Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando is like Cheap Wine 

Can't wait for "Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal is like Fine China" :D

Ratchet and Clank 2 is a game I replayed a lot of as a kid, I'm no stranger to challenge mode and your criticisms make sense, I even remember as a kid it being "impossible" to keep up with being able to afford the new weapons the game would throw you but during one of my more recent replays which involved doing all the side content and side missions I noticed I always had enough money to be able to afford them when they became available if not just a wee bit after. Props to the devs for that intricate economy balancing I guess, it something I kind of appreciate about this game given how easy it is to always be able to afford the new weapons as they become available in the newer titles.

I like Going Commando a lot precisely because of the way it exists in-between the platforming soul of the original and the shooter soul of the later games. I was sad to see Third Person controls finally go away in 2016 and RA, leaving strafe lock as the only option.

Hey just wanted to say, Going Commando is BY FAR my favorite in the series and your video didn't piss me off at all! You were very fair in your criticism and I totally get from your reasoning why it's your least favorite. I thought your video was done very well and I enjoyed watching.

The thing I personally never liked about this game was that for some reason every single level was either an industrial complex or a city. Even the ones taking place in the wild were riddled by building complexes. Maybe this would bother me less if the color scheme wasn't so bland. Most of the levels have the same feel, meanwhile you can show me a screenshot from any single level of Ratchet and Clank 1, and I would probably guess which one it is.

This is my favourite, the humour is top notch

Before watching this I didnt even know going commando could be someone's least favourite in the original series.

Oh man. Ratchet & Clank 2 - It's called Locked and Loaded in my country - has remained generally in a superposition between my first and second favorite game since the day I first laid hands on it, when it came out. I was 7 years old. It was during a time of limbo between Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers and Lord of The Rings: Return of The King. A distant time, now remembered by me almost solely as a year that I mostly spent indoors on lovely days, playing Locked and Loaded. I could talk about this game forever, it's my favorite of the series (Though I would say the first game is objectively the best game in the series) and I went into this video ABSOLUTELY ready to throw hands. My biggest - and, well, only - gripe with this game is the off balancing of the weapons. It feels frustrating to me that in Challenge Mode, the weapons are balanced kinda perfectly. The progression and the buildup and the endgame of having a decked out Ultra inventory with a RYNO II and the useless Zodiac and Clank Zapper all felt well done. Hell, the Ultra Mini Nuke is one of the most powerful single shot weapons in the franchise. But normal mode, bringing the Multi Star or Heavy Lancer to the final level is asking to be laughed at, and that has always rubbed me the wrong way. It's a problem that UYA had in droves as well, and while Deadlocked fixed it, the problem did return in my eyes in Tools of Destruction too. It's a real shame, and I think it takes a huge amount of potential fun out of all three of those games. So, I agree with you there. In the circles I'm in, Going Commando/Locked and Loaded is almost unanimously the best and most replayable of the franchise, to the point that seeing a hot take against it is something I usually shrug off. But I can put aside my pride of 'My childhood favorite is everyone else's too' to absorb a video like this for what it is, and to be honest, I'm really happy this game still gets the attention and actual real criticism and praise that it gets 20 years later. I only just realized at the end of this comment that Ratchet and Clank 2 is 20 years old this year. Excuse me while I go play it.

"...while I like Going Commando..." -Kraftium, September 2023 Too much information, Kraft.

Had fun with both those early Ratchet and Clank games, and also with these videos.

The only real problem I had with it was the final boss and the change to Ratchet's voice, although I don't actually dislike the new voice I just miss the first games voice.

The weapon level up system in R&C is like some grandfather of the scourge that is battle pass challenges for me

Going Commando is my personal favorite Ratchet and Clank game and my second favorite game ever. So it was a bit of a shock to click on this and hear it's your least favorite. But I do respect your opinion even while I disagree on it being weaker. GC has my favorite weapons, music, comedy, and side character in Angela Cross. Then again, this was my first ever Ratchet and Clank game, so maybe there is a bias. But I've always loved this game. Nonetheless, good video and respectable thoughts on it!

Thanks for the refreshing take on this classic series!

