Uncharted: Drake's Misdirected Anger

[Gizmo1990]

*singing*
I'm a sociopath and I'm ok,
I drink all night and I kill all day.


EDIT: That's a joke, BTW.

Damn it now I have the lumberjack song on repeat in my head.Damn you Monty Python!

 

[Fappy]

Every time you center block text, God kills a kitten. And a dolphin. For the love of cheese left hand block that section under the comic, it make my eyes bleed.

OT: Drake is a massive douchebag. I haven't played past the first Uncharted purely for my dislike of the character

So I heard that you have issues with centered text
And I decided to make this post next

For every time you complain
You must know that there's one person who will aim
To do whatever they can to annoy you
Just for the jollies of making someone blue.​

OT: I've found that I don't usually make the connection between gameplay/cut-scene unless it's a game like Mass Effect. Though it does annoy me, like two previous posters said, when either the player's character does something badass during a cut-scene which I can't do while controlling them, or a Big Bad is destroyed in gameplay and then wrecks the player during a cut-scene. Cut-scene stupidity is one of the quickest ways to get me angry at a video game, and it just happens so often.

I actually do kind of the opposite for the Mass Effect. I think the combat and conversations are mostly canon while the action-oriented cutscenes are full of shit. So many times in ME3 I was like, "JUST FUCKING SHOOT HIM, HE'S STANDING RIGHT THERE!" or my favorite, "YOU HAVE BIOTICS YOU KNOW YOUS STUPID FUCK! USE THEM!"

*sigh*

 

[Ledan]

This was actually my problem with the Uncharted series, not the neck snapping but the casual murder Nathan Drake commits to become rich.
In the second game at the final boss Drake does the "I won't kill you, cause I'm better than you", the guy comments on how many people Drake has killed and then.... Drake walks away -_- . To me it makes his character inconsistent.

 

[shrekfan246]

I actually do kind of the opposite for the Mass Effect. I think the combat and conversations are mostly canon while the action-oriented cutscenes are full of shit. So many times in ME3 I was like, "JUST FUCKING SHOOT HIM, HE'S STANDING RIGHT THERE!" or my favorite, "YOU HAVE BIOTICS YOU KNOW YOUS STUPID FUCK! USE THEM!"

*sigh*

Well, that goes under 'cut-scene stupidity' for me. Yeah, the lack of Shepard using biotics during conversations is annoying, even though I do get why they did it that way and why they make him/her always use a pistol in ME2 (because it's the only weapon every class can use, I believe).

Just think how much more awesome Mass Effect could've been if they did make cut-scenes change dependent on the class you picked, though, while not sacrificing any of the stuff that was already awesome about it.

 

[Fappy]

I actually do kind of the opposite for the Mass Effect. I think the combat and conversations are mostly canon while the action-oriented cutscenes are full of shit. So many times in ME3 I was like, "JUST FUCKING SHOOT HIM, HE'S STANDING RIGHT THERE!" or my favorite, "YOU HAVE BIOTICS YOU KNOW YOUS STUPID FUCK! USE THEM!"

*sigh*

Well, that goes under 'cut-scene stupidity' for me. Yeah, the lack of Shepard using biotics during conversations is annoying, even though I do get why they did it that way and why they make him/her always use a pistol in ME2 (because it's the only weapon every class can use, I believe).

Just think how much more awesome Mass Effect could've been if they did make cut-scenes change dependent on the class you picked, though, while not sacrificing any of the stuff that was already awesome about it.

They would have to change like every cutscene with Kai Leng in it if you were biotic, "How cute, he's jumping to a space car from a building *BIOTIC PUSH*". That's a long way down!"

 

[shrekfan246]

I actually do kind of the opposite for the Mass Effect. I think the combat and conversations are mostly canon while the action-oriented cutscenes are full of shit. So many times in ME3 I was like, "JUST FUCKING SHOOT HIM, HE'S STANDING RIGHT THERE!" or my favorite, "YOU HAVE BIOTICS YOU KNOW YOUS STUPID FUCK! USE THEM!"

*sigh*

Well, that goes under 'cut-scene stupidity' for me. Yeah, the lack of Shepard using biotics during conversations is annoying, even though I do get why they did it that way and why they make him/her always use a pistol in ME2 (because it's the only weapon every class can use, I believe).

