Do I need to play the other ones first?

[hawkhill]

I don't have a playstation, so I can't play the other ones until they're ported to a platform I have, so should I wait before jumping into this game?

[Mr. K]

You're definitely going to be confused if you start with this one. To understand the story up to this game's point, it'd be wise to know Ratchet and Clank 1 (original or remake), Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty, A Crack in Time, and Into the Nexus, all in the order listed.

[hawkhill]

Originally posted by Mr. K:

You're definitely going to be confused if you start with this one. To understand the story up to this game's point, it'd be wise to know Ratchet and Clank 1 (original or remake), Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty, A Crack in Time, and Into the Nexus, all in the order listed.

Man, I wonder why the series wasn't ported as well for newcomers. The same thing happened with Uncharted.

[Waam]

Originally posted by hawkhill:

I don't have a playstation, so I can't play the other ones until they're ported to a platform I have, so should I wait before jumping into this game?

Emulate the PS2/PS3 games.

[luis]

Originally posted by hawkhill:

Originally posted by Mr. K:

You're definitely going to be confused if you start with this one. To understand the story up to this game's point, it'd be wise to know Ratchet and Clank 1 (original or remake), Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal, Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty, A Crack in Time, and Into the Nexus, all in the order listed.

Man, I wonder why the series wasn't ported as well for newcomers. The same thing happened with Uncharted.

If you can run this one, rpcs3 emulator probably won't be an issue for your hardware either, ratchet and clank had problems for a decade but it's just gotten into the point of being fully playable, does requires some tweaking tho, isn't plug and play

[Tracido]

Originally posted by luis:

Originally posted by hawkhill:

Man, I wonder why the series wasn't ported as well for newcomers. The same thing happened with Uncharted.

If you can run this one, rpcs3 emulator probably won't be an issue for your hardware either, ratchet and clank had problems for a decade but it's just gotten into the point of being fully playable, does requires some tweaking tho, isn't plug and play

Right, it is just that average users ain't got time for that.

Sidenote, though for all, around 90% of all games before 2010 are not able to be purchased period. So, some gamers may have to learn soon or let the older games go.

It would always be better to have an option to just buy the games today, & play a remastered or even just basic port, regardless. I just don't see it happening.

[Lahgtah]

The story isn't super important to enjoying the gameplay, but some things in Rift Apart won't feel as impactful if you haven't played the PS3 games I believe. It might be worth watching a lore video or reading up on it on the game's wiki pages to get some context. All the games, however, largely play the same(aside from a few deviations.) Third person shooting with wacky weapons, platforming/obstacle courses, and some exploration.

The first 3 PS2 games mostly establish the setting overall, but it's only in the later games where they start to follow an overall narrative of "what happened to the Lombaxes?"

Even as someone who hasn't played any R&C games since the PS2 and PSP games(and not even all of them at that), I'm still really loving this game. Performance bugs and issues aside, it's a really fun game that's definitely a breath of fresh air for PC as a platform as there's nothing else like it on PC.

[エズィデニアサ]

How bad is it if it didn't played into the Nexus? Because that is the only one I don't own.

[Waam]

Originally posted by 𓂝𓊃𓇌𓂧𓂝𓈖𓇋𓄿:

How bad is it if it didn't played into the Nexus? Because that is the only one I don't own.

I played this game without having played any other Clank games and didn’t have any problems. The story was great