-The council is too powerful -I hereby dissolve the city council Name a more iconic duo, I'll wait
@JayfroC5 жыл бұрын
TGBS and The Pixelizer
@tornadoandy1235 жыл бұрын
I AM THE COUNCIL.
@MaxLoafin5 жыл бұрын
Chicken and rice
@JollyJack19925 жыл бұрын
Ratchet and Clank.
@Comkill1175 жыл бұрын
Greeto AGB not yet.
@zayjay265 жыл бұрын
Swear, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper, and the Jak and Daxter games are just so awesome even to this day
@GryphonIsBack4 жыл бұрын
My childhood right there ❤️
@sunib62534 жыл бұрын
Ah, yes, my favourite character in JaD, Jax
@jfb173jb4 жыл бұрын
They were great games at those times. A lot of the reboots and changes to later ps4 games kinda screwed it up.
@danieloloughlin87684 жыл бұрын
i keep coming back to them i never get disappointed!
@KneeCapHill4 жыл бұрын
We didn't get any similar platformers. Gaming shifted to hyper realistic shooters and or games for toddlers, casual barbage like rocket league or playstation ports of arcade games. The platformer kinda died.
@noahdavis74065 жыл бұрын
I felt saddened at the idea that people don't share my level of enthusiasm for the Jak trilogy. They're some of my favorite games of all time.
@NotOrdinaryInGames5 жыл бұрын
Perhaps once FaceBook dies forever I could invite EVERYONE in my little Jak Discord.
@cc16104 жыл бұрын
Jak 2 Was my first ps2 game and I liked jak 3 too. But it was never one of my favorites. Liked games like gta, final fantasy, kingdom hearts, a lot more.
@Semo_004 жыл бұрын
I have jack 1 and 2 for my ps2 and I only played ratchet and sly a lot as a kid but I think I'll give them a try
@asimplepie22794 жыл бұрын
its my childhood bruh. i played Jak 3 religiously
@TheForbidden_1ne4 жыл бұрын
Jak 2 is in my top 10 fav games all time
@Robzter1174 жыл бұрын
"An adventure, I think, more than just the rocks should recall" That made me smile
@calebcrouch61332 жыл бұрын
“Even the rocks… cannot recall.”
@Maidenstear2 жыл бұрын
To date, the tonal change from Jak and Daxter to Jak II still amazes me. As a middle schooler, the jump from innocent, silent protagonist to vengeance-filled rage monster was so interesting and sad to me.
@motherurck75422 ай бұрын
As someone who was probably around the same age as you, I loved the change.
@Caddicarus5 жыл бұрын
A near feature-length KZbin video in 2019 with 4:3 aspect ratio You brilliant madman
@jaystev5 жыл бұрын
Next up is you doing a video on the Jak trilogy
@HazyJ284 жыл бұрын
I didn't even notice until I read this comment. That's true immersion.
@NightNinja19984 жыл бұрын
I still wonder when the hell you'll talk about the Jak games yourself, come on Caddy, we all know you're a huge Crash Bandicoot fan, generally a huge Naughty Dog fan, so there's no way this isn't a series you wouldn't wanna make a video on with all that being said... :x
@yojaydeezy4 жыл бұрын
Caddicarus omg I love Jak & Daxter, this quarantine has me playing them all over again!! lol
@FormalFilmsProductions4 жыл бұрын
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
@1Nostrand15 жыл бұрын
Jak and Daxter remains as one of my favorite trilogy of all time.
@Wolfstarzan5 жыл бұрын
Me too and I hate that Naughty Dog didn't make new ones. Jak and Daxters story need a better ending not a cliffhanger. Ratchet and Clank on the otherside have good endings points after 3, Gladiator, ACIT or Nexus but will even get new games someday.
@qisotwprofessionalsentvid66755 жыл бұрын
@@Wolfstarzan true do you think they will get a remake/sequels someday
@Wolfstarzan5 жыл бұрын
@@qisotwprofessionalsentvid6675 I don't think Naughty Dog will do that. I am sure with Ratchet and Clank because Insomniac Games mentioned it with Spider-Man after they revealed they are part of Sony now. But for Jak and Daxter I think the only chance is that a new studio make a game like they did with Sly 4 years ago.
@qisotwprofessionalsentvid66755 жыл бұрын
@@Wolfstarzan oh ok then F to jak and daxter then it hurts
@pinstripecool345 жыл бұрын
Same
@Vashkey5 жыл бұрын
Mad respect for using the og PS2 versions for the videos. Thats some dedication for acurate representation thats underatandably rarely seen
@Jcz4875 жыл бұрын
I was questioning the entire video as to why he didn't use the PS4 'Remaster' would have made the video look so much better xD
@dalehadley32835 жыл бұрын
@@Jcz487 The original PS2 versions work for what he's talking about,with looking back on the series and what was great and what could be improved
@dalehadley32835 жыл бұрын
@3rd Way I own the original trilogy on PS2, and with component cables,it looks amazing
@gibbsj1955 жыл бұрын
@Shaman X bruh, every time i see you in a comment section, you're always trying to start shit with someone. STOP trying to bait people into looking at your shitty-ass channel lmao
@Sipu975 жыл бұрын
PS2 version is the best.
@airshow4062 жыл бұрын
I remember thinking "Daxter's actually funny now" in Jak 2. Daxter works better as a quirky partner than as the voice for the whole duo. Also the fact that he doesn't make mean spirited comments when you die anymore makes him more likeable. The line "God I miss pants" cracked me up.
@Painted_Owl3 ай бұрын
“ HEIMLICK!! Uhh, STRETCHER- yeuck- breath mint?” “HEY JAK! … can I… have your bug collection?” I always thought the death quotes were humorous, but I do see how they could be annoying. I always viewed them as a small glimpse into Dax’s character
@nostalgiaworks59994 жыл бұрын
Keira: You can't cross the Lava Canyon unless you have enough Power Cells Speedrunners: Hold my beer
@Sorrelhas3 жыл бұрын
Try as he might, Jak couldn't cross the Lava Canyon
@timothymurauzi51443 жыл бұрын
@@Sorrelhas good one
@superlombax15613 жыл бұрын
@@Sorrelhas Of course, Jak knew he'd need the Zoomer to cross.
@Poldovico Жыл бұрын
FCS go BRRRRRRRRRRRR
@npc_blob1609 Жыл бұрын
@@superlombax1561 LMFAO
@themrfives5 жыл бұрын
I was practically raised by jak 2 & 3. Well by watching my brother play them.
@armorwolf79344 жыл бұрын
Same when I played them I just messed around in open world I sucked at missions
@toripagetv3 жыл бұрын
The most relatable comment
@dingdong19893 жыл бұрын
@@toripagetv for real lol
@maxreed3693 жыл бұрын
Sweet, man. My brother and I played these together too. We cycled series. I was the J&D guy, he was the R&C one. Over the years, I wound up watching him play alot more than me :-)
@someothername78863 жыл бұрын
Always watched my brother play 2 and 3. Eventually went on to play 2 for myself and (eventually) beat it. The memories. :) Shame I didn’t get to beat 3. The PS2’s disk scanner broke and life got in the way before I got the chance to.
@UltraPandamonium5 жыл бұрын
Jak 1 is one of the best 3d platformers. Jak 2 sure is something Jak 3 is the best Mad Max game
@iota-095 жыл бұрын
Pretty much. Setting wise my favorite was 1, gameplay-wise 3 was a damn beast even if a bit easy compared to the pretty tough 2. 2 was... Ok? The plot was decent, the hoverboard stuff was neat, but it always felt like it lacked... Something. It wasn't similar enough to 1 for me to love it the same way aesthetically, but it wasn't so different and expanded as 3 to make me love it as an evolution of the whole thing. It's just a shame jak 3 was riddled with plotholes because it also had some damn good gameplay and setting, it somehow felt more like jak 1 than 2 ever did in that regard what with the precursor temples dark forces and all that crud, yet evolving under every aspect at the same time. Damn it, if jak 3 was actually done properly now we could have a 4th PROPER jak game. Honestly... I hate the last of us and uncharted exactly because they're nowhere near as original and unique as jak in both plot and setting, even if jak came out to be unique like that for bad reasons, jak 3 was also proof that they could've actually nailed everything if they just had enough time to do it.
