Ratchet Week: Jem Interviews James Stevenson

cool, my special edition got dispatched today:)

yes

YES! my question got answered

oh yeah and I would DEFINATELY BUY a 1-4 blu-ray collection, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE IT

Damn, my question wasn’t answered :S

I’m still gonna get the game though.

A bit excited addy?

But I agee, I would buy it. But mainly because I’ve never played them….

Nice interview – good questions. James’ answer to the multiplayer question was interesting. You can’t really compare multiplayer gaming on PS2 to PS3. OK, only 1 or 2 percent of players bothered with ratchet online on the PS2 but that’s because hardly anybody was online. PS3 is different – most people now play online. Personally I would rather they put their resources on making the game multiplayer (I’ll take a shorter adventure anyday since a game with online multiplayer will keep me entertained for far longer). Look at how many people are playing Uncharted 2 online even though the single player game is awesome in itself!

Does James have his arm around Jem?

Got my special edition tomorrow!

Nice interview, good questions, cheers.

Although I must say, Jem, you like tired, or maybe just overwhelmed by James’ presence, eh? ^^

@7 reakt: Agreed, with the PS3, a lot more people have online access.

im getting the game on the first day!!

Getting my special edition tomorrow as well! XD Glad I decided not to use Royal Mail to deliver it…

was that a plush master onion from the parappa game on that drum kit?

i really would have loved to know if they were going to do anything multiplayer related in the next year, which is a shame.

and knowing that this possibly could be the last game kills me!

well the only reason i didn’t use online in 3 and deadlocked/gladiator was that it was on a PS2 and without the wireless internet it was too complicated for me when i was that age.

@jtm17

me too :/ if my favorite game series ends what then going to happen..

I think there will come another Ratchet and Clank, maybe again a serie?

@FGras

i really hope so, if enough people do the same i don’t think they would ignore it.

@thealp

gald you feel the same, they should relase something new in the next year and a half, a multiplayer expansion would be awesome.

also hoping that the GOW collection sells well…that may mean that the R&C series can come on PS3!

i hope….

@jtm17

yep, a RaC classic collection is also a thing i have been thinking about, i would buy them,thats 110% sure

The argument of “3%” of players having played R&C UYA on PS2 is not a solid argument I think… simply because today, players who own a PS3 can play online for free, without need of buying any kind of adaptator or wifi set. So, lots more of players are able to play online in 2009 than they were able back in the PS2 days.

Anyway, I still agree on the fact that a great Ratchet game is before everything else a great single adventure.

@NeodeosX

yep, i bought the first PS2 and never got online, but after i got a PS3 i play online all the time (i also played Size Matters on my PSP online but i could not find the paper with the code to register my online user thing (before we had psn users) and i even called sony and they said they would send me one but i never got one : / ..

Jem’s a dude? (cue dissapointment)

@10_reply Jem: Sorry, I meant “look”, not “like”…anyways, now I understand your little fatigue, but, hey, you’re doing your job greatly, bringing a good service to the fans out there, it has it’s price, I guess. ^^

I went to Gamestop to pick up Ratchet today, I live in Sweden which means it suppose to be released today November 4th. When I got to the counter and the clerk said it would be released November 6th, wasn’t that for UK?

Any chance we can have a transcript of the interview for those of us at work and unable to listen to the vid?

@Omega932000

the official release date in EU is the 6., at least that what they told me in Gamestop this Monday, first it was the 28. Oct, then the 4. Nov and now its the 6. i hope its not going to get moved any more than that.

I got the same message from Gamestop as Omega932000. This is getting me very angry. I want my Ratchet game today. Can countries just change the release date as they want or can we direct Gamestop to some offical information that the release date is today.

They always give [DELETED] that they cant release it because they will get a big fine if they release it before the release date.

On Insomniac’s website yesterday it said Europe/PAL’s releasedate was indeed November 4th.

I would love an offical reply here which I could relay to Gamestop so that I can go there and pick up my game today. Already paid for it so very annoying that they refuse to give it to me

Where in Sweden do you live?

I live in Helsingborg. Tried talking to both of the Gamestop shops here in town.

Thanks for the post Jem Alexander. But very dissapointing that they can do so. Especially when there cant be any sort of positive reason behind it. They even have it in store.

I thought that when a EU release that was set it would be so in all countries. I have talked to Gamestop and they were going to look into it. But I guess it is looking grim and I will have to wait until Friday. Sucky part is that some people that have ordered it online have already gotten it and I know one store in my town that is selling it.

I assume my comment was innapropriate then, as its been deleted. Nevermind, it probably wouldve gotten a negative reaction

Good interview guys, looking forward to picking the game up on friday. On a side note does anyone know if the uk will be getting the awesome looking 3 Dot Game Heroes released. SCEA has said that the localisation for the USA is inevitable so I’m kinda hoping we can get the same treatment over here. Thanks

you guyes looks so stoned come to denmark, we got a free place just next to io-interactive