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Holy fuck I remember Croc

Which harry potter game was the best?

>>15302388

The first or second one. It was downhill from there.

>>15302402

In the first you could fly all over poudlar with the cloudus7000

>>15302516

I remember being amazed, and then quickly melancholic at the limits of the world.

>>15302402

PC or PS?

Try Yume Nikki 3d. Pretty short, but also heavy on the exploration part.

>>15302147

Crash, Gex, Ape Escape, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, I-Ninja.

This is my favorite genre by far as well, OP. I'll branch out pretty far just to get something close to that feel again. Closest I've come in years is A Hat in Time, which is pretty much Sly Cooper but with lolis. Also, Tearaway on Vita and Tearaway: Unfolded on PS4. I can't say how much I love Tearaway: Unfolded. They marketed it like it was a remake, but it's not, it's a sequel. Not that you need to play the first to get it.

Don't forget Rugrats: search for reptar

>>15302685

I played it on the PS1. I'd say for a game like this I don't mind the console version being above the PC one. But I'd need to replay it on PC to make a proper judgement.

Play Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon for N64. It's half mascot platformer, half Zelda game.

>>15302388

For the PC? The first one was harder, had more well thought out challenges, and was a bit more "compact".

But, the second one had more exploration, I liked it the best as a child. The atmosphere and music were both fucking great, my little retard mind was delighted to explore the halls of Hogwarts, casting Alohomora on Mirrors and discovering secret passages.

It's a damn shame J.K. Rowling turned out to be such a bitch. It was always my childhood dream to develop a Harry Potter RPG where you can explore Hogwarts and learn spells. Now, I have the skills to do it but I don't fucking want anything to do with Harry Potter anymore

>>15303172

On this topic, a few years ago, I discovered that the first 2 Harry Potter games had small little modding communities going on, because they were made in early Unreal engine.

I remember I had the idea for that a long time ago, because I found out how easily moddable the game is. I wanted to make a proper Goblet of Fire game using Chamber of Secrets assets, but I didn't have the tools to do so back then.

>>15309432

That's some weird game some dude made called Yo-Noid 2 or something. It came out a bit ago and I remember it being really cool.

Agreed OP. I love 3d platformers and such. I recently got A Hat In Time and loved it, might be right up your alley. I expected a bunch of Tumblr style shit but it was actually refreshingly just a fun game with none of that shit. You just play as a cute girl doing cute things. I want to try Yooka Laylee but I can't see through the smokescreen of bad press. Is the game really that bad?

>>15309577

it's not bad, it's just pretty mediocre. The worlds are not it's strongsuit, and once you get the power to fly, you break all platforming challenges.

Also this game's equivalent of the TalonTrot is on a stamina meter which is annoying as fuck.

>>15309577

Definitely a pale imitation of Banjo-Kazooie, but pretty decent for a Kickstarter game.

Expect to be regularly baffled by inconsistency at every turn and being forced to return to worlds when collecting a pagie seems impossible.

>>15302778

Have to shill recommend this as well. Raw thrill.

>>15302402

Fuck yea. I played the shit out of Sorcerers Stone on PC. It was frustrating how little actual exploring you could do. Shame the pedos blackmailed Rowling. The potter series was basically purple pilled children's fiction.

Me too, that dalmation game was sick

Does Whiplash count?

>>15309782

I think the carnival level was the absolute best in terms of freeform exploration. Plus it had the best theme right after Toy Store.

If it had a Las Vegas level that would have been amazing.

The farm on the other hand I found it to be the most boring because you actually have to do like 3-4 chores before you finish the level. You can't just skip it like the rest.

>>15302147

The word you're looking for is collectathon. Probably so many liscenced games because it was so simple to make it was down to a science, THQ et al. only have to think up a few levels and maybe a gimmick mechanic and you have a new game

>>15309957

The movie game was pretty good too, smaller but more polished. It's like the Sunshine to BfBB's 64

>>15302305

>>15302147

>Croc

One of the best and most underrated vidya soundtacks of all time

What engine and framework is the best for making a game like this in the year 2018-2019?

