I've been going through the Ratchet & Clank games starting from #1. Just finished Going Commando after awhile and was excited to move on to Deadlocked cause I loved the controls. I start up Up Your Arsenal cause it's in order, and I find "lock-strafe mode" in the settings.

Holy. Shit. I'm like a kid in the candy store! I thought Deadlocked was the only game that allowed free-aiming like that, but apparently it's in all the games after and including Arsenal!

This inspired me to try out PS3 emulation again, and lo and behold, it fucking works spectacularly. I'm using a gaming laptop with a 5600h and 3060, so I thought PS3 emulation was still out of reach. Not with Future: Tools of Destruction.

I'm now looking forward to playing the rest of the Future series, as I stopped with Tools of Destruction as a kid.

● An entirely new game (to follow Rift Apart)

● Ports of the original games onto next-gen

● Crash/Spyro style (1-1) HD remakes of the original games

● A reimagining of Ratchet 2 as a sequel to Ratchet PS4

"Many of you have wondered where our voice deity went. Well, he got sick. At first it was mild cognitive memory issue. Once he arrived at Silverado Beverly Place Memory Care, all was well but two weeks later he got the worst case of COVID imaginable. (He almost died numerous times). He was completely paralyzed and hospitalized for four months where he learned to eat again, walk again, etc. Jim’s now back at Silverado. Not close to how he was when he got COVID. It really set him back. But, the amazing thing about Alzheimers is part of the brain still functions normally. The other part - well, he has no memory, not from a year ago, a day ago, 10 minutes ago, 2 seconds ago. But he still plays harmonica, guitar, does voices and sings."

Source with donation method via PayPal: https://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Ward/100028975344523/