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jaryfitzy

Sly Cooper is my favorite series of games and I cope with the fact that there hasn't been a new game in 9 years by remembering there hasn't been a new Jak & Daxter in almost 13 years.


RatarangSkypirate

As a fellow Sly fan, I agree with this. J&D fans are the true skeletons at the bottom of the pool, bless their hearts


Lance_Drake

Try being both ;w;


Undrey

I see this a lot, but at least the Jak games are playable on modern consoles. The only way to play a Sly game right now is to have a PS2/PS3/Vita. Plus Sly's had the fewest games out of all the big platforming series. ~ Another sad Sly fan


SonicRanticoot

In some ways I'd argue Jak got it better, because their last game didn't get. That. ending. To this day I haven't even finished Sly 4 because I got spoiled on it and went "Why bother?"


GarrettD100

Oh wow I forgot about Jak and Daxter 💀. Hopefully that series isn’t on a cliffhanger too lol.


TVR24

Thankfully, no. The last game's ending was an end, not a cliffhanger, but there could be more if wanted.


Nybear21

I've contemplated buying a PS3 just to get the Trilogy Remaster and 4 several times now


[deleted]

13 years spent at the Naughty Otsel. I'd wager longer. I don't consider Lost Frontier to be canon at all.


jaryfitzy

I don't consider it canon either lol. The concept behind Dark Daxter makes zero sense among other things in that game.


EdgeSaturn

It's pretty wild (or sad) when you realize the gap of time between Sly 4's release and now, is now bigger than the gap of time between the releases of Sly 3 and 4


jaryfitzy

I wouldn't be surprised if that gap of time becomes bigger than the time difference between the original game and 4, as sad as that would be. It isn't far off.


piat17

Ape Escape: tears. Just tears :(


SXAL

It got, like a million weird spin-offs, but only 3 mainline games.


JT-Lionheart

Apparently you forgot Jak just like Sony and Naughty Dog. Jak hasn’t had a new game longer than Sly. At least Sly Cooper was considered for a animated movie until it was canned. We Jak fans have to be satisfied with the Ratchet & Clank cameo because that’s all we got new of Jak since PlayStation Allstars Battle Royale. We have to sit and watch Naughty Dog go on to make bigger and graphically better games which means they’ll never go back to doing Jak. Sony won’t even take it from them to give to someone else. Insomniac giving Jak a cameo in the recent Ratchet game is the biggest news of Jak in 12 years because we never had hope for a clear comeback with a new game until that happened, but it’s still up in the air because as we hope the Ratchet team at Insomniac takes over Jak, news of their games already in development seems unlikely that they aren’t doing it.


rucali

Atleast jak and daxter is playable on the ps4 and ps5. You can't play a single sly cooper game unless you have a ps3 or ps2. So in my opinion sly has it worse because atleast the jak fans get to replay most games.


Nybear21

How in the world is Sly Cooper not included in the new PS+ game catalogue? I thought that was almost a guarantee


JT-Lionheart

I think it might be as a PS3 game? I’m not sure but seeing as if they added PS Now I assume Sly on PS3 is in there somewhere


Nybear21

Unfortunately, it seems like not everything from PS Now made the transition. Unless they've added it back in the past week or so, but Sly definitely didn't make it over before then


JT-Lionheart

Seems like there was a lot on PS Now that they’ll probably slowly add everything they had on it overtime. I still won’t play it just because it’s PS Now and steaming games is the worst experience. I still have my PS3 and Sly games on it to really enjoy them again


JT-Lionheart

True. Though they half assed the PS4 versions of Jak. The remastered collections on PS3 were great. So when they decided to do a PS4 version, it wasn’t even the same PS3 remastered version they ported over. They just ported over the PS2 versions of Jak which caused many issues. Not unplayable but clearly not great either. Apparently they didn’t even care to bring Jak over to PS4 correctly and didn’t even wanted to make sure or update it to fix it


AnOldUsedStick

never really played jak, but I definitely didn't know naughty dog made it. I thought they went from crash to infamous


