Naughty Dog should’ve remade Uncharted 1 not The Last Of Us – Reader’s Feature

metro.co.uk:

A reader argues that the original Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune would’ve benefited far more from a remake than The Last Of Us Part 1.

I agreed with GameCentral’s review of The Last of Us remake, that although the original game is ‘one of the best games of the last decade’ the remake is ‘completely pointless’ and ‘unreasonably expensive’. As others have mentioned, I also see it as a waste of Naughty Dog’s time and resources. If they had to remake a game from their PlayStation 3 catalogue I wish it had been the first Uncharted, Drake’s Fortune.

I’m a massive Uncharted fan and it all started with the first game. I didn’t play it at launch, as I didn’t have a PlayStation 3 at the time, but a couple of years on, when it was part of PlayStation’s budget range of Platinum games, I took a chance on it and loved it. The adventure romp vibe coupled with the loveable trio of Nate, Elena, and Sully made it a delightful escape, almost a vacation on a remote island, although I’d prefer less gun-toting goons out to kill me!

It’s still one of my favourite games, which I regularly return to and enjoy, but as much as I view it incredibly affectionately, I’m not blind to the fact that it has more than a few issues. So in this Reader’s Feature I’d like to suggest what I would like to improve and change if it ever got a remake.

Blend the climbing and shooting

Uncharted 2 fixed this; think of the train level, where you are climbing over a moving train, all the while getting into gun fights, or the collapsing building being attacked by a gunship, while you’re fighting goons inside it.

But go back to the first game and the climbing and shooting are very separate. We climb around for a bit then enter an area