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Metallicube on 12 November 2010
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IxisNaugus said:
Barozi said:

If you want platformers go and look up some PSN/XBLA games.

Many of them are on par with Wii platformers (aside from the Mario games):

 

Limbo, Braid, Shadow Complex, Splosion Man, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, N plus, Bionic Commando Rearmed, Trine

to name only a few.

This can be viewed both positively and negatively to a degree. Especially for someone such as myself who favors platformers over every other genre of game. I have Braid, I have Limbo, I have 'Splosion Man and others (Castlevania, Mega Man, Banjo etc.), I'm getting N , Shadow Complex, and Bionic Commando Rearmed. My problem is these games always seem to be relegated to the online store, and end up being rather short and lacking in multiplayer features and achievements. That's not to say they're bad or worse than the retail platformers available on the Wii, just that they're relatively small in scope, whereas the retail games such as Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Bros. Wii or Wario Land: The Shake Dimension last so much longer.

I just don't understand what's stopping devs from putting out full retail platformers on the X360, especially when they're so prevalent on the Wii.

Yeah, I also find myself buying far more XBL arcade games these days than full retail games, both Xbox 360 and even Wii. Braid, Turtles in Time, Castle Crashers, South Park Tower Defence, Toy Soilders, Laura Croft, TMNT, Geometry Wars, Shadow Complex, Scott Pilgrim, etc.. These are closer to how games SHOULD be. No cinematic BS and linearity, just pure gameplay action. I find I am having a lot more fun and replay value with these, and for 1/5th the price!

I dunno personally I think something is very wrong when the smaller $10 digital games are more fun than most $60 full retail games.

I find it funny that MS seems to be trying to emulate the success of Wii with their Kinect, using all the wrong ideals, when all they need to do to get near Wii level game sales is release a quality 2D platformer or action game.