>>1233881 >More recently, Rift Apart is just as good as the PS2 quadrilogy. But is the writing? Because I feel the Ratchet series stopped being well written around Size Matters. Plenty of the games have still been fun mind you, ACIT is arguably the best in the series.

>>1385618 Ah yes, Size Matters writing. Though not as stupid as SAC, SM gets worse the more you think about it.

>>1386219 I do love the fact that SM and SAC were made by a guy from the OG devteam that thought he could do R&C better than the others.

Rift Apart's camera mode is fun >>1233881 >>1385618 I wouldn't put Rift Apart on par with even the PS3 series, let alone the PS2 games. It's definitely fun, but it's lacking a lot of content. The arena is especially anemic. This might be controversial but I didn't like the combat as much as ACIT or GC. The enemies move too fast and their melee range is crazy, you have to start sprinting and dashing around and it stops feeling like Ratchet & Clank.

Ratchet and Clank? More like Whack It and Wank lol

I heard there are lesbians in the Ratchet and Clank franchise.

>>1714605 A bitter ex-writer said that to stir up drama, the character in question is not. She (Rivet) is implied to be with Ratchet in the credit sequence. I can't believe this is still being relitigated 3 years later. There's a lot of drama around the person who said that and it seems she's been blacklisted from the industry since, if you've ever heard anything about Rivet being lesbian or trans, it's bullshit. It's possible Rivet was queer during an earlier draft of the story, but that's irrelevant as the game was completely rewritten by Lauren Mee and the Folkman brothers.

>>1234654 I know I'm four months late, but I forgot Full Frontal Assault even had multiplayer. Not like I had anyone to play it with. It's not at all nearly impossible to beat Single Player. Don't go in expecting a normal Ratchet game, expect a tower defence focus and a shorter game (as it was sold as a budget game). But it works fine for what it is, and you don't need multiplayer at all. All 4 One suffers more if you don't have multiplayer, but it's still very playable and beatable in single player, too. >>1245010 He has his own levels in Secret Agent Clank, and All 4 One is basically about him. He became the President (in the comic book) and it's about that. And of course he's playable. Yeah, he's a buffoon, but he also seems competent enough to be respected. And of course it's commentary on things like the Governator, but he's still a good guy. >>1249848 The redesign was clearly done for SJW reasons, and clearly done to Tawna because SJWs were offended by her being hot, which is why she was removed in the first place.

>>1714478 J&D has better gap bait.

>>1714478 No, Scratch It & Wank (YTP series)

>>1714704 Would. It's not gay if it's a space kangaroo thing.

Bought the Ratchet and Clank collection on Ps3, but I kinda prefer the originals on the Ps2, so I downgraded and emulated those instead. Gotta say, they really hold up and are quite fun.

>>1716932 The PS2 version is still the objectively best way to play the original R&C series. Was it the PS3 releases or the later rereleases that turned out to be poorly emulated with a bunch of graphical errors?

>>1716932 >>1717009 Yeah they weren't fully fixed on PCSX2 all that long ago, and since they now support you using overclocking you can also have a much nicer framerate than the real console would get.

>>1716932 What more people need to understand, is there is no upgrade. No better textures, no better effects, exact same 3D models. The same existing pre-rendered SD movies, only this time squeezed. The HD Collection was a scam.

>>1716180 >not her taking human cock 0/10 anon

>>1717009 This one. Gave me problems like graphical glitches and odd camera bugs during cutscenes. The only real benefit was upscaling to 720p, and I can do that easily on PCSX2.

>>1718487 huh who did this? She's insane but gets rebuilt after being destroyed..

>>1718778 Isn't it weird it was just Ratchet 1, 2 and 3? I guess the other three PS2 games don't matter.

>>1739727 Deadlocked was a spinoff. It's a whole different genre, and that's why "& Clank" was left out of the title. It's not part of the main series. The two PSP games were ported to PS2 long after PS2 stopped being relevant in first world countries, as a mere afterthought because it was easy to do. I doubt most players were even aware that they were on PS2. The whole appeal of Size Matters, as the title implies, is that it's portable. Secret Agent Clank is basically the same thing. You play as the sidekick because it's a portable spinoff, same as Daxter. I like all three of those games, and obviously that collection would be better if it had more games on it, but yes, compared to the first three, they don't matter.

>>1739727 >>1741110 SAC was never on PS2, just Size Matters, and yeah playing on PS2 you can tell SM was made for weaker hardware first and foremost.

>>1741260 I have a copy of Secret Agent Clank for PS2. But yes it's really a PSP game.

>>1741263 First time I'm seeing that, thought SM was the only one that got ported. SAC was the only one I never had on PS2, part of why I assumed that.

>>1741110 Deadlocked was actually called Ratchet 4 in some countries, and Insomniac themselves seem to consider it a mainline entry.