@FairyRat5 жыл бұрын
@Lord Jesse I had the same experience. A very boring by-the-numbers game.
@GIR1775 жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid I hated Jak II because of the difficulty, but upon returning to it years later it's easily my favorite in the trilogy. 1 doesn't offer as much different that I can't get from other collectathons, and 3 brought the driving missions and mini-games in full force, with the combat scenarios being incredibly dull due to how overpowered Jak and his arsensal is.
@mythologue5 жыл бұрын
Apart from Mad Max.
@samuelolivier37925 жыл бұрын
Anon heard of Mad Max the official video game?
@supersonicfan75 жыл бұрын
>A Gaming Brit Jak trilogy vid Thank you so much man. Seriously.
@MrWhatdafuBOOM4 жыл бұрын
OMG, your idea of Gol And Maia being behind the dark makers all along using a dark Erol for their purposes is absolutely brilliant! Samos himself was unsure whether or not they were destroyed at the end of the first game. And since the main gang travelled into the future, Gol and Maia could have escaped somewhere during their abscence in the meantime, maybe even more mutated and powerful enough to create/become the dark makers. And to think it would have all started with them being defeated at the same place were the heroes found the time portal, RIGHT AFTER pretty much creating that timeline by sealing them in the silo, it would have all come full circle so nicely, I'm geniunely upset we didn't get that.
@mikeexits2 жыл бұрын
Would've been the perfect core plot point for a Jak 4 direct sequel. Actually I read a fanmade plot trailer/summary type of post on the subreddit for these games and it was so enticing that it was actually playing out vividly in my own imagination like it was real. God damn do I wish we got that as a Jak 4. And god damn do I wish I could find that fanmade plot so I could share it with others, but sadly all of my searches came up with nothing.
@fictiontheorizer19912 жыл бұрын
Gol and Maia were such great villains. I don't know what it is about those two but it just works. Gol's voice and apperance just naturally works to convey a sense of decay and destruction. You see the long term effects of Dark Eco in him, and it really sells the cost of letting this poison run rampant. Maia highlights the psychological darkness of Dark Eco. Some of the most vicious dialogue from the duo comes from her and it's really interesting to see how violent she sounds. They are my favorite villians in the series honestly.
@noahdavis7406 Жыл бұрын
It's crazy, I think I had some super vivid dream as a kid or something, but I remember playing a Jak 4 where we go back to the past to stop Gol and Maia. I remember it way too well, with them appearing in a portal similar to the Metal Head Leader at the beginning of Jak II and Jak getting pulled in before engaging in a boss fight with dark Eco creatures.
@EmMy-cp8bi4 жыл бұрын
I remember how crushed I felt when I had to navigate through parts of Haven City in Jak 3. It felt as if, somehow, a part of me grew up a bit. It's such a good game..
@AlbBooker3 жыл бұрын
For me Jak 3 was the weakest one, the one that felt to me the most rushed one and because of it, I didn't enjoyed it as much as the previous one, the story is fine tho. My rank for Jak games are: Jak 1 > Jak 2 > Jak 3 Jak 2 and 3 will definitely benefit from a remake so they can improve a lot of things that didn't age so well.
@4evermilkman3 жыл бұрын
Perfectly said :)
@4evermilkman3 жыл бұрын
@@AlbBooker Jak 3 was the first game that had a camera moving on a rail, with a moving vehicle in a cutscene. It had features that were revolutionary in the time, but are now standards. It was far from rushed, but you can have your opinion:)
@AlbBooker3 жыл бұрын
@@4evermilkman Those are technical aspect of the game, I'm talking about gameplay.
@sebastiankulche3 жыл бұрын
@@AlbBooker Gameplay wise i consider Jak 3 to be much better than 2. Mostly because of the missions being better designed and is not annoying to drive around heaven city with guards chasing you all of the time... P.S: Also, it has the best replay valur of the trilogy.
@Table535 жыл бұрын
This was a video I didn't know I needed until it appeared in my notifications.. but now...
@stupid90able5 жыл бұрын
Ikr
@CowCommander15 жыл бұрын
I was like man over an hour long?? And here I am finished watching it all lol. It was good.
@constipatednincompoop79295 жыл бұрын
So basically TGB wants Jak3 Errol to be Vergil. There's the DMC reference.
@bergonath88515 жыл бұрын
You've cracked the case, me mate!
@DragonGodXIII5 жыл бұрын
...Damn, a "Might Controls Everything!" mindset Errol would have been cool. No lie.
@blademaster50745 жыл бұрын
Wasn't he referring to Devil Trigger when talking about Dark Jak at one point?
@strikeforce15005 жыл бұрын
Maybe we should give some MOTIVATION to Naughty Dog
@Lugbzurg5 жыл бұрын
I just kept waiting for him to say that Dark Jak was a devil trigger.
@aiyachristian4 жыл бұрын
The jump from jak and dax to jak 2 was completely insane. That jak 2 intro where they go thru the portal still gives me goosebumps
@OdaSwifteye2 жыл бұрын
How about the part where you realize that one of the areas is your old home but completely ruined?
@RyunosukeHachi2 жыл бұрын
@@OdaSwifteye How about realizing that most of the people you interacted with in the first game - like your Uncle and the Red, Blue, and Yellow Sage - are long dead and you don’t even know where they’re buried. Except for Gol and Maia. The Dark Eco probably destroyed them. Probably.
@Sankray2 жыл бұрын
A part of what i loved about jak 2's killing civillians mechanic is how the guards were not triggered. They could not give a shit if you murdered the whole town, but bump them accidentally with your vehicle and boy, you had it coming.
@TylerTheDefiler2 жыл бұрын
Not true, if you kill civilians in front of guards, the guard will attack you.
@memelescream4796 Жыл бұрын
They just think you're auditioning to join them.
@arcaedonluminos6665 жыл бұрын
"But nevertheless an adventure I think more than just the rocks should recall." But even the rocks do not recall!
@retardsrusjr83505 жыл бұрын
I like how edgy it's jokes were for a colourful platformer
@LicensedGuitarist20005 жыл бұрын
i'm pretty sure that was the trend for 3d platformers between the late 90's and early 2000's.
@JimmyJames10-k7v3 жыл бұрын
Big cringe
@denisn83363 жыл бұрын
@@JimmyJames10-k7v na
@bobskye63365 жыл бұрын
I hereby dissolve the City Council. Damn, I wish I thought of doing that earlier. Sorry Jak.
@NotOrdinaryInGames5 жыл бұрын
THE PEOPLE decided to support the dissolving of the city council after Veger fucked up a few times too many.
@blockhasher79575 жыл бұрын
@@NotOrdinaryInGames das real nigga talk cuh, that's what i was gone say, real shit
@sarafontanini70515 жыл бұрын
@@NotOrdinaryInGames well maybe the game should've made that more clear, hmm?
@NotOrdinaryInGames5 жыл бұрын
Maybe they should have had move money and time and they didn't.......
@blockhasher79575 жыл бұрын
@@sarafontanini7051 it was implied, at the start of the game, the nigga was too powerfoo, at that point of the game, he wasn't, because our boy Jak was puttin in work on that nigga, fucked his shit all the hell up dawg, real talk
@iLloyd65 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU Ashelin saying "The Mar!?"completely mindfucked me for a decade now and I'm so glad there's a video now touching on this
@DinoDudeDillon4 жыл бұрын
I actually think Baron Praxis not getting killed by Jak was thematically resonnant. Jak shows in that scene that he has bigger priorities than revenge now. That's not an arc that the story puts at the forefront, but nevertheless, we arrive at that moment where Jak and Praxis are more allies than enemies as Praxis lays dying rather organically. Praxis is a morally complex character. The whole story of Jak 2 is full of moral shades of grey -- it really expanded my thinking as a kid. Also, you criticized the setup of Jak 3 for being random, which it kinda was in some ways. But like, Jak was involved in letting the metal heads into the city for crew. He just didn't know it.
