old. Perhaps the rehashed gameplay or horrible story writing or uninteresting game mechanics are what turn some people off from these games.
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