Why was Crash unable to keep up with the success Sonic and Mario had?
>>739039064He was murdered.
>>739039384Do these people never realize shit like this is how you kill an IP?>the last Crash game came out 6 years agoI stand corrected.
>>739039483Rumble's death was two years ago. Not that it means anything.
gamers in the early 00's decided they were grown up and platformers were for babies, so they distanced themselves from fun games so they could rooty tooty point n shooty. Sony did basically nothing to try to bring them back besides giving us Jack n daxter(which btw was ND trying to "evolve le medium" from just cute and fun platforming. That and ND clearly ran out of ideas *cough* warped *cough* and they didnt know where to go with WoC. By the time they were trying to bring them back activision had taken over and was forcing out games as fast as they could, hence why WoC and warped were blatantly unfinished4 came out so alte that most platformer fans were either strictly Nintendo by now or had grown out of the series
the mainlines after 3 just weren't good. As for CTR it mogs mariokart, but it's not a good casual game. it's not like MK where you can invite a bunch of people over and have them sometimes luck into a victory
It's amazing that someone still believes Crash 4 wasn't a total failure.
>>739039384Never forget how Activision tried to erase old Tawna except when she was front and center for a pride parade.
They couldn't even sell the Crash 4 artbook. Something about that in particular is just sad.
>>739040009Why would someone use a marsupial bimbo from a 90’s cartoon game to help peddle their LGBTQ rhetoric?
>>739039064is that the gamesdonequick mascot cosplaying as sonic
Sony are stupid when it comes to memorable mascotThey had it and let it go
The refusal to make the game in a proper Warner Bros/Amblin cartoon artstyle was a massive detriment. How arrogant do you have to be to think you could do better than Looney Tunes?
>>739040103Because
>>739039805>woC and warpedWoC and Twinsanity*derp
The desperation price cut so close to launch was telling. Sonic Superstars had the same thing
Hell, they cancelled Crash 5's pre-production only ONE MONTH after 4 was released. It's clear the sales weren't there.
>>739039064Add Sonic next to crash
>>739039064Naughty Dog and Sony abandoned the IP to Activision.Never trust Sony, they are a chameleon company that neglects or abandons any part of their image they no longer find useful instead of trying to cultivate anything.
Paul Yan, head of TFB correctly interprets Crash Bandicoot as "Jackass meets Looney Tunes". Oversees a game that lacks the bite of Jackass and none of the style or cleverness of Looney Tunes. Willful and malicious was the people running TFB.
All they had to do was to retain the artstyle used for the remakes, that's it, Crash 4 as a game itself is not that bad apart from how bullshit is to attain 100% completition, the complete change in artstyle when the previous one was accepted is what fucked them overThat, and for some reason deciding the next logical step was to make a MOBA game when the genre is dead apart from LoL and Dota 2.
Crash 4 was just a dream, BTW. None of it actually happened.
>>739040347At least Sonic will keep on getting games, Crash is in a limbo state where it can get basically nothing on the next 10 years then suddenly resurface because nostalgia and make us believe he is going to resurrect again
There's a reason nobody copies Crash's game design; it was always a mediocre platformer. People just remember it cause platformers were the only genre the PS1 didn't trounce the N64 in and this was as good as it got compared to Mario 64 and Banjo.
>>739039064>crashbecause there are far better games.
And there was also the lying about microtransactions. Nothing like pirates datamining the game and finding out that all the skins had paid unlock codes. That's why the Battlenet version has always online DRM you know.
It can't be overstated how awful Crash 4's wannabe fortnite artstyle is.
>>739039898>CTR it mogs mariokartin what dimension?
>>739040348Is crazy how decades after people still don't know that Crash Bandicoot nor Spyro never belonged to Sony or ND/Insomniac at allBoth franchises rights were always on Universal Studios, they just signed an agreement with Sony to make those franchises exclusives for the PS1 since they wouldn't have to compete against Nintendo stablished franchises there, once the agreement was over Universal Studios was never keen on giving up their franchises to SonyThe only thing that could have been different is Sony buying Universal Studios instead of Vivendi, but god knows why Sony wasn't interested at the time
>>739040347I play kart games in split screens.Crazy, I know.
And let's not forget how fucking desperate Crash's social media was. Trying its hardest to get kids to give a damn about Crash and failing.
