Should Uncharted 3 have ended differently? (MAJOR spoilers)

[VulpesAqua]

So I've been playing Uncharted 3 again (fantastic game as ever) and on this second playthrough I've noticed a lot of foreshadowing towards a tragic end. The game centers around Drake & Sully's relationship as well as Drake's obsession and how he disregards the safety of others.

There are numerous scenes where people call Drake out on his recklessness, one memorable one is in Yemen where Elena asks Drake to take care of Sully saying "He'd go to the ends of the Earth for you, but please don't make him."

Towards the end of the game Sully is "killed" by the secondary antagonist Talbot (yes, spelled same as the clothing store) in the end it turns out just to be a halucination by Drake, but I've started wondering, should Sully have really died? The whole game builds up to the fact that Nate's obsession with treasure hunting, and pretending to be a descendent of Drake, will lead to consequences. That what he considers just playing the hero is legitimatly dangerous to those he cares for, and up until Sully's revealed survival I thought it was a brilliant narrative and deconstruction of Drake as a character.

So what are your thought's Escapists?

 

[J-meMalone]

Yeah, it probably would have been better if Sully had died. As you said there was a lot of foreshadowing and it all comes to nothing at the end. Everything is a-okay and Drake never really develops as a character.

In my opinion the overall story lacked a lot of focus. The swarms of spiders that hate the light wasn't given ANY explanation, Drake and Elena's relationship didn't develop so much as leap from being broken up to together, Charlie and Chloe were literally put on a bus and never seen again, there was that bizarre drug that let Talbot control people that was also missing an explanation. Hell the whole "secret society" wasn't even explored really.

I think Naughty Dog tried to do too much with the plot for what was, really, a fairly short game. And the plot suffered for it.

Captcha: teh inter webs
Cute.

 

[CityofTreez]

There were a ton of plot holes as J-me pointed out. I can see where they were going with it, but it's like they got off track mid way through or ran out of time.

I also would have liked a little more mystery as there was in the first game as U3 all but copy and paste U2 past and story line. I enjoyed it, but it still felt like it took too much from U2 just with a desert theme.

 

[dimensional]

I thought it was fine like a summer blockbuster turn off your brain and enjoy I dont think killing off Sully would of been of benefit in the weight of things lost vs things gained unless that was the last game in the series ofc.

 

[DustyDrB]

I don't know if I can rationally answer that question. Sully's a dirty old man, but I love that dirty old man. I was more than fine with how Uncharted 3 went. It's by far my favorite game in the series because it avoids the supernatural crap that sabotaged the first two games for me (or at least the supernatural stuff in Uncharted 3 wasn't real).