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[Troubleman1990]

I decided to make some Crash 3 gifs:

Everything after the ND games just didn't have the same magic. See Wrath of Cortex, which basically tried to copy the first 3 games:

The gameplay's not nearly as tight or sharp. Even the graphics don't look as good and it was one generation ahead. (these are all platinum runs by the same player, btw)

For the love of god Sony, at LEAST FIND A WAY TO GET IT ON THE PS VITA!

 

[Yawnier]

Do not dismiss Twinsanity, or even Radical's Crash games (Tag Team Racing, Crash of the Titans, Mind over Mutant) as "just post-ND Crash games." They're not the same as the past, but get the fuck over it, they're fun games.

I didn't play Crash of the Titans and Mind over Mutant but I played Tag Team Racing and enjoyed it, probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite non-ND Crash game. I would put it over Crash Nitro Kart, anyways.

 

[Five]

Yeah. If there's one thing Wrath of Cortex does better than 3, it's put some normal platforming in most of the vehicle levels. If there's no jumping involved, it doesn't belong in a Crash game.

 

[Dark Rider]

You're making me CRY ALREADY ;_;

tears of joy that crash came back home I hope

You know what? Fuck it. I'm just gonna come out and say it. Twinsanity>>>>Crash 3.

I disagree.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

I actually really didn't like Tag Team Racing. I got some enjoyment out of a number of the minigames and the platforming aspect, but I hated the core racing.

 

[Silky]

If the list was 2 > Twinsanity > 1 > CTR > 3, then yes; I'd agree with that.

Twinsanity has the BEST music of the Crash series. No contest.

 

[TheOGB]

Don't get me wrong though, Crash Team Racing is the best game in the franchise. Just thought I should mention that.

I didn't play Crash of the Titans and Mind over Mutant but I played Tag Team Racing and enjoyed it, probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite non-ND Crash game. I would put it over Crash Nitro Kart, anyways.

Both Wrath of Cortex and Nitro Kart were just overly safe games that didn't do much for me at the end of the day. I personally think that the worst thing you could say about most post-ND Crash games is that they were mediocre, boring and didn't have the same ability to set the world on fire.

Well, except for the Spyro crossover and Crash Boom Bang. Those were shit. Crash isn't very good at throwing parties.

 

[SSReborn]

I didn't play Crash of the Titans and Mind over Mutant but I played Tag Team Racing and enjoyed it, probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite non-ND Crash game. I would put it over Crash Nitro Kart, anyways.

Was that the one where you could combine with another racer mid race and seperate from them when you wanted too? If so I remember playing and enjoying that a lot.

 

[Ivan 3414]

Twinsanity was decent and worth playing. What was holding it back was the glitchy platforming and playing as Cortex and especially Nina was not fun.

 

[Silky]

Honestly Tag Team Racing, Twinsanity and Of the Titans are the best non-ND games. I like Radical's idea and the redesign of Crash. Twinsanity was sooooooooo good and super underrated. Traveller's Tales knows the formula for Crash very well. TTR is really creative too.

The GBA games are stellar as well. Basically a collection of bonus stages

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

Both Wrath of Cortex and Nitro Kart were just overly safe games that didn't do much for me at the end of the day. I personally think that the worst thing you could say about most post-ND Crash games is that they were mediocre, boring and didn't have the same ability to set the world on fire.

Well, except for the Spyro crossover and Crash Boom Bang. Those were shit. Crash isn't very good at throwing parties.

But Cortex is. It's like a birthday party except....the exact opposite!

I always get a kick out of that part when you see all the villains in a line looking pissed off. Especially when you see Polar. I always assumed the reason he was there was because he was pissed about the amount of times you jump on his head to get extra lives in Crash 2.

 

[Yawnier]

Don't get me wrong though, Crash Team Racing is the best game in the franchise. Just thought I should mention that.

Agreed .

Was that the one where you could combine with another racer mid race and seperate from them when you wanted too? If so I remember playing and enjoying that a lot.

Yeah, that is the one.

 

[CriterionDog]

Man, SOMEONE needs to make a good Crash game. No, a GREAT Crash Bandicoot game.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

So this thread now has more pages than the Uncharted 4 thread. If this doesn't tell Sony that there's a lot of interest in a Crash revival then I don't know what will.

 

[Septimus Prime]

I decided to make some Crash 3 gifs:

Everything after the ND games just didn't have the same magic. See Wrath of Cortex, which basically tried to copy the first 3 games:

The gameplay's not nearly as tight or sharp. Even the graphics don't look as good and it was one generation ahead. (these are all platinum runs by the same player, btw)

How are you spinning into TNT crates without getting hit? I never knew that was possible.

