Jak and Daxter: The Complete History | Retro Gaming Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2022
- It’s time to look at the complete history of Jak & Daxter from the original trilogy all the way up to the spin-offs, oddball final game, and possible future of the IP | Thanks to WD_Black for sponsoring this video! Grab your SSD here www.westerndigital.com/en-gb/... ⬇️SOCIALS BELOW⬇️
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I have wanted to make a video about Jak & Daxter for the longest time. And now that Tom Holland (aka Nathan Drake from Uncharted the movie) has shown interest in getting a movie adaptation going. I thought that now is the best possible time to do so!
The Jak and Daxter series really is right up there as one of my all-time fav platformers EVER! The sequels did take longer to get used to, but what I have discovered is the more you play the more addictive they become… according to many THESE are the better games! Let me know down below if you agree!
In the video, we chat about the original trilogy + Jak 4, the PSP Daxter spin-off, and the rather underwhelming PS2/PSP finale to the series. Of course, we also talk about cameos, we also talk the never finished Jak 4 (which turned into The Last of Us) and of course we talk about the history and development of this incredible Naughty Dog series!
Thank Naughty Dog for continuing to create such legendary games!
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Extra Video Assets came from these videos...
TheGamersJoint - • HIDDEN DEBUG MODE Foun...
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Project Longplay - • Jak and Daxter: The Pr...
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Powercell Zeke - • Jak Trips
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TheMoonRover - • Jak 3 - Full Game
Cardo Gaming - • Jak X - Cardo Reviews ...
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Tokyo Jungle deserves a complete history video
Jak and Daxter should be played by more people, it's so good!
So true👍🎊
The First Game to think when mention the PSTwo
I still play it today
I only liked the Daxter spin off :0
So true!
I didn’t mind the changes between 1 and 2 at all but I was a Ratchet and Clank player long before I got my hands on their rivals game so it felt like a good parallel.
Some fine voice acting in this one!
Opened up the video on my phone to check the description *just* to see if I was right in thinking I heard your voice.
I was hoping to hear an 'aboot'
Excellent video about such a unique franchise, was so awesome to watch. And cheers for the shoutout! I'm glad my Jak archive site was able to help with the video's production
My favorite part of these games is how the in-game language is actually just character-swapped English. When you decode it, you can find some fun easter egg text on ruins/signs.
Ex. In Jak&Daxter, the button you stand on for some of the elevator platforms have a ring of text around it that you can only read in full by staring straight down and spinning the camera around and around. The text? "You are getting very dizzy"
Very interesting to learn 'A Perfect Circle' being involved 🤯
I worked on a movie w Mike who voiced Jak and he was super cool. I was talking to him about his career and when he mentioned he did this I was one of the few people who actually got excited about it. I don’t think he runs into a lot of gamers in the film biz
Happy to see people still talking about this masterpiece trilogy
I have a somewhat tragic story involving Jak & Daxter. When I was a kid, I saw ads for the first game, but didn't get a copy right away as my mom didn't often buy new games. But when I saw ads for the second game, I absolutely hated it, and wanted nothing to do with it. One day, my mom called me at the store and offered to pick me up a new game, and one of the games she suggested was the first Jak & Daxter. I actually begged her *not* to get it! We got Hot Shots Golf 3 instead. And yes, to this very day, I feel bad even thinking about it.
I actually want to go back and pick up this game just so I can right that wrong stupid younger me committed so long ago. But your comments on the tonal shift and the general fan response to it at least give me a bit of solace knowing I wasn't completely alone.
Hot shots golf was great I love being shit talked when i play video game golf😂
Actually, little did you know Ratchet, Jak, Clank and Daxter appeared in Everybody’s Golf 4 (Hot Shots Golf Fore in your country). Ratchet and Jak are playable golfers while Clank and Daxter are non-playable caddies. Their voice actors even reprised their roles. Depending on which version of this game you got, each version have different golfers and caddies. For example, an Ape Escape character appeared in Everybody’s Golf 4 (as it’s known in the UK, Europe and Japan) as a non-playable caddie.
Amazing work dudes, although I wish you spent more time on jak 2 and 3.
jak and daxter will always be in my top 10 games of all time and Overall it’s a amazing trilogy
Great video, the first Jak and Daxter is criminally underrated. And I agree with you saying it's one of if not the best platforms of its time. I wish it stayed true to its more traditional routes instead of adding Grand Theft Auto and rachet and clank mechanics. Thanks for the video.
