The truth condensed to its purest form.
But I'd recommend the PS3 version over this one because of the blurry ground textures and worse framerate (at launch, not sure if the various patches have improved it).
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Jak and Daxter Collection (PS4) |OT| Jak and Daxter need more Naughty
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The truth condensed to its purest form.
But I'd recommend the PS3 version over this one because of the blurry ground textures and worse framerate (at launch, not sure if the various patches have improved it).
All three main games are great. Never played X - excited to finally remedy that.
Jak II Jak has the best hair.
Jak and Daxter Jak has the coolest powerups (Eco > Guns) and world.
Jak 3 Jak has the best, uh... personality, I guess.
Jak II Jak has the best hair.
Jak and Daxter Jak has the coolest powerups (Eco > Guns) and world.
Jak 3 Jak has the best, uh... personality, I guess.
I'm very confused about which versions are best and for what reason. I'm very interested in picking these up but I see a lot of comments about the PS3 version being best and others say the ps2 uprezzed version's are better due to proper widescreen.
Jak 2 has issues with movement everywhere? Or is that only the EU version?
Frame rate - is it confirmed to be 30? Was the original PS2 version higher? I know the PS3 version was higher.
Basically want to know if this is worth getting, haven't played then since ps2 days and I loved them back then. PS4 would be ideal as I can play it in my living room or bedroom, and my PS3 isn't as easily accessible. However are the issues with the PS4 version severe enough that they are unplayable as I've seen some people say?
Jak 2 has issues with movement everywhere? Or is that only the EU version?
Frame rate - is it confirmed to be 30? Was the original PS2 version higher? I know the PS3 version was higher.
Basically want to know if this is worth getting, haven't played then since ps2 days and I loved them back then. PS4 would be ideal as I can play it in my living room or bedroom, and my PS3 isn't as easily accessible. However are the issues with the PS4 version severe enough that they are unplayable as I've seen some people say?
Hopefully they'll get a fix for all 3 as soon as possible.
I can live with a few graphical glitches, but the gameplay needs fixing across all of them. X is probably the best, but I've played through a bit of the story, and the framerate just tanks randomly in places. The arena parts are the worst offenders.
Jak 3 is making me feel nauseous though.
I can live with a few graphical glitches, but the gameplay needs fixing across all of them. X is probably the best, but I've played through a bit of the story, and the framerate just tanks randomly in places. The arena parts are the worst offenders.
Jak 3 is making me feel nauseous though.
I'm excited to play Jak I and II again.
Also, it feels good to have most of Naughty Dog's library available on the PS4. (Crash Bandicoot trilogy, Uncharted series, Jak & Daxter trilogy, The Last of Us)
Also, it feels good to have most of Naughty Dog's library available on the PS4. (Crash Bandicoot trilogy, Uncharted series, Jak & Daxter trilogy, The Last of Us)
Jak II's PAL slowdown has been fixed now.
The framerate is still a bit iffy, but it's playable at least now. It's running better than Jak 3 at least.
The framerate is still a bit iffy, but it's playable at least now. It's running better than Jak 3 at least.
Yep, it's at 1.02 now.
There are apparently still audio glitches, but I had my sound turned down.
If they can actually get an option to put the camera controls back to normal, because inverted horizontal axis on first person sucks, and stabilize some of the drops, it'll be great.
Edit: Patch note is 1.02- Fixed gameplay speed.
Man, talk about games that were products of their time. Jak and Daxter is so deliciously early 2000's and its sequel is so mid 2000's in the WEIRDEST way.
I hopped into Jak II first. What a nostalgic game. The art design of Haven City really stands out to me now more than it did back in the day - I think it might be because I'm appreciating it for what it is rather than constantly asking myself how the tone and atmosphere shifted so far sideways.
I hopped into Jak II first. What a nostalgic game. The art design of Haven City really stands out to me now more than it did back in the day - I think it might be because I'm appreciating it for what it is rather than constantly asking myself how the tone and atmosphere shifted so far sideways.
They're not ports, they're literally the original PS2 .ISO files that run in the PS4's PS2 emulator.
The PS3 versions have missing graphical effects, therefore the PS2 versions on PS4 are more accurate.
Porting the PS3 games would have been a far more difficult and costly process.
I happened to see a reddit post where this had happened (or maybe gamefaqs) and there is a fix. I don't remember the details but if you pause and save the very second after you get the power cell (before the crash) and then reload then you'll have that power cell.
Yeah, that's been a glitch since the PS2 version.
You have a 2 frame window in which to pause, and then you can save when you get the power cell.
They're straight up the PS2 versions of the game, so they'll work.
Every glitch should work, aside from framerate issues possibly throwing off the timing.
Do these games fit the entire screen? I keep seeing YouTube videos where there's little black bars around all four sides on PS4. That would drive me crazy.
For people who own this collection what are your current thoughts on it? Worth the money?
For people who own this collection what are your current thoughts on it? Worth the money?
They fit the entire screen for me, but Jak 1-3's 16:9 option is achieved by zooming the screen in, rather than actually being widescreen, so you lose a bit of the top and bottom of the picture, and I'd honestly recommend playing in 4:3. Jak X had proper widescreen support though.
Have you ever played the games before? The performance on them isn't great at the moment, but they seem to be addressing issues quickly. They're entirely playable, but certainly not the ideal versions.
If you haven't played it, I'd wait for a sale in all honesty, or at least until the main issues are fixed (which is mainly framerate drops).
