Nathan Drake is the luckiest man alive

Uncharted 1 flat out shows him get shot in a cutscene and Drake just shrugs it off like nothing happened.

...that is plausible actually.

I was actually going to bring that up if the thread wasn't about that, hah.

Cybersai said:

Uncharted 1 flat out shows him get shot in a cutscene and Drake just shrugs it off like nothing happened.

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Yup lol. My brother and I joke about this a lot.

Dude straight-up gets shot and says "Ow, damn it."

Dude is definitely getting shot.

Whaaat. So drake dies after *actually* getting shot once?

No such luck for his victims

This is so stupid lol

I never knew that but I actually love that explanation.

Most games are just representations of what would actually be going on - for example Ocarina of Time if it were realized in a realistic way would not be such a tiny world, it would be a huge expanse. The game is representing that huge expanse with a small field, and the player infers the 'true' size with their imagination. So saying that bullets hitting Drake are not actually hitting him, but are getting closer to hitting him actually makes a lot of sense to me.

I hated the red UI, getting shot without any cover in sight wasn't bad enough, darkening and reddening making the screen blurry, so that I can barely see where I'm being shot from or what's ahead of me was so damn frustrating,

Cybersai said:

Uncharted 1 flat out shows him get shot in a cutscene and Drake just shrugs it off like nothing happened.

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Yup the game is goofy for sure.

That's interesting, why would they design it like that?

Cybersai said:

Uncharted 1 flat out shows him get shot in a cutscene and Drake just shrugs it off like nothing happened.

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He's talking about when in gameplay.

Knew it....

Nathan Drake confirmed mutant or blessed by a shaman yada yada....

Make it the mask from Crash Bandicoot.

Abilities:

Basically Longshot and Domino with a little Remy thrown in.

So by affecting probabilities is this why everyone around Nathan tends to have bad luck. He essentially is soaking all up.

This is good info for death battles

Next game better confirm Nathan Skywalker or this lack of training will really start to grate on my --

*gets shot*

I always thought of it like that for games where health regens. It's like in a movie where the hero doesn't get hit when they clearly should have but in a game when you get taken down is finally the shot that did it.

I remember Naughty Dog straight up saying this was the case when the first Uncharted launched in an interview.

Cybersai said:

Uncharted 1 flat out shows him get shot in a cutscene and Drake just shrugs it off like nothing happened.

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Or the part in Uncharted 2 where he gets shot in his gut, is very visibly bleeding out, yet still manages to climb up a train that is falling off a cliff.

Nathan Drake has Ultra Instinct confirmed.

Nah he's definitely being shot.

This actually makes a lot of sense, not just for Uncharted but in pretty much every game you don see the player character directly being influenced by a bullet hit.
But this would mean that the enemy's aim is even worse than it already is.

(Psst... Nathan Drake isn't alive. He's not even real!)

This is so silly but so amazing at the same time

Jonneh said:

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I had a feeling she was involved with this. :)
Really clever.

SturokBGD said:

(Psst... Nathan Drake isn't alive. He's not even real!)

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This explains why I had a dream last week that Nathan Drake was literally a cylon from Battlestar Galactica

(I know what you meant, but this literally happened to me and I want to make peace with it)

I think I remember them saying that before Uncharted 1 came out? Def before U2 at least.


Kind of a clever way to handle it.

PeskyToaster said:

I always thought of it like that for games where health regens. It's like in a movie where the hero doesn't get hit when they clearly should have but in a game when you get taken down is finally the shot that did it.

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Yep, I've looked at it that way too. Pretty sure I've had this exact thought for Uncharted. While it's still game mechanic bullshit, it's much easier to believe than a dude shrugging off thousands of bullets.

But why does he say ow when he doesn't get hit

I would've sworn this was fan speculation that was only adopted officially with Uncharted 4.

This is so dumb and easy to debunk. He gets shot. He has physical reactions to getting shot through all the games. It's ok. It's a game. People get that.

So basically they're working with Commando (Arnold Schwarzenegger 80's action film) where like every 1000th bullet actually hits the protagonist.

He also is a huge real life magnet, cause every single grenade lands right in front of his feet, no matter how angular they throw them or if they are 200 meters away and between them is water.

Nah he's getting shot. Weird thread.

My secret has been revealed.

gdt said:

This is so dumb and easy to debunk. He gets shot. He has physical reactions to getting shot through all the games. It's ok. It's a game. People get that.

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Yeaaa this luck thing has always been bullshit for as long as ND has been peddling it.

Are the bullet sponge enemies' health bars actually luck bars?

NateDrake said:

My secret has been revealed.

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Teach me your ways senpai

I always liked the idea that Nathan found some relic in his youth which allowed him fast healing. Would make most of his injuries and fall landings believable.

Typical ND pushing their agenda of white people getting lucky. I for one am outraged.

Jobbs said:

Are the bullet sponge enemies' health bars actually luck bars?

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Nah, that's just bad game design.

Phantom Thief said:

Teach me your ways senpai

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Greatness from small beginnings.

You know how many times enemies laid my ass out with the shotty?

Dynomutt said:

Knew it....

Nathan Drake confirmed mutant or blessed by a shaman yada yada....

Make it the mask from Crash Bandicoot.

Abilities:

Basically Longshot and Domino with a little Remy thrown in.

So by affecting probabilities is this why everyone around Nathan tends to have bad luck. He essentially is soaking all up.

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while on a adventure he found a gold coin that he keeps on him at all times. Before the first game takes place in the film Leprechaun in the Hood 3

A similar idea was at play in Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. Instead of HP, you had a suppression/threat "meter." The longer you were exposed to enemy fire, the redder your screen would become until you finally caught a bullet and died.

I thought this was a widely accepted fan theory for a long time, but it's good that it's confirmed now.

Man that's hilarious and re-contextualizes the games in a really fun way. And now it makes sense with how big of a deal is made from getting shot in a cutscene.