/v/ - Video Games

Sheep Raiders is a looney toons ps1 3d puzzle platformer. I'm plaything through it right now and it's pretty damn good.

>>14068705

It also goes by the name "sheep dog n'wolf"

Rayman 2

Chameleon Twist

Medievil

Mario 3D World

I played Jak and Daxter for the first time a few weeks ago and I was pretty disappointed. The collecting isn't even too bad most of the time, but the game really does control like absolute shit, it barely feels like a platformer

Christ even Uncharted feels more of a platformer

Crash fucking sucked compared to banjo honestly. It felt so constrained and didn't really get the dopamine rush flowing, spyro on the other hand was great!

>>14068853

The second game in that series is considered the best.

>>14068932

That's actually the opposite, but whatever

>>14068908

The main difference is that Crash is a linear game while banjo and spyro are nonlinear. The whole reason why I like Crash is because there's no free camera or character rotation but rather it's just a simply "sidescroller" adapted to a 3D environment. One reason why I don't really like 3D games of that era is because the camera and movement is always so awkward.

Gravity rush 1 and 2 are fantastic platformers. Mild amount of collecting but its actually pretty fun to collect in the games.

I had fun with SM3DL

>>14069575

3d Land on the 3DS was pretty okay. Nothing special but okay.

I tried 3D world on the WiiU and didn't even make it through the first level. It felt completely forced. I just couldn't have any fun with it when it was obvious they were just handing me a cat suit and pointing me at a wall. there was no fun or challenge in just holding toward and getting up an area. It was pretty much like playing Assassin's creed in a mario skin.

>>14068990

Crash 2 and onward is non-linear. You can pick the order you wish to play the levels.

Rayman 2 is essential, maybe 3 too if you don't mind exchanging god-tier atmosphere and aesthetics for better combat. You could also try Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers if you don't mind a sandboxy first level, and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is good too if you don't mind switching to first person for shootan.

Aside from that, I dunno. Kao Round 2 looks decent and Blinx has slow movement but gets pretty fucking hard later on.

But collectathons DO have levels to get through

>>14070090

How do you get the Lum cage on the roof of that one lava tunnel in the fire sanctuary?

>>14068705

Fucking A response.

>>14068402

Another game that I don't recall being a collectaton but having plenty of "shine" like objects is Billy Hatcher

>>14070042

You're complaining there was no challenge in level one of a Mario game?

>>14070868

I haven't played it in a couple years and only beat the PS1 version with different levels, my pirated PC copy kept shitting itself at one point, so I don't remember.

i think earthworm jim 3d is worth one playthrough

dont bother buying it, though

>>14068402

oh another thing

I'm not quite sure if the tony hawk games count as platformers, but theres those too

>>14070985

No. I'm complaining that there is no platforming. You're giving me a suit that runs up walls. I want to find my own way up places. It's why games like Assassin's creed aren't fun to explore. If I just hold up and my character does everything then why the fuck am I even playing? I'm a passive guy telling my character "go over there" and then him making his own choices to get there. I am a useless dead weight

Bumpan for 3d platformers.

>>14068705

It's more of a puzzle game than platformer, you just trying to steal sheep while avoiding the guard dog

>>14070042

That sounds fair to do on the first level to introduce a new power-up. You don't necessarily know that the cat suit lets you climbs up walls, but you're directed to a wall to collect something. Would you prefer a text box to explain the mechanics rather than the level design?

Cloudbuilt is pretty great

>>14068853

How does it feel to be the wrongest man in the world?

Jak 1 is pretty much just Crash but with all the levels connected to hub worlds. The level design isn't as good as Crash but it's still great.

>>14068986

Babby doesn't like hard games? If you like 1 better, fair enough, it's a different type of game and that comes down to taste, but 3 is just 2 but with parts that are blatantly unfinished.

>>14068908

Crash is an actual platformer where the challenge is actually in jumping and making it past obstacles. Banjo and to a lesser degree Spyro are just about exploring worlds with mediocre combat and no actual platforming to speak of. Spyro has a bit, especially in the first game, and parts where you need to actually glide well might count as platforming, but Banjo is a lot more along the lines of an adventure game and it only got called a platformer because it had animals in it.

>>14070042

You're surprised that the first level is meant to teach you mechanics? The postgame of 3D World is some of the best and most challenging 3D platforming there is.

>>14087460

I don't hear enough people talk about how A Hat in Time's gameplay is pretty much just Sly Cooper with lolis instead of furries. I hope its success makes Sony actually move forward with Sly 5.

>>14072551

The cat suit isn't the entire game, you bright spark. And it's not like previous games haven't given you the ability to literally fly or anything.

>>14087460

PC games are free, fam.

>>14087460

Wasn't the developer a giant TF2fag who had people make content for his server without pay.

>>14087904

Not even pro commie, it's a meme.

>>14087949

Anyone who doesn't like Crash Bandicoot isn't human.

