Sly Cooper - What Happened to This Iconic Platformer? (www.youtube.com)

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Sly Cooper was once an iconic 3D platformer for PlayStation. But its last game came out 11 years ago, and is largely forgotten today. What happened to Sly Cooper?

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago

It was never that good?

Might as well ask what happened to Mark of Kri.

[-] MyDearWatson616@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

You take that back

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

I played them for the first time a few years ago, they are legitimately quite good. above average in many ways and totally unique in other ways.

4 less so, some other people made that one.

[-] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

I loved all 3 games as a kid, and I think it did a lot of things right for a game of that era. I think it's at least surprising that it never had a remake or a more modern iteration, considering other remakes like ratchet & clank, rayman, etc.

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

there's a ps3 and ps vita HD remaster fwiw

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago

I think that's the key thing there... "as a kid". Kids aren't exactly discerning when it comes to games... or movies... or pretty much anything really. It takes time and experience to distinguish what makes something good or bad or just average.

I was in my 30s for the PS2 generation. Sly, Jack and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank - they were all lost on me. Great if you're a kid. Otherwise? Eh... meh.

[-] GONADS125@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

It takes time and experience to distinguish what makes something good or bad or just average.

Well maybe some day you'll have enough experience to distinguish good games. You're clearly not there just yet.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I'll agree that if I tried playing Sly Cooper for the first time as a fully grown adult I probably wouldn't enjoy it nearly as much. But kids definitely know a good game from a bad one, that's why there's games targeted to kids/ teens that sell well and others that don't. Just because they didn't grab the attention of 30 year old you doesn't mean they weren't great games, you just weren't the target audience. That's like someone who was 30 when SpongeBob came out saying that it was never that good.

Out of curiosity, what games from that platform/ time do you consider good? Everyone's coming at you for your (objectively wrong /s) opinions on these classics, surely there were some that you enjoyed.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

For the Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation the biggest hit for me was Phantasy Star Online... jesus, I dunno how many hours I plugged into that.

Halo of course. I was skeptical until I played a demo, instantly bought in. Project Gotham racing as well.

Eternal Darkness on the Gamecube pulled me in to such a degree I played it through 3 times to see all the endings.

I can't really think of a PS2 title that grabbed my attention like those did.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Halo of course. I was skeptical until I played a demo, instantly bought in.

That's funny, I had this exact experience much more recently when Breath of the Wild was relatively new. I heard so many people raving about how good it was but I was never a huge Zelda guy. Went to Best Buy to window shop, they had a switch on display with BotW queued up. I don't think I even got in to combat before I thought, "ok, this is something special, I need to give this time". Still play it here and there when I'm bored of other games.