10 Gaming Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About It
2. Nate Has To Lie To His Daughter About Murdering Thousands Of People - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
As the maybe-final entry into the Nathan Drake story, Uncharted 4 delivered a largely satisfying finale, ending with a superficially moving years-later epilogue where Nate and Elena sit their adolescent daughter Cassie down to explain their prior life of adventuring.
It's a sweet ending until you remember that Nate's adventures in particular were defined less by harmless feats of derring-do than the systemic murder of a few thousand people.
Literally, IGN ran the numbers and surmised that, across the first three games alone, Nate was responsible for 1,829 deaths. When you include both Uncharted 4 and the PS Vita exclusive Uncharted: Golden Abyss, that number surely edges well over 2,000.
We can only assume that Nate will circumscribe this aspect of his adventures, offering up a sanitised version for Cassie that paints him in a more heroic, humanitarian light.
But this also has an altogether more harmful potential, as given the implication that Cassie may follow in her father's footsteps - possibly even getting her own spin-off game down the line - not playing straight with her is incredibly risky.
If Cassie ends up in over her head because her father didn't explain the very real dangers of a treasure hunter's life, then he might have to come out of retirement to go rescue her.
Wait, did we just write the plot of Uncharted 5?