Samantha @ VGW writes:
I have been really looking forward to Disney Epic Mickey. As a diehard Disney fan (not the fluffy Disney Princess kind, the old-school Mickey and Friends one), a game that revitalized all those old cartoons was up my alley. Looking over the reviews at Metacritic - where it has an average score of 78 – most reviewers are bashing the camera and the controls. I’ll admit they are the most frustrating point of the game. But is the game really to blame or is it the hardware?
Despite Walt Disney's mixed history with video games, these games embody the magic of Disney the best.
When you think of Disney and video games, the first image that comes to your head could be a variety of things. Perhaps it's Kingdom Hearts, which remains one of the best Square Enix games due in little part to Disney’s influence.
Otherwise, it could be a classic game, since Disney has been mostly absent from the gaming world lately, save for some mobile ventures. Whether it be a nostalgic adventure with classic characters or a movie tie-in that makes an impression, let’s dust off Disney’s videogame legacy and find those quality standouts.
listen .. Donald Duck in Maui Mallard
and World of illusion are the best disney games.
With the news of Aladdin and Lion King re-releasing, we got to think about nine other games we'd love to see get the same treatment.
Why are you making an article that amounts to the Disney Afternoon Collection? More classic Disney games should be handled like Mickey Castle of Illusion or Ducktales
Quackshot and Gargoyles
They need to bring back the Gargoyles cartoon or do something with that amazing IP
The Lion King and Aladdin treatment? No, that id not a trestment. That is a lazy cashgrab. They should have remade those two like DuckTales was remade.
A great myth did the rounds in the gaming industry in the early 2000s: gamers were told nobody wanted 3D platformers anymore.
It was easier for companies to force this narrative on gamers than admit the inconvenient truth: that they simply weren’t up to the job of making entertaining 3D platformers. And they couldn’t be bothered trying.
There's always demand for a major genre during any given time frame. Late 90s into the mid 2000s, 3D platformers were pretty big. Crash, Jak & Daxter, Spyro, Mario, Donkey Kong, Banjo Kazooie, just about every licensed movie game to be made ever, and so many more lesser known titles embraced the trend. In the end though, it isn't so much that interest waned in that genre, but it increased drastically last gen in the FPS genre in particular. We got shooters, shooters, and more shooters that dominated annual release discussion and dominated the online communities, both first and third person cover. The Western RPG began to flourish as well, and the Japanese RPG gained attention as game design continued to transform in a newly discovered realm of HD development leading to the critically acclaimed Souls series.
The gaming landscape transformed, and straight, no frills platforming titles started to seem less enticing. They stopped being made because the demand wasn't really there. At this point though, gaming is experiencing a bit of renaissance. What was old is new again. Sony is reviving classic titles by the handful, and everyone is loving it. 3D platformers are coming back to prominence, and gamers couldn't be happier. Gaming may be hitting one of the best balances it has had in a long while now.
Yeah I think starting with The Witcher 3 and Bloodborne and the insane start of this year for games, it's like we're in a new golden age of gaming.
"How Fake News Condemned the 3D Platformer" - Wait...CNN caused the death of 3D platformers...
Nope...All mainstream media is propaganda. You there, must be a sheeple if you trust CNN...
article is as stupid as it gets
in order for you to understand why something isn't being made you have to actually understand economics, you could not trick a community of people into believing something is not successful or not wanted , it is simply based on the numbers and in order for there to actually be strong sales of 3D Platformers there actually has to be a real demand.
In fact if such a demand actually existed you would actually see the Platformers that I've released selling absolutely unrealistic sales numbers because of the high demand ie titles like Ratchet and Clank should be seeing ridiculous millions of units being sold because they are basically one of the few Platformers that would release to a market begging for the concept.
This is what happens when you have an open market that is in demand of a concept they are not getting.
When LittleBigPlanet in Minecraft released those games went on to sell millions of units simply because the concept of creating content that other gamers are able to share and play was in demand, this is why you saw other titles like Terraria and even Mario maker made was because there was a demand.
THE DEMAND COMES BEFORE THE GAME, THE PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS BEFORE THE GAME IS MADE.
So what this idiotic article is basically saying is that Millions upon millions of people want something that they're actively not buying? 😂😂😂 28514;😂
You cannot manipulate a market through news like that bud, if the community wants something they're going to buy it and the numbers will show the demand.
All genres in all mediums have their highs and lows.
Especially now with the debut of the PlayStation Move, I genuinely feel like a lot of really unique games are being wasted on the Nintendo Wii because of its technical inferiority to other next-gen consoles. The Wii introduced something new and awesome a couple years ago, but now that everyone has jumped on the band wagon, Wii finds itself lagging behind and I'm really not sure why a developer would opt to develop for the Wii when the PS3 offers more or less the same kind of motion-controls. Granted, the Wii has the larger install base, but still.
The problem is, the PS Move isn't a mandatory component for the PlayStation 3 (or Kinect for the Xbox) meaning that developers will be hesitant to design their games exclusively around the new hardware.
why all the fuss about an average game? One that has been described as a platformer from the 1990's.
i suppose mediocre mickey on ps3 is amazing because ps3 doesn't have the extremely high caliber of platform games that the wii has. Besides that, its still an average game.
No it does not belong on the ps3. I love the game and getting close to finishing it. I love how some complain about the camera. Yea it has its problems like all games do, but it does not take away the fun from it. The wii has the first party games that Sony and Microsoft will never touch. For the wii it all comes down to the games. Its both motion and the games that is why the wii is killing the competition.
who is this troll saying is it the hardware the heardware can do alot more than epic mickey mario galaxy 2 has the most perfect camera in any game ever and its on the wii camera issues are never the hardware unless were talking trying to get epic micky running on ds or psp than u could blame hardware the wii has tons of games with a perfect camera try monster hunter 3 these trolls always bashing the wii hardware when we all no the wii is the most under used hardware this gen by a long shot it might be the game engine they built to handle the game but its not wii hardware thats insane and ignorant look at Last story its got the most complex gameplay ive seen in a mature title on any platform the trailers suggest a perfect camera and that game like galaxy 1/2 has better graphics than 360 yes if u play them games in upscales 720p they look better than any 360 game so NO ITS NOT THE WII HARDWARE
I heard Epic Mickey is boring as hell. PS3 doesn't need it there are tons of better games on that system.