Mine is Sly Cooper, I used to just explor the worlds in those games for hours when I was a little kid, and I still love the series, it's got great gameplay, Chracters, story, humor, and dialogue. So excited for the new one.
"Series"? Ratchet & Clank, the most consistantly great platforming games around. Sly Cooper is a close second, though. That said, I love tons of one-off games and series that mostly sucked outside of one or two games. Super Meat Boy had a prequel that was pretty bad. Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Sunshine are the only great Mario games as far as I'm concerned. Cave Story was never a series. Sonic is the most uneven series ever created - so many fantastic games, yet so much crap as well. I could go on, but I think you get my point. There are very few great platforming series in my opinion.
3D Mario titles for me. Mega Man as a whole is something really great, too. Ratchet and Clank is a series I've found to be pretty consistent in its quality as well, although I wouldn't say any of the games are really as great as Galaxy or 64. As for other series out there, it's tough, mainly because there really aren't a ton of series that have been great across the board, @CanisWolfred said. Sonic is all over the place, tons of platformers only have a single entry, etc.
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Yeah, series would go to Mario along with my favorite platformer (first Galaxy) but loads of other great platformers exist that aren't in series which I prefer over several Mario titles (Braid, Super Meat Boy, Bionic Commando Rearmed)
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is the best platformer ever.
I know, it's not a series, but it's so d*** good.
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Anyway as far as Platforming series go, I'd choose the Mega man Classic series. All of the eleven main games, which includes Megaman and Bass, are all solid Platformers in their own right, even MM8 with all the backlash it gets still has its own merits of being a good platformer. I also think the Mega man Zero games has been consistently great.
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is the best platformer ever.
I know, it's not a series, but it's so d*** good.
Agreed, 2nded, whatever. Of course it wouldn't count because the Yoshi series dropped in quality almost immediately afterwards.
I'd say Mario, no matter how cliched it is. Yeah I complain about the NSMB games but they haven't necessarily brought the series down too much, assuming this is really the end of that series for a while. But even lesser games in the series like say, the Land games or whatever I still think are really fun and really get a lot of enjoyment out of.
I'm seriously trying to think of a platformer series I've played most of other than that and spinoffs with different characters. I mean Sonic would be up there if it wasn't for 2006. Castlevania too, though I wouldn't count SotN or beyond. Also, Kirby. Genuinely wish I had less cliched answers but sometimes popularity makes complete sense in terms of consistent quality.
I mean, the only Playstation platformer series I'm familiar enough with the good games are the old Crash trilogy.
Stylistically yes, it's awesome, but the camera bugs me a little. I wonder if it got fixed in Future, because playing through some levels in the original was a chore, even with a camera fix option in the HD port
If it wasn't about a series, it would be a lot easier to answer. I guess I'd have to say Mario and Kirby, and does Metal Slug count?
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I feel unoriginal here, but like everybody else said, yoshi's island is the best platformer ever, no contest.
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