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Here's a further insight of the original platform Jak and daxter was released upon Here it is : The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on 4 March 2000, in North America on 26 October 2000, in Europe on 24 November 2000, and in Australia on 30 November 2000. It is the successor to the original PlayStation, as well as the second installment in the PlayStation brand of consoles. As a sixth-generation console, it competed with Nintendo's GameCube, Sega's Dreamcast, and Microsoft's Xbox. It is the best-selling video game console of all time, having sold over 158 million units worldwide
After years of needing my older brother's help to beat games, beating Jak 2 on my own as a child is probably the moment I had become a video game playing man.
Talking about beating Jak and Daxter, I remember a great deal of playing all of the older Jak games A LOT, but I've never found the time to beat Jak 2 and 3. Just recently have I started to get back into the grind of Jak and so hopefully I can beat it in the next month or two, wish me luck.
Bruh I never beat that boss battle with the fat mf in the floating chair! It still haunts me that I never got any farther. I have been reduced to a young boy for life. Lol
The weapon ammo in jak 2 resembles the powers of eco from the first game, red being short range high damage, blue being speed, yellow being single shot fire, and peacemaker of course being dark eco. Too cool.
As a kid, I went to a friend's house and played a game with a buggy driving around the desert. 15ish years later I finally know what game it was (Jak 3) thanks to this video.
didnt had a memory card back then so i played jak 3 everyday from the start to the point i speedrunned the game in 11 hours. gosh my childhood was good
12:22 I just like to note that although the Eco powers were removed, they were essentially replaced with according Eco guns where every gun represents an eco type that has similar attributes to the Eco powers of the first game.
I love in the games, Eco has states just like regular matter. Solid (eco crystals), liquid (the dark eco pools) gas (eco vents), plasma (dark eco lightning/light eco shield/gun projectiles/gun emissions), and a fifth state (eco pickups) I want to say the fifth state is supercritical, but supercritical matter irl has no surface tension and fills whatever container it's in. The states also seem to not depend on temperature/pressure. Weird stuff
The Jak and Daxter Era was great, game developers being like "you know what would be cool? if we add this to the game" when they don't have to but do any way and it turns out to be a blast.
In Jak 3, me and the friend that got me into Jak and Daxter found it that the Dune Hopper was actually the BEST vehicle overall. The grenade launcher insta-killed any enemy vehicles caught within the explosion radius. Added with Turboing from Midjump-Peak of Jump, as long as you were going half of the Max Speed, you would essentially clear 5-6 car lengths before landing again. The game was broken, as any desert level (without a Set Vehicle) essentially didn't exist anymore. We'd just have to kill the first 2 enemies, and then just start chaining from there. We never took any damage, and could make it across the Desert Map within 1 min.
I remember finding *Jak 3* at a GameStop years ago, back when ratchet and clack where somewhat still a thing (I think). Loved the desert bits and the fighting in this game. The dark and light jak power ups where super cool then the weapon upgrades enhanced the game that much further for me. 9/10 game as I was growing up, highly recommend people give this game series a shot.
The first Jak game was actually the first video game I ever played so it holds a very special place in my heart. Even though it's not nearly as popular I would say Ratchet & Clank is still a thing, the new game released only last year or smth. This is completely unrelated but I like your pfp, One Piece is such an amazing series.
@@thealmightycouch311 Thanks! Yes, I remember seeing a few things about the new Ratchet & Clank game that had come out. After looking through my game book around the same time or a year later or so. I discovered the Ratchet & Clank series with *Ratchet & Clank Deadlocked* and *Up Your Arsenal* on the Ps2. Only two games I've played and enjoyed for hours on end.
If you are interested in playing the original Jak a team has made the game work natively on PC with settings an modding in the possible future it's called opengoal. They plan on doing the entire trilogy.
I've played a few of the Jak games never got to far, im very fond of the storyline I'm gonna have to force myself to play the trilogy lmao great video!!
The interesting thing about High Impact Games is that this studio consisted of former R&C employees, including the character designers of the original Ratchet (Rest in Peace) AND Jak and Daxter employees. And that's exactly how I would describe The Lost Frontier. It plays partly like an R&C but just packaged as a J&D game. On the other hand, I would also describe Size Matters, although it is not so noticeable there (apart from the difficulty level of the game😂😂). But I don't blame the developers for the fact that The Lost Frontier was a complete failure in my eyes. All the blame clearly lies with Naughty Dog. But instead of making up for their mistake and giving the fans a worthy finale, they prefer to hushed it up. No, it's better to create a new franchise from scratch and at the same time completely cannibalize TLoU (It's kind of ironic that this franchise, which was supposed to be a J&D game, helped Naughty Dog to a huge success...). My hopes now lie on Ruben Fleischer, who says he is working on a J&D movie, and Tom Holland, who said in an interview that he would like to do J&D as the next video game adaptation. The only thing that helps is to pray...
