Ratchet & Clank On PS4 Isn't Just a Remake

[Fijiman]

Well it looks like I'm going to have to get a PS4 some time within the next year. Probably going to wait till like a month or less before the release to get one, but one will be bought before that time.... Or not, I might just buy the game and then get a PS4 at a slightly later point, but we'll see.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

That would be Jak X (though Ratchet is in it as a bonus character, so you were close). I agree that it should be ported since the PS2 original I hear had a really nasty bug that was never fixed. Ratchet's spin-off at the time was Deadlocked, and while it was ported, it was a real shoddy job. The frame rate...oh geeze the frame rate.

EDIT: You could also be thinking of Crash Team Racing too, which is a bit more Mario Kart-like. Though that was late PS1 as opposed to PS2.

Jak X is the one, I remember it now, thankyou! Never got to try out Deadlocked, at the time, even Jak X was a cheap lucky buy as I was expecting something like the Crash team racing you mentioned. Was pleasantly impressed to say the least. Kinda unfortunate that it's a NaughtyDog property, so it may be left to obscurity. Though aren't they HDing the Jak and Dexter collection? I must investigate...

 

[Raggedstar]

That would be Jak X (though Ratchet is in it as a bonus character, so you were close). I agree that it should be ported since the PS2 original I hear had a really nasty bug that was never fixed. Ratchet's spin-off at the time was Deadlocked, and while it was ported, it was a real shoddy job. The frame rate...oh geeze the frame rate.

EDIT: You could also be thinking of Crash Team Racing too, which is a bit more Mario Kart-like. Though that was late PS1 as opposed to PS2.

Jak X is the one, I remember it now, thankyou! Never got to try out Deadlocked, at the time, even Jak X was a cheap lucky buy as I was expecting something like the Crash team racing you mentioned. Was pleasantly impressed to say the least. Kinda unfortunate that it's a NaughtyDog property, so it may be left to obscurity. Though aren't they HDing the Jak and Dexter collection? I must investigate...

A developer called Mass Media did the Jak and Daxter collection on PS3 in 2012 and the port was decent (though an important cutscene in Jak 2 buggered up. I don't think it was patched). The Vita port I think came a year or two after, and I hear it was pretty poor.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

I loved Ratchet and Clank because it took the cliches of a bunch of platformers and kind of stomped on them a bit. No longer did one use "moves" or anything like that. You just blasted the **** out of enemies now with this mind-bogglingly big array of sweet looking weapons.

Although I did find it a little infuriating and hilarious, story-wise, that Ratchet just lets others boss him around even though he has enough weapons and ammo to take down an entire armada.

 

[Asclepion]

Emulation. Every game is on PC.

I'll look into emulating this one, if by the time a PS4 emulator is usable I'm not too busy having Toph Beifong step on my face in VR.

 

[Grimh]

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I'm so very happy right now. PS4 purchase validated (if it's good that is).