Back at PlayStation Experience in 2015, Sony and Naughty Dog debuted a new Uncharted 4 cutscene, revealing that dialogue options would feature in the series for the first time. Users will be most familiar with this mechanic with its appearance in Telltale's The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Borderlands; it allows the player to influence the outcome of a particular scene and to a certain extent, perhaps change the ending of the game itself. Developer Naughty Dog haven't truly clarified whether Uncharted 4 will offer a similar system, of if the options presented to Nate will simply be throwaway quips, witty one-liners or unimportant sentiments. The aforementioned PSX cutscene appeared to be a way for the player to vote on their favourite Uncharted game, prompting Nate to tell that particular story to his long-lost brother, Sam. Uncharted has always told a linear tale, with one specific start point and one specific ending. To alter that format at this late stage would almost feel cruel, and would rob players of that one, definitive story that will be remembered for generations to come. Nathan Drake deserves a single send-off from the team that started his tale over ten years ago, and anything less would almost feel like a betrayal.
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!
