Platformers.
Are platform games a dying craze? There are some very decent platform games out there - but it seems hardly anyone are interested in them. What do you guys think? Should people be more interested in them? Why do you think they should?
Hmm, just wondering I guess.
"... and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
Technological advancements have allowed fighting in games to become increasingly more fun, so instead of having tons of games where you jump around a lot and occasionally fight something (platformers), we now have tons of games where you fight constantly and occasionally jump somewhere (beat'em-ups).
The last Platformer game i heard of ( and played ) was Jak 3
I dont think Platformers are dying out, I think people just should give them a chance..
But in all seriousness, they don't make 'em like they used to.
Platformers are the Pop Music of the gaming world.
in the gaming world i live for platformers... like PN03, iggy's reckin balls, DK1,2,3.
castlevanias on gba are fun aswell.
True True, the days of Crash and Spyro are over, but we do have Ratchet and Jak ( although Jak has turn to racing )Originally Posted by Chris
I would like it if they made more I-Ninja games, they were good
Very True...lol
Well platformers are sort of a dying breed these days, very little people play them and appreciate them hence why i dont really like American taste in games(one reason anyway). I certainetly see no appeal to FPS games that relies heavily on graphics besides the skill, but even then most FPS games are unbalanced in terms of weapons and is visually unappealing to me(too realistic, games could be realistic but its old stuff these days, bring in the Wind Waker innovation). So these are mainly for platformer people and maybe oldschoolers. Many people dont find Klonoa or Megaman platform games appealing but you really have to play them to know, either that or you have to grow up knowing that the gaming industry was revived by platform games and a little guy dressed in red.
Current generations dont care, most Americans are graphics whores or realistic graphics ONRY. Really stops alot of games comming here that are very appealing (to me anyway).
BOOM HEADSHOT!!!...what happened to the Boing? :x
Platformers are starting to die yes. Crash and Spyro suck now. The Jak trilogy is over and they're making a racing game after that'll be it, Ratchet is going for a new Unreal Tournament style with Deadlocked so yeah its going to die but games like Physconauts helps keeps tghe platformimg genre's heart beating but I don'y have much hope...Mario 128 might help bring it back.
What do you mean by suck? And if the reasons you will state make it suck, what will make them not suck? Some platform games i am not too interested in, however Sonic and Klonoa and those types of games always appealed to me. So if people say they suck, what must change while keeping a platformer, platformer?
I liked Klonoa as well....I forgot about Klonoa heh heh sorry...the 3D Sonic's aren't fun because of bad camera, levels, and such for me anyway and the 2D Sonics nowadays (Advance) aee too similar but are at least better than Sonic Adventure and well for Crash and Spyro well 'sucking' was too harsh...for Crash anyway. Spyro's games lately are uninspired with dull cliche' levels with no innovation no challenge I could find. Crash suffered from these flaws too but less then Spyro did, I found Twinsanity mildly fun. It needs good level design, personality, AI, camera, which some Platformers seem to lack nowadays.
I'm disgusted and shocked that not one person has mentioned Sands of Time.
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I played Ratchet and Clank (the latest one, dunno what it's called) at my cousin's place. It was hard as! Controls are impossible!I couldn't help but think how much platformers had evolved from the ol' jump to kill things Mario/Crash genre. The new guys are lugging an entire arsenal of weapons, I so can't get into it.
Then Mario's the M.J. The only good game. And it ivolves Bowser raping a princess!
Where does Viewtiful Joe lay, pray tell?
VJ2 doesn't count, it was all SZ-RHOH.
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