History Headscratchers / RatchetAndClank

** Yes.

** My theory was that the developers TRIED to do a deep-story type game with many plotlines, but couldn't handle it and just wanted the two back together as soon as possible (and preferred Qwark over Talwyn, hence her absence in A Crack in Time).

* Is that G-shaped gearish thing supposed to be an ampersand?

* Regarding Chairmen Drek's new planet- it was completely finished by the end the game. That means he succeeded in tearing up huge chunks of planets, many of which were probably inhabited, and sending them spiraling out of orbit to their doom. Not only that, but Ratchet blows up the new Franken-Planet, eliminating any chance they might have had to repair the planets that the pieces originally belonged to. Even if the original planets weren't inhabited, now the Blarg have no place to call their new home anymore. Sure they attacked you, but if you look at it from their perspective, they were simply obeying orders from their leader (whom they probably had no idea was the one who actually wrecked their homeworld in the first place) to protect their new home.

** [[SarcasmMode My good man, programmers are an extremely lazy bunch]]...

* This sounds incredibly random... but Ratchet has no holes in his ears. They're just... flaps of fur on the side of his head.

* The O2 mask. How does that thing work? There's no visible tank or anything to supply Ratchet with air and he's just fine when he goes out into space or underwater (polluted areas I can understand because of the filtering and all that). And the bottomless pits that exists on every planet ever in the Solana, Polaris and Bogon galaxy. Ratchet must've gotten his bravery from living on Veldin, which is a deathtrap. One can only wonder where the locals of Veldin went..

* In Tools of Destruction it's commented that if Emperor Tachyon had seen what the Cragmites were like, he wouldn't want to bring them back. He also had quite a bit of a LawfulEvil slant, to their literal AlwaysChaoticEvil. It really seemed to be setting up for an EvenEvilHasStandards moment, but it was never mentioned again.

** Maybe he just never got the chance to ask.

* The final cutscene of Tools of Destruction had Tachyon yelling various things at Ratchet, before dying. Among them was something to the effect of "Only ''I'' know your ''true'' purpose in this dimension! Only ''I'' know your ''true'' name!", and Ratchet references this later in the same cutscene, before the whole Zoni thing. In A Crack in Time, though, we meet Alister, who was the best friend of Ratchet's father. Of ''all'' the lombaxes we could have met, one would think ''he'd'' know something about the "name" situation, but it's never mentioned, and he seems to have no qualms with using the name we're familiar with. I understand that Ratchet's got his own name now, but it's a little confusing to think back on.

* In Tools of Destruction, the cinematic introducing the Dimensionator references the "dimension of the Zanifarian Death Weasels"...but we visited Zanifar in A Crack in Time...in the ''same galaxy''. Did the Fongoids mess time and space up so badly that their local fauna was sent to another dimension...?

** Insomniac openly stated that the ''Future'' games were ''just'' a trilogy. I'm assuming that you meant the whole "Until Ratchet has found his own family" thing, and it's annoying that they didn't close a couple of plot points from ''Tools of Destruction'' (Tachyon's "Only ''I'' know your ''true'' name!", Max Apogee, etc.) but we were never promised any clarification. If you look at ACIT's ending as saying "They're still out there, looking for adventure and blowing stuff up!" then it seems a lot more promising...

** Insomniac openly stated that the ''Future'' games were ''just'' a trilogy. I'm assuming that you meant the whole "Until Ratchet has found his own family" thing, and it's annoying that they didn't close a couple of plot points from ''Tools of Destruction'' (Tachyon's "Only ''I'' know your ''true'' name!", Max Apogee, etc.) but we were never promised any clarification. If you look at ACIT's ending as saying "They're still out there, looking for adventure and blowing stuff up!" then Heroes on the Move seems a lot more promising. (We also need to keep in mind that it's not just a RatchetAndClank game, fans of JakAndDaxter and SlyCooper need to know what's going on, as well... so the story can't rely too heavily on any one of the series)

** Insomniac openly stated that the ''Future'' games were ''just'' a trilogy. I'm assuming that you meant the whole "Until Ratchet has found his own family" thing, and it's annoying that they didn't close a couple of plot points from ''Tools of Destruction'' (Tachyon's "Only ''I'' know your ''true'' name!", Max Apogee, etc.) but we were never promised any clarification. If you look at ACIT's ending as saying "They're still out there, looking for adventure and blowing stuff up!" then Heroes on the Move seems a lot more promising. (We also need to keep in mind that it's not just a RatchetandClank game, fans of JakandDaxter and SlyCooper need to know what's going on, as well... so the story can't rely too heavily on any one of the series)

** Insomniac openly stated that the ''Future'' games were ''just'' a trilogy. I'm assuming that you meant the whole "Until Ratchet has found his own family" thing, and it's annoying that they didn't close a couple of plot points from ''Tools of Destruction'' (Tachyon's "Only ''I'' know your ''true'' name!", Max Apogee, etc.) but we were never promised any clarification. If you look at ACIT's ending as saying "They're still out there, looking for adventure and blowing stuff up!" then Heroes on the Move seems a lot more promising. (We also need to keep in mind that it's not just a RatchetAndClank game, fans of JakAndDaxter and SlyCooper need to know what's going on, as well... so the story can't rely too heavily on any one of the series)

** Insomniac openly stated that the ''Future'' games were ''just'' a trilogy. I'm assuming that you meant the whole "Until Ratchet has found his own family" thing, and it's annoying that they didn't close a couple of plot points from ''Tools of Destruction'' (Tachyon's "Only ''I'' know your ''true'' name!", Max Apogee, etc.) but we were never promised any clarification. If you look at ACIT's ending as saying "They're still out there, looking for adventure and blowing stuff up!" then Heroes on the Move seems a lot more promising.

* The newly announced All4One game looks like it won't carry on from the story set up by the SequelHook at the end of ACIT. This just looks like it will be a side story.

** It could have been that Aphelion was simply too tough a nut to crack. She is, after all, a space-worthy combat vessel, and the Nanophytes just could take her apart, despite her plowed-into-the-ground status. Why they didn't collect her missing pieces that were just floating around I don't know.

** Considering that Gadgetron also made a ''Black Hole Gun'', robot suicide drones and whatever else, the MegaCorps of RatchetAndClank are basically [[ResidentEvil Umbrella]] played for laughs.

** [[ForScience Guess]].