How did they manage to make every single game a success?
>>345085010
furries love ratchet
rehashing the kind of game no one makes these days.
>>345085010
Solid gameplay. Fun setting, weapon designs, incremental improvements to the core experience
Hoverboots in CiT was fucking game changing.
>>345085010
Size matters says hello, alongside tools.
>>345085059
Furries don't even exist.
NO ONE wants to fuck animals or anthropomorphic characters.
>>345085010
Not every single game was a success.
>Ratchet: Deadlocked
>Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault
>Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One
>The PSP games
>All 4 One
>Q-Force/Full Frontal Assault
>"Success"
>>345085010
they have a very solid development team and they get enough independence without interference from marketing or other bullshit
>>345085010
Solid gameplay, fun weapons and likable characters
>>345085162
>Ratchet: Deadlocked
>Hating gladiator
The fuck is wrong with you, anon?
>>345085010
>full frontal assault
>all 4 one
>the mobile game
>the psp games
they weren't all successes.
tools of destruction was a commercial failure at launch too.
>>345085161
How in God's name did you wind up in /v/ on your first day on the Internet
>>345085075
This has to be a big part of it.
>>345085162
>Hating gladiator
My man, kill yourself for that godawfull taste
ratchet games arent crap but they arent good either.
they release mediocre to okay games and only fanbase buy games.
okay i guess.
no ratchet game ever catched success of Spyro or Crash for that matter.
>>345085010
I am non furry but damn I had the hots for Ratchet when I was 9
>people praise Crack in Time
>finally get to playing it
>bunch of bullshit constantly interrupting proper gameplay
>by far the least satisfying weapons in the series
>even ryno sucks
>the less said about arena the better
How exactly is it supposed to be better than ToD in any conceivable way?
>>345085448
I thought Sly Cooper was hotter, Ratchet was more cute to me
>>345085274
>>345085424
I think he meant financially. But yeah if you think it was bad, leave this existence.
>>345085010
By making a good game the first time, refining it the second time and repeating it every subsequent time.
They found a formula that worked and they milked it.
>>345085059
I wish they'd draw more decent quality porn of the females
Especially Sasha
>>345085010
Solid gameplay with lots of replay value, funny characters, and fantastic art direction
>>345085497
I kinda liked Crack in Time. But I can't understand why people consider it the best in the series either.
you can tell they lost talent from the earlier games since ratchet looks like he was made by pixar and his pupils aren't giant.
>decide to try the first game after a long time
>controls suck so much it's unplayable
>>345085441
The series as a whole has sold around 30 million units world wide...
>>345085787
Pleb
Don't know, because they're not fun
>>345085336
t. disgusting furry
>>345085497
The fact you think tools was any good to begin with tells me I should not bother to argue.
Good job on liking the worst console R&C
>>345085787
it's hardly unplayable. just remember that the wrench is actually usable for a lot of the game.
>>345085787
start from the second
the first is the least fleshed out of the series
>>345085891
Yeah, have fun slogging through 20 moons for collectibles just so you can get upgrades for the shitty ship sections.
>>345085161
I'm gonna need a lot more replies to this for a screencap
Boy oh boy you might be more retarded than the "fun isn't fun" guy
>>345086010
I don't know why those furry fucks keep avatarposting their retarded animal pictures
it must be some kind of mental illness
>>345085010
Did anyone else think the reboot was kinda disappointing?
>hating deadlocked when it had
>co op
>best weapons
>best humor
>best grind rails
>weapon mods
>landstalker
I bet you anti deadlock fags played the PS3 version first
>>345086180
>Missing worlds
>Shitty story due to terrible movie
>Weapons are 90% copy pasted from previous games
>Generic orchestral music replacing classic OST
If it wasn't for platformers being near extinct this gen, I probably wouldn't have even bought it
>>345085010
How did they manage to fuck up Ratchets face?
>>345085928
the only weapon you need to buy is devastator, pyro is ok but bomb glove can make up for it
>>345085497
>even ryno sucks
>RYNO V
>Sucking
While it is a step down from IV in terms of ability to wipe the screen from enemies, it is the most satisfying RYNO in the series. They tried replicating it in ITN, but Night on bald mountain isn't as good as the 1812 Overture and the damage sucked
>>345086180
it had its flaws as >>345086326 already mentioned, but I still had fun and did like 2 playthroughs of it in a row
So we can all agree that 2 and 3 are the best
>>345085161
add me in the screencap
>>345085010
>success
What do you mean by success? Secret Agent Clank was shit apparently, and Size Matters was meh.
Stopped playing at Up Your Arsenal. Never played Deadlocked.
Ball on chain from Deadlocked is by far the most fun weapon in the series.
>>345085928
>R+C 1
>give us a bunch of wacky, cool weapons
>damn-near impossible to be able to afford ammo for it
>alternatively, you can spam the wrench because it kills everything in 2 hits
>but oh wait, you need to remain still to throw it
>well, that's okay, you can just--
>and it's hard to aim despite autoaim when you're in crowds because you can't strafe
R+C is one of my favourite franchises, but even compared to going commando, the first one is near-unplayable.
>>345085010
The story/characters/humor and style all got shittier after the ps2 games
The gameplay got super easy aswell
>>345086023
Have fun with motion controls dictating gameplay segments, shit weapons, bland levels, shit story, ugly visuals and needlessly expansive sandbox levels
>>345086356
explain.
show your work.
