Why did crash bandicoot’s ip fail so badly, will anyone ever popularize him again?

>>715208772 (OP)
He never cared for his kids is why

Activision suits don’t care since their other IPs make them more money.

>>715208772 (OP)
>ip with 23 games over multiple decades
>"why did it fail"
it didnt fail u retard

ACTUAL ANSWER

>The games are too fucking hard for normies

I like Crash and sometimes it even pisses me off. Spyro is better.

>>715209509
>wrath of cortex is an ugly rehash
>twinsanity was rushed
>mobile game gets gutted early
you sure?

>>715209681
>>wrath of cortex is an ugly rehash
>>twinsanity was rushed
those two are kino

>>715208772 (OP)
Crash 4 was just that bad

>>715209819
I don’t understand why they couldn’t have busty tawna (the real one)

The IP owners: Universal, and later Activision
They have no fucking idea of what made the series successful and they both actively sabotaged developers or shoved the IP into the hands of shovelware devs instead of those that proved their competence.
Be happy that the remakes actually turned out good. Crash can go back to sleep in peace until Microsoft fucks things up.

>>715208772 (OP)
Mismanagement
The decline of popularity of 3D platformers and mascot platformers
It's weird how just a few years ago Crash Bandicoot felt so alive again

>>715209669
Literally the only game in the series that can be considered "hard" is Crash 1, and that's only because the devs were new and experimenting with random shit at the time, making a hard game was not their intention.
There's also Crash 4, which is a meme because they took the journo's "dark souls of platformers" comment way too seriously.

OG Naughty Dog were the only ones who cared

>>715210610
Vicarious Visions did a good job with CNK, the 2 GBA games and NSane trilogy, and Beenox did fantastic with CTRNF.
They were the only devs that seems to have both played the original games and understood what made them good

>>715210020
I mean it's more how dogshit 100% is but I agree. 4's overall design philosophy is just weird, characters feel like they are going for too goofy which is never how I felt playing the PS1 games, which gave me more tom and Jerry slapstick vibes, if that makes any sense.

Because the trend of mascots games is over
If zoomers want something cartoony they go to fortnite, which is also free
If they want to jump on ledges on shit they play whatever soulsslop of the month or mario
Crash 4 was basically a bone thrown to millennials who still care but the money is not made in mascot shit anymore

>>715211274
No crash fan likes 4. Genuine ones anyway.

>>715211509
>no true scotsman

People who refuse to grow up are uncommon and zoomers don't give a shit about scrimblo bimblos.

>>715210610
>>715211083
The team behind Twinsanity gave a damn, they were just fucked by management rushing them

>>715210020
That's just a symptom of the overall problems that shat up the whole game, and at this point I'm cynical enough to believe it was an intentional decision to distract people.

>>715211509
I like Crash 4

>>715211930
I think it's better to say its an alright game, just a fucking terrible crash game

>>715208772 (OP)
Crash's games made plenty of money, even 4, so it's really Activision that has failed Crash.

>>715211774
That's assuming Toys for Bob were actually smart. They are not which is why everyone got fired. The morons truly believed the SJW nonsense and suffered accordingl.

>>715210020
You can. Hell, you could have Tawna and the Trophy Girls with even larger tits, thick thighs, dolled up like prostitutes. The problem is/was the devs were all gay. Literally so.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210308072205/https://careers.toysforbob.com/

Fag flag right in their recruitment page.

>>715209509
Every game after CTR was a fucking abomination

>>715208772 (OP)
I blame the tranny bat

>>715212087
it's my 2nd favorite Crash game though

>>715212829

Wrath of Cortex was their first PS2 game

>>715209257
Crash doesn't eat peaches you fucking mouthbreathing retard, they are Wumpa fruits, you dumb 3rd world ape.

>>715212947
I can't help you dude you might be beyond help.

>>715208772 (OP)
It was just a sonic clone.

>>715210610
Travelers tales had pretty ambitious concepts for wrath of cortex but they didn't have enough time so they took the Kirby route and made a by the books sequel

>>715212526
crash 1 is completely dogshit
twistanity does more innovatives and wackiness than crash 2
wrath of cortex is crash 3 but objecftively better in every way
tag team racing is funner than nitro shart

no seeing it xis

>>715208772 (OP)
Never touched the series. What are the essential games?
Is N-sane Trilogy a worthy remake or should I opt for ps1?

