Comments on: UNCHARTED: Golden Abyss Opens The Black Market

By: phillyyakk

phillyyakk — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:32:01 +0000

I was enjoying the core aspects of UGA…navigating through gorgeous environments, a bit of gunplay and some light puzzles. But the touch screen implementation is forced and gimmicky. the “tilt your vita” mini game is lame and the end boss battles are some of the most annoying I’ve ever had the displeasure of playing through.

The collectibles. Since when did 300 collectibles deserve bragging rights? Randomly generated collectibles? Really? After collecting the charcoal drawings, the turquoise, the jade, the artifacts, the photos, the deities… It screams of tedious, poor game design and inflated replay value especially for a PORTABLE action adventure game. I used to be a big Uncharted fan. But Golden Abyss has so many nagging problems that this may be the last version I ever buy. Thanks Bend

By: ziggurcat

ziggurcat — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:41:40 +0000

so, i just got the platinum for this game. out of the 141 bounty collectables, 4… that’s right, only *4*were obtained through the black market. the rest were obtained (over an extra 20 hours) by restarting checkpoint after checkpoint.

and i’ve yet to even see a single one of the fetishes that are supposed to be awarded if the black market didn’t have what i needed (note: i refreshed near constantly, too).

so either i didn’t understand how the black market worked or this is just implemented rather poorly.

great game, but having to spend all of that extra time obtaining random drop items made it a little *too* tedious in the end.

ok, i’ll stop crying now…

By: ziggurcat

ziggurcat — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:39:06 +0000

@ Sniffynose:

you don’t have to use the touch controls.

By: ziggurcat

ziggurcat — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:38:39 +0000

i have not been able to figure out how this black market thing works… i also think that this would be better if near allowed you to update more than once every hour.

By: ncaissie

ncaissie — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:07:28 +0000

I have this game and it says the online is disabled. But I have found things in Near from people near me. Why is mine not working?

By: Androphene

Androphene — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:21:28 +0000

I’ve been trying to use the Black Market but every time I go to Near and then go back to the Black Market to get trades the game locks up and shuts off my PSVita. I can replicate the issue each and every time. Anyone have an idea why this happens? Is it a bug that is being worked on? Has anyone had this issue?

By: Skills2Much4U

Skills2Much4U — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:23:01 +0000

Well that’s good and all but they should’ve released it earlier. I just collected all my treasures, bounties and other collectibles last week. All that is left now is to finish crushing to get my platinum.

By: Sniffynose

Sniffynose — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:32:41 +0000

Thank you for not including multiplayer, it’s a waste of resources and I am glad that there is a game out that I can plat on my own without relying on random people from the internet to complete.

So far my only gripe is the forced touch/gyro controls. I was disappointed that Bend forced that after saying before that you could choose not to use the gimmick controls.

Stuff seems like a good idea but um ever rode the subway for an hour? Yeah motion controls are not going to be your friend when you are basically swaying back and forth the entire time with people essentially sitting on your shoulders…it erm kinda makes the portable gaming notion well, not so portable.

By: SHREEVEERA

SHREEVEERA — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:00:58 +0000

Epic inclusion indeed. I’ve pre-ordered this game already and can’t wait for 22nd to come quicker.

ONLINE MULTIPLAYER mode similar to UC2/3 would have made this the Game of the Year in my book though.

Is there a Possibility of including ONLINE MULTIPLAYER mode through a PATCH??? That would make my day. Thank you BEND Studios.

By: AizawaYuuichi

AizawaYuuichi — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:53:50 +0000

I’m getting this for the story and gameplay first, and the trophies second. I appreciate them keeping the trophy requirements offline, and I also appreciate them not forcing MP into this. I, for one, haven’t touched the MP from UC2 or UC3 since I got the attached trophies required for the plats. However, I’ve played through all three games multiple times just to enjoy the stories, even after platting them. I plan to do the same with this one.