“Robots: The Movie Game” definitely feels like a Ratchet & Clank clone. Your melee weapon is a wrench and you collect bolts as currency. You have a little robot companion similar to Clank.
Can we appreciate that the little circles in Scaler are like PNGs that have transparency, but the transparency can overlap other circles and removes the parts of the circle below it?
I was thinking the exact same thing, like, it's just a small detail, but for god's sake couldn't someone polish this? Or would it take too much effort?
I could be mistaken but I think that might be an emulator thing? I could be mistaken as I haven't played Scaler in a very long time (I actually played Scaler before Ratchet and Clank... XD) but I remember it looking fine on console, but again that was a looooong time ago so I could be easily misremembering!
@@TheDominusIgnis I looked up a bunch of different gameplay videos for it on youtube and they all seem to have that issue. Don't think its the emulator this time.
I bought it on a whim alongside a bunch of PS2 games years ago. Got it for about 3 bucks and it's pretty good for it being a nothing game with no history or legacy at all.
Peak 6th generation 3d platforming (or the opposite of peak). Where every company wanted nothing more than making a mascot for the PS2. Tak, Ty, Kao the Kangaroo, and many many others that I can't remember right now, it feels like every month a new mascot 3d platformer was coming out on PS2 and Xbox.
As is Jak and Dakter. And to think Banjo itself was basically a Mario 64 clone with the standout feature being a buddy system coming from their previous creation DKC, whose developers used their Banjo engine to create their 64-bit DKC entry but ripped out its buddy system in favor of a ball and chain that forces you to play half the game 5 times per playthrough, then buried it with their next Banjo game bringing with it the triumphant return of the buddy system with much-reduced split-up multi-character retreading sections.
Jesus, Ruff Trigger. I remember that a friend of mine had it and hyped me up to play it. I never played Ratchet and Clank, so had no idea that it was a rip-off of something else. I also remember seeing a magazine at the time giving it a 6/10 and calling it generic. When I told my friend about it, he went nuts "GENERIC? OH OK, THEY CALL A GAME WITH ALL THESE COOL GUNS GENERIC, BUT THE SIMS, WHICH IS JUST PEOPLE GETTING FED, GETS A SUPER HIGH SCORE!" 😂😂😂 the Playstation 2, early 2000's childhoods...
To be fair, he is both right and wrong. In terms of playing a shooter versus a sandbox life game, yeah the shooter might be more exciting. But also the Sims has stuff like random aliens and other crazy stuff too, and Ruff Trigger is in retrospect terrible compared to other games. But considering what you mentioned and implied about the media you two had consumed at that point, I totally understand your friend. It just is amusing looking back at stuff and finding the uneducated logic of children and nostalgia even of mediocre games. I mean, I liked stuff like Spore Arena on DS, and played and beat Soul Calibur V and loved it despite it being not very liked in the fanbase. Opinions are fun because people can like a game regardless of if it is any good or not.
Love Ratchet and Clank! So sad that they never got as popular as they deserve to be, a crack in time is one of my favorite video game experiences ever.
Check out Onirism people, it's a game that's like A Hat in Time meets Ratchet and Clank. It's still in early access but the devs are very active and the game has a lot of modes that gives you so much to do.
Glad to know Austin is also a pretty huge Ratchet fan such as myself, btw my profile pic is a photo of me and Ratchet’s voice actor, James Arnold Taylor.
Sony *had* a lot of memorable and quality mascots. Ratchet, Jak, Sly, Spyro, Crash and Sir Dan all come to mind immediately. Sony just does fuck all to actually support these franchises. I'm not saying that releasing endless shovelware spinoffs Nintendo style is the correct answer, but Christ almighty did Sony let a lot of IPs slip through their fingers. It's mind boggling.
Insomniac NEVER owned ANY percentage of Spyro, Naughty Dog NEVER owned ANY percentage of Crash Bandicoot....I don't know why people keep farting that out, BOTH were owned by Vivendi/Universal Interactive Entertainment. Naughty Dog was not owned by Sony yet when Universal hired them to make Crash Bandicoot games and Insomniac to make Spyro games... Its not letting something slip through your fingers when you own ZERO percent of an IP owned by a company who then merged with Activision.
Given what happen with the MLB series (the latest one was released on the Xbox one, despite being published by playstation studios) that could actually happen if Sony and Nintendo weren't at each others throats constantly.
@@Nathan-rb3qp Definitely the most Playstation game not on Playstation I can think of in recent years. Sunset Overdrive was pretty fun, especially the traversal, I'm big on that type of thing.
@@icravedeath.1200 NO. NO it wouldn't. MLB The Show was published on other platforms because the MLB FORCED the game to go multiplat, it was either make it for other platforms or lose the MLB license....
"oPeN wOrLd GaMeS wItH UpGrAdEs MuSt Be A rAcHeT & ClAnK cLoNe" Not even a handful of them had R&C vibes, I'm actually surprised spyro wasn't on here at this point.
7:21 HUH. Never thought that he Dead by daylight Devs would have made a Ratchet clone back in day, but it's always fun to see the weird stuff that studios have made in their old days.
Actually, Skylar and plux future is kinda... interesting, the franchise in itself isn't "dead", they annouced a reboot last year and every once in a while there's some crumb of information about it, like new screenshots or the new name (it is called skylar's adventure now i think), their twitter seems to be quite active and theres a official discord if anyone wants to look more into it.
Just something I noticed is that in that clip of skylar at about 15:30 the animation they do for getting that orb is almost exactly like jak n daxter when you get a power cell.
