Captain Quark expains Cell and Blu-ray (Ratchet & Clank 5)

cloudeagle

Yep, it's pretty. Yep, it looks like classic Ratchet & Clank action. Yep, it's pretty damn funny. And apparently, it's coming out this fall. Check out the teaser here:

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/10000

Damn, those folk at Insomniac work fast. You can bet your sweet ass I'm picking this one up once the PS3 gets cheaper.

jclast

Great. Now I have to go play my R&C games again.
Or maybe I'll just try to finish my second playthroughs. Friggin' giant Clank sections are much harder on the second run. That's where I'm stuck on both of them.

Or maybe I should just go buy Deadlocked. Anybody play it? Decent platforming or are we all guns in that one?

bloodyroarxx

It like 90% guns and 10% platforming

Lunker

Man, do I love Ratchet & Clank. The trailer looks boss.

I wonder if this title will continue shifting over to the "action" part of the spectrum, like the R&C series has been.

bloodyroarxx

No they say its about 60/40 in action/platforming

Glal

I'm just making my way through the first title right now; having a blast, but damnit, the checkpoint spacing becomes almost sadistic as you go along.
"What do you mean, you're having problems handling 10 difficult encounters in row? TAKE IT!"

core tactic

The third game is definitly the best out of all of them.

SteevL

I just completed the second one today. I was quite surprised that the final boss of the game...was the final boss. It didn't seem too epic compared to the last boss in the first game. That being said, it was a lot of fun, and if I had time I'd try to get the new weapons that get unlocked on the second playthrough.

This new one for the PS3 is one of a few games that will eventually influence me to buy that system...but it's still going to be a while.

bruin

Today's 1UP Show has a segment on it at the end. The guy who saw gameplay footage says it looks even better than the screens in EGM and this trailer.

Sheep

cloudeagle wrote: »

Damn, those folk at Insomniac work fast.

Doesn't take long regurgitating the same crap over and over again.

Couscous

Sleep wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

Damn, those folk at Insomniac work fast.

Doesn't take long regurgitating the same crap over and over again.

The second one was very different from the first.

Threepio

I BELIEVE.

HD may not equal great gameplay but it sure as hell doesn't hurt.

jpeg

I loved UYA. I even played it online and actually had fun with online multiplayer on the PS2. (I thought it was impossible!)

Too bad I don't plan on getting a PS3.

Unco-ordinated

Sleep wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

Damn, those folk at Insomniac work fast.

Doesn't take long regurgitating the same crap over and over again.

Kind of like your posts, m i rite?

Anyway, downloading the 1UP Show now... I can't wait.

Threepio

Unco-ordinated wrote: »

Sleep wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

Damn, those folk at Insomniac work fast.

Doesn't take long regurgitating the same crap over and over again.

Kind of like your posts, m i rite?

Anyway, downloading the 1UP Show now... I can't wait.

Ooooh snap.

I'm working on a mini-site for this right now, trying to get permission to host the trailer from the big S. God it's pretty.

Conn

For some very strange reason, while I thoroughly enjoyed Ratchet and Clank (the first game) and played through it many times, I simply did not feel compelled at all to play any of the other installments, and I do not know why.

Mullitt The Wise

jclast wrote: »

Or maybe I should just go buy Deadlocked. Anybody play it? Decent platforming or are we all guns in that one?

Both the platforming and shooting in Deadlocked are excellent.
The game is just as good as the others. Plus, the video after the credits is amazing.

LAWRENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SpikedFreak

Conn wrote: »

For some very strange reason, while I thoroughly enjoyed Ratchet and Clank (the first game) and played through it many times, I simply did not feel compelled at all to play any of the other installments, and I do not know why.

You must play them now. 2 and 3 are both GH. Don't worry about Deadlocked, just get those.

FatBaby

Wow, Fall 2007? Awesome.

Hrmm... this could be interesting... R&C: Future Fall 2007... Resistance 2, 2008. R&C Future 2 2009?

Or something... seems like something they could do... or just release both games at once.