>>15309432

Be glad you are adapt at avoiding the groid

>>15309628

Did they ever remove that awful knock-off of Grunty's Furnace Fun they make you do between each world? I really didn't feel like writing down the names of the five shopping-cart characters to pass some dumb fucking quiz

>>15312963

>>15312195

Unity (for scrubs but fucktons of tutorials and support for damn near anything)

Godot (better performance and extremely easy to code (the python subset GScript feels like cheating sometimes) but lacking in tutorials and documentation. Has a swiss cheese shader built in because fuck it why not)

>>15312963

Call it Assassin's Creed.

>>15302778

>Zineth.

My nigga, you should check out Perfect Stride too, it's a bit hard to get a download though and sadly you can't buy it unless you have a time machine.

>>15313539

It had co-op and I played it with my bro, shit was so cash.

>>15313710

Speaking of co-op, I remember fucking with my friends by playing as Tak, and constantly using that grapple move to pull Lok to me.

>>15313233

Wait, Perfect Stride went up for sale at some point? I just remember that demo thing being released and it being fucking dope and it's OST being a soundcloud playlist. Said playlist has had some of the tracks removed from soundcloud and now the ingame soundtrack is kind of lobotomized because of that, sadly. I wonder if the purchasable version is any different from the demo or if they just sold that and then decided they'd rather release it for free? Regardless, Zineth and Perfect Stride are fucking legendary and Arcane Kids is probably my favorite indie studio. Sonic Dreams Collection was a blast with the weird-ass almost-ARG they had in the files, and I had a good time chatting with Anons about what it could be leading up to. I wish they'd come back and release a hot new game at some point because they really did make some great things.

I should really go back and play Zineth again at some point. What a nice game.

>>15313216

:^) that game failed so much at everything it set out to be, it might as well just relegated itself to being a shitty Grand Theft Auto parkour collectathon

>>15302402

Third one wasn't half bad, but it was the last good one. I'd say Chamber > Sorcerer's Stone > Azkaban.

I actually think Breath of the Wild is the closest approximation of what the collectathon genre used to represent.

>explore big map

>beat puzzles and challenges for shiny bauble.

If they'd remained more prominent, we probably would have seen a fully open world Banjo Kazooie at some point.

What would be the greatest collectathon game, /v/? Would you say it's Kingdom Hearts?

>>15328352

Does that count? My favourite would probably be Banjo Tooie, even though that game has problems.

>>15303247

Seems like the Harry Potter games went to mediocritry with the 3rd one and then to utter shit the 4th and beyond.

Exactly like the movies. Huh.

>>15302147

i wonder why they fell out of favor. the level despite being a genre mostly about level design it seems the most important aspect of the levels is just being creative rather than making something sane and believable.

>>15330279

There were a lot of not so great ones, and people got pretty tired of the genre. 3D platfomer was THE shovelware genre for a while.

>>15328352

>not super mario sunshine

wew

>>15330552

I like Super Mario Sunshine, but best collectathon ever?

That's a bit much, buddy.

>>15328352

I'd personally have to go with Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, but I'm pretty biased since Spyro was my first vidya.

>>15313539

I played the first one. I can't remember much about it other than that the way health was represented was really cool, with the yellow leaf on Tak's head turning increasingly purple the more damage you took.

>>15330645

Which one do you consider to be the best then?

>>15331314

nah

>>15330279

Jak II was originally supposed to be a 3D platformer like the first, and the first was just Crash Bandicoot without loading screens. But then the focus groups saw Jak II and complained it was "too kiddy," so they gave Jak guns and made the game about stealing cars, and threw on a monster form for Jak just for good measure. This is pretty much what happened to the entire industry.