Granted, I was young when I played it, but as a ratchet and clank fan, I absolutely LOVED the Phineas and Ferb Movie game. It was totally a co-op ratchet and clank clone which worked super well for the series because the fun guns you got to use with the invention vibe of the show so well. Fun times man
My brother and I got Biomutant at launch. We didn't have Ratchet and Clank to compare it to, but the cracks still showed quite a bit over the course of our playthroughs. One of the problems I noticed was that they've got all of these cool weapons and powers, but you can melt anything and everything almost instantly by just using an auto-rifle. They had comparable per-hit damage to other weapons, but had far superior rapid fire. I also thought it felt odd the way everybody talks about you trying to preserve life, while you go around slaughtering almost everything that breathes until you've turned the world into a lifeless wasteland. It had some cool elements that I did like, but it also admittedly did have a lot of flaws.
I remember playing the G-Force game years ago (the one based on the Disney movie, with the special agent guinea pigs), and back then, it really felt like a Ratchet & Clank game to me. I don't know how accurate that feeling actually was, but all the platforming/puzzles/gunplay pieces were there. Never had a chance to revisit it, but always wanted to.
Metal Arms was better than I expected going in and definitely deserved a sequel. As for scaler I remember liking when renting it as a kid but when I emulated via dolphin a few years ago I could barely play it for over an hour, there's just something... really not interesting about it and that could definitely be down to its characters and lack of originality but it sure as hell shits on ruff trigger that's for sure (like every other game in this vid except for arguably acme arsenal).
When you said PS2 ratchet & clank clones, my first thought went to Whiplash. A game a rented once at blockbuster and remember enjoying. It's about a a weasel who is attached to a rabbit by a cable, and the rabbit is indestructible. So you use the rabbit as a weapon and such to escape and bankrupt the laboratory that held you. This is 100% real 😆 god I miss the PS2 days.
I remember the game based on the Robots movie from 2005 was very heavily "inspired" by Ratchet and Clank. Like I loved that game as a kid and wanted more, despite never being able to finish it. Then I played the Ratchet and Clank reboot as an adult (that being my first proper experience with the series outside of All 4 One and the demo of Deadlocked) and realized "holy shit this is just like that Robots game".
I never understood the Biomutant coping. I don't care if the dev team or the budget is smaller. If you're charging $60 for a game make it not a buggy mess and make it worth playing.
One game I feel is very Ratchet & Clank-esque is Phineas & Ferb: Across the Second Dimension. It's closer to All-4-One than the main games, but it hits very similar beats as you play as cartoony characters in a futuristic setting with all sorts of crazy weapons. Hell, All-4-One could have its own video about clones given how it seemed to be a very popular style of game at the time. SpongeBob and Disney also had games in that style
I still fire up my PS2 on the reg and just picked up Metal Arms for myself for like £3.50. Gutted I've not heard of it until now - I would have got a kick out of it back in the day. Being that I have a chipped PS2 though, I am going to download a couple of the other PS2 titles for giggles. Scaler used to be in every store I went to and it just looked so bad lol
@@Zulf85 i don't recomend Metal Arms on PS2, that port has some terrible framerate issues and compressed sound, better go with the gamecube or xbox versions, unless you can't play those...
Just here to send love after seeing that not only was Kino's Journey used in that "your favorite anime" beat, but the 2003 one. Much respect for whoever's taste that reflected ♡
Looking at the title, I was sorta dreading but also hoping to see Haven: Call of the King discussed. It was in development around the same time as R&C though, so I wasn't giving you enough credit for maintaining accuracy. If anything, Haven is a 'what if Beyond Good and Evil didn't abandon its ambition to have interplanetary exploration and was a platformer' (though it predates that game too). Its one game I feel is okay to admire on ambition alone ('cos otherwise it's not great); Gamehut (the channel of Haven's director) did a video on it titled '"No Man's Sky" on PS2 at 60 FPS' and it's not as clickbaity as you'd think.
It's sweet to see a comment that knows of Haven and looks positively on it, even if it's not on gameplay aspect. I would like to add that Haven's concept art direction and soundtrack are fantastic and really worth looking up.
Haven is so insane for the hardware. Open ended environments at a stable 60fps with seamless interplanetary travel to planets with procedural generation. Even Naughty Dog and Insomniac would be impressed. It's a shame the game itself isn't that good. I admire the ambition in creating something with such a vast scope that wanting to seamlessly blend multiple genres and playstyles into one game.
The first thing that came to my mind was the Disney movie tie in game G-force. I don't think it has the same vibe as Ratchet but the gameplay reminded me a lot of the franchise.
Have you played Sunset Overdrive? It was that Xbox One exclusive that Insomniac made. There's a PC port too, though the game feels like it was made for a controller. The movement is pretty input heavy, and constantly pressing various keys for both traversal and evasion cramps the hell out of my hand after a while. I bought it on Steam a while back, and it's pretty good stuff. The combat feels almost the same as Ratchet and Clank, and the basic gameplay loop revolves around using the movement system to navigate through an open world that's basically just a big-ass, grind rail combat arena full of collectibles. You fight swarms of enemies while you try to keep your movement combos going. Higher combo ratings activate a variety of buffs, which you can freely mix and match to suit your preferred method of play. The weapons are just as over the top as Ratchet and Clank, and they can also be leveled up and customized with interchangeable weapon mods. If you've played Ratchet Deadlocked, it's the exact same weapon system. It lays most of its cards on the table up front. The core gameplay loop in hour 1 isn't that much different from hour 100. Sure, you'll get better at it, more efficient and flexible as you get familiar with the mechanics, but if you aren't the type of person that would spend hours just messing around with a game solely for its mechanics, you'll likely find it to be an extremely repetitive experience sooner or later. It's got charm and a sarcastic edge that I liked, but humor is subjective and I didn't replay the game for the jokes. There's tons of collectibles and treasure maps to make finding them easier, but the sheer volume of challenge missions to do make the game a hard pass if you're the completionist type. I'm not saying you won't enjoy the game if it doesn't immediately hook you, but think of it this way; If you played Skate 2 or 3, SSX, or the old Tony Hawk games, did you spend a few hours playing them or a few *hundred* hours playing them? And yeah.. it's basically Tony Hawk's Pro Shooter, and it's got the vibe that it was a passion project for Insomniac. Jump good, flip, bounce, vault, grind, wall run, air dash... just keep the combo going and keep shooting. If it's your style, it's a good time. A warning for those who are curious about trying it, there's a notification bug on the Steam version. Every time you open the main menu, a note pops up about corrupted save data. The corrupted data takes up a slot and can't really be deleted (it just pops back up again every time I've gone back to the main menu), but my actual save files haven't been corrupted... yet. I completed the campaign and DLC stories, the side missions, and a few optional challenges, and spent at least few dozen hours just wandering around with no issue. Maybe someone smarter than me can explain what's causing the bug, but it never impacted my experience in a way that actually mattered to me, so I just ignored that shit. Still, other's have claimed to have lost their saves, so I don't want to assume it's just nothing if it's possible that I was just lucky.
