10 MORE Video Games You Didn't Know Were Connected

8. Jak & Daxter/Uncharted

Years before Naughty Dog blew everyone's minds with the Uncharted franchise, they were scoring consistent acclaim for their Jak and Daxter platformer franchise.

The very first game, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, was released back in 2001, and one of the game's most memorable collectables was the Precursor Orb, an orange egg-like object with a distinctive, esoteric design printed on it.

The Orbs re-appear in the Uncharted series as the singular, tough-to-find "Strange Relic", and though it's easy to pawn this off as a quite literal Easter egg, there are those fans who believe it suggests the games (somehow) share the same continuity.

If you want to get into more definite Easter egg territory, then Nathan Drake's wetsuit bears the logo "Ottsel", which also happens to be the name of the species Daxter belongs to (an otter-weasel hybrid).

This isn't the only of the developer's games Uncharted has a link to, though: Uncharted 3 features a newspaper referring to the Cordyceps fungus from The Last of Us, and Uncharted 4 of course sees Nathan and Elena playing Crash Bandicoot on a PS1.

But the Jak and Daxter connection is much tougher to come by, and it's ultimately the most tantalising of the lot.

The Last of Us and Uncharted co-existing in the same world makes too much sense, but Jak and Daxter and Nathan Drake chasing the same shiny Orbs? Why the hell not?