Best Platform Games (2D Gameplay only) For Each System

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:13 am

Koa Zo wrote:
PaCrappa wrote:Astal is quite possibly the most overrated/worst game ever. (...)
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I couldn't agree more.
No matter how hard I tried to like the game I just couldn't get over how slow and plodding the pace was.

For the five bucks it goes for nowadays I'd say it's worth it just to look at the graphics, though the platforming's nothing special (though I still preferred it in that sense to Rayman). To anyone who bought it at full price way back in the day, that's another story.

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:04 am

I thought that was Final Fantasy VII.

Haha...you live under a rock, friend? Over-rated- hell yes, of course! I agree with you on that part. Worst game ever? HARDLY. With this being said- I am not fond of rpgs, but I can appreciate a ton of what this game gives. Not neccesarily the fore-runner of more than a few things- but it does bring alot of greatly refined things to the table. What other rpg that year came close to the quality on that game?

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now...on topic.. : P

Does Rolling Thunder count as a platformer? (if it does, does Elevator Action?).

And screw Adventures of little Ralph- that game kicks my ass! (but is a beautiful game!)

jeremycarrier · Post by **jeremycarrier** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:21 am

Twiddle wrote:
jeremycarrier wrote:Just want to add Donkey Kong Country 2 to this. It IS after all, the best 2d platformer EVER(Screw YI, that shit got tedious halfway through).
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I know. I find it quite funny when people think DKC2 is anything but the best 2d platformer ever too

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:00 am

Arcade: Bubble Symphony & Memories, Shinobi, Rolling Thunder 2, Shadow Dancer, Osman, Quartet, Ghouls'n Ghosts, Jigoku Meguri, Rainbow Islands, Magic Sword, Bionic Commando, Marchen Maze (with a "Viewpoint" perspective rather than side-view, hopefully this doesn't DQ it)

SMS: Kenseiden, Alex Kidd in Miracle World

Gen/MD: Strider, Gunstar Heroes, The Super Shinobi I & II, Contra Hard Corps, Mega Turrican, Rolling Thunder 3

TG-16/PCE: Bonk 1 & 2, Parasol Stars

SNES: Contra III. Magic Sword near-misses on this system because of the crippling slowdown.

Neo-Geo: Metal Slug series, Magician Lord

PS1: Strider 2

PS2: Quartet (System 16 arcade port, may be only 2 player here but it's great), Contra Shattered Soldier (Screw Neo Contra, play this)

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:18 am

jeremycarrier wrote:DKC2 is ... the best 2d platformer ever

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PFG 9000 · Post by **PFG 9000** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:43 am

DCK2 has some gorgeous graphics and tight level design. But when the gameplay is as incredibly simplistic as that of DKC2 (or any DKC game), the overall game is held back a great deal. Really, take away the graphics and you'll see that the gameplay is straight out of the early NES era.

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:22 am

lol..yeah it is...but reading these books and remembering that far back- I could swear DKC had an impact and helped move some SNES's for all get go...prolly why it's remembered as being so great.

seattlexc · Post by **seattlexc** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:43 am

DKC2 is my favorite 2D platformer, I haven't played Yoshi's Island yet, but I'm really enjoying DKC2.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:52 am

DKC was great, but by the time I all cleared DKC2 I was pretty jaded with the series. Haven't played DKC3 to this day. At a friend's maybe once or twice, but I couldn't justify purchasing it.

I won a DKC competition at a local blockbuster. I got two free rentals a month for a year and this glow in the dark plaque thing. I was the only one competing at the store that broke three grand. That was nowhere near the national high though.

None of the DKC games are "best of" anything, except maybe "best Rare games". They were technically impressive and kept the SNES alive with classic style gameplay when polygons hadn't quite hit their stride yet, but people wanted some taste of that next new thing gimmick. But then they had to release two brainless sequels that further accentuated the game's flaws. As for Donkey Kong 64, please shoot me in the face.

How do you guys like Adventure Island? I've been playing the first SNES one, as well as a ton of Bonk's Revenge.

jeremycarrier · Post by **jeremycarrier** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:29 pm

WTF are you niggas on about?

Take away the graphics, you still have fluid controls, secrets(75 bonus barrels, 40 DK coins, Hidden Lost World), and the amazing soundtrack is better than anything Mario has ever cooked up.

Yoshi's Island isnt even all that great. Seriously. It became a chore halfway through.

Oh, and to that guy about DKC importance, I know the original sold 8 million copies so...that might have helped

jeremycarrier · Post by **jeremycarrier** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:31 pm

seattlexc wrote:DKC2 is my favorite 2D platformer, I haven't played Yoshi's Island yet, but I'm really enjoying DKC2.

Now heres a man who knows his shit.