I got scaler and ruff trigger mostly blindly with ruff I had most investment in; not because it was an awesome game, but because it had platforming, and catchy music (not memorable music though). I am a sucker for that.
Heck yeah! Greet to see someone who also knows of Kya. Though it's more in line with Rayman than Ratchet and Clank, i'd say. It's a solid and fun game with good ideas despite it being quite rough on certain points. I'd love to see it get a new chance and live up more to the potential it has.
Hey yo, it’s a fan of your content - I really love discovering weird, oddly cool and unusual games that I never experienced growing up. Metal Arms was a nice inclusion with GC turning 20. 😭 Thanks man for all the work you put into these!
I actually own Metal Arms; and have completed it. So yeah. Never really saw it as a R+C clone [It had more vehicle focus and predated R+C3 which added a lot more vehicle focus]. But yeah... it's kinda the Dark Souls of 3D Jump-n-Gunners Also; do you REALLY want a Metal Arms remaster considering Activision-Blizzard own it and their track record...
If you had the rights to the Metal Arms IP, Austin, what would you do with it? Remake, remaster, or sequel? Would you hire a team to work on it, write it, and play test it? How far would you be willing to take this?
Metal Arms was one of my very first Multiplayer experiences and it's a game I come back to every now and then. How do we live in a world where Bubsy gets a modern sequel but Metal Arms doesn't even get a remaster?
Biomutant would've been accepted if published as an indie title by the developers, but since THQ actually published the game, it got appropriately shit on for such a high pricetag for such a small game.
Metal Arms I'd never heard of until Square Eyed Jak picked it up and I loved what I saw. Scaler is a favourite of mine. Sure it's safe but the levels, the transformations, the grinding which Ratchet games never get close to in speed which are really challenging and more really do it for me. Monsters Inc Scare Island, Scaler and Wet (not sure about Jersey Devil as Behaviour Entertainment which they are now again due to A2M name) I feel were their best, the rest were alright or bad flash game to DS ports. Having played Scaler with lowest health of 3, 1 bomb and only 1 camoflauge upgrade (no damage, more bombs, more camp time or so upgrades) as a hard mode just like the Ratchet games with no armour it's an interesting time. Skylar and Plux was alright for an indie title even if short. Was not expecting Biomutant in this video. I always saw it as a Darksiders successor where Darksiders 3 was Dark Souls, Genesis was another isometric rpg and Darksiders 2 needed a better follow up from its RPG open world approach besides being games published by THQ. But I do see the similarities which is probably why I also enjoyed it. To me it did the world features, vehicles and otherwise I just wanted that most open worlds never did it for me. Biomutant deserves more and the reviewers were just db about it. If Biomutant impressed and most AAAs made me snooze it says enough to me for AA and Indies. When Rift Apart disappointed and I appreciated 2016 more even with its issues yeah. Ruff Trigger yeah. It's rough alright. It tries but yeah I couldn't get it running through emu and Nitro Rad's review made it clear. I'm interested to try it compared to Iridium Runners. Curious if Blinx, or Sphinx (even if more a Zelda clone) counts.
How was RA disappointing? The only major complaints I have are maybe it being $70 (not counting sales), arena challenges being overall basic with a few exceptions and lack of new enemy types during the second half but that makes up for it with it's great battlefield design and noticable challenge increase in years which the series hasn't really had since Deadlocked exterminator spread throughout the game instead specific sections. Also I'm curious on what makes you appreciate 2016 more after playing it? I mean I only compare that game to the original when it comes to any improvements with the exceptions being the gadgebot puzzles being what GCs should've been.
Oh dear. I bought Skylar and Plux on both Steam and Playstation out of 3D platformer love but have yet to play them and didn't know about their odd removal.
I remember back in the day hearing about another Ratchet and Clank style game being the licensed game Chicken Little: Ace in Action, a game based off the in-universe film of the titular Disney movie. Never played it myself, but apparently it was a decent game for the time and had Adam West as the titular Ace. Maybe that could be in another Disney games video if you haven't already covered it before.
So I was at the whim of whatever my parents and brother bought me for videogames when I was a kid, so I actually had Scaler and had never played Rachet and Clank. I actually had some fond memories of this game, and little kid me was really invested in the mediocre story, which is why I also hated the game because the ending was really abrupt and tragic. But the game was a lot of fun to play lol
I love the Itallian Spiderman sort of stink Scaler and Rough Trigger generate. You can tell lots of Ketamine was required to keep up with Ratchet and Clank in the mid 2000s
I remember Acme Arsenal not being terrible on the Wii but I was literally testing out for about an hour or so a day just various shovelware games that were burned onto wii discs to play.
I never though about Ratchet and Clank clone games, though I grew up playing metal arms on the original xbox and obviously never beat the game, but I never beat ratchet and clank size matters back then either (I have now). And I totally agree with you that we need a metal arms remake or remaster since that game was so unique. I have played all the ratchet and clank games multiple times and I agree with you that the 2016 ratchet game is amazing even though they butchered the original story for the game.