>>715209747
Yeah but Twinsanity was still famously rushed and had a bunch of cut content.
It’s a shame, easily the most sovl Crash game despite that.

>>715213190
>I killed billions? Really!?

>>715208772 (OP)
Still better than Bomberfaggot
Laugh at Bombermanfags
>has 100+ games
>one of the most copied games of all time
>revolutionized multi-player in gaming
>had the first HD game ever
>launched the successful B-Daman toyline
>good Nintendo history and had a crossover with Wario and Mario Party 2 unused content
>has other crossovers with Pac-Man, Transformers, Yatterman and Lilo & Stich
>still gets BTFO in SSB and became a complete laughtingstock by everyone
>series gets overshadowed by waifufags and coomers beacuse of Bombergirl despite them never playing the game
>R got outsold by the new Momotetsu, a fellow Hudson IP that was only released in Japan.
>no console game for 5 years
>No games on NSO
>40th anniversary came and went with no fanfare or events. R2 flopped hard
What a fucking loser. Imagine being a Bombercuck in 2024

>>715213742
Twinsanity was the point where Crash turned from a Looney Tunes character to a Nickelodeon character. The series has never recovered.

>>715213742
>wrath of cortex is crash 3 but objecftively better in every way
There isn't a single non platforming level that is better than it's crash 3 counterpart other than the ball rolling levels.

Same goes for the platforming levels as well. And the visuals too. And music. And bosses. I actually can't find it in me to see how someone could have this opinion.

>>715213931
wasn’t bombercow niche from the start? japanese only cared about it in hindsight.

>>715213980
Yeah pretty much. The irony being there wasn't a lot of Looney Tunes DNA in Crash to begin with. Just enough to make him less of a Sonic clone.

>>715214440
Crash is Taz.

>>715213764
You just missed the trilogy on sale for 4 bucks on steam bucko, even if you hated it that's basically a cheeseburger you could have gotten
but yes start with that on sale (literally the same games with prettier graphics and QOL) but if you really can't wait then emulation is fine, crash 2 and crash 3 play exactly the same but crash 1 sucks donkey dick and isn't worth playing with the QOL from the remaster

>>715215104
I remember people saying the non platforming levels in 3 were worse in the remaster, but honestly I didn't notice. I'm also a freak that likes all the vehicle levels so idk if my opinion holds much weight

>>715215104
I meant without the QOL from the remaster fuck
Actually you know what just skip crash 1 it actually fucking sucks but tawna got big bandicoot titties

>>715215242
I have no idea it felt exactly the same for me
But then again you have MUH PILL HITBOX retards so maybe something changed but I don't give a shit

>>715210610
>Deleting official Sony-included code in the developer kit to make room for more Crash 1 code
>They had no idea what would happen but did it anyway

They don't make motherfuckers like this anymore.

>>715213764
Crash 2 is one of the best 3D platformers ever made.

>>715213007
I can go with flat chest but I genuinely can't work with bitch with no hips.

I do think that Traveller's Tales cared when making these games

>>715215787
I liked wrath of cortex

>>715215787
The publisher didn't.

Wrath of Cortex was created from scratch for PS2 and then ported to other systems

>>715213032
Woah

>>715218493
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78KbTXlDrlg

>>715218487
Better than something like Sonic Heroes, in which the 3 versions had to be created simultaneously

It seems these games will stay forever on Xbox and PS2

>>715218995
Except it wasn't, originally at least
Originally, Heroes was GC and xbox only due to the engine not working on the PS2. Sony threw a tantrum about being left out so Sonic Team had to rush to get everything working on all systems including the PS2 which is why it's such a cluster fuck since Sony also demanded parity. Meaning the good, functional version on GC wouldn't be allowed to release.

