Nathan Drake is not a Hero - An Uncharted Retrospective
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- Опубликовано: 2 мар 2024
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The sequel to this video will be made and posted in the coming months.
Sources
Peter Whitfield, Sir Francis Drake, The British Library, (2004).
Mrs. Oliver Elton, The Story of Sir Francis Drake, Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
John Vervake, “How the Light Gets In: Solving the Meaning Crisis”
via RUclips
Peter Grimm, “Uncharted Orientalism: Drake of Arabia”, Medium, (2020).
& more books and articles about Sir Francis Drake, I should have kept track of my sources better. 
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Ah crap
You didn't think that far ahead, eh
Exactly… Idk what it is about video game essayist that makes them always think of Nathan Drake first and foremost when it comes to a high body count. They be having me like, “B!tch did you just expect him to not fight for his life and just let people trying to kill him do just that?!”
They always leave out the fact that everyone else Nathan Drake deleted was trying to delete him.
@@endershepard7117that’s not anyone’s problem, the problem is he’s still like a funny non chalant jokester who doesn’t really get affected by how many people he takes out, so for gameplay and story, it either.. A. doesn’t flow with itself well
or B. Nathan’s a psychopath
Ah crap
@@temp1326 10 000 self defense cases wont rlly sit well in court too
Nathan Drake is not a hero
Nathan Drake is a legend
“You know, i shot the guy who told me that” - the late Rafe
A Legendary ‘Keep The Status Quo Alive’ Protagonist. That’s literally how every game in the franchise goes. Nathan and the gang find something extraordinary that was hidden or lost for ages and then they destroy it.
And if you look at the Uncharted Franchise this way than it’s kinda safe to say that Nathan Drake is actually the Villain of the Story.
@@user-zt2dp8vl7e Son of a bitch you beat me to it
Facts
@@endershepard7117I mean yeah, but obviously Nathan isn't the one actually destroying everything. It's only because the actual villains are also there destroying everything
He was never meant to be a hero, and he will never be. Just a man learning what he really wants who just so happens to occasionally do heroic things just like normal people do everyday.
Edit: The camera guy was a legend.
“like normal people do everyday.” He prevented 5 world-ending catastrophes (half of which revolving around people succumbing to their greed, in sharp contrast to Nate). I’d say that’s more heroic than “like normal people do everyday.”.
Ikr… People be making my head spin around like Beetlejuice when they act like Joel Miller of The Last of Us was ever trying to be a hero to the world. In the very prologue of TLOU we see how ruthless and family oriented Joel Miller is. And the narrative never shows him diverting from this mindset.
Joel Miller only cares about being a hero to his family and he’s proven to be one of the best at that. He helped keep him and his brother Tommy alive in that brutal world for 20 years.
It was a greater miracle that Joel was able to rescue Ellie from The Fireflies than Ellie being immune to getting infected by the Cordacepys.
Hell, all Joel did for Ellie’s 15th Birthday was far above and beyond the call of duty.
@@dirtyfighters7751I was hoping for you to show up lowkey, Nate did save the world multiple times tho
@@lil_jay7926I'd say he was an Anti-hero. He had no problem stealing, robbing etc but he intentionally never set out to kill anyone, only in self defense. And in fact he tried to defuse every intense altercation several times with the main bad guy in every game.
@@Mukation True, most people try and say that he’s a mass murderer, and yes he would joke but like Deadpool he’s more of an anti-hero and he only kills in self-defense, not only that all of Nate’s enemies aren’t good people anyways, even in Uncharted 2 when taking out the guards Nate doesn’t snap the guards neck excepts knocks them out, while he snaps Lazarevic’s soldiers neck in stealth
Uncharted is really “friendship was the REAL treasure all along”. Don’t see it? He literally sacrifices each treasure to save his friends. 😂
Friendship certainly is a treasure
This makes me want to replay all four of these for the third time
I always play them and reply them in order. If I'm gonna relay 4 I start with 1.
I wish I played the original 3 when they came out, I just can’t go back to them nowadays. The combat and graphics just don’t feel as good as the 4th game, just makes it hard.
