Uncharted 4 Creative Director expressed on a podcast with Kinda Funny games that "There's a few spots in the game where we felt a dialogue option would give us something interesting. So with Sam talking to Nate about his previous adventures, we were like, 'Oh, this is kind of a cool nod to the fans' [...] So where would Nate start the story, which one? Let's give the player the option and they can start the story however they want." At the end he expresses how this is nothing like a Tell-Tale game and they placed this function into this game to tie in the three predecessors to this game and flashback to them and give old-time players nostalgia for the last game in the series.