@lespena37222 жыл бұрын
I also think that the game jak and the lost frontier was kinda the nail in the coffin. Everything about that game made no sense. (Like keira wanting to be a sage, them trying to force the romance between keira and Jak (sorry i liked them together in the first game, but after that the pairing was dead) and getting eco powers in the end, the eco shortage, ect… and don’t get me started on the designs somethings were okay, others not so much) I mean it was so bad that they declared it non cannon and even the ones who worked on it admitted that it was jaks swan song…. I would have prefered a proper 4 game and its sad as the building blocks were there. I mean the fourth game could have been made with gol and maias return…. It could fill out the gaps in the story… like why Damas was overthrown (the guy had to have done something really bad), a bit more about Jaks past… the theme would also push morality to its limit as Jak would be forced to a gray area as he confronts a truth. As crazy as it sounds i always felt that the others saw Jak (minus daxter) as a weapon… as a way to get a means to an end (i always found it suspicious that samos never prepared jak properly or warned him…. And also the fact that ashlyn allowed Jak to be banished when she clearly had the power to overturn that)… in every single game he was used as a tool…. And in this game he would be forced to confront it… I even add that erol would also be in the game and would he redeemed ala darth vader. (Also would serve to give jak closure and a way to move on from his past) (as for why erol its just that a lot of stuff he does makes no sense like why not just kill jak as he had plenty of chances, how did he survived, how did he even know about the darkmakers…. In truth it just feels like he was used like a tool similarly to jak) It is sad we might never see a 4 game…. Then again maybe its for the best considering how low naughty dog has gotten. (With our “luck” if they do a 4 game they will do what they did to last of us 2)
@yalikegames13192 жыл бұрын
I always thought it would be a better idea ,as a teen, for after Praxis' regim to fall. A democracy would become established, and the peoples first change to Haven would be to exile Jak for all of those ludo narrative distance stuff, to actually blow the players mind and make them think of their actions and to give more justification to the exile.
@lespena37222 жыл бұрын
@@yalikegames1319 your right. Had it been a democracy it would have fix a lot of plot holes in the third game. Sadly it’s not and it leaves not only a lot of plot holes but also made a lot of characters look bad.
@ndalum75 Жыл бұрын
Jak II does some interesting bits to make you question if Jak is really fighting on the right side. There's a mission where Kor tells you to blow up some eco shipments of the Baron, claiming "the underground will collect it later". Given Kor's true identity, it's pretty obvious that the only faction recovering any eco off of Jak's mission is the metal heads. Between that and the search for the precursor stone, there's a lot of ways in which the underground are working as patsies for the metal heads, making the Baron seem rather justified. There's also the fact that the Baron never seems to hate Jak, and instead shows him, not total respect, but a little bit, always talking to him one on one through those monitors. And overall he seems like a pretty practical military leader in places. You might not like his leadership, but hey, he's the only thing between you and the extinction of the human(are they humans?) race, so uh, you can't be too picky. Of course, all this nice moral complexity is thrown out the window because the Baron was too dumb to do any calculations on what breaking the precursor stone would do, and he won't listen to anyone else tell him this is a bad idea, not even his daughter. A bit of a let down, the only kind of glaring plothole inside Jak II, aside from those created by Jak 3.
@4ortKnox5 жыл бұрын
I always felt like Dark Jak wasn't used to it's fullest potential. I think if they added Dark Jak in more cutscenes(cuz he's only in like 3 or 4 lol) where he's using his powers, the audience would feel more inclined to using it too.
@cinderheart27205 жыл бұрын
The biggest issue with Dark Jak is that...its not really a dark form. It gives you increased combat potential...and that's it. Colour it blue and you could've easily just called it superJak. Nothing outside the first level actually makes it feel like an evil force. Dark Jak needed to be more like the Dark Prince in Prince of Persia to really feel like a cruel, evil force that you're using at the cost of your morality. Perhaps having innocents be disguised as enemies while in Dark Jak form?
@4ortKnox5 жыл бұрын
@@cinderheart2720 I'm voting for you to be the next developer of Jak 4. Ik "The Lost Frontier" was a thing but we don't talk about that😂
@cinderheart27205 жыл бұрын
@@4ortKnox I could actually see the appeal of rebooting the Jak series from the ground up with a significant amount of influence taken from the Prince of Persia games. Having Dark Jax be a forced transformation is a possible direction to go, as either a punishment or a reward for engaging in close combat and picking up dark eco, depending on the mission type. Trying to sneak up on a sniper boss with an eco sensor means if you hulk out, you're spotted. Of course, Dark Jak is whispering in your ear to do it anyways, and just rush the boss before he can escape with Dark Jak's enhanced speed, but you know if you do that you can't capture him, only kill him.
@Kilo_Maybe4 жыл бұрын
@@cinderheart2720 Those are Great ideas, but why not also have him struggle, and try to fight back against the dark form? But after using it a lot, he doesn't fight back, and the form is stronger. So encouraging players to use the mode more Edit: I added stuff after the word "stronger".
@Ckoz28294 жыл бұрын
The whole thing was poorly implemented. Think about it: what can Dark Jak do that regular Jak can’t? Sure, it makes fighting enemies easier, but not by much, which is why you forget about it and stick to the guns and melee moves. I do think adding more of him to the story would have helped, but that still glosses over how useless the form is. There needs to be a reason for it to exist. Maybe force the player to use it a bit more, make some enemies that are only vulnerable to dark eco, maybe give the player a light/dark morality choice while you’re at it. Have an upgrade system that balances risk and reward with dark eco or health bonuses or something like that. Whatever the case, their needed to be a good reason for the player to use it, but they must have forgotten to develop that.
@boo58605 жыл бұрын
I replay this series every few years to escape into my childhood. It's one of the few things that never fails to make me feel better
@vulpesamores17835 жыл бұрын
picked up spyro recently for that exact reason
@djhunto90154 жыл бұрын
@Death Untold grow up
@Energizer7204 жыл бұрын
Wtf XD
@galacticspike28424 жыл бұрын
@ Existance Untold wow you must think your so cool.
@Daedalus335 жыл бұрын
The twist in Jak 3 actually made my jaw drop. Greatest twist ever
@sarafontanini70515 жыл бұрын
if you mean the precursor reveal, I think the most shocking thing of all is that they remembered that that was even one of the franchises' mysteries
@kyon8132 жыл бұрын
"...oh my god."
@Ella_Amida2 жыл бұрын
It’s the worst twist ever. Ruined the lore.
@mrsmartypants45414 жыл бұрын
Jak II's difficulty made it exciting in my opinion. It actually made my heart race when I got to a point I haven't seen before and didn't know what to expect. It got to a point where me and my dad where taking turns trying to beat certain levels. And feeling a great deal of achievement when we did it. I believe games should be hard, they should make you feel you earned your victories.
@brentwhitaker35854 жыл бұрын
That scripted jumpscare in the sewer still scares me to this day.
@mikeexits2 жыл бұрын
Probably the most well-done hard jumpscare I've seen in gaming.
@EagleScope5 жыл бұрын
I thought I was the only one that still cared about Jak in 2019, then this video popped up in my recommended
@mikeexits4 жыл бұрын
It's like a dream come true. In the same year this was posted, I had posted a comment on his Ratchet and Clank reboot analysis requesting an analysis video on Jak and Daxter. I don't even know if he saw my comment or if it had any effect on this getting made, but it still felt like a gift, haha
@HeyMomonia3 жыл бұрын
Jak x was my first ps2 game I'll never forget this serie It's a big part of my childhood
@kai97553 жыл бұрын
Jak and daxter precursor legacy was the game that got me into gaming! Ratchet and clank are awesome but jak and daxter are something else imo
@superlombax15615 жыл бұрын
You know you're in for a fun time with GamingBrit when he submits a video about the same length of his Ratchet & Clank 2016 analysis.