>>715208772 (OP)
By what metric did he fail? He had a solid run as one of the platform defining franchises on Playstation 1, is remembered as one of the most impressive technical achievements of his console generation and is still remembered by enough people to warrant successful remasters and cameos in new games to this day.
In his time, a 3D platformer where you move in any direction, uninterrupted by load screens rather than just across a flat plane was completely new and interesting. What does Crash bring to the table at this point that would warrant him still being a tentpole franchise?
His shoulders are what J&D, Uncharted and the Last of Us are built on... all of which are acclaimed franchises in their own right. What other legacy does he need?

Why did Felix the Cat's ip fail so badly, will anyone ever popularize him again?

>>715213032
In his dimension, they are wumpa. in our dimension, they are peaches. Get fucked

>>715222242
Wumpas are wumpas you dumb nigger. Not peaches.

>>715212434
>That's assuming Toys for Bob were actually smart. They are not which is why everyone got fired.

>Spyro remake
>Crash remake had 20m sales
>CTR
>Crash 4 had 5m sales
Why are they being fired? Is it the post-covid "Oh shit all the investors have realised people going back to work don't have time to play video games?" thing?

>>715222560
Ananas = pineapple
Wumpas = peach
Real-world example of different names for the same thing
Get fucked

>>715209669
If that's the case, why isn't Spyro back then?

>>715214714
Isn't he the worst Looney Tune or did he just become shit like they all did when they were marketed to children?

>>715208772 (OP)
>will anyone ever popularize him again?

For what it's worth, Wrath of Cortex was better than Bash

Legends never die. He doesn't need a new game where he meets tranny bandicoots who help him on his journey.

>>715210610
This. From the graphics to the sound and the optimization, especially the optimization, Naughty Dog knew what they were doing. Every game after CTR did not know what they were doing and did everything but make a good game. Yeah you can blame the publishers for rushing out the games but the developers were too focused on making a comedy show, a portfolio or a fucking sketch show. No one wanted to make a game.

And Crash's characterization took a massive nosedive. I guess being zany and having a few funny death animations makes you a retard.

>>715213007
You know damn well rouge lost her boobs and sounds like harley quinn now

>>715224149
Except people complain that wrath and twinsanity are unfinished
Titans and Mutant are too different.
Very rarely do people actually state that they're straight up bad

>>715223123
Wumpas=wumpas you 3rd world monkey. Kys.

>>715224618
>Except people complain that wrath and twinsanity are unfinished
In this same thread people are calling those two games 'kino'. Do not underestimate the low standards that this board has with video games, let alone the skewered priorities. After replaying the ND games, I can say the post ND games are bad, from what I came off from and went into. ND set a standard, and no one tried to adhere to it.

>>715223259
tazmania was great, you ninny
worst looney tunes were sylvester/tweety, literally just a pet bird and cat that behave like a bird and cat for 10 minutes like a counterfeit tom and jerry

>>715208772 (OP)
Two main reasons,
Because Universal Vendi owned the copyright to him, not Naughty Dog so it suffered from constantly hopping developers going from Naughty Dog to Traveler's Tales to Vicarious Visions to Radical Entertainment. While they each are good studios they have different ideas with what do with the IP causing some issues with a focused and consistent vision; while also suffering from a pretty massive crunch for many of the development cycles or suffering from a very inexperienced dev team.

The other issue is literally just Activision not wanting to funnel money into games that where not Call of Duty or Guitar Hero for much of the late 2000s and early 2010s because they do not want to risk making a game that could fail and also have no understanding out from re-releasing virtually the same exact game every year could lead to players getting burned out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6G1qaFjEac

>>715213797
I started replaying Twinsanity for I think the fifth time now since it released, and I am taking my time with it to try to break the game as much as I can on my own to really get a feel for it so I can contemplate making my own build that tries to fix some of the issues it has.
I never really noticed until now how clunky it feels compared to Crash 2, 3, and even Wrath of Cortex. Like for example slide jumping basically does not work for clearing gaps, his air friction feels much higher, and the belly flop is very snappy. Not to say I don't like Crash's move set I think it works very well for a pseudo open world game.

Also I forgot how horrible the checkpoint placement is in the game, I had to replay some sections and re-watch many of the cut scenes in Jungle Bungle because I was trying to do one of the gem puzzles or I died from a bug with the bouncing metal crate collisions. What is weird to me is that the there was way more checkpoints for the press release version of the game, but those where cut before the final build.