Honestly, you arent missing too much with YI, besides an inferior product.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:01 pm

Don't listen to him

Play Yoshi's Island someday.

jeremycarrier · Post by **jeremycarrier** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:27 pm

Its not a BAD game, I just felt its very overrated.

"ZOMG its like teh amazing game with the hand-drawn graphfix and you find secrets with teh eggs!"

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:32 pm

I prefer Yoshi Island over any DKC game...

jeremycarrier · Post by **jeremycarrier** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:38 pm

Well to each his own

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:25 am

Haven't had time to play it yet but I've read some favorable reviews:

"Noitu Love and the Army of Grinning Darns"

And it's FREE!

http://www.konjak.org/nlove.htm

EDIT: Gave it a try, very nice indeed. unfortunately it's running in a tiny window, so you'll have to change your desktop's resolution. This definitely should have been a console game.

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:56 am

How do you guys like Adventure Island?

Toshiyuki "Legendary Finger" Takahashi FTW. Good games, also.

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:54 am

JoshF wrote:
How do you guys like Adventure Island?
Toshiyuki "Legendary Finger" Takahashi FTW. Good games, also.

If anyone played the PS2 remake of first one... still remembers the difficulty of final level

that's got to be hardest level in the whole game, if you die at the boss, you begin the hardest level again

jeremycarrier · Post by **jeremycarrier** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:08 pm

Okay I was wrong. Yoshi Island is too fucking good.

YI > DKC2 > every other platformer

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:11 pm

i like ghosts 'n' goblins on ps2.

and rayman 1.

JJG · Post by **JJG** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:29 am

Are there actually any good 2D platformers for Dreamcast?

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:35 am

JJG wrote:Are there actually any good 2D platformers for Dreamcast?

rayman 1?

nope, that was saturn.

azmun · Post by **azmun** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:24 pm

Famicom/NES
-Super Mario Bros 3
-Ninja Gaiden 1 & 2
-Castlevania III

SMS
-Zillion
-Alex Kidd in Miracle world
-Black Belt
-The Ninja

PC Engine
-Dracula X: Chi no Rondo
-Ninja Spirit

MD/Genesis
-Bare Knuckles 2 & 3
-Super Shinobi 1 & 2
-Ex-Ranza
-Sonic 2
-Gunstar Heroes

Saturn
-Guardian Heroes (this game is timeless)

Post by **Shatterhand** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:38 pm

azmun wrote:
Saturn
-Guardian Heroes (this game is timeless)

except it's not a 2D platformer, but more of a scrolling beat'em up.
Damn overrated too, it was one of the reasons for me to buy a Saturn, but the game wears out very quickly. It's full of slowdowns, it's cheap, unbalanced, repetitive, plays a lot like their older Yu-Yu Hakusho game ....

It's a good game, make no mistake, I would recommend it to anyone, but It's very overrated (Like nearly everything made by Treasure, except Gunstar Heroes which is just fucking amazing even today), and recgonizing this was the 1st step for me to stop with the Treasure Fanboyism.

azmun · Post by **azmun** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:04 pm

Shatterhand wrote:except [Guardian Heroes] is not a 2D platformer, but more of a scrolling beat'em up.
Damn overrated too, it was one of the reasons for me to buy a Saturn, but the game wears out very quickly. It's full of slowdowns, it's cheap, unbalanced, repetitive, plays a lot like their older Yu-Yu Hakusho game ....

The game borrows and combines elements from RPGs, action/platformers, fighting, and a beat em up games all in one. I love the story, music, graphics/artwork and above all the gameplay.

Yu Yu Hakusho is my all time favorite Mega Drive game and one of my favorite fighting and multiplayer games. A blast on competitive two versus two matches and totally underrated.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:55 pm

Genesis : Disney's Gate of Illusion, Ristar

Nes: Wizards and Warriors, Wizards and Warriors 3, Street Fighter 2010, Ninja Gaiden, Bionic Commando, Megaman 2

Post by **Shatterhand** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:16 am

Yu Yu Hakusho is my all time favorite Mega Drive game and one of my favorite fighting and multiplayer games. A blast on competitive two versus two matches and totally underrated.

Ok, I agree with that and take back my comment about every Treasure game being overrated.

Their Mega-Drive library is damn impressive.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:58 am

JJG wrote:Are there actually any good 2D platformers for Dreamcast?

You might as well ask if there are any 2D platformers AT ALL for the Dreamcast! Now, let's see: there's Bangai-O, which is awesome; Goin' Quackers and Super Magnetic Neo have some 2D-ish areas, but neither is great... oh well, there's NES/SMS/MD emulators, lots of 2D platforming there for sure.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:04 am

Astal is quite possibly the most overrated/worst game ever.

it's one of my favorite saturn games, love the visuals, music, and gameplay (it's simple granted).

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:22 am

Astal = teh beautiful.

A bit slow, but the visuals are still among the best ever.