@@Zack-bl2ggtbh apart from uncharted 1 i didnt find the jump too bad. just do yourself a favour and play on easy because the combat is the worst part of the original games by far
@@chefchildbeater2900 oh my goodness yea, the combat is ridiculous. I feel like I’m holding a toy gun, what the heck.
@@chefchildbeater2900Especially Drake's Fortune on Crushing or Brutal, it's not even enjoyable lol
I always knew he wasnt a hero. He was a guy almost like any other tryna make a living out of the passion planted in his heart by his mom. And that is what made him relatable.
Uncharted 4 a "THEIF's" end. Not a hero's end.
A theifs end is what Rafe got, being crushed to death by his own greed. Nate quite literally got a Heroes end, being able to live happily ever after with his family after becoming filthy rich through owning a business.
@@jessec.6876 i love that. Rafe really did get a thief’s end. However Nathan also got it through his realization that family matters more than money while Rafe both mirrored his ideology with greed and mirrored his fate with death.
@@jessec.6876how are ppl like you still falling under the notion of Nathan being an actual 'hErO' is astonishing to be exact...
also the concept of 'Hero' & 'Villain' as well as the other Etymological terms of both of these concepts are all BS...
@@godzillazfriction dawg Nate literally saved the world from catastrophe and psychos plenty of times, and he did it out of the goodness of his own heart. He’s a hero, no matter what way see his character. The guy who made this video wasn’t even arguing against Nate being a hero either, he was just unraveling the themes of escapism and fantasy that Uncharted already offers.
@@jessec.6876 what in the Gods amount of illogical fallacies that you're spewing out of your own flawed perception regarding Uncharted, the supposed 'hEro' aspect of Nathan Drake as well as this videos topic...
Very good video, really enjoyed it :) ( i think naughty regrets putting the zombies in the first game, they probably didn’t thought that the series would evolve into a more “realistic setting”)
Yeah, the zombies do seem a little bit out of place
I think the supernatural stuff is actually really fun and breaks up gameplay. U4 blueballed that. God forbid we get enemy variety.
@@alcoholicgoatThe Uncharted series definitely is lacking in gameplay variety looking back on it, and more enemy types would certainly have been welcome in U4 but the story definitely would’ve suffered if Nate was fighting off zombies or Kelpies or some Malagasy cryptid. The story was always about people.
Well, there was a yeti creature in 2
@@natedansereau'normal' or 'normative' as a concept is something that breaks up the perception of living to allude it towards an abstract idea of living or what's 'mostly the standard' and how that gets accepted...
its all BS, it's the same as paradoxical concepts such as 'morality' and anything that is alluded from the definition of Morality such as 'immoral and amoral' as well as 'race' as a concept...
its all BS to give meaning for or against Humanity, it tries to be compelling but it contradicts or convolutes itself by its nature of existing among the foundation that is derived from humans, and that gets simplified at the end by how blurred it becomes or always was...
He's a hero.
He brought me so many smiles and jaw dropping moments.
im taken aback how this doesnt have more views
*yet
Sic parvis magna … from small beginnings, great things
well 87k ain't too shabby
Hmm… some things to pick apart with this video.
- The ending implies that the prior Uncharted games were never deep and were instead these generic power-fantasy safe games where you’re just thrusted into the shoes of this whimsical capable outcast to have fun, which was hardly the case whatsoever. Although one could argue the first 2 did this (and even Golden Abyss), this doesn’t apply for 3 whatsoever. 3’s the game where this newfound purpose of simplicity and lack of ambition first struck Nate, as throughout the game he learns to better himself and overcome his past desires to prove to the world who Nathan Drake is. Take the dialogue you rapidly edited together, for example. Characters calling out the fact that Nate’s pride is dictating his actions more than his level-headedness, that he’s attempting to prove something not worthwhile, and that all these adventures for a simple piece of unattainable and, ironically, worthless treasure did nothing but fuel his hubris. It’s why Elena is the voice of reason, she developed a strong distaste for the life Nate developed a strong taste for, hence why it’s established that they split up after UC2. 4 only moreso solidifies this by showing just how unlike the usual life is for Nate and how he doesn’t favour it whatsoever. The games told much greater stories than just simple treasure hunting extravaganza.
