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Ratchet & Clank Into the Nexus - Review Thread
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TMaakkonen
Member
Hopefully this is just EDGE being EDGE, rather than being a meh game.
Is it just me, or has game reviews lately been lower than anticipated?
Is it just me, or has game reviews lately been lower than anticipated?
Prince Vultan
Banned
The games media have always been hard on Insomniac titles, even when it wasn't deserved imo.
Possibly they'll change their tune next gen...
Possibly they'll change their tune next gen...
entremet
Member
Really? I don't remember that.
MikeE21286
Member
PS+ in 3...2...1...
The Mana Legend
Banned
That's what happens when you turn a franchise into a low selling yearly franchise of mediocrity. People stop caring.
The fuck is this? The Spyro games might be even better than crash and are definetely up there as some of the best platformers ever.
Pyrrhus
Member
Nothing is good forever. You have to just enjoy it while it is and accept it and move on when that's over. This past generation really drove this home to me. Hell, you have a Mega Man avatar, you know this.
De-mon
Member
I enjoyed the game. I would have liked more length and more puzzles, though.
Cornbread78
Member
RPGCrazied
Member
Also, surely its way better than All 4 One, and Full Frontal Assault.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
Will rent and play. I really hope after this Insomniac take a good three years to make a new mind-blowing PS4 R&C. Enough with these small portioned experiments.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Not at all worried by these reviews as I'm sure I'll love it...
How is ratchet a yearly series? Are we counting the spinoffs? Seems like cheating
Edit: OMG it is yearly! But it has always been!
I hope you know that the Ratchet series has always been yearly, while selling very well
Ratchet and Clank - 2002
Going Commando - 2003
Up Your Arsenal - 2004
Deadlocked - 2005
Tools of Destruction - 2007
Quest for Booty - 2008
A Crack in Time - 2009
silver.tongue
Member
I don't get most of these posts. Ratchet & Clank had 5 new games this generation, right?
1) Tools of Destructions is amazing.
2) Quest For Booty is forgettable (kinda of a smaller adventure linking the 'st and 2nd game).
3) Crack in time is, possibly, the best R&C game ever.
4) All for One is a party game. Not tradiational R&C. Fun game but full of bugs and glitches (insomniac is to blame for this).
5) Full Frontal Assault (Q Force in Europe) is a Base/Tower defense game. Like Dungeon Defenders. Not traditional R&C.
Into the Nexus (trditional R&C) is just out, we know nothing about it yet, and some people act like R&C have been bad for a while... what the hell?
Can anyone explain this to me please?
natureboy46
Member
Absolutely, and as I said, I'll still get the game. I was just really hoping for a grand finale to the ps3 series.
The original PS2 games released yearly:
2002: R&C
2003: Going Commando
2004: Up Your Arsenal
2005: Deadlocked
Something has changed at Insomniac. I'm not sure they're capable of making great Ratchet games anymore, the last few entries have been phoned in.
Same. I hoped for something in the same caliber as ACiT, seems i'll have to wait indefinitely for that.
3rdamention
Member
Karma?
Miles Quaritch
Member
For?
silver.tongue
Member
Maybe... But the last few entreies (I'll assume you're talking about A4O and FFA) were not adventure games, aka traditional ratchet.
If we are going to judge on the last traditional ratchet, it was A Crack in Time, possibly the best ever R&C game.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Wtf is up with the responses in this thread? A lot of the things people say don't even make sense.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Last few? Last two have been phoned in, ACiT is the best damn R&C ever released.
Brainiac 8
Member
Yea, Insomniac has been off their game for a while. I'd argue that everything they did other than R&C has been subpar at best.
But I cannot fault them, the R&C series is one of my favorite franchises in gaming, and if a new one comes out, I'll get it. And yes, ACiT is the best game in the series.
But I cannot fault them, the R&C series is one of my favorite franchises in gaming, and if a new one comes out, I'll get it. And yes, ACiT is the best game in the series.
