I was not prepared for how difficult this game was

Thats-no-moon · 1 month

The Jak & Daxter trilogy and Ratchet and Clank games for PS2 made up my entire middle school gaming life. I never found all the precursor orbs in Jak 2 though. Also star wars battlefront and kingdom hearts are awesome. So many good games for PS2.

leoropes · 1 month

Bought the HD collection and I was super excited to play these games again. 100%'ed Jak and Daxter no problem. Started Jak 2 and I got reminded fairly quickly why it took me all Christmas vacation to beat back in the day. Still a good game but, man, it did have some cheap deaths.

dantegrin · 1 month

this game was my childhood sadly i never really saw it get much fame :(

Nipponjudoka · 1 month

I never understood why this game has such a bad rap for difficulty. The designers in the videos in Jak3 even said "if you were one of the few to complete Jak2, well done".

Is there some insane uberdifficulty setting or was I just doing it a little better than most? It took me the same amount of time as any other games.

timth3troll · 1 month

I picked it up a few months ago, and I'm still stuck on one of the sewer missions where those three guys are following you. Fuckin' Metal Heads...

brockm20 · 1 month

Oh god the ragequit.....honestly the only game that has had me yelling at the top of my lungs multiple times

blabbers10 · 1 month

At least there were none of these

BearJ00 · 1 month

i know that feel man

emsowns · 1 month

Jak and Daxter: Precursor Legacy - Oh this is cool, and that, and those.

Jak II - FUCK SHIT FUCKING FUCK THIS DOCK LEVEL!

Jak III - What the hell is going on? Oh I'm supposed to race now?

thomasowns · 1 month

I suddenly want to play the entire jak series again.

any love for Jak X combat racing anyone?

CookedPork · 1 month

I only found one part difficult.

"No Sig, stop running into their attacks. I can't protect you if you keep running out there. SIG STOP IT! I SWEAR TO GOD! Know what? Fuck it, I'll go down there beat their asses and the let Sig come down and do his th- oh, he died..."

Flukie · 1 month

I was fairly young when I got this and I beat it without too much hassle, hell I even got all the orbs, on this and Jak 3.

I was a Jak o maniac.

Same went for R+C, new game +'ed the shit out of that.

Solisau · 1 month

The mission where you had to go and do the pick-up and drop off of the informants or whatever for the Syndicate... That and escorting Samos were easily the hardest parts of the game for me... I felt like a god when I finished it.

Philthey · 1 month

It's been about seven years since I last played it, so this might be fuzzy: The mission that made me quit was the one where you had to blow up five hoverships, or something to that degree. I could always destroy two or three, but never all five.

LarryTheSatelliteGuy · 1 month

Oh i used to love that fucking game, I would give my little brother the 2nd player controller and tell him that he was daxter. It took him until the 3rd game to figure out he wasn't controlling anyone.

BananaPeelPants · 1 month

I wouldn't call the game hard, my beef with it is evil checkpoints.

I remember having to repeat large sections because of one problematic bit later on, and last time I played before the final ragequit I started a tough mission but it autosaved to its beginning, basically forcing me to complete the mission or to go to hell.

Pypogaming · 1 month

never played Jak was more of a ratchet and Clank kind of guy.

Beavers_Build · 1 month

I was not prepared for you to be so right.

synthesezia · 1 month

There was a part outside of the city which was up a huge cliff straight out the door, one mission had you defending a landing zone or something against a load of enemies. I remember that part being really bad.

ThatGuyNamedRy · 1 month

Anything related to racing or the jet board made me cry girly tears.

ThatRedHairedGirl · 1 month

I remember me and my friend playing this when we were in like middle school or something. Good times.

CoriJane · 1 month

I was able to beat the vanilla game eventually, but I still haven't beat hero mode, the tanker mission is just impossible.

MontanaTrev · 1 month

They should do a new Jak for PS3. unless they are already and I haven't heard of it yet.

flower1988 · 1 month

The driving around town drove me crazy the most(cars seemed useless in missions). but now that i am older I want to retry to see if i am any better :/

/Fuck i want a ps2 >_>

TheCro · 1 month

They had some fucked up checkpoints too.

Taconomicon · 1 month

Sure this one was tough, but it was worth the trouble. By far, the Jak and Daxter series is my favorite. So many awesome memories.

EndlessMajority · 1 month

The third one didn't really live up to the difficulty of its predecessor.

ACardAttack · 1 month

I agree, I got to a race through the city or something, twice, and I could not beat that race and gave up :-(

NixFinn · 1 month

Ah, Jak II one of my favorite games ever. Still hoping for a new chapter in the Jak series (Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier does NOT exist in my universe!)

