YOUR GREATEST GAMES except for Aunt Alison who is lazy

I agree about the inverted castle, although one complaint I have about that is that you have to enter bat mode all the time because everything's just 1 cm too high to jump on. That and the clogged up inventory with its tedious manual rearrangement of items.

While I think it's still one of the best Metroidvanias (and imho better than Hollow Knight), imo Bloodstained is even better because it improves on it in many little ways. A much better inventory system with the ability to sell or dismantle items, the crafting system is a great fit for this game, the shard system taken from Aria of Sorrow is great too, and it works better as an action game thanks to more agile movement/combat mechanics.

That's not to say SotN doesn't still has the edge in some aspects, most notably atmosphere. But overall, especially gameplay-wise, Bloodstained wins imo.

No Dangerous Dave?

Incidentally, I actually rank the game in my avatar among the worst I've ever played.

Somehow forgot MK8 off the list.

Put me on the R&C defender list too, only beaten by Mario for me, I know it's not a true platformer but it's close enough.

I'll also say I preferred THPS4 to the earlier games. I preferred the more free roaming, zero time limit model, instead of the time limited runs of earlier games.

I'm guessing Tony Hawk?

Ah.

Are you even a hardcore gamer bro?

3 isn't quite as good as 2, but it was a cross gen game, so didn't add much besides maybe the revert? I do remember seeing it running on a PS2, having rinsed the second game on a PS1 and it looked amazing. But yeah, 4 was the best of the originals in my opinion. They should have taken a small break after that one. Not that Underground 1 is necessarily bad, but I think we were all getting rather fat and had our fill.

My impression was that that was more or less to be expected? I do remember that people were talking as if each of their attempts at solving the thing was pretty short.



I have hundreds of hours in various ARPGs and I don't think I included anything back when the first thread was made. Except Diablo 2, but's that's mostly just for atmosphere and music. And nostalgia obviously.

It always makes me laugh just how edgy the covers for J&D got over time.

Yep, the only PS2 platformer I finished, the rest had me bored after an hour.

In underappreciated games talk, Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf was probably my favourite platformer type game on PS1, but it was more of a puzzler I guess.

Yeah it was called Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, I heard a film podcast talk about it as a very formative game for one of the guests.

I can't decide if a sandbox style version of THPS is genius or terrible.