Overall, it's DKC without any doubt, it was the biggest reason why the Super Nintendo succeeded in the West.

Just graphics wise, I think we'll have to see how long it takes everyone else to catch up to Crysis, since historically even the best looking games don't stay the best looking games for more than a year.

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3D platformers do not need to be non-linear and they don't need to have collection aspects. They just need to focus on the platforming aspect of games in a 3D world and then you have yourself a 3D platformer.

finalfantasy94

Actually collecting things in a game is now a big part of platforming. Just look at Mario 64,sunshine and Galaxy. Jak and Daxter series started as a platformer,but 2 and 3 kind of strayed away from that,but its still an awsome game.

1. The collection aspects of the Mario games aren't really that prevalent as opposed to, say, Donkey Kong 64. Collecting the stars is just another form of level completion and stuff like the red/blue/purple coins isn't really a major aspect of the game.

2. The collection aspect is pretty standard in platformers but that doesn't mean that it's a part of the genre as a whole. It's just a standard adopted from the top games.

3D platformers do not need to be non-linear and they don't need to have collection aspects. They just need to focus on the platforming aspect of games in a 3D world and then you have yourself a 3D platformer.

Raiden isn't gay thus the girlfriend.

In the same game Vamp and Commander Dolph were bisexual.

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[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"][QUOTE="Shinobishyguy"] It's getting stellar reviews just about everywhere else including here.Stevo_the_gamer

But none of them got scores posted before the reviews, did they? Or get perfect scores from Famitsu?

Nintendogs was AAA at GameSpot and has sold a bajillion copies at least partly because of it's quality as a game. That's not a great example.

Cmon Game Informer is not that bad and I believe that they gave Chains of Olympus a 9/10. I'm just starting to hate gamespot period. First they give Mass Effect an 8.5 instead of a 9, Uncharted should have gotten at least an 8.5, they gave Tools of Destruction a 7.5, Assassins Creed somehow got a 9 lmfao and when someone is finally gives an honest review and gives Kane and Lynch a 6.0 they fire the guy. I love the forums but I dislike the reviews, gamespot doesn't carry the credibility that it once did.

I_Helios_I

You realize this is not a new thing, right? Right or wrong, they've always given a lot of games review scores well below the GameRankings/Metacritic level. The way you seem to be interpreting things would suggest that giving an honest review score should be discouraged. Going completely by the book would be an unequivocally bad thing and appears to be one of the big problems with CNet (that they're trying to push the reviewers to fluffier GR/MC scores). They've done this with a lot of games covering a lot of genres by a lot of companies, I don't think bias is an issue in the same way you think it is.

WTF!!! I used to play the flash game all the time but WTF are they doing to it? Taking out the gore and making the characters out of pepsi bottles and popsicle sticks?

I'm gonna be sick.
stephant_6

You can't be serious, right? The flash version looks like... well, a flash game. This looks like something that's genuinely visually interesting, with a nice consistent theme and a fair bit of imagination with it.