I love how the minute you said HD visuals my phone auto switched from 480p to 720p60

21:07 Tachyon didn't wipe out the Lombaxes, he killed a lot of them but most of them escaped to another dimension using the Dimensionator.

“How you doing?” “Fuck!” Gold.

Orvus' closing line in A Crack In Time is probably one of my favourite quotes of all time. It just resonates with me in a way few other meaningful quotes do.

Here's a weird fact, the Space news theme is taken directly from a UK based news station, so for me it was surreal to hear them use a theme I recognised for a real news station

Crack In Time is a masterpiece, in my opinion. As I grew with the series, it had the adult tone and clever gameplay and puzzles I didn't know I needed. And oh the story is so so good!

The future series is part of the original timeline, the only game in the series that is not is the "Reboot" game for the PS4 which came out with the movie. The lore is further expanded in the data logs and additional info found in the games but you have to look for it. Angel is a lombax, but by the Future series she has used the Dimensionator to escape Emperor Tachyon by going to another dimension. Which dimension you ask? Rivets! If you stand around in the prison level in Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, RIvet begins to talk about her friend Angela Cross and how they got imprisoned together, and wonders where she went.

I think "Into the Nexus" ran at 30fps because at that time Insomniac believed that "gamers" didn't really care about 60fps and it was more a nice to have feature.

Despite what people say of these games, I will always love them as equally as the PS2 Series.

1:48 That's absolutely the reason. It was a very early PS3 game. Some early games got update patches for trophies like Uncharted and MGS4 but most did not.

25:49 Didn't realise Keanu Reeves was in this game Great video!

Into the Nexus is so pretty and stylized.

Just wanna mention this but the team who worked on "Size Matter" was composed of devs from the original Ratchet and Clank even though they weren't technically part of Insomniac games. It was actually pretty common for studios around that time to have a secondary dev team to work on a filler handheld game while they worked on the next gen game (Metal Gear, Burnout, Gta)

One thing about the Future series that irritates me is that Talwyn's character has been dropped somewhat. She didn't appear in A Crack in Time and we still haven't found her father, Max Apogee. I hope we see her in Rift Apart.

25:46 "Do you hate ***?"

A Crack in time is right up there with Up your arsenal as not only my favorite games in the series , but my favorite games of all time , and from the looks of it Rift Apart just might top them.

One of my main compliments I can give to the first three Future games is that they've aged a ton better than a lot of other big games of the generation, thanks to Insomniac focusing on keeping the games running at a consistent 60fps while still making the games look great, it's also helped by the cartoonier art style rather than the photorealistic look so many other games went for that became extremely dated in a year or two. So many other 7th gen games have 30fps caps with tons of ugly motion blur, dull colors, murky textures and performance dips constantly, but the original R&CF trilogy is vibrant, full of life, and still looks and feels great to go back to today.

Unpopular opinion, but Into the Nexus is my favorite (And imo the best) from the future saga. I loved how the worlds felt more like the PS2 ones and adored how the story wasn't focused entirely on the last Lombax stuff. It feels like, as you said in the video, more of a "save the universe" story like the PS2 titles. The references to Ratchet's past and seeing how much he's grown after the whole thing with Azimuth("Wanting something too badly can change you into something you're not!) gave me lots of feelings. My only complaint is that it's too short. I really wished we got to see more about the Prog siblings

17:30 You just sinned. How dare you insult my god Shadow Dude.

“Late to the party” Hey I finished the games earlier this year.........Sony better start releasing a bunch of PS5’s soon. I need to play Rift Apart

Did you ever see that last cutscene from Crack?

I was hoping you'd continue your Ratchet series with the Future titles! Excited to watch!

Tools of destruction is my favorite game

Frame Rater: Maybe Sony encouraged the team to make something cinematic and wowing but that's just a theory Sony: So yeah we are closing down any studio that isn't making cinematic blockbuster games because that's all that matters to us

17:29 I can picture him in my head just going "HEYYY, not cool, dude" lol

The Lombaxes weren't eradicated, they fled to another dimension, Angela and Ratchet were left behind, and Asimov was exiled for his actions. Tacion's species weren't wiped out either, they were merely exiled to another dimension, Tacion was trying to bring them back.

i think your problem with the numbered health system of rac3 and onwards comes more with a change in design ethos for enemies in rac1&2 enemies where mostly planet specific while from rac3 forwards some enemies got reused a lot more and the designers wanted those enemies in later areas to pose the same threat as they did before so they upped their damage. the change in the hud representation of your health had nothing to do with this change

It's never too late to experience greatness.