@Lugbzurg5 жыл бұрын
No joke, when that video came out, I waited to see it 'till I was on vacation and watched it on the TV in the cabin, connecting my PS3 to KZbin. It was even in the midst of playing the Jak and Daxter HD Trilogy Collection, no less.
@pinkfloyd361235 жыл бұрын
its funny that the main thing you disliked about jak 1, that being the fact that the stuff you do has very little to do with the plot and is basically just errand work, is exactly why it's one of my favorite platformers, if not my absolute favorite. its so relaxed and light on context that the entire game feels like a total breeze to play. i 100%'d the game on my first playthrough, something i've never done and probably never will do again, and a lot of that was down to just how soothing i found the game to be, which just wouldnt be there if it was more context-heavy, fast paced and had a more pulsing forward momentum. great video btw
@kimhunter67334 жыл бұрын
101 + 2000 baby
@InhabitantOfOddworld3 жыл бұрын
It also feels like a very weak criticism in context of the genre; every collect-athon from that 90s-2000s period featured a broad and vague narrative for the purpose of stringing together a collection of unrelated gameplay activities. Jak 1: turn Daxter back to normal, and do so via collecting power cells, and do that via herding cows and shooting rats Mario 64: save the princess from Bowser, and do that via collecting stars, and do that by racing penguins and flying around a battlefield with a magic hat Spyro: defeat Gnasty Gnorc, and do that via saving the trapped dragons and collecting stolen treasure, and do this by flying through timed courses and flaming sheep It's just how these games roll
@hahajohngaming3 жыл бұрын
"I honestly don't think jak and daxter gets enough credit for how inherently satisfying jak is to just play around with" Context needed for that statement
@BluntAnims3 жыл бұрын
Movement options and animations were super fluid, easy to control.
@mrdreamy17472 жыл бұрын
no homo
@hexwolfi2 жыл бұрын
Keira and Ashelin: 😏
@DinoDudeDillon4 жыл бұрын
As a kid, I always imagined there would be a fourth Jak game where the time travel was a mechanic, in which Jak returned to the past with the help of the precursors and founded Haven city. The technological advances were made by Keira, the Blue Sage and Jinx. This was my headcanon at age 10.
@man123456789125 жыл бұрын
Going out and cutting down civilians is absolutely out of character, but them getting caught in the crossfire is unfortunately part of war. Plus, with an uncontrollable dark side extra casualties are bound to happen.
@thelordelric84244 жыл бұрын
Those speed bumps have ruined my vehicles challenges so much that I feel no regret in killing them. They need to hit the ground faster.
@Chico504452 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I think it's just a missed opportunity with the story, they could have included some struggle where Jak has to learn to minimize civilian sacrifices while he's on a mission.
@spaceace91032 жыл бұрын
@@thelordelric8424 lol
@Sjono5 жыл бұрын
“Loan your dear old uncle” Jak has no father or mother at this point in time. Who is this guy calling himself Jak’e uncle?
@SpecRose5 жыл бұрын
Probably someone who had some part in helping raise Jak and took the role of an Uncle figure. maybe even called that by others, maybe Jak himself.(I prescribe to the idea that Jak was just an exceptionally quiet nice guy in 1. There's times he looks like he wants to say something but gets cut off scattered throughout the first game)
@Ineedgames5 жыл бұрын
Your creepy neighbourhood uncle.
@lightsonitzekioro39185 жыл бұрын
It's likely one of those things where you grow close to a person not related by blood so much that you consider them like family. Hell given the plot twist of Jak's childhood and where Samos originally came from I wouldn't be surprised if Jak considered Samos somewhat of a father figure before meeting Damos and even then still considered Samos a father figure, especially with how Jak said thank you to Damos at the end of Jak 2.
@5persondude5 жыл бұрын
"Whoopsie daisies" -Some writer at Naughty Dog, 2001
@HazmanFTW5 жыл бұрын
Originally he probably was his Uncle and then they were like let's make Jak II and time travel. I think Samos probably asked him to look after Jak and raise him when they headed back at the end of Jak II.
@PurposelessRabbitholes5 жыл бұрын
Dude HELL YEAH! Always been hoping you'd cover the Jak games, they're absolutely some of my all-time favorites
@cryptohello76665 жыл бұрын
Damn you here
@DingusLad014 жыл бұрын
“2001. The greatest year ever!” 😬 nobody tell him about September
@DingusLad014 жыл бұрын
All jokes of course haha love your videos man
@Slim_Ch4rles4 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of that tragedy... 🤔
@briggy43593 жыл бұрын
@@Slim_Ch4rles I wandered the streets of New York, up to my ankles in blood and bones, looking for my brother...
@Brentonius_III3 жыл бұрын
As horrible as what I'm about to say sounds Hes not American so it didn't affect him When someone says 9/11 to me I think of 9th November for instance
@LukeDukeTilDeath13 жыл бұрын
@@briggy4359 Turns out he was in Northern Canada.
@zan65854 жыл бұрын
"What? What did I say? What did you say Jak?" man I love Daxter's dialogue.
@ZiexCee5 жыл бұрын
Jak X felt like Jak 3.5. Hopefully if Jak 4 is a thing, it acknowledges Jak X and not Jak TLF.
@BanesBasement4 жыл бұрын
I know you posted this a while ago, but I got a question: what’s wrong with TLF? That’s the PSP one right? When I was a little kid that was my first Jak game and piqued my interest in the franchise.
@spooky_moron4 жыл бұрын
@@BanesBasement it's both on the ps2 and psp, and to answer your question, it basically just ruined the characters and the world naughty dog built up to that point, it has plot points, and it has a super awkward love triangle for no reason. This is due to the fact that it was High Impact Games that developed it, not Naughty Dog.
@BanesBasement4 жыл бұрын
@@spooky_moron If it was another developer, just consider it non-canon and forget about it XD
@spooky_moron4 жыл бұрын
@@BanesBasement that's exactly what everyone does xd, I cannot accept the abomination that is dark Daxter.
@CFbastar4 жыл бұрын
There will never be a canon jak 4. Not without the talented people that worked at Naughty Dog back then.
@FreeBurd06205 жыл бұрын
Its funny how Jak X actually manages to make more satisfying endings for the characters in the trilogy than 3 does.
@UnifiedEntity5 жыл бұрын
Yeah. I remember I dismissed the game because i Hated racing games but becasue it was Jak at some point...i Bought it and once I got to the end....he finally kissed Keira >_>
@sarafontanini70515 жыл бұрын
helps the gameplay was focused and the story wasn't just split ebtween like three different plots that weren't that connected to each other
@davea36415 жыл бұрын
@@sarafontanini7051 2 was low-key connected. Then out of nowhere 3 sends you further back in time? I got confused
@pingaspearce94034 жыл бұрын
@@davea3641 jak 3 had no time travel???
@sobrev1viente4 жыл бұрын
@@pingaspearce9403 it had, but for the young Jak
@KalavinkaK5 жыл бұрын
Aaa your idea for Errol was the best. Dammit, I want that now.
@voicebross5 жыл бұрын
i always like Errol from 3 but that idea was so much better
@productivitywizard64065 жыл бұрын
“Oh yeah, life is good!” “Life is good, alright, later.” Yep. That about perfectly sums up the feeling of that final scene. Not like you just defeated unstoppable odds in your final hoo-rah, but like you’re saying goodbye to an old chap after having an amusing night at the arcade.
@marbotp93763 жыл бұрын
You describing the movement of Jak is exactly why I love the character. I think he's the best example of what a ninja would be in a platforming videogame. Jak is actually my biggest inspiration for becoming an acrobat and skateboarder.