Apparently the original playstation is a triangle. Great video man
The first Jak and Daxter is one of my favorite games and while I wasn’t the biggest fan of the tone shift I also really enjoyed the sequels.
It could have been planned out better in all honestly since the tone shift was so drastic.but you get used to it after playing 2 for whilen
I agree
I didn't expect you to cover the Jak and Daxter series! 😯 It's a long shot but I hope you'll do Ratchet & Clank next. 🐱🔧🤖
Watching this video made me feel so nostalgic. I really miss playing this.
I remember playing this game during my childhood.
I really gotta say, Jak and Ratchet were NOT the only huge Sony-exclusive platformers of the generation to choose from. Sly Cooper is the obvious other name in the game and it seems extremely strange to leave it out of tbe conversation.
Also, strange to not see PlayStation Move Heroes at least mentioned.
Who could leave out spyro
@Campfire Bytes I mention Ratchet in the very first sentence.
I love your vids man. Cant upload fast enough imo ahaha. The History series is the BEST workday companion. Oh my god, the OG commercials just gave me MEGA NOSTALGIA. I was the EXACT DEMOGRAPHIC for the "edge-y sequel", I was a young (not sure if I identified as fem tbh) enby and I was SO INTO the edgy crazy stuff at the time. Turn a character from a quiet good boy to a gun-toting "I can be your Angle or Demon" -- I was utterly SOLD. Plust even more edge-y experiments / creature feature stuff. Naughty dog as per usual was ON ONE.
And the gameplay of Jak 1 and 2... MAN. The MUSIC in Jak 2... I still have dreams of the gun sequences and that triple spin jump in Jak 2. Just pure bliss of a platforming shooter. Thanks for the trip down memory lane....Just THANK you!
Jak and daxter was my first game on a real console. I loved every minute of it. While I was a little shocked by Jak 2, after giving it a chance I even liked it more than the original. And Jak 3 became my favorite because the story was less about the adventure and more about the personal growth of Jak as a character. Jak x was fun too but the story was too predictable for me at the time as I was then older and had developed pattern recognition. After seeing some gameplay and hearing about story elements for that Vita game I simply chose to end things on a high note and didn't play it.
Kinda crazy how we uploaded pretty much the same video one day apart haha! But you really went into great detail, good job!
That was great my man. Honestly great ✌️
Man, Jak X's soundtrack has got to be one of the most underrated in racing games, personally up there with Burnout 3's
Great video mate, thanks for the awesome effort!
I had a gamecube and no PS2 until late in the generation. Couldn't wait to get my hands all over this game as soon as my dad got a PS2 and mod chipped it!
Cheers from Kentucky. Thanks for this.
Love Jak and Daxter! Thanks for the history lesson❤
I just wanted to say that I really appreciated using the "SSD" song from Astro's Playroom during the SSD ad. Really clever
(Also, J&D is my favorite Naughty Dog franchise, this Complete History was really neat, great job!)
Awesome video, currently in a Jak and Daxter marathon and this was an awesome watch. I forgot how good those old commercials were.
Hope to see something new with the Jak universe. Even something like a PS5 remake of the originals, making those look like the new Ratchet and Clanks would be amazing. I really want to see Daxter from PSP on the PS5.
Would be cool if you did a complete history on Zombie Revenge. Wanna know the history on that.
I love that game! I thought I only knew about that obscure beat em up!🤣
I like all these complete histories, but was very excited to see this pop in notifications.
I cant imagine how long this video took to edit. Great work.
If I were Naughty Dog, I would have totally created that racing soundtrack for sell to the public. What a good line-up especially for that era of music, they missed that one. Big time. I wasn't into those games but I was into that kind music heavily and would have bought it for the names alone, those musicians were on fire at the time. Again, they missed that chance completely.
this is HUGE, THANK YOU!!!!!
Another great video ! I missed it on your patreon.
Great video! I've never played the Jak games, but ever since I dug my teen-hood launch PS2 out, I've been looking for more great games to play on it. Back in the day, i was more about Ace Combat, Midnight Club, and Time Splitters 2. Never really played any platformers then. Well, aside from Croc on the Saturn and Bonk on the Turbografx. I'll definitely have to give these a try!
Loved the video it was good 👍
At the beginning I’d watch your history episodes about games I do know and love. Then I found out you’re so good in telling and narrating stories, I simply watch every single episode you make!