Edit: Am I the only one here who played through the whole game in one sitting the first time I played it?

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ragingpuck · 1 month

Part of me still wishes JakII was Jak and Daxter II: Sans weapons

pantless_pirate · 1 month

This is an extremely underrated game series. Great story line, awesome game play, and always some new in each game to keep you interested. I don't know if you've played Jak 3 yet but prepare to have your mind blown at the end!

TheRoboPenguin · 1 month

I never made it past the part of the game where you have to go hunt down the invisible baddies in the forest.

yoryan · 1 month

The problem with this game is the difficulty spikes in the most random moments. You could be doing a mission that a blind person could do and then bam! you're spending a hour or two doing that hoverboard race through the city. I will never replay this game because of that mission or the one mission at the slums where you have to survive wave after wave of police enemies.

Aliienate · 1 month

there's that one fucking mission where you are daxter and you need to pacman the shit out of these weird node things... holy FUCK i raged so hard i broke 4 controllers. does anyone remember this level?

makinglunch · 1 month

neither was i my friend, neither was i

GentlemanPunk · 1 month

I 'spose it was heard at times, but I don't think it was that hard.

TheGowans · 1 month

One of my favourite games from when I was a kid, think it was only a few choice missions that were particularly hard though :/

PeaceSentinel · 1 month

I love the part where you have to defend young Sage in the forest. I can't remember all the hard parts of this game but I remember the Baron Praxis boss and the Kor boss. Shit was awesome.

NotNorthD · 1 month

I don't know why....but I was terrible at the swoop bike races.....

sfpballer11 · 1 month

I used to always run out of ammo. I beat the original Jak and Jak 3 with no problem , but damn Jak 2 took me forever.

BrotherBrah · 1 month

I played it a year or two ago. I didn't find it too hard, but there was one part I had to use an exploit to beat. You're on some walkways over water in the city, and army guys are dropping form ships -everywhere-. You try to get through them as they shoot at you from every angle.

Protip: Gather Dark Power and smash the turret in the water that should technically prevent you from swimming away.

Sir_Newty_Newt · 1 month

Running around the fortress thing with the viewpoint of the security tank was a killer. Especially as it was instant kill...

Beanbaker · 1 month

What? I remember beating this game a lot of times. I loved the Jak&Daxter series and never really had an issue with the difficulty. Then again, I wasn't a really intense gamer then and would only play for around an hour at a time. Oh, when I would go outside. Heh

boonie_redditor · 1 month

Only have one good hand... ragequit this thing after first little tank thingy in first area, cuz I couldn't get past it using just one hand on the controller. (Partial) hemiplegia sucks. Was fun up to that tho.

Shiningthumb · 1 month

THAT FUCKING DOCK LEVEL!Oh i can feel my young rage seeping back to me.

jackolantern_ · 1 month

Its fun though

krakow13 · 1 month

I hate racers. I really dislike racing games. I can slice, dice, and shoot competently in most games, but give me a racing game and all I see are game over screens. In fact, put a racing game in my hand and it pretty much spontaneously combusts on contact.

So while I loved the first two thirds of Jak II, the part of the game where I have to race through the city, following a preset path, with only a slight margin for error, has made me step way from the game for more than 7 years after I first started playing it. Anything else in the game I could easily handle, but that damn racing segment...

Buttroses · 1 month

This right here was my first GTA game.

DyckJustice · 1 month

This was my first ps2 game, and I didn't really know any better in terms of difficulty. I played it through multiple times but my first play through took me a couple months if I remember correctly. To this day it is one of my favourite games.

BubblegumBalloon · 1 month

Really? I found the game pretty easy for the most part. The only mission I found hard was the onrails turret mission.

Rixxer · 1 month

Dammit you guys, now I want to play this game again... I don't have it or my PS2 anymore, is there some other way to play it?

lolslowking · 1 month

I beat this game when I was 9 or 10. Was it really that hard? I don't remember having that much trouble with it. The hoverboard tricks were hard for me though, that I remember.

demonboya · 1 month

For me it was the combination of the dock, and then you have to do the metal head smash mini game that took forever and was impossible. I was overjoyed when I finally beat that part.

FrenchSilkPieIsYummy · 1 month

It took me quite a while to beat at the time and I definitely got stuck a few times but I had no idea everyone else was struggling.

my childhood GTA.

