>spends 2 years in a big city>turns into an angry, violent misanthrope Relatable
>>737077246He looks like he's going to kill Praxis
>its a Jak's friends berate him for being angry despite the fact that he was a torture victim episode
>>737077246its pretty cool how they kept adding to the original outfit. coulda done wihtout the apparent miniskirt in Jak 3 tho
so does he dye his hairand if he does, is green his natural color or is it blond
>>737077943The color of your hair changes with age or environmental pressures and conditions. Jak went from spending his days adventuring in the sun in an open village on the coastline to being tortured and experimented on indoors, in a dystopian city, on a daily if not weekly basis for 2 years. The stress of that expercience would do horrible things to the physical apperance of a man, its a miracle hes still handsome and sane.
He was literally confined in a prison the entire time, tortured daily and injected with dark eko.
>>737077246I always found it fascinating that the city in 2 and 3 is physically located where Jak 1 takes place.
100%ing Jak 1 gives you the bad ending. In another timeline Jak gets bored, forgets about finding every orb (or one falls into the ocean and is lost forever), and he lives out a comfy village life having 7 kids with Keira
Chasing the gta audience was retarded
He was being tortured for those years... also it's inorganic how much hate Jak 2 gets now. It's a great game and very fun and difficult, I like it slightly more than the original.Jak 3 however is a boring game with a bad story and it's so easy it almost feels insulting. The reliance on driving the buggys around a boring desert was a huge fucking mistake and they only did it because they wanted to make Jak X.Also they refused to work with Keira's VA and limited her to a single scene where she basically tells Jak it's over between them.
>>737080148>hateWho's hating? I never see hate on Jak 2, it's fun.
>>737080332Pretty much the entire online discourse for Jak 2 is>it's a GTA clone>sucks they tried to be GTA>GTA3 ruined gaming, Jak 2 is proof...>guns, cars, and edge? embarrassing, ND was really wanting to be GTA>it sucks how you just drive around the city to missions like GTA instead of having levels like the first gameEvery single game series copied GTA, but Jak 2 gets singled out as this extreme example of how to "ruin" something good by copying GTA.
>>737077246i think it was more so the torture rather than the city, he ended up being pretty chill with themside note for all the issues with 2 and 3 I really like jak's character arc and particularly how he turned out in 3 when he mellowed out and his look peakedprecursor armor is so damn cool
Jak says something like "this place is worth saving" or "this place is worth fighting for" when people discuss just abandoning Haven City to its fate to escape back to their own time.
>>737080925yeah right before they fire the big gun at the metalhead nest in 2
>>737077246Thesis / Antithesis / Synthesis
>>737080512Huh, I literally just never see that kind of discourse.Touch more grass dude. Anything you get from an algorithmic feed is DESIGNED to keep you engaged so someone else can profit on your life being significantly worse.Jak 2 is fun, probably the only example I can think of a game pivoting away from it's original gameplay loop to a new one and still being fun.Jak 3 didn't quite get it with the vehicles but still a lot of fun.
>>737080925Actually that's a point. Could they have gone back in time at any point? It's been so long since I played this game but I feel like the common sense thing would have been finding a way to go back to their own time,
>>737081435No, Keira had put the time machine together with scrap parts (inadvertently building it for them to find in the first game) but she was missing that big gem and that time map thing that had the coordinates in it. Also she needed to get to the rift gate or whatever it was called, and that ended up being kept safely in the Metal Head nest.
>>737077246>he's still handsome>handsome
>>737080512its pretty jarring to be fair you go from an elf boy collecting eggs to gta, has any other game series had such a shift between mainline entries
Jak 3 is awesome and I don't get the hate.
>>737081882>has any other game series had such a shift between mainline entriesSpyro went from a silly collectathon series with Muppet-faced characters to God of War lite with a LOTR inspired plot.
>>737082008Basically it's easy too easy and Jak is so ludicrously powerful compared to available enemies that the only missions where you can die is when Jak is strapped to a car
>>737082008>Act 3 is just 9 chapters most of which involve being strapped to a vehicle or inactive machineThats why. Also Erol sucks as a final boss. They could've just created a new Dark Maker leader.
>>737082008>>737082164Yeah they pivoted too hard from jak 2's hardest highs to 3 being way way easythe game is also underbaked and you can tell they rushed itthat said the weapons are fucking great and just fighting metal heads and kg bots in haven ruin is still fun3 really excelled at just being fun to play above all else
>>737082164>>737082304I didn't found the game that easy honestly (some of the last missions can be tough like that dark titan at the ship mission or the one where you have to protect Torn's explosives).
