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That's for damn sure XD

Happy Anniversary!

Happy anniversary Nina! 7 years eh? Same as me just about!

Happy Anniversary, zappy!

Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary!

I can understand the feeling. This project will be done for me next week, and I feel exactly the same as you at this point haha

Ahaha thanks ^-^

Chilling and resting, is the project done for you then? :O

Nina! You're online for like the first time in aaaaaaages!

Thanks! :D

*high fives Nina* 'Sup!
I got a competition up in A&D. I know you're busy, I'm just kinda happy it looks so good lmao XD

So you're a Jak fan, demisexual, and kind of in a similar boat as me on the gender thing...are you my other half or something what is this lol

Found it! :3 lovely!

They make for pretty stiff reading, huh. Saddens me to think of what the gaming community has become, if they're so blinded by today's overused features in games, and don't commend the stuff that pioneered it all. That's pretty much the same with me, too. It's almost like a Pixar-level movie, and I've gone back and watched those game cutscenes at least twenty times, over the years.

Hah, maybe their 'green' budget got slashed for the second game? xD Yep, actual cars! I think the first one you get is the Sandshark (it's the one that appeared in the opening cutscene of Jak X). Awh! That's awesome! I used to cringe whenever a mission involving driving a vehicle came up. And those three races you had to do in the stadium. Ack. </3

Let's see! Well....Jak's VA ain't the same and his fill in has some cringe-y moments, the graphics are a major step back, the camera is awful, Jak no longer has a gun and cannot transform into Light or Dark Jak, Daxter instead gets a dark form that looks like this and will make absolutely ZERO sense once you've finished the story of Jak 3. I could go on! About the only thing that's even remotely redeemable about game was...aerial combat! That was kinda awesome, especially when you flew straight upwards to do some special thing and the camera would pan in and show you turning. As far as I know, the guys that worked on the 4th Jak game were originally ex-Insomniac devs (dev'ers of Ratchet & Clank).

What really upset me though was I once saw someone say that the 4th game (called Lost Frontier) was better than the original trilogy! Wah!

Oh? Good! I love the races so much! Especially the part straight after you take a racer out, and the game goes into an epic slow-mo showing your opponent crash 'n' burn. I think it's the only racing game I've ever played for PS2. Have fun playing it when you can! I have a steam account but barely use it. </3 PS4, PS3 and PS Vita are my current loves. My poor PS2 is reduced to gathering dust these days, though I do occasionally turn it on to play some Yuigoh games.

Indeed, indeed. Gosh I could reminisce all day if given the opportunity to. xD

zappychaaaaan, do you own a gallery at the "Art & Design" forum? I was looking for some stuff made by you but I didn't find anything :(

Oh they have, trust me, here's exhibit A and B - and that's only a small fraction of the panning I've found... People don't seem to get that the series is one of the best platformers to date, and arguably a good shooter and racer too.

Mmm-hmm. The whole 'bright and colourful enemies' to stark misery and blanch attmosphere, haha. It is quite a jump at first, and Jak II is imo the hardest & longest in the series. Usually takes me a solid 10 to 11 hours to complete the story. Hopefully you'll enjoy Jak 3! Third game has a lot more vehicle driving in it, and the last boss in particular features a dozy of a vehicle challenge. They really fleshed out the powers in the third game - and you can even transform when you only have a bit of eco collected, unlike the 2nd game, which I maybe only used Dark Jak about three times - once in the sewers, once in Dead Town and once for the final boss.

Hopefully you'll like 'em there's six games of Ratchet & Clank for ps2, but two are PSP ports and are made by a craptastic studio...said dev studio even made a 4th Jak & Daxter game, but for the sake of your sanity, please do not play it! It is horrendous to the extreme. Uck! Sly has only three games on PS2 sadly. There is a fourth game but it's for PS3 and not as good as the others if you ask me.

I still own my PS2 copies. <3 Since you mentioned you have a PS2, you should so pick up Jak X: Combat Racing. Really fun racing game set in the Jak & Daxter universe. It's a fair bit hard, but it's so much like Crash Team Racing, you'd be nuts to pass on it if you liked that old ps1 game.

Also if you can, try and get Ratchet: Deadlocked (also called Ratchet: Gladiator, depending on your region). That's my favourite Ratchet game ever, including the six PS3 games. It's pure combat fighting, and so much fun.

Wow, I talk a lot. <3 But gamesss man. Especially these gems from my childhood. <3

I'm pretty sure a forum like that will take a lot of planning to ensure it works as fluidly as it can. So I don't think you've much to worry about. It hasn't even been said that it will be a thing yet, but I can't see any reason for it not to be.

Yeah, it sounds like a really cool idea, to really mix the areas of PC together and bring people who wouldn't normally meet, for example RPers and Designers, together. It would be a very cool area on PC, and I'd be one of the first to join in! :D

Aw man that sucks. Rip activity indeed. But I guess after its over you get a nice break?

Oh don't worry, I'm forever obsessed with Jak. You just missed the hype. :P And yeah, Jak II can take a while. :x It's definitely the most difficult in the series. I still need to finish Jak X though, but when I tried to play it a few weeks ago, it apparently didn't save the last time I played so I lost all my hard work trying to gold rank races. Not sure what happened there. :(

Agreed! It really gets me done when I see people deriding the series, though. Said people also seem to be your bread and butter COD, Battlefield, or other insert-annoying-modern-game-of-choice-here types. They don't seem to appreciate it for what it is, or get that upon first release it made huuuge waves in the PS2 era.
Whatcha think of tonal shift? Pretty stark, huh? :P

Each of the big three kinda do their own thing. I like the stealth aspect of Sly, and the space levels in Ratchet & Clank. Jak & Daxter excels on the combat front, though. Love using Dark & Light Jak in Jak 3. <3