8. Fan-Service Is Kept To A Minimum
What do Star Wars: Battlefront, Mass Effect 3: Citadel and Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe all have in common? Besides each making a gazillion dollars, all three have been widely lambasted for offering excessive dollops of fan-service. Uncharted 4 runs the risk of succumbing to this, too. Naughty Dog have been suspiciously tight-lipped about the fate of several key characters; Chloe "dat ass" Frazer, Charlie Cutter and even the supposedly deceased Eddy Raja, who fans clamour for time and time again. If none of these characters are making an appearance in A Thief's End, wouldn't Naughty Dog just come out and say it, rather than leading people on? A Thief's End is introducing several brand new characters, and a new life for Nathan Drake. The game should focus on these aspects in order to make it feel fresh, new and exciting. The occasional easter-egg and referential line of dialogue is ok - after all, you have to give the fans something - but don't shoehorn people into the plot just to appease the masses.
Danny Meegan
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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!
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