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Posted: May 13th 2008 8:02PM FernandoRocker said
Mario will always be the platformer games to reach.
=p
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=p
Posted: May 13th 2008 8:13PM (Unverified) said
Although I would like a traditional platformer to be made again (even though the achievements would be all collection oriented) I prefer the ones that put a spin on the formula like Jak 2 and 3 did with an open world or the vehicle use. Maybe banjo 3 can pull it off..hopefully they will.
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Posted: May 13th 2008 8:15PM FernandoRocker said
I still think that Mario Galaxy set the bar for platformers.
It's a traditional platformer with a spin to the formula too.
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It's a traditional platformer with a spin to the formula too.
Posted: May 13th 2008 8:20PM MarkezJM said
Sure, sure. And Galaxy was great, no doubt. But in my humble opinion, Ratchet & Clank kind of owns the most recent era of platformers. God those games are good, plus they've managed to work in a story in ways Mario has never managed to do. My 2 cents, never played Banjo before, this is looking good tho.
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Posted: May 13th 2008 8:24PM FernandoRocker said
Ratchet is good, but it doesn't have a lot of platformer elements.
I love platformers when you have to jump a lot and need to be very precise. With ledges and moving platforms, and wall jumps, etc.
Not bashing Ratchet, but Ratchet feels more like an adventure shoter more than a platformer.
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I love platformers when you have to jump a lot and need to be very precise. With ledges and moving platforms, and wall jumps, etc.
Not bashing Ratchet, but Ratchet feels more like an adventure shoter more than a platformer.
Posted: May 13th 2008 8:28PM Premature ejaculation man said
I'm with Fernando...It really sucks though that the 360 doesn't have any platformers (aside from this and N+). And I really love Mario Galaxy, however, I can't justify spending the money on the console to play one or two games
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Posted: May 13th 2008 8:29PM FernandoRocker said
Like Mario Galaxy, you use a lot of jumps: normal, double, triple, long jump, backward jump, wall jump, running and then back, spin jump and others jumps.
Almost all the game is about jumping, and I love that kind of games.
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Almost all the game is about jumping, and I love that kind of games.
Posted: May 13th 2008 8:31PM FernandoRocker said
Exactly Scotty...
For example, I think N+, Marble Blast Ultra, Mario Galaxy, etc. are more platformers games than Ratchet (not saying Ratchet is a bad game).
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For example, I think N+, Marble Blast Ultra, Mario Galaxy, etc. are more platformers games than Ratchet (not saying Ratchet is a bad game).
Posted: May 13th 2008 8:39PM (Unverified) said
I consider Ratchet and Clank more of a shooter with some platforming elements than a platformer with shooting elements. It's a great series, but to say it is a better platformer than Mario is(and I am trying my best to not sound like a fanboy) ludicrous.
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Posted: May 13th 2008 9:28PM (Unverified) said
Yeah I have Ratchet & Clank ToD. It cant even come close to touching Mario. Its a shooter/hack n slash 85% and platformer maybe 15%. Great game no doubt but not a platformer. Banjo 3 keeps looking better and better IMO. GT just put this new vid up. HD baby, and let me tell you it looks B-E-A-utiful!
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33904.html
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33904.html
Posted: May 14th 2008 8:40AM (Unverified) said
Mario Galaxy and Ratchet and Clank mentioned in the same sentence without " - is better than -" (in that order), instantly dismisses your comment.
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Posted: May 13th 2008 8:31PM PoisonedAl said
I like how anything with building is somehow ripping off a game that isn't even out yet (and won't be for bloody ages). Yes Gary's mod, countless Lego games and an obscure game called Project Omega on the ZX Spectrum, where you build robots to explore an abandoned alien space station, were all ripping off Little Big fucking Planet! Sony must have been borrowing Nintendo's time machine. Sheesh.
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Posted: May 13th 2008 8:06PM (Unverified) said
So wait someone made that mario and destroyed it??? Oh man I'm going to have a blast just with that part of the game alone.
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Posted: May 13th 2008 8:16PM (Unverified) said
First thought that came to mind was slippy....finally I will have my vengance on that annoying little prick!
