Ratchet & Clank For Newcomers - Play Order - How To Get Started!
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- For people who want to experience more of Ratchet & Clank, this video may help. Many of you got introduced to the series with the PS4 re-imagining, maybe you’ve thought of getting into the series more.
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I love Deadlocked. :)
That and Going Commando are my favs
Deadlocked is second best in the series after rac 1
Deadlocked was pretty wack imo played all on release
You mean gladiators
Deadlocked/gladiator was great!! My brother and I used to play it together.
And then of course, ratchet & clank: rift apart on ps5 that was just announced earlier today
It looks so good!
Totally I really want to play all of the Ratchet and clank games even the future series too is it going to be nintendo switch beside PS4 is getting kind of old Ps5 is much better."
@@jefferson5669 nope, it won't. Insomniac is owned by PlayStation and Sony.
Im hyped for rift apart
@@CatSouls7 yeah but ratchet dont look very good
Man I really need ratchet and clank trilogy on the ps4
Many want the same, it'd be sweet.
if that happened then all i can say is Shut Up And Take My Money
@@AriesSpirit25 hahaha
They need to add Deadlocked and make it a quadrilogy
@@eyuin5716 exactly man idk why they haven’t ported all the ratchet games to next gen like how is everyone going to get into the story now if they can’t play from the beginning
secret agent clank has ratchet fighting in prison showers and when he gets hit his towel falls off, its vital
I think that Quest for Booty was great. I would still consider it as an essential part of the Future Saga. It doesn't take long to beat and it heavily features the robot space pirates and those guys are always entertaining.
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for the people who just want to see the list: 9:05
Thanks :D
VTNVIVI np man nice video
as a kid and this being a new game when it came out it was surprisingly much better than I thought it was gonna be.. I loved going from planet to planet and upgrading my ship and weapons and armour
Ive actually only played Deadlocked out of all of the games so far so this was quite helpful! That game was so much fun back in the day so giving the other games a try has been a longtime Coming.
Thanks for watching :)
'you can skip quest for booty' DON'T EVER SPEAK TO ME OR MY SON EVER AGAIN 😂
The original trilogy was a big part my childhood gaming and I’ve recently played through them again and want to play the rest.
Tools of destruction was my childhood apart from the ps4 one i have.
I've been getting back into the series since the newest one releases on PC next month and wanted to get my kids up to speed. This video explained everything I was wondering about so I dusted off the old ps3 and we're marathoning it.
Thanks for your help!
For Rift Apart, the most important ones are Tools of Destruction, A Crack in Time, and Into the Nexus, just because of the whole Dimensionator storyline, but the more the better.
The PS3 trilogy has some awful bugs too: as an example, the trash cans in Going Commando disappear when hit, and the slot machines have missing textures.
Ohhh :O
There is too much to say about this saga... The Ratchet PS4 game Will be the best Experience for an "expert" fan of the series, as there are Little and big "nostalgia eggs" that put a smile in your face.
Mainly, the Insomniac Museum.
GOD, this was a "caress to my Heart"... The First time that you unlock this, if you have grown up with this saga, is Simply a magic moment.
The hymn to Nostalgia in each corner of the museum.
😊😁
I might have to show this to my cousin. I’ve getting hooked to R&C.
Awesome!
"Skip deadlocked, play the reimagining"
*WHOT!?*
I know deadlocked has such fun gameplay
the 2016 rac was ass and probably gave new comers a terrible rac impression
Thanks for the guide, now I want to start playing the collection to Rift Apart.
My pleasure!
Me watching this eventho I've already played all the games multiple times ;)
:P
Ayeee same bro
I agree with pretty much everything you’ve explained loved the video only difference would be just to skip the 2016 remake since it’s not part of the original story it’s it’s own thing
Great video left a like and sub 👍
I'm a huge fan of the OG Ratchet and Clank Trilogy. I barely remember playing the Future games since it was such a long time ago, and I wanted to pick the series back up but saw some of these other games and didn't know if it was worth trying out for the sake of the overall story. This really helped out!
tbh now I think it's:
Ratchet and Clank Collection (Ratchet and Clank 2002, Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando, Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal)
Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction
Ratchet and Clank: Crack in Time
Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
Secret Agent Clank takes place after Size Matters but before Tools Of Destruction, so yes, there is at least one game that, lore wise, takes place before a game that came before it in release order.