"it's as if they were given a year to pull this whole thing together" almost all the Ratchet and Clank games had around a year of development, the major exclusions to this are the 2016 reimagining (which only had 10 months of development) and the first 2 games, that had around a year and a half each.

Never heard anyone say these games were part of a different timeline before... huh... ive played every game in the series...

In A Crack in Time, the only weapons that can be modified are the three Constructo weapons. They're also not direct upgrades either, they just change how the weapon functions, side-grades. Think like the weapons in TF2, where each class & slot is a specific type of weapon (like Scout using the Scattergun as a primary) which can be swapped out for a tweaked version of it, with their own pros and cons.

Bro, you ARE qualified to give your opinion. This mini-series of Ratchet reviews has been really interesting from a long-time fan (and someone whose favourite is also A Crack In Time) and I think to hear the opinion of someone else is really refreshing. You articulate your points in a clear manner, the structure is simple, you keep me entertained throughout your videos, and I would LOVE to hear your opinions of Rift Apart when it releases. You don't have to be "qualified" to give an opinion, as long as you present it in a clear, approachable way opposed to a pushy, my-opinion-is-correct way, and I think you do that Anyway, loved the video, and if you're burned out of RaC, then fair enough, but as someone who was introduced to your channel by your RaC Trilogy video and still sticks around to this day, I hope you do decide to review Rift Apart at the very least

I got into it way late too. Just now I’m 6 hours into A Crack in Time

Of the spinoff games, I'm going to suggest checking out All 4 One (the working title "4-Play" was also too on-the-nose I guess). It's a coop-focused game and changes up the formula a bit (all weapon upgrades are bought, for one), but I still personally found it pretty fun to play, even single-player. It's more platforming focused than some games in the series. The plot is pretty skippable, but I found it quite funny. It tends to get overlooked, and I think that's a shame. Though of course, your mileage may vary. As for the "alternate timeline" theory: I don't think Insomniac has ever rebooted the series, technically, but they ignore or paper over anything inconvenient from one game to the next, so there's this sort of rolling cascade of soft and hard retcons across the series that makes it feel like it's hopped dimensions on occasion. edit: Also thanks, you just reminded me how great ACiT was. Hopefully RA will be too.

Angela disappeared on kerchu with the treasure hunter running from Tachyeon.(probably misspelled that)

I’m happy that hover boots return in Rift Apart, every time i landed on a planet in Crack of Time i always got them out and started exploring

The reason why the game has no trophies is because the PS3 didn't have trophies until 2008,and while some early games got updated to support them, others didn't (like Tools of Destruction or Sonic 06. Apparently from 2010 onwards Sony stated that all games released should have trophies. I don't look for a source because i'm lazy,but you gotta admit it's something pretty easy to beliebe.

wait do ps3 controllers have an input issue? i've never had that problem and i've used only a few in the long time i've spent with the console so i'm worried that i've missed something

I know that I played Tools of Destruction, but somehow, the only thing in this video that looked familiar was the weapon upgrade screen. Weird. I remembered A Crack in Time fairly well, and know that I didn't play the other two beyond a couple of minutes.

Great video! Not gonna lie, it really sparked my interest in trying these games! - V.D.

The reason Tools of Destruction doesn't have trophy support is because Sony didn't mandate all games have trophies until 2008. Games beforehand would need to have new patches created and most publishers weren't interested in providing them.

I have played every Ratchet and clank games multiple times and I still think that A crack in time is a masterpiece. Everygame in the series goes for something different, but a crack in time took it to a whole new level with its creativity, and that makes me wonder if Rift apart will beat ACIT. No one knows until the game comes out. People usually switch between ACIT and UYA as the best game in the series but for me its actually going commando and ACIT, though I will probably still keep ACIT at the top, and even if its short Nexus on the same level as Tools and UYA. I love em all and can't get enough of em and thats why i keep replaying the games after not playing them for months.

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Why would it be an alternate timeline? The word future is right there in the title. Aren't Ratchet and Clank sent into the future, relative to the previous games?

A Crack In Time is definitely the best PS3 R&C game, but I still enjoy R&C2, 3 and Deadlocked a bit more. The games after A Crack In Time felt a bit rushed, but overall the PS3 was an amazing system for Ratchet & Clank.

most pizza lovers: pepperoni some pizza lovers: pineapple me: anchovies

The fact I don’t remember anything except (a crack in time) should tell you a lot considering I love these games

Lmao the R&C Wikia has been rife with shipping wars. Ratchet doesn't have a set "girlfriend", the pages get edited pretty constantly (or at least, they used to when I was checking it more regularly) Also Angela exists in the Future trilogy. Actually, they gave her a reason to be so disguised in Going Commando. She's one of the few Lombaxes left, but she's in hiding.