I really think there is no need for it. If one day J&D comes back, they would reboot it, and if so, it will end up with a generic woke storyline just like TLOU2.
The Precursor legacy was the first ever game i remember playing, and Jak 3 is probably the game i replayed the most. This franchise defined my love for games, it's truly special to me. 🥰 Music is awesome too!
I never finished the first Jak and Daxter but I played the hell outta 2 and 3. Whatever they were trying to do it worked on me, I thought they were cool as hell.
Jak 1 was a fun goofy platformer Jak 2 had more edge than a medieval armoury and was more engaging Jak 3 lost some of the edge and gained some fun and lightheartedness Jak X was Jak and Daxter Kart lmao
I got 2 tips for Jak 2 1st: Crimson Guard ambush, Use your hover board on the wooden walkways helps get past ships quicker, hop on and off it when you need so you don't fall in the water 2nd: Metal Lord final phase, use the overboard to circle round for some reason he can't keep up give you time and distance to shoot him
@@Niosai As a hardcore Jak and Daxter veteran (especially 2-3) this is EXACTLY how it goes most of the time the levels are just like "Would you like to be murdered?"
Technically the "Escape from the Water Slums" mission isnt actually that hard when you know how to do it properly. Just shoot the guards that the dropships bring out, and the dropship closest to you will fly away. You just have to be able to take out the guards, or at least shoot them before any one of them individually fire more than 3 shots, as their 4th shot will always perfectly hit you. If you do it right and be patient, and remember to check behind you ever so often since they can sneak up on you, you can get through the mission without even taking any damage. Especially if you use the Vulcan Fury for parts of this.
It's funny how the most criticized aspect of Jak 2 is that there isn't enough checkpoints but at the same time, if the game had more checkpoints, it would make the boring and barren open world more obvious. Imagine this: You are driving for 5-10 minutes and then you do a mission that lasts up to 10 minutes at the most and then you do another 10 minute driving segment, then another 10 minute mission. Everyone would be calling this game, "hovercar riding simulator". The lack of checkpoints is a flaw that is meant to hide another bigger flaw with the game. Jak 2's open world had interesting idea with the different vehicle planes and different car builds but it's a glorified mission select menu at heart.
Oh my God, that Slums Run in Jak 2 just gave me flashbacks. One of the worst designed missions in gaming, despite the rest being pretty darn fun (And a bit overly difficult). If I remember right there was a way to cheese it by roll jumping.
There's a few cheese strats, like dark bomb on the death robot in the water or mashing square to punch. But the average player isn't going to realize that 😂
I am an OG Jak vet. Jak 2 is my favorite game, but IMO jak 3 is more fun. Funny enough, I never really struggled on the slums mission. I just run, roll, and long jump all the way to the end. But that Errol race to the coliseum? 🤬🤬🤬 took me a whole week.
I'd also like to add: the morph gun uses eco for ammo. The scatter gun used red, and like in the first game, you have to get up close and personal to deal damage. The blaster uses yellow, and like in the first game gives you some good long range. The Vulcan Fury uses blue, and as such, has a fast rate of fire. And of course the Peace Maker uses dark eco to deal a huge amount of damage. So all the types of eco are still used in 2 and 3, just not in the same way. Equally, eco is used in X for car abilities but I've yet to actually play it so I don't know exactly which is used for what, aside from blue for the boost
Honestly, a lot of the difficulty in Jak 2 can be cut down by just using the Vulcan Fury liberally. It singlehandedly makes the seal piece in water slums mission a total breeze, and its stunlocking ability makes it useful against all of the toughest enemies. It's the main reason why I found hero mode to be a relative breeze.
I really want a new jak and daxter game in the same vein of the first jak and daxter game the gun play of the sequels never say right with me I want a platformer beatumup not that with gun play
For Jak 2…. I never thought it was overly frustrating. Except for that one mission where you’re on the docks and get bombarded by crimson guards. I liked it quite a bit besides that part. Lol
The only part of the game I remember being stuck on was the button matching mini game for the parot monkey about 3/4ths of the way through the game. I actually didn't complete it until after playing through jak 3 a year later as a kid lol
@@abbababba2554 haaa I remember staying the night at a friend's at 12 years old or something and we were getting so pissed at that part, but also dying laughing at each other's frustration
Yeah the intention with that mission is ur suppose to play it with more upgrades so you can do more as dark jak or have harder hitting guns . Problem is you can do it early and suffer and most people do it that way
I loved Jak and Daxter but I never finished it, I definitely preferred Jak 2, never played Jak 3, Jack X and The Lost Frontier. Daxter was good fun, enjoyed it a lot
if they make a mature jak and daxter game with graphics like the concept art you showed it would be a hit!!! have us move around a big open world like in 2 and 3 but just add more detail and improve the movement even further. Kinda like how they changed the game mechanics for god of war.