>>737082708I don't rember the dark titan being hard at all but I don't recall the torn explosive oneI think the toughest for me was the daxter pacman onebut yeah over all pretty easy
>>737077246Jak 3's design was peak and I'm tired of pretending it's not
>>737082008The Progenitors were Ottsels LOL THE PROGENITORS WERE OTTSELS ROFLMAO
>>737082821I recently beat 3 and those were the ones that gave me some trouble, the dark titan was hard due to the controls more than anything and the one where you have to shoot metal heads/robots to protect Torn's explosives (its the one before you enter the metalhead tower inside their nest in the city) would have been hell if it wasnt for the checkpoint mid game, it was still tough.I was gonna say the jeep level with Damas but that one was kinda buggy (sometimes i would explode solely for touching a wall or the energy generators despite having tons of health and when i beat the level my game froze so i had to do it again) and not that difficult.
>>737082896Its his best design by far.
>>737080512The only thing I dislike about it is the mission checkpoints being few and far between. Normally ND were pretty damn good with checkpoints so some missions were grating when they fucked up the balancing. Something they fixed in Jak 3 so they knew there was a problem. Sucks they didn't go back and fix it but it's mostly a minor complaint.
>>737082008Dude what if you had to use these shitty cars in the desert and backtrack a lot. Dude portal racing trials. Dude hoverboard trials, dude time trials.
>>737083546Oh yeah that vehicle one was finickythe battle to take down the walker with the vehicle was too
>>737082896>>737083606
Daxter is Mar
>>737085957>Daxter.. the dark eco.. it feels far away.. I found the way thanks to our lord Jesus Christ.
>>737077519Dude was so fucked up by it that he developed a voice
>>737078562Returning to Samos's cabin in the middle of a ruined shithole was a pretty cool moment
>>737077381urbanites think they're the peak of civilization while swimming to work through a sea of trash
>>737082118That was after years of games. J&D did it with the second game.
>>737080148I replayed 3 a couple months ago and I was really shocked at how short it was. It only took me about 13 hours to play through the whole thing, doing most of the optional missions for orbs.
>>737087281I mean if were being technical Shadow Legacy was the last Spyro game in the main franchise from 2005 and LOS came out in 2006. A Heroes Tail was 2004. A two year gap and a completely new reboot after that is a huge thing. Jak TPL and Jak 2 also have a two year gap.
>>737087406Jak 1 is extremely short and 2 and 3 are fairly short with 2 being the longest. I hit 110% ish on Jak2 Opengoal last year in about 12 hours. Jak3 will take me so far about 8 hours.
>>737080148Oh, a difficulty snob. How original.
>>737087249I wish they dropped more hints about the surrounding areas representing places near the first game's village. I get that Haven City built over most of it, but the outskirts should have some places at least geographically intact and similar.But yes, probably the most memorable story moment of that game.
1 > 3 > 2I like them all
>>737085957Being able to just whip a gun out in the Light Jak form was pretty sick
>>737080148>Also they refused to work with Keira's VA and limited her to a single scene where she basically tells Jak it's over between themcant express how pissed i was as a kid how they handled keira. she was my first waifu
>>737086580Jak is Mar, Daxter turned into a Precursor.
I would have really loved these games as a kid, I just played it for the first time on the recompsim not a shipping dork but I felt mad as FUCK that they did kaira so dirty in jak 2 and 3, what the actual fuck. I think im beginning to understand why twitter losers argue about this kinda shit all day
>>737087553damn are you including precursor orbs? i could never get all of themand 1 is really easy to 100% i remember doing it a friends house while he wasn't looking lol
>>737088916>I would have really loved these games as a kid,You missed out. I remember playing 2 after 1 and my kid brain was like>Wow, this must be what games for adults are like
>>737088916yeah seeing a ship bungled really really badly is really annoying even without getting to into it
Reminder that Jak 3's original plot was the precursors being evil and the entire game was a global racewar instigated by them to designate a successor for the planet.
>>737089209That sounds pretty fun honestly, got any more details?
i'd play the shit out of a faction/rts style game with haven city/freedom league vs kg baron loyalists vs kg death bots vs wasteland bandits vs metal heads vs dark makersR&C has always been my favorite of the ps platformers but J&D always had the more interesting world and story
>>737088916hated the Keira thing as a teen, understood it as an adultI can suspend my disbelief for magic and dragons and shit, but the childhood friend winning is as eye-rolling a trope to me as a chosen oneI also picked up this game over something else I was looking at because I imagined if the girl I had a crush on came over my house (this was in 8th grade) I wouldn't want her watching me play some kiddy shit. God I could be retarded.
>>737089287No because I made it up.
>>737089746Lol.
I'M GONNA KILL PRAXIS >Doesn't kill him
>>737085957i never used this form after i unlocked time slow. the weapon upgrades were too op dealing with groups of enemies
>>737090304>not knowing about the infinite fly glitchoh no no no
>>737090034i mean he kinda did, sorta
>>737081882Jak is the most extreme tone shift I think but rayman 1 to 2 is almost as jarring
>>737090383What happened with rayman?
>>737089702Nah that's good instinct. You instinctively knew about "ick" from ancestral blood memory.Always try to look cool for girls you want to bang. They really do like it, ESPECIALLY if they say they don't (they're lying).
