What was the point of this game?

A fucking rehash of Jak 2, with every weapon being a homing gun, the same fucking city again, a fucking lot of driving but now in the desert and muuuuch easier.

Jak 2>Jak and Daxter>Jak 3

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This game is the definition of soulless AAA trash

Take your nostalgia goggles off user

I dunno about most of you but I loved this game.

I played it before I needed things to have a "point"
>do I consider it an overpriced dlc expansion
sure but I enjoyed it more than the others and theres nothing I can do about it now
10/10 would play again

fuck you it was good

The first 1/3 of the game is the best shit, I love driving around the desert and exploring the ruins and temples and stuff.

When you get back to haven city my interest completely dies.

Came here to post this.

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I agree. I was so disappointed when I finally got around to playing it after I enjoyed the first two so much.

>Boy I hope you like a sandbuggy

>Wittle baby got his feewings hurt

>mfw did a report on the game for school in 7 grade
But that last end boss was dope ass shit though.

what was the point of JakX racing?

The new guns and mechanics are great and it would have been a better game than 2 if it wasn't so easy

Also, more Ashelin :)

You know you can just white out the Don't to get the same effect without all the unnecessary effort and cringe

>But that last end boss was dope ass shit though.
dope yes, hard nope, unless you are 10

The first upgrade of the yellow gun makes literally any other weapon useless, it's like giving you a tank in a fighting game, why would you ever use your fists?

The light powers were cool

No they weren't.

Why not?

Like I said, too easy

You find out Jak is Mar, that Daxter is a precursor, and Jak gets filled with light eco to stop being so much of an edgelord.

to make a fun racing game

You mean the driving was actually good?

I replayed it recently and I really got to say: DON'T FUCKING BUY THE WEAPON UPGRADES THEY MAKE THE GAME BEYOND STUPIDLY EASY

EVERY YELLOW GUN WAS A MISTAKE

tfw the very first time the monk bitch speaks she indirectly gives away the biggest twist of the game and technically even her facepaint already does so

And what was the point of the light and dark crystals? They didn't exactly boost your powers or give you some kind of currency, it was literally just some extra macguffin getting thrown your way that you are simply lead to believe does something but you never even hear of their significance. I beat the game again a few monthes ago and it's like they forget those things even existed.

And so they did.

I guess they felt they need to elaborate on the Precursor's and Jak's heritage. I still really like it, but Jak 2 is my favourite.

>that part where you escort the bomb cart
>unzip beam reflexor and just walk along the path doing that spin and shoot thing
>suddenly automatically win because a stray shot hits the final switch to complete the bridge the cart needs to go across and the mission automatically ends and you teleport to where you would've ended up had you done it normally

Good gun.

Fuck you

and right after that the pathetic Precursor Robot boss fight

i hate that fuckin thing

Jak & Daxter will always be the superior entry of the trilogy anyway.

>with every weapon being a homing gun
This is the proof that Jak II's shooting was fucking broken. How are you supposed to play a shooting game where you can't aim? Jak 3's solution was to make it so that aiming is unnecessary.
Naughty Dog were and are hacks.

lol

There's no point even calling it a trilogy. There's J&D the collectathon platformer, and then there are two unrelated open world platformer-shooter-racer and minigame anthology.

Have you played it?

No?

They're connected by plot.

gotta agree with OP. it definitely felt rushed as hell. the desert city seemed pointless and i feel like it was only there just to reveal that the leader (whatever his name was) is really jaks father.

>jak 3
>a shooting game

Which happened at the end of Jak II anyway, making it pointless and by proxy making the intro nonsensical

I really liked the game, but the Precursor reveal was FUCKING SHIT.
>Make a race of mysterious beings that, while seemingly gone, still dot the world with their ancient tech.
>Foster speculation and theories for two games
>Just played for laughs in the third

I will never not be mad.

I agree with this

its one of the reasons I pretend it doesnt exist

nah light jak was cool man leave the game alone

>mad

I thought it was funny

It was amusing the first time I played through it. Then I realized that it was meant to be the culmination of the series' great mystery and I felt cheated ever since. It could've been so much more interesting, instead it just got hand-waved for some cheap humor.
I guess they just didn't know what to do with them.

They fucking give it to you right in the beginning too
What were they thinking?

>I guess they just didn't know what to do with them.

Sums up the series, really.

It was still fun and I still replay it occasionally, which is more than I can say about most games I've played.

>mfw finding out that Jak was the autistic child all along

Is it wrong that I enjoyed Jak X's plot? It's irrelevant to the series and plays no part in the grand order of things, but I found it refreshingly different. Also Krew's daughter was very hot.

Being a huge fan since the first game, that precursor reveal literally dropped my jaw.

the original game is far better than the sequels IMO. I wish they didn't change the gameplay up so much in Jak 2

BUT WHO WAS MAR? How did Mar make heaven city whilst not being there if it's Jak? how did the boy get sent back the first time? was it just a nickname? is this some Tobi/Obito shit?

Am i a retard for not getting the plot? it's been a while

Jak X was great in all respects. No it's not exactly Burnout, but it was getting there. Track design was miles ahead of CTR, although the art style was pretty bland. Plus it was great that ND focused in on a genre, like they did with J&D1. Jak 2 and 3 were all over the place. Shame they reached a steady-state with third-person shooters.

Such a shame that Naughty Dog chose third person shooters, they had all the right cards to be the masters of arcade racing games.

Little Jak got sent forward in time, Haven City is the past and at some point earlier than that there was some other dude named Mar

>she
no.
>eco crystals do nothing
they increased the amount of eco you can store.

jak3 exist because ND dropped the ball on jak2
they just wanted to give a conclusion to the series so they don't have to keep fucking it up

Why were you holding your jaw anyway? Just keep it attached to your head, you'll never drop it again.

>Little Jak got sent forward in time, Haven City is the pas

lmao how do you get it literally backwards?

At least he's inciting discussion, wtf do you guys want from this board?

Little Jak got sent back in time to Jak & Daxter's era, they move forward in time using the old time machine left there from when Jak got there, Jak 2 and 3 happen, and at the end of two the Precursor take him for a voyage through time where he becomes Mar the hero of the legend, he does his shit, saves the world a couple times, creates Haven City and is sent back to the "present", Jak 3's ending.