>>715224891
Games can be kino, but at the same time be only average if dragged down by gameplay.

>>715224891
Your post doesn't logically follow mine retard.
A game being unfinished but being actually good aren't mutually exclusive.
Hell what makes people's opinion of Crash 4 so negative is that game IS finished, there is no "polish up the graphics on level 3" to make it better.
It's just shit.

>>715225189
>A game being unfinished but being actually good aren't mutually exclusive.
Twinsanity isn't good. At all. Crash 4 isn't good either. What's your point?

>>715224819
>Wumpas=wumpas=peaches
Still alive

>>715225270
>Twinsanity isn't good
Wrong.
Again what people who ACTUALLY play the games say about it is that it sucks that it isn't finished.
Not that it's a bad game (which it isn't)

>>715213190
It's not her fault that you had to get halfway through the game to find out she was an intentional punchline.

>>715224902
I liked Sylvester. You're right about tweety though fuck that little nigger.

>>715211770
No the Twinsanity team was not that rushed. It was more of a symptom of too many chefs in the kitchen and development creep at the concept level, while also lacking more competent programmers and level designers, which was partially due to TT's management believing that having more advanced dev tools would compensate more than it did in productivity.

>>715224891
Honestly I love both of them, even though I am very critical of them for different reasons. I don't know if "kino" is an appropriate word for them. But I don't see any fault in someone liking either game while being very aware of their flaws. Both have a lot going for them that will just appeal to people differently, just partially because of how much of a mixed bag those games are.

>>715225403
>it sucks that it isn't finished
And you were expected to pay full price for a short game. Between the crummy controls, the obnoxious music (someone was trying to make a portfolio if the game shit didn't work) and the short length, it's not worth your money. I'm glad I got it for free at a job way back, or I'd be pissed off that I paid full price for it when it released.

Activision maliciousness. Why would they destroy the company’s that made highly successful remakes? Remakes that sold tens of millions more than most other platformers? When all they had to do was hand the direction of the franchise to those developers and watch the cash roll in? It doesn’t make sense which is why it just reeks of maliciousness. They destroyed the Crash brand before and now they did it again.

>>715225403
Not him but that era of crash was so painfully short lived too. I wanted twinsanity 2 and cortex chaos, not vivendi universal's crash games. CTTR doesn't even really feel the same despite using similar designs and spiralmouth coming back. I want more spiralmouth style acapella kino, it is nowhere to be found. TT Oxford deserved so much better.

>>715225510
>No the Twinsanity team was not that rushed.
Imagine unironically trying to push this bullshit in a fucking crash bandicoot thread.
At this point I assume you retards have to have like a humiliation fetish or something.

>>715225702
>annoying music
If you don't like acapella your taste is simply beyond redemption. There is no fixing you, you are too irritated by the unconventional to have real fun.

>>715225292
Wumps are wumpas. Peaches are peaches brain dead thirdie.

>>715224902
>worst looney tunes were sylvester/tweety
not even close

>>715225745
You can take Jon Burton's (Traveler's Tale's founder) opinion on it, if you want to call me wrong.

>>715208772 (OP)
3d platformers are a dead genre, prove me wrong

>>715225783
I don't to hear BOBABOPBOPBEEBOOP in a game I don't like, let alone a game I like. Stop trying to force your low standards on others.

>>715225919
Fucking THIS.
>Oh my dear gopher, we are SUCH utter faggots
>Oh my goodness you are SO right!
Very funny. I definitely want to watch this over the big names like Daffy or Bugs.

>>715225801
Low temp IQ tranny can't comprehend multiple names exist for the same thing. Enjoy your night anon

>>715226012
>low standards
Okay anon. I will only listen to cinematic orchestral music from now on as that is the closest thing to homogenous and non abstract TV static I can think of for music in a video game. Maybe I will start eating wheat thins while watching beige paint dry too while standing up completely straight. We wouldn't want anything unconventional, after all.