Can you look at the History of Mega Man🔫🤖
Nice retrospective ✌
That guy in the Daxter advert, he's in The Archers (his Archers character - Jim? I can't recall), I recognised his voice immediately. First time I've ever seen him actually! 😊
Jak and Daxter series from the first 3 games is a awesome series.
damn i miss this game what a nostalgic punch in the heart this morning
Epic series!!
I love the series and still own the PS2 originals. I recently purchased the Jaks collection on PlayStation 4.
I must of been 9 or so when Jak and Dax came out. Ngl I couldn't put that game down as a kid. Rachet and Clank along with this series were so amazing and ground breaking I feel like growing up in the early 00's of the ps2 era. When Jak 2 came out and finally heard Jak speak for once still hits me the same everytime.
Idk something about video games and tv shows/media from late 90's early 00's hits so differently
Thx for this man👍🏻🥞🥚🔌📱
I miss this series. Had good fun with it all around. At this point though it's probably best if we just let it rest and not try to continue it. Don't know how well that would turn out.
Awesome video will you cover ratchet and clank next as well as sly Cooper
Nice. Suggestion/wish for future video: The Complete History of Tomb Raider😊
Jak 1 was the game my life turned to games played it 2018 again and did remember so much about the game i lobe the series good old times time flies by damn
been hankering to play em again, might download em to PS3 while I still can
don't feel like paying for them again on PS4/5. great vid man 👍
before I have too many drinks thank you for this
You are more than welcome
My favorite series of all time to this day idc
Speaking of Tomb Raider, when are you going to finally tackle The Tomb Raider Suite controversy? This falls under Kickscammers. There is so much to unpack here in terms of drama and the evidence stacked up against Nathan McCree, I can't even.
Can you look at the History of Ratchet & Clank🦊🤖
I'm a little shocked you didn't even bring up light jak, when you talked about jak three. I think that's what made that game one of the best of the trilogy because it opened up so much more of the world
I was in the same camp. I loved the first Jak and Daxter as a kid, but was less fond of Jak 2 for the change in setting and bleaker tone. Still, Jak was probably the first open-world-type game I ever played and I remember being so impressed by how seamlessly all the areas flowed together. It's still an awesome game, definitely one of my favorites of PS2, along with Insomniac's Ratchet and Clank series.
I should play these games one of these days.
Thanks!
Fuuuuck yess Still Love The Jak n Daxter Trilogy with Jak 3 actually being my Favorite, I can still remember receiving Jak n Daxter the Precursor Legacy for my Birthday not knowing or even heard about it before, but fell in love Instantly when I boot it up on my PS2
Thats it, going to have to redownload the first Jak and Daxter again.
Yay! I got to do a voice in this 😀
Aye that was a highlight haha, noice.
2:54 **In Homer Simpson’s voice**
NEEEEEEEEEERD!!!!!
Hell yeah Jak and daxter shines again brq
31:19 Caddy easter egg!
48:58 Sly easter egg!
Hearing him say eco instead of eco really grinds my gears
I loved all 3 games. It felt like they grew up in tone with myself and the character.
I still have a PS2 memory card with corrputed data from Jak X.
This man sounds like he's going to invite me to join his mercenary company (this is a Titanfall 2 joke)
I didn't mind the transition from Jak to Jak 2 because it reminded me of the jump from Crash 2 to Crash Warped, where in addition to the regular platforming you also had plane dogfights, motorcycle races, jetski levels, animal mount sections, etc. While they definitely took inspiration from GTA3, that sort of gameplay DNA was something Naughty Dog had already experimented with to a degree. I feel like GTA is what gave them the focus for how to bring some of these different elements together, as well as inspire them to add guns to create more of an actual combat system.
Hearing AlphaOmegaSin @ 34:20 make me very happy
that tribe sandover village mashup holy shit haha
Didn't know AntDude would have a cameo in this video.
Jak 2 was the first video game I owned. After playing it for a few years I bought Jak and Daxter, and then Jak 3.
I remember playing jak 1 on the PS2 when I was a kid and the HD collection on the PS3 as a teen.
We need a true jak 4!
I forgot if it was one of your videos, Did You Gaming's or Guru Larry's but regarding Jak X and the memory card glitch, Naughty Dog was running low on time and didn't make sure that the game was "optimized" for all 7 models of PS2.
