Lord Error
Insane For Sony
PS3 (Cronk) and X360 (Zephyr) robots are there.Forsete said:
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Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction Official Thread
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DeejayKnight
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Marconelly said:
They're based on 360 & PS3? That's a new one for me (then again, I never played any previous games).
Are they just parody, etc? What am I missing here other than Zephyr being the 360's codename?
fatigues_gasolini
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DeejayKnight said:
At one point Zephyr mentions his superior online capabilities, and Cronk says that unfortunately his cpu fails 38% of the time. Zephyr mentions Cronks vast storage space is filled with garbage.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
DeejayKnight said:
Zephyr's CPU has a 43% failure rate. :lol
There are some pretty funny references to PS3 via Cronk as well, but I don't recall any off the top of my head.
Plumber's still there,
with an awesome 4th wall joke, as well as a really important part in the game's conclusion! Great appearance from him, hehe.
Just got to the planet Murdog (? the one with the arena or something) and I must say the game has me impressed, great title. Graphics are spectacular but what impresses me the most is the humor. Hope Insomniac will keep up this AAA streak on the PS3.
@Zephyr and Cronk, can't wait to meet those guys and see what their PS3/360 thing is all about. I love these little inside jokes like in Heavenly Sword (weak point!).
@Zephyr and Cronk, can't wait to meet those guys and see what their PS3/360 thing is all about. I love these little inside jokes like in Heavenly Sword (weak point!).
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
They are new to the series. Zephyr's design looks like X360 in part. His head is basically like if you took the X360's HDD and split it open so that it has mouth.DeejayKnight said:
dont know if this has been discussed, i saw a ratchet and clank commercial last night on adult swim( iwas watching family guy
)
it was all CG, and took place in metropolis. it had like some rock music playing the whole time and just showed him like falling on to the grind rails running away from the bad guys and eventually shooting them
)it was all CG, and took place in metropolis. it had like some rock music playing the whole time and just showed him like falling on to the grind rails running away from the bad guys and eventually shooting them
BlacKMaRK said:dont know if this has been discussed, i saw a ratchet and clank commercial last night on adult swim( iwas watching family guy
it was all CG, and took place in metropolis. it had like some rock music playing the whole time and just showed him like falling on to the grind rails running away from the bad guys and eventually shooting them
Actually, I think jstevenson mentioned that the commercial is all in-game engine, running real time...
Beat the game last night, and all I have to say is WOW. The game seemed fairly easy for the first half of the game, but the difficulty quickly ramped up the last few levels and I absolutely loved it. I died quite a few times on the last boss
, but it was quite satisfying once I beat it. I'll be starting challenge mode today.
Insomniac = teh awesome.
when he would cover the screen with those darn missiles 
Insomniac = teh awesome.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
If it's like cutscenes in R&C (which is what I think JStevenson was saying for a US commercial) it's using in-game assets and engine, but it's recorded into a video, with some post processing effects added. The difference between in-game visuals and cutscenes is pretty small anyways, and they do use 100% realtime cutscenes in many places.BlacKMaRK said:wow thats in game engine?? impressive. im a HUGE ratchet fan (lol i already bought the game and i dont even have a ps3 yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) hahaha, ( im buying the 40gb friday
I thought the US commercial was supposed to have "It's a wonderful World" song playing?
UK commercial is supposed to be 100% gameplay from the game btw.
viralmarketeer
Member
Doesn't mention whether it's in-engine or not.jstevenson said:
Where'd you hear about the UK commercial? Is it airing already?
Truespeed
Member
I played the demo yesterday and it was amazing. The near CG quality graphics are some of the best I've seen rendered by a game engine. Although, there are 2 things I noticed during the demo:
1) During the intro and cut scenes there is some stuttering. It's obviously playing back a video recorded using the game engine, but why does the video playback stutter and why wasn't this caught during beta testing? Game play is silky smooth, though.
2) Collision detection. Why is it that you can position Ratchet's body inside of one of those circular objects with the metal tubular frame surrounding it?
Two small gripes, but it's definitely a Top 5 PS3 game.
1) During the intro and cut scenes there is some stuttering. It's obviously playing back a video recorded using the game engine, but why does the video playback stutter and why wasn't this caught during beta testing? Game play is silky smooth, though.
2) Collision detection. Why is it that you can position Ratchet's body inside of one of those circular objects with the metal tubular frame surrounding it?