 

[Thomas_Daly]

So this thread now has more pages than the Uncharted 4 thread. If this doesn't tell Sony that there's a lot of interest in a Crash revival then I don't know what will.

lol so true

 

[Thomas_Daly]

you know what I love crash

best crash games are

Crash 1
Crash 2
Crash 3
CTR
Crash The Wrath of Cortex
Crash Twinsanity


HD Collection & Crash 4 Please

 

[Cow Goes Moo]

How are you spinning into TNT crates without getting hit? I never knew that was possible.

he has some aku aku masks protecting him

 

[Septimus Prime]

he has some aku aku masks protecting him

If you look at the two images where he has the masks, in the first one, he does this and upgrades his level 2 (red) mask into the full level 3 (Crash wearing the mask), and in the other, he upgrades his level 1 mask into level 2. So, no, he's definitely not getting hit.

Come to think of it, I wonder if there are invincibility frames when the mask gets upgraded or something.

 

[Five]

How are you spinning into TNT crates without getting hit? I never knew that was possible.

Top one, L3 Aku activates just in time. Third one, Crash breaks bottom boxes, TNT falls and boxes on top activate them, then Crash breaks top boxes only.

edit: also, TNT and Nitro explosions use a collision sphere that grows. Nitro sphere is actually slow enough that you can get away with not being hit sometimes.

 

[Monty Mole]

It seems, like Sakurai, he's lost his touch.

Is that based on you having played Knack, or an assumption based on review scores?

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

Sony have the rights to re-release the original ND games. But do they have the rights to release updated versions of them? I mean are they restricted to only releasing the original games unchanged? I'd really like to know if HD remakes is actually something Sony can legally do. I want a CTR remake with online play.

 

[Thomas_Daly]

funny how this crash bandicoot thread is top story than uncharted 4

anyone can play as a human sony

we wanna play as a bandicoot

 

[Zalman]

Sony have the rights to re-release the original ND games. But do they have the rights to release updated versions of them? I mean are they restricted to only releasing the original games unchanged? I'd really like to know if HD remakes is actually something Sony can legally do. I want a CTR remake with online play.

The fact that they are able to re-release the older games still confuses me. The whole Sony/Universal/Activision thing was (and still is) a mess.

 

[Zee-Row]

Nothing came out of this thread did it? Just an overreaction?

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

Nothing came out of this thread did it? Just an overreaction?

This thread came out of this thread. Consider that a win.

 

[Five]

I'm chalking up Knack to ulterior motives, hard deadline and distractions.

Remember when platformers were all the hotness, so turning anything into a game meant turning it into a platformer? That's what I feel Knack is like: Cerny is comfortable with platformers, and needed a vehicle for his physics simulator PS4 showcase game. Add on the need to have it finished by system launch and also Cerny working on the actual system, he wasn't in peak form.

He's stated in interviews that he doesn't really want to keep working on the PS4 any more, but would rather get back to pure games development. I think he could do some serious good if that were the case.

*I like Knack fine, and would probably give it a 7/10 myself.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

I'm chalking up Knack to ulterior motives, hard deadline and distractions.

Remember when platformers were all the hotness, so turning anything into a game meant turning it into a platformer? That's what I feel Knack is like: Cerny is comfortable with platformers, and needed a vehicle for his physics simulator PS4 showcase game. Add on the need to have it finished by system launch and also Cerny working on the actual system, he wasn't in peak form.

He's stated in interviews that he doesn't really want to keep working on the PS4 any more, but would rather get back to pure games development. I think he could do some serious good if that were the case.

*I like Knack fine, and would probably give it a 7/10 myself.

If he's that comfortable with platformers then why didn't he attempt to make Knack a platformer?

 

[Thomas_Daly]

I'm chalking up Knack to ulterior motives, hard deadline and distractions.

Remember when platformers were all the hotness, so turning anything into a game meant turning it into a platformer? That's what I feel Knack is like: Cerny is comfortable with platformers, and needed a vehicle for his physics simulator PS4 showcase game. Add on the need to have it finished by system launch and also Cerny working on the actual system, he wasn't in peak form.

He's stated in interviews that he doesn't really want to keep working on the PS4 any more, but would rather get back to pure games development. I think he could do some serious good if that were the case.

*I like Knack fine, and would probably give it a 7/10 myself.

ill pick it up when its like 20-25 bucks its just punch punch move forward punch punch ?

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

This should be interesting. Who here had actually heard of or knew what a Bandicoot was before they played Crash?

 

[vicissitudes]

Twinsanity was decent and worth playing. What was holding it back was the glitchy platforming and playing as Cortex and especially Nina was not fun.

It was a cute game, just not a good Crash game IMO.

funny how this crash bandicoot thread is top story than uncharted 4

anyone can play as a human sony

we wanna play as a bandicoot

What's a bandicoot?

 

[TheOGB]

Knack played a lot more like Crash of the Titans than Crash 1-3

Except Crash of the Titans reviewed better and had deeper combat than one combo and a not-homing attack

 

[Five]

If he's that comfortable with platformers then why didn't he attempt to make Knack a platformer?