>>1718487 I wanted to tap Courtney so hard she reevaluates her opinion on squishies back then.

>>1741944 Evidently Sony doesn't since it wasn't in the collection. Insomniac made it, so it has more claim than the PSP games, but it's still very distinct from all the other PS2 games. It's more along the lines of All 4 One.

>>1742395 >Insomniac made it, so it has more claim than the PSP games Fun fact, the dev team for the PSP games was headed by a guy that did work on the original trilogy and claimed he could do a better R&C game with his own team following his direction.

>>1258590 RaC movie That video game movie adaptation was ahead of its time with how mediocre it was (even with an almost faithful story). The only things that I found memorable were Dr. Nefarious and a funny use of the Wilhelm scream.

The only entry I've played is Deadlocked funnily enough. I think I was sold on it watching G4 as a kid. Are 1-3 worth getting on PS2 or straight up emulating? It seems thorough discussion has determined that the PS3 remasters aren't worth playing for an authentic experience.

>>1742528 Yeah, they did a good job, too. And Daxter was made by people who left Naughty Dog to form their own studio, which explains why that was also pretty good. Unfortunately, when the team that made the handheld Ratchet games then did Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier, it sucked for some reason. You'd think going from Ratchet to Jak would make sense, but apparently it doesn't. And then the team that made Daxter became one of modern Soyny's shitty teams that makes garbage like The Order: 1488 or whatever that one was called. The team that made the Ratchet games just started making outright shovelware and I'm pretty sure they don't exist anymore. >>1742899 Definitely play the other PS2 entries. Deadlocked is a good game, but in my opinion is the least good of the four. But if you like the shooting more than the platforming, the series slowly transitions into that. It begins much more platforming heavy, with less focus on shooting. Each game ramps up the focus on shooting, until you finally get Deadlocked. Then the PS3 games go back to the balance of something between the second and third game. The PS3 games are worth it, too. People here complain about the stories a lot, but the gameplay is still excellent. I'd say Tools of Destruction and A Crack in Time are two of the best in the series (along with Going Commando for PS2). Then there are a bunch of spinoffs on PS3, but you should play the PS2 games first anyway. If you ever get all the way to the PS3 games, you can decide for yourself if you want to bother with the spinoffs. The PS3 remasters get the job done, but they have notable glitches as early as the opening cutscenes. I think that turns everyone off, including me. I bet it's still playable, but doesn't make a good first impression.

I'm surprised how few R&C clones there are. I know of maybe 3, these ones. Akimbot tries to be like Rift Apart but it's honestly closer to something like Uncharted than Ratchet. Ruff Trigger is much closer, but it's a 5/10 game at best. Robots is obviously inspired by Ratchet, but it's more of standard action adventure. Decent, though. Do you guys know of any? >>1233930 >>1234017 >>1240801 >>1252659 >t. didn't install the canary patches I know it's a pain in the ass but the games work fine if you do it. By 'pain in the ass' I mean copypasting into a text file, but that might be a little too hands on for the "it just werks" crowd. >>1252614 >>1252671 >>1252683 Ratchet 1 really does not play well, despite some ecelebs touting it as the best in the series. It has the best music, I guess. I'd like Ratchet 1 a lot more if it had 2 or 3's control scheme. It's almost great, but Insomniac didn't quite know what they were doing yet. >>1742528 This mind sound odd, but Size Matters is like if you took the modern games and subtracted them from the original games. Does that make sense? >>1255286 RYNO V, probably. It's hysterically OP and makes NG+ really fun. The RYNO Infinity in Rift Apart is the worst, probably. It doesn't feel good to use and it's kind of weird conceptually. There already is a RYNO-like >>1742899 The original trilogy is great, but they're very different. More platformers than third-person shooters, the weapons are weirder and the levels are more non-linear. Ratchet 3 is the closest to Deadlocked. Some of the PS3 games are also worth checking out, namely Tools of Destruction, A Crack in Time, and Into the Nexus. You can ignore the others. A Crack in Time is often regarded as one of the best in the series.

>>1743257 I agree that the controls were made better in 2 and 3, but the first game is much more focused on platforming than later entries, and the controls work well for that. They don't work as well for shooting, but that particular game doesn't have as much focus on shooting.

>>1743257 >>t. didn't install the canary patches They don't work in the latest versions and I can't locate a version where they do still work, I really just need to locate some spare SSD and do a linux install just to play it since that doesn't crash even without the patch but I'm very lazy.

>>1746264 The newer versions of RPCS3 are weirdly unstable in general. I can't even get them to run on my machine, so I'm stuck with versions from last year. >I can't locate a version where they do still work Try one from a year or two ago. You can find every build on their site https://rpcs3.net/compatibility?b