Hooraydiation

Conn wrote: »

For some very strange reason, while I thoroughly enjoyed Ratchet and Clank (the first game) and played through it many times, I simply did not feel compelled at all to play any of the other installments, and I do not know why.

I bought the second on sale and felt the same way. I just didn't see how they could improve upon the formula, but evidentially they can.

Unco-ordinated

FatBaby wrote: »

Wow, Fall 2007? Awesome.

Hrmm... this could be interesting... R&C: Future Fall 2007... Resistance 2, 2008. R&C Future 2 2009?

Or something... seems like something they could do... or just release both games at once.

As soon as they revealed that they were working on a R&C game while developing Resistance, I guessed it. It's a good way of taking their '1 game a year' policy and expanding it. I really hope Naughty Dog do the same thing, Uncharted this year, Jak in 2008 and Uncharted 2 in 2009.

Anyway, video. Holy crap! The in-game footage they showed easily matched the render they had at last years GDC.

FreddyD

Unco-ordinated wrote: »

FatBaby wrote: »

Wow, Fall 2007? Awesome.

Hrmm... this could be interesting... R&C: Future Fall 2007... Resistance 2, 2008. R&C Future 2 2009?

Or something... seems like something they could do... or just release both games at once.

As soon as they revealed that they were working on a R&C game while developing Resistance, I guessed it. It's a good way of taking their '1 game a year' policy and expanding it. I really hope Naughty Dog do the same thing, Uncharted this year, Jak in 2008 and Uncharted 2 in 2009.

Anyway, video. Holy crap! The in-game footage they showed easily matched the render they had at last years GDC.

There is no way all of that is in game.

Unco-ordinated

FreddyD wrote: »

Unco-ordinated wrote: »

FatBaby wrote: »

Wow, Fall 2007? Awesome.

Hrmm... this could be interesting... R&C: Future Fall 2007... Resistance 2, 2008. R&C Future 2 2009?

Or something... seems like something they could do... or just release both games at once.

As soon as they revealed that they were working on a R&C game while developing Resistance, I guessed it. It's a good way of taking their '1 game a year' policy and expanding it. I really hope Naughty Dog do the same thing, Uncharted this year, Jak in 2008 and Uncharted 2 in 2009.

Anyway, video. Holy crap! The in-game footage they showed easily matched the render they had at last years GDC.

There is no way all of that is in game.

Watch the 1UP Show. Bryan went to Insomniac, got to play it and confirmed that it's all in-engine.

Here's the HD video if anyone wanted it.

Xusder

My eyes!

I'm crying so hard, it's just so beautiful.

Another reason to get a PS3, Apart from Metal Gear Solid 4. For me anyways.

Furu

Sleep wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

Damn, those folk at Insomniac work fast.

Doesn't take long regurgitating the same crap over and over again.

If you don't like R&C you're possibly dead inside.

DesertChicken

Step 2 for Sony.

SilkyNumNuts

It's obviously been tidied up a bit, but definitely looks like real stuff to me. Interesting that there doesn't really seem to be much of a gradation in lighting... which is what made me think it looked bad at first. I understand why they're going with that, but it does actually make it look bad in terms of sheer graphical prowess.

Considering it more, it still looks damn good. Insomniac are badass.

Glal

Man, how come consoles get all the stylistically interesting games whilst most PC games go for retarded lol-realism bullcrap?

bongi

SilkyNumNuts wrote: »

It's obviously been tidied up a bit, but definitely looks like real stuff to me. Interesting that there doesn't really seem to be much of a gradation in lighting... which is what made me think it looked bad at first. I understand why they're going with that, but it does actually make it look bad in terms of sheer graphical prowess.

Considering it more, it still looks damn good. Insomniac are badass.

there's never really been lighting and shadowing, per se, in ratchet and clank games

i'm assuming it was a limitation of the ps2's hardware which they just kind of incoporated into the style of the game

i've always thought it made the games look rather flat, myself

SilkyNumNuts

yes, but there's also not been a mainstream usage of decent lighting systems in this gen. Considering how much beter it makes a game look, I'm surprised there's not much of one here, but I suppose it's part of the cartoony style.

