Years / Decades:

70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 8th Generation, 2020

Genres:

2D Platformers, Board Games, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, Dungeon Crawlers, Fighting, First Person Shooters, Flash, Horror, Indie, Metroidvania, MMOs, MOBA, Point and Click , Puzzle, Racing, Real Time Strategy, Rhythm, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Simulation, Souls-Bourne, Sports, Stealth, Tabletop RPGs, Visual Novels, Walking Simulators

Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Action RPG, Arcade Game, Third person shooter, Action, 4X (Civilization-like), Card Game, Text dungeon, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, City Builder, Adventure, Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Handheld, Tower Defense, Miscellaneous, and Casual] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.

This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.

Expanding on your choice(s) is definitely a plus. Not everyone knows about or has played non-mainstream titles.

  • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I must say Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom is my favorite. It's the first game I remember playing but when I replayed it last year it held up alright.

  • Indifference_Engine [comrade/them, any]
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    3 years ago

    Psychonauts, A Hat in Time, Jak & Daxter, Banjo-Kazooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Jet Set Radio, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Sonic Adventure

  • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I think I'd give it to Super Mario Odyssey. It's super mainstream but goddamn is it good. Level design is fire, game rewards the hell out of exploration, and you can just like...do anything. Cappy is pretty cool too.

    Mario Sunshine has the best character control and movement options of any platformer I've ever seen but the level design is mediocre and the amount of content is half that of its predecessor. SMS is the definition of a "what if" game, because goddamn FLUDD is the most entertaining shit I've ever seen in a platformer.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    gex

    this is like that time i posted hog at chapos' trap house

  • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    A lot of people have said the obvious ones, but I have to give a shout-out to Rayman Legends.

    I don’t play a lot of platformers, but it was the only one I got into in the PS3/XBOX360/Wii generation. Would also say the Rayman Run series are the best mobile platformers.

    Also not sure if this counts as a platformer, but I loved Inside.

    EDIT: Just realized we specified 3D platformers so this whole comment is stupid.

    I’ll give it to Prince of Persia: Sands of Time then.