Zero Punctuation: Ratchet & Clank

[Amir Kondori]

Ratchet & Clank 3 was one of my favorite games on the PS2. I only play PC games today but it sounds like I'm not missing much with this new iteration.

 

[irishda]

I've never quite understood the complaint of backwards compatibility, especially now when there are so many games designed solely to keep you coming back to play them over and over (MMOs and MOBAs in particular, although really most online functions). Are people's lives so lacking in productive measures that we truly have no more new games left to play and insist on being able to play something older again and again? Or is it that we're so resentful of so many games that we refuse to move on from that one special one?

 

[C14N]

Backwards compatability is the biggest problem with the new consoles, but I think that problem will diminish with time. More and more re-releases of last-gen games are coming out, which admittedly doesn't solve the problem for people who already have them and want to play them on their new system. It does at least ensure they won't be totally erased.

On that note, didn't the Ratchet & Clank HD trilogy come out on PS3 and Vita around the same time the PS4 was released? That was incredibly poorly timed.

Xbox One has backwards compatibility now with a decent number of games, which is giving it an edge over the PS4 at the moment.

Yet Nintendo is still the best when it comes to backwards compatibility. The XONE needed a couple of updates to get a decent back catalogue. When the Wii U came out, you could almost put any old Wii game in the console with rarely a fuss in sight. That is how you do backwards compatibility.

For some odd reason, it's not backward compatible with Gamecube games though, even though it clearly could be due to the fact that someone has hacked a Wii U to do it. I don't know why they wouldn't just let me play my Gamecube games on the Wii U because now I have to keep the Wii plugged in for that.

 

[BrawlMan]

Backwards compatability is the biggest problem with the new consoles, but I think that problem will diminish with time. More and more re-releases of last-gen games are coming out, which admittedly doesn't solve the problem for people who already have them and want to play them on their new system. It does at least ensure they won't be totally erased.

On that note, didn't the Ratchet & Clank HD trilogy come out on PS3 and Vita around the same time the PS4 was released? That was incredibly poorly timed.

Xbox One has backwards compatibility now with a decent number of games, which is giving it an edge over the PS4 at the moment.

Yet Nintendo is still the best when it comes to backwards compatibility. The XONE needed a couple of updates to get a decent back catalogue. When the Wii U came out, you could almost put any old Wii game in the console with rarely a fuss in sight. That is how you do backwards compatibility.

For some odd reason, it's not backward compatible with Gamecube games though, even though it clearly could be due to the fact that someone has hacked a Wii U to do it. I don't know why they wouldn't just let me play my Gamecube games on the Wii U because now I have to keep the Wii plugged in for that.

That's why I kept my GameCube and Wii. I was not the least bit surprised that they didn't make the Wii U play GC games. Either it was hardware issues, laziness on their part, or doing so would have made the console more expensive. An issue most people rationalize why the PS4 or Xbone could not do; the consoles would've both costed a $100 more.

 

[C14N]

Backwards compatability is the biggest problem with the new consoles, but I think that problem will diminish with time. More and more re-releases of last-gen games are coming out, which admittedly doesn't solve the problem for people who already have them and want to play them on their new system. It does at least ensure they won't be totally erased.

On that note, didn't the Ratchet & Clank HD trilogy come out on PS3 and Vita around the same time the PS4 was released? That was incredibly poorly timed.

Xbox One has backwards compatibility now with a decent number of games, which is giving it an edge over the PS4 at the moment.

Yet Nintendo is still the best when it comes to backwards compatibility. The XONE needed a couple of updates to get a decent back catalogue. When the Wii U came out, you could almost put any old Wii game in the console with rarely a fuss in sight. That is how you do backwards compatibility.

For some odd reason, it's not backward compatible with Gamecube games though, even though it clearly could be due to the fact that someone has hacked a Wii U to do it. I don't know why they wouldn't just let me play my Gamecube games on the Wii U because now I have to keep the Wii plugged in for that.

That's why I kept my GameCube and Wii. I was not the least bit surprised that they didn't make the Wii U play GC games. Either it was hardware issues, laziness on their part, or doing so would have made the console more expensive. An issue most people rationalize why the PS4 or Xbone could not do; the consoles would've both costed a $100 more.

Except in this case it clearly wasn't a hardware issue and wouldn't have made it more expensive at all. Like I said, there's a Wii U hack that lets it play Gamecube games so it's already completely able to do it and it's low-effort enough that an amateur figured out how to do it for free. It makes sense because if it can play Wii games it should follow that it could play Gamecube games too since the Wii was already backward compatible. They literally just decided they didn't want people playing Gamecube games on it.

 

[elvor0]

So, why is Ratchet and Clank criticized for leaving out details in companion pieces while the MCU is praised for it?

Because part of the draw of the MCU /is/ its interconnected nature and is a selling point and you don't have multiple marvel films coming out at the same time, nor do they cross media types. The R&C game and film came out at the same time and crossed platforms. This, to my knowledge hasn't been done before, thus being surprised at having to watch a movie, which for long time fans was rather alienating in its promotion should come as a shock.

 

[4Aces]

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