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hsrob on 23 April 2010
theRepublic said:
hsrob said:
theRepublic said:
hsrob said:
Seeing as the debate rages on I'll throw in my two cents worth to contribute to the weight of evidence. I know it's blasphemy to speak against the great and almighty Wiki but Uncharted isn't a platformer.

Game genres are determined by the predominate gameplay mechanic but are not defined the mechanics that may appear in parts of the game.

Buster Busts Loose was a great platformer back in the SNES days. A genuine 90%+ game where 1/6 of the entire game time was a spent playing football. Should it be called a sports or have been allowed to be nominated in the best sports game category for GOTY?

If Uncharted wasn't nominated as a best platformer in GOTY by any of the major publications then it isn't a platformer.

Holy Shit!  A Buster Busts Loose reference!

*High Five*

I am ashamed to say I had almost forgotten about this gem until it was brought up in another thread a few weeks ago, probably by you ;)

No, wasn't me.

But I am one of only 33 people who own the game on this site.

34 :)



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Wonktonodi on 23 April 2010

How about pixes junk eden. That is a pretty awesome platformer



Kasz216 on 23 April 2010

Nintendo and Sony are the best in platforming in the same way that Someone who got an A and someone who got a C are both top of the class when everybody else has gotten D's or F's.

Nobody has really done platformers like Nintendo. Honestly if I was a big platforming fan that'd drive me crazy.  Well 3D platformers anyway.

 

2D It's more Nintendo and Capcom.



Kenryoku_Maxis on 23 April 2010

Like some people have said in this thread, what Platformers does Sony do? Like many games Sony has, they don't 'make' the games as much as publish them. They're totally different than Nintendo, who is both a console developer and in house game studio.

That aside, I think there's plenty of companies out there that have made better platformers than stuff like Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter.



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mundus6 on 23 April 2010
Kasz216 said:

Nintendo and Sony are the best in platforming in the same way that Someone who got an A and someone who got a C are both top of the class when everybody else has gotten D's or F's.

Nobody has really done platformers like Nintendo. Honestly if I was a big platforming fan that'd drive me crazy.  Well 3D platformers anyway.

 

2D It's more Nintendo and Capcom.

Sega > Capcom.



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Kavitron on 23 April 2010

agreed but nintendo is better than sony at platformers



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Arius Dion on 24 April 2010
Kavitron said:
agreed but nintendo is better than sony at platformers


No comparison really. The best PS games aren't made by Sony but rather third parties lol.

But any way, again, there are many companies that do platformers better than Sony. Besides Ratchet I'm trying to scratch my head to find platformers that they've made.



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Ninpanda on 24 April 2010

If this conversation would take place in the PS1 era, (i.e before Super Mario Galaxy) there'd be a slight chance I'd consider Sony. (Nintendo still has the most platformers, but if we're only looking at the singular best platforming game of all time.)

I'm a big fan of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, but Nintendo would still take the cake. And since then, the gap has only stretched in Nintendo's advantage. Sorry Sony. You've got some excellent platformers, but in this particular genre, Nintendo is unchallenged.



saicho on 24 April 2010
Ninpanda said:

If this conversation would take place in the PS1 era, (i.e before Super Mario Galaxy) there'd be a slight chance I'd consider Sony. (Nintendo still has the most platformers, but if we're only looking at the singular best platforming game of all time.)

I'm a big fan of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, but Nintendo would still take the cake. And since then, the gap has only stretched in Nintendo's advantage. Sorry Sony. You've got some excellent platformers, but in this particular genre, Nintendo is unchallenged.

That would be Super Mario 64 in the PS1 era.



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Kenoid on 24 April 2010

Nintendo is still better known for platformer titles



                                  

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