Nintendo can never seem to satisfy fans

[milkyjoe]

TeddostheFireKing said:

milkyjoe said:
I would ask how Ratchet & Clank/Jak & Daxter/Sly Cooper differ from each other any more than Mario/DK/Kirby.

I haven't played any Nintendo's games long enough to comment, but as far as Ratchet, Jak and Sly go, they vary a fair bit.

Ratchet games involve linear levels with normally two objectives one level (so one would be getting a holo map or something, while the other is getting to the skateboard ring). There are also loads of weapon choices in the game.
Sly games have a hub area and each mission can be accessd from there, think GTA style, but weapons are very different and you only really have one for each character. Yeah you control multiple characters too :P
Jak is a mix of the two with more weapon choices than Sly but less than Ratchet, but it has the GTA open world hub style of Sly too.

Overall they all play fairly differently, with Ratchet and Jak being fairly close, but Sly being VERY different.

I know how different they are. I also know how different Mario/DK/Kirby are. The question was more rhetorical than anything else.

The point was made that at the most basic level, they are essentially the same, but I believe that that is a redundant argument that could be levelled at a whole host of games from a wide variety of developers. It is true that they all share the same roots (and I mean all of the games mentioned, not just the Nintendo or Sony ones), regardless of the fact that they are very different when you look beyond the most basic fundamentals (Sly is more about stealth, DKCR has more in common with Rayman Origins than it does with Mario, etc, etc...).

Platformers are my favourite genre so I can appreciate the subtle differences between them more than someone who is less enthusiastic about the genre would, in the same way that people who love FPS will argue the difference in style between Halo and Killzone despite them having similar roots again, yet as I'm not an FPS fan, I don't see the same number of differences there, but that doesn't mean I can't imagine they are there.