Jump to content

Anybody with a Jak II platinum?


SkyMarshall_Arts

Recommended Posts

I have played Jak II several times while on the PS2, and looking at the trophy list, it doesn't seem like a hard platinum apart from finding the orbs.  If you don't care about the platinum,  don't get it, but you will still get a decent amount of trophies from this game anyways since most of it is story based.

Edited by Starrk_01
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

A lot of people say it's hard as fuck, but I don't remember it being all that hard. I'd imagine doing all the orbs legit would be extremely difficult, though. I thought it was way better than the first one. Still need to plat the third one, myself.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 months later...

ugh! >_< Jak 2 was my least favorite in the series.... i don't count lost frontier that game is messed up, i never tried the HD version of jak 2 yet, but i still have all the ps2 versions.

in jak 2 the checkpoints are broken, the red armor soldier will start to hunt you down & kills you if they just saw you riding the hover board in the city, the escort mission is so frustrating!

 

and there's the shooting gallery which is the reason why i never 100% the game back in the ps2 era, and boy i never forget the missions where you need to collect some sort of a keys at the flooded part of the city and then an army of soldier will come to hunt you down even if you planned to use the hover board to cross the water a flying robot will come and shot you dead, i already plated jak & daxter but if i going to buy the others i'll get jak 3 first.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 9 months later...

That ambush part in the wooden platform dock area sucked. 

 

If you want to get every orb legit, you're looking at an extremely long and hard challenge (stadium hoverboard challenges are brutal), use the orb glitch and the only challenge is game's story missions.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I did this plat legit, no orb glitch and  it's only half of the races that were really frustrating. Doing them in reverse was pretty easy and everything else wasn't bad  to me. Still pretty tough plat only because of those races but there are much harder plats than Jak II.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 months later...

Let's correct a few inconsistencies here-

 

Jak II is a "tough" Platinum, period. You don't rate Platinums on exploits and glitches (such as the non-legit orb glitch), or use the logic of multiple trophies needing to be difficult in order for a Platinum trophy to be hard or challenging. The hardest trophy in the game requires you to do multiple different difficult challenges, therefore making the Platinum tough. It's not like this same trophy only requires you to do one task only. In addition, since the game itself is overall difficult, especially for newcomers who didn't have the PS2 version, and requires some strategy and practice at times, which includes dying to become knowledgeable on parts to pass them, that makes the story related trophies hard as well. Any experience from the first game will be irrelevant to your progression in this game, as the level of difficult sky rocketed in the sequel, Jak II.. whether the checkpoints are poorly placed, broken, or too far off each other. (This is all coming from a guy who platinumed the game twice WITHOUT the orb glitch btw.)

 

 

Lastly, Jak 3 is the best game in the series actually. Installments in a series with better story =/= best game in series. Jak II had the best content-story, while Jak 3 was factually the better overall game, therefore Jak 3 is the best.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Honestly, I've played it back on the PS2 days and played the hell out of it. When I picked up the HD collection and played Jak II, it came easy to me and I greatly enjoyed the feeling of  nostalgia. Seeing that plat ding gave a sense of achievement that I can finally show some of my achievements from the old PS2 games.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...