>>739040454it's because Crash hasn't embraced it's furry fanbase, they still think they are the wholesome wacky mascot. Sonic has the power of autism AND sex, crash only has boomer autism. The moment they start putting Coco in a sexy miniskirt is when people will start caring about the franchise. Just give Crash a bunch of hot bitches and it's fixed. Autismos will start writing fanfic and art, writing songs, etc. It's literally free advertisement and money.
Toys for Bob's shitty OC will forever be known as the "Franchise Killer". An amalgamation of everything that went wrong with the Crash IP.
>>739040503>>739040560Wish this game was popular enough to warrant consistent online play since CTR NF isn't coming to PC at all, but sadly people just don't seem interested on it
>>739039064Toys for bob
Hell, Crash 4 flopped so hard, it's ripples killed the cartoon that was in production. Rumors state it was "over a fart joke" but that's just cover for Activision pulling the plug and cutting their losses.
>>739039064>team sonic racing, not even crossworldsthat game was a massive failurethis image was made by that one butthurt sonic autist that tried to create some rivalry between sonic and crash that just isn't therein fact, I'm pretty sure this was made before crash 4 was even a thing, so when crash was still very successful
>>739040560I don't understand how your image relates to your claim
Crash on the Run was an odd one. Mobile slop usually prints money but somehow that didn't pan out. Boy, I wonder what they did to alienate the whales?
Oh right, they tried to turn Coco into "Crash but better" thus ruining the character dynamics. Dem whales are dumb but they ain't THAT dumb.
>>739040560holy shit, crashfags WILL defend this
>>739040834who the fuck is gonna whale on a crash mobile game, dumb idea from the start
So what happened to that rumored netflix cartoon? Oh right, it got squashed immediately. Looks like Crash still ain't getting a cartoon show.
Someone thought it was a good idea to make Crash a canon cuck. It's like they people don't understand character image...Or they just hate Crash himself and only worked on the franchise for money.
You know you're in bad hands when your developers decide to give kotaku of all places an exclusive scoop. And it's complete nonsense that nobody cares about.
Also, why the fuck is Crash terrified of Brio? Why is he such a fucking pussy?
These are real skins in Crash on the Run btw. Just more shit to chase off the whales.
>mfw its gotten to the point where me being a sega loyalist is less embarrassing than someone being a sony loyalist
>>739040596>The only thing that could have been different is Sony buying Universal Studios instead of Vivendi, but god knows why Sony wasn't interested at the timeThats exactl what I was getting at, and the reason was simple.Sony has never really had an interest in the cultivation in-house talent due to a quantity over quality mindset which quickly morphed into a trend following ethos.They quite literally killed their Japan Studio because it didn't align with the Cinematic 3rd Person Shooter style that has become the standard template.for big budget gaming.
Can't talk about Crash without the Ukapill.
>>739041032>my wife's son
>>739040834They forgot that you’re supposed to avoid the Noid
Aged like fine wine.
>>739041147Die a villain, or live long enough to see yourself become the hero.
It's not like everyone doesn't already know the REAL reason this franchise is dead.
Looks like we're in another loop.
Even the alt-chans know it.
Vicarious Visions and Beenox's games sold. TFB's didn't.
Reminder that "sales" aren't the major money makes in Activision games. It's microtransactions.
>>739039384People pretending to give a fuck about Tawna Bandicoot is funnyIt comes across like those insane Russians with that Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers bit about Gadget fucking the fly
Nothing like having to go back to the well, eh.
Also, retarddit doesn't like the knockoff anymore.
MKW > CTR > SRCWSonic Riders > all
No Crash, you didn't have the better racing game.
Sad is knowing the only new Crash content you're gonna get is from Charles Zembellas i.e. one of the actual creators of Crash.
BTW, from the official Crash/Spyro trooncord.
>>739041505On the subject of "sexual objectification" (a cringe term, by the way) why is OG Tawna who is a sexy bitch and she knows it any worse than this design where they try to "de-objectify" a character but can't actually make them ugly? So they just end up with this "alpha bitch sexy" look but no one is allowed to admit, either in universe or out, that they're still attractive?
The last time we saw Crash in an official capacity was in a shitty Airlines commercial. Man, that's some Bubsy tier obscurity.