>>715226248
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqOYAUexdig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thr1xb9bv8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAx6nEbk2_M
Now that you got your tantrum out the way, listen to some actual music appropriate for a Crash game.

>>715226745
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxX6Z34qyMU

>>715226745
I fail to see why I cannot like both.
>Tiny the tiger theme literally uses a vocal sample
Granted that's not 1 to 1 the same but I don't see what makes acapella tracks annoying to you but wacky audio samples are okay. (Again I like both, not to imply it annoys me.)

activision likes sending studios to work on COD mines because they leach money from zoomers/3rdworlders

>>715212087
If you only care about the core platforming, Crash 4 is the best in the series
If you care about 100%/the box breaking, it's the worst

>>715224902
Tazmania is bad for anyone over the age of 8.
I'm sorry you're blinded by nostalgia.

>>715226902
That's pretty good. Not obnoxious or 'funny', it's a fitting theme in general for a character like Cortex.

>>715227036
>audio samples
Keyword, sample. Not the entire three minute track, but a sample and used sparingly.

>>715227181
>Crash 4 is the best in the series
Nothing wrong with 6 or 7th place man

>>715226745
>complains about "BOBABOPBOPBEEBOOP" music
>posts a song that is essentially burpstep
they are both good btw.

All the 1997-2001 games by Traveller's Tales

>>715226745
This is unironically better than any song in the OG trilogy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuCFZ0cbSH4

>>715227228
I guess. But why do you think it is the vocals annoy you, anyways? I mean it's not like the music is blaringly loud or in your face or badly put together. I think the only tracks I don't like are Rooftop Rumble and some of the final boss theme. I don't really think it worked when they tried to do heavy metal with it but I wouldn't call them outright bad. It's goofy and fun, why is that bad for a crash game?

>>715226107
Wumpas are wumpas. I accept your concession faggot.

>>715227259
It has some of the biggest and most engaging platforming stages. 2 and 3 are great but they lowered the pure focus on platforming that 1 had in favor of the gems/box breaking, while 4 does the opposite and goes more like 1. I'm never going to even attempt getting all of the box gems in IAT, fuck that, but the actual levels are great

>>715208772 (OP)
Universal, Activision

>>715227449
Because once you take that fun and goofiness away from it, you're left with a very short and hollow game. Crash 1-3 and CTR had a good game atop good graphics, great music and great controls. You can argue about the gimmick stages in Warped all you want, but they were functional.

You're praising a side when I'm praising a side that came with the entire smorgasbord.

>>715228275
>Once you take that fun and goofiness away from it
I don't think the gameplay was bad like that, maybe a little rough around the edges in some ways but I think given how it's development went it's good for what it is. I do think it could have been a lot more, but I don't really think it's fair to say "if you take a major draw away from this thing then it's not good anymore".

>>715225919
the bar is set to 10, the gophers just reduced it to 9.9 to what is a near perfect series of cartoon adventures. i dont care if you feel any different. fuck your opinion i love good cartoons.

Wrath of Cortex is the only game in the series to have a soundtrack by this duo, and that's a real shame

>>715224902
>talking shit about sylvester

>>715228580
NTA but the worst thing about TS is minor things that got changed due to dev incompetence or ignorance and if you add them all up its overwhelming. Crash cant survive a TNT of Nitro Crate with Aku Aku anymore, he just dies and blows up. Theres no Invincibility music either. The slide jump is bad now. Theres little reason at all to break most boxes since gems can be found everywhere, and theyre just collected so you can view concept art in the gallery.

>>715228948
>Theres little reason at all to break most boxes since gems can be found everywhere
This is the only change I agree with, because having to hunt down the boxes in wider, larger stages like Twinsanity's would have been irritating. Would have just turned it into collectathon shit, putting the gems behind optional platform challenges was the right move. Though they could have been worth more than just "Look at the things that COULD have been in the game!"

>>715228948
That was incompetence, aku aku can't facetank nitros anymore since they didn't have time to make new elements for puzzles in the field.
And there's no invincibility theme because legitimately they ran out of timw to work on the game.

