Please prove me wrong and suggest me some modern ones that stand up to the older ones.
Also, why are there no 3rd person shooter/3D platformer hybrids aside from Ratchet & Clank / Jak series? This seems like an untapped genre hybridisation that works well together. Like literally why is no one making games like this. I would love some examples of 3rd person shooter platformers to prove me wrong again.
Edit: It’s not a nostalgia thing. The quality of the PS2 platformers was actually better. Even ones I discovered recently that exist on PS2 or that I hadn’t played before. If I compare them side by side with modern 3D platformers, they look like s*** compared to the PS2 ones. And case in point, there are literally no open world 3rd person shooter-3D platformers with detailed worlds/graphics outside of PS2 (that I know of) and those are the kinds of 3D platformers I enjoy most… give me an example to prove me wrong. Ok technically I know of a few examples which meet some but not all of this criteria (only because I’ve looked far and wide for them) but they’re very basic and nowhere near as intricate as these games.
Can’t really work with this without examples. I don’t think 3D platformer quality went down but I also think it’s always been all over the place.
Like Hat in Time wasn’t that long ago.
let’s see…got a picture of “3D platformers in past 10 years”
https://libreddit.kylrth.com/img/ad57oxhe2pfa1.png
I’m looking at it and honestly I need examples as to where you think Ps2 beat out this list so blatantly that there’s a clear issue.
These are all cartoonish for one thing. The older PS2 games were more realistic despite having stylised graphics. And the gameplay is just more complex and interesting. It’s hard to pinpoint it exactly
I mean, Jak II got dark and gritty. No one really tried that again with 3D platformers.