I got this recently
I expected it to be underwhelming bad, like into the Nethers- I mean Nexus, not buggy, memberberry, girlboss, mocap, 3D Sonic terrain, millennial/MCU writing, dev twitter shit slinging, diversity chart, screen tearing, voice actor replacing, modern Sci-Fi, weightless movement, soulslike dodge roll crap
Why is it like this?

I remember the insomniac museum (from 2? 3?) showing off how they could use the PS2 to simulate a small square of water ripples
In this one I walked past a puddle, on the ground, and the water rippled
The devs of olde would have made magic with the technology of today
Heck my ancient, unmaintained, decaying PS2 doesn't overheat with R&C1 but my PC is nearly hitting Helldivers temperatures with Rift Apart

are you having a stroke right now?

its literally spiderman engine with ratchet characters.

>>712851479
No it isn't? Both engines have completely different makeups given their needs (city open-world vs. mostly linear world exploration). The only thing they have in common is Nixxes' graphical menus on their PC ports of Insomniac's games.

>>712851997
its Insomniac engine which is just sunset overdrive engine

>>712851467
No
Why would I stroke when looking at Rivet (male)?

Deadlocked > GC > UYA > ACiT > R&C1 > Rift Apart > ToD > Into the Nexus

Didn't play any of the others

its a fun game, 2nd best of the post ps2 games, with acit still being king of the post ps2 games
also rivet legitimately takes the same exact character arc as ratchet does in the first game, it just wasnt done as well given the shorter time on screen she has
i want to anal rivet btw

>>712853425
>rivet legitimately takes the same exact character arc as ratchet does in the first game
Which first game are we talking about?
The one where Ratchet doesn't give two hoots about the big bad until his planet is in the crosshairs, and before then would prefer to go on holiday or make fun of his victims?
Look! Plumber's crack!
>i want to anal rivet btw
Afraid of the other part?

>>712852689
>Deadlocked ranked first
Thoroughly disingenuous ranking, stopped reading right there.

I haven't played it but from what I've seen isn't Rivet identical to Ratchet gameplay-wise? If so what was the point?

>>712851347 (OP)
This honestly should win an award for best graphics this gen
Literally looks like a Pixar movie in real time and doesn't run like shit

>>712851997
We only have one engine

t. Dev @ insomniac

>>712855182
Some devs are women, the others are trans
To appeal to both sides they create an ambiguously female Lombax who's taller and more competent than the protagonist they would prefer to replace entirely

>>712855290
>literal DLSS dithering to create fuzzy fabrics
>ADHD noisy overwatch design
>shit hyperactive animations and background elements
>best graphics this gen
What went wrong with this generation that this is the best?

I'm a normal person. I'm perfectly fine. I do not harm others. I do not desire to harm others. Any crimes I may or may not be guilty of involve only myself. I transgress only against myself.

But if these creatures existed in real life. If Rivet or any female lombax existed in real fucking life. Every second, every minute, ever hour of every day would be dedicated solely and purely to devising and perfecting a plot to abduct and house these creatures for the sole intent of raping and breeding them until I die of exhaustion. I would not stop. I would be more successful as a person, even. Any job, anything that may wound my pride, or tire me, or stress me out- these petty things would be cast aside. I would suffer any labor just so that I might acquire the wealth and status and goods that would deliver me closer to achieving that singular goal. I would go so far as to physically modify myself. A strict diet and exercise routine. Anything that would strengthen and reinforce my cock and its ability to rape these lombaxes.

You don't understand. It would be all consuming. You don't get it. Imagine god existed and he gave you a list, a duty. Imagine he gave you just one directive. Difficult, but completely accomplishable. Imagine god told you that to get to heaven, to taste the sweetest fruits of salvation all you had to do was one thing. Would you not do everything in your power to accomplish it? Would it not give your life such a purpose? An arrow loosed from a bow? Bullet fired from a gun? A singular direction, the thrumming battery of the heart beating for this one goal.

