What ruined Ratchet and Clank series?
Up your arsenal for just copypasting going commando thus dooming us to strafeslop forever
Retards buying the linear garbage that was UYA and Insomniac for firing the writers of the PS2 games
>>748898619Barack Obama's second term basically ruined videogames and we never recovered.
>>748898619Insomniac wanted to move on after ACiT but they kept being dragged back to the series for one reason or another.
It's funny that I used to think handwaving Angela out of the canon was the worst possible thing they could have done narratively.They then went on to focus FIVE mainline entries on "what happened to the lombaxes?"Like, holy shit, give it a rest.Talwyn, Cronk and Zephyr and the Max Apogee plotline being dropped despite being linked to the mystery of the Lombaxes is also ridiculous. I get that a new writer took over, but for fuck's sake, they could have found a better way to wrap up these threads.
>>748898619American "culture"
>>748898619When they decided to keep Nefarius as the permanent background villain after the third game.
>>748898619focusing on the story and getting rid of the edgy humor
>>748898619Main character is the chosen one/last of his kind slop writing in the future games.
>>748898619Sony.You can bitch about story or music or characters, but Sony is behind the worst of this series, they're why Insomniac, after being made a subsidiary of Sony, just fumbles over and over again, Spider-Man PS4 was basically the last gasp of the Insomniac that made Spyro, because only 2 years prior we got the 2016 Ratchet remake, which just sucks compared to the 2002 game aside from like 2 details, one of which isn't even in the game.After Spider-Man PS4, it's just been freefalling in quality, no one cared for the Miles Morales game, people actually bitched about Spider-Man 2, Rift Apart was written off as a tech demo by those who didn't care and it came across as insultingly bland to fans of Ratchet and now everyone is justifiably ripping Wolverine a new one for just not being a videogame, despite the best efforts of the "having a blast" shills/bots.
>>748898941>t. Trump's 8000 dollar GPUs
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>stop making spyro because "we want a character with hands so we can do more stuff">every single game has less variety in what you do than spyro 2most the guns arent even inventive and the unique guns are usually less effective than just strafe walking with the shotgun
>>748898619It wasn't ruined. It ended very strongly with the ps3 game A Crack In Time in 2009, not sure why people claim there are other games.
>PS2 eraIt was fine besides a lack of quality control on difficulty but if you liked it you could beat it.Captain Qwark wanking overshadowed the main characters. Their writers did their best when working with him and his voice actor was really good.They didn't really understand how to balance a project. It was a traditional make levels until the budget dries up then ship the product.>PS3 era"I'm tired of making games of this virgin space cat and my best friend died/I don't want to work on an OC someone else made, I want to tell my own dramatic story, and it'll be bigger than star wars... oh I have to use them and their second last villain because corporate said it'd sell better? Okay, I guess, but I'm rewriting everyone!"Insomniac is better at organising a project... but only halfway into this era. The first game, Tools, is honestly bad and unfinished.>remake/known only for the porn era"We want money. Let's rerelease the original and give movie rights. No-one can write these days and our coders are shit? Who cares! It's not like anyone bought the original game.""Ew. Men are, like, problematic, and we need some trans representation. How will this help us to sell the game? Game?""Haha 'member when???""I would like to take this moment to promote my charity teddy bear and anyone who doesn't agree is a bad person and will be reported to HR for wrongthink"Shockingly, if not a bit of revisionism and selective memory from the time when everyone started saying corporate was racist and sexist in the '00s whilst the devs were definitely always woke progressive good gois (which is why image related never existed), Insomniac were originally going to have a brown tribal girl as their platformer mascot. Oh and I think Nippon told them to put stripes on Ratchet so he didn't look like a goblin, or something. It's probably a miracle they did what they did with the first game, and Naughty Dog helped too, in ways that imply ND should have remained engineers.
overuse of a shit villainhis voice actor must work for free
>>748898619All edge and roughness sanded down for marketability and "mass appeal".It killed its former identity and just made it feel like trying to do a multiverse story with Pixar at the head. Even if you don't credit The Game: The Movie: The Remake to Insomniac, Rift Apart is just as much a canary in the coal mine for the sort of design and story philosophy that landed us with Wolverine. They also made Ratchet lame and so gay that gay sex no longer seems desireable. It makes me haply Sly 4 sucked so hard he died and people pretend it ended with 3.