The waterslums mission can be done with the hoverboard, you just have to stay on the walkway. and if you get it right its much easier as u beat the guards dropping from the ships.
Jak 2 doesn’t lack variety from what it looks like, it’s meant to be like that it’s literally an dystopian future setting like cyberpunk with its dark tone setting n story n there’s not even 50 levels in the entire trilogy combined, shit must of went right over ur head
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Maybe it was the age I was when I played this but I was cracked at Jak II. I've always read about difficulty spikes online but I was never walled for more than an hour. The only part that held me there that long was the docks mission. But even that wasn't too bad. I mean 0 shade when I say this, but based on this b-role footage, I was better at this than you when I was 12, lol. I wonder if I'm still great at it as an adult. I should check.
If it helps, a lot of the footage I selected was me just being braindead at the game. I'm not THAT bad, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm good either 😂
Ah those Dream Sequences from Daxter was my childhood. I remember being addicted to the Matrix one so much that I can complete that sequence 100% with my eyes closed
if I were to play through the series again, I think I'd mostly skip 2. A couple of those clips of the tricky camera angles brought back some extremely frustrating memories lol.
Jak 2 was the first video game that made me throw a controller in rage 🤣 I got stuck on that mission at the strip mine where you needed the hover board to throw in those bombs on the eco devices. Racing Erol through the city while hitting all the rings was also BS too.
FUN FACT: You can cheese the seal piece mission by hoverboarding on the docks instead of the water. your too fast for the ships to shoot you because you will be out of range of the laser before they shoot, and you will pass before troops get dropped- i completed it in like 30 seconds with no bullet fired no health lost
Yeah they actually rebootet ratchet and clank. But you mean you want a remake of jak and daxter ? A reboot is when they change the story. A remake is when they use the old games and story but with better graphics
I miss playing videogames completely. But, Jak and Daxter was the most fun I ever had. I remember when it first came out. I was happy I got it. It came with the PS2 when the console first came out. My parents brought that and I was super happy. Jak 2 was another story. I got the demo because I was so excited. ❤🎉
I love the original trilogy so much I owned the first game as a kid and loved the heck out of it when I rented the second game from the video store my little kid mind was blown it was like gta but for a kid like me haha
It’s like this era has been off limits to remasters and remakes in a way that others have been spared. I have fond memories of these games from back when I was so young I couldn’t read or figure out how to finish them.
Thank god im not the only one that perfers Jak3 instead of Jak2. Ive never got why Jak2 was preferred being so limited and having the worst checkpoint system of all the games. And two different forms to achieve, when light jak with the flight mechanic made my opinion concrete on which was better. I love the X,O,X,O,X,O infinite flight glitch combined with infinite light eco.
I don't agree that the levels look nearly identical in jak 2 at all. Also they purposely went for a gritty style. Not every ps2 game needed to be popping in color anyways. I think adding a lot of color to games was often used as deceptive means to hide graphics back in the day.
Struggling with the jak 2 timed bomb mission on the hover board. With the difficulty of the levels you don’t really get the satisfaction of completing it, more so relief that you don’t have to continue doing the level over and over again and can actually finish the storyline 😭
So many fans didn't know Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier existed. I played the life out of the first three games during the early 2000's and always wished for more until one day I went into Family Video and walked by it on the shelf. I couldn't believe my eyes and I quickly picked up to look it over. Sure enough, it was the next installment after Jak 3. A lot of people wonder what ever happened to Jak 4 and well, that was it. lol
This series was my childhood. Got a precursor orb tattooed on my forearm when I turned 18. Would I get it again now that I’m 25? Probably not but these games are the GOAT haha
I still have the original trilogy, and beat the first one. However, I couldn't bring myself to finish the other two😕. Honestly, I wish they would've stick to the Precursor Legacy formula🤷🏿♂️
i played the first Jack and Dexter really intensively and for a long time as a child. At the time I thought it was simply the best game with Haven: Call of the King that I had ever played and you made my fingers tingle with unpacking my dusty Playstation 2 again and playing Haven: Call of the King and Jack and Dexter ! a very great video, thank you very much for that
I had strict parents growing up, so anything rated T for Teen was off the table until I was older. I absolutely loved The Precursor legacy and always begged my parents to let me play the sequels. I tried to buy Jak II once by covering the rating on the cover at Gamestop, but my mom still saw it and said no lol. Years later I'm an adult and finally played Jak II... And it was aight. I love the first one so much more, and I feel like the charm of the first game was destroyed by making it dark and gritty and giving Jak guns. I preferred the collect-a-thon open world platformer vibe of the first game. Looking around for Power Cells and doing crazy side quests to get them was honestly so much fun, and that vibe was gone in the sequel. Maybe I would've liked it better if I played it as a kid and had the nostalgia factor. Idk
Jak 2 is a complete beast of its own and is HARD if you beat it in the haydays then you my friends are a gaming PRO. I never got very far but loved the game, it did remind me of GTA. Jak 3 is much easier and is DOPE
Circumstances led me to only ever owning the original and 3. I played the og almost religiously I was obsessed, and the next one I played was 3. I wasn’t even sure I was playing this right game I would have never believed it if it didn’t have Daxter still being..well Daxter lol
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Which do you like better, original Jak or Jak II onward?