@HeroOfLegend1155 жыл бұрын
Jak II used to be my FAVORITE ps2 game, and this trilogy meant so much to me back in the day.
@Crylorz5 жыл бұрын
jak 1 was the best.
@Snailirific5 жыл бұрын
Jak II is my favorite too. The story is good and the villains are interesting. Jak 3 could have been my favorite but they messed up a lot of the characters by switching their roles around(like Keira and Ashelin) and it made me dislike the story a lot.
@infinityhand65695 жыл бұрын
The Jak Trilogy is Naughty Dog's best franchise, change my mind.
@sandorenckell52595 жыл бұрын
Infinity Hand I don’t share your opinion, but I have no interest in changing your mind
@JayfroC5 жыл бұрын
I definitely agree with that ^^ Though Crash could've given it some competition if the first game had aged better, I think.
@mathiassvendsen97885 жыл бұрын
No. I will not. You got it down.
@mythologue5 жыл бұрын
Slippery Climb
@retrosoul87705 жыл бұрын
There is nothing wrong with the 1st crash game, and its age has nothing to do with anything, where did this dislike train come from anyway?
@WhatsUpFella5 жыл бұрын
I loved this. You always nail exactly why I love games and even just art generally. You’re neither too clinical or emotional. You understand the value of mechanics of course but you also acknowledge the aesthetic and thematic elements without getting too wrapped up in them. Too many reviewers seem to focus on one or the other in such a way that I’m left listening to either cold and calculated analysis or some sort of moralistic breakdown of the art. You just seem to have fun with it all and it’s a breath of fresh air.
@TheGamingBritShow5 жыл бұрын
Damn, thanks!
@lespena37222 жыл бұрын
A little fun fact: It is not a coincidence that Erol and Jak look somewhat similar. You see when they were designing Erol they used one of Jaks rejected prototype design to make his. Which is why the two look similar. It was done intentional as Erol and Jak are foils to one another and original they had a different plan for Erol but it was tossed out for some reason that I do not know.(As for how i know? A family member of mine used to work for naughty dog and actually helped in the game and told me all the juicy details)
@deadlocked53372 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@crowstastegood88884 жыл бұрын
it's honestly kind of sad we'll never get a remake of the Jax and Daxter games but who knows that might be a good thing
@artistanthony10074 жыл бұрын
The Sonic community makes countless awesome and well made fan games which Sonic Mania is one of them, not sure why no fan has ever tried for this franchise even if it's just a Proof of Concept.
@AlryFireBlade4 жыл бұрын
yeah Jak II Ramaster with more checkpoints... I would buy and love it.
@AlryFireBlade4 жыл бұрын
@FeruLay Conden Yeah and that takes away mch of the Fun and will to replay it. If you don't have Problems good for you.
@MuchWhittering4 жыл бұрын
Remakes are almost never a good thing. Unless it's something massively flawed in the first place like Gen 1 Pokémon.
@JimmyJames10-k7v3 жыл бұрын
@@MuchWhittering crash
@PlayPodOG5 жыл бұрын
i really do not at all think a character or series NEEDS to stick to only 1 tone. games are allowed to be complex and the jak series does it so well. yeah it mixes things but it mixes them SO well. there is nothing wrong with it in that regard. i really want naughty dog to continue making jak games. at least one more.
@mikeexits4 жыл бұрын
With how TLOU2 went and the company politics, I don't think I want them developing it anymore. Maybe if the original guys behind Jak and Daxter regained significant roles at ND, but other than that, no thanks. Honestly, I think Toys for Bob would do a much better job. Maybe if they teamed up with High Impact Games and actually remained faithful to the originals.
@fictiontheorizer19912 жыл бұрын
@@mikeexits Exactly. I don't want them to touch this series. Poor Keira would be so unbearable.
@SiberianFenek5 жыл бұрын
i think you nailed it in regard to jak 2 and why it's unique despit being a mishmash of a lot of things.
@BasedGodZolus5 жыл бұрын
My mans you weren’t alone. These games were the absolute pinnacle of its time and the leap of video game possibilitiy was never forgotten by me
@mikeexits2 жыл бұрын
Ok, I can't help myself. "My mans"?
@BasedGodZolus2 жыл бұрын
@@mikeexits my mans: my friend, my fellow human
@mikeexits2 жыл бұрын
@@BasedGodZolus I get the meaning, I just don't get why people bother to type the extra "s" at the end. "My man" has the same effect. I just find some modern casual language conventions confusing in general.
@BasedGodZolus2 жыл бұрын
@@mikeexits not every word is optimized for efficiency.. I typed “my mans” because that’s how I say it. Go out and meet some folks and you’ll hear all kinds of new words
@BasedGodZolus2 жыл бұрын
@@mikeexits also I could’ve said “folk” but it doesn’t have the same effect
@a.c.n90763 жыл бұрын
Jak and Daxter truly does "suffer" from that middle child/chapter syndrome. Something that falls beneath the cracks. Not as iconic as it's predecessor nor as mainstream as it's successor. I can definitely see (in retrospect) why it still resonates with millennials and older gen z down to this day. While perhaps not the best idea on a marketing level, I actually think it's mish-mosh style is appealing. That's what it felt like growing up in the 2000's (that transition from the old into the new). The trilogy (particularly 2 and 3) still stand as my favorite games of all time.
@4evermilkman3 жыл бұрын
What exactly do you mean by that syndrome? I read this 3 times and it's still going over my head :P I agree though, Jaks style is what it felt like to grow up in the 90s and 2000s
@mikeexits2 жыл бұрын
I'm always happy to read of someone else who chooses these beauties as their all-time favorite games. Did you get any of the Limited Run PS4 copies? I got all the Collector's ones and the Jak 4 mockup case is pretty awesome to have in-hand. Definitely worth it as a lifetime fan (though I'm not sure I'd pay the ebay scalper prices for them; $80-90 each was enough for my wallet to handle.
@spaceace91032 жыл бұрын
@@4evermilkman J&D get less praise than Crash or TLOU like the middle child usually gets less attention
@MuchWhittering4 жыл бұрын
I think the worst bit about the palace level is that you don't even leave via the convenient door you came in by. You have to go a completely different way through an obstacle course.
@Spike2945 жыл бұрын
"some of my favorite games then and now, and my favorite naughty dog games" amen
@coolcat29945 жыл бұрын
I remember in jak 1 i would run the whole world on foot because it was so beautiful
@iota-095 жыл бұрын
Same, i even had the map from the first original game and just to see if it actually matched the in-game world i'd do that and yes, it is(mostly) matching with the game world
@JayfroC5 жыл бұрын
The map-manual hybrid that came with the game, right? I have that shit fixed on my wall, it's a prized possession of mine xD
@iota-095 жыл бұрын
@@JayfroC mine... Who knows where the hell it's gone, probably shredded and recycled, rip.
@Totone565 жыл бұрын
@@JayfroC Wow, i forgot about this. I still have the original game somewhere, gotta find it.
@bigbastard75824 жыл бұрын
Isn't running the whole world on foot mandatory? I've played it alot and 100%'d it and I don't recall any other mode of transportation
@PlaystationMasterPS35 жыл бұрын
a spiritual successor of Jak and Daxter is a better idea. also, I'm totally on board for 2000's nostalgia
@Lugbzurg5 жыл бұрын
Sonic Adventure 3 should likely do this as well.