>>715229323
>was
Wasn't
Fuck this gay nigger retard site editing my posts after I make them

>>715227657
nta, you never disproved them, thoughbeit

>>715208772 (OP)
Simple, all those kookie franchies from the past have zero weight. Why would a little kid care about what their dad played briefly in there teens? Crash wasnt even that popular in his era, the commercials are more popular than the games themselves!! Spiro, crash, metroid, prince of persia, sly cooper, megaman, kirby and other dead franchises are great examples of dad gaming. Now that game making is bloat ware. Why would companies spend nearly 10 mil to make a game no one give a fuck about? Look at the new DK game. If that fails nintendo is out MILLIONS. Drop you obsessions about dead characters rayman is gone.

>>715229750
The burden of proof is on the accuser, therefore I win. Simple as. Wumpas are wumpas. Cope however you must.

>>715229323
They had years to do something so simple.

>>715213190
Never stop posting this
>>715219493
>Whiplash
My nigga

>>715225430
how so?
never played the game myself

>>715230872
>Wumpas are wumpas
Which are also peaches. I accept your concession since you haven't disproved anything. Get fucked

>>715236530
>retards accuses wumpas of being peaches
>has no zero proof
Nope. I win. Burden of proof is on you. I accept your concession though for the second time.

It only failed insofar that Kotick and the goons he handed activision to consider any game making less than a billion dollar an abject failure

>>715236668
Kek, u win? Keep coping. Enjoy the L and enjoy your night.

>>715236668
Theyre a mix of apple and peach, anon.

toys for bob are compromised by gay furfag artists and made a product that most people take one look at, turn 360 degrees and then walk away from
It's a shame that Vicarious Visions or Beenox never got the chance to make a crash or spyro game, they were much better Activision studios

>>715237176
Yes, I win. I accept your concession.
>>715237256
Where's the proof? Until then, I'm right you're wrong. I accept your concession as well.

>>715238357
Dude

>>715223592
You know damn well that's just because of buttblasted Crashfags who still won't get over Sora

>>715238753
>resemble peaches
>but are usually referred to as APPLES
So not peaches retard. Again for the 3rd time, I accept your concession.

>>715215787
Comparing WOC to what came before, it's lackluster. Load times aside in the original release, it suffers from too many gimmick levels, either them being the whole level or taking up a chunk of others. These type of levels are what make Warped lesser in the eyes of some fans, so to see it being doubled down hurts the experience. The bosses are pretty lame, where as most of the past ones tested your platforming, only one actually keeps you on the move, the final boss.\
And on a personal note, I hate that the levels don't fit the theming of the evil masks, like why the FUCK is the level with the VOLCANO not in Py-ro's set of stages? The only who got it right is Wa-Wa, having a stage with rain, most of the water themed levels.

>>715239129
>Copium dosage x90
Sure bro, of course
woah!, get a load of this guy

>>715239339
I accept your concession for the 4th time anon. It's okay, wumpa aren't peaches.

>>715208772 (OP)
did it fail? I feel like there are just no devs making new games

>>715208772 (OP)
Same thing that happened to every 90s mascot platformer. They never got big everywhere the way Mario and Sonic did and then their quality took a nosedive in the 2000s. Meanwhile Sonic had Adventure, then somehow survived going third party and a string of dogshit games through sheer autism, while Mario just kept having hits. All the other companies closed or decided to move to 'mature' games.

>>715210605
The box placement being retarded kaizo shit at times was my biggest gripe with 4. it had a lot of other problems but that was the one that was constantly causing me issues. Sure some fo the other games had odd box placement but they were USUALLY fairly rare or telegraphed in some way.

>>715224418
Recent episode of Tailstube says otherwise.

>>715239308
WOC needed some serious overhauls. Even as a kid I thought there was no cohesion or synergy between all the places ingame. The only consistency was all the levels involving Cortexs refineries, factories or space dungeons.

>>715224902
sylvester has some great ones though like Birds Anonymous and Hyde and go Tweet
the real best looney tune is Foghorn Leghorn

>>715241406
Because WOC was thrown together in six months using assets created from the open world game they were working on. All things considered, they did fine with the little time they had.