I think that secret agent Clank is a dream that Clank has right before a Cranck in time.
I would not consider the PS2 games skippable at all. In order to FEEL the impact of Quest 4 Booty/Crack in Time's twist, and the return of a certain (overrated and overused) character, you MUST play Up Your Arse(nal). And to know how Ratchet and Clank MET, you MUST play the original. As a matter of fact, only Going Commando is really skippable.
But why would you skip the game with some of the best levels and story and music of the franchise? And even if you don't give a hoot about the plot, the levels and music alone is worth it.
If you want to experience more of R&C, go ahead and play the future saga they stand well on their own. As you said, if you want to know how the two met, start with the PS2 saga :)
“Evolutionized” also known as “evolved”
Lol I was taken back by that one too 🤣
Amazing vid dude!!! So concise, easy to understand, and well informed!!!
*deep breath* Ever since I finally finished moving and dug out my ps2 a few months ago, I have been scouring my used game/book store for hidden gems. One day, I found going commando and up your arsenal and I've suddenly been a r&c fan!!! (My fav is going commando by the way...) Im am now interested in most of the ps3 games and I just found most of these games for about less than $10 each!!! However, im waiting for when I can afford a pre-owned $80 ps3 and im not quite sure if getting the games first is a good idea, because I would have no way to see if they work without a console. So wish me luck on my own "quest for booty" as I look to complete my collection!!!!
That means a lot thank you! Have fun :)
I think you don't necessarily need to play them all in order, the orginal and future trilogies stand on their own for the most part, but do play in order if you have the chance. And probably just the main future saga including Into the Nexus if you just want the major story and lore up to this point. It's been 13 years since Tools came out, they could do another remaster collection of the future saga plus ITN for the PS5 for those who want to catch up with the story.
Technically, yeah.
To me, Ratchet & Clank 1, Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, Tools of Destruction and A Crack in Time are the ones that count the most.
Alright :D
i agree with this list. its good for newcomers who just want to get caught up in the overall story.my copy of nexus didnt come with the quest for booty code either. if i didnt have booty already i would have been pissed. i was lucky to get my hands on a physical version
Size matters and secret agent clank are available on the psvita
Thanks for pointing out the obvious dumbass 🙄😑
Classic Gamer do me a favor, shut the fuck up
I’ve been playing ratchet and clank sense I was a kid, mostly the first 3. I got size matters on my psp, but I’ve been wanting to play through them all sense I recently got a ps5, which with ps plus, allows most of the games. It’s good to know which ones I don’t need to play tho, I got all 4 one on my ps3 and was not a fan. I didn’t know much about full frontal assault so it’s good to know that’s a tower defense game I don’t need to play either. This video is 5 years old at this point but still thank you!
I own almost every Ratchet and Clank games and your list is top notch!
Glad you agree with the list :D
I honestly disagree that ratchet deadlocked is not important and didn't add anything.
For 1: this is where ratchet starts to REALLY mature the most in this game, sure he kinda did in going commando and up your arsenal, but it's more obvious in deadlocked imo. Hell, his deadlocked personality is pretty much the same as how his personality was in tools of destruction.
And 2: since most of the future series reference deadlocked, it is kinda a bit stupid to NOT include it as part of the main series imo.
And 3: deadlocked kinda felt more like a better ending of the original classic games then up your arsenal imo.
And a stupid reason of my own, it's kinda weird how the main series has to be 3 classic games and 4 future games (Tod, qfb, acit and itn), cuz it feels... off, it feels better if the classic series has to end with 4 games, just like how the future games ended with 4 gamas as well just so it felt more balance.
size matters and secret agent clank is a canon, I think size matters take place after Ratchet & Clank 1.. while secret agent clank takes place during Ratchet & Clank 3 because clank is an actor and has a tv show that time. Sorry for my bad english
I totally agree with you on Ratchets design in acit! I love it so much, it's my fave~ I like it the most out of all the games and also much more than the PS4 version. I just think he looks more realistic in acit
:D
In a crack in time ratchet looks so good and the new designs after it looks not so good in the reboot and now in rift apart ratchet looks not like a ratchet i think i hope the game feels right. and the humor is the same.
