What went wrong?

what went wrong?

>padding open world with nothing in it
>we want the gta audience
>jak goes edgy mcgee
>bullshit time trials
>vehicles have the durability of an egg carton
>retarded checkpoint placement

it's a shame because some of the levels were quite fun

>Let's rip off Banjo Kazooie but make it good!
Thus Jak was born
>Let's rip off Grand Theft Auto III but make it really bad!
That's Jak II.

Grand Theft + Ratchet and Clank + cow turd = jak ll

I loved the hoverboard, the races, the guns and dark jak powers. I miss the charm of the first gamea

I'M

it's a typical naughty dog game

take whatever is popular, make the graphics better and make the level design worse

name one (1) naughty dog that wasn't just this

i unironically prefer uncharted over jak & daxter.

Jak X: Combat Racing

It's weird seeing so many people hate on this game now because I remember when it originally came out it received nothing but praise. Whenever I pointed out criticism of the game people would get mad and say I was just being contrarian or something.

Personally I never even bothered finishing the game and completely ignored the third game. It's really disappointing how the franchise played out. I deserves a reboot with the second game onwards being retconned out.

Maybe I'm just terrible at the game, but Jak 2 went too far with the difficulty at times and lack of checkpoints.

just spin jump and shoot with the yellow gun and the game becomes as easy as the first jak and daxter game with the only hard parts being the races. this game is like the biggest victim to dominant strategy.

Jak 2 was great apart from random difficulty spikes and some drab environments.

Jak 1 > Jak 3 > Jak 2

Ratchet > Sly > Jak

Naughty Dog, you aren't as good as you think you are.

No spyro?

>Sly > Jak
Now hold up pardner, you really think trite magnetic platforming and endless dull minigames is better than the Jak series? I really dislike Jak 2 but at least it has highs and lows and it manages to be interesting.

Wait what ? Isn't all the Jak games considered good ? I haven't played them, but they were on my list at least.

I was only judging the PS2 era Platformers

Spyro > Crash anyway.

I want a Spyro 1-3 Remake.

They're all good, play them

1 is the best, and is like a traditional platformer.

2 and 3 are GTA rip-offs.

at their worst its like a 7/10 game

Sly overtook Jak with Thieves in Time, the best Sly Cooper game

It's not like i don't have enough vidya on my hands, but i always tough that these games were the golden games of ps2 for some reason including games like FF, KH, GTA and a few others.

Sly games are comfy collect-a-thon platformers. They don't pretend to be anything deeper unlike Jak 2 onwards.

>i always tough that these games were the golden games of ps2

the top tier games on a sony console is always third party stuff.

Any 3D platformer where you can collect some stuff ≠ collect-a-thon. "Collect-a-thon" refers to a poorly paced open-ended game where backtracking is prevalent, objectives are underwhelming, gameplay is repetitive and always too long, and there's just not that much going on. Banjo Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64 are collect-a-thons but Super Mario 64 and Glover aren't. Sly Cooper is heist adventures for kids. You do missions sort of like a GTA but without the meandering. Unless you want those clue bottles. But those are just meant to encourage exploring the level so you get familiar with the layout to make the missions go down smoother. It's incredibly linear.

>but i always tough that these games were the golden games of ps2

They were at the time. J&D is a very polished collect-a-thon, and the sequels were really popular because GTA was the hot shit back then so anything emulating that style of game was highly praised. Nowadays though people have played a billion GTA clones and other open world games so the novelty has run off.

so can someone explain to me how the fuck jak didnt realize that kid from the beginning of 2 was really him along?