Banjonauts 64 (3D Platformers)

[Euryalus]

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My god, I'd forgotten about croc. That game was awesome, but so hard when I was little. I never actually ended up beating it or croc 2.

I should rectify that.

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Yeah, crash is kind of weird when you think about it. It's basically 2D platformer game design, but with 3D graphics and world?

Still and amazing game though. Was Crash 2 the one with the boss that threw swords at you? I remember me and a buddy playing that when we were pretty young and trying so hard to get past it. Probably spent the whole day on it[footnote]We were shit at videogames ok? XD[/footnote]

We had a big celebration and messed up the kitchen making food when we beat it. Good times. XD

 

[SoreWristed]

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Yeah, crash is kind of weird when you think about it. It's basically 2D platformer game design, but with 3D graphics and world?

Still and amazing game though. Was Crash 2 the one with the boss that threw swords at you? I remember me and a buddy playing that when we were pretty young and trying so hard to get past it. Probably spent the whole day on it

We had a big celebration and messed up the kitchen making food when we beat it. Good times. XD

Oh god, i don't remember that much from the game. It was one of those games i half remember playing at a friends house when i was a kid and i remember (or rather, don't remember) playing it at a frat party in the 'smoking area'.
If i'd guess, i was thinking of Wrath of cortex and the first crash bandicoot. And Crash team racing gave me no end of joy when i was young.

I'd still describe them as tunnelplatformers. And i'll say tunnelplatformers again because i'm quite proud of that word.
I felt they were unique in that aspect. As being tunnelplatformers[footnote]tunnelplatformers[/footnote]

I do sometimes feel the ghost of crash bandicoot being channeled in some extremely linear games. Say for instance, some MoH games.

 

[Daft Ada]

I really miss the 3D platformers that emphasised exploration, the Mario 64s and Banko-Kazooie's of this world. BK N&B was a solid game in its own right but it should have been a side-project AFTER they'd made BK3. I actually interviewed a couple of the devs before the game came out and they were obviously told by higher-ups to deflect questions about a true successor by making out 3D platformers were dead and there was no where for them to go (Ellissa Miller slipped up and said they'd died in the mid-90s, bless her), I asked whether Mario Galaxy showed there was still life in the genre and they couldn't answer!

 

[LaoJim]

I want to see what a Banjo Kazooie 3 (4) could really look like now-a-days.

Oddly enough, I was playing Banjo Kazoeeie last night and thinking why the hell isn't this a thing anymore.
(Unless of course you bought it in the same sale I did, in which case its not odd at all)

Most of the above poster have covered the main games I loved, so I'll just add Jet Force Gemini and note that modern third person shooters just aren't cute enough these days.