10 Video Games You Constantly Have To Defend Hating
7. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Naughty Dog are one of the most pervasively celebrated developers in the industry, and with the release of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, critics opined that they outdid themselves with their most ambitious and thrilling cinematic action-adventure game to date.
Except Uncharted 4 is pretty much a textbook example of what happens when a developer with near-unlimited resources doesn't know when to stop.
A Thief's End is an exercise in unchained excess, with Nathan Drake's seemingly breezy final outing distended into a stamina-annihilating slog.
For many, the 15-hour play-time - a far cry from the 8-10 hours of the previous three games - was an unnecessary scaling-up which rendered the adventure more exhausting than entertaining.
Though reducing the number of tiresome gunfights was definitely welcome, far too much of the play-time was taken up by repetitive platforming, lest we forget those dreaded crate-pushing segments.
While its mighty production values are never in doubt, Uncharted 4 is the only game in the series to outstay its welcome and in turn feel like an actual chore at times.
Hot take: spin-off title The Lost Legacy is a better game in basically every way.