They tested out on most "fat" models and only 1 "slim".... well, a friend of mine had one of the "faulty fat" and ended up losing all of his saves on his memory card, while I got one of bad slim.
"Fortunately for me", it just affected the Jak X save and not the others, but the game would constantly freeze and crash especially during the auto-saves, meaning that I couldn't play the game for long as it would corrupt the save everytime in the process.
Great retrospective as always! I totally forgot about Daxter, that's one of the few PSP games I still need to try out.
I've never encountered the tripping in the original game, but that's such a funny and creative tidbit!
I love the first game. It's probs the best 3D platformer ever. I finished it on PS2 multiple times and i also have 3 platinum trophies for it. Vita, PS3 and PS4.
Nice one! I found it really hard to complete them on vita. Like the stadium races are so laggy in that version and the times are strict enough under the best of circumstances.. And Jak 3 has some broken hoverboard physics I can't get some of the orbs in the open in spargus on th grind rails because they don't work properly (i've tried light jak, slope jumps too). I've noticed almost everyone uses orb glitch (or debug mode now) to complete them and then pretends that they didn't :P
To me the discarding of the original Jak's gameplay (which was polished to perfection IMO!) felt like how in Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts the intro tells you 'people don't want to play 3d platformers any more' and I was sitting there thinking 'yes I do!'
Incidentally there is another game similar to Jak 1, believe it or not it's Disney's Treasure Planet! Obviously it's nowhere near as good but it does use the same game engine so it could potentially be used to scratch that itch!
For me Jak 2 was a huge improvement in terms of scope and sense of wonder I used to get from playing games. It's the third one where things got a bit too on the rails to reel it all in I'm guessing. The first two games felt like such big (epic?) open worlds that you wanted to explore (abeit for different motives perhaps), you still get that sense of being 'lost' in the world.
I played all 3 of the jak games. Fell off after that but they were some of the best platformers around.
Am enjoying this. At the time, I couldn't distinguish it from Ratchet and Klank and Spyro.... all, in my mind, riffing off Banjo-Kazooie.
Hey, when I was homeless and only had a vita, the jak and daxter collection was my saving grace
I'd recognize JJ's voice anywhere.
I was looking for this game for years I remember playing it as a kid but I always thought it was rachet and clank until I watched an xQc guess the video game by its music video, AND IT WAS THIS!!! After my house burned I was never able to find it until now! Crazy I’m definitely going to have to buy an old ps2 to play it again!
35:33 Good thing Khinsider exists
"The music in the Jak games up to this point is completely forgettable"...
... what are you actually talking about??? My brain's been permanently tuned to Jak Radio since the millennium!
This and ratchet and clank were always my favorite game series on the PS2
me too dude.
Rampage complete history please!
One of the best video game series of all time #1 best besides GTA in my opinion plus these guys are pretty iconic Playstation mascots and the best games that revolve around heroics are saving the planet
My parents loved ratchet and clank which is still a great game series but jak and daxter won it for me...i spent way too many hours playing these games and i still love them now
I used to have the original 3 games and Jak X on PS2. Then I moved out of my parents’ house, and my younger brother kept the PS2.
Didja guys know you can blow up the pelican with the canon on Sentinel Beach?
Well, you can. It's my new favorite way to get that power cell.
Please give us music sources I've been trying for hours to find that beat with the ps2 logo sound
What is the name of that be on 20:54?
The complete history of Japan Studio!
Whats the song at 22:45 damn sounds too good
"A racing gane with no wheels?" The whole F -Zero series.
Never saw Tomb Raider as a platformer to be honest, more so an adventure action. I mean sure you jump around and being an acrobatic badass is the entire point of Lara's character, but where Mario and Crash were all about fluid free flowing controls and constantly being on the move, Tomb Raider, with its tank controls and more emphasis on exploration, was more about carefully planning your route ahead. So no, while jumping on platforms is an elements, I wouldn't call TR a platformer.
Has Adam Jones from Tool done any video game music? 🤔
Cos I'm certain that he'd do an amazing job for a spooky kind of game...
Or something like the game Journey, or that one where the game is almost entirely in silhouette, played scrolling across to the right hand side of the screen. Can't remember what it's called but I know it's really popular, quite a famous sort of game...
Or has he already done that and I've not noticed?! 🤔
Anyway, yeah, Adam Jones for a computer game soundtrack. That'd be great! Or at least it would _sound_ great! 😊