If you had Ratchet: Gladiator on your memory card when you played Jak X, you could choose Ratchet as a playable character

"Still waiting on Jak 4, eh?"
"You get used to it."

When I first saw the title Jak X, I legitimately thought that I had missed the release of Jak 4 through 9.

Sad that Naughty dog didnt continue the trend of making a racing game after your third entry with Uncharted.

Jak X is so underrated. And there’ll never be a game that gives me the same feeling again.
The nuanced handling of the cars, the aesthetic, the music- it’s so distinct.

16:20

In Jak's defense, Krew had sold out the entirety of Haven City to the Metal Heads... plus it's not like he could have just carried him to safety.

[Gets completely immolated in a car explosion]
"W O A H"
-Jak

I remember being so disappointed that Jak X was a racing game, not another traditional Jak. But yeah, Jak X is great.

I should have mentioned this in your last Jak video, but I believe the change in love interests for Jak 3 might have been a result of voice casting issues. For whatever reason, the previous VA of Keira, Anna Garduno, did not reprise her role as Keira in Jak 3 or Jak X. She was replaced by Tara Strong, a common voice actress with literally hundreds of roles.



My theory is, given how little Keira speaks in Jak 3, how she is oddly mute when first meeting with Jak while Samos talks his mouth off, that Naughty Dog didn't have a voice actor for Keira. I think Naughty Dog didn't have a voice actor for Keira until near the end of production, which necessitated the change in love interests. Remember, they only had a year to pump out Jak 3, there wasn't much time to recast Keira at all. It's possible Naughty Dog were afraid they wouldn't find a good new VA for Keira, or perhaps the former actress was stuck in pricing negotiation for a while before backing out. Regardless, Keira is too mute and too small of a figure in Jak 3 for me to believe it was all intentional. It doesn't feel like an intentional artistic decision, especially when they went back on it in Jak X. It smells of backroom issues to me.

The constant cutting between cutscenes and Jak’s friends blowing him up had me in stitches 😂

The soundtrack has some great musicians on it:
"The score of Combat Racing was primarily composed by Billy Howerdel, with assistance from Dean Menta, Danny Lohner, Eric Bass, Josh Freese, Atom Willard, Joey Castillo, Paz Lenchantin, Troy Van Leeuwen, and Wes Borland. Furthermore, two songs by Queens of the Stone Age are present in the game's opening, being "A Song for the Dead" and "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire". "

RIP Memorycard.

“Still waiting on Overblood 2, eh?”
“You get used to it.”

Someone mentioned “The Fast of Us” and I refuse to live in a planet where a survival horror combat racer doesn’t exist

You could survive the peacemaker by just stopping your car. 9 times out of 10,someone else would pass you, and it would kill them instead, giving you back your lead.

The one thing that sold Jak X to me:
Queens of the Stone Age's music.

Jak X is the most primal Kart racer I've ever played. It fills me with a type manly, grunge-y, adrenaline-fueled energy that I can't get from most other Kart racers.

Just make you go "YES! UNGF!"

"A woman's place is in the garage fixing cars!"

God that line is so funny.

7:43 "Torn to shreds" I see what you did there.

15:50 kiera stop racing you're killing me literally