Uncharted 4 Isn't A Real Video Game (And That's OK)

[simbob4000]

Saw this only YouTube, and it's so right it's hilarious. So here's a thread just in case you haven't seen it.

[Carabas]

Yes, some smug youtuber declaring with the Word of Truth what is and isn't a real game is always amusing... In his own fevered imagination anyway.

[Panfoot]

I thought we got past this "___ isn't a game" thing back when Gone Home came out.

[simbob4000]

Yes, some smug youtuber declaring with the Word of Truth what is and isn't a real game is always amusing... In his own fevered imagination anyway.

He doesn't come off as smug in the video, and he is right.

[Gryphon]

He makes a lot of good points

[simbob4000]

He makes a lot of good points

I do wonder if Panfoot and Carabas even watched the video before saying anything about it.

[Carabas]

I did watch him, and at no point does he actually say why it isn't a game. Just that it doesn't do some stuff that he subjectively likes in games.

[simbob4000]

I did watch him, and at no point does he actually say why it isn't a game. Just that it doesn't do some stuff that he subjectively likes in games.

No, he talks about why he says it isn't a game.

[Panfoot]

No, he talks about why he says it isn't a game.

Nope, he just says why he dislikes the game, which is fine, but that doesn't make it not a game. That would be like saying the Micheal Bay Transformer movies aren't movies because the story is trite and all the action scenes look like a tornado hit a junkyard. They suck, but that doesn't make them not movies.

[Carabas]

No, he talks about why he says it isn't a game.

Quotes with timestamps please?

[Username taken]

The guy is just complaining about how the developer wants you to play as opposed to how the game is supposed to be played.

That doesn't really have anything to do with the game not being a game.

[Immortal Weapon]

I finished Uncharted 4 and I think this guy is full of shit. Not liking a game =/= it's not a game. Uncharted has game mechanics, failure states and win conditions. All the things you need to make a game a game.