Despite being labeled a quiet year by quite a few people, 2021 still threw up a number of games we will be talking about for years to come. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:It Takes Two, Returnal, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Guardians Of The Galaxy, just to name a few. PlayStation also hit us with a handful of exclusives, the most notable being 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. An ambitious pr🦋oject for a number of reasons, incluing it being a PS5 exclusi🥀ve when the console was still extremely hard to come by.
Despite next-gen console scarcity, Rift Apart was a hit. One of the best parts about the sequel was the introduction of Rivet, a female lombax from another dimension. Ratchet fans spent the months prior to Rift Apart's launch trying to guess Rivet's name, simply referring to her as Girl Ratchet for a while. Turns out those calling her that weren't far off what her name once was before the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Insomniac team landed on Rivet.
Insomniac's Mark Stuart revealed during an extensive GDC talk (via ) about Rift Apart that the first name Rivet had during development was Ratchette. Eventually deciding that seemed too much like Rivet was little more than a female Ratchet, they then switched Rivet's name to Ratchet. That's right, the new lombax almost had the exact same name as the game's protagonist. That quickly turned into a logistical nightmare, as you might imagine.
“At a time where story treatments were being rapidly iterated on, it was hard to tell what dimension you were in, but also which Ratchet you were talking about,” Stuart explained. As having two Ratchets became more and more confusing, the team decided to switch Rivet's name to Gadget. That stuck for a while, but some involved in making the decision highlighted the number of times Gadget has been used for fictional characters in the past already.
It was after that someone casually threw the name Rivet out during a meeting and everyone loved it. It didn't take long for Rivet to officially be named after that, and you'd be hard pushed to find a better name for the new lombax. There's no word yet on what's next for Ratchet or Rivet. Hopefully, the grey lombax and her sidekick Kit will return in future games, or maybe even get a spinoff of their own.