Personally I'd say: First three games on PS2 to avoid the glitches, then TOD along with QFB (it's short but very enjoyable, and has a brilliant pirate-style atmosphere, creative grind rail sections and good humour) and then obviously ACIT. Then Nexus I guess, but I still can't bring myself to play that one for some reason. But anyway, I honestly think QFB doesn't get enough credit, but I just wish it was longer because overall it was pretty strong in my opinion. The story still makes sense if you leave it out though
To give update because we got the game that released on PS5 and could say that can still play in release order for all games, BUT will admit for PS5 game. It should be played AFTER Into the Nexus AND then the Reboot just because the 2016 game on PS4 from what we can tell. It isn't canon at all. The movie looks like it ain't canon either since it is the movie tie-in to the game. So, for people that want to play the canon games. Play what listed in this video and THEN the PS5 game. The PS4 game and movie tie-in are completely optional. So can play the PS4 game and watch the movie tie-in. If you want to, but it not required.
You know the only R&C game that needs a remaster/remake(like crash) is Size Matters, that game has many interesting things, but because it was a portable game it didnt look or even play as good as the ps2 games.
PSP remasters? Hmm.... A team would have to contact Sony.
Ratchet and clank size matters is a good but it certainly doesn't deserve a remake 🙄😑
I would argue that size matters isn't a cannon game mostly for the fact that everyone in this game acts so out of character it really just doesn't make me believe it really happened in the story line.
16K my dude :D
+BASSUB :D
VTNVIVI hey garen nice video and hey jake everyone loves the remastered ratchet and clank game on ps4
Some like to consider ITN part of the future saga due to its similarities to ToD and ACiT.
Nice timeline explanation of the Ratchet & Clank series. Hopefully we'll see a new Ratchet and Clank game in the upcoming future.
Thank you :D. A new game will surely happen, but not for a while.
Your welcome. Then I'll be patiently waiting then.
That time has come
I played the games in this order
1.ratchet and clank (2002)
2.crack in time
3.ratchet and clank (2016)
4.Rift apart
I know know it’s horrible but im literally buying them all on ps3 rn so i can live the childhood I should have had.
(I played the first game when i was 4)
The first three are my holy trinity. I've beaten them all over and over so many times!
I feel ya!
Great video! I played the first one on PS2 at a friend’s house when it first released. I just bought a PS3 and all the games and ready to jump head first into the series and this was a big help - especially the parts on which games to delay playing
While I generally agree with the list, I gotta say my own little twist on it. if you do play 'Up your Arsenal' or R&C3. You then DO have to play Deadlocked/Gladiator. The game in of itself doesn't add much to lore on its own story but it does actually reinforce a few things from both 3 and some insight info from one. Not to mention it does also leave an ever so brief snippet that does kinda lead to the future series.
I say only do so if you play three thought because the events take place pretty quickly afterwards. If you skip three, then you can afford to skip it.
These links and details are NOT critical to know, but if you do want to know some minor details in the R&C universe and how things flowed, deadlocked does actually support things despite being an arena based game. The point I'll use most is returning to Orxon. The Blarg homeworld from R&C1 that Drek devastated for his plans of financial gain, its state has worsened even more so against the odds and that's before being tampered with by the hosts of Deadlocked/Gladiator. It really shows just how messed up the corruption was and that had Ratchet and Clank failed. Drek's new world would have already likely became what Orxon once was during our time in R&C1 by now and that what we saw originally was only the starting process of its death.
Gladiator is great! The re-imagining is just how Quark imagines things happened. It is not that the original timeline alters.
The only one I own is Size Matters on PS2 and it took me years to beat it. I remember when I went to buy it, they accidentally gave me Going Commando instead and i had to go back to get the right one. I also played a little bit of Future Tools of Destruction. When I want to get into a new game series, I want to play at least the main games in release order, regardless of story.
CrashSlySonic 777 The PS2 port of that game was bad.