you should make i played every ben 10 game in 2023 his games are awesome!
you should play your bizzare adventure in roblox again!
its now completely different to the last time u played it
Here's a further insight of the original platform Jak and daxter was released upon
Here it is : The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on 4 March 2000, in North America on 26 October 2000, in Europe on 24 November 2000, and in Australia on 30 November 2000. It is the successor to the original PlayStation, as well as the second installment in the PlayStation brand of consoles. As a sixth-generation console, it competed with Nintendo's GameCube, Sega's Dreamcast, and Microsoft's Xbox. It is the best-selling video game console of all time, having sold over 158 million units worldwide
After years of needing my older brother's help to beat games, beating Jak 2 on my own as a child is probably the moment I had become a video game playing man.
Absolute LEGEND energy
Talking about beating Jak and Daxter, I remember a great deal of playing all of the older Jak games A LOT, but I've never found the time to beat Jak 2 and 3.
Just recently have I started to get back into the grind of Jak and so hopefully I can beat it in the next month or two, wish me luck.
I didn't have an older brother. So I learned to be a video game playing man all on my own.
Bruh I never beat that boss battle with the fat mf in the floating chair! It still haunts me that I never got any farther. I have been reduced to a young boy for life. Lol
The Ptsd i have from that one Jak 2 section...you know EXACTLY which one i mean (if not, the one at the weird..slum-dock area)
The weapon ammo in jak 2 resembles the powers of eco from the first game, red being short range high damage, blue being speed, yellow being single shot fire, and peacemaker of course being dark eco. Too cool.
Iirc, that's what's in the ammo packs
As a kid, I went to a friend's house and played a game with a buggy driving around the desert. 15ish years later I finally know what game it was (Jak 3) thanks to this video.
Oh buddy. Get Jak and Daxter through Jak X, they’re freaking fantastic
@@jonboy533 My favorite games from my childhood together with Final Fantasy X and they all still hold up today amazingly well
didnt had a memory card back then so i played jak 3 everyday from the start to the point i speedrunned the game in 11 hours. gosh my childhood was good
Jesus dude that’s crazy
I would do the same for GTA SA and Jaws for like 3 or 4 months til I got a memory card…. Only for my ps2 slim to brick itself a few months after 😭
Did the same with Ratchet Gladiator lmao
You spedran? I just let the playstation stay on for a whole week 😭 that thing was screaming but i didnt know lol
Love these games. The trilogy of jak and dexter, the trilogy of sly Cooper, the trilogy of ratchet and clank. They all went so hard on the Ps vita
The jak games have major issues on the vita unless you mod it to overclock it or install the custom patch made by fans since Sony never fixed it.
@@kitsunekid16 ik, but they where still fun and there not unplayable.
Plz fix to daxter lol
You mean "they were still fun and they're not unplayable".
@@kitsunekid16 Is there really a custom patch for it?
I envy anyone who is experiencing these for the first time this year, my favorite game series of all time!
aw thanks :)
I always liked rachet and clank way more never ever did I beat an Jak and daxter.. Maybe I should give it a go
⭐️JAK and DEXTER TRILOGY & JAK X COMBAT RACING the GOAT⭐️
12:22 I just like to note that although the Eco powers were removed, they were essentially replaced with according Eco guns where every gun represents an eco type that has similar attributes to the Eco powers of the first game.
Lore wise jak can still use raw colored eco but it's more rare. The experiments only got rid of his ability to mess with the precursor tech as easily.
Was gonna note the same thing, glad I’m not the only one who caught that
Except the green eco which was represented by the healing packs.
I love in the games, Eco has states just like regular matter. Solid (eco crystals), liquid (the dark eco pools) gas (eco vents), plasma (dark eco lightning/light eco shield/gun projectiles/gun emissions), and a fifth state (eco pickups)
I want to say the fifth state is supercritical, but supercritical matter irl has no surface tension and fills whatever container it's in. The states also seem to not depend on temperature/pressure. Weird stuff
The jak series 1-3 are my quintessential childhood playthroughs. Forever my absolute favorite series, thank you for covering them in 2023 💕
Just beat Jak 2! On to the third. This is such an underrated series. Still as much fun now as 20 years ago
The Jak and Daxter Era was great, game developers being like "you know what would be cool? if we add this to the game" when they don't have to but do any way and it turns out to be a blast.