The experience problem you mentioned where you are disincentiviced from using fully upgraded guns is even more frustrating considering that 20 years after it still persists on the series. I know they wanna push you to use other weapons but I wish they did something like other action games where you can freely use your experience to upgrade whatever you want. Hell I hate looter shooters but I wouldn't mind it if a ratchet game used that aproach to weapons, just to switch things up a bit

Great video! personally Going Commando is my favorite because it is on the originalTrilogy at a balannce state of shooting and platforming. Small note: watching your footage even you were on challenge mode(new Game+) you do not seem to have acquired the box breaker which is located at the end of Oozla planet where you can use your gravity boots to go to a secret boss and after killing it, you acquire the box breaker which does with one wrench slam break everything around you. (You might have found it later tho so you can ignore this note if you have found it)

Even though Up Your Arsenal is my personal favourite Ratchet & Clank game in the series, Going Commando was the start of the franchise going forward. Even though I personally like the platforming of the first game more, Going Commando is a good combination of both platforming and shooting. Not to mention James Arnold Taylor was a good replacement of Michael Kelly. I can't think of Ratchet without hearing James Arnold Taylor voicing him.

0:47 My heart exploded as soon as I heard that

You made some interesting points, I personally prefer all the sequels over the original game, sure R&C1 might be more of a platformer but I never really found the platforming in it to be so good that it made me reconsider what I thought what I platformer was, plus I found the combat sections in R&C1 to be so frustrating halfway through that it mitigated any fun I could have through the platforming. I also don't find the autoaim in the earlier games to be too bad, it only gets bad when Ratchet has to fight enemies that are above him which means you have to use first person mode and it can be pretty awkward. As for the weapons upgrade system, I have seen some complain about this but I don't really mind, the only time it ever got bad in the whole series was the Dr. Nefarious final boss in R&C3 where he was such a damage sponge that he will chew through the ammo of all your high powered guns meaning then you got to use the weaker ones which will whittle is health very super slowly. Also, maybe ToD but the difficulty of that game was just screwed up in general where enemies hit hard and cut your health in half by getting hit once and they will take 30 rocket launcher shots to die but I don't think that is tied to the levelling system. I never knew challenge mode changed the game to that much of a degree, I want to try it out, but at the same time, with games that have hard modes that are combat driven, I just want to skip past the platforming and puzzles and just want it to be combat, a lot of single player games suffer from this where I want to get to the part on hard mode where the gameplay actually does change rather than do the parts that are static again, I'm guessing this is why some games have endless modes. You do make an interesting case, the problem is, I really did wish R&C2 let's you choose it from the start, I like that A Crack in Time just lets you choose your own difficulty.

Looking forward to the Gladiator review. The game that breaks the bolt multiplier in half

You forgot to mention one thing: once u get the RYNO, theres absolutely no reason to use any other weapon in any situation trough the whole game. Its so broken and fast shooting that eliminates literally any enemy in less than a second, even in challenge mode theres no enemy that stands a chance against it. I understand that its purposedly broken but still it makes it nonsense to get the mega upgrades or to even finish leveling up weapons from the previous run, unless u want to do it just out of completionism, but its a so tiring process that Im sure almost anyone has done it. The problem here is that enemies become absolute tanks compared the ones in the first game, in which every weapon could kill practically any enemie, at least damage wise, and the use of different weapons were more balance due to it being a situational thing rather than a “just pick the weapon that deals more damage”. Heck, even the wrench was useful trough the whole first game, and even satisfying to use cause even later enemies still got flinched by a hit, while in GC (and even more in UYA) the meelee is basically useless since enemies are just designed to be approached from long distance due to increased hostility, faster attacks and tanky nature. The first game ramps up the difficulty as you go by positioning enemies in strategic spots around the levels, the later two entries do that by just spawning hordes of bullet-sponges every 10 seconds (this is a lot more common in UYA tho). At the end of the day it has a lot of flaws, specially balance wise, but still its a gem of a game for me. Idk if its a nostalgia thing but it has so much charm to it and i feel like replaying it from time to time. Great vid my friend!

video instantly liked and channel subscribed for the holo with shades pfp. i will now watch the video.