>>739041552kek, there it isI knew you were that autistcrash 4 flopping doesn't suddenly make sonic good or make CTR retroactively bad anon
>>739041170I don't know when ND started to work on Jak and Daxter and Insomniac on Ratchet & Clank, but if it was before Universal Studios was up for grabbies it makes sense Sony would just try to replicate what they had with Crash and Spyro with the studios that made those games to begin with than throw more money to buy a whole companyAnd to be fair, during the PS2 era it worked well for Sony, while Crash and Spyro went downhill Jak and Daxter and Ratchet and Clank became succesfulI loved Crash and Spyro a lot even to this day, but you could feel CTR was their goodbye from ND to the franchise, I don't that even if Sony bought the rights ND would be interested in simply doing more Crash Bandicoot games
The Crash Bandicoot Franchise, It'd be funny if it weren't so sad. Who am I kidding, laugh anyway. Laugh cause you might as well.
>>739041587Its a miracle he still draws Coco and Tawna with boobs.
Whales will defend their retardation till their death.
Man, this era was nothing but recycled shit.
Man, it's so funny watching this faggot sweep for Activision.
It was so sweet watching him pretend to care about TFB getting shut down. He still propagates the lies of Crash 4 actually selling well.
Nothing like watching two retards you hate go at it.
>>739041675K.C. Green is still making comics? I stopped reading what he wrote when he started that story about the rudedude acorn or apple or whatever the fuck.
Man, Wrath of Cortex looks so damn good after the 4 train crashed.
On the brightside, new Bubsy game next week. Believe it!
>>739042041I wish they actually remade Wrath of Cortex, if there was one game that had some potential but was brought down by loading times and bugs was this one, they didn't have to remove it out of the existence by implying it never happened
Looking good!
>>739042008>>739041675I miss when he was still depressed...
>>739042041That it's the shit Traveler's Tales logo and not the amazing old one makes this image even better.
THE TROPHY'S MINE
>>739039064don't care, gooning to futa nina
>>739040796Fucking this
>>739042103Crash&Bubsy at the Special Olympics when
>>739041546Do you mean the original CTR or the microtransaction-laded new one?Diddy Kong Racing > all, actually
>>739039384There's no way this tweet is real.
>>739040347>steamLast festival had 70.000~ unique players with the world matches being available as well.
>>739040796It sold 3.5 million units actually. Yeah, i know.
>>739041587>>739041646>Charles ZembellasDamn I didn't realise til now his original Tawna concept was even sexier than what made it into the game.
>>739039064>Why was Crash unable to keep up with the success Sonic and Mario had?Naughty Dog couldn't take Crash with them, as it was owned by Universal Interactive up until the point where Vivindi games came in and took ownership of the IP. From there Crash was continually outsourced to Travelers Tales and other developers. Activison-Blizzard took over the Crash IP and they did have some success with the N'Sane Trilogy and Crash Team Racing. But Crash 4 didn't sell as well as they were hoping. I sometimes thing Microsoft should just have an IP sale and give Sony first dibs on Crash. I don't think Activision has done bad with the Crash IP.
>>739040191God I still would.
>>739041452Imagine if when Nintendo brought back Pauline, they made her a side-shave dyke girlboss, that's essentially what they did to Tawna.But of course, the argument there would be "lol she was just a shitty sprite in the Donkey Kong arcade why do you care so much lmao"
>Lousy GoyimWhat did Coco mean by this?
>>739041196>They forgot that you’re supposed to avoid the NoidThat moment when Crash Bandicoot betrayed Pizza Hut and joined forces with Dominoes.
>>739042103Funny, this was the first thing that came to mind too.
>>739041115why is brio working for cortex in the first place
>>739039064NGL that image aged kinda badly with Super Mario Kart Worst happening.
>>739041436>>739039064Yeah its a bit crazy because NSane Trilogy sold 20million and I think CTR Nitrofuelled did over 10million. The sort of numbers SEGA could only wish Sonic got.But if its just because Activision put them on sale for $5 its no wonder Crash is dead again. Obviously Crash 4 would bomb when they asked $60 for one game when people were paying far less for three better games in one package.
>>739041032I didn't really mind the Tawna thing not working out (Read: her just straight up vanishing and then finding out about the Pinstripe thing), but that's because i kinda saw her as a furry "Bond Girl" back when i was a kid. Showed up to be eye candy, gets written out and the guy doesn't give a shit. It isn't like she showed up to be some kind of girlboss and flaunt her new boyfriend in 2 and 3, just an obscure throwaway line.
>>739046349Mario Kart World? Great game.
>>739039384her ass is big so I'm fine with herno, i haven't played her game