>>345086356
I agree he looks like shit now
>>345086460
>>345086326
It was fun I finished it three times, I just wish the movie never happened so would have gotten an actual full remake
>>345086576
stop avatar-fagging and fuck off back to /ztg/
>>345086403
>it is the most satisfying RYNO in the series
Yeah, I love missing 90% of my shots
My first game was A Crack in Time for PS3, never played any of the previous ones and it was awesome. Fun, easy but not laughably so, great characters and traditional gameplay. I'm looking into getting an emulator and the older titles.
>>345086691
It's hard to hit something that's already dead
>>345086759
don't bother trying to emulate the originals
>>345086759
Just get the HD collection. Emulation doesn't quite work for R&C, you'll get buggy distant textures.
>>345086759
>emulating older titles
Oh sweet summer child, how inocemt can you be
>>345086759
They emulate like complete shit
You're better off just getting the PS3 collection, as crappy as it is
>>345086918
It's that bad? Damn I was looking forward to it. Can't access my PS3 right now so I'm screwed.
>>345085010
They made one good game and then kept making it.
I mean sure, that meant they were all good - apart from shit like All 4 One, anyway - but novelty is inherent to entertainment and after like the fourth one I played, I was fucking done with them.
>>345086759
RC2 emulates fairly decently if you have a good PC. You have a good PC don't you?
>>345085161
well I mean you're right because you can't and never will be able to
>>345087024
Yeah it's really bad, Insomniac did some real wizardry with mipmaps to maximise performance. Unfortunately PCSX2 really doesn't like custom mipmaps and fucks them up completely in hardware mode. You need a powerful computer to run them in software mode and that still runs in 480i/480p.
>>345085010
Ratchet is an ugly character design. It's wanna-be Pixar tryhard shit honestly.
>>345086949
HD collection is only really bad for 1. 2 and 3 have occasional bugs, but they're rare and random.
>>345087198
>tfw listening to developer commentary of the old R+C games to hear the wizardry they pulled off to get them to fit on a disc
>>345087238
Yeah the whole art design is pretty safe Dreamworks direct to video sequel.
Still, not why anyone plays them.
>>345087239
The alpha effects in Ratchet 1 are so fucked.
Why couldn't we get a graphically impressive remaster, like Okami HD, ZoE 2 HD orGoW 1&2 HD
>>345087402
Because Insomniac had to go through loops to make the games work properly on PS2 in the first place
>>345087380
Funny you say that when they recently tried to push out a feature length animated film. Of course, it failed for obvious reasons.
>>345087303
Fourth, fifth and sixth (to a degree) generation developers had to be some crafty fuckers to overcome hardware limitations. You should look up how the first big FPS actually worked and the computer wizardry that Carmack created, shit is dumbfonding
Oh, have this, it's a nice read as well
http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/
>>345087402
The shit the PS2 Ratchet games did makes them near-impossible to emulate 1.1
>>345086104
To be fair that guy said something along the lines of "Fun is a buzzword"I agree with him
>>345085010
Full Frontal Assault
besides that, the games are fucking fun and the format appears to be timeless
It bums me out that Jak and Daxter didn't get nearly the level of love that Rachet and Clank have. Don't get me wrong, I like both series, but I kind of always preferred Jak. Oh well, I guess the series got a relatively satisfying conclusion, if you ignore everything after 3.
>>345087638
I couldn't enjoy the extra gameplay elements in the Jak sequels at all. People rag on Ratchet 1's worse controls and worse combat, but I still found that to be much superior to the gunplay in Jak 2 and 3.
>>345087638
Tried replaying that series not so long ago. Jak and Daxter 2's levels are so bad and deliberately time-wastey that I just couldn't be arsed.
>>345085010
a better questions is who even wanted sequels?
The first two games have not aged very well. Going Commando's UI is awful, and the space ship stuff is bad, as well as some truly awful boss fights (turret jumping fight).
UYA is a modern classic.
>>345087198
>that screenshot
who lives in a garage under the sea?
Ratchet and Clank!
>>345087638
they're not as well-designed, and jak2 made the mistake of catering to edge, which was on its way out in the early 2000s.
>>345087796
Wanting a sequel to the first Ratchet was totally reasonable because there was room for improvement.
>>345087946
pretty much, it's my favorite in the series
>>345087946
if you do all optional stuff before and upgrade as many weapons as possible, it's faster to kill the giant mecha boss with your regular weapons
>>345087946
Turret jumping mech was absolutely terrible, true. Luckily you could deal with it by shooting bouncer at his feet.
>>345085161
I hate to break it to you anon but..
The remake for PS4 is in 30 fps...
People say that Deadlocked was the start of the series' decline, but honestly the real start was Up Your Arsenal.
It was the start of where Quark became too big of a focus and became a total joke rather than a genuinely clever but horribly misguided fool, where the game's tone always was OH ITS SO SERIOUS NOW GUYS SEE EVEN THE MUSIC IS FILLED WITH EPIC AND SUPER TENSE SCORE, and let's not forget how fucking useless the Galactic Rangers were. Also the start of Ratchet-getting-a-girlfriend-in-every-fucking-game pandering.
UYA was one of the best, but it absolutely set the tone afterwards, and that's exactly how we got ToD.
>>345087946
>Going Commando's UI is awful
What about the UI is bad? I've never heard this complaint before
Usually it's people complaining about UYA's UI because it's too orange
>>345089160
Terrible way the HP is displayed, mostly.
>>345089401
I guess that makes sense
The logic was probably that they were still in the mindset of the nanotech circles from RC1 (but broken down into quarters and significantly more of them). But then I guess they realised it's much more practical to use a linear bar when the health is a high number
