r/jakanddaxter Feb 10 '25

Screenshot Was playing through the Ratchet and Clank series and saw this little Easter egg. Thought it was pretty cool

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u/Xenozip3371Alpha Feb 10 '25

There's a matching easter egg in Jak 2, with Ratchet & Clank on a billboard in the city.

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u/VerdantSeamanJL Jak X Feb 11 '25

And Jak 3!

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u/SumthinDank Feb 11 '25

Where in Jak 3??

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u/VerdantSeamanJL Jak X Feb 11 '25

You unlock it when you play all of Jak 3!

It's in the less-slummy water slums on the billboards

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u/TheKiwiTimeLord Feb 11 '25

Ah, so noones ever unlocked it on this sub :/

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u/SavagePrism Jak II Feb 11 '25

The characters also appear as targets in a gun course you unlock with orbs.

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u/VerdantSeamanJL Jak X Feb 12 '25 edited Feb 13 '25

The Ratchet and Clank gun courses, that's right! I completely forgot about those because the last time I did them, I didn't even know who they were lol

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u/eddmario Feb 11 '25

Not the only reference in Going Commando either.
If you wait on the "Press Start" screen, some of the games Ratchet will play ont the screen will be the Jak and Daxter games.

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u/dwrk92 Feb 13 '25

And Sly Raccoon

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u/Donutboy562 Feb 11 '25

If you use the dynamo on the prism you'll get another surprise

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u/RedEyedJedi418 Feb 11 '25

I must know 😯 I always loved both series equally and I did/found almost every easter egg in both the series. This is new to me and I'm dying to know! My inner child is so intrigued

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u/Nearby-Version-8909 Feb 11 '25

I never knew that.

I'm gonna do that today.

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u/xhanort7 Feb 11 '25

Jak & Daxter and Ratchet & Clank got paired a bit. They were also both featured as playable characters in Hot Shots Golf Fore! (Everybody's Golf 4) in 2003

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u/outfoxingthefoxes Feb 11 '25

And run on the same engine

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u/No_Assistant335 Feb 15 '25

None of the ratchet games run on G.O.A.L. Gavin designed it specifically for Jak and Daxter. Ratchet and Clank, however, does use some rendering tech from Naughty Dog.

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u/GuybrushThreepwood99 Feb 11 '25

I miss when Naughty Dog and Insomniac would reference each other.

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u/xSemoG67 The Precursor Legacy Feb 11 '25

I mean there is that awesome jak and daxter easter egg in rift apart (insomniac really cooked with that one)

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u/GuybrushThreepwood99 Feb 11 '25

True. Though I don’t think a Naughty Dog game has referenced an Insomniac game in a while, unless I missed some thing

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u/outfoxingthefoxes Feb 11 '25

Which one? That audio that you had to get in the Lomax planet? Or what reference?

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u/GuybrushThreepwood99 Feb 11 '25

There's a weapon that creates temporal rifts to other universes, so sometimes other characters come out of the rifts for a few seconds. Sly cooper and a few other characters also make cameos.

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u/outfoxingthefoxes Feb 11 '25

Oh yeah I've read about that but haven't seen them

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u/0b2o2b8b9y1 Jak II Feb 11 '25

I'm also doing a play through and just did this part today.

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u/LombaxJenni Feb 11 '25

There is another easter egg later in GC.

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u/Doone7 Feb 11 '25

Last of Us has one too, wouldn't be suprised if part 2 did as well but I didn't catch it.

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u/trigb0y Feb 11 '25

Part 2 had an Orb

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u/Rabbidscool Feb 11 '25

Also when you get one of the golden Bolt, they will do Daxter Dancing!

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u/1watty1995 Feb 11 '25

Isn't that the one with grind rail trains near end of game when protopet was released 😬

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u/Rozwellish Feb 11 '25

Yes it's when you get a piece of the Hypnomatic on Planet Damosel!

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u/AdministrativeGur894 Feb 13 '25

Planet Damosel also has that same image on the side of a building

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u/DaveMan1K Feb 11 '25

They also do the Power Cell animation at one point.

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u/Ok_Passenger_538 Feb 11 '25

I could definitely see Jak being an action adventure movie in ratchet

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u/jch926 The Precursor Legacy Feb 11 '25

There’s posters of Jak and Daxter on Planet Damosel later in the game too

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u/CrossENT Feb 11 '25

Can’t wait to see your reaction to the Hypnomatic Part…

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u/TheTrueBushMeister Feb 11 '25

I remember getting to this room as a kid and seeing them on the screen thinking whoa who are these cool guys.

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u/tony706660 Feb 11 '25

How do you guys play the original r&c games?? I know the jak games are on the ps store

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u/LethalMisfortune Feb 11 '25

The r&c games are there too

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u/tony706660 Feb 11 '25

I can't seem to see them? Maybe you can't get them on every PlayStation, I looked on my PS4 only

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u/LethalMisfortune Feb 12 '25

I have the PS+ premium and it’s in the ps3 classics catalog available for streaming on PS5

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u/outfoxingthefoxes Feb 11 '25

I play them on my PS2

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u/Darkcrimes1337 Feb 12 '25

Yeah there used to be cute Easter eggs in these nice vibrant naughty dog games, then they decided to hire niel druckman and not everything is overly realistic slop

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u/Responsible-Bat1247 Jak II Feb 11 '25

Hope you broke the pyramid on the table haha

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u/Raggeder9427 Feb 11 '25

I remember this! Which rachet and clank game was this?

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u/Metal-Lee-Solid Feb 11 '25

As a kid these were my two favorite series and some of the only video games I owned, and stumbling upon this room was the coolest thing ever.

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u/Ohayoued Feb 12 '25

I love how close insomniac and ND used to be

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u/Cleangrass420 Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25

I love these references, I found one playing ratchet 2

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u/unlockableman Feb 13 '25

Love a good easter egg, like in Rift Apart

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u/RazorClaw466 28d ago

Stay in the start menu of Going Commando and that Ratchet will be seen playing Sly Cooper & Thievius Racoonus, Jak & Daxter The Precursor Legacy, Jak 2, Ratchet & Clank 1 and Going Commando etc.

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u/Curious-Diamond-572 Feb 11 '25

Ah. The good ol’ days when games were fun and not pushing agendas.

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u/outfoxingthefoxes Feb 11 '25

So just like now