LikeABossDude Not from my experience.
Anyways, the story is already chronological :)
CrashSlySonic 777 It has worse framerates and technical issues.
@@MadDogSolo I tend to tolerate those types of things so I really don't care for that.
Yeah the Deadlocked PS3 port is pretty bad, but it's playable aside from ingame cutscene frameskips (plus that helmet glitch in that one cutscene) and having fps drops in places which never happened in the ps2 version, sucks that they fucked up the local co-op even though I never got to try it with a friend on either the ps2 or ps3. Also size matters is...interesting, on its own it's a decent handheld R&C game with a neat customization armor system but it's pretty unbalanced near the end of the game and has a lot of flaws in areas but I still enjoyed it. As for Secret agent clank not so much, it was just meh/mediocre and really unfocused gameplay wise with shitty stealth segments and minigames and I honestly think it's the worst R&C game and the story is definitely worse than FFA/Q-Force.
I believe the only reason they 'allowed' that Gladiator port to even come out was because the gameplay is actually fine (what matters most), it's the in engine cutscenes that are glitched up. (although yea I heard the co-op has more framedrops on PS3). And I think there's a reason it wasn't public download at first and was only 'free' during the launch, so only the people that bought the new game who would probably be a bit less likely to complain at the time lol.
Funnily enough, I'm running Deadlocked on my high end PC right now in an emulator and it looks....a lot better than the PS3 port. In fact I managed to mess with the rendering settings to pretty much minimize any minor visual glitches and the cutscenes look great with in-engine upscaling to 4K. And the gameplay is great fun of course. If you want to play Deadlocked and you have a good PC I highly recommend this method.
@@GeorgePerakis I'm not surprised lol, especially with the recent 1.6.0 update being a major improvement over 1.4.0.
I think this simplified things pretty well i started at the ps4 remake never played the originals growing up and as I was looking for them I noticed so many of them are ether very hard to find or very expensive your video simplified my list way better then it was originally so thanks I knew there where spin offs or random versions that where just not important I just didnt know what ones this helped 😁
I prefer the European ToD and CinT covers...
Same here.
you don't need to play Ratchet & clank 2016 since that is a reboot if you wanna play them in order for story all you really need is 1,2,3 and then the future series
I play every single ratchet game besides secret agent clank, to me personally after watching this, I still think that size matters is still a spin off, ima replay the 2016 one to make sure but their was nothing that hinted to them going to that universe in any other game, as well as deadlock but that took place after “up your arsenal”. I went by the run count all these years, if the number was on it, then it was cannon but I was a kid until the 2016 one dropped so now I’m digging into the timeline😂
secret agent clank is one of clank's secret agent clank films from the 3rd game. just a theory
Marinecorpgaming it is supposed to be a Dream that clank has before waking up in a Crack in time
Either that or the Clank's dream theory at the great clock :)
Marinecorpgaming A Game Theory Thanks for watching
minor adjustment:
R&C
Going Commando
Up Your Arsenal
Deadlocked
Tools
Quest for Booty
Crack in Time
Nexus
Quest for Booty and Nexus are short but really good. Definitely play the PS2 games if you can they're significantly better thematically and comedically imo and they're really worth the time. 2016 remake is very skippable if youve played RAC 1 imo, it feels pretty hollow after that
Thanks for sharing :D
Good Taste Order®, see below:
Chronological, but skip Size Matters, Secret Agent Clank, All 4 One, Full Frontal Assault, Ratchet & Clank PS4.
NotOrdinaryInGames yes skip them
My personal theory is that the Secret Agent Clank game is a reboot movie of the Secret Agent Clank series from UYA/ 3, this is why are there differences like Ratchet playing himself instead of Jeeves.
long ago i started with tools of destruction i still wanna play in order in one go
I REALLY Got Into It Because Of The Rift Apart Trailer & Bought The 2016 Reimagining Game & Played It On My Channel… & MY GOD!! IT'S SO FUN & BEAUTIFUL 🧡 XD
Im glad ratchet and clank are still around but I do miss the old ps2 mascot platformer days.