- I really don’t see how Nate isn’t a hero. He prevented 5 world ending catastrophes (half of which revolved around how his enemies succumbed to their greed, unlike Nate), I think that should be enough to show that Nate is, at the very least, someone willing to do good if it ever called for it. Looking at these games from the perspective of “heroism” is weird given how difficult these characters are. They’re thieves in their own unique ways, with Nate himself possessing a more desirable will to do good over others. It’s like asking if Joel is a hero, it doesn’t really work within the contexts and is better to just treat them as regular people, as that’s what they ultimately are; regular people.
- I really don’t know where the hell all that political nonsense came in for Uncharted 3’s portion. Nate is not in any way, shape, or form a reflection of the icons or cultures used to either kickstart or contextualise the events of the game respectively. He’s just this outcast underdog living on the fringes of society living his passion to the absolute fullest even after UC4. If you weren’t trying to paint a picture of Nate being this weird mirror image of the icons studied in the games then I really don’t know what the point of that portion was given how it holds little merit on its own. Also, Nate didn’t begin to lose faith in Francis ‘cuz he was this corrupt pirate who committed crimes, he lost faith ‘cuz he thought his greatness was for nothing and his motto was a load of bullshite after misinterpreting his demise. Just compare his reaction to the death of Francis to the other pirates of Libertalia, he was as gitty as a school girl to finally meet them.
wow I see you everywhere in Uncharted based videos
@@Mauldrom I love Uncharted.
@@dirtyfighters7751 Same
How on earth does this not have more views, fantastic work
When I started this video about another game I had never played and heard the dollar store mic and the awful sound quality, I was going to let it run in the background for 10 minutes before my low attention span made my lazy ass turn it off. But guess what? The video totally sucked me in with the funny writing, philosophical pondering, the jabs about suburban life and capitalism or something, it was fucking awesome. And just the right amount of self-awareness. And i was like " No wonder" when i misread and thought you had 900k instead of 900 subscribers.
Man,this is definitely the most underrated channel in a while. I wish you the best. This level of quality proves that you can't judge something just by its numbers
For a channel so small, this video was amazing, the editing was great and the story telling too. This helped me realize things about this franchise that since I was a little boy, I couldn’t understand. 🔥🔥
So impressive what you've pulled off with this video. From serious tones to effective comedy. And a great breakdown of uncharteds themes and messages. I thought the bit where you bring us outside of uncharteds fantastical elements and show our own world and how lackluster it can be was incredibly done. Please dont stop making videos they're incredible!
Fantastic video! I didn’t even notice 30 mins fly by. Time to run through the series again 👏🏽
I feel like a broken record, but omg this video was beautifully scripted, narrated, edited and criminally underrated. I haven't played this game, but thank you for allowing me to appreciate them like this. I'm so happy the algorithm is showing me channels like this, I'm definitely subscribing
I’m impressed bro. This turned into a more thoughtful, introspective video than I expected. good punchlines too
This is a thoughtful look at the Uncharted Series, and I like it. You forget, however, that Uncharted was created in a world without the quality that it aimed to achieve. No motion capture with facial mo-cap together, no stories written and acted so well, no contextual animations, no graphics on that level. It was, just a game. The first sign that a game could be more.
Games need gamey things. The Last Of Us, the more grounded, less gamey cultivation of these tenets, has zombies at its forefront. How can Uncharted be 🎉ridiculed for lightly brushing the subject?
The history, despite the modern, perpetually offended prism that you view it through, contains the history of our people. For the vast majority of Americans, European history is our history. I believe Naughty Dog cleverly inserted the stories most ripe for a modern adventure in to these games.
First time stumbling upon the channel. Love the chaotic editing and cuts. Great essay as well.
Great video dude. Awesome editing skills and amazing script. What you did has a lot of layers, be proud
The editing is on point. Uncharted is one of my favorite games as well and I'm glad you gave each game its dues. Awesome quote at the end that pretty much sums up what we look for in this series and gaming in general.
I love finding new channels that have amazing videos like this one, now I get to watch all the old ones and wait for new ones
My man, I'm from Mexico, it was exquisite to listen to you. Thanks for your excellent work.
One of the best uncharted videos i’ve seen
such quality content, this guy needs to be big ong, loved it!!