Two small gripes, but it's definitely a Top 5 PS3 game.
Truespeed
Member
oo Kosma oo said:I'm a few hours into the game now and that stuttering in the demo when the camera swoops down over the city is the only framerate drop I've noticed so far
I'm just wondering if Insomniac used Bink to encode and playback their cut scenes. I recall Mark Rein also complaining about stuttering issues that they were currently trying to resolve during the playback of Bink movies in UT3 PS3 cut scenes.
Ragnarok10
Junior Member
All languages/cut scenes are stored on EVERY disc and will play based on what regioned PS3 it's in. Basically, JPN PS3 will play Ratchet in Japanese (Asia Ratchet model, ect).jiggle said:
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Yeah, that stuttering at the beginning is really the only place where it happened to me as well. It doesn't happen all the time there either. It's just like in the demo - most of the time it happens to a varying degree, but sometimes it doesn't happen at all. My guess is it probably happens because there's some loading or decompression going on at that moment.
jiggle said:
Game is entirely English but you're stuck with the eyebrows.
I actually did my 2nd run in Japanese for the heck of it and the Japanese dub is pretty shitty. Ratchet is like 10 years old and the villian is the lame typical anime villian. Clank loses a lot of his personality as well. The only voice I liked was the main girl.
Ragnarok10 said:
No, that's just for the eyebrows.
If you have your XMB set to English you will get English voices no matter what system you own
If you have XMB set to Japanese you will get Japanese voices no matter what system you own
I wonder if there are any more voice tracks on the disc?
Marconelly said:
I got stuttering during most of the fmv scenes. Even had dialogue skip for a sec once. Preferred the real-time cutscenes by far.
Great game, my only problem with it are the space ship boss battles. They seemed way too easy, you could kill most of them by just flying your ship in a circle.
The Flamethrower is really overpowered, especially in Challenge mode, the boss in the Arena falls so quickly to it, I couldn't believe it! Tornado, as others have mentioned, does have it's uses. I found myself using the blades a lot and the Buzz Blade Gun just to see how many I can get flying around on the screen at once.
Did anyone notice that the Gadgetron Lady doesn't tell you what the final forms of weapons do in the initial levels of Challenge mode? I'm not sure if it's just the initial levels, I just finished Arena and it didn't tell me what my Omega Flamethrower became...
I also expected more branching for the weapons in Challenge mode because aside from the Golden Groovitron, is there any other reason to collect Raritium?
The Flamethrower is really overpowered, especially in Challenge mode, the boss in the Arena falls so quickly to it, I couldn't believe it! Tornado, as others have mentioned, does have it's uses. I found myself using the blades a lot and the Buzz Blade Gun just to see how many I can get flying around on the screen at once.
Did anyone notice that the Gadgetron Lady doesn't tell you what the final forms of weapons do in the initial levels of Challenge mode? I'm not sure if it's just the initial levels, I just finished Arena and it didn't tell me what my Omega Flamethrower became...
I also expected more branching for the weapons in Challenge mode because aside from the Golden Groovitron, is there any other reason to collect Raritium?
LiquidMetal14
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Is the new new commercial on the net yet?
Hmmm I don't think she said anything about the ones that became lvl 5 either though. I will check with the other weapons that are of the Omega class I guess...Bebpo said:
About Cronk and Zephyr in the Skin Select
Cronk - He's old. He's senile. He's in need of yet another valve replacement. But still, this retried old war bot has a ton of fight left in him!
Zephyr - He may be prone to routine system failure, but this feisty war bot still guns with the best of 'em. Too bad his warranty expired ages ago...
Dante said:
Those black onyx ads look pretty hot actually. They're frigging all over the web and I'll just run my mouse across them just to see the cool transforming effect.
The commercial looked cool. There was no sound but I can't say it evokes the same OMG AWESOME that the old commercials do.
Barakov said:
Well I was a little shocked they weren't initially doing the "weapon test" thing, but how many times can you make that funny without it also feeling old.
I think this is a much better way to promote the games fantastic visuals, and usher in a next gen Ratchet.
Tanod, the above video had sound are you sure your speakers aren't off?
fistfulofmetal
Banned
I would of rather them of gone with the series of real life weapon ads. Too many of these game ads set to classic songs.
Green Shinobi
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So for those who have the game, how is it? Is that 8.5 score from 1up a travesty? Is it a 9+ caliber game? Thinking of getting it when I get my PS3 back.