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The Sonic and other Platforming Games thread!

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    people with sonicsonas are already pretty used to overlooking things that are super dumb and ridiculous

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    people with sonicsonas are already pretty used to overlooking things that are super dumb and ridiculous

    Bliptor the Hare ( do not steal) Bunnie Rabbots real boyfriend who is poly with Sally too and is stronger than Super Sonic and Green Knuckles disagrees

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  • FuzzytadpoleFuzzytadpole Registered User regular
    I have a confession for the thread, I love collectathons and I am sad they got the pushback they did.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Nothing wrong with collectathons in general. The issue is a poorly made collectathon, where it feels like there's no point to anything you're doing, at which point it becomes less a fun game and more a chore. Matt and Liam of Super Best Friends Play were talking about that when they got to Banjo-Kazooie in their Rare Replay "quicklook". That game really succeeded at making just running around and collecting stuff fun because they gave you these little sandboxes to play in with a bunch of variety in gameplay within each, so the process of getting all the stuff feels like a fun game and not just checking boxes off a list. I think the backlash comes mostly from the lazier and more poorly executed collectathons that came up later and highlighted the potentially flaws of the genre. Hopefully Yooka-Laylee helps bring back the love.

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  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    edited August 2015
    i love collectathon platformers but DK64 is the one that broke me

    its just exhausting to play

    Daebunz on
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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    DK64 was bad because you had to swap between characters to get it all. There's collectathons and then there's tedium.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I like assassin's creed

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    DK64 was bad because you had to swap between characters to get it all. There's collectathons and then there's tedium.
    Yeah replaying levels with multiple characters is a cardinal sin

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Can we talk about vexx in here

  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    edited August 2015
    DK64 was bad because you had to swap between characters to get it all. There's collectathons and then there's tedium.
    Yeah replaying levels with multiple characters is a cardinal sin

    a friend of mine had big nostalgia goggles for the game so I forced him to sit down and play it with me one weekend like a year ago

    I think we both got sick of it partway through jungle japes at which point he conceded

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  • FuzzytadpoleFuzzytadpole Registered User regular
    I guess I didn't play a lot of the games that turned most people off of it.

  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    Can we talk about vexx in here

    What is Vexx?

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    turtleant wrote: »
    Can we talk about vexx in here

    What is Vexx?

    The lost brother of ratchet, jax, and the other ps2 era platformers

  • FuzzytadpoleFuzzytadpole Registered User regular
    It still hurts that Naughty Dog couldn't figure out how to make a new Jak & Daxter.

  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    I'm still waiting on Unkarted.

    I just want to drive a go-kart as Sully, hook me up Naughty Dog!

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    turtleant wrote: »
    I'm still waiting on Unkarted.

    I just want to drive a go-kart as Sully, hook me up Naughty Dog!

    Uncharted four ends with nathan dying

    sully goes to the funeral

    he returns home and goes out behind the house to the shed and gets in the go kart he bought for nathan when he was a child


    the player drives it in a circle as tears stream down sully's face

    Congrats turtleant, you got what you wanted

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Can we talk about vexx in here

    We can, but you gotta replace any mention of the actual characters with fanhogs.

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Vexx could EASILY be a fanhog name

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    good

    gooooooood

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  • YukiraYukira Registered User regular
    I'm dead.

  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    I didn't ask for this.

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    turtleant wrote: »
    I didn't ask for this.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Yukira wrote: »
    I'm dead.

    Watch it! Necroposting might not be officially against the rules, but it is Frowned Upon.

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  • YukiraYukira Registered User regular
    Yukira wrote: »
    I'm dead.

    Watch it! Necroposting might not be officially against the rules, but it is Frowned Upon.

    When my phylactery is completed, you will be my first thrall.

    And court jester.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Yukira wrote: »
    Yukira wrote: »
    I'm dead.

    Watch it! Necroposting might not be officially against the rules, but it is Frowned Upon.

    When my phylactery is completed, you will be my first thrall.

    And court jester.

    I've had worse jobs.

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  • YukiraYukira Registered User regular
    Yukira wrote: »
    Yukira wrote: »
    I'm dead.

    Watch it! Necroposting might not be officially against the rules, but it is Frowned Upon.

    When my phylactery is completed, you will be my first thrall.

    And court jester.

    I've had worse jobs.

    Your costumes will only be Sonic OCs.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Yukira wrote: »
    Yukira wrote: »
    Yukira wrote: »
    I'm dead.

    Watch it! Necroposting might not be officially against the rules, but it is Frowned Upon.

    When my phylactery is completed, you will be my first thrall.

    And court jester.

    I've had worse jobs.

    Your costumes will only be Sonic OCs.

    Let me tell you about my year in retail computer repair.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    I thought vexx was just kind of the poster child for unremarkable ps2-era character platformers

  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    Hey so I played a platformer. I'm not super into them but I've been enoying Puppeteer, it's really charming and funny. The actual platforming is just pretty good, but it just oozes so much style that it makes up for it.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    It really is utterly amazing how groundbreaking Super Mario 64 was in every fucking capacity. Imagine where we would be without it.

    It didn't just change platformers. It changed 3D games entirely.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    turtleant wrote: »
    Can we talk about vexx in here

    What is Vexx?

    The lost brother of ratchet, jax, and the other ps2 era platformers

    It's the Bubsy of lets fuse mario and Sonic and not quite get it platformers of that era.

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  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    I didn't really play consoles back then, what 3d platformers were there before mario 64? Was it really groundbreaking, or just the first?

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    mario 64 was really groundbreaking

    there were 3d platformers before it but they were bad

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    oh yeah jumping flash

    that game was actually pretty good iirc but it was a first-person thing

    I'm pretty sure there were third-person mario 64 style platformers before mario 64 that were very, very broken but I can't seem to find them

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Yes let's talk about Gex

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    Look at that 'tude.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    but voodoo vince now there was a character

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Remember the Skittles platformer?

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