This was an amazing video havent heard about uncharted in a while but i still replay it every few months and this was an amazing look at how naughty developed and how they developed uncharted thank you for a very entertaining video
this is one of the best videos about uncharted i have ever seen
i genuinely thought that u have at least 100k subs
because of the quality
I appreciate it
Investing in this channel before it gets big. Nice video man.
This made me wanna play Uncharted 2 again. I can't put into words how much that game blew me away then
This is one of tye best videos I've came across ever. A genuine research paper but with video. Amazing work here. You even added the references at the end😅. Bravo.
One of the best videos I’ve seen 👏🏼
Excellent, excellent job and retrospective here. Thank you.
This was a really great essay! Subbed my dude. Great stuff
Great video bro!! can't wait see more from you
this was crazy!! good work :)
Glad you back man, been a while
Great video, hope you do more. Your editing is amazing
This video deserves more recognition
Great video! I think you captured the real potencial of video game, as something made not only to entertain, but to touch profound aspects of our inner existence
Maaan. Beautiful writing and editing.
This is so good, thank you
Amazing work! Deserves more views.
great content bro calling it now your gunna blow up soon
I love this series for so many reasons. I LOVE Nate's character development. I love the scale and scope of environments, and I love that he is relatable in good and not so good ways. ❤
My soul is screaming, demanding for more Uncharted...
This video was amazing well done
Sorry for my bad English, I’m from Brasil. But, Bro, I loved so much your video. Your editing skills are incredible. Post more videos, please.
The best game series of all time hands down I’ll forever love every moment of these games for what they are absolute gold
Nate be like:
A treasure hunt: I sleep
But in latin: *real shit*
keep making videos, im in love with your stuff
This video is incredible bro, im immediately subscribed
What an amazing video. Thanks.
Fun, funny yet informative... keep up the great work bro this video is effing awesom
Crazy how a amazing this video is you deserve so much more subs
Loved everything about this video
Amazing video bro! Keep up the grind 💯💪
This is amazing man, I'm subscribing for sure
great video made me rethink the whole franchise definitely merits a subscribtion.
Incredible video man keep it up
this video was AMAZING I loved the uncharted series growing up, and watching this video really made me feel nostalgic. Great job!
Glad you liked it!
Eddy Raja was so impressionable on the first game, i still hear his voice and lines in my head from time to time.
I really appreciate the way you wrote this video, You didn't just give an opinion or analyze what was there in the text you told a story, one that goes along with the games but added a perspective that was valuable and it was funny. really good stuff!
mf put a 3rd act twist in his video essay.
Thanks
Awesome video, this needs way more likes
What an amazing video. Loved it.
I will be looking at your career with with great enthusiasm
In all seriousness. Great job really. 😊
This vid was awesome man im subscribing
Good video bro keep up the good work
Great video, but I respectfully disagree with the title. He’s not a hero, until he is. Drakes fortune he starts by treasure hunting, then ends up drowning El Dorado in the ocean so the bad guys don’t turn people to zombies. End of UC2 he stops lazaravich so he doesn’t take over the world after looking for a lost city the whole 1st part of the game. Drakes an adventurer until he has to be the hero.
you have a twisted and allegorical way of perceiving what it means to be a 'Hero' as a fellow 'Human' being...
Yeah but that doesn’t make him a hero because he never had good intentions to begin with. He is a treasure hunter
@@redhood444nah he’s a hero. Fits the definition perfectly
Wow. This was an epic analysis. I was late to the Uncharted party and just finished 4, as my intro to the series. When you’re old like me, that eerie “call to adventure” music as Nate contemplates his mundane life just hits different. Even for those of us who look nothing like Nathan Drake/Fillion, it’s easy to identify with him on a human level. You captured that and many other poignant aspects of this franchise perfectly! Well done, looking forward to more of your content …
Glad you got something out of it
Keep up.landing this was such a refreshing watch you have a REAL Knack for this
What a video. GOAT
12:01 nice of you to include fish_slap.mp4
Great video btw loved it ❤
Incredible video. I definitely gotta play the Uncharted games ones again. Has been a long time since last time that I've enjoyed myself.
