ITT: people who don't understand Crash Bandicoot
>>729523221How does a mentally challenged bandicoot come off as more mature than Sonic?
>>729523221Yeah, pretty much.FranchiseKiller.jpgAny word from what's left of TFB? After firing 95% of their staff, I'd like to know what they're doing.
>>729523221Bob just likes his Crash Bandicoot that way.
Y'don't understand Crash Bandicoot. Absolute chicanery. I actually haven't watched Better Call Saul.
I don’t like 4’s visuals :/
>>729524196IAT's visuals hurt my eyes. Something just ain't right.
>>729523221ITT people who may not understand Crash Bandicoot but was willing to risk everything to bring him back because of how much they and others loved him.Yet you shit on them and cry "WHY WONT ANYBODY MAKE GAMES OF MY FAVORITE DEAD FRANCHISE WAAAAHHH"Well, this is why.You was given the chance, and you snubbed your nose, now enjoy your slop.
>>729524315>risk everything to bring him backNigga, that's Sony and Sega. TFB tried to turn Crash into another Skylanders.
When the games stopped feeling hawaii-adjacent was when the soul left the franchise.
>>729524597Aren't bandicoots australasian?
>>729524315The only risk TFB took was being retarded and acting like they knew better than the fans, the people who remade the trilogy, and the people who remade CTR. They didn't and now the series is dead because they are stupid.
>>729523221They actually understand it pretty well it terms of gameplay and level design, the masks which all take advantage of an existing platforming element/moveset in the series, and the coyote time slide fits perfectly into Crash's brand of precision platforming. Hell, they even knew to include techniques like spinning on a metal bounce crate to stop bouncing. They just don't know a proper ratio for level lengths and collectables.
>>729523221I like that they remembered that N. Brio fucking hates Cortex and so wrote him as just stringing Cortex along with the plan to stab him in the back and work with the bandicoots. It was more care than most post-ND studios gsve to continuity.
>>729525134If the writer actually cared, they'd point out that it was TAWNA who caused the Cortex/Brio split. You know, like in the original pitch document? Oh wait, they didn't give two shit about the ACTUAL history.Furthermore, post-Crash 1, Brio shouldn't be acting like a bitch. He literally shot a super laser at the Cortex Vortex in Crash 2. Mind over Mutant got this right.
>>729524493Funny because all 4 remakes are just lazy Skylander asset swap
>we need to make a game>that is incredibly faithful to the originals, but needs retcons and nulore>that retcons several previous games as "Didn't happen", but is chock full of references to them>that panders to women's politics, but immediately pretends it's just an alt universe guys, the original is still there guys>has to be the hardest crash bandicoot ever with the most levels ever with the hardest relics everI have a lot of praise and a lot of complaints for 4.>>729524315>now enjoy your slop.We didn't ask for slop. We might have been happy with a release every couple of years with a bundle of themed levels.I'm thankful this was all made just before AI.
>>729526305>is incredibly faithful to the originalsYou are the one living in alt universe my man.Need i remind you what coco's body proportions should be like.
>>729523591One former dev accidentally revealed he worked on something Spyro related in 2024 via his LinkedIn, around the time when TfB formed a partnership with Microsoft.
>>729526910Ah I thought they were remaking Banjo & Kazooie
>>729526305>is incredibly faithful to the originalsNo. Originals are accessible for both kids and adults while having a sensible difficulty curve (1 is only hard because of the shitty saving system), 4 becomes a fucking nightmare. It certainly isn't faithful aesthetically, or when it comes to story and writing. So in what way is it "faithful"?>is chock full of references to themMakes sense, it's reliant on older games. WoC and Twinsanity are infinitely better than IAT despite their shortcomings so they need to rely on them to drum up shit.
>>729526305>>that retcons several previous games as "Didn't happen", but is chock full of references to themthis is perhaps the thing I hate the most about IAT, it's such an arrogant thing to do for such a mediocre piece of software
>>729526704>>729527039I was making a point that they were saying>look! It's the Crash you always knew!whilst then doing>this is going to be MY Crash made how I like it!>>729527236>this never happened>btw, *nudge wink*, we remember it did happen so don't complain or we'll sic fans on you for claiming we're retconning itImagine doing that straight after CTR has stuff from Tag Team Racing added. Cake & eat it.
>>729523221The thing about Crash 4 is it has soul, but it's not soul belonging to Crash. The gameplay is Crashy, the levels are Crashy (if seriously overdone in difficulty), but the style just isn't Crash at all. This isn't even a reinvention like how Twinsanity went more for the crazed wild part of the franchise instead of the badass Crash riding a bike part, it's just completely differentYou could put half the shit in this game in a generic shovelware game and it'd feel right at home. There's none of the style, the charm, the music. It's Crash in gameplay but nothing else. And even then it's Crash in gameplay but some could argue WoC and even Twinsanity did it better at many points.
>>729527785they rounded off the edges. took out all the fun and zanyness. turned it into mechanically recovered bandicoot meat block.
