Where have you gone Platformers and Adventures?

[TC Mooch]

When did this happen? Where have the platformers and adventure games gone? Some of my favorite gaming moments involved various platformer games and especially the Soul Reaver/Legacy of Kain/Kingdom of Hearts/Prince of Persia (before the emo days) adventure/action games.

Do these type of games still exist and are simply flying under the radar? I mean I can't find them, maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

The greatest thing involving these games are the awesome background story and solving puzzles. Maybe I need to pick up a PS3 and do God of War because I simply think the 360 is seriously lacking in this genre.

[Sheriff_Bullock]

XBLA has a few (Limbo, Cloning Clyde) but Except for Kameo I can't recall any others.

LittleBigPlanet is the best platformer of this generation, and the PS3 has two Rachet and Clanks w a third on the way!

[Silent Hunter65]

I agree, too few platformers, especially on the 360.

Dante's Inferno has some platforming and quite a few puzzles, it's a hack-n-slash though, very similar to God of War. I haven't played the demo yet, but Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is supposed to have some nice platforming parts and a ton of puzzles.

Majin the Forsaken Kingdom looks promising. Very little fighting and you have to use Majin the monster to help you get through the levels.

http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_maji...-17652_en.html

Some videos

http://playfront.de/majin-and-the-fo...hind-the-game/

[Flu]

If PoP is too emo for you, how about the Tomb Raider games?

[Sheriff_Bullock]

The cell shades Prince of Persia was good, and Alice: Madness Returns comes out next year.

Meanwhile, the PS3 has the exclusive The Last Guardian by the team that did Ico and Shadow of Colossus--both of which are being remade in HD and 3D for the PS3.

So yeah the PS3 is the console to own if you like platforners and adventurers.

[Sheriff_Bullock]

I should add Guardian comes out next year.

[slapshotsal]

The Ratchet & Clanks and Sly Coopers from the PS2 (and now 3 R&Cs on the PS3 - one is a DL title) are my all-time favorite platformers.

Otherwise, I agree with much of above that with this generation of systems, developers have seemed to forgotten the genre.

[Flu]

The cell shades Prince of Persia was good...

You talking about the one where you collect the light seeds? Good for platforming, but a little boring and repetitive.

[ZexZee]

My son was obsessed with all the Sly Coopers for a couple years. We had even traded in those games at one point and he ended up buying them again later.

[Whirrlord]

Darksiders had a lot of platforming elements to it, and Portal 2 is on the way...