Just think how much more awesome Mass Effect could've been if they did make cut-scenes change dependent on the class you picked, though, while not sacrificing any of the stuff that was already awesome about it.

They would have to change like every cutscene with Kai Leng in it if you were biotic, "How cute, he's jumping to a space car from a building *BIOTIC PUSH*". That's a long way down!"

Well, no great loss there. Nobody liked Kai Leng anyway.

Spoiler: For the one person who hasn't played ME3 yet, I guess.

[small][small]And the way he 'killed' Thane was absolutely stupid. God, Shepard, just stand there looking like an idiot, because it's not like you pick off enemies like that every morning for breakfast.[/small][/small]

 

[Fappy]

I actually do kind of the opposite for the Mass Effect. I think the combat and conversations are mostly canon while the action-oriented cutscenes are full of shit. So many times in ME3 I was like, "JUST FUCKING SHOOT HIM, HE'S STANDING RIGHT THERE!" or my favorite, "YOU HAVE BIOTICS YOU KNOW YOUS STUPID FUCK! USE THEM!"

*sigh*

Well, that goes under 'cut-scene stupidity' for me. Yeah, the lack of Shepard using biotics during conversations is annoying, even though I do get why they did it that way and why they make him/her always use a pistol in ME2 (because it's the only weapon every class can use, I believe).

Just think how much more awesome Mass Effect could've been if they did make cut-scenes change dependent on the class you picked, though, while not sacrificing any of the stuff that was already awesome about it.

They would have to change like every cutscene with Kai Leng in it if you were biotic, "How cute, he's jumping to a space car from a building *BIOTIC PUSH*". That's a long way down!"

Well, no great loss there. Nobody liked Kai Leng anyway.

Spoiler: For the one person who hasn't played ME3 yet, I guess.

[small][small]And the way he 'killed' Thane was absolutely stupid. God, Shepard, just stand there looking like an idiot, because it's not like you pick off enemies like that every morning for breakfast.[/small][/small]

Everyone is just standing around with their dicks in their hands during that scene for some reason. And what is up with Thane pointing a gun at his head and giving him just enough time to notice him before he fired. I thought Thane was an assassin, not an overly dramatic cowboy. Or how about when you fight him for the final time and it starts with that scuffle at the beginning of the fight. Your squadmates are standing DIRECTLY NEXT TO YOU and do nothing. What?

 

[shrekfan246]

I actually do kind of the opposite for the Mass Effect. I think the combat and conversations are mostly canon while the action-oriented cutscenes are full of shit. So many times in ME3 I was like, "JUST FUCKING SHOOT HIM, HE'S STANDING RIGHT THERE!" or my favorite, "YOU HAVE BIOTICS YOU KNOW YOUS STUPID FUCK! USE THEM!"

*sigh*

Well, that goes under 'cut-scene stupidity' for me. Yeah, the lack of Shepard using biotics during conversations is annoying, even though I do get why they did it that way and why they make him/her always use a pistol in ME2 (because it's the only weapon every class can use, I believe).

Just think how much more awesome Mass Effect could've been if they did make cut-scenes change dependent on the class you picked, though, while not sacrificing any of the stuff that was already awesome about it.

They would have to change like every cutscene with Kai Leng in it if you were biotic, "How cute, he's jumping to a space car from a building *BIOTIC PUSH*". That's a long way down!"

Well, no great loss there. Nobody liked Kai Leng anyway.

Spoiler: For the one person who hasn't played ME3 yet, I guess.

[small][small]And the way he 'killed' Thane was absolutely stupid. God, Shepard, just stand there looking like an idiot, because it's not like you pick off enemies like that every morning for breakfast.[/small][/small]

Everyone is just standing around with their dicks in their hands during that scene for some reason. And what is up with Thane pointing a gun at his head and giving him just enough time to notice him before he fired. I thought Thane was an assassin, not an overly dramatic cowboy. Or how about when you fight him for the final time and it starts with that scuffle at the beginning of the fight. Your squadmates are standing DIRECTLY NEXT TO YOU and do nothing. What?

Yeah, about the only thing that I don't like about the Mass Effect series as a whole is the number of cut-scene stupid moments the entire cast goes through. That's part of the reason I love the Paragon/Renegade interrupts, though.

