It’s 2002 and you just paid £40 for this feature complete single disk banger.
It’s 2002 and you just paid £40 for this feature complete single disk banger.
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Another time, other rules.
I would say that today, video games are no more the creations of few passionates geeks, but has become a big industry that needs money and want to get money.
This series was so good.
I’ve had some voucher expiring and couldn’t find anything that would interest me so just pickled up this. Still one of my best random decisions to date!
Hell yes.
Weren’t Platinum games £20 though?
Back when Ratchet and Clank had a genuine personality.
Me in 2002 wondering how I got GBP and why the store in North Carolina accepted it
Adjusted for inflation and converted in currency, that’s about $100 today.
Hell, I paid $40-70 for SNES games in the early/mid 90s. MKII was $60 in 1994, which adjusts to ~$125 today.
Ratchet and clank 2 was an improvement in every way.
It is till today what I personally feel to be the best of the series.
And what a truly well made game looks like.
It holds up even today.
There are many games nearing perfection.
If I had only 1 10/10 to give across the hundreds I’ve played in the past 3 decades, it will be to ratchet and clank going commando.
This era of games was incredible
Yep plenty of good games back then.
Beyond good and evil would be my choice
Just wanted to take the chance to highlight how good the soundtracks in this game were and to show appreciation for it.
The first PS2 game I had and one a played a lot. My parents bought me a PS2 with Ratchet and Clank and SSX3 for my birthday.
It’s 2024 and you can buy Skull and Bones for 80€
I have such fond memories of this game. My grandad was a bus driver and one day he dropped by our house and handed me a plastic bag he found on one of his buses. It had Ratchet and Clank 1 & 2 and all 3 Jak & Daxter games. It was like Christmas come early.
Kids today will never know what a real game is like, sad.
Nope. Not me. Never did.
Those games didn’t appeal to me. Those nor Jack and Dexter. Heard they are all a blast, though!
I played Going Commando before the 1st game and boy did it SUCK
Not having strafe and better aim controls made RnC feel like a chore. Good on insomniac to make such amazing improvements to the 2nd game onwards.
Still love this game tho
Loved that game series, would love to play it again.
It was my first Ps2 game.
Nothing feels like that anymore.
Don’t tell Sony, but I’d pay that again for the original trilogy completely remastered in a modern engine but still with the original story.
Got this game and jak and daxter when my parents bought my ps2
This was a day 1 purchase for me. I cannot explain the satisfaction I gained when I saved enough bolts to purchase the R.Y.N.O ( “Rip Ya New One”) Still one of my favorite series of all time.
To be fair, even the most recent one was a day one feature complete game, everything playable and accessible on 1.0.
I played the shit out of this game, and didn’t have a memory card for a long so couldn’t save the game.. Had a 12 hour play session with my younger brother, good memories
Rip ya a new one?
I need to figure out how to play this on the steam deck. Just played the new one on it and it was good fun but I need more arena missions like in gladiator.
I remember having some ratchet and clank game on my PS3 but for a couple years I couldn’t figure out the first mission 🗿
Technically, adjusted for inflation you paid $70 for it.
Adjusting for inflation, $40 in 2002 is $70.5 today. £40 in 2002 is £64 today.
In terms of scope, the 2002 Ratchet & Clank is barely larger than your typical indie game. It was made by a team of 35-45 people.
People who complain about the $70 price tag don’t realize how lucky we are that the current market enables us to play these huge amazing games for so cheap.
What you should complain, or better yet, vote with your wallet against, is bad consumer practices such as MTX.
I still dream about to be able to play oen day all the R&C games on pc with up to date graphics and without emulation 🙁