My heaven- my salvation lies in the abduction and interminable rape of Rivet. Thank goodness she does not exist, then, for the monster that I would become. For the truth that I would make manifest.

>>712855119
It has the best combat and I like the series mainly for the combat

>>712851347 (OP)
These games were better when Ratchet acted like a jackass. For some reason they turned him into a wholesome chungus 100 Pixar character

>>712852689
>Deadlock top
Absolutely based

>>712855119
Deadlocked has

>best weapons
>best weapon mod system
>best combat
>best humor and story
>best villain
>best difficulty system
>no shitty Clank sections

Perhaps the only thing I'd hold against it are the landstalker missions.

>>712851347 (OP)
>3D Sonic terrain
What does that mean?

Best Ratchet after GC and UYA. Combat is fantastic with 1-hp mod.
Op-faggot, what your problem?
platinum and no armor in all main games

Hey, Anon, wonna some hot furry sex?

>>712860231
>Combat is fantastic with 1-hp mod.
>press circle to dodge all attacks
Why is everything a soulslike now?
Do you like it that when you jump in the air, or do a side or backwards flip, that you can change your motion or stop dead because there's no momentum?

schizo thread. rift apart is good

>>712854871
if you cant see it, you wont see it. you seem to only want a 1:1 arc in the same exact circumstances, so no you wont find it.

im talking about how rivet is an asshole and tries to make amends by the end. The kit and rivet dynamic was meant to by a parallels of ratchet and clank's. Because they are parallel universe counterparts.

dont infer your insecurites on me btw, anal is based

>>712861861
>one shit
kys

>>712863516
>rivet is an asshole
She starts by helping someone, giving them her disguise.
Ratchet would have to hit his boyscout Future self to even consider doing that.

And the whole point about that opening sequence is to say
>my life is shit but I'm a hero
>ratchet's life is amazing and all he does is bitch about everyone throwing him a party

>anal is based
And you would do nothing else at all? Is there a reason for that?

>>712855532
Even if it's a larp, I will say it sucks Sony isn't leveraging their experience with VR, assuming the devs responsible for them are still around, to make a PSVR2 game. Stormland is highly underappreciated.

>>712864232
it was an attempted parallel, i implied it wasnt as good as it could be. though even if they had all the time in the world though, nu insomniac couldnt do it justice seeing how peter got fucked over by a goddamn fridge in sm2

you are really projecting or conflating a lot from a dumb sex joke though, idk why. its not really all that deep.
unlike my penis in her butthole ahaha :)

>>712864402
Not a LARP, unfortunately. The harsh reality is that those games didn't make any money, and that the market for VR is still pathetically small and niche.

There's a reason we only make marvel games right now, the future for AAA is very bleak and long standing IP prints money. Spiderman 2 was profitable within like two months iirc.

>>712864860
>it was legitimately
>it wasn't 1:1
>it was an attempt
>I implied
Fake fan

>>712859401
Recently (two or so weeks ago) replayed Deadlocked and UYA back to back and still liked UYA better. It flows better, weapons are more useful (there are exactly two weapons worth using in Deadlocked), mods system just adds busywork and not much else. I even liked Annihilation Station hosts better.
Landstalker ballbusting is such cancer, this game would be a magnitude better without them.

>>712865120
i exagerrated a bit at first to make you feel bad like you did with me wanting to fuck rivet in her asshole as a "actually ur gay" moment

for realsies though, rivet is the only character that will have any amount of rac 1 angst and assholery. going forward, assuming they dont retire her or the series for marvel slop

>>712864402
PSVR2 was dead in the water as soon as they announced it wouldn't be backwards compatible. It's what caused me (and I'm sure many other people) who were on the fence to opt for a cheap PSVR1. The PSVR2 also has next to no interesting or unique titles and exclusives like the PSVR1 did.

>>712865539
You are gay
>she's an asshole
She isn't

>>712865775
rivet is an asshole though, she is cunty and brash but sorta grows out of it by the end

can we at least agree that the spider robot girl "glitch" is annoying as fuck and those segments sucked?

What happened to the catchy music in these games?