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Posted: May 14th 2008 5:07AM (Unverified) said
No Navi mentioned yet?
(both zelda and megaman ones)
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(both zelda and megaman ones)
Posted: May 13th 2008 8:12PM (Unverified) said
Man, I'm just so pumped since seeing all this news on the game today.
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Posted: May 13th 2008 8:23PM (Unverified) said
Stupid. Really stupid.
Rare stop trying to be cool or look cool and go produce some good games. You haven't earn the right to attack Mario just yet.
This is your last chance to make something decent.
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Rare stop trying to be cool or look cool and go produce some good games. You haven't earn the right to attack Mario just yet.
This is your last chance to make something decent.
Posted: May 13th 2008 8:33PM (Unverified) said
Good games? Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Diddy Kong Racing, Perfect Dark, Perfect Dark Zero, Viva Pinata, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Donkey Kong 64, Killer Instinct, Donkey Kong Country, Blast Corps, GoldenEye 007, and Battletoads say, "Hi."
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Posted: May 13th 2008 8:37PM (Unverified) said
Pfft. No one is questioning the developer Rare USED to be. But they certainly are a joke now. Speaking of jokes, PDZ and Viva Pinata being on your list made me laugh.
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Posted: May 13th 2008 10:56PM Lijik said
"Stop trying to look cool?" They were sold by Nintendo like meat at a farmer's market to Microsoft for top-dollar placing many of their projects in limbo and forcing them to rush a bit of Star Fox Adventures and winding up in a state where no one wanted to take their games seriously because "leaving Nintendo" "ruined" them that haunts them to this day.
I think they have earned the right to blow up the head of Mario in one of their trailers.
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I think they have earned the right to blow up the head of Mario in one of their trailers.
Posted: May 14th 2008 11:29AM Roto13 said
Nintendo dumped them for a reason. That reason is an inability to stray from the "Like Mario 64, but with assloads of filler" formula for adventure games. The only two games they made worth playing (and I've played them all, minus Viva Pinata so I don't know what to say about that) were Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. Not Perfect Dark Zero. Perfect Dark. Perfect Dark was their peak and they've plummeted down the slopes since then.
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Posted: May 14th 2008 3:16PM (Unverified) said
"The only two games they made worth playing (and I've played them all, minus Viva Pinata so I don't know what to say about that) were Goldeneye and Perfect Dark."
Looks like someone forgot to mention Banjo-Kazooie and Tooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day (not the terrible, horrible remake), Jet Force Gemini, ANY Donkey Kong Country game (which includes DK64), and Kameo.
Yes, I liked Kameo. Only game Rare's made for MS that reaches the level of their old stuff. Viva Pinata was good too, but...eh.
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Looks like someone forgot to mention Banjo-Kazooie and Tooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day (not the terrible, horrible remake), Jet Force Gemini, ANY Donkey Kong Country game (which includes DK64), and Kameo.
Yes, I liked Kameo. Only game Rare's made for MS that reaches the level of their old stuff. Viva Pinata was good too, but...eh.
Posted: May 13th 2008 8:36PM PoisonedAl said
This has user created content? Oh I can hardly wait to see the landscape littered with penis shaped craft.
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Posted: May 13th 2008 8:47PM SpaceSpace said
kinda seems like there ruining the game by flooding it with vehicles.
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Posted: May 13th 2008 9:28PM (Unverified) said
Yeah I have Ratchet & Clank ToD. It cant even come close to touching Mario. Its a shooter/hack n slash 85% and platformer maybe 15%. Great game no doubt but not a platformer. Banjo 3 keeps looking better and better IMO. GT just put this new vid up. HD baby, and let me tell you it looks B-E-A-utiful!
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33904.html
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33904.html
Posted: May 13th 2008 9:29PM (Unverified) said
This was supposed to be a reply to Fernandos thread, arghhhh!!
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Posted: May 14th 2008 2:16AM (Unverified) said
Lame rushed-out LBP rip-off confirmed.
/fake applause
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/fake applause
Posted: May 14th 2008 9:10AM original fred said
I didn't see any head being blown off in the linked trailer. Is there another trailer I didn't see?
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