Is 2D Platformers still worth $60?

[theRepublic]

MikeRox said:

theRepublic said:

noname2200 said:
I've yet to find any indie game whose quality is similar to a top-notch 2D platformer. Even the best indie platformers (Super Meat Boy, VVVVVV, etc.) aren't up to snuff.

Is VVVVVV supposed to be one of the best indie platformers?  I played the demo of that game, and came away completely unimpressed.  It probably wouldn't even make the list of the 50 best internet flash games I have ever played.  If that is the state of indie platformers, that is really sad.

Wow.

That sounded really harsh, and now I kind of feel bad.  But it is also true, so...

VVVVVV is an amazng game. However I wouldn't call it a "platformer". I've not played Super Meat Boy so can't comment on that. But Thomas Was Alone and Spelunky on Vita were both great experiences. Not quite up there with the Nintendo games, but still worthy in their own right.

Maybe I just didn't get it, but I felt like I was fighting the controls the entire time.  There is just a tiny little bit of momentum, which seems to screw things up more than anything for me.  You can instantly counter-act it with a quick press in the opposite direction, but that left me constantly fidgeting with the touchy controls.

The game just reinforces that feeling of being touchy by making so many areas where being just a tiny fraction of a second off on your directional press or gravity switch results in death.  Lots of deaths.  With so many checkpoints there is really no punishment for it, just play that little section over and over and over again to you get it right.  It got boring quick because of that.  It felt more like luck than anything else in several sections for me.  That is not rewarding.

I love platformers, but I guess the game is not for me.