>>748900939They specifically meant what actions Spyro can do, which is just>jump>glide>flame>charge>ground pound>swim, but not in the first game>roll, except don't because it's pointless>climb, but I don't remember a single instance where climbable walls were used to anything other than forcing you to backtrack when you can climb this is why Spyro 1 is better>sometimes pick things up with your mouth and spit them back out>fly in very specific flying levels>use very specific power ups except 1 in the second game's hidden NG+>occasionally stop playing as Spyro in the third gameGreat for what Spyro was, but there's significantly more you can do with 64 Mario than you can with a fully upgraded RR Spyro, who is arguably no more complex than Crash is when he's fully upgraded in Warped.Ratchet in his first game, after you have his full moveset unlocked, can basically do everything 64 Mario can and more, at worst Ratchet can't do a mid-air dive and gets a mid-air dash instead and he can't do slide kicks but his sideflips maintain his forward momentum instead of requiring a 180 like in Mario 64.
>>748898619Much as I like Rivet for the coom, I need more bite to be brought back.
>>748902535It's unreal how dogshit it felt to control Ratchet/Rivet in Rift Apart compared to even the first game. It's like they completely forgot about the platformer half of the game as every segment felt even more on rails and auto driving than a grind rail segment.
>>748903948i think its jen hales cutest performancethe bug eyed black chick whos in everything was actually cute as her robot too kind of reminded me of the pandas in spyro 3
>>748898619Arsenal introduced stuff the series didn't need, but was still OK. Got too involved in the Lombax story, dropped Bergeaud for some garbage 'cinematic' composer with Crack in Time.Dropped the series' head writer, made a movie rewriting (junking) Ratchet's development from a selfish jerk to an actual hero, remade the first game to drive that hammer home, and nobody cared.That's when the series was dead. Everything after that was running voltage through a corpse.
>>748898619Rivet. Her censored design and garbage character was the nail in the coffin. Add in it's clear they were just gonna kill off Ratchet in a future game to make way for her to be the new MC and you have a recipe for disaster.
>>748898619Killing off Britney Spears Bot and her hottie backup dancers.
>>748904771They should have let a horny furry like Pixelsketcher design Rivet.
>>748898619nothing? the last ratchet game was awesome?the only issue that exists for the franchise is insomniac making more money with capeshit so they put ratchet on the backburner until ps6
Dogshit IP
>>748905276MISTER ADVERTISER GET DOWN NOW!!!!
humiliation ritual
>>748905276no then she would look like a e-girl or punk though the space theme could be cool
>>748905276Does Rivet ever show any interest in men in her game? Serious question, does she actually like boys in game?
>>748905681She shows some interest in Ratchet, but that's because he's a fellow lombax. Remember: All major female characters in a Sony game are lesbians.
UYA was a mistake, but Deadlocked was fun
>>748901010UYA's content being cut for the crappy Halo ripoff multiplayer is why I consider going commando to be the best of the ps2 trilogy. 1 has the best story in the series but the gameplay in that is very clunky. The other post-ps2 games would have been better taking from Deadlocked's op combat while preserving dark comedy and platforming and fusing it with more drama.>>748900714>>748902485Sony has its many failings as a former fanboy but Insomniac is mainly responsible for their own downfall. It isn't Sony's fault that you can skip all the puzzles in the remake. It isn't their fault that the combat became too easy. It isn't because of them Miles doesn't act like an actual black person. The writing issues with Insomniac go back to the ps3 era (I skipped the ps3 console but watched the ps3 games on youtube playthroughs). The multiplayer spinoffs are when gameplay turns for worse.>>748904147The original trilogy does a great job simulating the feeling of exploration (I love Going commando's sandbox and space levels contrary to popular opinion) and the future games do that well apparently. Rift Apart felt way too empty and lacking in new content despite being the same length.>>748904547Ditching the old composer for bland orchestra felt like defacing a statue, and epitomizes Insomniac's inferiority complex towards cinema and Pixar.
>>748898768fpbp
>>748905948So yeah, she exists so Rachet can get golfed in the future.
>>748898619>Series originates as a scathing criticism toward consumerism and celebrity worship>Becomes LESS cynical as it got older FUCKINGHOW
>>748908915>We want the Disney audience
they hired women to write soft kiddy shit
