/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7165798
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH2dM_LLKJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXJoFNfWDEc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7q4FG7PvZk

>>7121772
>Ratchet & Clank
Guns and platforming: the collectathon. More about guns than platforming as the games go on. First game easily has the best music (despite being mixed in mono for some reason), second game has great flow, and the third game is clearly rushed/flawed but holds a place in a lot of people's favorite one (plus it has online multiplayer). Optionally: Deadlock, if you liked the arena/combat mission style sections in the third game. Like the third, has online but with better polish. Also: Don't get Size Matters, it's just a shitty PSP port.
>Sly Cooper
Stealth/mission-based game-play with anthropomorphic animal master-thief team with a great old-school-comic-book-mixed-with-flash-animation aesthetic. Second one is widely considered the best, and is the one which is most movie-like. First is a lot more like Crash Bandicoot than I think most people realize at first. The fourth one on PS3 isn't that good although admittedly the animation in it is absolutely gorgeous compared to the trilogy's slideshows (which have their own charm, again reminiscent of old pulp stories/comic books)
>Jak & Daxter
First game is a colorful collectathon platformer, second makes it edgy and a GTA-like, third is more of the second with less polish, less platforming, but more Mad-Max style, and lots of awesome vehicle sections. X is a fantastic racing game and has online (you might still be able to get it on the PlayStation store on PS3 upward, I don't remember). Lost Frontier is a shitty PSP port.

These aren't terribly expensive bought used. Word of warning: you probably want to play on a CRT. The overwhelming majority of PS2 games are 480i only which don't play nice on flatscreens (tons of lag, bad for platforming and rhythm-centric sections). None of the Sly Cooper games have 480p, but all Jak & Daxter/Ratchet & Clank games have it after their first game + widescreen (well, Jak II only puts black bars on the top and bottom instead of anamorphic for whatever reason)

>>6937896
>It's weird, because the last platformer to try to make you care about its characters launched several generations of autism and thousands of fetishes and OC's, you'd think Sly would be friendly to such spergery but people barely care beyond Carmelita's ass
That's because:
-Sonic is a multiplatform series. You don't need to buy a PlayStation console to play most of his games
-Sonic has a ton of comics, cartoons, two movies and many animated shorts. You don't need to play a Sonic game to be a Sonic fan.
-Most Sonic games sell very well, including the shitty ones like Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic 06.
-Sonic was the mascot of a game that strongly impacted the video game market. He was one of the main pop culture symbols of the 90s, dethroning Mario and Nintendo's monopoly.

TL;DR: Sanic is a media giant and Sony doesn't care enough about Sly to support the IP. Sly 4 sold like shit and had it's DLC cancelled, the comics were short-lived, the movie was also cancelled, there's still no news about the cartoon that was supposed to be released 3 years ago...

It's really sad, but Sly Cooper is a very cursed IP. The series has tons of potential, but no one at Sony gives a shit.