In Jak 3, me and the friend that got me into Jak and Daxter found it that the Dune Hopper was actually the BEST vehicle overall.
The grenade launcher insta-killed any enemy vehicles caught within the explosion radius. Added with Turboing from Midjump-Peak of Jump, as long as you were going half of the Max Speed, you would essentially clear 5-6 car lengths before landing again.
The game was broken, as any desert level (without a Set Vehicle) essentially didn't exist anymore. We'd just have to kill the first 2 enemies, and then just start chaining from there. We never took any damage, and could make it across the Desert Map within 1 min.
Loved this video, Jak and Daxter is such a nostalgic series for me.
I would love a reboot or sequel in the style of Breath of the Wild.
I never knew I wanted that until just now.
The Legend of Ashelin: Breath of the Wasteland
I remember finding *Jak 3* at a GameStop years ago, back when ratchet and clack where somewhat still a thing (I think). Loved the desert bits and the fighting in this game. The dark and light jak power ups where super cool then the weapon upgrades enhanced the game that much further for me. 9/10 game as I was growing up, highly recommend people give this game series a shot.
The first Jak game was actually the first video game I ever played so it holds a very special place in my heart. Even though it's not nearly as popular I would say Ratchet & Clank is still a thing, the new game released only last year or smth. This is completely unrelated but I like your pfp, One Piece is such an amazing series.
@@thealmightycouch311 Thanks! Yes, I remember seeing a few things about the new Ratchet & Clank game that had come out. After looking through my game book around the same time or a year later or so. I discovered the Ratchet & Clank series with *Ratchet & Clank Deadlocked* and *Up Your Arsenal* on the Ps2. Only two games I've played and enjoyed for hours on end.
@@ChosenPirateKing I love Up Your Arsenal! That's the first Ratchet & Clank game I ever played and it's still my favorite
If you are interested in playing the original Jak a team has made the game work natively on PC with settings an modding in the possible future it's called opengoal. They plan on doing the entire trilogy.
to add on the reason it is called that is that was the language jak series was written in. GOAL so they are making an open source for it.
I'm confused.
Why aren't you famous yet when you make such awesome content?
Let's blame youtube algorithm
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@@donovanhadley2209 and Zoomers, they prefer 15 second videos
@Kimarnic
they often watch shorts
@@mr.dumbum8209 Ahh yes one of the worst features of TH-cam. I really hate those. The aspect ratio is awful everything is awful about them
I've played a few of the Jak games never got to far, im very fond of the storyline I'm gonna have to force myself to play the trilogy lmao great video!!
The interesting thing about High Impact Games is that this studio consisted of former R&C employees, including the character designers of the original Ratchet (Rest in Peace) AND Jak and Daxter employees. And that's exactly how I would describe The Lost Frontier. It plays partly like an R&C but just packaged as a J&D game. On the other hand, I would also describe Size Matters, although it is not so noticeable there (apart from the difficulty level of the game😂😂).
But I don't blame the developers for the fact that The Lost Frontier was a complete failure in my eyes. All the blame clearly lies with Naughty Dog. But instead of making up for their mistake and giving the fans a worthy finale, they prefer to hushed it up. No, it's better to create a new franchise from scratch and at the same time completely cannibalize TLoU (It's kind of ironic that this franchise, which was supposed to be a J&D game, helped Naughty Dog to a huge success...). My hopes now lie on Ruben Fleischer, who says he is working on a J&D movie, and Tom Holland, who said in an interview that he would like to do J&D as the next video game adaptation. The only thing that helps is to pray...
I probably should try the R&C series sometime.
Jak and Daxter need a comeback!
This will never happen.
@@Rachebart Budokai tenkaichi 4 is coming. So yea it could be
@@chrisk1458 yeah bro i know ❤ best news in the last years
I really think there is no need for it.
If one day J&D comes back, they would reboot it, and if so, it will end up with a generic woke storyline just like TLOU2.
The Precursor legacy was the first ever game i remember playing, and Jak 3 is probably the game i replayed the most. This franchise defined my love for games, it's truly special to me. 🥰
Music is awesome too!
I never finished the first Jak and Daxter but I played the hell outta 2 and 3. Whatever they were trying to do it worked on me, I thought they were cool as hell.
First game was much better than Edgy emo stuff in later games
Jak 1 was a fun goofy platformer
Jak 2 had more edge than a medieval armoury and was more engaging
Jak 3 lost some of the edge and gained some fun and lightheartedness
Jak X was Jak and Daxter Kart lmao
For some reason dark daxter reminds me of the werehog from sonic unleashed in a way
I got 2 tips for Jak 2
1st: Crimson Guard ambush, Use your hover board on the wooden walkways helps get past ships quicker, hop on and off it when you need so you don't fall in the water
2nd: Metal Lord final phase, use the overboard to circle round for some reason he can't keep up give you time and distance to shoot him
I am actually working on a fan game that’s an alternate sequel to The Precursor Legacy
Thank you🥹🙌🏾
@@Hoewhyisuhere It’s been a pleasure to work on so far
@@fatherlucid4995 where i can see this ?