>>737081882Twilight Princess to Wind Waker maybe
>>737090505Rayman 1 is scrimblo brimblo jumping around in musical note lands, look at how smiley everyone is.Rayman 2 is everyone is enslaved by robot pirates and the entire game is taking place in dark dank swamps and caves
>>737090374tell me how to do it?
>>737080148Man, she seems so stretched out
PS2 games or PS3 collection?And same thing for ALL the PS3 collections, I been picking them up over the months. How'd we lose such a damn good trifecta of Ratchet/Sly/Jak for PS2 era GOOD GAMES to be remembered?
Jak 3 was my first game for my PS2, which was also my first console. The game was so fucking hard for me, i remember losing my mind at rescue wastelanders and the following dark satellite boss fight. My dad had to help me beat it. I also didnt have a memory card for the first few weeks so i had to replay the hard ass arena stuff so i could get to the part where i could drive around in the sandshark. Also being a esl i never knew that you could heal with light jak for example. I think it took me over a year to beat the game. Weird to have this kinda oddball game thats seen as the lesser of the franchise entries in an already spotty franchise be my childhood game. But i still love it. Jet boarding around Haven city, driving the cars around the desert for hours, fighting the endless tide of KG bots and metal heads with the guard at my side just for fun. Kino.
>>737077246I really liked Jak 2. I could beat it over a weekend. I found it fun.
i wonder if there will be a jak 3 fan remaster
>>737091323OpelGOAL just released jak 3
DO YOU REMEMBER THE CITY JAKFIND THE SPOTBEFORE TIME RUNS OUTFOR A PRIZE
>>737091407i know. i just hope its updated enough to be stable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJfxTaO-g0Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ecSlHenPohave a good one jak bros
>>737090635flap wings --> cancel animation with shield --> flap wings. more limited without infinite light enabled but still useful
>>737077246Bob Rafei's art style is great. Jak X looks cool
>>737080512As a kid I was absolutely disgusted by it and I still am now. I was even one of those fags who said "open-world is the future" before I played Jak 2.To this day it's the worst sequel I have ever played. I can't think of anything else that disappointed me harder.
>>737080512i wouldnt hate the driving so much if there was a drift button to maintain speed without sliding into a wall, and there are so many cars that you will bump a guard or your ride explodesif there was more stuff to do in the city, it wouldnt be so bad. spiderman 2 had this dumb problem, except I would always save the random civilians for some upgrade pointsand maybe the entire city didnt need to feel like a winding mazebut I like the 2000's edge and I miss it
>>737080148I prefer the natural evolution of a platformer that was Jak 1 to crash, and then they fucked it all up by making it a shitty driving game
>>737090879Ps3 versions have some advantages, but also disadvantages. Notably you are forced into 16:9 aspect ratio, which just crops the screen and makes a couple sections pretty shit to play if you don’t already know what to do, because the thing you are supposed to see is off sceeen. Also a few visual effects are broken which ruins at least one cutscene (characters face textures just don’t load).The best offical release of Jak 1 is the ps5 port. Which is just emulated Ps2 version. So it doesn’t have any of the issues of ps3 port, but does run at high resolution. But unofficial versions you can get same, or even better, results emulating it yourself on PC, or the OpenGoal version.
>>737090692I think you mean ready to settle down
Playing them all again since Jak 3 hit opengoal. Jak 2 is still pretty fun, and I'm honestly kind of interested to play Lost Frontier again considering I haven't played it since it came out
>>737098459Is there a mod to make 3 harder? The og is too easy
>>737080148This EXACT era of western art trying to do anime proportions has become nostalgic to me.
>>737080148jak 2 is kino retards just parrot the muh tonal whiplash argument from faggy journalists
>>737090879The PS3 remasters are worth it just for the option to play with non-inverted camera controls. I could never go back to the originals with forced inverted controls>>737096002The PS4 versions are literally the worst of all worlds. Not accurate, tons of framerate drops, locked 8 way movement, no inverted camera fix from the PS3 versions
>>737077519The only friend Jak had after being sent into the future was Daxter, the guy who took almost 2 years to save a friend he could've saved in almost 2 weeks because he spent most of that time spewing hot air at a dingy pub.
>>737077246westeren designs are so ugly
>>737104130gachajeet out of nowhere
>>737077246He spent two years in prison. So congrats, you are now a woketard.
Why did they do it?
>>737089434god that design looks badass
>>737105697>lost frontiernot a real Jak game, just like postal 3 wasn't fucking shit
>>737077246I'd rather have deer as neighbors than niggers. Insurance usually doesn't fight if you run deer over.
>>737077519honestly i'm kinda impressed how little dark jak features in the plot. it's a big enough deal that he's part of the logo in 2 but i don't think the characters ever really acknowledge its existence outside if mentioning that jak "has a dark side"
>>737091457>>737091412>>737091187>>737091153>>737091098>>737099832I appreciate the jak memes, will save to my collection (2 images)
>>737077246Words cannot express my hatred and disdain for city niggers.
