Jak or Ratchet?

Clank

Enjoyed both.

Played both of these games pretty extensively, but I always preferred Ratchet. I've also stuck with Ratchet (mostly) since the original "trilogies", whereas I haven't touched a Jak game since Jak 3.

I enjoyed Ratchet & Clank way more then Jaks games.

I love both series, but Jak is where it's at. The stories in Jak 2 and 3 are fantastic.

I'm more of a Jak fan but I think that Up Your Arsenal is better than Jak 1 and 2.

What little I've played of the Ratchet games, really didn't care for it at all.

Jak.

Ratchet & Clank were always my preferred series, although that isn't to say I dislike Jak & Daxter.

I only played the PS2 games of each series, but I liked the Jak games more (even though I LOATHED Daxter after the first game)

Tough choice- I enjoyed what I played of both series.

That said, with Jak I never went any further than Jak 2, and with Ratchet I stopped at Up Your Arsenal- until I ended up getting All 4 One in a PS3 Black Friday bundle last year. So I certainly haven't brought myself to be thorough with either franchise.

I like both of those games.

I like both of those games. First Jak game was fucking awesome and two was really cool but had some frustrating problems. Haven't played three yet. And I've always liked Ratchet, and that Crack In Time game was SO GOOD. Probably one of my favorite PS3 games.

@MetalGearSunny said:

I like both of those games. First Jak game was fucking awesome and two was really cool but had some frustrating problems. Haven't played three yet. And I've always liked Ratchet, and that Crack In Time game was SO GOOD. Probably one of my favorite PS3 games.

Crack in Time was indeed very good. Tied with UYA for my fave in the series.

@Aegon said:

@MetalGearSunny said:

I like both of those games. First Jak game was fucking awesome and two was really cool but had some frustrating problems. Haven't played three yet. And I've always liked Ratchet, and that Crack In Time game was SO GOOD. Probably one of my favorite PS3 games.

Crack in Time was indeed very good. Tied with UYA for my fave in the series.

Yeah, I played Up Your Arsenal a lot when I was a kid.

Edit: Or well, you know, when I was younger.

I always really wanted to try out those Sly Cooper games, though, I never got the chance to. Maybe someday.

I hated my initial experience with Ratchet. It came off too easy, the platforming wasn't that great, and the weapons felt too simple...thankfully the good sense of humor carried me through the issues I had and I ended up loving the game. None of my problems with the game ever went away but once I started upgrading the weapons I began to have a lot of fun. The sounds of explosions and hundreds of gears being collected is really satisfying and upgrading the weapons to their max was paced just right. Once the weapons themselves were upgraded, then came the fun of messing around and seeing the new features and by the time I was done with that the game was over. Right now I'm debating how much I want quest for booty and/or the HD-ified trilogy.

I've tried getting into Ratchet a few times but just couldn't. I almost bought the Ratchet trilogy but didn't do it in the end. Maybe another day I'll try again.

I played the Jak games (1 and 2, have yet to play 3) and just found them very enjoyable.

Except the vehicle missions. Fuck that noise.

They both work for the era that they come from, but seem like characters that could go away at this point.

I enjoyed them both, but I always enjoyed Ratchet more, but recently played both HD remasters and Ratchet and Clank definitely aged allot better than the Jak Series.

I liked them both and all, but always had a preference for Jak since the changes seemed less incremental and more ambitious with each game. Still I played up to Jak 3 and even Combat Racing, but never touched Daxter or that other one they did after that. I really liked that they took their story more seriously at the time but, looking back at it now, it was a little too obviously "darker & edgier" 'cus I dunno "darker and edgier!!".

Also while a have looked at the Ratchet series as a bit stagnant for quite some time I also can't deny that I really enjoyed playing A Crack in Time, that's just a really well made game. So while I will always think more fondly of the Jak series I don't know if I'd be interested in ever revisiting it, due to how the latest entries have been and also how my interests have shifted since first playing them.

I love both series, but if I had to pick one, I'd go with Ratchet. It's just so much fun in the Ratchet games running through planets with some crazy weapons and blowing the shit out of everything.

I voted for mute Jak. Talking Jak bothered me a bit with all of his angst.

Jak and Daxter all day everyday! 

I liked both a whole lot. Ultimately, I think the Ratchet games hold up better but the Jak games were what I liked better at the time.

Ratchet all the way.

I have more memories with the Jak games so I'm gonna say that. I'm playing through the Ratchet Collection though and those are still damn fine games.

Sly

Ratchet. When it came down to OPM reviews of the yearly installment of each game series Ratchet always came out ahead. Also, dude, Lava Gun. But only the Up Your Arsenal Lava Gun that became the Liquid Nitrogen Gun, the Meteor Gun from Going Commando can burn!

I liked the first Jak game but I found the sequels to be too repetitive and frustrating. Ratchet is just a really solid shooter.

Ratchet all the way! Jak may be a better written series, but gameplay wise Ratchet seems better.

Easily Ratchet. The later Jak games had too many gimmick levels. I think the third game had more gimmick levels then actual platforming levels.

I enjoyed both of course but I thought Jak was better, Jak 3 being one of my favorite games ever. 
 
Also I can't play the new R&C games at all, I tried playing Quest for Booty at least ten times but I just can't, don't really know what's wrong. 

I've always been a Jak fan. First set of games I played when I got my ps2.

Jak is in the lead as it should be.

I never played any of Ratchet's ps2 games so I had to choose Jak by default, but I think a Crack in Time is better than any Jak game, that's not really a fair comparison though because there are no current gen Jaks. If this is a question of Insomniac vs Naughty Dog, than Naughty Dog wins hands down.

Voodoo Vince.

Neither I pick Sly.

Jak. Ohh Jak, a hundred times Jak.

(I also like Daxter better than Clank)

I'm a little surprised to see Jak winning as I always though R&C was more popular. I prefer R&C personally and I think the gameplay has aged better. That said I loved the Jak games (Jak 2 in particular) and I think Naughty Dog took a really ambitious approach to the series.

I enjoyed only the first Jak-Game. It is brilliant, and I like the humor in this game till this day!

By the time Jak 2 and 3 came along, they felt like hard tried copies of Ratched at that point! The weapon use and selection were better at the Ratched games, though the first Ratched was a copy of the first Jak ... in my opinion at least. O.o

in conclusion:

Jak -> Just the fist Game!

Ratched - > Part 1-3

But I have my reasons.

D. I never cared for ether.

I voted B but on more thought I enjoyed both series a lot and agree more with C, except for the racing Jak game it felt really limited and pointless.