Forgot how much I love the Mountain Temple in Jak II.
When it isn't trying to be edge city, Jak II even outdoes its predecessor in awesome, mystical areas.
When it isn't trying to be edge city, Jak II even outdoes its predecessor in awesome, mystical areas.
I heard that there was a PS4 screen sizing option where you could make games with borders fill the screen. I'm not sure if its as simple as screen resizing (which would affect every game), it wasn't clear from what people said, but the option would be in the same display settings. Does anyone know? Can anyone check?
So are these games 60fps or not? Questions last page weren't answered, I don't want to buy more busted ps2 classics
Huh?
The emulator works as intended, boosting the original game's res 4x. Only thing lacking is Pro support which can absolutely take these games to higher resolutions.
They aim for it, but they definitely don't stay there.
1 and 2 are probably the most stable, 3 is the worst.
As someone who only had an N64 before I got a PS2 I found Jak 1 to a boring Rare collectathon clone but loved Jak II and Jak 3. I'm going to wait for the series to drop in price before I buy it and I'm looking forward to playing Jak X, my PAL PS2 copy never worked properly so I didn't play it much when it came out.
Forgot how much I love the Mountain Temple in Jak II.
When it isn't trying to be edge city, Jak II even outdoes its predecessor in awesome, mystical areas.
It sure can be beautiful, always made me hope for a Jak 1.5 to bridge the gap with some more natural looking locations.
I recently platinumed Jak & Daxter.
I've only play Jak 2 up to just 11% completion and I already given up... /: (
I'm sick of every time trials, score records, bumping to every vehicles/walls/police guys on the streets, etc.
It's amazing that the 2nd game could be worse than the 1st, and I actually kinda lukewarm about the 1st game...
I've only play Jak 2 up to just 11% completion and I already given up... /: (
I'm sick of every time trials, score records, bumping to every vehicles/walls/police guys on the streets, etc.
It's amazing that the 2nd game could be worse than the 1st, and I actually kinda lukewarm about the 1st game...
Forgot how much I love the Mountain Temple in Jak II.
When it isn't trying to be edge city, Jak II even outdoes its predecessor in awesome, mystical areas.
When I replayed on Vita a while ago, this was what stood out to me as well - easily the best area in the game and better than anything in Jak 1 IMO. I didn't mind the second game's tone but the gritty parts made the more natural feeling areas seem even better.
There was a lot more platforming than I remembered in Jak II as well, which was a very good thing.
So I caved and bought Jak X. Really an awesome game. A few frame drops here and there on Pro when things get super busy on screen (not sure if Pro makes a difference with regards to Boost Mode), but all good so far
What? Games I played looked awful. Every single PS2 game I have tried has jaggies out the wazoo lol. The image quality is definitely purely trash tier and though I own multiple PS2 games I don't even touch them. Unless the ones I booted up just didn't get any love or something.
You make 4x res sound like it's a big deal when in reality it does almost nothing for some of these games for image quality. Yeah, it makes them better than playing a straight port on PS4 but that isn't what I care about in the first place. I've played all these games. Between PCSX2 and this I will choose that any day of the week.
I was wondering in particular if any actual AA has been added, but I see that it has not I guess so the Pro did not get any better at this point. What a waste.
Wow, I'm amazed by how bad the PS4 port is of Jak 2./
-Performance is just terrible. It's not unplayable or anything like that, but the drops and constant chugging is very distracting.
-The audio constantly crackles and pops during cutscenes and is a huge distraction.
-Seeing various graphical glitches within the first hour.
What are the chances of a refund from Sony? I didn't wanna bother hooking up another playstation, but I should have just bought the HD collection for PS3. I'm not going to have any fun playing through this PS4 port.
-Performance is just terrible. It's not unplayable or anything like that, but the drops and constant chugging is very distracting.
-The audio constantly crackles and pops during cutscenes and is a huge distraction.
-Seeing various graphical glitches within the first hour.
What are the chances of a refund from Sony? I didn't wanna bother hooking up another playstation, but I should have just bought the HD collection for PS3. I'm not going to have any fun playing through this PS4 port.
Huh really? I thought the game plays exactly like the PS2 version. The first game was fine on PS4.
Nope, and nope lol. Precursor Legacy ran a lot worse than it did on PS2 (although to be fair, the only major frame rate drops happened during the last boss). The other games are terrible though. X and 2 are probably the best out of them (X just suffers from a misaligned boost graphic and some dropa at the start of races, and the main problems of 2 have been fixed), but 3 is awful. It's just stuttering constantly, and moving the camera gives me a headache. I know that's 100% to do with the port, as I've played the PS2 version for at least 100 hours and have never had that happen.
PAL for 1-3, NTSC for Jak X. They're all reaching their intended frame rate, but the problem is that none of them are coming close to being locked at it.
They're apparently still working on a patch for them, but that could be months off.
If you do get it, remember that the widescreen for the first three is the zoom the picture in method, so you'll be better off going with the 4:3 option. Jak X supports true widescreen however.
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Ive been playing jak 3. The one ive never finished. The game has some momentary hitches here and there but its perfectly playable. People say its easier then jak 2 but it still has its ridiculous spikes just like the previous game.
I'm playing The Precursor Legacy right now and made it all the way to the volcano level before figuring out that the left stick could control the camera after pressing the triangle button without left and right being reversed! I tried to keep the swamp rats away from the guy's cupcakes but the reversed control with the right stick drove me insane. Using the left stick I cleared it on the first try. I'm loving it so far.