This is kinda an off the topic comment , but since this year is ending and I got more reflective of everything . But is kinda funny seeing how the time passes by First time I watched Austin ,I think the channel was named Boku No Eruption (and have a Arcadea thing I guess ?) Austin have a blonde hair and a pink one after , and now he is looking more a young dad XD But looks aside it's really awesome to acompany you through all those years Stay safe and Happy Holidays !
What makes me sad is we may never see a Scaler 2 EVEN THO THE ENDING WAS LEFT SO COMPLETELY OPEN It saddens me so much because Scaler had so much potential
really surprised you didnt talk about robots based on the 2005 movie. its on pc, gamecube, ps2 and og xbox. its literally ratchet and clank 1 with the serials filed off. ironically the main villain is even named ratchet.
Thanks Austin for not completely destroying it cause it's a pretty good game and so much hate doesn't make sense i mean hate on hate but yeah thanks man
The problem with Biomutant was that it was kinda marketed as a AAA game or with AAA quality, it also had a AAA price, so when people played it and saw that it was not true at all, they got kinda mad about it, and well, they were right in being mad. I think if it was marketed as an indie game or something below AAA the game would be more well received
I remember playing Skylar and Plux, but I couldn't finish it because of a bug. I reached a level in like a fabric or similar with conveyor belts. There you have to solve the typical reflection of ray/light puzzle. The problem is that the objects I need to move to solve the puzzle are not there. So I cannot complete the level at all. I tried to let them know via Twitter, but they never solved this. It's a pity, because the game is quite fun.
I love Scaler. I think the debut voice role of my boi Matthew Mercer. Also I unapologetically adore Biomutant, and i would argue it’s as much like BOTW as R&C. Also has some elements of Legend of Kay, a Zelda clone/hack and slash platformer also owned by THQ like Biomutant, that I love and basically no one else has played it.
What other series should I do Clones videos on?
HARD MODE - Not Pokemon
2D Legend of Zelda clones, maybe?
Or Mega Man?
I’d love to see a Clones video on Mario Kart. I don’t remember if you did one already
Zelda.
Mario Kart.
God of War
f-zero
How about Legend of Zelda clones or clone-likes?
“Robots: The Movie Game”
definitely feels like a Ratchet & Clank clone. Your melee weapon is a wrench and you collect bolts as currency. You have a little robot companion similar to Clank.
well in robots, EVERYONE is a robot, so bolt being currency is just normal lmao
@@monotone2256 I’m just saying he mentioned “Metal Arms: Glitch In The System” and that has robots in it too.
The villain's even named Ratchet, like come on!
banger game
Definitely enjoyed that one. Playing it now feels dated tbh, but the soundtrack was amazing, and it was quite the fun experience back then.
Didn’t realize there were enough R&C clones that could fill a whole video, definitely has me pretty curious.
Most of these games don’t even really fit this “criteria.” Most of them are just platformers without any real resemblance to Ratchet & Clank.
@@lenarmangum8630 I could kind of see it.
There are more that he didn't include
Which ones???
Can we appreciate that the little circles in Scaler are like PNGs that have transparency, but the transparency can overlap other circles and removes the parts of the circle below it?
I was thinking the exact same thing, like, it's just a small detail, but for god's sake couldn't someone polish this? Or would it take too much effort?
I could be mistaken but I think that might be an emulator thing? I could be mistaken as I haven't played Scaler in a very long time (I actually played Scaler before Ratchet and Clank... XD) but I remember it looking fine on console, but again that was a looooong time ago so I could be easily misremembering!
@@TheDominusIgnis I looked up a bunch of different gameplay videos for it on youtube and they all seem to have that issue. Don't think its the emulator this time.
Everything about Scaler feels peak early 2000s and I am all for it.
Twitter guy hello
The name reminds me a lot of Zapper, the Wicked Cricket
Scaler is awesome. I wish it sold better to become a series
I bought it on a whim alongside a bunch of PS2 games years ago. Got it for about 3 bucks and it's pretty good for it being a nothing game with no history or legacy at all.
Peak 6th generation 3d platforming (or the opposite of peak). Where every company wanted nothing more than making a mascot for the PS2. Tak, Ty, Kao the Kangaroo, and many many others that I can't remember right now, it feels like every month a new mascot 3d platformer was coming out on PS2 and Xbox.
"If you're a dude with another dude on your back and you like to shoot things...." Ratchet is a Banjo-Kazooie clone.
As is Jak and Dakter.
And to think Banjo itself was basically a Mario 64 clone with the standout feature being a buddy system coming from their previous creation DKC, whose developers used their Banjo engine to create their 64-bit DKC entry but ripped out its buddy system in favor of a ball and chain that forces you to play half the game 5 times per playthrough, then buried it with their next Banjo game bringing with it the triumphant return of the buddy system with much-reduced split-up multi-character retreading sections.
They are the makers of Spyro which is also another buddy platformer.
Jesus, Ruff Trigger. I remember that a friend of mine had it and hyped me up to play it. I never played Ratchet and Clank, so had no idea that it was a rip-off of something else. I also remember seeing a magazine at the time giving it a 6/10 and calling it generic. When I told my friend about it, he went nuts "GENERIC? OH OK, THEY CALL A GAME WITH ALL THESE COOL GUNS GENERIC, BUT THE SIMS, WHICH IS JUST PEOPLE GETTING FED, GETS A SUPER HIGH SCORE!" 😂😂😂 the Playstation 2, early 2000's childhoods...
Feeding people is really fun though.
To be fair, he is both right and wrong. In terms of playing a shooter versus a sandbox life game, yeah the shooter might be more exciting. But also the Sims has stuff like random aliens and other crazy stuff too, and Ruff Trigger is in retrospect terrible compared to other games. But considering what you mentioned and implied about the media you two had consumed at that point, I totally understand your friend. It just is amusing looking back at stuff and finding the uneducated logic of children and nostalgia even of mediocre games. I mean, I liked stuff like Spore Arena on DS, and played and beat Soul Calibur V and loved it despite it being not very liked in the fanbase. Opinions are fun because people can like a game regardless of if it is any good or not.
