This is peculiar. Not that someone has managed to rattle through the game in such a short period of time. The unnamed Naughty Dog tester who did this has obviously got his muscle memory down to precise timings for all areas of the game. What’s strange is that Naughty Dog don’t seem to mind the information being out there.
This being the internet, where everybody is seemingly always on the lookout for anything they can use to cause conflict and validate their silly little preconceptions, someone is going to claim that this means Uncharted 3 is rubbish. Of course, they’d be astoundingly wrong. In fact, they’d be so wrong we’d make a little dolly of them and flush it down our Toilet of Wrongness. Or just point and laugh. Whatever.
Anyway, speedrunning Uncharted (or almost any other game) is completely missing the point. Still, it’s pretty impressive that someone has learned the game so intricately that they can hammer through it in a time of just three hours and eight minutes. That’s insane, I’ll spend longer than that just ogling Elena’s bottom.
Source: OPSM.co.uk
TSBonyman
I always get extra playtime from the Uncharted games anyway due to just ogling the scenery – and Chloe’s booty helps! :)
Cerberus64
This reminds me of Woody Allen’s quote about speed reading which goes something like:
“I tried speed reading once – read War And Peace in about 20 minutes… it’s about Russia.”
ron_mcphatty
I’m glad they don’t mind, it’s an entirely different way to enjoy a game and does nothing to spoil it for those of us who will grab a beer during each cutscene and read every journal entry! Hmmm, drinking Uncharted…
KeRaSh
I hope you didn’t do this for MGS4 as it would have ended in full-on being drunk mode within the first 5 minutes of the game. :P
Kaminari
There are two speedrun trophies for Ico — one for folding the game under 4 hours (I easily did it in 2.5 hours but without any fun), and another one for zooming through under 2 hours, which is quite tougher.
In both cases though, the idea of getting rewarded for doing the very opposite of what a game like Ico requires from you (that is, to take your time) is almost nausea-inducing.
MayContainEvil
Those and the time trials in Shadow are blasphemy and should be burnt at the stake. I hope Ueda-san can restrain himself from putting equivalent trophies in The Last Guardian.
KeRaSh
I was really pissed when I saw that there are such trophies for the game. I’m 4-5 hours into the game and I’m not even close to the end.
MXZ
Hey i love the idea of speed running.
of course i will have finished the game normally a few times before i attempt one.
i find it to be a cool challenge, trying to complete a certain game in a certain period of time based on skill.
there are people who speed run through the old crash bandicoot and spyro games (live, so they can be in a type of competition) and its so fun to watch.
i understand that Uncharted 3 has a great story and environment which you will want to breath in (which is why i would not try to speedrun on my first play through, also because i just cant)
but i will speedrun through it at some point because I consider it fun and a unique thrill.
that point aside, this dude is crazy good at this game.
Nylon_Crash
I don’t see the point in rushing a game!!!
AdeelHero
thats just pure wide – doesnt matter if you finish it in the fastest time or not – bet dude hasnt been laid :/