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Anything other than the standard walking/running around. Inspired by Majora's Mask and remembering just how much I enjoyed zora swimming and goron rolling there. Another was the glide function in Crackdown 2.

Gravity Rush

I would say the parachute/grapplehook in the Just Cause series, but let's be clear that's the actual core game mechanic and running around or driving/flying vehicles is that series' alternate modes of travel.

Tony hawk or other skateboarding games.

Nights into Dreams...

fun topic discussion for sure.

Spider-Man 2 has mastered alternate traversal

also wingsuit in far cry 3-5

skateboard in Lost Judgment

Does the subway in GTA4 count?

I remember that mobile rope cutting game where you have to swing the candy into the little green monsters mouth.

That was fun.

Cyberpunk 2077 has a double jump and an air dash and zipping around the city like that is so freaking addicting I forget its faster to drive longer distances.

Speaking of jumping, I gotta shout out Mario Odyssey. Adding the hat throw and air/dive + bounce, on top of the triple jump/backflip was genius. Best Mario has ever controlled.

Orosuke posted...

Cyberpunk 2077 has a double jump and an air dash and zipping around the city like that is so freaking addicting I forget its faster to drive longer distances.

Speaking of jumping, I gotta shout out Mario Odyssey. Adding the hat throw and air/dive + bounce, on top of the triple jump/backflip was genius. Best Mario has ever controlled.

I double jump off everything in that game. Wish there were a way to swing like Spider-Man with the arm whips.

Rocketjumping in Team Fortress 2

First thought was the wall running in GunZ: The Duel

Second thought was Spider-Man 2 webslinging

Another one I just thought of is using air dashes with the heavy armor in Prototype 1 and 2 right off the ground. It lets you build up insane speed, I'm pretty sure it's the fastest way to get around even though it's so unwieldy.

I also liked using the Deku's spin in MM to cross water surfaces faster. And learning to windbomb/bomb impact launch in BoTW made my replay way more fun. Also the master cycle controlled shockingly well once I got used to it, I missed it a lot in ToTK.

inFamous gliding and wire grinding as well

Just Cause 3 was peak. So many traversal options, 90% of my time in game was just flying around and doing ridiculous stuff with the grapple hook and wingsuit

K181 posted...

I would say the parachute/grapplehook in the Just Cause series, but let's be clear that's the actual core game mechanic and running around or driving/flying vehicles is that series' alternate modes of travel.

I spent so much time going after hi scores for things like "longest grapple distance" or "longest wingsuit glide time"

While the game itself was no good, Windforge had one of the most humorous "glitchy movement" options in the game with its grappling hook. For whatever reason you could jump into the air and shoot it at the ground and end up with a bunny hop style speed boost on crack if you could keep it going.

Guardian Angel movement on Mercy in overwatch. It's the main reason she's my favorite character.

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Pepper Grinder's drilling feels super nice.
the timeslip mechanic in Solar Ash is one of those things that sticks with you
Every Metroidvania Shine Spark analogue (particular shoutout to hollow knight's crystal dash)
Power of Ten's Divider Cleave (sure, it's essentially a dash, but it's a cool dash), and warp gates
Wavetale's surf mechanic

I played a game last year called Exo One where you play as a little spaceship thingy that can alternate between a disc form for gliding and a spherical form that rolls along the ground. You use gravity to build up momentum and it's incredibly satisfying traversing alien worlds like this

Oh yeah, I loved pogoing in MMZ3 and Hollow Knight.

I still think that rolling around in Mario Odyssey controlled and played better than Sonic has ever had.

I've always loved MMZ and MMZX for letting you dash nonstop and how seamless dashjumps are. I'm pretty sure that you can go through a lot of levels without ever having to let go of right while still attacking and platforming, it's simple but satisfying to pull off.

In Far: Changing Tides you play as a person piloting a ship. So your controls are similar to a platformer, running/jumping/swimming, but the objective is to manipulate the ship's controls to move forward. So you'll feed fuel into the engine, deploy the sail as needed, submerge to get past obstacles, etc. and the whole time you have the ability to just leave your ship whenever you want. It's a side-scroller, I'd compare it to something like Limbo because it's all about the traversal

Carrion is another cool one, where you play as an amorphous blob of flesh that can eat humans to grow bigger or leave bits behind to grow smaller. The game is designed as a Metroidvania, and you're able to freely climb along walls and ceilings to travel anywhere you want to go, often with horrifying results

KajeI posted...

Oh yeah, I loved pogoing in MMZ3 and Hollow Knight.

Good god I knew doing it in HK felt familiar.

I gotta play MMZ again

I played a pretty cool metroidvania recently called Dandara that was originally made for touch screens and as such movement involved dashing from surface to surface. It was very hard at times but fun

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCYZgpCa8s

Tribes games: Skiing into flying into skiing

TheGoldenEel posted...

I played a pretty cool metroidvania recently called Dandara that was originally made for touch screens and as such movement involved dashing from surface to surface. It was very hard at times but fun

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCYZgpCa8s

I haven't thought about that in ages. Just bought it, it's 70% off on steam right now.

A lot of movement in Dead Cells feels really good, but it's also got a weird awkwardness to it I can't describe. When I'm in the zone though I'm fucking zooming.

I haven't played it myself but from what I've seen from Freedom Planet it's got a lot of fun movement tricks.

I just remembered Oddworld, Stranger's Wrath exists. And using dash attacks to launch myself off buildings in War of the Monsters, and combining that with the gliders to clown my siblings and the flight minigame.

I'm surprised no one has said Neon White tbh.

Doe posted...

Rocketjumping in Team Fortress 2

This as well as TF2's progenitors.

Related question, what games have y'all played that have the best controlling/most fun mounts? Horses, vehicles, dragons, whatever.

new super hook girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0RGsJ6UDq8

you can walk and jump a little but 95% of the game's controls are done with a grappling hook that sticks to essentially any surface. feels very smooth when you get going (but it's harder than it looks)

always loved the movement in Journey and also Abzu. Journey just feels really cool to glide and float around, plus there are a few tricks/glitches you can exploit like speed boosting to either propel yourself ridiculously high into the air, or glide super fast across the ground.

Abzu also had a fun feature that not a lot of people used where if you leaped out of the water you could do wall plants and launch yourself off surfaces, and when combined with flips and barrel rolls you could do some fun stunts...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG2NXgn4qsQ

In Dandara: Trials of Fear you can only jump. It definitely takes some time getting used to but the game is really good.

Never really had anything match Prototypes wall running and people surfing.

Classic Sonic games are all about keeping your momentum going

KajeI posted...

Related question, what games have y'all played that have the best controlling/most fun mounts? Horses, vehicles, dragons, whatever.

Plok has god tier vehicles but you can only use them for a short time.

Also the Batman Arkham games, especially Arkham Knight, have a huge emphasis on gliding and using your grapple to keep the speed going

In warframe, movement is all about some combination of dashes, slides, slide jumps, dash jumps, jump slides, jump dashes etc

Yeah, gliding/swinging is always a fun mode of travel even when it's in a meh game.

I just finished One Piece World Seeker recently, and the traversal by stretching and flinging yourself was probably the best part.