Such a funny editing style, especially the Recorder kid gag
Wow what a great essay video 👏👏👏
wow what a video ! i like your way of thinking .
PLEASE keep it up
Holy fuck dude, this video is amazing! Uncharted was one of the first video games I played and was probably what got me into gaming. It’s honestly crazy how much depth the series has if u really look into it. Fucking amazing video Nate, I’m definitely subscribing. Insane how u only have 504 subs, that’s criminal
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it
I had a theory when I first started playing uncharted 4 that Sam was just in Nathan's head and that he really did die, but Nate was so starved for adventure that he hallucinated his brother coming to him with an adventure
I mean Sam's story about the drug lord was a lie. Maybe Nate's desire for adventure helped him believe it
The best video I’ve ever watched👍
I got the 4th one for free a few days ago and now I’m buying each and every game.
If I was to explain this game to someone that’s never heard of them before I’d say “imagine the most insane, explosive, action packed heist movie then times it by 10”
Indiana Jones with cell phones
Damn, this is a great character study. One of the better videos on the uncharted series
Your edits are hilarious 😂
Good vid. Gonna wait something similar from you about Metal Gear Solid games(1, 2, 3 and 4 particularly).
I bet Nathan has killed more then Joel and Ellie combined lol
I like this topic , let’s just get it out the way now Nathan drake isn’t a hero at all. Yes he has saved the world on many occasions however what makes it all interesting is that it’s never his intent , and that the situation he finds himself in where he has to kill for the most part are to reach his goal and are completely avoidable he if let go of said goal. It’s very clear he doesn’t mind killing even with it not being one of things in games just for the action whereas in the continuity even Lazarevic calls him out on it going as far to COMPARE drake to himself , This blood thirsty warlord saw drake eye to eye as an equal on the terms of Tenacity. Overall that’s what’s makes Nathan drake interesting he isn’t some generic good guy in games but has actual depth & growth by the time of uncharted 4 where he goes legal , 10/10 series.
I love uncharted, even if it gets a little silly at times and doesn't make sense...God i wish i was nathan drake
Maybe one day you will be
@@natedansereau hell yeah man! one day i will! thanks for saying that made my week
Nathan Drake may not be a hero, but he will always be my hero
also this video was really well made, great job
Great Video
Beautiful video.
The editing for this is so fucking fire
My favorite thing about uncharted even after replaying it ao many times is the sense of wonder it evokes and having the player feel small. I mean almost every game has a moment that the camera zooms out to show you how huge of scale the thing you're scaling is. Drake might not be a hero but he never claimed to be
Personally, I only count the first 3 Uncharted games as the only Uncharted games. They were written and directed by Amy Hennig. Neil Druckmann of Last of Us fame wrote and directed the last one in a really fd up way. He essentially bullied Amy Hennig out of the studio and took her project when she was working on Uncharted 4. This isnt a rumor either, it was confirmed by multiple devs who also unamicably left when Amy was forced to quit. Jason Schrier also did a report on what exactly happened. I feel like Uncharted 4 's story felt really off from the first 3.
What pisses me off so much about it is that Neil Druckmann was always so adamant about supporting women in the video game industry but then bullies a coworker into leaving the studio and takes over her personal project. Interestingly, after TLOU2, he said he doesn't really have it in him to continue making big games like before and that Uncharted 2 was his favorite time working on a game (which he didn't lead); meanwhile Amy Hennig hasn't really been able to recover from leaving leadership at ND despite the majority of gamers being excited for every project she starts on. It hurts to know that the person responsible for some of my favorite memories in gaming was taken advantage of and never recovered from it.
I think the uncharted games mainly the 4th one is why I like history
Good video bro
Took this video to realize that Elena talked drake into committing mass murder and other crimes and then proceeded to hold them over his head in the other games😂
Definitely my favorite series and I’m glad they ended Nathen’s story like they did
The only difference between Uncharted and Kane and Lynch, is that the Uncharted characters like each other
Good video, very humorous take on the franchise. I never knew the back story behind “sir francis drake”! Thought he was a hero 😅
Have to replay these games again SOON
The man, the myth, the legend. Nathan Drake
My mans out here putting out high quality vids for his 404 SUBS????????
Now 405 keep it up