The Uncharted series will go down as the best in terms of quality as far as the seventh generation of video game consoles is concerned. The games were a shining light in Sony’s then dark gaming environment. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves effectively wrested the sales winning position from Nintendo to Sony in 2009 and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception solidified the franchise as Sony’s crowning je⛎wel.
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End continued this upswing in quality, although by this point Naughty Dog had had enough🀅 of Nathan Drake’s adventures and retired the c𒀰haracter. It was a fitting end to a superb story spanning four major console games. Now that we know of Nathan’s story from start to finish, we can dissect the things that did not make sense in his journey. Most of our findings have to do with the story which, while being impeccable in terms of delivering quality, has numerous plot holes that do not add up.
Many of these are plot holes along the lines of those that can be easily waved away but that does not make them nonsensical where they are. The in-game characteristics of Uncharted could never be expected to remain eꦬntrenched with realism, not when three of its games had to do with supernatural elements. And yet, even within the confines of a supernatural world we have found flaws.
It’s important to remember that these things don’t make the series any less awesome as there can be no gaming or other material which will be flawless. With that in mind, here are 25 things about Uncharted that don’t make sense.
25 Elen💦a's Ath💝letic Prowess
In the first Uncharted, she demonstrated expert Jet-Skiing skills that allowed Nathan to mow down enemies while on water, in Uncharted 2, her driving skills allowed Nathan to jump on a moving train. What magical journalisꦛt university did she at🦄tend? The fact that Elena can compete in the big leagues with life ending situations is impossible.
Elena can climb just about any small crack in a mountain without any training.
It requires imme🌄nse strength for one to do so, much less a reporter with a brittle physique. Elena 𓂃can also defeat military grade enemies with her sub-par shooting skills.
24 🉐 How Does The Rope Work?
The mechanics of roping make no sense in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. Nathan swings the rope over to a point where it attaches itself, enabling Nate to swing toward his intended🉐 location, after which the rope instantly zips back onto Nathan’s person. But how can the rope grapple over tightly enough on a spot to lift the weight of a full grown man like Nate and not collapse?
Even if that w✱ere plausible𝓀, how can the rope easily return to Nate once he’s on the other side?
23 🍸 Nathan’s Regeneration (In Story)
In Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Nathan had already achieved the impossible task of finishing off an entire trai꧂n’s worth of mercenaries before defeating their leader and reclaiming the Phurba along with rescuing Chloe. Following this, he would take impossibilities to new heights by surviving a gunshot wound inflicted by Harry Flynn.
Nathan pasꦿsed out for what seemed to be hours, only to climb his way out of the train, mow down hundreds of well armed enemies, and make it to safety where Tenzin found him. He achieved all 🍬this while suffering from the wound from hours earlier. Nathan didn’t intake any magical resin, but it seems he had some magical ability to survive bleeding out and recuperating with ease within 2 days.
22 Unnecessary Cliche Confrontation ♌ ♉
In Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, we had the cliché ridden final scene with♎ Lazarevic and Nathan wherein the latter refused to take the life of the former. We’ve seen this trope time and again where the💜 protagonist spares the antagonist as taking his life would make him no better than the bad guy.
However, Zoran had a very good point in stating that Nate was like him a🅘s he had bulldozed numerous men just to get to him. Had he shot Zoran, no one would have held it against him.
21 🗹 What Were Those Monsters?
In Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, we saw similar monsters that were found in hidden locations. In Drake’s Fortune, it was the remnants of the Spanish expedition who had survived in zombie form while in Among Thieves, ꦺthe monsters were guardians protecting Shambala.
Both types of monsters had the strangest kind of immortality.
They had survived centuries seemi💫ngly without food but met their demise quite easily. This throws in significant doubt as to what kind of immortality these creatures had achieved if they could be harmed with weapons that could end normal human lives as well.
20 Drake Surviving Th♓e Desert
The desert sequence in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception dr🅠agged the novelty of Drake in an impossible situation to awfully unbelievable lengths.
Nathan survived literal days in the scorching heat of the desert with no food or water.
He suffered from sun exposure and saw hallucinations, yet none of the ill effects of being stranded on a toasty desert were apparent when he once again destroyed an army of men. Think about it: A malnourished, sunburned, hallucinating man won against well fed and well equipped mercenaries. That’s Mr. Fant🐼astic level of stretching, Naughty Dog!
19 Tenzin's Expert Guidance 🍒 🍷
Tenzin not only cared for Nathan for couple of days, but revived t𒐪he man to the extent that Nathan was well enough for combat against Lazarevic’s forces and the guardians in the ice caves.
Speaking of which, Tenzin may have been a literal angelic being as he seemed to be blessed from the heavens with the powers of direction. He guided Nathan through a path that had not been traveled on for 70 years.ꦜ The question is, though, why did Schafer expect Tenzin knew the way, and why did Tenzin not raise th🎃is query to anyone?
18 Nate's Sudden Love For Su༺lly
Nate’s utter devotion for Sully’s well being in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception came out of nowhere if one were to consider Drake’s Fortune.
In the first g💛ame, Sully was shot in the heart, only to survive due to pure luck. At that time Nathan was visibly shaken but at no point did he give any indication of deep mourning. Within a few minutes he had reverted to his wisecracking personality and would resume his treasure hunting agenda later on with Elena. Sully must have done Nate a real solid for the latter to love him so dearly years later.
17 🌞 Drake Brothers Getting Stomped By Nadine
Sam and Nathan both fought Nadine at separate and the same points and got clobbered✨ every time.
Naughty Dog expects us to believe Nathan can beat the likes of Talbotꦦ and Lazarevic but has no chance against Nadine.
She may be trained, athletically gifted, and skillful, but the no holds barred beatdown she gives the Drake brothers is by no means believable for someone he🉐r size and with her limited speed. Two grown mജen against an average built women will never end up in the latter’s favor.
16 ♛ Nathan Didn🌠't Check Up On Sam
The elder Drake’s absence was explai💖ned as not surviving an escape attempt from prison. This is proper justification for the lack of references toward Sam’s existence earlier, but it does open up certain questions.
Chief among these questions would be why Nathan never went back to the prison to recover Sam’s body. After becoming an expert treasure hunter, he must have become supremely talented enough to acquire some knowledge of Sam꧟’s survival (like Rafe did) but evidently Nathan never attempted to find closure in this regard. Still, it doesn’t tie up well why he didn’t give it a try.