>crashfags destroyed their series and a planned spyro crossover game just because of an alternate universe tanya having a MohawkChuds are embarassing
>>729523221Crash 4 is a perfectly fine game where a retard came through with a pen and started drawing dicks everywhere. Collecting all of the boxes to get the gem IS THE POINT OF CRASH. You do not hide boxes offscreen and in gotcha locations. You do not force the player through levels twice as long as any original trilogy stage only to say "lol, ya missed one! ;)" TFB did not understand what makes Crash actually interesting. It's a platformer AND an approachable collectathon that rewards precision and completion in reasonable spades. They made an autism fangame instead of something for actual people.
>>729528503>You do not hide boxes offscreen and in gotcha locations.This would be cute one or twice, but doing it in every level as well as making the levels ultra long (penalising overlooking one) is just tedious
>>729528047Precisely. It's so plasticky and fake, so clean and inoffensive. We're talking about the same franchise which had the first game include Crash wiggling his eyebrows seductively before jumping on top of a swine, a hot bandicoot babe and a mafioso potoroo with a tommy gun. The sequels didn't really stop, they went further with the wackiness.When I first played IAT, went through the pirate world, seeing the generic ass rats on barrels and crab enemies, it didn't feel like Crash where the enemies are lab assistants dressed as wizards which you strip down to their underpants or monkeys holding a tower of pots. The world looked so safe and boring too, old Crashes had cool details like the billboards in Warped's bike levels or all the animals chasing Cortex in the Dok Amok stage in Twinsanity. None of that here. And the music was "generic adventure music" rather than anything notableIt got worse with the writing too. When I heard the Wrath Of Cortex reference in the first Cortex fight, I audibly groaned. Twinsanity did the same joke but it was actually fucking funny because it was the devs admitting the game was a total bomb and ended with a funny gag. This is just>H-HEY GUYZ HE SAID THE THING
>>729528959tis a shame that they cant just give you and some other crash nerds that can code a new game the IP so you can dream up a new, actually fun and cool gameoh well
>>729523221>toys for bobI remember playing the Madagascar game as a kid.
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I think they understood Crash perfectly, so much that they replicated Naughty Dog buckbroking Japanese audiences with Crash 1; Crash 4 has eternally buckbroke /v/, Twitter and Reddit faggots at the same time, a sign of a true masterpiece of a game only true skilled players can appreciate, it sits in the same table as DOOM Eternal or Sekiro in that regard.
>>729529739take your medication
>>729528091I know this is bait but if the "Chuds" don't buy a game and it flops, doesn't that also imply the normies and whatever the opposite of chud is didn't buy it either? Feels more like nobody likes sideshaves in general.
>>729529739Japanese people not understanding basic mechanics without a tutorial is not the same as making an entire game based around random guesswork.
>>729525110>They just don't know a proper ratio for level lengths and collectables.This
>>729530008Normies dont care about 3D platformers
>>729528959I blame the rise of ZBrush for all that shit.Modern 3D artists don't know how to make 3D models from scratch for video games, they know how to make clay shit for animation movies at Pixar. Since it's clay they're also thought to never create any hard edges so they smooth everything to hell and back.And since the 3D models are so shit they also rarely go through the trouble of making proper UV maps for clean textures from IRL photos, they just hand paint that shit on the model.God I hate nu devs
>>729530008this guy >>729528091 loves to do "chud" baits in every crash threadit's pathetic really
>>729530432It goes beyond that. It's philosophical. Shit like Twinsanity, which despite being unfinished just oozes charm, could never be done nowadays because even the shittiest games nowadays have to be safe and commercially available to sell toys. It's fucking pathetic
>>729529732Tryna unlock a new costume so I can hide those blue danger streaks
>>729532490CTR is actually the best mascot racing game too lol. It's crazy how Sonic gripped some weird autistic magnetism.
>>729524597So 3?
>>729528091>crashfags destroyed their seriesThe dev and publisher did that>the entire reason it failed is because you didn't want danger haired coal burning tawna 35 year old wearing 18 year old clothes tawna!If that really was the load bearing part of the game, maybe they should have catered to their audience rather than an audience who won't buy their games?
>>729532591More on the lines that Crash Bandicoot is very very FAKE. He's a wannabe Sonic the Hedgehog mascot platformer and a very obvious clone of the Taz the Tazmania Devil. Even giving him a hot girlfriend was taken from Dizzy Devil.Add in general mismanagement of his IP and well, there's nothing there.
>>729533584Sonic the Shithog is Road Runner for furries with some fucking Goku hair. You guys need to share that autistic passion for garbage with other series.
>>729533968He was actually based on Felix the Cat cause Oshima was/is a major Weebo.
>>729534193I just call it like I see it. I don't care what they claimed.
Why are ps1 failennials such fucking crybabies these days? You niggas got even more annoying than banjotards.Are you feeling your asspussy menopause coming or what?
>>729525852>Furthermore, post-Crash 1, Brio shouldn't be acting like a bitch.He isn't, though? His dialogue makes it clear he's buttering Cortex up in order to betray him later.Also, why would Tawna causing the split even come up?
