today's sponsor decided to bail on me last minute so instead this video is brought to you by me and my patreon and my youtube member page for just five dollars a month you can get access to this video three days early and more so click the link in the description to find out more and thank you so much to the patrons for supporting this video greatness from small beginnings it's a phrase as repeated on more than a few occasions throughout uncharted drake's fortune and poetically it serves as a phrase that can be applied to the game as a whole within the context of the series with each entry being greater than the last and with the quality gap between uncharted NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN being as colossal as it is it's no surprise that the series humble beginnings doesn't receive a lot of love these days this doesn't come as a surprise because the future uncharted games are while not immune to criticism praise to near infinity and in my eyes for good reason since uncharted NUMBER_TOKEN the first of the series i had played i had been hooked and loved the third and fourth entries to the series so much so that i want to begin a marathon of sorts to give my thoughts on the whole franchise but before we get into what will hopefully be some gushing reviews of the creme de la creme of this series we need to start from the beginning now according to a poll that was posted a while back drake's fortune isn't at the top of many people's lists but many of you also clarified that the game isn't necessarily bad by any means it actually reminded me a lot of the arkham series as arkham asylum is seen as the worst but not because the game is bad it's great actually but because its sequels are so much better asylum was released in NUMBER_TOKEN but it was surprisingly almost four years earlier that naughty dong began work on uncharted as in NUMBER_TOKEN they decided to take a new approach to development and their games being well known for the crash bandicoot and jack games games that were stylized to something like a cartoon attempting to transition to realistic humanized games would prove to be difficult making such a large pivot development wise was something naughty dog was aware of and as such they titled this new project big a big game for a big jump in technology with the seventh generation of consoles on the horizon games were no longer prohibited from making realistic art styles by the hardware and while plenty of games still went for a stylized look project big wanted to plant itself somewhere between the two upon first being shown at eNUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN it was immediately compared to the ever popular tomb raider games and was promptly dubbed dude raider on internet forums of course the tomb raider games focused far more on puzzles than uncharted though uncharted eventually shifted to focusing more on puzzles and exploration and i'd argue the uncharted games and the reboot tomb raider games did a bit more than share test answers if you know what i'm saying but that's for another video the point is uncharted while not a wildly new concept for a game was definitely uncharted territory for the naughty dog team and thankfully this new direction paid off uncharted drake's fortune sold quite well and was received even better with many critics citing its production quality score voice acting level of detail and
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