Jak 2 was unbelievably hard. That race against Erol was brutal. I had to call my older cousin over so he could come beat it for me
I played Jak 1 , 2 and 3 when I was around 7-8 (in 2013 /2014) I’m so happy to see this game is still being talked about in 2023
Same im happy and nice people know these games in 2023
Who else hopes he does "I played every Sly Cooper game" and "I played every Ratchet and Clank game" videos?
Jak II was the first game I played on my ps2 and this series will always have a place in my heart. It's a shame they left it behind
I know the fact they keep remastering TLOU and threw this franchise to the side just makes me mad
Jak 2 was so goated. Being able to transform into Dark Jak was the coolest thing I'd experienced in video games at that point
Jak and Dexter all 3 games deserves remakes and the treatment Spyro and crash got with there remakes
Pretty sure most of the footage shown during the part about Jak 2 being too difficult was of the player actively trying to get themselves killed 🙄
I think you underestimate how bad I am 😂
@@Niosai As a hardcore Jak and Daxter veteran (especially 2-3) this is EXACTLY how it goes most of the time the levels are just like "Would you like to be murdered?"
Technically the "Escape from the Water Slums" mission isnt actually that hard when you know how to do it properly. Just shoot the guards that the dropships bring out, and the dropship closest to you will fly away. You just have to be able to take out the guards, or at least shoot them before any one of them individually fire more than 3 shots, as their 4th shot will always perfectly hit you. If you do it right and be patient, and remember to check behind you ever so often since they can sneak up on you, you can get through the mission without even taking any damage. Especially if you use the Vulcan Fury for parts of this.
It's funny how the most criticized aspect of Jak 2 is that there isn't enough checkpoints but at the same time, if the game had more checkpoints, it would make the boring and barren open world more obvious. Imagine this: You are driving for 5-10 minutes and then you do a mission that lasts up to 10 minutes at the most and then you do another 10 minute driving segment, then another 10 minute mission. Everyone would be calling this game, "hovercar riding simulator". The lack of checkpoints is a flaw that is meant to hide another bigger flaw with the game. Jak 2's open world had interesting idea with the different vehicle planes and different car builds but it's a glorified mission select menu at heart.
Oh my God, that Slums Run in Jak 2 just gave me flashbacks. One of the worst designed missions in gaming, despite the rest being pretty darn fun (And a bit overly difficult).
If I remember right there was a way to cheese it by roll jumping.
There's a few cheese strats, like dark bomb on the death robot in the water or mashing square to punch. But the average player isn't going to realize that 😂
@@Niosai I just used the hoverboard on the docks.
Nice. Jak and Daxter was actually my first experience with the playstation 2 when I got it for my birthday when I was a kid.
I am an OG Jak vet. Jak 2 is my favorite game, but IMO jak 3 is more fun. Funny enough, I never really struggled on the slums mission. I just run, roll, and long jump all the way to the end. But that Errol race to the coliseum? 🤬🤬🤬 took me a whole week.
short hair Jak is cursed
Supposedly Jak II was hard in some points was because people were complaining that Jak and Dexter was too easy.
I'd also like to add: the morph gun uses eco for ammo. The scatter gun used red, and like in the first game, you have to get up close and personal to deal damage. The blaster uses yellow, and like in the first game gives you some good long range. The Vulcan Fury uses blue, and as such, has a fast rate of fire. And of course the Peace Maker uses dark eco to deal a huge amount of damage. So all the types of eco are still used in 2 and 3, just not in the same way. Equally, eco is used in X for car abilities but I've yet to actually play it so I don't know exactly which is used for what, aside from blue for the boost
Honestly, a lot of the difficulty in Jak 2 can be cut down by just using the Vulcan Fury liberally. It singlehandedly makes the seal piece in water slums mission a total breeze, and its stunlocking ability makes it useful against all of the toughest enemies. It's the main reason why I found hero mode to be a relative breeze.
Jak X is hands down my favorite combat racer out there. I've seen none that come close.
Jak 1 is so pretty
You should play all the Uncharted games! That video will be great.
I really want a new jak and daxter game in the same vein of the first jak and daxter game the gun play of the sequels never say right with me I want a platformer beatumup not that with gun play
For Jak 2…. I never thought it was overly frustrating. Except for that one mission where you’re on the docks and get bombarded by crimson guards. I liked it quite a bit besides that part. Lol
The only part of the game I remember being stuck on was the button matching mini game for the parot monkey about 3/4ths of the way through the game. I actually didn't complete it until after playing through jak 3 a year later as a kid lol
@@abbababba2554 haaa I remember staying the night at a friend's at 12 years old or something and we were getting so pissed at that part, but also dying laughing at each other's frustration
Yeah the intention with that mission is ur suppose to play it with more upgrades so you can do more as dark jak or have harder hitting guns . Problem is you can do it early and suffer and most people do it that way
The Precursor Legacy was an interesting curiosity. Jak II was a revelation. Jak III was a worthy followup.
