How is Drake washing up on shore really that unbelievable? I mean they were in town when Marlowe presumably told the pirate to get rid of him, so his ship had to be close, and I doubt Nathan was knocked out for that long to have got that far away. And I just assumed the boat graveyard wasn't that far offshore. I mean if it's modeled even remotely after
the world's largest ship graveyard, then yeah it'd be pretty close.
And as for the title, Drake's Deception, it's got a few meanings all rolled into one. It's both Nathan's deception (about his name), and Francis Drake's deception (how he covered up the voyage and told the Queen there was nothing), and it also points to a lot of the game's plot beats like Sully getting shot. It also points to deceiving us all by never showing anything supernatural at the end. It was kind of a big fake out, and we all were expecting stuff like the Djinn, but that turned out to be a hallucination. After that I was thinking it would be so awesome if they kept the deception theme and literally never showed the thing being opened.
As for Marlowe, I got that she just didn't want to kill Nate in public and get any sort of attention. Shooting him outside of the bar would be bad form, because that shit would probably trace back to her or the organization. I doubt she has any problem with killing Drake, since she apparently told Ramses to do it. Ramses just kept him alive because he got greedy and thought he could extract info from him.
And for the Sully dummy that someone asked about: I didn't think they had that set up to begin with. That'd be kind of silly. I think once he escaped and started killing people they knew they could get him where they wanted him by announcing that Sully was in the hold and putting up that dummy. They'd have him trapped and cornered then.
And those wanting way more explanation on Elena and Nate, you guys are just silly. The game handled this perfectly. Too many games sit there and tell you everything point blank, and that's not how real conversations go. And that's just not good writing. They gave you enough information in this, but not enough to spoil a bit of the mystery.
Tguy said:
Honestly I'd say it matters a lot, because Drake has pursued Francis Drake treasure or whatever in two games(Uncharted 1 and 3) and it has gotten Sully close to death multiple times because of that and imagine he pursued this stuff because of a fake name. Kind of messed up honestly haha.
He didn't get Sully close to death because of Drake. He would have gone for it regardless. It's obvious Sully and Nate are in that sort of business, and Sully had debts he wanted to pay off with any treasure they found. That wasn't Nate dragging Sully with. Sully wanted to come with for money.
