What myth would you like to see explored in Uncharted 4?

Maybe a mythical place? Or an object?

Mu?

The cornucopia?

What desire does your heart harbors?

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Atlantis would be fun. Lets them use the water physics stuff that they did for the boat section in Uncharted 3.

What hasn't been discussed yet? Atlantis or Tupac's death are probably the two I can think of.

The E.T. cartridges.

The myth that Naughty Dog is still a good developer.

@jeust: What exactly is 'Moo'?

Cthulhu. JFK's assassination. What is actually in the "I can't believe its not butter!" containers

@bongchilla: I think OP is talking about Mu, the "lost civilization/content"

Loch Ness.

Fountain of Youth or Agartha could be cool. Maybe they'll do some Japanese mythology. Have Drake chasing around the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan with weird stuff goin on around him.

What was the thing from the first one? Some cursed gold or coffin? I remember the totally-not-lickers but not exactly the story behind it. UC2 was the Cintamani stone and Shambhala and the Tree of Life all rolled into one, and the third had Iram of the Pillars and a vase that King Solomon had captured some less-than-kind jinn inside. So them having one thing doesn't necessarily mean it'll play out like you'd expect.

Or maybe they say fuck it and send Drake to The Lost World and it's just a really good Jurassic Park game. I'd play that.

The reason why pidgeon blow up when you feed them rice.

All jokes aside, I think Libertatia going to be involved in this game judging by the teaser they released last year. That's a myth worth exploring. It will probably involved pirates, boats, and other related things popular in the mid-2010's.

The space between spaces.

Mount Olympus. Ares tricks Drake into killing his family and he sets out for revenge against the Gods.

Christianity, Islam, and so on. Norse mythology is the best, so, plenty of that. In short, the myth that is gods.

It was El Dorado which turned out to not be a city of gold but a man of gold, specifically a coffin that contained a biovirus that the bad guys wanted. It's a really dumb game.

...It's no more dumb than most video games really.

For a game that starts out at least as realistic as the Indiana Jones trilogy it gets absurd.

Hey, woah now! As realistic as the Indiana Jones trilogy? The very first one has a box that makes nazi faces melt. The reason why Uncharted always has some mythical element introduced at the end is specifically because of its Indiana Jones inspirations.

Fountain of Youth might be a good place to go, with Nate seemingly a bit older in this one so there probably some form of theme to be explored there.

Yes, it is Mu.

Atlantis or some under-water city type thing.

The existence and final resting place of Excalibur/the sword in the Stone (different Swords at do the same thing.) Just as long as it isn't real...it would be way to easy to say "hey, because of Drake's Bloodline he was "worthy" this whole time!"

Yeah, I'd love to see Atlantis too.

Yes. 12 hours into this I want Nate to have a 'wait a minute' realisation as Tupac rises from the crypt to thug things up.

Ecksthuh-trestrials.

(Atlantis is fucking boring. That Indy game should have closed the book on Atlantis forever.)

Well I've grown being told the legend and dreamt so much about Atlantis that it has a space in my imaginary, and I'd want to feel that wonder again.

But like you said it probably won't happen as it has already been done to death, and Naughty Dog has stayed away from the more popular myths.

The Garden of Eden might be a cool place to uncover. There are a variety of similar places in other religions, too so they wouldn't have to naturally go the Judeo-Christian route if they wanted to try something less "Indiana Jones".

If the teaser actually teased what the game will be about, pirates arre a' comin'. But I didn't see anything in it that linked to Libertatia, or was that just your assumption? I trust Naughty Dog to do something interesting, though they have lost a couple of good folks over the last years.

Whatever it ends up being, I pray it doesn't involve something akin to nazi zombies or blue dudes or burning whatevers. But there's no way that won't happen around chapter 20.

There was no supernatural element in Uncharted 3. The djinns were just a product of Scarecrow-esque hallucinogens.

Ethics in video game jou... bahahahah, sorry I couldn't say that with a straight face.

I'd actually like to see Agartha explored, I was quite dissapointed in The Secret World's portrayal of a hub world.

Alternatively El Dorado by way of the CD-i classic, Inca.

GoldROCK! <>

@corevi said:

It wasn't as overt, but that giant jar they're fishing out of the water is supposed to house something or other. That, and Talbot's weird magician shit.

Also, spiders.

I thought it was just a giant container of the hallucinogen or maybe some kind of plant that it's derived from.

Personally I believe both are tied. The vase should contain a powerful hallucinogenic substance, and Talbot and Marlowe were both after it, to use in their shenanigans, as they both cultivate deceit as a weapon.

Maybe. Just one of many unanswered questions in Uncharted 3.

"By God Sully do you realize what this is? This is the glock that killed Tupac.."

Indiana Jones gets pretty absurd for a movie that starts out that realistically. I mean, inflatable boat parachute, ripping out hearts, the lost ark, the holy grail, ALIENS. Yeah..

But it's this stuff that keeps Uncharted and Indiana Jones from just being a dude finding treasures. The super natural and mysticism is the best part.

What aliens? There were no aliens in Raiders, Temple or Crusade.

There's that awful fourth movie you know.

There's no fourth movie, dude..

They've always tried to take myths and put some pseudo-scientific twist on them. A curse actually being a virus; the cintamani stone actually being resin from a strange plant that dramatically alters biology; the jinns being the result of a strong hallucinogenic that came from the jar and seeped through into the water.

Come to think of it, it's all probably more grounded in "reality" than Indiana Jones.

The myth that series have to get grimmer.

The myth of the female orgasm.

I'd actually like them to pick something a little obscure. Though I knew of El Dorado and Shangri La prior to playing the series, it was enjoyable learning a bit about Iram of the Pillars through the course of the third game.

Someone, said it earlier as a joke, but the JFK assassination would be unbelievable. It would be ridiculous, hilarious, and fascinating to see how a developer could actually fit a Nathan Drake character into that event.