Relating More To Younger Nathan Drake

<p>I have been privileged to watch video games go all the way from a side scrolling medium to a powerful medium that tells memorizing stories&period; Take the <em>Uncharted<&sol;em> series for example&semi; Naughty Dog crafted a five game series on the life of a snarky adventure hunter named Nathan Drake&&num;8211&semi;and the world fell in love with him&period; Even my 70 year old father loved to sit down and watch the story and action unfold&period; Of course&comma; mass murdering hundreds and my occasional shortcomings in combat would always cause him to start talking crap&period; &&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m better than you&period;&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;What&comma; you didn&&num;8217&semi;t see that guy shoot your face&quest;&&num;8221&semi; would haunt me if I didn&&num;8217&semi;t have something happen that allowed me to show off during my play session&period; Every time he saw an ad for the next in the series he would ask when I was going to get it so that he could experience the next mini home made movie&period; I tell you this because my father hates everything&comma; so him enjoying Nathan Drake and the <em>Uncharted<&sol;em> series is a big deal&period; It helped prove to me that Naughty Dog has cemented Nathan Drake in the halls of video games along with Mario and Sonic&period; This year I was able to play through every <em>Uncharted<&sol;em> game&comma; even the Vita&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Golden Abyss<&sol;em>&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;m pretty proud of myself for doing this&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;115938" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-115938" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-115938" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;12&sol;03000242&sol;uncharted&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;Uncharted 2&colon; Among Thieves - Sony&rpar;" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-115938" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Uncharted 2&colon; Among Thieves<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Sony&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>When I finally reached the finale of the series&comma; I realized that I watched a character grow&comma; change and evolve&period; I followed him through this story and his life&period; I also started his tale at about his age and ended it at about the same age&period; Nathan may be a tad older seeing as he has more gray hair&comma; but either way this got me thinking&period; I enjoyed series finale and I think Naughty Dog did a nice job of wrapping it up&period; I found myself wanting more out of Nathan in the fourth game though&period; He felt like the protagonist that didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to do anything&period; Sam&&num;8217&semi;s always goading Nathan into doing the dangerous adventures and basically yanks him along on this journey&period; Nathan was no longer the danger or adventure hunter like when we were first introduced to him&period; It saddened me to see Nathan so boring and reserved&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For some reason I seem to relate more to younger Nathan in that he wants adventure&comma; women and treasure with nothing holding him back&period; What&&num;8217&semi;s even weirder about this realization is the fact that I should have the wife and beginnings of a family at this point in my life&period; Unfortunately I got dealt some loser hands in the card game of life and have had to make some sacrifices which has left me a little behind&period; One would reason that I would relate more to married-with-child Nathan&comma; than traipsing around the world defying death Nathan&period; Instead I found that Nathan to be boring and too worried about every consequence&period; I wonder if there were cut scenes where Nathan berated Sam for eating a hot dog or getting that neck tattoo&period; I get that he has grown up and now has responsibilities in life but that shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t have made him a square&period; You&&num;8217&semi;d think he would want that final treasure so that he and Elena can walk off into the sunset&period; However he was worried about lying to her and dying than if he changed the oil in her mini-van&semi; the worrying got ridiculous to a point&period; I just didn&&num;8217&semi;t enjoy Nathan like this&period; You&&num;8217&semi;d think Sully would be the worrier since he has to have COPD&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;116030" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-116030" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-116030" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;12&sol;06005714&sol;Nathan20Drake202&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;Uncharted 2&colon; Among Thieves - Sony&rpar;" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"564" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-116030" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Uncharted 2&colon; Among Thieves<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Sony&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>As I played <em>Uncharted 4<&sol;em> I longed for single Nathan&period; You know&comma; the one who laughed at danger and always got the girl&period; The tepid adventurer just didn&&num;8217&semi;t enhance my enjoyment of the game&period; Sam was ballsier and more bold than Nathan the entire time&period; Heck&comma; even Nadine had a pair&period; I just wanted Nathan to be flippant&comma; uncaring and devil-may-care instead of a drab shell of what he used to be&period; Maybe this is just me wishing I was young again since I&&num;8217&semi;ve yet to meet my Elena or maybe I just crave excitement more now&period; Perhaps as I age&comma; I see that I have nothing to lose anymore&period; Nathan however was suddenly thrust into a life where he had everything to lose&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m sure there is some psychologist out there that would love to sit me down on a couch about this&comma; but for right now younger Nathan is my hero and older Nathan needs to man up&period; What do you think&quest; Do you like older and more mature Nathan or death-defying Nathan&quest; Let us know in the comments or on our Twitter page &commat;bagogames&excl; You can even feel free to reach out to me on Twitter &commat;Superjerry13&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;