Recommendation On - Platform/Adventure

Chance

You may be right, but I never tried 'em. I stand by the statement, mostly because I don't think Metroid Prime has Alyx in it. Even Yorda didn't evoke such a feeling of genuine friendship and caring from me.

But again, I haven't played it. Maybe Metroid Prime blows Half Life 2, and ep1 and ep2 out of the water.

Opium

Yeah you see, I myself haven't played HL, so we kind of cancel eachother out. It's just that IGN and other sources are pretty adamant about calling MP a First Person Adventure instead of a FPS, so that's why I thought it might fith the bill even better still than HL. But since we both can't compare perhaps we'll never know. ;-)

Chance

Can we agree on Thief and Thief 2?

Blain

Chance wrote: »

I highly, highly, highly reccomend Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. It's backwards compatible on the 360, and is arguably the best superhero game ever made. Seriously, someone back me up on this.

I don't really understand liming protocol, where it came from, when it's appropriate, etc. Hopefully the meaning is clear.

Mr_Grinch: If you want something less violent than Crackdown, I don't recommend any game named "Ultimate Destruction" for you personally.

bsjezz

PixelJunk Eden!

it reminds me of old-school, explorative platformers more than any recent game. while the abstracted art puts it in a slightly different headspace, nothing beats the feeling of coming upon a rocky outcropping dotted with points when you've been swinging your way further and further from the distant ground. busting up enemies is super satisfying and the environments are dynamic enough you can play them lots of times over

the demo is out, and the full game will be ready for $10 this week. i've already spent hours with the demo so it's certainly a game that'll keep you occupied

Arceus

DeathPrawn

Arceus wrote: »

I have to respectfully disagree. I wanted to love it, I truly did, but it came across as a very well-done Simpsons product with some nifty ideas, great production values, and well-written material shoehorned into an otherwise intolerable and mediocre platformer (much like the Futurama game).

gtrmp

DeathPrawn wrote: »

Arceus wrote: »

I have to respectfully disagree. I wanted to love it, I truly did, but it came across as a very well-done Simpsons product with some nifty ideas, great production values, and well-written material shoehorned into an otherwise intolerable and mediocre platformer (much like the Futurama game).

Yeah. The Simpsons Game is terrible as a game, but is otherwise great. That said, I hear the DS version is actually fun.

Personally, I'd recommend the OP look into Ico and/or Shadow of the Colossus. Both of them are much less platform games than they are adventure games, but they're both great games. Ico in particular has a very similar feel to Prince of Persia: Sands of Time; I don't know of anyone who loved one but not the other.

Mr_Grinch

Wow, I forgot about this thread

I played and completed Lost Winds, it was beautiful and spot on the right length for what I was after. Shortly after that Eden came out, so I'm happily playing through that and, just yesterday, I also downloaded Braid and am playing through that.

Long live the platform genre!

(Ps, I've played Ultimate Destruction. It's fantastic).

And to the last person, I've played and completed them both and would love to play them through again but, as I mentioned, I'm afraid my PS2 is busted.

MJ

PixelJunk Eden is an amazing puzzle/platformer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdzdUgVTuDw

You progress through the levels like in Mario Galaxy(get the star and get booted out) but each time you renter you have to get one more (up to 5) and the story is pretty nonexistent.