SlayerDudeMan · 1 month

I didn't even know how difficult this game was for some people since I managed to complete it quite a number of times.

mxraider2000 · 1 month

that one mission half way through the game that was after you got the dark power in the hut....EVERYBODY IN THE ENEMIES BASE just has to be waiting for you....so many game over screens.....too many

jake239 · 1 month

I forget what your supposed to be doing in this one mission but you have to deliver a package across town or something and it's painfully impossible.

iiSaviour · 1 month

On a side note, /r/jakanddaxter

Chanzlyn · 1 month

I remember playing this game when it first came out and my brother and I had a blast. I just got the HD remastered edition and started playing again and I was going 'HOLY SHIT, WHY CAN'T I DO THIS? WHAT IS GOING ON? OH MAN, HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THAT?"

It is insane how some of the missions are just a bit too difficult but I eventually beat it. Jak and Daxter 1-3 is hands down one of my favorite games, ever.

WaffleKnight-Xtreme · 1 month

I thought i was a good driver, but then i played Jak II.

Bobtailedreaper · 1 month

Best game series in the history of man. Back when video games were all about the fun not realism. Didn't really find this game that hard even as a child.

Tsunami3000 · 1 month

Honestly the only hard part was the final boss, where i used up all of the blue bullet machine gun rounds and accidentally fell into the pit for the killing blow. then had to restart with the single fucking shot yellow bullets only. as i ran out i had to finish him with the red shotgun like rounds. i feel badass for being in 4th grade beating it.

why are the new generation of gamers so shitty? i was stomping people at mario kart when i was 4, and my stepsister cant even beat the first boss in sonic 2....shes 10

Punkster110 · 1 month

No one was ready.

Fautlen · 1 month

Absolutely LOVED this game! I played that thing to death and back when I was in middle school and high school.

I will say that the difficulty curve in the game was a bit on the wonky side. I remember spending the better part of an afternoon trying to get past a part where Jak fights his way out of the docks in the slums. Crimson Guard where everywhere with guns and flying bikes and jet packs. By the way Jak can only take 4 hits.

Have fun with that.

Still a great game.

tittyfister69 · 1 month

I remember years ago, my brother and I would take turns playing certain missions. Chances were if one of us failed, the other could manage to get through it relatively easily. We did this method with a couple games. But this was the only game that caused us both to ragequit so hard.

ElmoTheNefarious · 1 month

A lot of people are mentioning the mission on the docks right after you get the Vulcan Fury...am I the only one who had no trouble with that mission? I actually kinda loved it. The trick is to have absolutely no hesitation, just go full Rambo if anyone so much as breathes at you, then move quickly. Takes a few tries, but I honestly enjoyed it.

The missions that got me to ragequit...Orim's test where you have to hit the symbols got me to give up for a bit, but now I don't have much trouble. Ragequit once or twice in the first fight with Praxis because I kept accidentally rolling off the roof. Definitely had trouble with the races, but can I just take a minute to say that the racing AI was incredibly good? Also the last boss fight with the Metal Head Leader was tough, as it should be. Beating that game felt triumphant.

But seriously, the racing AI...if you raced it on the highest difficulty it would use certain shortcuts it wouldn't use on lower difficulties. But if you went to a lower difficulty and used one of those shortcuts, the next time around it would use it too. That impressed the fuck out of me.

LiveChaz · 1 month

I gave gallons of blood, sweat, and tears in order to beat this game as a ten year old.

RFswitchBlade · 1 month

I was not prepared for anything in this game, it was so different than the first.

Mahagna · 1 month

I don't think the game is really that difficult. But... the checkpoints are fucking horrible, usually forcing you to repeat a whole level.

Walrusjim · 1 month

I had to glitch into this ditch thingy to beat the final boss.

9r3y · 1 month

This game was awesome. Felt epic beating it.

authentic_trust_me · 1 month

It was one of my most memorable PS2 games, and while it was harder than JakI, it wasn't that hard...considering how much of an idiot I am.

wheat64 · 1 month

I beat this game but Its hard for me to remember the difficulty of it....dunno.

neveragain1337 · 1 month

The only thing i ever did in this game was steal cops' hovercrafts and fly around shooting people.

sportsfreak1034 · 1 month

After reading the comments, I feel much better about beating this game

Whywipe · 1 month

The only reason I didn't beat this game was because the last level scared me.

Sea-Salt · 1 month

My playthrough of that ended when I couldn't get past this one timed mission. Think it was about getting to the coliseum in less than 3 minutes? Yeah, good luck getting progress when cops are all over and want to execute your ass for tapping them.

Andinator · 1 month

Got the hd collection. Game was great but man the handeling of the vehicles was just awful.

