Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction Comments by Ellie Gibson
Triggers happy memories.
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i always prefered the Jak and Daxter series - but its nice to see that cartoony platformers getting treated well on this gen :)
You know throught most of the PS2 generation I only played Jak and Daxter until I saw the error of my ways last year. Gets released in November? I should be able to get it if that's the case. :) |
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"But why isn't Tools of Destruction "quite there"? According to Schneider, it's hard to define. "When you look at a Pixar movie, it's that little something that makes it a Pixar movie... We still have a ways to go I think." "
Maybe because a single frame (1/24 of a second) of a Pixar movie takes 6 hours to render? And the technology Pixar uses improves over time as well?
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"It's hard to recall anyone saying, 'That BioShock's good, but it would be much better if you could aim the gun by wiggling the controller.' Frankly, why bother?"
Tells you more about the lack of imagination on the side of the writer than about the SIXAXIS or motion controls in general themselves...
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Artemis_Matsas
19/09/07 @ 12:17
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I'm a little worried about "tacked on" Sixaxis controls, i sure hope that Insomniac will give us the option to use whatever control method we like better.
On the other hand, this looks brilliant. I'm getting it on day 1. |
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I love the Ratchet and Clank series (except Gladiator, obviously). I do wish developers would stop trying to sell us on a feature that no one likes or wants - SIXAXIS tilt shit - but at least there's an option to turn it off. Eventually hopefully someone will take the hint that the gimicky tilt stuff just isn't needed.
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@ Kiigan
The article doesn't say there's an option to turn motion controls off. "Going back to the "next-gen things" thing for a moment... PS2 games didn't use the Sixaxis, but it's hard to recall anyone minding much." This is such an extrordinarily stupid remark, it's almost impossible to grasp that someone that's paid to write, has put this down. But anyway, however rubbish the article itself is, the game itself seems rather nice. I’ve surrendered the idea of innovative gameplay for this generation (at least as far as 360 and PS3 are concerned) so I can do with a standard HD upgrade of a good platformer. |
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JediMasterMalik
19/09/07 @ 13:58
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Can't wait for this, the gameplay variety looks amazing, so much stuff to do.
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I've never played any games in the series, so I wouldn't know, tell me: is this going to be another one of those extremely linear borefests that just lead you along a narrow straight path from area to area while closing off all doors behind you, like in Super Mario Bros 22 years ago?
If it's more along the lines of Mario 64 I'd be pretty interested, but I'm not getting my hopes up... |
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"I've never played any games in the series, so I wouldn't know, tell me: is this going to be another one of those extremely linear borefests"
The first game (only one I played) certainly wasn’t a borefest and it wasn’t too linear either. Although I don’t have any problem with linearity as it often makes a game better. I know it’s hip to ‘diss’ it but there simply isn’t a better alternative to gameplay pacing or story telling. I just don’t see how a game is made better by being able to play the levels in any order. Will you enjoy a fire world more if you play it as the 7th level as opposed to the 4th? |
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Not to be too pedantic, but Ratchet has a wrench not an axe.
So, other than nicer graphics this is just the same as the existing games? This series really needs a bit of a rethink, it's always been fun but the overall quality has been going down with every new game just because they've released too many games too quickly and they don't have enough good ideas to justify them. |
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I just don’t see how a game is made better by being able to play the levels in any order. Will you enjoy a fire world more if you play it as the 7th level as opposed to the 4th?
Ehh... I hope you don't really think just "doing the levels out of order" was the only way Mario 64 was non-linear. I'm talking about the game design in general. If a level is just a single one-way narrow path through some scenery, that's what I call boring. If those awesome looking cityscapes in the Ratchet trailers we saw merely serve as a backdrop to an otherwise limited experience instead of actually being able to explore that city to any extent (doesn't have to be GTA, like I said, Mario 64 style nonlinearity would be fine) then that would be boring to me. |
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3william56
21/09/07 @ 04:15
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I may be the only one, but I'm dissapointed that they've ditched the multiplayer online element. Although I never got to play R&C online, I thought it had huge potentual as a comedy version of Warhawk. Gibbing some swearing american pedant with a rocket launcher sure is fun, but turning the b*stard into a penguin, then making him disco dance till he explodes has got to be a winner.
Mr Zukon sounds fantastic. Most important: any more 8 bit 2D Captain Quark platform sections? They were great! |
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