I mean hell, in Uncharted 2 there's that whole part in Borneo where Nathan uncovers a bunch of Marco Polo's contemporaries having been sealed up in an ancient ruin Fine, but what was the *ruin*? Nathan doesn't care, he just wants to know about the 700 year old Italian squatters
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That's really the thing, Nathan spends the entire franchise hopping through setpieces that from a historical perspective would be exponentially more significant than whatever magic gold trinket he's chasing after And his disinterest can't be totally explained away by firefights
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And you can't compare him to somebody like Indiana Jones or even OG!Lara Croft Indiana Jones was a professor and the bulk of his adventuring career was directly in an antifascist context Lara Croft is a lonely spoiled heiress who wants for nothing, she's in it for its own sake
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Nathan Drake on the other hand is just, like, well he's closer to Hudson Hawk than either of those two characters He doesn't have a job and he actually explicitly needs money and basically he strip mines the past for copper wire and questionable hookups
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I mean I get that Nathan is sort of a Miguel-and-Tulio figure but those guys were *scumbags* and Nathan is, also, kind of a scumbag He takes this really capitalist approach to world history, he would disdain any kind of profitless pure enthusiasm for it as contemptible nerd shit
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Like compare Indiana Jones again, the games certainly want you to Indy's whole catchphrase is "it belongs in a museum!!!" which is still rooted in a sort of colonial anti-indigenous mindset but at least has a sort of purity of purpose Nathan's all about crude personal catharsis
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Both Indy and Nathan have as this general all-purpose excuse for everything they do that "If I don't get it someone who's more of an asshole than me will get it" The whole don't hate the player hate the game thing
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Funnily enough the one movie in the original Indiana Jones trilogy everyone hated, Temple of Doom, was the one where his quest was the most obviously ethical (he's asked by the villagers to return the sacred stone to its original shrine, along with rescuing the kids)
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Crystal Skull followed in the tradition of Raiders and Last Crusade in putting Indy in a race against time with the Nazis (or the Soviets) for an ancient secret weapon that, it turns out, they wouldn't have been able to use anyway
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Well, Crystal Skull's resolution was a lot dumber than the first two movies Agent Spalko *could* have gotten the secret weapon she was after if she'd actually had a clear idea of what it was she wanted instead of getting greedy and going for the obvious ironic death option
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I guess it's *vaguely* hinted the aliens may have killed her because they could tell she was evil but I honestly dislike that interpretation, I think they're just aliens and don't know what the storage capacity of a typical human brain is
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"This much should do the trick" ... "Oh, damn. Guess they're still just relatively hairless primates after all"
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