@Kilo_Maybe3 жыл бұрын
I'm still waiting for JaD 4
@isaacschmitt48033 жыл бұрын
See, I view the Jak trilogy as the perfect coming of age, not only story, but game, and not just in-game. The first game is light, fantasy, with just a little bit of mystery. That's prepuberty, back when you view the world as uncomplicated, when all you know of is classic heroes where the good guy always does right and is home by nine. It's good, wholesome fun with just enough tongue-in‐cheek humor to make it entertaining. The second is puberty: rage, feeling trapped, and like you need to overthrow your oppressors that, while harsh, really have the best intentions in mind. It adds the edge, the cool guns, and a little moral ambiguity. It's when you start feeling that "too cool for school" rebelliousness. Jak 3 is maturity, when you find a balance with your newfound edge and your earlier lighthearted, innocent nature. You can never return to it, but you begin to realize not everything needs that edge or moral ambiguity. As someone that grew up with this series, it reflected how I felt about the world as I played each new installment. And I appreciated it! Looking back nostalgically, I have nothing but memories of enjoying every second if it. Looking back critically, there are moments in the second one where I cringe, remembering how I thought the edginess was so cool back then. I don't know, maybe I'm the only one that felt that way. But as an adolescent, it felt like the series understood me.
@mikeexits2 жыл бұрын
You know what? As someone who's gone through a lot of difficult maturing processes in the last 7-8 years of adulthood, I still love the tonal shift between Jak and Daxter and Jak II (although when I first played the series I started with II and was way too innocent to understand much of Jak II's plots, jokes, and thematic undertones, though this could have played a huge role in what I bring up further in this comment). Then Jak 3 brings it full circle and brings the spiritual aspects into a bigger thematic focus with the Yin-Yang balance of Dark and Light Eco + the powers and implications that come with them. I really think it planted seeds that were subliminally pivotal in my journey down the rabbit hole of what the true Nature of Life and Consciousness is to get to where I am today. Which is a pretty strange but deep, complex, and quite fulfilling experience of life in general. And I'm so grateful to everyone who worked on these games for it. I used to be embarrased and shameful about the fact that I loved video games and got deep meaning out of their unique storytelling methods. Now I wear it as a badge of honor and am happy to say just how impactful these games in particular have been on my life.
@kingdomkey22622 жыл бұрын
What would Jak X be?
@ghillieassassin84192 жыл бұрын
Jak X is you being an adult and knowing it's not fun, so the best way to blow off steam after work from knowing adulthood isn't fun is grabbing a few beers and play deathrace. Nothing like high octane cars, bullets, and checkered flags to let loose. Also explosions. And that intro, "GIMME TORO, GIMME SOME MORE!!!" perfect for a tone setting for the game.
@iamymai5 жыл бұрын
Found this through the Jak and Daxter discord, and I'm so glad I did! Easily the best analysis on this criminally underrepresented series I've seen. I'm so there with Jak 2 being the tonal blueprint if they ever made a sequel without botching it horribly. I love that game so much I started novelizing it as a teenager, gave up, and came back to rewrite and finish it over a decade later.
@Captain_Blue_Balls5 жыл бұрын
Jak's still my Jam. I remember it more fondly than Uncharted or Crash.
@alistair49095 жыл бұрын
HW Schimmel Uncharted is the only one I never cared for. Crash, Jak and Daxter, and the Last of Us are awesome stuff imo. I’ve always seen Uncharted as tomb raider but more stiff? Lara Croft could back flip and shoot while in mid air and Nathan is bit more limited. Maybe stiff isn’t the right word since Uncharted has technically smoother controls. Maybe it’s the more hand holding level design, Maybe it’s just me :)
@reeceburns80775 жыл бұрын
@moonsta uncharted are awesome games not really fond of the last one because they threw in way to many cut scenes while I liked the other one's better because i saw them as fun adventure game and enjoyed scenarios drake was put in and be able to play through them while the last one tried being more story then the rest while this might not be something people will agree with the writers never made me feel anything for drake to care for the game more story wise he just a rip off of multiple characters like Indiana Jones and Brendan Fraser from the mummey and Laura croft not to mention it's just a guy looking for treasure not a really complicated plot
@timeland83434 жыл бұрын
Nuno The Dude calling something popular overrated doesn’t make you an interesting person
@basedbattledroid35074 жыл бұрын
I love Jak, Crash and Uncharted but I couldn't really care about The Last of Us, or at least aspects of it beyond the gameplay, performances/characters and I guess the artwork/graphics; I liked those regardless. Just felt like a very unthreatening post apocalyptic world that kept trying too hard to make you cry, I was definitely heartbroken when Joel lost his daughter, not when all of the other characters continue to lose their significant others; I mean if Ellie died at the end of the game I would've cried twice, not when you just meet a guy and two minutes later turns out his brother or partner is dead. Not a bad game by any means, definitely a good game, but I feel like it's a tad overrated at times. Uncharted 4 looked great so I didn't mind the overabundance of cutscenes, I mean those graphics were phenomenal, every time I hear of games trying to do the photorealistic graphics thing; I always think "oh lord it's gonna look ugly" but no, they were great, I thought the characters were perfectly designed. Although yeah the gameplay didn't feel as up-to-scratch as the past three titles, too much emphasis on stealth when that wasn't previously part of the game and the stealth gameplay itself wasn't as refined as it was in The Last of Us, incorporating some of those mechanics would've been pretty great, also felt like the jump height was a little too reduced and I know that was probably to be more realistic, it's just that Nathan Drake previously felt like a master of parkour, now he felt like a sack of potatoes, otherwise I still liked it.
@draphking5 жыл бұрын
Jax X is underrated. Change my mind
@weinteruptth.14795 жыл бұрын
Two words... time trials >_>
@superlombax15615 жыл бұрын
@@weinteruptth.1479 Not that much of a problem. Just figure out the right path to take and when to hit certain time freezers or whatever they're called.
@weinteruptth.14795 жыл бұрын
@@superlombax1561 I played the game when I was 8. I imagine it is not that bad anymore. Edit: I have the game on ps4 I just have'nt played it yet
@Enclavefakesoldier5 жыл бұрын
I just wish it didn't have that crazy glitch that wiped your mem card. otherwise I would have given it a go
@Totone565 жыл бұрын
Jak X was amazing, and still is
@SammEater5 жыл бұрын
It is a shame that Naughty Dog pretty much abandoned the series, I suppose there is no more space for a fun adventure styled game.
@sarafontanini70515 жыл бұрын
no we need MORE ZOMBIES, that's what the gamers want!
@Agent-yw1kj5 жыл бұрын
@@sarafontanini7051 Trolling?
@sarafontanini70515 жыл бұрын
@@Agent-yw1kj i was being fascietious yes, making fun of how naughty dog are focusing on Last of Us
@Agent-yw1kj5 жыл бұрын
@@sarafontanini7051 Oh sorry
@SammEater4 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine the same company that did Crash Bandicoot and Jak making a game where the previous main character dies by getting his head hit with a golf club by a PR stunt disguised as a new main character?
@TerrorOfTalos5 жыл бұрын
Jak 3 is my favorite but I love the whole trilogy and I'm glad you've covered them.
@zombiepenguin71344 жыл бұрын
"TIME TRAVEL IS A BAD PLOT DEVICE" - Better Name Pending, 2020
@John_II3 жыл бұрын
This is just a great trilogy. Credit where due: Jak 1 had the "no load times" nailed. I cannot believe more games didn't do it. Jak 2 and 3 have mild load times, but did great.
@Zen-sx5io5 жыл бұрын
This trilogy was very important to my childhood in the 2000s. You now have my sub.👍
@Sjono5 жыл бұрын
I didn’t even notice that the Morph Gun utilized Eco for its bullets
@iota-095 жыл бұрын
Or that dexter was the one shooting while driving (i had a really crap tv, i guess)
@JayfroC5 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing the JET-board does as well. It emanates blue light, the Eco color that represents motion. It's a cool way to show how a natural resource like Eco can be weaponized over the years.
@Lugbzurg5 жыл бұрын
That's such an impressively-subtle lore-expansion, especially considering how the oh-so-in-your-face cutscenes never bring it up in the slightest.
@lancearmada5 жыл бұрын
Classic. When’s the sly cooper review coming eh?
@anequallygoodchannel.27615 жыл бұрын
Refer to B masks videos.