@@robxholicfoxyfan8552 I had Spore Arena as a kid too.
Lol, did that friend ever owned or played an R&C game?
No one ever talks about how Scaler was an early starring role for Matthew Mercer. That fact alone deserves more attention.
Matthew Mercer?? Oh worth it
Never did I ever think Metal Arms would get a proper shoutout. That game was HARD AS HELL but I enjoyed every minute of it!
I loved that game. I played it and Vexx all the damn time on my Game Cube
Oh my god someone remembered metal arms that thing was the bomb i still have it
I need a remake so badly
Its so much easier to be negative about games to sell your youtube content. So i love, LOVE that you look for the good in every game bud. Subscribed
I was so happy when you mentioned Metal Arms and spoke positively of it. I love that game to death. Definitely needs a remaster or rerelease
Metal Arms lives on in the modding scene
It so hard tho i remember struggling alot with it but it was super fun
Love Ratchet and Clank!
So sad that they never got as popular as they deserve to be, a crack in time is one of my favorite video game experiences ever.
I'm pretty sure he is popular in PlayStation eras
idk about you but ratchet is and was always prettty popular?
Crack In Time is my favourite R&C game too
Check out Onirism people, it's a game that's like A Hat in Time meets Ratchet and Clank.
It's still in early access but the devs are very active and the game has a lot of modes that gives you so much to do.
Onirism ? Didn't know Onision started a religion.
Yes, Great game!
Its amazing what they already have, and what else they have in mind.
Glad to know Austin is also a pretty huge Ratchet fan such as myself, btw my profile pic is a photo of me and Ratchet’s voice actor, James Arnold Taylor.
Sony *had* a lot of memorable and quality mascots. Ratchet, Jak, Sly, Spyro, Crash and Sir Dan all come to mind immediately. Sony just does fuck all to actually support these franchises.
I'm not saying that releasing endless shovelware spinoffs Nintendo style is the correct answer, but Christ almighty did Sony let a lot of IPs slip through their fingers. It's mind boggling.
@@Sorrior spike
Too bad Sony shutdown Japan studio who was making more of playstation unique games
@@Sorriortrue
Insomniac NEVER owned ANY percentage of Spyro, Naughty Dog NEVER owned ANY percentage of Crash Bandicoot....I don't know why people keep farting that out, BOTH were owned by Vivendi/Universal Interactive Entertainment. Naughty Dog was not owned by Sony yet when Universal hired them to make Crash Bandicoot games and Insomniac to make Spyro games...
Its not letting something slip through your fingers when you own ZERO percent of an IP owned by a company who then merged with Activision.
@@lutherheggs451 ok what about sly and jack huh?
If it wasn’t for them being bought by Sony, I would’ve loved to see Imsomniac get the reigns to do their own take on a Nintendo IP.
They actually made an Xbox One exclusive in the form of Sunset Overdrive.
Given what happen with the MLB series (the latest one was released on the Xbox one, despite being published by playstation studios) that could actually happen if Sony and Nintendo weren't at each others throats constantly.
@@icravedeath.1200 Sony & Nintendo are actually teamed up to copyright strike all Earthbound music on UA-cam.
@@Nathan-rb3qp Definitely the most Playstation game not on Playstation I can think of in recent years. Sunset Overdrive was pretty fun, especially the traversal, I'm big on that type of thing.
@@icravedeath.1200 NO. NO it wouldn't. MLB The Show was published on other platforms because the MLB FORCED the game to go multiplat, it was either make it for other platforms or lose the MLB license....
"oPeN wOrLd GaMeS wItH UpGrAdEs MuSt Be A rAcHeT & ClAnK cLoNe"
Not even a handful of them had R&C vibes, I'm actually surprised spyro wasn't on here at this point.
Glitch to me looks less like Clank and more like a Scopedog from the 80s mecha anime Armored Trooper Votoms.
Scaler looks more like Jak n Daxter, even some animations are the same.
"Hmm, Scaler kind of looks like a Sonic knockoff, but I guess he's kind of dif..."
"Racing sections in the ball form!"
lol
Considering Activision now owns Metal Arms, literally the only chance you'll ever see Glitch again is as a charm in COD Warzone. Fun thought, eh?
7:21 HUH. Never thought that he Dead by daylight Devs would have made a Ratchet clone back in day, but it's always fun to see the weird stuff that studios have made in their old days.
Actually, Skylar and plux future is kinda... interesting, the franchise in itself isn't "dead", they annouced a reboot last year and every once in a while there's some crumb of information about it, like new screenshots or the new name (it is called skylar's adventure now i think), their twitter seems to be quite active and theres a official discord if anyone wants to look more into it.
Great vid as always. The Robots Movie Video Game was a Ratchet & Clone and so was Wallace and Grommit: Project Zoo
Robots I can see why but what makes Project Zoo a R&C clone?
15:38 lmao it's literally the same animation from jak and daxter when they get a power cell
Just something I noticed is that in that clip of skylar at about 15:30 the animation they do for getting that orb is almost exactly like jak n daxter when you get a power cell.
Granted, I was young when I played it, but as a ratchet and clank fan, I absolutely LOVED the Phineas and Ferb Movie game. It was totally a co-op ratchet and clank clone which worked super well for the series because the fun guns you got to use with the invention vibe of the show so well. Fun times man
Finally someone mentioned it. I finished that game in 1 day and loved every minute of it
My brother and I got Biomutant at launch. We didn't have Ratchet and Clank to compare it to, but the cracks still showed quite a bit over the course of our playthroughs. One of the problems I noticed was that they've got all of these cool weapons and powers, but you can melt anything and everything almost instantly by just using an auto-rifle. They had comparable per-hit damage to other weapons, but had far superior rapid fire. I also thought it felt odd the way everybody talks about you trying to preserve life, while you go around slaughtering almost everything that breathes until you've turned the world into a lifeless wasteland. It had some cool elements that I did like, but it also admittedly did have a lot of flaws.