CrypticPhantasma · 1 month

Really fun games. I beat Jak 2 and 3, but not the original.

bfmGrack · 1 month

....... I beat this game as a kid.... I don't remember it being THAT bad.... I remember a mission with daxter on a fucking missile, or was that jak3? P.S. Are there any emulators that play this game? I really want to play it again

bigfishh · 1 month

I never actually finished J&D1, but two appeared to be easy for me. Probably due to the radar code that kept telling me what to do, I kind of got bored at J&D1 because I often never knew what to do. My favorite is surprisingly J&D3 though. 2 was pretty fucking amazing, but I like how it all kept going! :)

EDIT: And I FUCKING HATE the fact that these j&d games just won't work on ps emulators. :( I do not own a ps2 anymore.

unitedporcupines · 1 month

I remember when I first played this game there were certainly some difficult missions, including the mission where you have to shoot down 5 new hellcats, fighting your way out of the slums against wave after wave of guards, shooting down all the flying guards on the rail shooter section, racing Erol in the city before the last race, escorting the sages and the time machine in front of the stadium, and especially the final boss. I guess the fact that I recently replayed it shows how good the game is despite it's difficulty

BillyBobber23 · 1 month

The game was but what bothered me the most was the amount of checkpoints per level

dannimann · 1 month

It may look like there's 8, but in reality you only get 4 hitpoints.

nick041 · 1 month

You haven't played a hard game until you played this fucking game.

Lily247 · 1 month

The only reason I want a PS3 is to get the HD collection.

God this trilogy is fucking great. So many memories of playing and watching my brother play. (And the awesome decision of my brother to play Jak 3 before Jak II) xD

Titan67 · 1 month

All of this is making me remember the state of disbelief I had when I finished this,"Wait its over? Did I really just beat it? OH GOD YES!!!!" Went through three "I'm done with this crap" quits, one little cousin deleting the save when about halfway done, and the perpetual feeling of games today,"This is too easy."

Andrew0085 · 1 month

I never got past the part where you first get the blue gun, or something like that. It's been a while.

spongemonster · 1 month

Still not as hard as Shinobi.

AcidCH · 1 month

What? I finished this when I was 8. Was one of my childhood classics but I dont remember it being hard...

lamer5799 · 1 month

I miss these games. I had jack and jack2 until about 3-4 years when we moved and lost them. They where fun as all hell

PLestad · 1 month

Strange, I never had problems with this game. Completed it twice or so with some dificulty in some areas but overal a casual game.

JizzCreek · 1 month

This was my favorite game when I was 10 years old. It made my childhood. I have no memories of difficulty being a problem, which is odd, because I kind of suck at video games in general.

Verx · 1 month

ahh my childhood :)

baconbytes · 1 month

Shit man, that first boss where the guy throws fire tornadoes at you? Nightmares. Also, that one timed mission where you have to race from one side of the city to the guy's house in like, 2 minutes? ARGH.

anonymouscookie · 1 month

Oh my god, I remember how epic it was when I finally unlocked the hoverboard to use whenever. Never thought it would happen, and when it did my friend and I started yelling about how awesome this game was.

Biub_Pocket_Tanks · 1 month

This was my very first Playstation 2 game, and the first platformer I'd ever played. I played it and beat it, only afterwards hearing about how hard it was. Hearing about how difficult it was, how people would rage quit... man, felt good to know that I was actually good at something, even if it was something as silly as this video game.

Reeeeeen · 1 month

Is it because of the vehicles that handle like a turd with wet paper wings?

I just finished the collection and the driving parts of 2 were my most hated.

Loved everything else

jaketheripper66 · 1 month

It was hard as fuck when it came out(I was young), but I'm replaying it now and it isn't terrible. Then again, I got the platinum trophy on Dark Souls. I don't find many things hard now.

mike0698 · 1 month

I was in second grade when that game came out and the only think I remember being hard was when you had to beat the clock trying to get to one part of the city early on in the game.

JediDalek · 1 month

It was the hardest game ever on my first run. Now I could practically finish it in my sleep. That section where you have to fight your way out of the docks area remains forever maddening, though. Haha.

thor0711 · 1 month

Best game of my teenage years.

x_zer0_x · 1 month

Some of those driving sequences are pretty rage inducing.

SuperBeast4721 · 1 month

Comment about hoverbike missions.

VGPowerlord · 1 month

After playing Jak and Daxter... I was not prepared for how crappy Jak II was.

MorningForest · 1 month

I had to buy a strategy guide -.-. Gun fight in the slums, you know what i'm talking about.

warthog15 · 1 month

I remember yelling at this countless times, "What's your problem with checkpoints Naughty Dog!?!?!?!"

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