It's your fault, Uncharted fans, that The Nathan Drake Collection doesn't include the multiplayer portion of the series second and third games on PlayStation 4. Just not for the reasons you think.

"Our communities are still really strong," Naughty Dog community strategist Eric Monacelli told Mashable. "Like Uncharted 3 ... I get submissions every week from people still, which is a testament to how strong that community is.

"People are still playing Uncharted 2 [online], believe it or not," he continued. "2009 was when [that] came out. It's a pretty old game but people love it."

Naughty Dog felt that carrying multiplayer over from the latter two Uncharted games could potentially fracture the still-active PlayStation 3 community. And with multiplayer beta access for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End included with The Nathan Drake Collection, the online play itch is scratched.

The collection features a number of enhancements for fans, starting with the expected jump to 1080p resolution running at 60 frames per second. The action is smooth, "buttery" as Monacelli describes it, and new details in the environment — including more visibility inside the game's epic landscapes — convey a much stronger sense of place.

There are also a few extras, like a new take on the skins that unlock in the earlier games' multiplayer mode. "In [The Nathan Drake Collection], if you want to play the game as 'Doughnut Drake,' you can do that through all three games if you want," Monacelli said.

"We'll have 55 to 65 different skins. They'll probably all be unlocks, and as you play through you'll earn them."

There are also some new difficulty settings. One is aimed at beginners, dialing the challenge down even further from the game's existing easy difficulty. Then there's a new one for the pros.

"If you're super hardcore, we're going to add something we call Brutal," Monacelli said. "If you already beat [the highest difficulty], Crushing, and you're awesome at it, you're gonna be challenged."

If you're looking for experience-altering new features, you won't find them here. Naughty Dog's goal in working with port developer Bluepoint Games is to preserve what made the originals so great, but present them in a way that lays the whole story out for newcomers.

"You're gonna get to see Nathan Drake's story from beginning to end, which we've never shown before," Monacelli said.

"It's one of those things where if you play them all back to back, you get a good, clear picture. We put a lot of love into our characters. It's almost like when you watch a Netflix series straight through, you get the full-fledged version of what that character is."

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection comes to PlayStation 4 on Oct. 7.