Uncharted 4

Drake "dies" at the end of Uncharted 4, but another studio makes Uncharted Chronicles, which is a series of flashbacks with the framing device of the characters mourning Drake at his funeral. After the credits, it's revealed that Drake is Not Quite Dead.

Honestly? My ideal development would be thus: Drake and co have one last big adventure, hit the jackpot, retire happily to live a quiet life. Everyone remembers Uncharted as one of the greatest franchises of the seventh and eight generations. Retire the series. Then, make a spiritual successor, but not the same IP.

I definitely think Uncharted 4 should be the end for the series. The games can only do the "Have Nathan Drake try to find a secret treasure before an evil organisation/syndicate does" so many times before it becomes stale and repetitive. As Nolan North said, they should end the series on a high note. Naughty Dog has already proven they take just about any idea and turn it into gold, anyway, so why should they limit themselves?

I agree. And then they can go back and do another Jak & Daxter game.

Uh, ahem, I think you mean so they can get Sony to buy back rights to the Crash Bandicoot series so that they can make Crash Team Racing 2.

Are you sure Ryuhza?

@Ninety: I think I like that idea the most. I'm probably just a sucker for happy endings.

Most of the time I hate endings, because of how rarely they're handled well.

I have a feeling somebody's gonna die, whether it be Drake or Sully. "A Thief's End" just sounds too ominous.

The cages with pirate skeletons may be a hint as to the meaning of that title.

Maybe they'll pull a Dark Knight Rises and have Drake seemingly killed, but turn out to be secretly alive by the end?

edited 13th Jun '14 2:01:59 PM by Emperordaein

It's worrying that the subtitle implies Tonight, Someone Dies. If we thought Drake hallucinating Sully's death in Uncharted 3 was a Player Punch, we ain't seen nothing yet!

I'll laugh if the history-artifact thing they're trying to find is actually something stolen by a theif who disappeared and you find where he ENDED up.

Turns out the treasure will be the Dragon Balls and they are used to wish back Drake and Sully after their deaths.

Wouldn't be surprised. **see my earlier post**

I wonder if they'll go the Spec Ops The Line route for Drake.

Also, this (rather humorous) blog puts into words better than mine my beefs with Drake as a hero.

edited 25th Jun '14 12:06:25 PM by LDragon2

All I got out of that is: Yep, Drake really is modern Indiana Jones.

Can you say Ron the Death Eater?

To be fair, they aren't exactly wrong...

I'd say it's more genre trappings and gameplay that kinda leaves things much worse if you think about them. Like, you need to have spectacular destruction of environments because it looks cool, and you need to have shitloads of enemies because you need the numbers to add to the gameplay. Plus I don't get the impression Drake wants to murder these people, they just keep trying to shoot him.

Also, in all fairness, the Mansion burning was Marlowe's men, not Drake. Iram of the Pillars... I don't think Drake even figured that it would take a bullet and one support to collapse the entire place. Even Sully was baffled by how it even happened.

Yeah, I can't see Drake as a merciless killing machine because the mooks he deals with are just that, caricatures of human beings that are there for gameplay purposes. Do you think he would kill all those guys if they, say, stopped trying to kill him while in the middle of a burning mansion or a sinking city and tried to escape like normal human beings?

edited 25th Jun '14 8:09:29 PM by Elbruno

No, but he still does have an impressive body count at the end of each game, let alone series wide.

I wonder if 4 will be a deconstruction-reconstruction of the series. That's always fun.

Like I said, it's a body count of dudes whose only purpose is to kill Drake and be assholes. I'm of the mindset that mooks in games like this are just a vehicle to bring challenge instead of being actual people in the story as it "really" unfolded.

edited 25th Jun '14 8:41:39 PM by Elbruno

Why is it just this guy that people think is a mass-murderer? What about guys like B.J. Blascowicz? Or does that not count because he only kills Nazis?

It's worthy of note that the first game's plot counters the argument of "the evil nature of the macguffin would turn off the bad guy", as the bad guy in that case was explicetly going to use said macguffin as a weapon of mass destruction.

In general that post seems to take things very out of context. It mentions the tranquilizer gun but it doesn't mention how he stopped using it because he was arrested, and how all of his weapons are picked up from fallen enemies (who, you might notice, are not carrying tranquilizer guns).

Drake's main problem seems to be less sociopathy and disregard for historic artifacts and more the fact the universe hates his fucking guts.

And also that, after Drake has already wiped out so many armies, that various henchmen don't take one look at him and immediately run the fuck away.