What open-world games on Steam have satisfying movement, like Arkham Knight or Spider-Man?
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I tried it years ago and soon saw that you need to start paying or progress gets difficult. Immediately deleted it.
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I've played the first Mirrors Edge to like 75% maybe three times over the years since it released. I just started downloading the second today. Do you think it is I'll advised to skip the last quarter of the first? It has been a while since I played it and I feel like I would burn out again.
Great game. I think it's me.
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Yeah you definitely need it for the movement to flow. I've seen a lot of comments lamenting that they took too long to introduce it.
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I came here to recommend this, too. This game lets you really hit a nice vibe with the movement. Has co-op, too!
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if you haven't, please play just cause 3. it is genuinely one of the greatest games ever made and the entire premise is: ok here's your grappling hook, parachute, wingsuit, bombs, and guns, now go blow up every thing and/or person with red on it. there is a story (and it's decent) but who cares, you upgrade your shit by doing cool stunts and the main mode of progression is a how-much-shit-have-you-blown-up-in-this-area meter.
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I absolutely LOVED Mirror's Edge. That feeling of hitting flow in game and out of game as you just move smoothly from point to point was just amazing. I played originally on PS2 and almost got the plat trophy. I loved trying not only to find the fastest path but the smoothest, the weirdest, the pacifist, etc. It was great.
Then I tried 2 for like 5 seconds before I dropped it. It immediately felt like a betrayal of the first game. I hated the UI. I hated the color grade. I hated the style. I hated what seemed like a turn toward the violent.
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you upgrade your shit by doing cool stunts and the main mode of progression is a how-much-shit-have-you-blown-up-in-this-area meter.
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A new game just came out on steam called Haste that's all about fluid movement. I've been enjoying it quite a bit.
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100% agree. JC3 is a gem of a game
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Was also coming in to recommend mirrors edge, what a great game.
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Dying Light, the zombie parkour game was also good and had great movement mechanics.
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Riders Republic is so much fun. It has a relatively low skill floor but also a really high skill ceiling. Go watch some stunt clips to see just what you can pull off.
The different sports are a lot of fun and honestly what other game lets you transition from Skateboard to BMX to Jetpack in a span of a few seconds.
Only downside is that the more fun sports are locked behind a DLC purchase but it goes on sale quite frequently.
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Prototype was my jam back in the day, since I had Xbox and not a PS3 and couldn't play Infamous.
Having played Infamous finally on PS5... Prototype is actually better anyway and it's insane how it was overshadowed by Infamous to begin with.
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I can't even play JC4 because JC3 was just so good. Why the hell did they change the formula in 4? The missions are boring as hell in 4. They kept the "fight these guys," "open these doors," "release these prisoner" missions, but I have yet to be tasked with destroying, well, anything.
The only thing in 4 I liked more than 3 was that the rocket things you can stick on stuff can be used multiple times and don't automatically explode.
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Mirrors edge wasn't on ps2... Was that a typo intending to be ps3 instead?
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JC3 is fun to just spend hours dicking around in, or seriously investing it with the gameplay. It's honestly amazing how good of a game they made around the concept of "blow up some shit, and then blow up some more shit"
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Prototype 1 & 2, you'll love the glide movement
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Your character becomes a double jumping revenge ghost sprinting through the environment pretty early in the second one.
Good suggestion.
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Ahh good old times, jumping from building to building like hulk. It had good story too which I didn't appreciate the first time I played cause I was young and couldn't understand it fully.
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the story is much better in jc2 but it's so hard to go back to with how well executed the movement was in 3. it's a shame they skimped on the writing.
like, the final boss in 2 is a fist fight on a flying cluster of ICBMs. the final boss in 3 is... a helicopter.