>>715227380
It's always fascinating to me how Traveler's Tales' old games range from "meh" to "unplayably bad" to "shockingly decent, especially for a licensed game". It comes across like they didn't always know how to make a good game, but they'd sure as hell try and make something of it.

They are too simple and of little substance.Type of game you would only play to pass time on a long journey in a car.

The original pitch of WOC was different. Hell, Coco was supposed to have an evil twin initially.

https://youtu.be/FZmM72ktjNA?si=EzKzoON25BVS87hr

It's fascinating just how much got changed.

>>715241192
What's the terms?

>>715241921
>Coco’s blonde, blue eyed evil twin
>Cortex’s good daughter who was probably some proto-Nina
>Crash getting some new love interest
Its funny how all of these happened at some point in different ways. Crash got Pasadena, an Evil Coco wearing fishnet stockings and a choker exists in another universe and Nina is alluded to being Cortexs daughter because how could he have surviving family if he blew them up. Still it would have been wild to see all of this in their original idea if they had the time.

>>715208772 (OP)
I remember long ago that Naughty Dog commented their talent had changed too much (lost OGs and new people didn't have the right type of skill) so they couldn't conceptualize a new Jak that didn't look too realistic.
They decided to leave it (despite showing off concept art) instead of cashing in on hype and disappointing with a game that may have been very fun but a wrong fit for the IP. I guess that's what happened with Crash too. Someone has to assemble the right talent.
On the other hand, games are becoming easier to make and "retro styles" of graphics are becoming more appreciated, so even if it's not a monetary champion (assuming it's not free) I won't be surprised if someone eventually makes a pretty darned good new Crash or something in the style of Crash (due to lacking IP rights).
It's just, we might be 50/60 or even more by then and not even care anymore. Or it might even be one of "us" who makes it for a new generation/their kids/grandchildren, while the rest of us are busy with other things by then.

>>715208772 (OP)
Console exclusive crash racing nitro sold 10 million

>>715244159
and the online is empty

>>715245362
>you can see the exact moment it all went to shit

>>715245669
Lying about microtransactions didn't help the matter.

>>715208772 (OP)
Nah shit like him is dead. Now that games takes 5-8 years to make we're not gonna see IPs like that anymore

>>715213007
i am going to make hot, sticky, nasty sex to both and that is 100% undeniable honesty on my part, i WANT to fuck both equally hard, even if the stake was "You can fuck both, but your dick implodes and vanishes in excruciating pain the next day" i fucking would just, for a piece of either pie

>>715248208
You are a mentally ill faggot.

>>715208772 (OP)
Because it's mismanaged to shit?
>remake of the first trilogy sells dozens of millions and is praised by everyone
>spend almost 10 years after that failing to make a SINGULAR proper follow-up to it
There's nothing that can save an IP from their retarded owners.

>>715209669
The base games aren’t hard, but the time trials they added to 1/2 and getting completion in 4 is legitimately kaizo tier at times
This is incredibly frustrating for normies because (rightfully so) they experience immense difficulty gaps between basic game completion and full achievements/100+%
Look up any normie discussion on the remakes and 4 and you’ll see the same kind of comments
“Why are the time trials so strict?”
“Why are the perfect runs so long/difficult?”
It turns people off because they spend a decent amount of time playing through the game normally, expect their skills to be reasonable for the end game, and get utterly trounced in a bewildering way
A good example of this difficulty gulf is The Lab gold/plat relic in 1, which is unbelievably strict and relies on RNG to get a good cycle of the electric fences

>>715213190
I hate the fact that they decreased her breast but then bragged about how big her butt looks.

>>715226745
Warped's soundtrack is 10/10.

>>715245591
10m for a remake is still a good performance thoughie.

>>715254416
You've missed the point which is that sales consistently went down over time. That's bad. Likewise, there's some inflation here as they are counting PS+ and Gamepass downloads as "sales".

Coco's...

>>715225975
astro bot

>>715213742
>crash 1 is completely dogshit
stfu zoomer

>>715254962
Of course sales went down CTR is a kart racer when the main draw of Crash was the original platforming trilogy. It still sold beyond expectations. The true turning point is when TFB got the IP and 4 flopped outright along with Rumble bombing.