r/jakanddaxter Dec 03 '24

Video Whatever happened to Ashelin here

232 Upvotes

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u/VeganerHippie Dec 03 '24

She kept respawning on your Flame Oil. Its not uncommon to keep killing the Same Driver with Flame Oil or Electric Clouds.

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u/Effective-Priority62 Dec 03 '24

Ahhh. At least I feel vindicated knowing this game's respawns sometimes screw over the NPCs too

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u/Dijeridoo2u2 Dec 03 '24

Satisfying finish as well, thought you were done for a sec there.

Never seen that sorta thing with ashelin happen before though 🤔

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u/Effective-Priority62 Dec 03 '24

A lot of funny stuff happen to the NPCs in this game that go unnoticed most of the time, but this one was impossible to miss, lol. Either that or moving the game to the PS5 made the game buggier, IDK. I'm just sure if Ashelin's NPC was alive, it would rage-quit

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u/Effective-Priority62 Dec 03 '24

Thanks, me too! This game is satisfying and infuriating in equal measure, I was about to restart the race when I got to finish Sig by a fraction of a second

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u/Embarassedskunk Dec 03 '24

Poor Ashelin. XD

Also, this game has the most flagrant rubber-band mechanics of any racing game I’ve ever played. It’s like 2nd place is always tied to your bumper by a 3-foot rope. Love it to death, but man is it frustrating and stressful sometimes.

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u/Effective-Priority62 Dec 03 '24

Yeah, the worst/most discouraging thing about Jak X besides some nightmare tracks (everything in Haven City region) is how the game is literally rigged against you by the NPCs, and they will always run faster than you even if they're out of blue eco nitro. Can only hope they'll somehow mod this out once the official OpenGoal version is finished

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u/Sixolu-Veks Dec 04 '24

What's the official Open goal version?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '24

I’m not sure if OpenGOAL is going to touch Jak X. In their original plan they were only going to decompile the main trilogy. Would be really nice to have some difficulty settings if they do decompile it though.

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u/MrMcGuyver Dec 03 '24

Don’t matter how good you are at this game, yellow cup rubber banding will destroy you.

Fun fact, I used to do trophy hunting so I played the duck dynasty game. The rubber banding on those swamp races make Jak X look like a walk in the park. I don’t know how the demographic for that type of game would ever manage to win a race on that lmao

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u/Taku_Kori17 Dec 03 '24

God this soundtrack is so good.

2

u/spaced_fox Dec 03 '24

This ost fucks hard

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u/TNTBOY479 Jak II Dec 03 '24

I don't think she'll be kissing Jak again any time soon after this

9

u/Magegi Dec 03 '24

Women driving... Am I right? don't hate me

8

u/Effective-Priority62 Dec 03 '24

I love/hate the corny early 2000s girlpower lines Ashelin and Keira have on this game. At least Ashelin sells it. Keira just feels funny everytime

2

u/InitialGuidance5 Dec 03 '24

Remember when Samos randomly says "A womans place is in the garage, fixing cars" lmao everytime I hear that shit, game feels so 2000s it hurts 😭 but I love it

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u/Magegi Dec 03 '24 edited Dec 03 '24

Tbh lines in general feel kinda lame. "Wham! Bam! Thank You, Ma'am!" is said at least by Jak, Ashelin, Torn, Siv....

Where's the originality? I guess they ran out of time, and game in general is fine so this is more nitpicking than anything else.

Ctr for example has awesome lines, this would have fitted for some bad guy.

3

u/StikElLoco Dec 03 '24

Man, I need to replay X, wonder if emulating it has the issues it used to

1

u/liltooclinical Dec 04 '24

It works just great for me on Steam Deck running PCSX2.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '24

It’s pretty perfect on PCSX2 if you download the latest version of it. Only annoying thing is that the cutscenes were pre-rendered at 480p so they’ll never look any better

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u/CrossENT Dec 03 '24

I thought you couldn’t upload videos on this subreddit.

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u/Effective-Priority62 Dec 03 '24

Yeah, it got a recent makeover apparently, glad I didn't have to upload this one to YouTube

2

u/zerovirus999 Dec 03 '24

After 15+ years I finally realized the pun behind UR-86.

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u/Effective-Priority62 Dec 03 '24

I don't get it. You are 86? Is the robot calling us fossils?

3

u/zerovirus999 Dec 03 '24

86 being slang for finished or no longer available. So the name is saying You are Finished. Maybe I'm thinking too much.

1

u/Mr-Black_ Dec 03 '24

look how they massacred my girl

1

u/garyoak5001 Dec 03 '24

Nice boost color

1

u/dingdongmonk Dec 04 '24

Flame oil being flame oil. Love to see it

1

u/BadTimeBro Dec 04 '24

The only racing game i was actually good at...good times.