What was the nail in the coffin for this genre?
Any other honorable mentions, aside from modern indie crap?
Side-scrolling 3D platformers
Michael Jones
Leo Lee
pandemonium
Owen Kelly
Ultimately, these games could have been 2D. The 3D graphics were impressive at the time, but as that wore off, I, at least, began to think that sprites can look better when real work is put into them. I mean I don't think I'm convinced that New Super Mario Bros looks better than Super Mario World or Yoshi's Island.
That said, Tomba and Tomba 2 are some of the best games ever made, and Pandemonium will always be special to me for being the first PS1 game I bought.
Ryder Richardson
I would really prefer if you would be quiet.
Landon Morales
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Dylan Gomez
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Andrew Miller
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Brody Parker
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Ethan Bell
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Anthony Phillips
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Easton Foster
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Charles Jackson
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David Allen
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Alexander Robinson
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Michael Evans
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Lincoln Campbell
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James Edwards
fuck I wish that game was good
Adam Young
me too, but its still ok, at least playable.
Sebastian Powell
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Colton Nelson
Basically, 2D platformers are doing fine. It's 3D platformers that don't exist anymore. The Crash Bandicoot remasters are as close as you're going to get. And no, Yooka Laylee is a collectathon. Banjo and Conker didn't actually do much platforming. The Ratchet & Clank remake removed levels that had more platforming and replaced them with levels that were just hallway shooters. Tearaway: Unfolded was great and made me feel like it was 1998 again (the heyday of 3D platformers), but didn't sell shit and we'll never see another one ever again.
Levi Baker
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Cooper Powell
I'm dissapointed, Holla Forums