Uncharted developer Naughty Dog has discussed their reasoning for the exclusion of Uncharted: Golden Abyss and multiplayer from Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection.
Power Up Gaming was at the EGX expo over the weekend, where community strategist Arne Meyer was asked why Sony Bend's Vita exclusive wasn't included. Meyer commented, “It was definitely under consideration, because we were trying to see how we could collect all of the Uncharted games. But when we went back and looked at what we were trying to do with the Nathan Drake Collection, we realised that those three games – the trilogy – actually provided a particular narrative arc that led into Uncharted 4. We wanted to keep that as a holistic collection for that reason, and Golden Abyss kind of lives a little bit outside of that.”
Meyer was also asked why multiplayer, which was included in both Uncharted 2 and 3, didn't make the cut.
“It was a really difficult decision for us," he said, "but it was one that we actually took early on, because we were thinking about both our player population – we still have players playing Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3 multiplayer, and we still haven’t shut those servers down; we don’t have a plan to do that right now – and so, we were like, did we want to affect that player population, and splinter it even more so.
“At the time, too, when we were talking with Bluepoint, and talking with our multiplayer team for Uncharted 4, we were saying, we learned a lot from Uncharted 2 and we really took it to the next level with Uncharted 3, so everything that we learned from that we were putting into Uncharted 4 multiplayer – so for us, it was like, why don’t we keep moving forward and progressing, rather than take a snapshot in time?”
Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection features Drake's Fortune, Among Thieves, and Drake's Deception and is being developed by Bluepoint Games. The package includes access to the Uncharted 4 multiplayer beta in December and the games come with a number of improvements to graphics and sound, as well as new features.
The Collection will take up 44GB of your HDD's space when it's released October 9th.