>>15330509

I think platformers getting mixed up with collectathons didn't help. Too many games, big and successful ones, didn't actually focus on movement and jumping challenges as much as just walking around and picking up tokens. There's a big difference between Crash, where it's all about the obstacles, and Banjo, where the movement mechanics really aren't the focus as much as the exploration is. Mario 64 would be somewhere in the middle, where most games of that era were. But by the time Donkey Kong 64 came out, with 500 goddamn bananas in every level, and practically no actual jumping challenges in the whole game, people started criticizing it. And since platformers and collectathons were frequently seen as the same thing, people stopped making platformers as well.

>>15328352

They STILL haven't had a "find all of Mr Potato Head's pieces" side quest. Instead we have to look for fucking DALMATIONS!

>>15330231

I though Goblet was an okay film, was much better than Azkaban. It was the 5th-8th films that truly blew ass.

>>15334974

The good part of any collectathon is the challenge that happens in between entering a level and picking up the things. What ruins a lot of these games is the lack of challenge, turning levels more into leisurely stroles than a series of obstacles to be overcome. I'd love to see a really hardcore collectathon. Same basic gameplay, but it kicks your ass, and makes you earn it.

>>15335535

Challenge applies to any genre. But I think it's important to note the difference between games where the challenge is jumping and movement, and ones where the challenge is more about combat, or ones where the challenge is more about minigames. But in the late '90s, all the 3D games that had cartoony looking characters mostly got lumped together regardless of their gameplay.

>>15335574

Well, a good collectathon has all three. That was kind of the appeal. Variety.

>>15335597

Yeah but platformers are better than collectathons anyway. The best levels in Mario 64 are the Bowser levels because you can't just walk around all the obstacles.

>a collectathon, but with actually good combat mechanics, challenging tight platform sections, and character interactions that rival a good RPG

This genre really has a lot of untapped potential, when you think about it.

Banjo already has a stinger, if you think about it,

Still not sure what this game is exactly, but it might have some potential.

I found Scare Island better overall. Plus Puppies had far too much floaty jumping.

>And with one last breath anon spouted out his dying words: Fuck Bubsy the cat

How's jak and daxter compared to say, Spyro?

>>15343581

The first Jak & Daxter has more actual platforming than Spyro. It's basically Crash but with levels about as open as you'd get in Spyro. Jak II and 3 are that but with guns and cars and the platforming is a minor element that's basically just left over. Jak I is great but it's a bit short and easy. It's all extremely well done otherwise though.

>>15346128

donald is

FUCKING PISSED

>>15312195

On a PS1? C, assembly.

>>15346128

Highly recommending Kya for comfy as fuck adventure game. Shame there will never be a sequel.

Also why the fuck are the french so good at making adventure type jump and run games?

>>15302388

For some reason the Playstation ones had much more creativity and depth than the PC ones. the PC ones were automated, you couldn't switch spells, Harry would cast the correct spell automatically.

>>15348691

Don't have a modded Vita nor a time machine so can't do that.

>>15346128

>Scaler

I still remember one anon's "from the developers who watched a let's play of Spyro the Dragon" shitpost about it.

>>15349361

Right now you can hack all firmwares. Get cracking. Unhacked is really bad if only for no SD adapters.

>>15349431

>rev8.0 Last updated 2018/07/25

>At time of writing, Vita/PSTV systems at 3.68 or lower are hackable, however it

is strongly advised to follow the initial setup guide that only updates to 3.65

if it's an option, since it allows for a startup entrypoint. All versions above

3.68 are _NOT_ supported! There are _NO_ methods for downgrading! If you update

past 3.65 or 3.68 there's no going back.

>>15349380

I got it as a gift from some friends of the family

It was OK, felt like an attempt to do spyro in a scifi setting.

>>15349439

3.65 is desirable but all versions up to 3.68 are moddable with all the good stuff and 3.68 is latest right now. I only worded it like that to future-proof it and to make clear what you lose if updating past 3.65.

>>15346128

The fuck is Mini Ninjas?

Dude, going on the rollercoaster tracks was The Shit.

>>15351911

Solid comfy little game, try it