I remember playing the G-Force game years ago (the one based on the Disney movie, with the special agent guinea pigs), and back then, it really felt like a Ratchet & Clank game to me. I don't know how accurate that feeling actually was, but all the platforming/puzzles/gunplay pieces were there. Never had a chance to revisit it, but always wanted to.
Metal Arms was better than I expected going in and definitely deserved a sequel. As for scaler I remember liking when renting it as a kid but when I emulated via dolphin a few years ago I could barely play it for over an hour, there's just something... really not interesting about it and that could definitely be down to its characters and lack of originality but it sure as hell shits on ruff trigger that's for sure (like every other game in this vid except for arguably acme arsenal).
When you said PS2 ratchet & clank clones, my first thought went to Whiplash. A game a rented once at blockbuster and remember enjoying. It's about a a weasel who is attached to a rabbit by a cable, and the rabbit is indestructible. So you use the rabbit as a weapon and such to escape and bankrupt the laboratory that held you.
This is 100% real 😆 god I miss the PS2 days.
I remember the game based on the Robots movie from 2005 was very heavily "inspired" by Ratchet and Clank. Like I loved that game as a kid and wanted more, despite never being able to finish it. Then I played the Ratchet and Clank reboot as an adult (that being my first proper experience with the series outside of All 4 One and the demo of Deadlocked) and realized "holy shit this is just like that Robots game".
I never understood the Biomutant coping. I don't care if the dev team or the budget is smaller. If you're charging $60 for a game make it not a buggy mess and make it worth playing.
I grew up playing Scaler. It's definitely the nostalgia talking, but I've always loved it to pieces
One game I feel is very Ratchet & Clank-esque is Phineas & Ferb: Across the Second Dimension. It's closer to All-4-One than the main games, but it hits very similar beats as you play as cartoony characters in a futuristic setting with all sorts of crazy weapons.
Hell, All-4-One could have its own video about clones given how it seemed to be a very popular style of game at the time. SpongeBob and Disney also had games in that style
Ratchet and Clank came out 2002. Phineas and Ferb started 2007
@@playerback7722 Yeah? That's why I mentioned the game as a Ratchet & Clank clone. I know it came after
Across the Second Dimension was made by the studio that made Size Matters and suddenly things make a lot more sense
Finally someone mentioned the Phineas & Ferb movie game. That game is a gem
I didn't look at the credit lists myself but I get the feeling a bunch of that people who worked on Metal Arms also went to work on OverWatch
Interesting
For clones of Ratchet & Clank, didn't expect to see more hits than misses. may try -to emulate- a few, even
I still fire up my PS2 on the reg and just picked up Metal Arms for myself for like £3.50. Gutted I've not heard of it until now - I would have got a kick out of it back in the day. Being that I have a chipped PS2 though, I am going to download a couple of the other PS2 titles for giggles. Scaler used to be in every store I went to and it just looked so bad lol
@@Zulf85 i don't recomend Metal Arms on PS2, that port has some terrible framerate issues and compressed sound, better go with the gamecube or xbox versions, unless you can't play those...
FINALLY someone is talking about Metal Arms! It's such a fantastic game, more people need to play it.
Just here to send love after seeing that not only was Kino's Journey used in that "your favorite anime" beat, but the 2003 one. Much respect for whoever's taste that reflected ♡
Looking at the title, I was sorta dreading but also hoping to see Haven: Call of the King discussed. It was in development around the same time as R&C though, so I wasn't giving you enough credit for maintaining accuracy.
If anything, Haven is a 'what if Beyond Good and Evil didn't abandon its ambition to have interplanetary exploration and was a platformer' (though it predates that game too). Its one game I feel is okay to admire on ambition alone ('cos otherwise it's not great); Gamehut (the channel of Haven's director) did a video on it titled '"No Man's Sky" on PS2 at 60 FPS' and it's not as clickbaity as you'd think.
It's sweet to see a comment that knows of Haven and looks positively on it, even if it's not on gameplay aspect.
I would like to add that Haven's concept art direction and soundtrack are fantastic and really worth looking up.
Haven is so insane for the hardware. Open ended environments at a stable 60fps with seamless interplanetary travel to planets with procedural generation. Even Naughty Dog and Insomniac would be impressed.
It's a shame the game itself isn't that good. I admire the ambition in creating something with such a vast scope that wanting to seamlessly blend multiple genres and playstyles into one game.
The first thing that came to my mind was the Disney movie tie in game G-force. I don't think it has the same vibe as Ratchet but the gameplay reminded me a lot of the franchise.
I loved the movie but I haven’t played the game even if I favorited on PlayStation Now
What about the Phineas & Ferb game on PS3?
Have you played Sunset Overdrive? It was that Xbox One exclusive that Insomniac made. There's a PC port too, though the game feels like it was made for a controller. The movement is pretty input heavy, and constantly pressing various keys for both traversal and evasion cramps the hell out of my hand after a while. I bought it on Steam a while back, and it's pretty good stuff.
The combat feels almost the same as Ratchet and Clank, and the basic gameplay loop revolves around using the movement system to navigate through an open world that's basically just a big-ass, grind rail combat arena full of collectibles. You fight swarms of enemies while you try to keep your movement combos going. Higher combo ratings activate a variety of buffs, which you can freely mix and match to suit your preferred method of play. The weapons are just as over the top as Ratchet and Clank, and they can also be leveled up and customized with interchangeable weapon mods. If you've played Ratchet Deadlocked, it's the exact same weapon system.
