On April Fool's Day, the community-run project OpenGOAL announced that it had finished work on the Jak 3 beta, launching the game on PC and thereby rendering the entire trilogy playable without an emulator — provided you have your own legal copies.
The aim of this project is to bring the original Jak trilogy to PC to gain a better understanding of the technology behind the games, but one of the benefits in doing this is that it allows for easier modding, which the team describes as a "secondary" goal.
The team are "unsure" if they will decompile Jak X, and have no plans for Daxter or The Lost Frontier, as they were made on different engines by other teams.
As we've seen with countless other classic games, such as Doom, which co-creator John Romero even develops mods for, modding communities are what keep these games alive in the decades after developers move on, and with Naughty Dog's beloved platformer trilogy now on PC, a modding scene of its own has begun to take shape (just check out the incredible Gordon and Daxter, a fan-made Half-Life crossover). In fact, we're already seeing mods developed for Jak 3, even though it...
