The developer behind Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End has admitted it has no idea how it is going to approach the action-adventure sequel’s planned single-player DLC.
Speaking during an interview with GameSpot, Naughty Dog’s Arne Meyer revealed the California-based studio has been too busy working on the base game that it hasn’t yet addressed how it is going to tackle Uncharted 4’s post-launch offerings. As such, the storyline for the content hasn’t even been mapped out yet, so don’t expect any new info for a while.
"I was talking with Neil (game director) about a month ago when that was just revealed and reading all the stories and fan reactions about it. It was interesting because people are thinking maybe we’ll hold back some of the story or stuff like that. But he’s like, ‘I have no idea what we’re going to do with that.’ We’re so busy on the actual game and I was talking to him and saying that we’re taking a big risk here because we have no idea what we’re going to do yet. We’ve committed to putting something together and it has to be a high level of quality and have a really engaging story, and we’ve said that this is the final chapter. We have all these things we need to resolve at some point but we have no idea what that is," said Meyer.
"Neil hasn’t even begun to think about what the storyline for the single-player DLC is. Then obviously we don’t have the resources to work on it because everyone’s working on the game. We just know that we’re going to do it."
Elsewhere, Meyer described how Naughty Dog felt it was a ‘natural’ time to bring the curtains down on Nathan Drake’s treasure hunting exploits.
"It may be scary from the outside to say this, but we don’t have a franchise plan or anything, or even a big idea of where anything is going. We treat each individual game as with the equal level of importance and approach it fresh every time. We’ve always said to ourselves internally that when we’re in the pre-production stage, we’re trying to figure out what type of game we’re trying to make. Do we continue the series or not? If things don’t feel fresh or it doesn’t feel like we have an actual story to tell, it doesn’t feel like we’re able to try new things or innovate with gameplay, then we’ll start thinking about stepping away from it. Every time it’s worked out in that we’re like, oh yeah we have a story to tell," he said.
"Now with moving to the PS4 and being able to take everything we learned from the previous three games and apply it here and looking at where the story arcs went for the first three games, it feels like a natural time to step away. It was something we were coming to realise in the early phases of development that it was feeling like the right time."
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is due out on PS4 on March 18, 2016. Naughty Dog has previously said that its idea for single-player DLC for the game was partly inspired by the The Last of Us’ ‘Left Behind’ expansion.