Dude I literally beat this game last week and in the same day started a challenge mode run.

Up Your Arsenal is next

The story was pretty disjointed, though. Qwark originally wasn’t the villain.

I like Ratchet 2 a lot more than 3

Please I need to see a video on Ratchet and Clank 3 it’s my favourite in the series!

Well whole ps2 trilogy are the best rac games tho future ones dont fell that they that good but they still good

Least favorite? Even less than RC3?

UP YOUR ARSENAL NOW

Surprised not fine wine than cheap wine? Cover whatever you want you don't have to a Ratchet marathon. XD It was a good video and well it's the Ratchet community we watch many people cover the games. XD Also the games have a lot of details to love and hate them others having more single note focus sometimes. The stores has tons of variety you love or hate and well many oh it took a year to make design that's interesting to look at: the minigames, story, combat, platforming, Ratchet & Clank gameplay segment differences and so on. I love 2 but it isn't perfect even if the gameplay wise my favourite I less like 3 too much combat focused moments I hate in 3 of side missions. 2 balances things out more. Give me puzzles, strafing, even if less quality of life than 3 I'd take it if the content is better to me in 2 then 3 onwards. The content in them are fine just not my favourites. Not even nostalgia. Hack n slashes do get fiddly but I get what you mean for lock on having played many of the genre over the years now. I think the experimenting can be a punishment yes. XD I find some levels are suitable to use holoshield in ghe beginning and never again in 3. Some like Synthenoids or shield chargwr suck to level up. While others work better. Ghe single level is awkward. Later games it works but still eh. Infector could be a better weapon but is limited for a brain wash weapon. Yes the situations don't suit later levels I agree. Unless fhe arena for enemies that can. Or early levels that move less I guess. Yeah the ship/bikes can be hit ans miss but I prefer them then not even if had more hours to the game you can skip or beat or suck at. XD Skill points are better than Ratchet 1 I find. The Infiltrator is awkward yes. I love the puzzles I know they do at bad tkmes. XD But I hate 2 hours of combat in 3 and others. Its qhy I don't mind the Defibrillator on Tools but other parts not do much. Its why even if Crack in Time cuts a fair of those elements while still fair ideas. Rift Apart is boring for so much eh and I wanted Glitch/Clank levels over Rathcet and Rivet levels. 2 is finding its footing still yes. But I likes that more. Platinum bolrs I guess maybe for secrets are easy but others need a bit Yeah there was showing off but it was 2002 so I guess still that showing off ghe console more in Rilgar and Metropolis and such back ghen while now the graphics got less detailed in some areas but better in others and some set pieces work orhers not so much. Like if you compare Siberius trucks to the Uncharted 2 train sure they have their similarities but otherwise different scale on where you go and level length. But you could say Ratchet 2's is shorter and leds tedious besides the lacking scale. But do we need more set oieces of trucks or a turret level or whatever maybe. But don't think much of them and rhey are single time the vehicle, or Tabora caves after the crash and so on they aren't fhe worst fhey are memorable but I don't really care. Or Boldan walls, Museum, Aranos prison escape and more yes. I get what you mean for shooter and platforming scale and priorities they wanted a third person shooter themselves Insomniac even for journalists labelling but yeah the things to do got tedious. All kids games aren't platformers anyway cough Knack is an old god of war hack n slash people. Yeah mega/ulgra or AI i don't always notice as much but ghe selection helps even if what you need bolts to buy Mega the Orange/level 2 weapons are still there to use at least any time.

writing dotted notes as bottom number is clearly the better system… otherwise what is the point of using NUMBERS in a seemingly clean cut mathematical time signature… this goes way beyond some dumb convention that caught on & we just still use it as a homage to some historical backdrop… the problem is for 2, 3, & 4 time signatures the rules remain consistent & randomly for 6, 9, & 12 it ARBITRARILY just means something else… like yeah the top & bottom numbers no longer mean what they mean… & let’s just barely explain this inconsistency it in whatever music theory class you’re taking so you feel like YOU’RE the idiot for not getting it destroying your GPA

If you don't have much to say about UYA just make the vid short. The micro second you stop talking about R&C i will erase this channel from my memory 🔫😐