It lays most of its cards on the table up front. The core gameplay loop in hour 1 isn't that much different from hour 100. Sure, you'll get better at it, more efficient and flexible as you get familiar with the mechanics, but if you aren't the type of person that would spend hours just messing around with a game solely for its mechanics, you'll likely find it to be an extremely repetitive experience sooner or later. It's got charm and a sarcastic edge that I liked, but humor is subjective and I didn't replay the game for the jokes. There's tons of collectibles and treasure maps to make finding them easier, but the sheer volume of challenge missions to do make the game a hard pass if you're the completionist type. I'm not saying you won't enjoy the game if it doesn't immediately hook you, but think of it this way; If you played Skate 2 or 3, SSX, or the old Tony Hawk games, did you spend a few hours playing them or a few *hundred* hours playing them?
And yeah.. it's basically Tony Hawk's Pro Shooter, and it's got the vibe that it was a passion project for Insomniac. Jump good, flip, bounce, vault, grind, wall run, air dash... just keep the combo going and keep shooting. If it's your style, it's a good time.
A warning for those who are curious about trying it, there's a notification bug on the Steam version. Every time you open the main menu, a note pops up about corrupted save data. The corrupted data takes up a slot and can't really be deleted (it just pops back up again every time I've gone back to the main menu), but my actual save files haven't been corrupted... yet. I completed the campaign and DLC stories, the side missions, and a few optional challenges, and spent at least few dozen hours just wandering around with no issue. Maybe someone smarter than me can explain what's causing the bug, but it never impacted my experience in a way that actually mattered to me, so I just ignored that shit. Still, other's have claimed to have lost their saves, so I don't want to assume it's just nothing if it's possible that I was just lucky.
I finished that game. It's one of my favourites
I got scaler and ruff trigger mostly blindly with ruff I had most investment in; not because it was an awesome game, but because it had platforming, and catchy music (not memorable music though). I am a sucker for that.
4:13 I just noticed the guy on the right has the same head as the final boss you fight in the first Jak & Daxter game
That would explain why I haven't seen Skyler show up on my Steam wishlist in awhile during sales. Hopefully it returns. I'd like to try it.
we didn't get alot of Ratchet games on PS4 because Insomniac was too busy making Sunset Overdrive and Spider-man.
Made me of Kya: A Dark Linage. I definitely remember it as a underrated ps2 gem, with a lot of similarities to Ratchet and Clank / Jack and Daxter.
Heck yeah! Greet to see someone who also knows of Kya. Though it's more in line with Rayman than Ratchet and Clank, i'd say. It's a solid and fun game with good ideas despite it being quite rough on certain points. I'd love to see it get a new chance and live up more to the potential it has.
Scaler is still one of my favorite "platformers??" on the PS2. Still janky as hell, but I'm sucker for the transformations
My mom got me Metal Arms for $10 at Sam's Club for seemingly on a whim, and I absolutely loved it, despite how difficult it was.
I'm glad Ruff Trigger was mentioned, I was recommend it by a lady at a game store, and I couldn't of been more disappointed when I got home.
Hey yo, it’s a fan of your content - I really love discovering weird, oddly cool and unusual games that I never experienced growing up. Metal Arms was a nice inclusion with GC turning 20. 😭 Thanks man for all the work you put into these!
I actually own Metal Arms; and have completed it. So yeah. Never really saw it as a R+C clone [It had more vehicle focus and predated R+C3 which added a lot more vehicle focus]. But yeah... it's kinda the Dark Souls of 3D Jump-n-Gunners
Also; do you REALLY want a Metal Arms remaster considering Activision-Blizzard own it and their track record...
As brief as it was, thank you for acknowledging Kino's Journey for a tiny bit!
Definitely try the Rango game on PS3/360. I was pleasantly surprised how much fun it was for a licensed game and a Ratchet and Clank clone.
"A racing mode in the ball form."
*Majora's Mask flashbacks*
If you had the rights to the Metal Arms IP, Austin, what would you do with it? Remake, remaster, or sequel? Would you hire a team to work on it, write it, and play test it? How far would you be willing to take this?
metal arms was so sick
Metal Arms was one of my very first Multiplayer experiences and it's a game I come back to every now and then. How do we live in a world where Bubsy gets a modern sequel but Metal Arms doesn't even get a remaster?
Biomutant would've been accepted if published as an indie title by the developers, but since THQ actually published the game, it got appropriately shit on for such a high pricetag for such a small game.
I love how the examples for insane guns you mentioned the top 3 most overused meme guns rather than some of the actual insane guns.
Metal Arms I'd never heard of until Square Eyed Jak picked it up and I loved what I saw.
Scaler is a favourite of mine. Sure it's safe but the levels, the transformations, the grinding which Ratchet games never get close to in speed which are really challenging and more really do it for me. Monsters Inc Scare Island, Scaler and Wet (not sure about Jersey Devil as Behaviour Entertainment which they are now again due to A2M name) I feel were their best, the rest were alright or bad flash game to DS ports. Having played Scaler with lowest health of 3, 1 bomb and only 1 camoflauge upgrade (no damage, more bombs, more camp time or so upgrades) as a hard mode just like the Ratchet games with no armour it's an interesting time.
Skylar and Plux was alright for an indie title even if short.
Was not expecting Biomutant in this video. I always saw it as a Darksiders successor where Darksiders 3 was Dark Souls, Genesis was another isometric rpg and Darksiders 2 needed a better follow up from its RPG open world approach besides being games published by THQ. But I do see the similarities which is probably why I also enjoyed it. To me it did the world features, vehicles and otherwise I just wanted that most open worlds never did it for me. Biomutant deserves more and the reviewers were just db about it. If Biomutant impressed and most AAAs made me snooze it says enough to me for AA and Indies. When Rift Apart disappointed and I appreciated 2016 more even with its issues yeah.
Ruff Trigger yeah. It's rough alright. It tries but yeah I couldn't get it running through emu and Nitro Rad's review made it clear. I'm interested to try it compared to Iridium Runners.
Curious if Blinx, or Sphinx (even if more a Zelda clone) counts.