I also think there is a lighting system, it's just the standard brightness is so bright you don't really get much else. There's certainly bits of dynamic lighting there.

bongi

there is lighting, but there aren't any shadows on the levels

i don't really know the technical terms

but i mean, the trees don't cast shadows on the ground, the skyscrapers don't cast shadows on anything etc. in the way that they do in say, GRAW or gears of war

like i said i think it's because the ps2 didn't really have the power and they just incorporated it into the visual style

Smacky The Frog

I've been recently getting back in to the Ratchet and Clank franchise. This will be a very good fit for me later this year.

CZroe

I picked up Deadlocked and Up Your Arsenal for $12 total (new), but I'm waiting on R&C and GC before I start the series. Then it's on to the PSP one. At my rate of backlog-clearing, the PS3 title should be in whatever value series the PS3 has by then. Good plan or is it getting tough to find the original and GC new?

Magus`

Isn't this R+C 6, not 5?

Pooch

Magus` wrote: »

Isn't this R+C 6, not 5?

Counting the PSP one, yeah, it would be. Though hte PSP one is more of a sidestory than the other ones.

Unless they aren't counting Deadlocked because that's just Ratchet.

Either way this game will most likely be the one that makes me buy a PS3.

Hooraydiation

CZroe wrote: »

I picked up Deadlocked and Up Your Arsenal for $12 total (new), but I'm waiting on R&C and GC before I start the series. Then it's on to the PSP one. At my rate of backlog-clearing, the PS3 title should be in whatever value series the PS3 has by then. Good plan or is it getting tough to find the original and GC new?

Where did you get them for $12?

CZroe

Hooraydiation wrote: »

CZroe wrote: »

I picked up Deadlocked and Up Your Arsenal for $12 total (new), but I'm waiting on R&C and GC before I start the series. Then it's on to the PSP one. At my rate of backlog-clearing, the PS3 title should be in whatever value series the PS3 has by then. Good plan or is it getting tough to find the original and GC new?

Where did you get them for $12?

Deadlocked was $10 at Blockbuster, Up Your Arsenal was $2 at Best Buy. Both new. It was only a couple weeks ago, but the Best Buy clearance has been cleanly picked through. Blockbuster's wasn't so well known because it's on-going and not "OMG! $2!!!"

I ended up just trading in my $2 Best Buy games for Blockbuster clearance games. Got Jak X to go with Jak II & 3 from the Best Buy clearance, MGS3 Subsistance ($16 at Circuit City), Resident Evil 4, etc.

Just trying to build up my PS2 library for my PS3 (I never owned a PS2).

CZroe

Pooch wrote: »

Magus` wrote: »

Isn't this R+C 6, not 5?

Counting the PSP one, yeah, it would be. Though hte PSP one is more of a sidestory than the other ones.

Unless they aren't counting Deadlocked because that's just Ratchet.

Either way this game will most likely be the one that makes me buy a PS3.

Being made by a different developer automatically removes it from serialization, even if it's good. Ready at Dawn still receives my blessings, but... for instance, if the IP holders do something right and another good Crash Bandicoot game arrives that's not made by Naughty Dog, are we going to give it a number?

SilentCoconut

Pooch wrote: »

Either way this game will most likely be the one that makes me buy a PS3.

As much as I hate to admit it, Ratchet and Clank is worth $600 to me. My poor wallet .

HulaHoop

Sleep wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

Damn, those folk at Insomniac work fast.

Doesn't take long regurgitating the same crap over and over again.

That and they're a bunch of slave drivers. If you don't want to work 80 hour weeks for them they kick you to the curb.

Scrumtrulescent

HulaHoop wrote: »

Sleep wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

Damn, those folk at Insomniac work fast.

Doesn't take long regurgitating the same crap over and over again.

That and they're a bunch of slave drivers. If you don't want to work 80 hour weeks for them they kick you to the curb.

They gotta be called Insomniac for a reason.