/v/ - Video Games

they are shit along with all of the other playstation 1 platformers

Was the 2016 remake any good? I know the movie bombed, but I haven't heard anything about the game.

Out of the OG 3 I think going commando is the strongest. I always liked the series but nothing can stay good forever.

>What's your opinion on these games?

I feel with every game it included more of the issues I had with the series and never tried to fix itself.

>Do you have any hope for the future of the series?

No, I had minor issue with 2 where weapons went from a cool extra pieces of utility you could have (R&C being a platformer with guns over a shooting game) to an almost mandatory means to out enemies with an element of power creep. (Along with the design becoming a shooter with platforming)

3 quadrupled down on the power creep the series had and from there it kept doing it on itself over and over.

I also absolutely hate that the reboot brought in this massive evolution of bad design ideas and forced them into the game I liked.

>>15764235

Original trilogy was good, then the second one, and then everything went to shit and were just cashgrabs by Insomniac while they drifted from EA to Microsoft then back to Sony to make overrated shit.

>>15764245

>>15764259

It's not really a remake, the game is retelling of the original game from Qwark's point of view. It's not a reboot or retcon as the events of the game aren't fully canon to begin with.

>>15764245

Come and buy the motherfucking pixelizer.

>>15764245

It is to the original Ratchet & Clank what old Simpsons is to new Simpsons. Animation included. It's trash.

>>15764510

Traitors.

>>15764911

No it's fucking reboot, the story is different to the original game.

>>15764982

Did you not read what I wrote? The entire game is just Qwark telling a prisoner his account of the first game, he actively narratives the game as if he was telling a story. That's why it's different.

>>15764988

>The entire game is just Qwark telling a prisoner his account of the first game, he actively narratives the game as if he was telling a story

No he's not and the only reason they have Qwark narrate the game is so they can throw in shitty jokes like "le zombie t-rex".

>>15765024

That shit was so fucking gay.

>>15765074

I didn't say you had them, but if you care to associate so much with niggers and other subhumans it probably wouldn't be very hard to have Jamal lend you it long enough to blow your head off. Tell him you'll give him your daddy's money, and that he'll make better use of it than you ever did getting triple soy shot lattes at Starbucks.

>>15765082

don't reply to the bot

>>15765084

Don't presume to tell me what to do, faggot.

>>15764371

Going commando is on the top for me as well, but it's a close run. The first game had overall the best story, settings, music and mechanics heh, but the second simply beats it in amount content.

>>15764259

>pic

I really like that sobering feeling of going through the last couple of planets, where you really see the backside of the medal. It's not so much an adventure anymore, just you going through all these different dystopian settings, way beyond any help. The soundtrack and difficulty was very much on point here. The first game also did this to an extent, but Going Commando did this the best

>>15764245

A demake, honestly

less and worse levels

less and worse mechanics

same enemies all the time

took a big dump on the original story

soundtrack was very forgettable

runs on 30 frames

Crack in time was the peak of Ratchet and Clank.

>>15764242

>playstation 1

Anon, you're a retard.

>inb4 muh bait

Rachet and clank was the series that got me in to vidya games. Completed the first one like 14 times. Same with the next two and gladiator. The ones after that are shit.

>>15765225

>The soundtrack and difficulty was very much on point here.

Agreed. Embed related is what made the stage one of my favorites in the game in spite of having an insane difficulty spike relatively and a terrible boss at the end of it.

Oh and speaking of distopian settings, I thought Orxon was easily one of the coolest levels in the game, and then on subsequent playthroughs I realized it was the homeworld of the Blarg mentioned in the very first cutscene, and is basically the place where the whole story kicks off, and yet the game doesn't make a big deal out of it, almost like it really is a forgotten hellhole way beyond any help.

>Ratchet and Clank

Heh, more like Ratchet and Clang.

The first trilogy was great. The PS3 non-spinoff games were passable. It has no hope whatsoever at this point, with the company being leftists and it being made exclusively for kids. The R&C games past the main PS3 ones have been dubbed into my county's language, which is a certain sign that they are made exclusively for young children.

>>15764974

Ow.

I never played them. Is the HD collection for PS3 any good?

>>15765734

Slowdowns and graphical glitches, I'd recommend against it.

>>15764259

Wasn't Grelbin rushed to fuck? I saw a video of the devs explaining why it was so bad.

>>15764245

It's fun, but if you go into it with the expectation of it being a remake you'll be very disappointed. It's built in the same way the Future games are. Platforming is almost nonexistent and shootan is the main focus.

Play it as if it were a separate game and it's enjoyable.

>>15767604

This, to be honest. It's a fun game in its own right but terrible as a remake. The weapons are too different, the story is too different and the characters are too different.

>>15765587

BAZINGA

>>15767650

That's why you level up that plasma gun that can fry multiple enemies per shot (the leveled up bouncer is also fairly useful) and take things slow, restocking as needed.

>>15767589

Not sure it was rushed, but the surface was most definitely imbalanced

>>15764235

1-3 are timeless classics, even if I personally didn't care for 3 as much (same thing happened with Spyro 1-3, love them overall but the third game just rubs me the wrong way sometimes). Deadlocked was a mixed bag for me. I enjoyed the co-op and the weapon customization, but it had almost no platforming left in it at that point. The Future games have solid enough gameplay, perhaps a bit by-the-numbers as they seemed to have boiled down the formula, but the generic chosen-one plot points applied to both Ratchet and Clank (especially Clank) are a real drag on those games in my opinion. I didn't play Size Matters, Secret Agent Clank, or All 4 One. Full Frontal Assault had some neat ideas but wasn't executed to its absolute fullest potential (it also had some nasty bugs).

The 2016 game pretends to be a remake but in reality it's just a movie tie-in game, complete with the early-2000s-tier laziness of sloppily cutting up sequences from the film and dropping haphazardly into the game as a cutscene. It still has the acceptable boiled-down gameplay of previous games but beyond that it is a real disappointment.

>>15765569

yep, Orxon was really great.

I wish they would have kept the "show, don't tell" style.

surprisingly, it didn't make it into the "remake"

>>15767854

Deadlocked wasn't a bad game, but it felt kinda uninspired. Most of the time you'd just grind kills, level after level, and there wasn't much else to it. Generic and boring worlds, eh soundtrack, etc. There was definitely not put the same care into the game as the previous ones.

But on the same time the game had this genius story of capitalism and commercialization, where the villain would make a brand out of Ratchet to sell products. So to speak, selling out on Ratchet and Clank.

So, the game felt like playing a borderline cash-grap, while the game itself were making fun of other cash-graps AND making fun of itself for being a cash-grap.

Sorry if this is too convoluted

>>15769688

>surprisingly, it didn't make it into the "remake"

>Planet that showcases just how fucked the Blarg's own situation has gotten

>cut from the remake entirely

For what purpose?

Insomniac did copy their own game with sunset overdrive combining platforming with the gunplay

But they sold their soul in the process