/v/ - Video Games

Hollow Knight, aka Coffeine Flea Adventure Simulator.

Any input will reflect immediately within the absolute minimum of wind-up frames to make the action believable. Jumping and melee ranges are amazing. Zippy is the word that covers it best.

The NES Ninja Gaiden games, of course.

>>15879162

To add to this, all of the challenge of The Messenger comes from platforming rather than combat.

>>15879170

Yeah, started playing a couple of days ago. Great game, so far.

>>15879189

It is.

Until THAT part, for which it drops to a meh 4-5/10 until you get to new areas and it goes up again.

Very funny, OP.

The fast track to feeling athletic is to have a game completely built around that concept. Flash games aren't obligated to be fully 'fleshed out', so they're remarkably good for that, despite often having loose controls.

Good examples include Meat Boy and Super House of Dead Ninjas.

>>15879281

>SHoDN

A+ taste my nigger.

Actually now I realize that I do have a SNES emulator with a collection of ROMs downloaded, are there any good sidescrollers besides the obvious ones worth checking out?

>>15879767

Super Adventure Island

>>15879162

>not the Ninja Gaiden reboot

you can wall run in that game

>>15878559

Mario

>>15880304

They could make it opt-in, but that might ruin the joke.

>>15880308

Fucking LOL!

>>15880357

I meant making fun of game concepts in games as whole. Comedy typically works as you're the observer not the participant as one of the participants is the butt of the joke. It's one of the reasons why jokes don't really work in video games, that and game devs are shitty writters.

>>15880412

>this thing is bad

<but not when I do it!

c.f. Spec Ops: The Line

I look like Mario, how do I do PU traversal irl? I tried walking backwards on an underwater slope but I just stay where I am

>>15880457

You need a shitmon jamboree

>>15880441

I get your point. My first post was the reason why devs do "experience shitty thing as a joke", and my second is why it doesn't really work.

Imma throw out some casual shit so watch out. I can't really remember how stylish you could get in the Titanfall 2 single player. I can only recall the tutorial level having some sort of platforming challenge. I also think Mirror's Edge had potential but then halfway through it decided to be a platform puzzler so it lost all it's free running excitement.

Isn't pn03 really athletic?

>>15879189

What the other anon said, open world part is shit and instead of making moving around more meaningful, it feels as if you were wandering aimlessly in the fog. Also, don't collect green coins, the reward for them is a shitty, useless shuriken.

THPS?

>>15880412

That's why the best video game humor is based on not mocking the themes of the video game but using them to either create a joke, or laughing at them lovingly like "This might be silly but it is what makes the whole thing charming".

Say what you will but Undertale was very decent at that, portraying puzzles in a funny fashion, but still as a part of the world and the game that made sense and were made in good fun. Making fun of handholdy tutorials but at the same time making us feel sympathy for the character representing them. It genereally did look like it was made by someone who really liked JRPGs and not someone who had their head up their ass and couldn't understand genre conventions. It's not the case of cringy, smug "HEH AREN'T THOSE JRPGs CHEESY AND STUPID" shit that we can find in most JRPG parodies.

Can't believe none of you have mentioned lara croft, even flat chested nu-lara is athletic as fuck.

>>15881163

OP meant that the controls feel fluid and maneuverable not characters looking athletic or climbing shit.

Kat from Gravity Rush. Her movements feel like they have weight and inertia yet she's athletic and nimble, I love how when you jump from middle height and start running, she's recovering a bit starting in almost a crouching position to start speeding up.

2B from Nier Laundromata lacks the weight of movements, yet if you do an attack or stop to a halt, she does recover slowly to her default stance. I also like how she runs in different manners when she has different weapons, so when she carries a heavy axe she's balancing her body a bit.

Pitfall: the Mayan Adventure has some light, fast movement that's fairly detailed. The game is actually a bit fast at times, so it helps that the protagonist is fast as well. Jumping from a great height makes him struggle to recover a bit, or if you run from a bit of distance to a wall, he will smack against it and fall to the floor.

>>15880457

>Backwards

Nigger, you are confusing it with backwards long jumping. You are supposed to just partially submerge yourself in water, in a corner and push forward against both walls at the same time for twelve hours. Don't try it unless you can actually manage to keep your body tensed up and flexed for that exact period of time however, or you'll just phase into a fucking wall and get telefragged or leave the earth's atmosphere and get stranded in space. So get /fit/ before you try inter-dimensional travel at home.

doom 2016 after you unlock double jump and improved air control. but yes there is certainly a focus on combat. its nothing groundbreaking but if you like jumping and shooting it might be fun. reminded me a little of metroid prime. that reminds me, i also really liked crisis and star wars jedi outcast (never got to play jedi knight) and alien vs predator for the movement afforded to the character.

>>15881389

I see, but then I run into the problem of finding two surfaces which can withstand the force of me accumulating momentum without gaining speed. Life's not a video game, you know, I don't think there's any place like this on earth.

Thanks for the input though.