3D platformers

[Egg]

Is there any 3D plaformers on steam like a hat in time?

[MalikQayum]

https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/3D%20Platformer/

[crunchyfrog]

Sadly, very few true 3D platformers on ANY platform in recent generations. I still don't understand why it turned into a dead genre. It was doing great on the PS2, then nothing.

The best advice I can give is to perhaps go to gamefaqs.com and look up all the PS2 games, and sort by 3D platformer. Look up any of those that pique your interest and see if those are available on Steam.

If you need any specific recommendations from that era, I can happily oblige, if you wish.

[Egg]

Цитата допису crunchyfrog:

Sadly, very few true 3D platformers on ANY platform in recent generations. I still don't understand why it turned into a dead genre. It was doing great on the PS2, then nothing.

The best advice I can give is to perhaps go to gamefaqs.com and look up all the PS2 games, and sort by 3D platformer. Look up any of those that pique your interest and see if those are available on Steam.

If you need any specific recommendations from that era, I can happily oblige, if you wish.

Yes ps2 platformers were the best i just wish that there were more 3D platformers and there is only one good 3D platformer like a ps2 game and that is a hat in time and could you recomend me your platformers?

[nullable]

Цитата допису crunchyfrog:

Sadly, very few true 3D platformers on ANY platform in recent generations. I still don't understand why it turned into a dead genre. It was doing great on the PS2, then nothing.

Things come in phases. I mean by the time the PS2 ended we'd been buried under a mountain of 3D platformers over 10 years. I mean same thing happened to Space flight sims. A lot of genres have waxed and waned over the years.

I mean same thing will happen to Battle Royale eventually, and any genre that gets over saturated and people get sick of it. But time heals all wounds and things make a come back and we love them all over again.

I'm having lots of fun with Super Mario Odyssey, and that's as 3D platform as you can get. Granted it's not on Steam, but it has been very successful. And if people are into that sort of game again platformers are bound to come back around.

[Gonna_Fly]

try looking for Okami, the game is pretty long.

[crunchyfrog]

Цитата допису Snakub Plissken:

Цитата допису crunchyfrog:

Sadly, very few true 3D platformers on ANY platform in recent generations. I still don't understand why it turned into a dead genre. It was doing great on the PS2, then nothing.

Things come in phases. I mean by the time the PS2 ended we'd been buried under a mountain of 3D platformers over 10 years. I mean same thing happened to Space flight sims. A lot of genres have waxed and waned over the years.

I mean same thing will happen to Battle Royale eventually, and any genre that gets over saturated and people get sick of it. But time heals all wounds and things make a come back and we love them all over again.

I'm having lots of fun with Super Mario Odyssey, and that's as 3D platform as you can get. Granted it's not on Steam, but it has been very successful. And if people are into that sort of game again platformers are bound to come back around.

Definitely, but the point I was making is that 3D platformers was an odd one,.

I've been there for all of gaming andit does indeed typically go either the route of a genre gets overplayed to death by devs and people get sick of it, or some tech moves onwards and makes the older iteration redundant (a bit like what happened with text adventures).

3D platformers did indeed have shedloads, but they had been that way for a couple of generations so that it seemed about the norm. I mean, FPS es can easily be found everywhere but the interest and market sustains it.

2D platformers were a new ish genre or at least had settled by the time of the ZX Spectrum and they were a major genre - probably most of the games were platformers. It was a kind of set then, and it rather easily slid from 2D to 3D when the time came.

Then after the PS2, bang, nothing at all. It didn't go through thing where they grew in number so everyone got completely sick of them, and it didn't get to the stage where the market blew them out so that devs whittled off them.

They literally just stopped overnight on the transition to the PS3.

I think, partly from my experience and time with gaming journalism then, and partly from looking back and digging around, the major reason was this daft thing that the industry does - gets in a circle jerk and sniffs it's own farts.

There's ALWAYS some daft ideas that get thrown around in such echo chambers and they grow.

Classic example from the beginning of last generation - remember the "This is the last console generation as consoles are dead" ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that was being thrown around by all and sundry in the industry but nobody ever said why? And then the PS4 broke sales records along with the Switch and that's been swept under the rug.

I mean a similar thing happened to horror games - remmeber that a couple of generations ago, the industry was saying "horror games are too niche and don't sell so we don't need to make them"? And then a few little titles like Outlast came along and blew that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ out the water.


I think that's the largest reason for it, from what I've seen. But it's curious nonetheless.

[crunchyfrog]

Цитата допису Egg:

Цитата допису crunchyfrog:

Sadly, very few true 3D platformers on ANY platform in recent generations. I still don't understand why it turned into a dead genre. It was doing great on the PS2, then nothing.

The best advice I can give is to perhaps go to gamefaqs.com and look up all the PS2 games, and sort by 3D platformer. Look up any of those that pique your interest and see if those are available on Steam.

If you need any specific recommendations from that era, I can happily oblige, if you wish.

Yes ps2 platformers were the best i just wish that there were more 3D platformers and there is only one good 3D platformer like a ps2 game and that is a hat in time and could you recomend me your platformers?

Give me until tomorrow and I'll dig out my catalogue of PS2 games and recommend some and see if they can be found on PC.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

https://store.steampowered.com/recommended/morelike/app/253230/

[Capeshifter]

I can suggest a few, though most of them are ports, if you don't mind that too much.

Spyro Reignited and Crash Bandicoot Trilogy are the obvious ones. They're really good remakes, very true to the originals with very few if any glitches / gameplay issues.

There's also Portal 1 and 2. Valve classics. Timeless.

Here's a few more worth mentioning:

Sonic Adventure 1 and 2
Sonic Generations
Taz the Tasmanian Tiger series
Trine series (though these are more like puzzle platformers)
Yooka-Laylee 1 and 2 (didn't care much for these personally, but it's an option)
Psychonauts (another classic)
Super Lucky's Tale
Voodoo Vince
Kao the Kangaroo
Snake Pass (not really a true "platformer" I guess, but it has the spirit)
Suzy Cube
Skylar and Plux
A Story About My Uncle
The classic Tomb Raider series

That's everything I can think of off-hand. You can find a lot more in the tab MalikQayum linked.

[crunchyfrog]

Quick note, I put my support behind what Sweetness has just posted above.

That's a damned good list to start with.

[Phirestar]

Yeah, I was looking for more 3D platformers after enjoying Hat in Time so much, but unfortunately it seems like it’s a pretty dead genre now-a-days. Aside from the Crash/Spyro remakes, the only other recent titles I know of have been Yooka Laylee and Mario Odyssey.

It looks like 3D platformers peaked on the N64: Mario, Donkey Kong, Banjo-Kazooi, Glover, etc.