I like the way you put it.
I played jak and Dexter games 1 2 3 daxter jak x Frontier I believe to be the 4th jak game @t the time🙂🙂🙂
I loved Jak and Daxter but I never finished it, I definitely preferred Jak 2, never played Jak 3, Jack X and The Lost Frontier. Daxter was good fun, enjoyed it a lot
I just realized they handled the music in Jak 2 a lot like they handle their animations, seemlessly transitioning from one to the other
franchises suggestion:
-Rayman
-Starfox
-Metroid
-Age of Empires/Mythology
-Doom
-Dead or Alive
if they make a mature jak and daxter game with graphics like the concept art you showed it would be a hit!!! have us move around a big open world like in 2 and 3 but just add more detail and improve the movement even further. Kinda like how they changed the game mechanics for god of war.
I totally forgot it's not Jak II Renegade in other regions
I love the Jak and Daxter series, I wish Naughty Dog released a new game!
This is an old trilogy so a spoiler free review just seems half baked.
My favorite one was the first one
Jak and Daxter TPL is my Breath of the Wild back then.
The waterslums mission can be done with the hoverboard, you just have to stay on the walkway. and if you get it right its much easier as u beat the guards dropping from the ships.
The hard parts in Jak 2 are a mix of power through and a careful moving forward
Jak 2 doesn’t lack variety from what it looks like, it’s meant to be like that it’s literally an dystopian future setting like cyberpunk with its dark tone setting n story n there’s not even 50 levels in the entire trilogy combined, shit must of went right over ur head
Exactly!
I got 100% for the Precursor Legacy in one sitting (about 7 hours, with an hour and a half being me dying to the final boss)
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Which is better, Jak and Daxter or the games after it? (Jak 2, 3, etc?)
Maybe it was the age I was when I played this but I was cracked at Jak II. I've always read about difficulty spikes online but I was never walled for more than an hour. The only part that held me there that long was the docks mission. But even that wasn't too bad. I mean 0 shade when I say this, but based on this b-role footage, I was better at this than you when I was 12, lol.
I wonder if I'm still great at it as an adult. I should check.
If it helps, a lot of the footage I selected was me just being braindead at the game. I'm not THAT bad, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm good either 😂
Holy crap I forgot that the lost frontier existed
Sometimes I wish I could 🥲
@@Niosai We all do.
I loved the trilogy, got stuck in jack 2 back then so I need to replay that on an emulator when I have some time.
You can replay on ps2 or ps3 with hacks on modded consoles. That is the only way I am beating 2. Honestly 2 is a mess when it comes to difficulty.
Maaaaan.
Jak 2 was so difficult for child-me.. Hell, Jak 2 is STILL rather difficult! 😂
If you want even more difficulty, there's an OpenGoal mod called Hero Mode+ that cranks it up with tougher enemies, more damage and even debuffs...
I just did a full 100% walkthrough of Jak and Daxter in one sitting lol
Ah those Dream Sequences from Daxter was my childhood. I remember being addicted to the Matrix one so much that I can complete that sequence 100% with my eyes closed
if I were to play through the series again, I think I'd mostly skip 2. A couple of those clips of the tricky camera angles brought back some extremely frustrating memories lol.
This is a wonderful video and perfect timing too, getting back into the series and currently playing Jak II right now!
See most super hardcore Jak and Daxter fans don't like the lost frontier lol
I liked it on my psp for what it is. But i didnt liked it for a sequel.
Jack & daxter let's go ⚡🔥⚡🔥
Jak 2 was the first video game that made me throw a controller in rage 🤣 I got stuck on that mission at the strip mine where you needed the hover board to throw in those bombs on the eco devices.
Racing Erol through the city while hitting all the rings was also BS too.
Those 2 missions are bullshittt. Lol it's a love hate relationship with jak 2
FUN FACT:
You can cheese the seal piece mission by hoverboarding on the docks instead of the water. your too fast for the ships to shoot you because you will be out of range of the laser before they shoot, and you will pass before troops get dropped- i completed it in like 30 seconds with no bullet fired no health lost
dude tbh jak 2 u said difficult missions and then u said not skill issue, i saw u play and its def a skill issue lol
I guess it's a skill issue for the overwhelming majority of players then 😂
They rebooted Rachet and Clank. Give us the Damn Jak and Daxter reboot already 🥺
Yeah they actually rebootet ratchet and clank. But you mean you want a remake of jak and daxter ? A reboot is when they change the story. A remake is when they use the old games and story but with better graphics
I miss playing videogames completely. But, Jak and Daxter was the most fun I ever had. I remember when it first came out. I was happy I got it. It came with the PS2 when the console first came out. My parents brought that and I was super happy. Jak 2 was another story. I got the demo because I was so excited. ❤🎉
Why'd you stop playing games?