Night of the living squishy’s act 2 scene 4, ready on set!

ACiT is a better game then the original trilogy imo.

I loved the original PS2 games as a kid and I remember when the future series first came out I was really excited but I never had a PS3, I had a 360 so I never ended up playing any of the newer games, to me these are still new

Little tidbit about tool of destruction’s gadgets. Even if you don’t buy one initially, you can still find gadgets in ammo boxes. I always found myself with a full amount, even though i never went to the gadget vender and would notice notice a weird thing floating around nearby every time i broke an ammo crate. Those things actually being devices. I have to wonder what the use of the vender was at that point, because ammo crates can be found anywhere, and the gadget’s compacities were very small, so it only took a couple of ammo crates to fill it up again. You’d also get some from raritanium chests, and a few more would appear than from an ammo crate, further lowering the need to go to a vender. There was also the matter of most of the gadgets having little practicality, in my case, anyways. The most i’ve used were the leech bomb and mega-leech bomb. I still used ones like the groovitron and mr zerkon, but not as much outside of certain situations. The gas grenade didn’t do much, hele-drone was too situational and broke the pace a bit, the animal morph bomb was cute, but not memorable, and the coil seekers were... honestly, next to useless. I’d talk a bit about the golden grooveitron, but i never had enough bolts to get one, plus i never really used them enough to justify getting one. That said, i do see why they brought the groovitron and mr. zerkon over to the next game, but i also see why they didn’t implement gadgets into it, as well.

A Crack in Time's ending cutscene was pretty big. Maybe not too "important", since you already know that both Ratchet and Clank of course appear in later games, but it's a nice and well-written conclusion to the game's story. I'd suggest at least looking up a video of it if you have the time.

Thank you for saying that at 7:55. I had no clue that was problem on so many controllers. My ps3 controller has been doing that for a long time now and I just thought it was something with my controller and that might be broken since I got my ps3 used at gamestop.

Quest for Booty was one oft eh earliest PS3 games that I played, and I was really stunned by the visuals, Tools of Deconstruction looked great too, but there was something about this that while not as impressive now was all new to me at the time. I haven't actually been impressed by a games visuals since then.

After the PS2 games insomniac hired writers. Previously the story and script was handled by the animator.

The only thing you can't really avoid with sixaxis is the tornado gun which is kind of stupid but meh insomniac loved dat sixaxis Also the reason why tools of destruction seems off is cause they were juggling between making this and trying to get resistance 2 finished

I had so much fun with all 4 one, I liked it a lot

I think its funny that they reference angela in the crack in time just because fans wouldnt shut up about it. ( radio station talks about her) and they explain how she escaped

1:50 WTF? The game came out in 2007, there's your answer.

I think having people not really into the series give it a go and give their thoughts is a good thing. It helps prevent discussion of the series from turning into an echo chamber. I would like to see your views on the other games as well.

