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Which was your favorite Jak?

Jak 3 is my favorite for a couple of reasons, it has a good balance of new and old mechanics, some taken from the original Jak and Daxter and and others from Jak 2. The wasteland is still one of my favorite environments in gaming just because of the versatility of all the dune buggies, they are all fun to explore in. I also like being able to go back to Haven city from 2, and the Morph Gun is significantly improved, but those gold-level gun courses can still go to hell.

3 also added some much needed back story for Jak and felt a bit more impactful overall in terms of story. The second game was unnecessarily dark at times so it was nice for the end of the trilogy to be a bit more light-hearted. Even if
Jak's dad dies Vader-style.

Daxter is probably my second favroite in the series, then the Precursor Legacy, then 2, and lastly Lost Frontier. I need to replay that game, I don't remember particularly hating it, it's just not very memorable.
 
When I was younger Jak 2 was so hard it made me rage. I was able to complete with no fuss when I got the collection. Did they make it easier?

the world in Jak 3 and the mission where my favorite but 1 had charm i agree
 
Jak 1, just by proxy of me finding the other two games absolutely terrible. I recently tried to play through II, it was so annoying, boring, and frustrating that I stopped playing after a few hours. Just terrible.
 
I loved the straight forward platforming of Jak 1, but I loved the scope and ambition of Jak 2. Jak 3 felt short and more like a dune buggy game than a true full fledged three-quel. The only thing that irked me for the sequel at the time was the 2edgy4me approach to the characters and writing, which even as a 12 year old teen going through puberty was a little cringey.

The perfect Jak sequel would be a well rounded approach to making the series feel "adult", yet light hearted enough to draw from what made he first game timeless. A hard balance to be sure.

Realistically, the franchise had an airtight finale and I see no reason they'd need to revisit the lore or world. As a fan, I'm satisfied where they stopped.
 
The first one by far. I don't know if this is just being blinded by nostalgia or something (since it was the first PS2 game I ever owned), but I absolutely loved the colorful and expressive characters and world that the first one had (and it's a shame that Naughty Dog is so unwilling to go back to that aesthetic).

On the other hand Jak 2 made me want to punch a kitten, and the third one, while still decent and a big step up from 2, just was not anywhere near as memorable as the first.
 
I loved all three games and they are some of my most favorite 3D platformers. The difficulty for Jak II is massively overstated as one Gaffer already pointed out.
 
The first game, which is absolutely fantastic. I actually think Jak II is legitimately a bad game. Jak 3 is pretty good, but nowhere near the original.
 
Never found Jak2 to be particularly hard. It's my favorite Jak game and certainly one of the best games I've ever played. The overword/hub music is still one of my favorites ever.

The original Jak is also quite amazing though.
Jak3 was meh.
X Racing was alright.
Daxter was OK.
Jak PSP was meh.
 
Tallied up people's choice Jak and added it to the OP.

It amazes me to this day how split opinions can be lmao, I was shaking my head while going through it. (As in 'man it's crazy how close this is', not, 'disapproved!!' lol. >_<)
 
The original. I know it like the back of my hand. I'd hope a 4th game could be more about tropical locations & platforming, and less about shooting.
 
Jak 2
Jak 3
Jak & Daxter
Jak X racing
Daxter
That other Jak game that I never had an opportunity to play.

I would like them on PS4 if we're not going to get a new one.
 
Jak and Daxter 1. I preferred the series before it tried to emulate Grand Theft Auto.
 
I loved both 2 and 3 equally, just such a huge upgrade from Jak 1 which was generally just a kids platformer like Crash, going to something that had a huge amount of different things to do
 
i started playing through the remaster on ps3. enjoyed 1. put 2 down, didn't find it that interesting. maybe i will skip it and try 3?
 
The original is my favorite.

3 was a pretty good apology for the horrendous second game.

I really liked the concept art released for Jak 4. I'd love to see a big high fantasy world that was more about platforming and exploration / discovery than shooting.
 
Jak & Daxter for sure. Jak II is really shaky and Jak 3 is a wholesale improvement, but still not as fun as the original pure platforming.
 
the first one. i went in late on the series and went in blind on the sequels. so much disappointment, though i liked some parts of 3
 
I've only played 1 and 2 so far so I don't know how valid my opinion would be... but 2.

(I have played the demo of 3 and own the full game but haven't started it)
 
1. Jak 2 (one of my top 10 games)
2. Jak & Daxter
3. Jak 3
4. Daxter

Jak X is my favorite racing game. Still hoping for a remastered version or at least a rerelease as PS2 classic.
 
Jak 1

The original was a fun game that felt like Crash Bandicoot built around Mario 64's ideas. The 2nd game is downright horrible. ND traded in anything redeemable in the original for terrible open world mechanics that feel disjointed, shoehorned, and completely out of place. It's such a sad attempt to cash in on a popular trend.

Didn't play 3 because of how bad 2 was.
 
The first is my favourite. One of the best 3D platformers ever made (only surpassed by the Galaxy games).

Jak 2 is also great. Really fun difficulty level outside of a couple bumps (most notably the escape mission in the dock area of the city).

Jak 3 was a little too easy and the desert vehicle parts were pretty bad.
 
Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, because it is the only good Jak game. Jak 3 in particular, with its incredibly boring race sequences in the Damn Desert (capitals because this must be its official name), horrible mission design, a lot of empty room and even a revisit of the abysmal town of Jak II, there is so much pure shit in Jak 3 it's hard to appreciate its few good spots. Jak II was even more over the place with its difficulty and the town was even more of a mess than it was in Jak 3, but there were quite a few fun platforming missions at least. Overall my valuation is:

1: Good
Daxter: A bit better than OK
Frontier: OK
2: Bad
3: Total shitshow
 
I'm not going to vote as I only played Jak 1 and 2. Jak was my favourite of those two but I didn't even finish Jak 2 so it's hard to say for sure.

I liked Daxter the most of those games. I beat that as well as Jak 1.
 
The first one. I remember that was the last game me and my sister really just locked into together. She doesn't really do games anymore and I only see her like once a year, but man, we (mostly her tbh) 100%ed that one over 3 days of marathon sessions. Good times. We started the 2nd one, but we couldn't get as into it for whatever reason. Never played the third.
 
Jak 1 really appealed to me. It was just a charming collect-a-thon platformer that was a tad bit on the easy side, but really fun. Jak 2 was.. something different. GTA-esque open world aspects and a bit of a darker story line. It was very different, but it wasn't as bad as others make it out to be.
Yes, some of the difficulty is super cheap and frustrating

I honestly don't remember much about Jak 3. I guess it had more driving bits in it or something? The desert vehicles were kind of cool.

I still managed to platinum all 3 of the Jak games, and Jak 1 is still my favorite.
 
Jak 2

Never understood the love for the first Jak and Daxter. Even as a kid, I thought it was a pretty standard platformer. The series didn't actually get interesting until the sequels.
 
I still remember playing the official PS2 magazine demo with Jak and Daxter, at the time my child brain couldn't believe how seamless everything felt and once I had the full game I played it constantly over that christmas and 101%'d it.

It doesn't hold up so great as the third person and first person cameras both use the same settings but the world is still fun to explore and very charming.
 
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