In tools of destruction if you enter the code to get ratchets convict out fit his outfit reads SZMTRZ it most likely is a reference to size matters in tools of destruction
Yes it is :)
Another generation, another marathon. I'll marathon the game when Rift Apart gets a release date.
I only played the first one fully and a little bit of Size Matters. Started going through them now to get ready for Rift Apart. Currently halfway through Going Commando. I wanna play all of them before Rift Apart.
My very first game of ratchet and clank was all 4 one and i love that game. Now i have every single ratchet and clank game.. even the psp spin-offs
Go figure, only a couple months after this the remake became free on PS+ for a month.
Yep :P
Thanks for this video! I almost forgot the order and I hope for the new game soon!
No problem :)
New game coming next year :-)
I started off on Tools of Destruction and it will forever be my childhood PS3
Ratchet&Clank 3 is my favourite game of the franchise
Deadlocked was a big change and a bit repetitive but wasn't a bad game I really liked "Up your arsenal"
I love Deadlocked!!! Especially co-op.
i recently ordered ratchet & clank 1-3 after playing the ps4 game
I disagree that anyone should ever skip the ps2 games. Even tho crack in time is my favorite game ever, you really won’t care about the characters as much as you should if you skipped any of the original trilogy. There’s a lot of things that just won’t have as much impact a good example is you won’t give a crap about dr nefarious unless you played UYA. Good vid tho I’m glad just to see the series get talked about!
Thanks!
I'm a rather unique Ratchet and Clank fan. I just watched the "Rift Apart" trailer for the PS5, and I still have my own PS2 as well as the very first Ratchet and Clank that ever released. But I've never even played any of the other games, so I literally have the biggest game gap to span here between practically a dozen games or more. Oof. But I absolutely LOVE 👌the look of "Rift Apart" so far, and I'm a huge Spyro/Jak & Daxter/Scifi fan, so it should be overall some really good times.🤙🎮 (No spoilers please.) But I think we can all agree as gamers that one of the best things we'd like is a Ratchet and Clank collection of all the cannon-applicable titles on the Switch. Yeah I know, Sony owns 'em, e.t.c., but in the words of Mr. Potato Head from Toy Story, "Hey, I can dream can't I?"
I've been with the series since Size Matters. And what a journey its been
Time flies!
I actually really enjoyed playing Secret Agent Clank, it had stealth and it was always night time and lots of fun puzzles
Fantastic list and if you just want classic Ratchet and Clank gameplay, I totally recommend it.
I personally enjoyed the story of "All 4 One" and I shall stick by my statement that it is the FUNNIEST Ratchet and Clank game to date, especially if you have all four characters on screen at once and they are interacting with each other.
I know this is late but the ps2 ports of size matters and soc are far superior to the psp versions. What probably happened was that in 2008 size matters was an amazing handheld game for the time but a pretty medicore console game so it got lower reviews
Nice video as always.
I'm going to say a perfect list,but i suggest to put also "all 4 One" in the collection, because we know the tharpod race and in PS4 re-imagining,there are a lot of Fongoids and Tharpod everywhere!
And i'm going to put in the list also Gladiator, even It was not so memorable among PS2 era! (There are some references in the various games that could be Lost if this game is skipped)
So Ratchet 1, 2, 3, gladiator, TOD,aCiT,all 4 one, into The Nexus and Ratchet ps4.
I'm a huge fan of the series, but the Last One game i like so much, i love the gameplay, i think One of the best of the series. The Story is not so good and mainly there are huge "bugs" between film Story and game Story.
As a fan,my negative reaction was the "mess" created with this game, bacause the Story of ps4 is too different from the classic Ratchet and LOTS of thing have been cut away (the friendship between the Heroes, some Important planets, the first Ratchet behaviour that was rude!...).
