Iacobellis
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Jak & Daxter Trilogy PS Vita | June 2013 | $29.99 / 29.99
- Thread starter salromano
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What the fuck is this blurry mess? Why is this not native resolution?
It doesn't even reach 720p on the PS3.
The coding was very specific to the PS2, making it hard to port. It's all explained in a behind the scenes video.
Shitty save system, horrible fixed camera angles at times, grimdark throughout with some awful VA work, boring mission design, horrible overworld, and the gunplay is shitty.
The game is garbage.
Byronic Hero
Member
Already have the PS3 version, but I will gladly spend $30 more for Jak and Daxter. Now I need a new installment.
It's one of the very few that had an HD collection but no actual new entry. Lets remedy that, Sanzaru. Or Naughty Dog, if you're not busy.
Now I can understand the first two, but the voice acting was pretty good in 2, the missions were varied and plentiful, and with the obvious exception of the shanty town run, they are good. The gunplay is standard Jak and Daxter, if you didn't like it here, you must have hated it in 3, cause it was nearly identical.
It's one of the very few that had an HD collection but no actual new entry. Lets remedy that, Sanzaru. Or Naughty Dog, if you're not busy.
Now I can understand the first two, but the voice acting was pretty good in 2, the missions were varied and plentiful, and with the obvious exception of the shanty town run, they are good. The gunplay is standard Jak and Daxter, if you didn't like it here, you must have hated it in 3, cause it was nearly identical.
michaelius
Banned
I hope GoW collections aren't too far behind.
Hero of Legend
Member
See, now this is weird. Nobody called the HD Collections on PS3 "ports". Don't get me wrong, we need more original games, but this is a collection of games from a previous generation and it's really cool to see on a portable.
artorias the abysswalker
Member
have never played and of these ever (long live Ratchet and Clank!) maaaaaaybe I'll get this for Vita...hmmmm
Portugeezer
Member
That is pretty lazy IMO.
The_Hitcher89
Member
Jak 2 is best Jak.
Shame about the camera speed. That shit be slow, y'all.
Shame about the camera speed. That shit be slow, y'all.
It's the best in the trilogy so you're wrong. It has the bst level design and gameplay by mile. If you found 'cheap deaths' abound you just didn't play it all that well. It's a very easy game. There's a legitimately cheap and under-cooked pat though, but that's only the slums city ambush. 3 was rushed easy mode with incomplete geometry even, it was worse than Jak II to be sure.
They're also miles better designed than Ratchet and Clank so you're in for a treat.
*In terms of level design, gameplay, storytelling, characters, and humor.
The voice acting for Jak is ridiculous but Torn is by the far worst offender. The mission designs had annoying "Protect your companion", pick up the money bags, stupid races throughout the city that really don't make any sense and have you dealing with the floaty controls that are used for the vehicles, and one mission that is pretty much the controller version of DDR(I forgot what the keyboard version of DDR is called). The gunplay in three wasn't fantastic either, probably closer to shitty, but the game was more forgiving which means I can forgive the awful mechanics. The shanty town mission where you have to kill off hordes of enemies when the camera is as shitty as it is and the controls are as bad as they are, is a nightmare.
Mr.Monitor
Member
More ports? Okay.
I'll still probably end up getting it later if I hear it's a good port.
I'll still probably end up getting it later if I hear it's a good port.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
Looks like a shitty port
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I'd rather see the port than not. Oddly enough, my old PS2 disc runs like hell on PCSX2. I can already tell they were doing some kind of special things that makes emulating it hard.
If the games run well enough I am very much interested.
Takamura-San
Member
Maybe there's a line between Lazy and Feasible.
The vehicle controls weren't floaty at all. You were driving rocket powered vehicles, of course they would fishtail more than vehicles with wheels. All you needed to was compensate for that.
I would do terrible things for Okami HD.
Byronic Hero
Member
Guess we can agree to disagree then. Cause I enjoyed the races, the button-prompt mini games, and the money bag drops (which I believe there is only one of. Maybe two.) There were only like 3 missions that revolved around protecting someone, so I don't really see the problem. (Sewers, Samos, Sig(?))