 

[-Drifter-]

I recently played through Uncharted 2 and am working my way through 3. They're fun games, to be sure, but Drake really does come across as a sociopath. It's hard to ignore that beneath the "charming and witty" exterior, he's a mass murderer who constantly puts the lives of his friends in danger for the sake of his adventures and always dodges the question whenever someone asks him how it could possibly be worth it.

 

[antipunt]

Her facial expression.

So priceless

 

[Darth_Payn]

I've gotten use to the heroic sociopath cliche in games but there are still things that bug me in the difference between cutscene and gameplay, 1. Spontaneous mercy I killed hundreds of people on my way to you without a bat of the eye but now I'm gonna grow a heart because I learned his name 2. A character getting hurt in a cutscene for one hit when in gameplay he has enough lead in him to open up gun shop 3. A character doing anything badass in a cutscene that I can't do in gameplay.

My favorite is when you beat the big bad in gameplay, then in the cutscene he beats you and runs off.

Yeah, what's up with that? Sounds like a dick move. Who does that?

 

[PunkRex]

I JUST realised I completed GoW3 on insane last week and chain sawed roughly 50 locust in half... with a CHAIN SAW!!! Blood went every where... why didn't I notice until now!?

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Man, I love Drake so much. He's just such a dick.

 

[LazyAza]

I think Uncharted is the poster child for game mechanics and narrative not meshing. Their is absolutely no reason they couldn't have given him legitimate non-lethal (ala batman) stealth abilities in U2 but nope its more guns, more neck snapping, more way for Drake to MURDER AW YEAH.

 

[Mike Kayatta]

I don't understand why people find it funny or an issue that drake kills bunch people in the games, they are armed, and they try and kill you if you don't kill them, Should I feel sorry for black water mercenaries that got killed in afghanistan and iraq? Sorry no silent tears are being wepped for them.

I played that free hunting game called "the hunter" to give it a try, did I shoot one deer than say: thats all I need? No of course not I killed a bunch more fuzzy woodland creatures until it got boring(I don't like hunting or hunters in real life to be honest though), why because without hunting theres no game, without that many enemies, uncharted would be a movie, a 60 dollar movie thats 2 hours long, enemies pad out a game, simple fact.

Lets not forget guys, Luke Skywalker killed anywhere between 1-33 million(according to the only sources I could find) people, yet we don't bring up genocide every time someones talking about Luke or Starwars, like it seems to happen with uncharted.

Yeah, I don't mind laughing about it when it's presented as a joke, but as far as actual discussion, I tend to agree that people harping on Drake in particular seems a bit odd. This is a pretty common videogame trope. I get, at the very least, how bizarre it is for him not to feel the gravity of killing people (so much so that he can turn around and be smarmy about something unrelated soon after) but really, it feels odd that he's become the go-to for condemning that type of behavior. Still a really funny comic, though.

 

[OldDirtyCrusty]

This was great and i love those words under the comic.

"For the most part, I see gameplay as something fairly abstract in the narrative sense, it's a representation of what's happening between story points rather than an exact retelling. Start counting the bodies or factoring in quickloads and, yes, things are going to start looking a bit squiffy on the characterization front, but that strikes me as a trivial by product of the repetitive nature of games. Singling it out for excessive criticism is akin to knocking a movie for having scene cuts, or going to a pantomime and complaining that the horse isn't a real horse, it's actually two guys pretending to be a horse. It's a valid observation, and more power to anyone who wants to make it, but I, personally, do not give a fuck.

Oh no I don't."

People who do give a fuck complain about character behaviour even in games like GTA4 or RDR while they are the ones taking shortcuts over the sidewalk or strapping ladies on railroads. A comic about those people would be funny too.

I get, at the very least, how bizarre it is for him not to feel the gravity of killing people (so much so that he can turn around and be smarmy about something unrelated soon after) but really, it feels odd that he's become the go-to for condemning that type of behavior.

Back in the eighties no one complained about Indy doing the same thing, so yeah looking at other characters it really is odd that people make a fuss about Drake.

 

[Sejborg]

How is the anger misdirected? Should he break Chloes neck instead?

 

[Bigeyez]

This is off topic but I've been wondering what happened with the storyline they were going for? Did that get abandoned?