PS when you said in the video "...follow the chronological order because there are not prequel"
I was thinking..."not yet...😏🤞"
Thanks for sharing, pretty good list you got there :)
Tools, Quest, and Crack are my favorite ones
Deadlocked and All 4 One aren’t mandatory but boy are they fun. All 4 One is surprisingly more fun than I’d originally expected, then again I’m a sucker for the 4th character with his somewhat change of heart and whatnot :)
All 4 One is MUCH better with a friend :P
There's is options for me , trying to play some of the ps2 classics , the ps3 i don't know if there is a good emulator,
play the new remake and reimagined games , I think they are starting to make not doing remakes but making new storys based of that universe, so they can be more creative with the story and be better than the last games
I have played every game in the ratchet and clank franchise. I will admit that the spin-offs for all for one and full frontal assault are definitely not the best ones out there but I give insomnia games credit for trying a different path even though it didn’t work like hey you can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs. The one thing I can say is that there is not a single game in the entire franchise history that I did not like. So far the franchise get a 9/10 for me. I can only hope that rift apart continues from the future saga right after into the nexus Because I am hoping that characters from the PS2 era and the PS free future saga meet for the first time. Like how funny would it be for Sasha from up your arsenal to meet Talwyn from tools of destruction that could cause some funny chaos.
Ratchet Gladiator is my favorite game
Very fun one indeed :)
I was wish the collection was on Playstation now
It still isn't huh?
My play order was this:
1. Tools of destrutcion
2. Quest for booty
3. Crack in time
4. All 4 one (demo, I never got a chance to play full game)
5. Qforce
6. Ratchet and Clank ps2
7. Going comando
8. Up your arsenal
9. In to the nexus
I don't have ps4 or psp or ps2 so I did not play all the r&c games...
Thank you for sharing!
I think there needs to be a Nathan Drake collection for Ratchet and Clank because of Rift Apart.
I tried to finish the PS4 remake so that I'm not confused about Rift Apart... that didn't work.
I love the ps4 game and if you compare with the original I think the history is better because is more focused instead of the original where almost half of the planets have little to no importance to the history
I have to disagree.
you'll need to play into the nexus because a Sequal is coming out for PS5. This game is Assume DAm NDA prevents saying any more
I love ratchet and clank nexus good PS3 game
why skip quest for booty i think it brings a bit more in the story and rusty pete is an awsome character
What is yall's favourite planet of the series? :D
Mine is Orxon, it has so good atmosphere and in the first game the first time you play it, it's really difficult too. A shame the whole planet wasn't in the 2016 ps4 game, i would have loved to see the planet remastered.
HARD question heheh!
Todano, Boldan, Mukow, kreeli comet, marcadia, koros, terachnos.
@@steven310250 yeah mukow is nice too "The greatest, bloodiest and gloriest battle of all time: The imperial Fight Festival! (Rated "M" for Mature)" :D
I only ever played r&c 3 as a kid before picking up a crack in time years later. I couldn't believe how good the combat was, and how good it looked. Later on I picked up tools of destruction to understand the zoni stuff, and was disappointed that I hadn't played it first ( i didnt know it existed) because the wrench combat and hoverboots weren't there
Thanks for sharing!
I like tod more than a crack in time
Secret agent clank is referenced in quest for booty... although it is just 1 or a few lines of dialogue
My first Ratchet & Clank game was Ratchet & Clank full frontal assault even though it did not have a good story it was good and the defense system was good and this video is going to help me a lot getting into the series thanks👍
Glad you found the video useful!
I love your reviews so much!
Thank you :D
Size Matters is my fav R&C tho!
Cool :)
Buying Nexus on the store somewhat recently still got me a free download for QfB if that's worth mentioning. It just sort of existed as a 'bundle' upon purchasing digital version of Nexus.
(I even already had original digital QfB but this made a second version of it appear in my download list).
*Me cries in the corner*
Games I have played:
Ratchet and Clank
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando
Tools of Destruction
Quest for Booty
Crack and Time
Full Frontal Assult
Ratchet and Clank 2016
That's pretty good :)
Sucks cause the controls and quality are horrible on ps now so the only way to really replay them is on og console
I’m only here because I always wanted to try ratchet and clank (PS4) and now that I’m done with it I went and found like 5 other games on PS Now so I’m trying to see what the order is
I hope this was helpful!
VTNVIVI it was thanks bro
Was anyone else's first Ratchet and Clank game they ever played AFO??
I started with 2002 :)
Deadlocked is not debatable. It’s different yes but should be highly recommended...
I have The dead walk game of ratchet and clank on the president 3