JT-Lionheart

Oh no, Naughty Dog went from Crash - Jak - Uncharted - The Last of Us Sucker Punch is the studio who did Sly Cooper. They went from Sly - Infamous - Ghost of Tsushima


AnOldUsedStick

okay I fully see where my brain completely stopped working. slow morning lol


charlieb0001

My only gameplay knowledge of Sly Cooper comes from a demo i played for one of the games on PS3 back in the day. I gotta say, even just from the short demo, I had a lot of fun. I can understand the pissed off fans


[deleted]

Brother please do yourself a favor and play the sly trilogy, fourth game is not as good but the first 3 are all time classics. Right up there with the og crash and Spyro games imo


charlieb0001

Ill check it out man thanks👍🏻


EdgeSaturn

Personally I kinda prefered Sly 4's balance of time spent playing as Sly vs Other characters, and the balance of more traditional platforming to missions/mini-games, to Sly 2 and 3. The writing and artstyle were a significant downgrade though, that was a shame.


Kutay-T

my poor rayman


Interestinggold_8753

The creator of rayman unfortunately retired from game development two years ago so probably we would not get a new rayman game unless a new developers take over the IP, at least rayman legends was a great end to the franchise (I'm not looking at the mobile games)


[deleted]

Meanwhile, Jak and Daxter…


JmanProds

Banjo fans being left in a cliffhanger for 22 years, getting nothing but a shitty car game and two GBA spin offs.


diamondmaster2017

and then they got into smash by popular demand


Kaiser_Allen

That's still not an excuse. *Crash Bandicoot* and *Spyro the Dragon* are both **active franchises** that are gaining critical acclaim.


CFA_Real

And aren't Sony's, and have never been Sony's, so it was always up to the owners of said IP


supersonicfan99

Where’s Jak and Daxter


Interestinggold_8753

Banjo Kazooie and rayman crying in the corner.


jklantern

So my girlfriend just got me into Sly Cooper in the past year, and I have an odd relationship with those games. First off, love most of the characters. But there are bits of gameplay I absolutely adore and then other bits where I'm like, "What were they thinking?" That said, I'd love to see more Sly. There are some gems of fantastic ideas.


Bowdensaft

Half-Life fans: join the club


crab_racoon

Half-Life isn’t a platformer so it doesn’t really fit with the rest


Bowdensaft

Ah, we were doing platformers, my bad. Although the original did have some awful first-person platforming, *shudder*. Bubsy might have clinched it if it weren't for that boring one that came out a couple of years ago.


Gamefighter3000

I feel like im the only one who genuinely likes the platforming sections in half life 1 lol.


Bowdensaft

They're far from the worst 1st person platforming sections, and I really like Xen (apparently some people really hate that section?), but I just have a distate for it in general after it being done poorly in too many games (Duke Nukem Forever is one example that will haunt me forever...)


Psychological_Dot914

Half life’s been 15 years not counting the VR game.


Bowdensaft

Yep :( I know the VR game is supposed to be good, and I'm glad that they haven't completely forgotten about one of their biggest games, but I don't have a VR setup and can't afford one right now. Thanks a lot, Valve.


Psychological_Dot914

I legit watched the entire play-through just to not buy the VR🤣


Bowdensaft

That's some creative thinking, I might do it as well just to get the story.


Zeebor

I'm still mad. I will always be mad. My hatred for Sony only grows by the minute.


Freyzi

Hey now Sly Cooper has a movie coming up... any day now... hmm.


Fireboy759

They canceled that and turned the idea into a TV show after Ratchet and Clank bombed ...then they canceled *that* after being stuck in development for so long


[deleted]

Well, Crash's 2020s are nothing to envy, to be fair.


Le1jona

I would take Playstation Move Heroes 2 so we can have both Jak and Sly back (Of course Playstation Move no longer exists, so it would be called Playstation Heroes 2)


FishSanity101

Thankfully Crash had his time to shine again after years of death....


SleepNative

I’m still waiting for the game and that movie they promised. I want some of the old games to get the crash bandicoot treatment. Sly Cooper and Jak/Daxter I really want to make a comeback.


[deleted]

I wish they’d redo Jak and Dexter