@DoktorInsano985 жыл бұрын
Just watch B-Masks retrospective. It's a perfect analysis of those games
@SomeSomeCruzz005 жыл бұрын
@@DoktorInsano98 maybe he wants to hear Charlie's opinion
@blakechildress9445 жыл бұрын
Yes! I want to hear his take on my favorite PS2 3D Platformer.
@Bongbongo3 жыл бұрын
Jak II also has a giant ratchet and clank picture in one of the cities.
@godhasabandonedme16433 жыл бұрын
Yup
@TheMGMfan3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of a picture of Jak and Daxter displayed on a TV in one of the stages of R&C: Going Commando. Definitely not a coincidence, especially when their developers put demos of the other's games in their own in the previous generation, but it stuck out to me when I first found it because I had no idea it was there until playing the game, which made finding it really cool.
@Templarfreak3 жыл бұрын
@@TheMGMfan Naughty Dog and Insomniac LITERALLY use to both be working out of not just the same office building, but out of the same like area of the office building too. Like you could literally walk past like 10 people in a row and its completely up in the air whether any given one of them was working for Naughty Dog or Insomniac lmao
@ZeFluffyKnight2 жыл бұрын
I remember too in one of the R&C games you could unlock a Jak skin for player 2, while in Jak II you could change the shooting course to be R&C themed. Hearing that they shared the same office space makes these references make even more sense than it just being friendly references to competition. Back in the PS2 days I was always a Jak player but my friend always played Ratchet so when we played 2 player I always chose the Jak skin lol.
@sonicbelmont3003 жыл бұрын
How to describe Jak and Daxter: A young elf-ish guy and his orange weasel sidekick collect stuff in a fantasy steampunk world.
@tritone22765 жыл бұрын
Jak III and Viewtiful Joe 2(though thank god I got vj2 on gamecube) were my childhood. I legit played and beat Jak III about 13 times over during the summer of 2007. Good times. I loved it.
@ToadalHERO5 жыл бұрын
Loved your Ratchet vid and got really excited when this appeared on my feed, which rarely happens for youtube uploads. Agree on most of your points but i LOVED cyborg errol. I think giving him the same powerset as Jak would have been way more boring than evil vengeful robocop. I just wish they used him more consistently and more creatively, some more "forms" would have been nice to take advantage of his new body. A post final boss 1 on 1 like FF VII's Cloud vs Sephiroth would have been cool. Also, i think an underrated part of Jak's writing was the ability to be edgy without being mean which is subtlety often ignored these days. It's a very charming sort of edge and i'd love to see more of it.
@itsjustvin76304 жыл бұрын
kinda throws away the whole Errol crashing into dark eco tho like what did it even do to him besides disfiguring him?
@tailedgates95 жыл бұрын
Seeing this video, yeah, the Jak series was a mess at times. (Especially with Kiera. She was handled weirdly in 3) But I honestly feel like the games were more about fun explosive action and great platforming. There were dramatic moments, sure, but it also knew when to take itself seriously and when to joke. It was so inventive, such a blast, and above all else, super memorable. I can see now how misdirected the series was, but it definitely deserves another chance. Jak and Daxter rules.
@iain2k75 жыл бұрын
They fixed Keira in Jak X, thankfully
@tailedgates95 жыл бұрын
@@iain2k7 Yes! She was great in Jak X.
@MetalGildarts4 жыл бұрын
It was because Keira’s original voice actress quit, and Ashelin became a fan favorite so they decided to make her more prominent in 3.
@firenze64784 жыл бұрын
Yeah they did Keira dirty in 3
@Evanz1114 жыл бұрын
I only ever played Jak 2 when I was younger, so seeing why the series meant so much to so many people was really enlightening. That’s for the outside/inside look on it!
@CrowFuu2 ай бұрын
To clarify Ashelin saying "THE Mar". It is revealed that Jak and the Precursors are able to Time Travel, so Jak would indeed be THE Mar since if/when he travels back in time he will be building/doing all of the things Mar is Legendary for. I would have loved for Jak 4 to involve Jak and the Crew going back in time to create his Legacy.
@lichlame5 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, Jak and Daxter, my favorite character action franchise. Jokes aside, I’ve always loved these games, replaying these three last year because I had a hankering. And yeah, a potential Naughty Dog sequel is both terrifying and crazy enticing. I really do miss these types of fun western games. This grimdark dadventure trend can’t end soon enough.
@Soynereh5 жыл бұрын
Oh man, Gol and Mia in jak3 would have been great.
@Lugbzurg5 жыл бұрын
A build-up with no payoff. Sad.
@sarafontanini70515 жыл бұрын
would've been better than Errol who just seems to have become a generic doomsday villain, the Dark Makers who basically have no character and are EVEN MORE generic Doomsday villains, and Veger who is an asshole who gets reduced to a joke by the end of the game
@itsjustvin76304 жыл бұрын
@@sarafontanini7051 Errol working with Gol and Mia with a hate boner for Jak would've been cool. I'd still keep Vegar for that payoff with the precursors
@marcogee56424 жыл бұрын
its never too late if they make jak 4 possible :)
@Szczauqa4 жыл бұрын
@@marcogee5642 when I look at tlou2 I don't want them to touch jak
@damiensawyers41335 жыл бұрын
I agree, 2001 was a wonderful year for games, MGS2, Max Payne, DMC, SH2, Onimusha, RE: CVX all amazing games to me...
@Szczauqa5 жыл бұрын
That was the Renaissance of great games which ended in 2010. From this time on industry got big and started to make money instead of gamey games. From that point on we saw some gems along the way, but "blockbusters" overshadowed them because they were making bucks. Big money ruins every industry, and sadly our entertainment suffered from it too.
@damiensawyers41335 жыл бұрын
Yeah, some of the best games came out in that decade or so
@Comkill1175 жыл бұрын
And that’s just the PS2, let’s not forget all other consoles and PC we’re pulling out all he stops too.
@JayfroC5 жыл бұрын
The PS2 library was fucking insane
@CornishCreamtea075 жыл бұрын
@@Szczauqa Most of the games from 01 were made with big money, what went wrong was monetisation. Fucking in-game stores to purchase the content they cut out and fucking lootboxes.
@sycho-tech51044 жыл бұрын
im fairly sure shes referring to 'Mar', the missing air to haven city who diapered around the time Damas was exiled along with his most loyal followers. not "Mar" the legendary hero who built haven city.
@xMasterSparku4 жыл бұрын
That's pretty obvious but somehow I never thought of it that way
@Space_Reptile4 жыл бұрын
to qoute naughty dog as of late: "we dont do fun" so no, no more fun jak games for you, only gritty zombie things
@Kilo_Maybe3 жыл бұрын
ND( naughty dog): The fans want mature zombie games! What ND fans Really want: Jak and daxter full trilogy remakes with better graphics and on new consoles
@JayAreAitch3 жыл бұрын
@@Kilo_Maybe Except they don't. Sales of their "cinematic over fun" games show that.
@Kilo_Maybe3 жыл бұрын
@@JayAreAitch oh. Fuck them then cus people want Jak and Daxter 4 or remakes
@G4kan2603 жыл бұрын
@@Kilo_Maybe nah bro just let it rest I don't want Modern Naughty dog to touch it. since the original team has left and druckman will fuck it up.
@rickkcir21513 жыл бұрын
@@G4kan260 He’d probably have Jak and Daxter die in the second mission and make the rest of the game Keira and Tess.
@tommyvercetti94345 жыл бұрын
Jak II was one of my favorite games during my childhood. I remember playing it with a friend just causing chaos in the city passing the controller when got killed. I played it again a year ago (being 26) and still found the cutscenes funny. 1- Jak II: Renegade 2 - Jak 3 3 - Jak and Daxter
@kokoado5 жыл бұрын
1:11:20 So the Jak games are Charaction Action games huh ? The plot thickens
@MaxLoafin5 жыл бұрын
Nah dawg they're _just action games. . . with really good combat_
@darkmariofans5 жыл бұрын
Found the DMC reference
@Akay44444444444444445 жыл бұрын
Sure Dante can High Time but can he do THIS *rolls into a high jump*
@iota-095 жыл бұрын
@@MaxLoafin and good characters. Which means... Oh my god. (Is it obvious enough i hate the name "character action"?)