But, yeah, most of the mission types you mentioned were not very plentiful, but if you don't enjoy the gunplay, I guess you wouldn't have fun with it. Additionally, Torn's voice can be a bit grating at times, but I still like it.
Square Triangle
Member
I just bought Daxter(PSP) on the Vita last month too!
Byronic Hero
Member
God, I hope they don't bring the Sly trilogy to the Vita. Lord knows I'd have to buy it....and then go through the travesty that was Sly 2 all over again.
I will admit, sly 2 had the second best Carmelita. Sly 4's is slightly better.
Ha. What's with the "2" hate going on. I liked Sly 2 as much as I did Jak 2, which is quite a bit. Only thing about 4's Carmelita was that she was super under utilized.
SlipperyMoose
Member
Am I bad person for playing just the first Jak and Daxter and skipping the others because they feel like a different genre game. I just couldn't get into the others.
Absolutely not. The games had average gunplay (with clunky lock on), and terrible world design with level design out of a 10 dollar N64 platformer made by a no name euro dev making an E for everyone knock off title. Even if it had better gunplay (it doesn't) it has much worse everything else.
And yeah they didn't have better art either. They have the worst art or the 3 Sony Platformers, at least the PS2 era certainly did.
Why because you didn't let go of X? You absolutely can make very tight turns in the game, you just needed to judge the corner properly and kill the ignition to reorient the vehicle. Again, rocket cars wouldn't work like regular cars.
I don't think that's hyperbole, well the level design part is, but it's the Ratchet games had very simple level design. I remember playing through Ratchet 3 and eventually just putting it down because there was literally nothing to it. Same issue I had with their PS3 DLC title. The average gunplay isn't enough to carry it, and the the controls as a whole (or rather your character due to animations and whatnot) are very clunky and hard to transition between quickly. That's one thing that Jak II and III really nailed over Jak, that being having smooth and easy to use third person shooting that didn't get in the way of his other abilities. It was less accurate, but worked better for a platformer. The only thing that helped were the unique weapon designs.
About Ratchet and Clank as a whole or in comparison to Jak and Daxter?
About Ratchet and Clank as a whole or in comparison to Jak and Daxter?
Read it up again on Wikipedia, but I heard it first in a Giant Bombcast when they were discussing PS4 BC and talking about how BC in the PS2 was a lucky coincidence. Don't know what an I/O controller really does though
I don't give a shit whether they're supposed to be different from regular cars or not. They're not fun to use. Add in the crowded city and the physics collisions, the vehicle aspect was a huge negative. The vehicle aspect in both games are easily the weakest part of the trilogy but at least with three they gave you a wide open area. The way the city was designed, it only amplified how simplistic and awful the controls.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Yes!! Day one! My most wanted games on Vita
Eh, whatever. I think had you realized how the steering worked you wouldn't look back on them with such frustration, not every game needs to be Burnout 3.
Probably the only way I'll play it. I mean I really liked the first game, but it went massively downhill afterwards.
This is a great little piece. I highly recommend watching it.
What the fuck is this blurry mess? Why is this not native resolution?
PlayStation 2 games didn't typically have high-res textures. If it looks like the PS3 versions condensed to the Vita screen, I bet it'll look fine.
eddfromtheriver
Banned
It's considered to be the most difficult one, and it was a big departure from the first one, i personally love it.
I dread having to find the precursor orbs on the vita screen.
Canis lupus
Member
I love how they mention the trophies, must buy and another 3 platinums
hopefully Sony sell them separately on PSN so people buy J&D 1 and Jak 3 and avoid Jak 2(I mean Jak 2 is already an abomination that no one should touch,but it'll most likely get awful framerate and ugly sub-native res.. Jak 2 being even worse than before is a real nightmare)
Ugh this looks like we have another winner on our hands.
Blurry low rez graphics.
Borderline unplayable framerate.
Luckily I know what to get the developers for Christmas!
You don't know much about the Jak PS2 games and their code, do you?
funkystudent
Member
Was the ps3 collection 60fps?
If so I hope the vita collection is at least a rock solid 30.
Do want. I just hope the port is up to snuff.
If so I hope the vita collection is at least a rock solid 30.
Do want. I just hope the port is up to snuff.