That was four years ago.
Americanmushroom
Banned
I don't know what happened at Insomniac but they definitely lost something... Maybe going multi-plat wasn't good for them after all. I dunno.
to clarify my statement before i get insulted: Maybe before they went multi, Sony helped them somehow to make their games more appealing.
to clarify my statement before i get insulted: Maybe before they went multi, Sony helped them somehow to make their games more appealing.
0/10.
SEGAvangelist
Member
This is so sad. I hope Sunset Overdrive is a return to form. I love Insomniac.
Miles Quaritch
Member
And? ITN looks every bit as good as ACiT and while the reviews may worry some, I'm 100% sure it will deliver an experience as good as ACiT.
I love Ratchet and Clank.
What I love about the series:
The weapons.
The humor.
The exploration.
The planets.
The upgrade/level up system.
The platforming.
Ratchet.
Clank.
Does this game have all of that stuff? If the answer is yes, then I think I'll be fine. People complain that R&C was too formulaic, so they change it up with Quest for Booty, All 4 One, and Full Frontal Assault, and people complain that they miss the old "traditional" R&C, so they bring back the classic gameplay, and people complain that it's too safe. I can't eyeroll hard enough.
As for the reviews? Meh. I haven't read them. Reviews have been worthless to me for over 15 years now whether they be good or bad. I just buy the shit I want, and make up my own mind about what I like or don't like.
What I love about the series:
The weapons.
The humor.
The exploration.
The planets.
The upgrade/level up system.
The platforming.
Ratchet.
Clank.
Does this game have all of that stuff? If the answer is yes, then I think I'll be fine. People complain that R&C was too formulaic, so they change it up with Quest for Booty, All 4 One, and Full Frontal Assault, and people complain that they miss the old "traditional" R&C, so they bring back the classic gameplay, and people complain that it's too safe. I can't eyeroll hard enough.
As for the reviews? Meh. I haven't read them. Reviews have been worthless to me for over 15 years now whether they be good or bad. I just buy the shit I want, and make up my own mind about what I like or don't like.
The first 3 Spyro games?
Anyways, I have been thinking for a while that Sony should hire other studio to work on R&C games. For example Sanzaru did an amazing work with Sly Cooper.
ACiT/R3. Not just good -- great.
SolidSnakesMyStepDad
Member
that's not even clever.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
I think what has changed at Insomniac is that they are lacking focus... They're just working on too many things at once. Consider their output for this gen:
Resistance: Fall of Man
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest For Booty
Resistance 2
Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack In Time
Resistance 3
Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One
Ratchet and Clank: Full Frontal Assult
Outernauts
Fuse
Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus
That is a shit ton of projects over a seven year period for a 200-250 person studio. The quality of those projects has varied quite a bit. I blame the management. They have two studios I believe. Maybe if they each just worked on a single game at a time the quality would be much better.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Ratchet and Clank needs another full-fledged entry in the series, not this.
It would be the perfect type of title to show off the PS4 hardware. The first PS3 game was the first time I was wowed by next-gen.
It would be the perfect type of title to show off the PS4 hardware. The first PS3 game was the first time I was wowed by next-gen.
Black Door
Banned
Sold their soul to reach the Call of Duty audience
Cirekiller
Member
I know that Insomniac opened up a second studio a while ago, and I has cranked out All For One and the other "crappy" R&C games, this be a case of the main studio focusing on Sunset and the B studio working on this, and not being up to snuff. I have the game coming from Gamefly, but it gets here a day before PS4, so I'm actually hoping its not too long XD.
But IMO, while I loved the R&C franchise, Insomniac should let it die permanently if they are going to just release "meh" to bad games annually..
Brainiac 8
Member
Amen to this.
I love Ratchet and Clank. I'll probably fire up ACIT while reading some new impressions of this title.
Tools of Destruction was so rad, and early in the PS3 life cycle. So wish they kicked off next gen with a Ratchet title on the new console!
Tools of LoLstruction