I Regret Ratchet & Clank - wish i'd listened to Gamespot over mobs of fanboy

This is a complaint about attitudes on this board. Ratchet & Clank Future Tools of Destruction "flopped" as you guys say for the same reasons NiGHTS Journey of Dreams "flopped". There is just not enough of the core gameplay. A discretion from the original.

I wish people would stop complaining about the R&C score. I listened to the outcry mob and heavily regreted it. It's a poor platformer by PS2 Ratchet & Clank standards.

Ratchet & Clank Future Tools of Destruction "flopped" for the same reasons NiGHTS Journey of Dreams did. There's just not enough of the core gameplay.

I wish people would stop complaining about the R&C score. I listened to the outcry mob and heavily regreted it. It's a poor platformer by PS2 Ratchet & Clank standards.

Tony-Harrison

Yea well its kinda hard there hav been so many R&C games... and the only thing they have changed is scenery, graphics, plot and weapons. That doesnt seem to b enough which is why its going

down

hill!

much like crash bandicoot... ps1 got a good dose of it then the gameplay got boring and repetitive best thing they could come up with was kart racing....

It's got a fair bit of replayability, and the singleplayer is really fun?moshakirby18

It's gimmicky and doesn't have a great amount of core platforming gameplay in it. The only complaint I have about Gamespot is saying "Too much spice" when really they should have said "strays too far from the original concept". They should have just stuck to the platforming elements that made R&C fun on the PS2.

could it be recommended to someone who didn't get into the rachet & clank series but still likes platformers?...cause i was thinkin about getting it...because if it's just repetative compared to previous ratchet & clanks, then that's not a major concernjohnnyv2003

I would highly recommend it to hardcore platforming fans. I think that's who the 7.5 score bracket is for.

I had a blast with R&C. It's the first one I ever playrd.

Dude, what are you talking about?! Gamespot criticized for having "too much variety"... there are tons of gameplay ideas in that game, and the core of shooting & traversing the environment are more well balanced in this title than in any other. Look at gamerankings.com, it has nothing to do with fanboy outcries... it was simply a great game according to the majority of gaming sites. NiGHTS on the other hand is just really flat.... as seen in the avg reviews of that game. R&C and SMG are the best platformers out this gen. And both are significantly better than anything that the last gen provided.

The one criticism is that the only next gen aspect is really the graphics and physics... the gameplay ideas have remained pretty constant to its predecessors. So the game fails to do anything drastically new... but as the majority of reviews are pointing out, this doesn't stop it from being a must have experience for any fan of platformers because the gameplay experience is incredibly refined.

i always loved ratchet and clank. i have them all. and i was furious with there review of the game and then i went and got the game. worst in the series. Ratchet-Man

Dude, what are you talking about?! Gamespot criticized for having "too much variety"...haze_blaze

I just wish Ratchet & Clank Future was a straightforward R&C game without the gimmicks. The "variety" is "flat" and misses the platforming gameplay. NiGHTS had the same problem.

Dude, what are you talking about?! Gamespot criticized for having "too much variety"... there are tons of gameplay ideas in that game, and the core of shooting & traversing the environment are more well balanced in this title than in any other. Look at gamerankings.com, it has nothing to do with fanboy outcries... it was simply a great game according to the majority of gaming sites. NiGHTS on the other hand is just really flat.... as seen in the avg reviews of that game. R&C and SMG are the best platformers out this gen. And both are significantly better than anything that the last gen provided.

The one criticism is that the only next gen aspect is really the graphics and physics... the gameplay ideas have remained pretty constant to its predecessors. So the game fails to do anything drastically new... but as the majority of reviews are pointing out, this doesn't stop it from being a must have experience for any fan of platformers because the gameplay experience is incredibly refined.

haze_blaze

Completely agree.... i feel this is a great game for the PS3.... and please if your thinking about picking this up DO NOT go off of Gamespots scores.... this site gave this game one of its worse scores for having " too much Variety ". look at any other site this game was getting consistent 8.5-9.5.... and this isnt the first time Gamespot has severly underrated one of PS3s considered best games, games like Uncharted and Resistance were pulling 9's pretty much everywhere else to...and its not crying that GS has something against PS3 when its something this evident.

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Dude, what are you talking about?! Gamespot criticized for having "too much variety"...Tony-Harrison

I just wish Ratchet & Clank Future was a straightforward R&C game without the gimmicks. The "variety" is "flat" and misses the platforming gameplay. NiGHTS had the same problem.

Well, your opinion is definitely in the minority... but it's just that, your opinion. R&C:FTOD was an awesome game. The gameplay was not gimmicky, the game was legitimately fun and all of the gameplay ideas made sense. NiGHTS doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as it.

I had a blast with R&C. It's the first one I ever playrd.

Mcortijo01

same here.

This is a complaint about attitudes on this board. Ratchet & Clank Future Tools of Destruction "flopped" as you guys say for the same reasons NiGHTS Journey of Dreams "flopped". There is just not enough of the core gameplay. A discretion from the original.

I wish people would stop complaining about the R&C score. I listened to the outcry mob and heavily regreted it. It's a poor platformer by PS2 Ratchet & Clank standards.

Tony-Harrison

I regret clicking on this thread - wish I'd listened to myself over my curiosity.

I absolutely loved the game. I don't get why you say it's gimmicky. What exactly do you mean? And the platforming is the core gameplay? R&C has always been more about the weapons than actual platforming.

Actually i really liked R&C, gamespot's review was way off IMO. Deserved a 8.5 at least.

[QUOTE="moshakirby18"]It's got a fair bit of replayability, and the singleplayer is really fun?Tony-Harrison

It's gimmicky and doesn't have a great amount of core platforming gameplay in it. The only complaint I have about Gamespot is saying "Too much spice" when really they should have said "strays too far from the original concept". They should have just stuck to the platforming elements that made R&C fun on the PS2.

WHAT, stray too far from the original concept? WTH are you talking about this game was very much like the original. Now Deadlock was the game that stray too far from the orginal concept. R&C ps3 had alot of platform element.

Let me emphasize again you don't know what you are talking about.

Your opinion.rogerjak

Exactly. R&C is not my cup of tea, but it is good game none the less. It deserved better than a 7.5 (for having too much variety). Whatever. My wife and nephews love the game. I cannot wait and see what DLC is coming for it. To each their own.

Its a good game, better then what gamespot gave it. I never played a ratchet n clank b4, i had a ps2 for about 6 months untill i played Halo then xbox 1 - ps3.

Anyway i am really enjoying it, its got good shooting and jumping gameplay, its funny, nice graphics, cool guns and uses the sixaxis well.

This is a complaint about attitudes on this board. Ratchet & Clank Future Tools of Destruction "flopped" as you guys say for the same reasons NiGHTS Journey of Dreams "flopped". There is just not enough of the core gameplay. A discretion from the original.

I wish people would stop complaining about the R&C score. I listened to the outcry mob and heavily regreted it. It's a poor platformer by PS2 Ratchet & Clank standards.

Tony-Harrison

I didn't know anyone gave a crap about NIGHTS... lol... and your opinion flops...

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Dude, what are you talking about?! Gamespot criticized for having "too much variety"...Tony-Harrison

I just wish Ratchet & Clank Future was a straightforward R&C game without the gimmicks. The "variety" is "flat" and misses the platforming gameplay. NiGHTS had the same problem.

i mean you beat one planet then you go to the next just like the first one.

example of a gimmick because that all you have been saying but yet you don't give an example. did you think the pirate dancing a gimmack because that was fun.

i think it was more like the first one than all of them.