I feel the Future Saga while different wasn't as bad as the Legend of Spyro transition for a continuous story but new direction for the series. Clank levels (in Crack at least), the Ship level Select in Crack is great and the Moons idea I love but obviously major level count is shortened as a result, the Constructo weapons were an interesting idea, Raritanium for weapon upgrades is 'fine' but I prefer the 'use it to level up and using mods' approach more as I find +Raritanium Drops, +Bolts, +Range, +Area of Effect bonuses to make sense but be kind of boring and not that beneficial honestly and I hate it in RPGs. It makes sense why they added them but eh I just use the Rartianium to get rid of it rather than to care about it and because your required to use it even if using later game weapons anyways just to survive sometimes in the many battle sections in Tools and Crack, which are basically just the Ratchet 3 Battle missions required (Rykan 5, the Cragmite homeworld and a few others, there is 1 in each Sector), instead of them being optional. The cinematic focus doesn't bother me that much and the games are similar with a few new tweaks some good some dramatic like in Crack In Time, and the humour change makes sense but eh. I don't always expect laugh out loud humour in games but sometimes it's nice and many sad moments can be good but for me if they good too far I just sit in my seat waiting for them to end as I don't care for Drama, I can watch a Drama show and give no care because it's not relatable (never even encountered any of them because I'm not stupid) or even interesting, just tropes reused over and over to try and make me care but I don't. I'd assume numbered health bars is much easier to get quick information than a bar when in combat and guessing how much damage you have taken from enemies. I think this is especially useful for the weapon leveling. In Ratchet 3 I used the weapons menu so much to see how far it was filled rather than just the bar as part of the HUD while in games that don't have it I just use them without a care. It's a small detail but I find it helpful rather than just using it careless and oh, it upgrades with more damage. If a platformer with icons I can understand as you take less hits but if more an action adventure/RPG the numbers make more sense even if in some cases can be all over the place. I notice this a lot when playing Minecraft and going 'so why should I make a Diamond Sword or Enchantments when the common mobs have 20 health and 10 to 19 damage is still 2 hits anyways so it isn't changing anything at all'. Probably doesn't matter in other games but eh sometimes I see a benefit but other times not if the numbers are just too all over the place and the hits don't differ much even with weapon upgrades with crafting, modifications and so on in RPGs or Looter Shooter that have that, I'll just get a drop from an enemy instead of using currency to buy something that lasts a few hours and is useless very quickly and the stats it has only matter for so long. Interesting you say that for the Sixaxis part, I find the Tornado Launcher/Dynamo of Doom to be bad uses for it (I've turned the Sixaxis off in the settings and it doesn't change those weapons uses of it at all, only the Ball Puzzle and fall sections, no clue why, at least in the Australian/EU version I have) but the Ball Puzzles to be reasonable (don't think much of the Falling sections with it) but otherwise using 2 Sixaxis only controllers because my Dualshock 3 died and never replaced it (only issue I have with my Sixaxis controllers is the stick drift and the battery on them sucks so I just use a USB cable that is for charging/connecting to a PSP and a USB extender to reach my console as the length is short, PS4 doesn't do the Sixaxis in PS3 games or work too well so can't use those and I do have Dualsense but they are for the PS5 only) I've not noticed issues with them for the Gyro or the button inputs when playing launch titles I missed like Heavenly Sword or going back to Tools/Crack for those features. I'll have to test again as it's been a while since I've played a game with those Motion Controls (Heavenly Sword I probably played in 2019 I think and is probably the most recent one with them I remember) but yeah good to know that, had no clue. Completely forgot about the intercoms, now I know where the 2016 game's use of them started and how it got worse where I turn all sound off in the settings. XD That and hating the reuse of the Combuster/Groovitron/Zurkon, ah got to love Tools for that. :( At least stepping on Drophyds is a nice detail... Devices also are a 'cool' idea but I never use them. The Leeches and Drone are cool for getting health (similar to the Holo Shield from Ratchet 3 giving you health with later level ups) or different attack options but they feel like something you'd expect as a modifier to existing weapons in past games like the Deadlocked/Gladiator's use of customisation with mods, they sound cool on paper but yeah I barely use them. Sucks they got rid of these as they are a good addition but as I assume no one used them (and the weapon differences or just being modifiers makes more sense), myself included, I don't blame them for getting rid of them. Otherwise Trophies were a thing for PS3 in 2010 (I don't remember which date or for what games, I'd have to check articles for that, but yeah half way through the console's life when the 360 had them from the start even for those on the 360 Arcade Demo disk with 12 achievements for the Full games on it, not the demos) and only some games added them in updates later I assume, I forget which though. Having got all of them around the time they were new I never thought much of them but replaying them every so often (Tools every 3 years sometimes to see the story/Sixaxis holding up or not, Quest and Crack only sometimes because of how much Quest can easily be skipped and Crack I find some parts to be awkward to get into for backtracking). So I don't have nostalgia for them even if I still got them as a kid but I still find them the odd ones of the series but not as bad as other game series that had shift to branch out to new audiences, keep themselves relevant or just because they wanted to. I mean going from Dreamworks adult humour to more Safe and then in the 2010's just Illumination/Sony Animation levels of garbage referential and boring humour/characterisation (the Spinoffs and 2016) and hopefully back on track with Rift Apart. I expect Rift Apart to be more Into The Nexus like in tone and gameplay but with new tweaks, that's my assumption and I'm fine with the answers I have gotten with the trailers of the new, returning and how each character players has me disappointed a bit but I'll see (I like characters to have close but different movesets and not be there for story reasons only, human or not). All 4 One/Full Frontal are just experiments, they can be skipped. Otherwise yeah best to take a break from the series. You do have all the things you need to get Rift Apart but otherwise yeah if you don't think your up for it in a review sort of way that's understandable.

I just got around to playing the Future Games as well, except Quest for Booty is the last game of the saga I need to play.

I miss Angela. I really want to see her back as she had a lot of potential. Also I’d rather her be Ratchet’s love interest.

A crack in time is one of the best in the series.

