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selnor on 28 November 2008
leo-j said:
@McDonaldsGuy

Nice name by the way, well Uncharted, Mirror's Edge, Little big planet, Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia, Ratchet and Clank, Pixel junk eden, etc...

Are all Action adventure titles, and are mostly platformers this gen has some descent platformers imo.

These games apart form LBP are not what I call platformers. I think the OP means games like Mario 64, BK, Donkey Kong 64, Blinx, Conker, Jak & Daxter. ... You get the picture. Games with various worlds to completely explore and collect stuff.

I would love for this genre to be brought back to life. Platformers are good bang for youe buck, and provided me with hours of some of the best gameplay ever.

 



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scottie on 28 November 2008

I think they came in a bit late to win the Platformer race.

Nintendo is always king of platformers
LBP is doing very well for Sony atm

But then again, I have a history of underestimating the 360, so who knows, if they make 2009 a platformer year, in the same way 2008 was a JRPG year then they might well do it.



~flame on 28 November 2008
selnor said:
leo-j said:
@McDonaldsGuy

Nice name by the way, well Uncharted, Mirror's Edge, Little big planet, Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia, Ratchet and Clank, Pixel junk eden, etc...

Are all Action adventure titles, and are mostly platformers this gen has some descent platformers imo.

 

I would love for this genre to be brought back to life. Platformers are good bang for youe buck, and provided me with hours of some of the best gameplay ever.

 

 

yeah, im with you there braid(played the demo) is is pretty sweet . one of the best platform game imo.



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McDonaldsGuy on 28 November 2008
selnor said:
leo-j said:
@McDonaldsGuy

Nice name by the way, well Uncharted, Mirror's Edge, Little big planet, Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia, Ratchet and Clank, Pixel junk eden, etc...

Are all Action adventure titles, and are mostly platformers this gen has some descent platformers imo.

These games apart form LBP are not what I call platformers. I think the OP means games like Mario 64, BK, Donkey Kong 64, Blinx, Conker, Jak & Daxter. ... You get the picture. Games with various worlds to completely explore and collect stuff.

I would love for this genre to be brought back to life. Platformers are good bang for youe buck, and provided me with hours of some of the best gameplay ever.

 

Yeah, that's what I mean. Stuff like Ty, Mario 64, Blinx, Dr. Muto,  Haven, KAO, Pac-Man World, Rayman, etc. etc.

 



mrstickball on 28 November 2008
z101 said:
McDonaldsGuy said:

Microsoft is trying to reach a more casual/children/female market, so do you think they are going to focus more on platformers? Platformers have been absent this gen, but with Banjo Kazooie and MS' attempt to get some casual marketshare, do you see more platformers on the way? I hope so. It's my favorite genre and I don't want to see it die.

 

There is no change for a decent Jump&Run or "Plattformer" on the xbox360. Games like this don't sell on this plattform. And Braid is the only one you could count as good, but it is boring most of the time.

 

But there are many good games of this kind on the Wii (for example Mario Galaxy, de Blob, Sonic and the Secret Rings, Wario Land, Sonic Unleashed)  and many more are announced for the next few month (Mushroom Men, Sonic and the Black Knight, Kore, Kloano: Door to Phantomile).

 

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