Let's Discuss: Bubsy the Bobcat

[Yamcha]

I'm too lazy to write my own recap so I'm just gonna link to Hardcoregaming's summary:

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/bubsy/bubsy.htm

I remember EGM was hyping this game up back in the day, and I almost preordered it just to get the Bubsy shirt, which was nothing more than a white shirt with an exclamation mark on it. I ended up just renting the game and at the time, it wasn't so bad I thought. It wasn't Mario or Sonic but it got the job done. I didn't beat it back then, but nowadays I have no real desire to play it for more than 2 minutes, even on an emulator.

The only other game I played in the series was Bubsy 3D. I think it was on a PSOne demo disc...but yeah this one was pretty horrid.

Thoughts?

[Joust Williams]

no

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Found the idle animations hilarious, the game unplayable.

[ChaoofNee]

I liked Bubsy.
I hated slipping off narrow platforms and ramming into random enemies.

[Brand X]

BUBSY 3D 4 LYFE!

[Frogacuda]

The character sucks. The game, at least the first one, was a totally servicable, if generic, platformer that I had a lot of fun with.

[Metal_slime]

It's a terrible platformer when compared to Super Mario Bros. 3 or Sonic. It's a terrific platformer when compared to Mohawk & Headphone Jack

[dog$]

If there's one thing I appreciate about the PS2/XB/GC generation, it is that the platformer genre has been reduced to niche status.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

BUBSY 3D 4 LYFE!

Sadly this looks more appealing to me than Syphon Filter.

[Frogacuda]

If there's one thing I appreciate about the PS2/XB/GC generation, it is that the platformer genre has been reduced to niche status.

Honestly, they were twice as many good platformers this last gen than the 32/64-bit gen. Psychonauts alone justifies its genre.

But 3D platformers aren't even the same kind of game as 2D platformers. I hesitate to call many of them platformers even.