Platformers

[alexiuspine]

What are some of your favourite platformer games?

[loaf]

Risk of Rain

[Kurt Zisa]

Donkey Kong Country 2 and Mega Man 2 (NES). Some of my favourite vg themes come from these games. Not to mention they're just solid all around games. I've played quite a few more than that but nothing that I can think of tops those imo.

I found this cover of Dr. Wily's theme while searching for the other ones. I feel a playlist coming on.

[Crescent]

*Conker's Bad Fur Day
*Rayman 1 & 2 (PS1)
Banjo Kazooie
Mega Man X
*Ape Escape
Bubsy (SNES)
*Crash Bandicoot 1, 2:Cortex strikes back & III
Jak n Daxter Precursor Legacy, II & III
*Super Metroid (SNES)
Ratchet & Clank 1, GC & Up your Arsenal
*Sonic the Hedgehog
*Tomb Raider I, II, III, Chronicles, The Last Revelation

Mario
Super Mario Bros 2
*Super Mario Bros 3 (my all-time fave Mario game)
*Super Mario World: Yoshi's Island
*Super Mario 64
Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
Super Mario Sunshine
Paper Mario

*Donkey Kong (SNES trilogy):
DK Country
DKC2: Diddy's Kong Quest
DKC3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble

*My favourites

Dont have a bad word to say about any of these. PLatformers are just so fun. I love em.

[Xanatos]

Let's see now...

Psychonauts is by far my favorite platformer. A testament that even platformers can have a well written story along with deep, fleshed out characters. Appearance wise Psychonauts is unique, and somewhat weird, in a good way though, it's genuinely funny, classic Tim Schafer, really. Its gameplay, and level design, especially level design are unrivaled as far as this genre goes. Shame though it sold so poorly.

Out of the Mario games, it's a toss up between Super Mario World and Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, games I still love to play from time to time.

Sonic Generations is another platformer I'm fond of, it's in fact the only Sonic game I ever played. Really love the transition between 2D and 3D. It's bit short though, but bursting with additional content.

Limbo, Daxter and Megaman 3 are up there as well.

*Super Mario 64

I am probably the only person who didn't like Mario 64, like at all. It just felt so awkward, I found controls to be rather clunky, I never could get used to it. I feel Ocarina of Time did far better transition into 3D for its franchise than Mario 64 did for its own, but hey, that's just me.

[Rowan]

The best platformers are the ones I played on pc in my early childhood years.

-Cosmo
-Crystal Caves
-Duke Nukem
-Commander keen (1 - 6)
-Hocus Pocus

im sure theres others, just cant think of them right now.

[Xanatos]

The best platformers are the ones I played on pc in my early childhood years.

-Cosmo
-Crystal Caves
-Duke Nukem
-Commander keen (1 - 6)
-Hocus Pocus

im sure theres others, just cant think of them right now.

I used to have Commander Keen 3, Duke Nukem, the first one (chopped in three parts), Titus Fox and Dangerous Dave on my old trusty 486. If i recall correctly you could beat Commander Keen 3 in like two minutes. Good games, good times.

[Crescent]

It just felt so awkward, I found controls to be rather clunky, I never could get used to it.

And the camera too, sure I remember all that but its not really worth anything for me to gripe over personally. I used to love perfecting my flips into the paintings hah

I feel Ocarina of Time did far better transition into 3D for its franchise than Mario 64 did for its own, but hey, that's just me.

Nah its not just you, its the obvious answer (at least to us) but honest to god I dont even care.

Also

*Super Mario World: Yoshi's Island

this isnt even a Mario game. Super Mario World is one of my favourite Mario games as well n is what I meant to put as well as Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. I was jus rolling all these games off the top of my head oops I hate going back n editing my posts