Bomberman Hero

>>14086697

Having finished it yesterday I'd say platforming elements exist but not really. It's still a pretty fun puzzle game though, and the music is surprisingly good

Crush3d is pretty great

I can't fucking stand platformers even though I played them constantly as a kid.

Super Magnetic Neo is pretty fun. It's like Crash, but with more mechanics, like swinging and ziplining.

>>14088420

>Bomberman Hero

I wish they'd continued that style of game. It was the only bomberman game I loved.

if they ever make a successor, it better have dat chikuma

Spyro 3 and maybe 2. The focus is more on mini-games than hunting for gems like in 1. I mean you need some gems to progress, and have to 100% the game to unlock the bonus secret level, but other than that it's pretty much just running around and doing mini-games.

But why would you hate explorations based games with collect-a-tons?

It's like you hate Dalmatians 102, Monster Island, Toy Story and every Harry Potter game.

>>14092380

The point is that collectathons get lumped in with 3D platformers just because they sometimes have similar visual styles, even though things that are called collectathons are called such because they have no platforming. Toy Story 2 has platforming, Banjo doesn't. At least barely any of it.

>>14068402

OP this is why 3D platformers as a genre have nothing on 2D platformers. 2D platformers are the master race of gaming genres because they're enjoyment comes from mastering them, and not just finding a bunch of coins.

>>14102968

64 was better tbh

>>14102968

Odyssey isn't that good, it has the best controls in a Mario game but some of the worst levels

<sand kingdom

<Lake Kingdom

<lost kingdom

<Snow kingdom the worst level I wouldn't consider it a level

<seaside kingdom

Actually looking back on the levels all of them are garbage except new donk but even that wasn't good. Nintendos fucking garbage, can't even make a good Mario game.

>>14068402

The first Alice game was a pretty good platformer on the PC

RUNE was also another good third person platformer/shooter of that era

>>14103357

>64 best 3d mario

nigga what? you best be tripping! sunshine was the apex of the mario games that will never be reached again.

>>14103887

Galaxy > 64 > Sunshine

>>14103905

You gotta admit, the Snow Kingdom is dogshit. That's one thing he got very correct.

>>14103357

I've only just played both recently, and I've definitely had more fun in general with Odyssey. 64 isn't a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but the greater number of movement options in Odyssey makes my dick rock hard.

>>14087877

He was a TF2 fag, but the last part isn't true. Usually he took on the lion's share of work for any project he was working on and did it pro-bono in most cases.

>>14071084

>even playing it

Even years after the fact I could never suffer through the second boss. How, anon?

>>14103910

>anon is probably too young to have played 64 when it came out and got exposed to it by shitty TAS runs or shitty youtubers

>slow, low FPS limits a lot of older games

>even awful DS demake couldnt save it

>also, puts galaxy at the top

when did we become nu/v/?

ninja goemenomon for N64. it doesnt really have levels but its not a collectathon either. wait.. is that even a platformer?

try ratchet and cl-.

wait, i dont think i actually play platformers. i should delete this and not even post.

>>14102968

>It's not just walking around picking up 15 out of 1000 monkey coins

Does that ever apply for any collectathon, ever?

>>14104770

DK64 with the colored bananas, and the dumbass music notes in Banjo IIRC.

>>14103978

Really, Jak 2 was fun as fuck, but holy shit that change of pace for the story is a level of autism I don't think has ever been beheld since.

>>14104938

You might just be the worst human being alive.

Medievil is good.

>>14103887

Sunshine was best without Flood. Shit had tedious segments. 64 Never had tedious segments.

>>14103934

>but the greater number of movement options in Odyssey makes my dick rock hard.

You've obviously never played 64 to its fullest then. The game does an astonishing amount of shit with less. Odysee also remove a bunch of shit that made the original fun like evading fall damage and gimped the physics.

>>14103973

>slow, low FPS limits a lot of older games

Have you played 64? The FPS probably isn't 60 but it's certainly nothing to shake a fist at. For what the game is the higher frame rate isn't necessary.

>>14102857

>2D platformers

>good

They're one of the worst genres. The 2D sidescrolling perspective is also objectively the worst perspective in gaming.

>>14107639

None of those examples you posted force you to collect items in order to progress, though.

Where's your argument, lad?

Klonoa is pretty good, anon.

>>14070042

When people say "Crash is linear", they mean "Crash has levels with clear paths to follow". Crash is analogous to walking two blocks and finding a dollar along the way, whereas Banjo is looking for pocket change in a two block radius.

>>14109128

Super Metroid is a 2D game that requires you to collect items. If you don't like collectables in a game don't play games with collectables.

>>14110008

>If you don't like collectables in a game don't play games with collectables.

That's the issue. Most 3D platformers force you to collect, while most 2D platformers don't. Ergo 2D platformers are superior, because collecting shit is tedious and autistic.

>>14068402

Glover is ok