My suspicion is that he did. But that wouldn't have demonstrated is 5000-object simulator as well as been knocked apart by fighting goblins and robots and stuff, so all the beat-em-up stuff was over emphasized.

ill pick it up when its like 20-25 bucks its just punch punch move forward punch punch ?

Wait for PS+. You can pretty much guarantee it.

This should be interesting. Who here had actually heard of or knew what a Bandicoot was before they played Crash?

Not me. I remember asking my parents what kind of an animal Crash was supposed to be. They said he must be a red fox, since he certainly didn't look much like a bandicoot. We looked up pictures on the internet, and I had to agree that it was quite different.

 

[Zalman]

This should be interesting. Who here had actually heard of or knew what a Bandicoot was before they played Crash?

I didn't, and I'm still not entirety sure what it is. I never bothered to look it up.

 

[Garraboa]

Sony have the rights to re-release the original ND games. But do they have the rights to release updated versions of them? I mean are they restricted to only releasing the original games unchanged? I'd really like to know if HD remakes is actually something Sony can legally do. I want a CTR remake with online play.

Not in NA, they don't. Or we'd have them on Vita at the same time as everyone else. Now, it doesn't seem like they'll be compatible ever. (To be clear, the last Crash Bandicoot game to be released in NA on the PSN was CTR in 2010. That one MIGHT have had something to do with Activision)

 

[TheOGB]

This should be interesting. Who here had actually heard of or knew what a Bandicoot was before they played Crash?

I didn't, but that's because I was 4 when I first played Crash (2), so I didn't know a lot of things

Knew what an echidna was by age 3 though

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

Not me. I remember asking my parents what kind of an animal Crash was supposed to be. They said he must be a red fox, since he certainly didn't look much like a bandicoot. We looked up pictures on the internet, and I had to agree that it was quite different.

You had internet when you first played Crash? My 90s different from yours. I didn't even get the internet until 2003 I think. Anyway I also didn't know what a Bandicoot was. Sony picked a really obscure animal...

 

[Five]

You had internet when you first played Crash? My 90s different from yours. I didn't even get the internet until 2003 I think. Anyway I also didn't know what a Bandicoot was. Sony picked a really obscure animal...

That would have been 98 or 99, yeah. I know at least Cortex Strikes Back was out when I first questioned what a bandicoot or Crash might be, but Warped may have been as well.

 

[jackissocool]

So this thread now has more pages than the Uncharted 4 thread. If this doesn't tell Sony that there's a lot of interest in a Crash revival then I don't know what will.

It seems crazy at first but when you think about it it makes sense. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been playing Crash since literally before they can remember. It's hard for me to give a good example of what exactly this franchise means to me, but it means a whole hell of a lot.

 

[noobasuar]

It seems, like Sakurai, he's lost his touch.

Yeah except for the fact Kid Icarus was such an amazing game. Totally lost his touch.

 

[Thomas_Daly]

Wait for PS+. You can pretty much guarantee it.

ill never so digital only psychical

only way ill ever so digital kicking and screaming

but for ps+ its guaranteed

 

[ascii42]

You had internet when you first played Crash? My 90s different from yours. I didn't even get the internet until 2003 I think. Anyway I also didn't know what a Bandicoot was. Sony picked a really obscure animal...

Seems to be a huge spread in when people got internet.
My dad was into tech at the time, so we got a computer and AOL 1.0(?) back in 1993, I think.

 

[Anticitizen One]

I didn't, and I'm still not entirety sure what it is. I never bothered to look it up.

It's a small Australian mammal

 

[PaulloDEC]

It's a small Australian mammal

Marsupial, actually. I wouldn't expect many people outside of Australia to be familiar with them. In fact, they're pretty uncommon even here, so I wouldn't be surprised if most Australians weren't all that knowledgeable about them.

 

[Christhor]

Let's just forget about Crash, nobody at Sony would be able to make a new entry as quality as Crash 2 or 3 anyway.

 

[Dereck]

You know what? Fuck it. I'm just gonna come out and say it. Twinsanity>>>>Crash 3.

I Wanna Be The Guy

 

[vicissitudes]

Let's just forget about Crash, nobody at Sony would be able to make a new entry as quality as Crash 2 or 3 anyway.

But Sony owns Naughty Dog.

A couple Crash 2 gifs for the new page:

 

[Garraboa]

I think I'm going to finish the series on PS3 instead of waiting for them to be compatible on Vita (already 100%'d the first CB)

 

[StayDead]

I Wanna Be The Guy

I don't, he has some strange opinion that I don't like *shudders in fear*

Crash 3 is best Crash <3

 

[Prince Vultan]

Yeah except for the fact Kid Icarus was such an amazing game. Totally lost his touch.

Kid Icarus was literally the most unplayable game I have played during this past gen.

Anyone who thought something that controlled like that did was fit for public consumption without offering proper customisation is clearly not a creator at the top of his game.