Thread 717594893

What went wrong?

>>717594893 (OP)
some crates were too well hidden which made it a pain in the ass to 100%
also they gave one of the characters blue hair so all the virtue signaling rightoids have to pretend it's woke

>>717594893 (OP)
Too tedious.

>>717594893 (OP)
>Guess I have to post this again

Seriously, EVERYONE knows why it failed. Even Reddit turned on the game. It's that bad.

>>717594893 (OP)
Made Coco ugly

>>717594893 (OP)
Nothing, it’s good, just not outstanding, which apparently isn’t enough for Activision

>>717595874
the game is good now actually
https://www.nexusmods.com/crashbandicoot4itsabouttime/mods/194

>>717595779
>some crates were too well hidden which made it a pain in the ass to 100%

this
I couldn't finish a stage with 100% because of how austistic the crates were hidden
Sometimes, I died just because I thought there was a crate hidden somewhere.

>>717596110
>game requires mods to be good

>>717594893 (OP)
Way too hard and way too tedious and frustrating to get anywhere near full completion. The devs went full retard in chasing the "le Dark Souls of platformers" meme and made the game frustrating rather than fun.

It's probably better than all the other not-ND crash games but it's still just kinda eh
Some levels are way too long
Alternate characters suck ass to play as
The flipped levels gimmick is the most bare-faced padding ever, they shouldn't bothered wasting the dev time on it, even if it only took a day

The VHS tape challenges were really great though

>>717594893 (OP)
Far too many levels and sections that felt asininely difficult and killed any enjoyment that could have been had. It should not take 4 hours of bashing your head against a wall to complete every other level of a platformer that is supposed to be for kids. This shit infuriated me so I feel like any child that tried it probably gave up quick.

>>717596110
Not really. We live in an era where games can be updated by devs. Case in point, Sonic Mania changed some of the level design in its updates so stupid people would stop getting trapped in Studiopolis Zone.

And I wasn't kidding about reddit turning on the game.

>>717594893 (OP)
The new devs couldn't spin the wumpa fruit in their heads.

>>717595779
>hey gave one of the characters blue hair
not really, it's because Tawna (the princess-like character that needs to be rescued by Crash) was transformed into a girlboss

Nothing, /v/ thinks that platformer difficulty should plateau at vanilla SMW and anything harder is "fake hard"

Great game but the awful box placements ruin a lot of the replayability, which is where Crash excells at.

But i'm also a Titans fag so

Glitches. Lots and lots of glitches. Also long load times.

>>717595874
>>717596110
sex with tawna bandicoot

>>717597152
Speedrunning to /trash/, I take it?

>>717597304
yes please

I'm on board with disliking what they did with Tawna but they fucking eviscerated Dingodile's character and design for their fat bara fetish and its disgusting and for that T4B is unforgivable.

>>717597726
I'd honestly say they messed up most characters in one way or another. The only one they got somewhat right was Cortex.

>>717594893 (OP)
I honestly don't think anything went wrong, like, it mogs every single modern Sonic game in sales iirc, is just that Crash had to compete with Call of Duty, any franchise that tried that would have been equally casted away by soulless suits that just focus on spending the least amount of resources and maximizing profit.

Also all those turbo autists that got filtered by the difficulty like Caddicarius, that has the most popular review of the game, made a huge disservice to the franchise, Crash 4 didn't have the nostalgia factor to begin with and then all those people spreading negativity about completion requirements while that's something not even the 1% of the playerbase would bother with, just look at the base games completion rate in steam or playstation, is ridiculously slow.

I'm just glad it happened to be honest, the platforming was really good.

>>717597726
Yeah but its hard to make a joke about replacing his flamethrower with a vacuum cleaner.

>>717598054
Them Rick & Mortyfying Cortex was a very bad idea.

>>717598062
doesn't matter if they can't monetize the shit out of it. that's why the next crash game was moba slop with microtransactions, and the franchise died because it didn't become a smash hit like fortnite. the suits aren't satisfied with a game being profitable it needs to be a huge cash cow with a cosntant revenue stream

>>717597726
They made Dingo perfect for today

I tried 100%ing it like I did the original trilogy and the hidden crates with the length of the levels was a pain in the ass so I dropped it. I heard some people suggest it's pretty fun just doing a normal playthrough so I tried that instead and the levels were pretty boring and uninspired so I dropped it again.

>have a bunch of silly costumes
>all locked behind crate and gem numbers
>go full retard by hiding a significant amount of regular ass crates because remember when 1-2 old levels did that?
>>make levels 3x longer
>force you to replay chunks of levels when playing as new characters because plot
>bloat the game with reskinned levels with obnoxious visual gimmicks
>dogshit reward for getting everything

>>717598062
Actually, you should be thanking Sega (and Sony) who both handled publishing duties for Nsane and Nitro fueled. They published i.e. FUNDED both of those games. Remember that if Activision ever makes a statement about the Crash franchise ever again.

>>717598062
The game isn't difficult, it's tedious.
>just don't 100% then
That leaves a shallow main game only a few hours long with zero replay value.

>>717598359
Yeah, people shit on Crash 4 for being the one that killed the franchise again, but if you really look deep into the other games, you realize those greedy fucks at Activision would have never let the franchise stablish itself.

Vicarious Visions was absorbed by Blizzard to work in soulless Diablo and Beenox was sent to the COD mines to make Warzone skins and every talented developer flee the studio. Toys for Bob had to go independent because they would have share the same fate as the other studios.

The only hope now is that Microsoft sees the value in Crash, and they actually like to fund AA and budget AAA games to spam in gamepass, so I can only hope at the moment the franchise will return, next year in the 30th anniversary theres has to be an announcement at least, if not it's truly over.

>>717598876
>That leaves a shallow main game only a few hours long with zero replay value
Nobody complained Astrobot is like 8 hours long

>>717598731
I didn't know that, if anything it proves Activision was never really fond of Crash to begin with and why they gutted every developer studio after each remake was done

>>717599461
>Activision was never really fond of Crash
No shit, sherlock. While it is true that Crash 4 "underperformed", were this owned by Sega, any losses (if any) would be written off while long term planning on how to fix things would be put into place.

They would also make back their development budget via merchandising and licensing. And Sega is able to do this because they
>checks notes
Are willing to admit when they've fucked up....Openly.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/07/sega_sorry_that_it_betrayed_fans_hopes_to_win_you_back_with_a_new_game_announcement_this_september

You ain't ever gonna get that from Fagtivision.

>>717594893 (OP)
The character designs and overly long levels with too many boxes. These things are core aspects of Crash so fucking em up is a pretty big miss.

>>717596110
>easy mode mod
Go kill yourself faggot.

I don't think the game is difficult. The main issue is the hidden crates. They completely remove the fun of replayability.

>>717597152
Yet so many people would rather want to hatefuck her

You know, if Crash Bandicoot had his back catalog of games readily available on every console, PC, and Linux, he'd print money. Just saying.

>>717601628
Nutawna is perfect for hatefucking with that fat booty combined with SJW bulldyke haircut and feminazi personality.