>>712865636
I'm still baffled it had no PSVR1 BC. There was nothing that couldn't be done on the software side of things for it, despite the change in tracking method (inside-out vs. outside-in) and controls (just allow OS-level remapping for games that map buttons to an analog stick awkwardly, given PS Moves had five face buttons)

>>712865929
>rivet is an asshole though,
When? She pouts at Kit for the whole arm thing but that's about it.

>>712865929
>can we at least agree that the
Yes
And the rest of the game has the same dialogue and so sucks too

>>712866176
she is snappy to clank at times :)

>>712866429
i do think the dialogue sucks, its true
the moment ted price wanted pixar shit from ToD onwards, the writing has been nothing but dogshit

>>712855290
It had one of the best HDR implementations this gen. Often looks wonky or too subtle but in Rift Apart it really pops

The dialogue is toned back to be a bit more 'family friendly', but the gameplay is pretty much the same as the PS2 games. I liked it.

I hate how nefarious spamming has soured me on him, I liked him in UYA but every time he came back it was worse and worse. Doesn't help that upstages Drek in the remake, not that Drek in the remake was remarkable either. Doesn't help either that the writing in general went downhill. I don't quite get the complaints of Ratchet being a dick in the first game, it fit him perfectly and he does grow over the course of the game.

On another note, Annihilation Nation (hot take) is the worst of the arenas. GC had great arenas and I can do the Tower of Power for hours in DL.

annihilation nation is fun, but i think it didnt nail what it was going for well. If it had gravity ramps or lots of swing shots and shit it would have been a lot better. The arena stuff itself was just okay.

>>712867721
Rift Apart is the worst arena because of the horrible commentary by Zurkon Jr
The new games are obsessed with having constant unfunny talking during gameplay

>>712868375
What's the deal with Mr Zurkon? Did anyone like him ever?

Claim your R&C weapon
No RYNO or RYNO adjacent super weapons

>>712867721
GC's first arena was pretty boring outside of the bosses, and the second one has the megapede and that thing sucks ass
Also Secret Agent Clank's arena is shit too, and Rift Apart's is almost as bad

Wasn't it written by an unfunny feminist?

>>712868524

>>712868783
I dunno about you, but I preferred the meteor gun upgrade... not on its' own mind you but when you have the lock on mod for it, fucker shreds anything in sight.

>>712868846
The issue with the meteor gun is that it doesn't feel like an upgraded form of the lava gun, it feels like a different weapon entirely. The lava gun was a unique take on a flame thrower, the meteor gun is just another pea shooter with bullet drop off

>>712867605
>but the gameplay is pretty much the same as the PS2 games.
Blind. It's not even like the PS3 ones.

>>712868524
Leviathan Flail my beloved.

I hate this little cunt so much it's unreal

>>712868450
I know I never did
Was his family appearing an upgrade or a later game thing?
I'd say I'm surprised he and the vendors have been replaced by his awful wife but I'm not

Must suck to be a AAA studio and not be able to do small projects on the side, due to everyone having an inflated wage from being a veteran in the industry.

>>712851347 (OP)
I still need to play this and Into the Nexus

>>712870845
Into the Nexus is really short. Can finish it in a sitting. It was a budget $30 release, not sure what the point of it was other than perhaps an excuse to train newer staff with their workflow on something smaller.

>>712871453
Pretty sure it was them trying out a bunch of new concepts for R&C because everything in the modern games like how enemies lead their shots, the tree-based weapon upgrade system, the seamless hoverboot usage, and I know there's more all stem from it.

Spent like 2 hours railing Rivet on sillytavern. Man I love short girls.

>>712869645
I want to hate fuck her so bad

>Into the Nexus had mostly all original weapons
>the Future saga refuses most weapons, only a couple new ones in CiT and might not even be worth it
I love the Future saga (despite its change in tone and gameplay) but that was a letdown when I played thru CiT the first time. All the decent weapons pretty much came from ToD. The weapon growth/arsenal change from. R&C to UYA was immensely better, and they had less to work with.