How was RA disappointing? The only major complaints I have are maybe it being $70 (not counting sales), arena challenges being overall basic with a few exceptions and lack of new enemy types during the second half but that makes up for it with it's great battlefield design and noticable challenge increase in years which the series hasn't really had since Deadlocked exterminator spread throughout the game instead specific sections.
Also I'm curious on what makes you appreciate 2016 more after playing it? I mean I only compare that game to the original when it comes to any improvements with the exceptions being the gadgebot puzzles being what GCs should've been.
Its always a good evening when Austin posts
Oh dear. I bought Skylar and Plux on both Steam and Playstation out of 3D platformer love but have yet to play them and didn't know about their odd removal.
Be honest,
You were stuck in the Endwalker queues long enough to pump out this video, weren't you?
Good work as always Austin
Cheers
I remember back in the day hearing about another Ratchet and Clank style game being the licensed game Chicken Little: Ace in Action, a game based off the in-universe film of the titular Disney movie. Never played it myself, but apparently it was a decent game for the time and had Adam West as the titular Ace. Maybe that could be in another Disney games video if you haven't already covered it before.
I've played the first level and it was surprisingly fun
“Would you look at this dingus?” had me dying
I remember loving metal arms for the original xbox, I remember playing a demo and liking it so much I bought the game a day later.
So I was at the whim of whatever my parents and brother bought me for videogames when I was a kid, so I actually had Scaler and had never played Rachet and Clank.
I actually had some fond memories of this game, and little kid me was really invested in the mediocre story, which is why I also hated the game because the ending was really abrupt and tragic. But the game was a lot of fun to play lol
Glitch from Metal Arms looks like the lovechild of Vectorman and Clank.
I miss Vectorman. We need more Vectorman.
R&C was the shit back in the day. Definitely going to look into some of these!
I love the Itallian Spiderman sort of stink Scaler and Rough Trigger generate. You can tell lots of Ketamine was required to keep up with Ratchet and Clank in the mid 2000s
Aw dude, Scaler was a big part of my childhood. I'm happy to see someone finally talk about it.
I remember Acme Arsenal not being terrible on the Wii but I was literally testing out for about an hour or so a day just various shovelware games that were burned onto wii discs to play.
Shout out to blockbuster for allowing me to rent these games back in the day
So Rivet, beeing already a Ratchet clone is also a clone of a Ratchet's clone?
THANK YOU for mentioning Metal Arms! One of the greatest games ever made! So many hours spent playing with my brothers and friends!
Metal Arms was the fucking SHIT. Me and my brother played the HELL out of the multiplayer when I was a kid. So so so fun. I love that game to death.
That explains why Skylar & Plux never came to the Australian PSN store. A shame as I was really looking forward to playing it.
I never though about Ratchet and Clank clone games, though I grew up playing metal arms on the original xbox and obviously never beat the game, but I never beat ratchet and clank size matters back then either (I have now). And I totally agree with you that we need a metal arms remake or remaster since that game was so unique.
I have played all the ratchet and clank games multiple times and I agree with you that the 2016 ratchet game is amazing even though they butchered the original story for the game.
Holy shit I didn't even know I knew ruff trigger until you showed the cover but you dug it out of the deepest corner of my brain
I guess Bionicle Heroes would've been an interesting feature.
This is kinda an off the topic comment , but since this year is ending and I got more reflective of everything .
But is kinda funny seeing how the time passes by
First time I watched Austin ,I think the channel was named Boku No Eruption (and have a Arcadea thing I guess ?)
Austin have a blonde hair and a pink one after , and now he is looking more a young dad XD
But looks aside it's really awesome to acompany you through all those years
Stay safe and Happy Holidays !
Metal Arms is so good, but man is it hard
Your videos make me fall in love with my ps2 over and over again
10:08 that’s my all time favorite anime! Never thought I’d see it pop up randomly on UA-cam
7:05 speaking of that obvious joke they straight up changed the name of the company because of that.
What makes me sad is we may never see a Scaler 2 EVEN THO THE ENDING WAS LEFT SO COMPLETELY OPEN
It saddens me so much because Scaler had so much potential
really surprised you didnt talk about robots based on the 2005 movie. its on pc, gamecube, ps2 and og xbox. its literally ratchet and clank 1 with the serials filed off. ironically the main villain is even named ratchet.
Metal arms Glitch in the system was one of my favorite games back in the day and it was defiantly super hard as a kid for me lol
3:00 Just 3 words, Metal Arms Reforged, guess you better be careful with what you wish for.
Thanks Austin for not completely destroying it cause it's a pretty good game and so much hate doesn't make sense i mean hate on hate but yeah thanks man
Scaler and Biomutant. I have both of them on my sights.
Holy shit, i thought I was the only person alive that played Ruff Trigger
The problem with Biomutant was that it was kinda marketed as a AAA game or with AAA quality, it also had a AAA price, so when people played it and saw that it was not true at all, they got kinda mad about it, and well, they were right in being mad. I think if it was marketed as an indie game or something below AAA the game would be more well received
I remember playing Skylar and Plux, but I couldn't finish it because of a bug. I reached a level in like a fabric or similar with conveyor belts. There you have to solve the typical reflection of ray/light puzzle. The problem is that the objects I need to move to solve the puzzle are not there. So I cannot complete the level at all. I tried to let them know via Twitter, but they never solved this. It's a pity, because the game is quite fun.
I love Scaler. I think the debut voice role of my boi Matthew Mercer.
Also I unapologetically adore Biomutant, and i would argue it’s as much like BOTW as R&C. Also has some elements of Legend of Kay, a Zelda clone/hack and slash platformer also owned by THQ like Biomutant, that I love and basically no one else has played it.
Scaler is more similar to first Jak and Dax game than Ratchet and Clank games but this is just my opinion ;)
Metal Arms is so awesome
I played that game so many times
Appreciate the Danganronpa V3 music near the end, I can still hear all my footsteps in the background
Lots of furries in Europe, Nordic & Germanic countries in particular. It’s insane.