@MaxLoafin5 жыл бұрын
@@iota-09 the problem with that is I don't think the characters need to be good in a "character action" game. Just look at Ryu from ninja gaiden. Sure he's cool, but that's less him as a character and more him as a design lol. Ryu's character is almost non existent besides cold stoicism, not that I don't like the ninja gaiden games
@Theevil6ify5 жыл бұрын
59:05 That is a BRILLIANT idea, bringing back Gol and Maia and teaming them up with Errol as a dark counterpart to Jak, Samos and Keira (and not brush Keira aside ofc) with Errol just being a narcissistic puppet like in Jak 2 but excelled, as opposed to him becoming a genocidal psycho...over being mad at Jak for beating him in a race years earlier.
@kincaidnichols25174 жыл бұрын
"A chad elf man and his talking weasel child must save the world against dark mages"
@AlexTenThousand4 жыл бұрын
32:51 that is exactly my problem with most "sandbox" games - there's an immense dissonance between gameplay and story when the hero is presented... well, as a hero, but the gameplay also makes you basically a killing machine that faces practically no consequences for the destruction they bring. That's why I enjoy the Yakuza approach to combat - Kiryu and the other protagonists are never the aggressors during fights.
@WoThFal5 жыл бұрын
You are the first one that actually addresses the music in Jak 2 omg.
@UBvtuber3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: there's like an entire disk worth of unused music in that game, look into the Jak 2 soundtrack for more info on that. The weapons factory actually does have music, but unless you glitch the game, you'll never hear it.
@basedbattledroid35074 жыл бұрын
I think the The Mar thing was referring to him starting haven city because time travel and shit.
@Doctor_Odin4 жыл бұрын
Which would explain why the armor of mar for some reason fits him perfectly. Not to mention it could’ve led for an interesting Jack4 With him needing to head back in time and become the legendary hero Mar in order to save the world.
@canstermeat81713 жыл бұрын
@@Doctor_Odin I was looking for this comment. I always thought it was intended and that's where Jak 4 would be heading, even though I played third one first and was really blown away by time travel thing when I played other instalments - but even if we two just came up with same idea, great chances that ND emploees would think of it too. I'm waiting for it fifteen years already.
@megazenn225 жыл бұрын
how does this game look a million times better than GTA3 but run at tripple the framerate? It's almost like they care about what they made, crazy!
@CornishCreamtea075 жыл бұрын
GTA was a cross platform game, Jak was made with the PS2 hardware in mind.
@platinumdragon15115 жыл бұрын
@@CornishCreamtea07 gta 3 was made for ps2 then later released on xbox an pc
@rasundesilva60885 жыл бұрын
Because GTA 3 was not only Rockstar’s first crack at a 3D open world game but the PS2 was still relatively new
@avengeddisciple5 жыл бұрын
Naughty Dog had a custom-built engine made specifically for the PS2 and to get as much out the hardware as possible. Rockstar used one of the first commercially available third-party engines rather than building one themselves. ND had access to the hardware and had the support of Sony. Rockstar did not. There are a lot of differences in the development of the two games, but the simplest reason is that ND had the support to make the most cutting-edge software for the console possible, while Rockstar used a third-part engine to make at least a playable and fun experience.
@iliveinsideyourhouse13675 жыл бұрын
Youre dumb
@malfunctioninggoon52922 жыл бұрын
"2001, the greatest year ever." *the Twin Towers have left the chat*
@danthunder50025 жыл бұрын
You just answered Jak wrestling with darkness himself when you say he can murder people in the streets or collateral damage and killing. Hahaha the player is his dark side Jak is wrestling with.
@thegoodmudkip36524 жыл бұрын
Trevor from GTA 5
@julianowilliams32634 жыл бұрын
Best comment
@uhobme20285 жыл бұрын
When you brought up the idea of that Erol/Gol and Maia team-up, I don't think i've ever felt my heart sink so hard at the lost potential. That would've been Killer!
@sarafontanini70515 жыл бұрын
hell Gol and Maia could've become even more messed up and monstrous due to being stuck in a vat of dark eco for like YEARS
@DragonGodXIII5 жыл бұрын
I think it's for the best we didn't get more Jak games than we did. That said I wouldn't mind seeing it return in a way that manages to resolve it's flaws-- it's world is interestingly built. I am also content to forget a certain PSP game never existed, too.
@fatmaisktekbas35035 жыл бұрын
Daxter's Bizarre Adventure: Bug Battle Tendency
@sharplosion15 жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for a video like this. Rewatching some Ratchet & Clank analysis vids, the Sly Trilogy Retrospective made by B- Mask. All that was missing from the PS2 mascots (At least, that's how I see the three) was Jak. It is hard to really pin-down my feelings on Jak, as you said it would be in the vid. Ratchet & Clank I replayed the most due the leveling systems for the weapons, wanting to get continually more powerful each new challenge mode. Sly Cooper, namely 2 and 3, I replayed for the sandbox-esc freedom and being able to just mess around the maps with gadgets and whatnot. Jak is just... Jak. From being scared of the spider caves, the absolute frustration of 2, to just watching the three factions constantly fight each other while boarding around. They all bring such good memories, and they should all really be held in similar regard for just the sheer quality they all brought to the PS2. Meanwhile crying over the fact that Playstation Move Heroes ruined the potential for the three ever interacting again.
@felipegamarra83825 жыл бұрын
And playstation move could've been better if it wasnt a party game, WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?!
@nomadikoslykos33864 жыл бұрын
Cant help but notice you totally glanced over Jak running into the kid version of himself at the beginning on Jak2 and Mar as a whole
@UnrealNeoBat4 жыл бұрын
Fun fact Ashelin is voiced by Wonder Woman, the fisherman is Voiced by Batman, Praxis is Voiced by Lex Luther, and Sig is voiced by John Stewart/Aquaman.
@kayluenella246213 жыл бұрын
Holy shit :0
@TheChosenKyle9 ай бұрын
Praxis' voice actor is also the voice actor who played Mr. Krabs and Long Feng from ATLA
@Causistica5 жыл бұрын
A great comprehensive look. I played 1 and 2 and loved Jak 2 more with all its hardcore edge. Can't wait for that Sly 4 beat down this video promised.
@jarerarebear17655 жыл бұрын
I'm kind of an odd duck for saying this, but I actually like the whole Jak and Daxter series better than the Ratchet & Clank series. The way Jak moves and can combo Melee attacks and gunplay made him more dynamic than Ratchet. All the levels in R & C were separated by space as different planets making the game feel segmented, but all the Jak games take place on the same believable planet making all the adventures feel cohesive. Anyway, great video, I look forward to what you have to say about the Sly Cooper trilogy.
@TheForbidden_1ne4 жыл бұрын
I completely agree. The Jak trilogy just has a better feel to it overall imo
@eccohpeach69614 жыл бұрын
I’ll always be a diehard ratchet and clank fan, but jak overall has much better mechanics and graphics
@gabouchar99774 жыл бұрын
While jak has the best gameplay, ratchet still is better in some ways like the story or the soundrack. They are both great games, it just depends on what you like more about a video game
@LukeAMitchell5 жыл бұрын
Thank you confusing KZbin algorithm, thank you for this beautiful recommendation
@GaragebandArcade5 жыл бұрын
Been a few days and I decided to revisit Jak 2 and I forgot how satisfying it is to just blitz through traffic. Ducking and weaving with the different altitudes especially when you're on the run.
@redchief944 жыл бұрын
I never played a whole lot of Jack and Daxter but I definitely remember "Surrender and die!" "Don't you my surrender OR DIE?!"