@@Niosai Reality hit. I work a lot.
I love the original trilogy so much I owned the first game as a kid and loved the heck out of it when I rented the second game from the video store my little kid mind was blown it was like gta but for a kid like me haha
It’s like this era has been off limits to remasters and remakes in a way that others have been spared. I have fond memories of these games from back when I was so young I couldn’t read or figure out how to finish them.
I grew up on the first game! Great video!
Sly Cooper has some pretty similar vibes to this is say. That would be awesome to see.
Always felt like an off brand ratchet and clank to me when I was younger
Jak and Daxter predates Ratchet and Clank, though? 🤔
Thank god im not the only one that perfers Jak3 instead of Jak2. Ive never got why Jak2 was preferred being so limited and having the worst checkpoint system of all the games. And two different forms to achieve, when light jak with the flight mechanic made my opinion concrete on which was better. I love the X,O,X,O,X,O infinite flight glitch combined with infinite light eco.
I don't agree that the levels look nearly identical in jak 2 at all. Also they purposely went for a gritty style. Not every ps2 game needed to be popping in color anyways. I think adding a lot of color to games was often used as deceptive means to hide graphics back in the day.
Struggling with the jak 2 timed bomb mission on the hover board. With the difficulty of the levels you don’t really get the satisfaction of completing it, more so relief that you don’t have to continue doing the level over and over again and can actually finish the storyline 😭
Jak and daxter the precursor legacy was such a blast from the past of how games have evolved since 2001
They need to bring Jak, Ratchet and Sly to PC already 🙏
(I know about OpenGoal)
the next game's need to have mar aka jak go back in time and fulfill that story, fighting the og mettle heads building new heavin ect
Yes man 😍🔥
Or maybe jak go back in time and meets the real mar. Because there is a theory that jak isnt the real mar but was named by the real mar.
Well now Ratchet and Clank HAS to come next.
Man, I remember playing Jak & Daxter 1, Jak 2, and Jak 3 as a kid and I had a lot of fun. Jak & Daxter were my game heroes.
Would definitely play all these games as long as I get to hear Daxter's dialog 😂😂😂
So many fans didn't know Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier existed. I played the life out of the first three games during the early 2000's and always wished for more until one day I went into Family Video and walked by it on the shelf. I couldn't believe my eyes and I quickly picked up to look it over. Sure enough, it was the next installment after Jak 3. A lot of people wonder what ever happened to Jak 4 and well, that was it. lol
Rate every Silent Hill Game. That would be very fun
I've had this requested a ton! I'll do it one of these days :)
Let's goooo!
Ah yes the 2000s, the prime years for us gamers, the years before the problems came
This series was my childhood. Got a precursor orb tattooed on my forearm when I turned 18. Would I get it again now that I’m 25? Probably not but these games are the GOAT haha
There's definitely worse tattoos you could get lmao that's actually really cool!
I still play this game to this day lol can’t wait for the remaster or the movie to come out man this game deserves it so much
I still have the original trilogy, and beat the first one. However, I couldn't bring myself to finish the other two😕. Honestly, I wish they would've stick to the Precursor Legacy formula🤷🏿♂️
i played the first Jack and Dexter really intensively and for a long time as a child. At the time I thought it was simply the best game with Haven: Call of the King that I had ever played and you made my fingers tingle with unpacking my dusty Playstation 2 again and playing Haven: Call of the King and Jack and Dexter ! a very great video, thank you very much for that
I had strict parents growing up, so anything rated T for Teen was off the table until I was older. I absolutely loved The Precursor legacy and always begged my parents to let me play the sequels. I tried to buy Jak II once by covering the rating on the cover at Gamestop, but my mom still saw it and said no lol.
Years later I'm an adult and finally played Jak II... And it was aight. I love the first one so much more, and I feel like the charm of the first game was destroyed by making it dark and gritty and giving Jak guns. I preferred the collect-a-thon open world platformer vibe of the first game. Looking around for Power Cells and doing crazy side quests to get them was honestly so much fun, and that vibe was gone in the sequel. Maybe I would've liked it better if I played it as a kid and had the nostalgia factor. Idk
Jak 2 is a complete beast of its own and is HARD if you beat it in the haydays then you my friends are a gaming PRO. I never got very far but loved the game, it did remind me of GTA.
Jak 3 is much easier and is DOPE
Circumstances led me to only ever owning the original and 3. I played the og almost religiously I was obsessed, and the next one I played was 3. I wasn’t even sure I was playing this right game I would have never believed it if it didn’t have Daxter still being..well Daxter lol