why is this game known for being one of the hardest ps2 games?

>>383611257
It's known for having really inconsistent spikes in difficulty rather than being difficult overall

>>383612552

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>the timed mission around the city right before you get the first gun

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>>383611257

Who the fuck prints screenshots at the front of the cover? Jesus fucking Christ...

>>383611257

Because casual little children who just came off the first game played it and got butthurt it didn't hold your hand like every other kiddie platformer.

Jak 2 is goat.

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>>383611257
NA cover is terrible damn

I bought HD Jak collection.
First one was great.
The second one was difficult enough for me to ponder why even play the game?
All I get is some crappy end credit?

No thanks.

>>383614502
I dropped the second game because of the shitty city in general. Its such a bore to look at and driving around is a frustrating mess of crashing.

>>383611257
Because /v/ is full of casuals

>>383614703
True, it's just trying to be a GTA clone for the sake of it, which is not surprising considering the time it came out.

Now I tried Jak3 a little bit and it was so much better done. Not sure if 'll ever play it again though.

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>>383611257
It's not the difficulty curve, it's the trial & error that pisses off people.

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>>383616487
this level was easy if you remembered you had the useless hoverboard

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>>383612742
>the timed mission where you have to destroy those blue things floating in the harbor
>it's like 8 minutes long and if you run out of time you have to start over

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>>383614230
The NA cover is shit, but the european one is also shit imo

>>383616487
>he doesn't know the trick
Come on man it's been over a decade

>>383611257
It is also probably the most prominent series to have absolutely horrible character designs. How do you update these? How do you remaster them? it's just disgusting from top to bottom, like Bungie's horseshit Marathon games.

>>383611257
>implement terrible, laggy controls
>implemented additional "difficulty"
>"Destroy ships at drill platform"
fuck you, you fucking degenerate and incompetent developers

Jak 2 aged badly, it's a product of it's time
Jak 1 is timeless

>>383617684
Jak 1 feels like a N64 collectathon but with smoother graphics and framerate.

That's all I ever wanted.

>>383616727

Wow, they topped the Dreamworks face.