I love how nice and fluent this game feels. I don't even think it's the best Jak game, but it's the one I replay the most. The PS5 release was a good excuse to add new Trophies because theyjustprunedagamergatetopic because it revealed too much, and I platinumed it all over again.
>>738595575no open world garbage = SOUL
J&D was my favorite platformer on the PS2.
sure have been a lot of threads for this series recently. this dead series nobody has any real reason to talk about unless they just started emulating it and are desperate for discussion.
>>738595575I've been recently going through old games again after setting up RetroAchievements, and I was really impressed with Jak & Daxter. I forgot how good the platforming was and how satisfying it was to do all of the rolls and combos and things. I also did a run of the game without collecting any orbs in order to get the final achievement, and that was a lot of fun too, it gave me a new perspective on the game and forced me to approach old challenges in new ways
>>738597165What else are you going to talk about? AAA companies don't make games anymore
pre-uncharted naughtydog had lots of soul, but starting from jak 2 you could already start seeing the writing on the wall
>>738597717Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter are every bit as "derivative" in their respective genres as Jak 2 was for the GTA genre.A lot of uncs don't realize (because you grew up on it) that uncs of the time (people like me) had the exact same apathy for the "Mascot Platformer" trend as you have with Destiny Clones or Ubibox games.In the end it was all about money anyway. "How do we market our game to tap into this MARKET" is exactly what Jason Rubin and his cofounder thought when they made Crash Bandicoot under contract with Universal. It's the same thing they thought when they made Jak & Daxter -- in fact, Jason Rubin said that he made a lot of mistakes designing Jak with the studio, because they tried to combine appeals to too many different markets. Japan, Europe, America, Saudi Arabia, Brazil etc. and that's why the game didn't fully take off like Crash did. Jak 2 was them looking at the market as it was after GTA III, and saying "So that's replaced the Mascot Furry huh" and just pivoted to that.It's a weird mix, but Jak 2 is where Naughty Dog grew into character, and Uncharted 1~4 is where they peaked as a studio. The Druckmann era is crap though. TLOU2 is good on some levels but it's way too miserably dark for me, and coupling that with LGBT themes just makes it an accurate depiction of how dysfunctional and retarded the world has become -- that people genuinely want to see deathly serious content about death and torture while remaining positive about uncontrolled sexual deviancy.
>>738595575You're making me interested in playing it, might just try it out.
>>738598928Jak 1 isn't derivative, it's world design for a platformer at the time was incredible and not even nintendo would measure up to it until mario odyssey 15 years later
>>738597165Games take so long that there's nothing else to talk aboutAnd most games that do released are lame and gay slop
>>738599301Derivative doesn't mean bad.
Sony actually improved the PS2 emulator as time went on. Extremely rare Sony W. Jak 2, 3, and X used to run like SHIT on PS4, but now they're practically native. I'm sure 1 also saw improvements.
Pure soul. Also Daxter is super cute and lovable.
>>738597165This, why isn't this a twitter screencap thread instead? /v/ is not what it used to be...
>>738599301It's derivative of Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie, just like Crash Bandicoot was derivative of Sonic to the point where its internal codename was literally, and I'm not making this up, "Sonic's Ass".
>>738597165Sony is getting uppity that it has no IPs again
>>738601316>bunch of dead franchises>and KratosIs GoW on ice now or something? Didn't they just release a spin-off
it fucking stinks
>TPL will never get a true sequelI hate the direction naughty dog took the story in. The end was clearly setting up for Gol and Maia to come back too
>>738601316>IP preservation>a fucking monkey from what's basically a techdemo for the PSX controller with sticks is one of the few remaining IPs that sony haslol? lmao? Hello?
>>738598928yeah, but the games were good
>>738602735Does anything from Jak 1 ever make it into the sequels or is it just all scrapped for GTA shit?
>>738606096Aside from the plot twist, yakows, and a single Lurker; not really. Unless you count the Jak 3 guide book as "canon"
>>738600707I want to DATE himFUCK
>>738602735I ended up liking Jak 2 the most, very well constructed plot and surprisingly tight gameplay.I wish 3 had another year of dev time.
>>738606941I want to FUCK himDATE
>>738607102Based? Based? Based?
>>738607102DAXTERGET RID OF THE PANTSP L E A S E
>>738607102Why didn't Daxter just wish for a giant BUTT
>>738595575It's really cool how it utilizes a bunch of neat tricks so that the game barely has any loading screens.
>>738595863wtf
>>738610747Honestly, I'm surprised they wrote their own program for Jak 1 through 3, and never used it for anything else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKc7TQq3kpU&tThis video has some cool insight, into the development of the jak games
>>738607102>>738607334>>738607732>>738609980Way too many sex addicts in here.
>>738595575i played this game days ago (on pc via opengoal) and there is something slightly wrong with the jumping physics in this game, like the double jumping doesn't always want to trigger.
>>738613228thank you for implying i have sex
Why is sony so gay now? The only modern sony game I like is astro bot. Haven’t played ghost of tsushima yet heard mixed things about it.
>>738597165I played them not too long ago because 3 got a PC port
>>738600707Unironically, the best game in the series.
>>738606096I don't think the other eco types are even mentioned ever again
>>738613557You're pressing the button too fast likely.
>>738595575>fluentKEK
>>738600707The devs were really talented with animation
>>738595575fucking loved this series as a kid
>>738613228furry porn is too good bro nothing in life matters once you get exposed
>>738619971>The animators were so goodAnother W for jews.
>>738622265I can jerk off to Sonic characters, but Daxter is voiced by someone that sounds like he looks like Danny Devito for fuck's sake.
>>738622827His cartoon voice adds to his hotness for me.