I wish they remaster the 3 "destruction series" games for ps4 and ps5 if it's 1080p or higher support and upscaled textures as least to ps4 standards. as for flight combat, I like going commando, but it could been better like Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter better or wing commander 3.

I would love to see your opinions on all 4 one full frontal and rift apart

The only alternate timeline is the 2016 reboot, every mainline Ratchet and Clank game is canon in one consecutive timeline. Even Angela Cross is still canon (barely) since they mention on the radio in A Crack in Time she escaped Tachyon with Max Apogee.

No lie, tho, ACiT is my absolute favorite R&C game. And the open space section makes the game so fucking replayable. I've found myself popping the game in purely to explore different moons.

I still use the original Dualshock 3 that came with my PS3 slim, still works perfect after hundreds upon hundreds of hours of playtime with it.

That PS3 controller issue you mentioned was patched out, so... Maybe update your firmware?

In my opinion the best Ratchet and Clank is the one to crack for a while and until I try the Rift Apart I will continue to consider it that way.

I wish they still had david doing the OSTs, he created the perfect songs for every planet that were catchy as hell. Hopefully they have a good music guy now, cause every game after quest for booty has had generic bland OST despite them still being good games.

I literally started on Tools of Destruction yesterday! I won't watch the video because I want to avoid spoilers, but I'll make sure to come back after I'm done with all the games!

I'm pretty sure a crack in time ran at a higher fps than into the nexus did, which is a primary reason why the performance seems off and the animation doesn`t look as good. I only got the game to finish the future series and while I really loved the weapons and gameplay the story was lackluster at best and unoriginal at worst. And like you said, Into the Nexus was just far too short. Considering they only charged 40 dollars for it at the time I think they probably knew it was rushed and unfinished.

If i remember correctly 'Into the Nexus' was going to have a vita release, it was even rated for the platform but as it is now it never was.

Personally the original triology + deadlocked is where it's at, but the future series has a lot of good ideas and introduced some great things like the groovitron. The future series is where it starts to go downhill for me as well though. It just perfectly leads into the Ratchet and Clank remake which is just the definition of everything that's wrong with modern Ratchet and Clank.

Facial animation and detail in the PS3 games is much more nuanced, that is why they dropped the blunt comedy apporach of the PS2 games.

I still love this series, and I will not back out on playing the new game, However, I won't be playing it anytime soon because... broke.

I mean, I would say that you are just as qualified as anybody to do a review on Rift Apart. It doesn’t have to be any time soon, but when you maybe eventually get a PS5 somewhere down the line, then you can do it. I personally wouldn’t play through it until I owned it, if I were you, but I wouldn’t say no to reviewing entirely it just because I don’t own it yet. Anyways, I just watched through all your Ratchet and Clank videos and they’re were all great!

Well, Rivet is the last Lombax in her dimension so...who knows!

I wished you talked about the modifications in the quest for booty. You can find them in secret places.

28:20 Did that actually happen to your copy or is it just a joke?

I got my copy of Tools of Destruction within its first few months on the market! It was why I didn’t get Super Mario Galaxy until 4 years later! (I got Super Mario Galaxy with a gift card I received as an early Christmas present)

"Doubleshock 3", LOL !

Hey framerater MGS4 had trophy's patched in later guess this could of too

Better late than never!

Rift apart about to be the best one yet

Maybe it's because my PS3 is a later model or maybe it's because I haven't used it enough, but my Dualshock 3 has never had any problems (then again I said the same thing about my Switch's Joycons and yet they started drifting after just a year, so now I feel like I've jinxed it)

IIRC Nexus was supposed to be a vita game. I think it still shows "PS3/PS Vita" in the trophy list

BACKSTORY: Stupid 13 year old me wanted to play halo and he bought the xbox 360 instead of sticking with Sony. I have regretted that decision more and more every year because I was a huge fan of PS2 Ratchet. With the R&C series coming up on it's 4th generation of games I think I would like to do some catching up. I can get my hands on a PS3, but how does one find these games nowadays without paying out the butt? Are they all on the PSN store for download?

i like these type of videos better than your emulator on console videos which contain so many inaccuracies like using emulators that are discontinued and have since been forked and updated under different names and i mean updated as in fixed a ton of stuff not just renamed

Amazing games.

I wouldn't call into the nexus unnecesary, rift apart is a direct sequel to it, due to the dimensionator.

24:38 Zonemon!

Oddly enough almost no one celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the game which is a shame

These games are all so good

25:48 😳😳😳😳😳

Can you do an Uncharted series review ? Thank you.

Every ratchet and clank game name is a adult joke.