Reminder that Crash 5 sold multiple millions of copies. It wasn't a failure by any reasonable metric and most publishers would love the numbers it pulled.The problem is Activision had retarded expectations thst were impossible tob fulfill. >>729523591They're wrapping up Spyro 4 and apparently wanna do Banjo-Threeie next. Supposedly, after going indie, they pitched Crash 5, Spyro 4, and Banjo-Threeie to MS, and Spyro 4 is what MS wanted. They're positioning themselves as the "3D western platformer revival" guys, and frankly, I say more power to em.>>729525110This is correct. The platforming in 4 is some of my favorite in the series, but the length and amount of shit to collect was ridiculous. I imagine a Crash 5 with a tighter focus would be ny favorite Crash game. 4 is already better than 3, if not as good as 1 and 2.
>>729524315Fuck you faggot they were assigned Crash, they didn't want to do shit. Rumble was their initial fucking idea for Crash until the tard wranglers had to tell them to make a fucking single player game
>>729535473>he's buttering Cortex up in order to betray him later.Why? Brio already gave Cortex the finger in Crash 2. He shouldn't give two shits about Cortex much less calling him "master". Tawna convinced him to have some fucking balls. Her contribution to the story, completely erased for some reason.The reality is Brio shouldn't be here. And neither should Cortex and N.Gin. Why are any of these characters working for N.Tropy? What are they getting out of being his henchmen? The out of universe reason is Memberberries but the in-universe makes no sense.What did N.Tropy offer these three in exchange for helping him?
>>729526305I'm confused, I thought IAT took place before CTR and WoC. How does it make it so they "didn't happen?"
>>729524670Yes. He's a stupid American, forgive him
i thought crash 4 was fun and a pretty nice successor to OG trilogy
>>729528091Fuck off back to your hole, dishonest kike
>>729535926IAT is a different canon than WoC. WoC is a direct continuation to Warped in its own right and Twinsanity is a direct sequel to WoCHence the game basically retcons the rest of the franchise into never happening. The only games canon under IAT are the three PS1 titles and CTR since Oxide recognizes Crash and there are pictures from the remake in his room.
>>729532424Uh anon...
>>729534487It's funny watching zoomies pretend they have any standards
>>729533584Sonic is a shit series that only got popular because it had good music, because of the TV shows and because of all the ads SEGA did where they capitalized off of Nintendo's well deserved (at the time, modern Tendies are morons) reputation. The games themselves are awful, the concept of running fast is constantly destroyed by shit puzzles and boss fights with horrible physics, bonus stages that are a chore to beat and forced bad endings if you don't want to spend a year searching for emeralds in the most random places everDon't come insulting Crash when Sonic games have always been worse. Even Adventure was trash.
How quickly we forget "tribal tattoos and down's syndrome Coco" era of Crash when complaining about TFB's run
>>729535793>Crash 5 sold multiple millions of copiesThe problem is that isn't true. Activision SHIPPED millions of copies (as they do by default) but the SELL THROUGH (people actually buying the game) was very very low. Furthermore, budget estimates the break even point for IAT is somewhere at 3 million units based on staffing and development time.The good news: Crash 4 was profitable.The bad news: Crash 4's ROI (Return on Investment, Google it) was 4%.Had this been an indie game with a much lower budget, this wouldn't be much of an issue but for a triple ASS game, that's really fucking bad. Just like Radical Entertainment with Prototype 2 before them, one flop and Activision will give you the boot. It's either that or be absorbed by one of their other divisions and TFB really didn't want to work on CoD.
>>729536113Was this stated by a dev post-release? I found an interview that implies 4 is before WoC and thus Twinsanity, etc.>Paul Yan: It's ignoring some of the other sequels that are coming after this in its chronological timeline
>>729536762That's just them lying. IAT haas various contradictions that make no sense if WoC came afterNot only that, but IAT itself jokes that WoC isn't canon. The first mask, the blue one, asks Coco if they've beaten Cortex before, she responds that thrice, and he says that he felt it'd be more.
Why is the official Spyro facebook account still posting stuff 7 years after the Reignited trilogy released?
>>729536762Damage control. This was after Crash 5 got cancelled and their future was in jeopardy. Before that, Crash 4 was treated as a separate universe while On the Run was the "sequel" to the original Prime timeline.
>>729537095>Original timeline gets relegated to Temple Run cloneHeartbreaking. You bet your ass they did this out of arrogance, reducing the old games to a cashcow for kids and manchildren while only THEIR stories got to be mainline Crash games (even when they steal directly from the old games kek)
>>729535921>Her contribution to the story, completely erased for some reason.It was literally never canon outaide of the pitch document. I like it, it's a good bit of character business, but it was never in the game or any sort of manual. To act like it's Tawna's defining character moment is just disingenuous.
>>729537047>happy holidays >no merry christmasYep, fuck off faggots.
>>729537007What are the contradictions? I never beat IAT and have no intention of going back to it.
