Thread 724051690

Why Crash Bandicoot Died?

It all started when they took him from Naughty Dog's hands.

>>724051690 (OP)
A smidge of CTR for PC???

>>724051690 (OP)
DEI
>>724051780
N Sane and Twinsanity were good

>>724051690 (OP)
Actiblizzard being retarded I guess.
CB4-2 (the og CB4 is TWOC) was bad, but then CTRNF was good.
Then they released that weird MOBA or party game or whatever it was that I didn't care about, and then they seemingly stopped making new CB games.
I guess it was just so fucking bad that it must have eclipsed all the sales from NST and NF or something.

WHOA

>>724051690 (OP)
He died after CTR cause Sony and Naughty Dog didn't want him anymore.
He died after Twinsanity cause he no longer had Sony's fanboys to prop him up.
He died after Mind Over Mutant cause Radical wanted to do their own original games.
He died after It's About Time cause he couldn't survive without nostalgia and the game was trash.

He's dead cause he doesn't have a decent publisher or Sonic the Hedgehog's immortality powers. You know, they gave Amy Rose a sideshave in Sonic Prime yet somehow Sonic survived...Mostly cause that version of Amy was a villain who just needed to listen to Sonic....Have you figured it out yet?

>>724051690 (OP)
he jumped on a nitro

could you guys stop writing your posts/posing questions like the clickbait titles of YouTube videos with a question mark at the end
please and thank you

>>724052669
The way he dies in the original game with the plant visibly swallowing him down is more fetishy than anything deviantart can shit out.

Its a heavily mismanaged franchise thats why. From being handed to dozens of varying devs with conflicting visions to being discarded and forgotten by Universal, Vivendi, Actiblizz and now Microsoft. Its a cursed IP that fluctuates every decade or so. I’m sure new remakes will spawn later this decade or in the 2030s then we’ll be complaining how the next Crash entry killed the artstyle again.

>>724051690 (OP)
Twas woke that killed the beast.

sex with my wife megumi!

>>724051690 (OP)
crash was dead on arrival, precision platforming in a 3d environment was a terrible design choice

>>724056151
so you're saying mario64 sucks?

>>724051690 (OP)
Bandicoots only live 3 to 7 years

>>724052894
GIWTWM

>>724051690 (OP)
he overstayed his welcome

>>724051690 (OP)
Not enough Coco.

>>724051690 (OP)
They never gave me the rights to the IP

>>724053656
>unzips dick
now what

>>724051690 (OP)

Because it was never good. Its the Astrobot of the 1990s.

>>724051690 (OP)
Sony was too stupid to secure the IP and retards ruined it with awful low budget garbage

>>724053656
Didnt they de-bimbofy her in the latest game?

>>724051780
Partly this.
But Acti-Blizz killed the series proper
>Make N.Sane Trilogy to generate interest
>CTR:NF was excellent(even if Activision updated it with mtx fuck you)
Man, can't wait for new Crash game!
>Crash 4 is some "what if Crash was the Dark Sould of the platformers xD MORE BOXES MEANS MORE DIFFICULTY! XD"
M-Maybe next Crash game...
>Online only multiplayer arena game with mtx/battlepass shit
>Not on PC or Switch 1/2(the platformer central) btw
>CTR:NF never gets PC port
>"Crash doesn't seem to be popular enough... ;( Oh, maybe there isn't demand or market for Crash games then...
>"Actual fun game? Twinsanity style game? No no, the more content game has, the better it is! BREAK YOUR 300 BOXES IN EVERY LEVEL! IT'S FUN TO MISS ONE(1) BOX XD"
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
It's like they completely missed the point of Crash it's so fucking annoying fuck Microsoft and Fuck Actiblizz.

I think Activision only caring about CoD is a big reason why Crash is dead now.

>>724051690 (OP)
Instead of course correcting after 4, they blew all their remaining good will on the dumb multiplayer spinoff.

>it died
i hate this stupid ass mentality so much
you literally have a lineup of good games you can replay at any time

what is it about people not being able to let things go and just want series to keep going until they are squeezed out of every bit of fun and joy and end up looking nothing like the originals

>>724062012
Also to add one more point about Crash 4.
Why the fuck would anyone pay $70(seventy dollars) for Crash 4 when you had Crash N.Sane Trilogy available for $40 in most places? 3 good games versus 1 questionable grind of a game.
And even now that you have Crash 4 on sale in Steam for $33, I would rather rec dropping $40 for Crash N.Sane for anyone who is interested in Crash games(if they don't wanna emulate). Crash 4 is a HORRID entry point and even more horrid game for fans. You can maybe enjoy few cutscenes and fevels without considering boxes at all, but the moment you start trying to even unlock some skins it's just annoying. Legit annoying.

>>724061560
Yes, but they put in the excuse of "it's actually the character from a different dimension!" even though it's very clear they just wanted to replace the character entirely.

>>724062793
>Why the fuck would anyone pay $70(seventy dollars) for Crash 4 when you had Crash N.Sane Trilogy available for $40 in most places? 3 good games versus 1 questionable grind of a game.

I think this is exactly why they made Crash 4 so bloated in the first place, to add "value".

>>724063452
But the way they added it was the worst fucking approach. Like, I dislike Mario Odyssey and BotW, but at least it wasn't miserable and hard to clear the objectives. Busy work yeah, but still.
Like imagine if Mario Odyssey had half as much content as now. Honestly, some people would prefer it that way.
Now imagine if they had a "Mirror" version of every world you had to also clear, with the slightest of changes. Now up the difficulty in all of the clearing stuff by like 5 times and make people grind same fucking challenge over and over again because they messed up some random. The "perfect run" ones are absolutely horrid in Crash 4, and the tapes had so much potential but unlocks...? I'm not sure. Like seriously, I never went through them all because I got tired after grinding one level over and over again in desperate attempt to find all crates(it was one of the china levels).

WHAT
WERE
THEY
THINKING!?

He died overdosing on drugs anon, don't you remember?

>>724051690 (OP)
>Why Crash Bandicoot Died?
Toys For Bob

>There's "people" who unironically wanted the crash and spyro crossover toys for bob was pre producing
I'm just glad they let my boy rest in peace, he didn't deserve none of this shit.

>>724062438
Talk about making a game no one wanted or asked for. It was dead on arrival. And the few fools that did fall for the meme and bot that garbage were "rewarded" by connectivity issues and couldn't play anyway.

>>724063971
I think what happened is that Crash 4 just didn't have a large budget, due to Activision spending almost all their resources on Call of Duty, so TfB felt that they had to stretch out what they had.

>>724052712
Sonic Prime sounds like such a surreal show. Sonic hanging out with mobile gacha seasonal alts of his friends is bizarre. Is it worth watching?

>>724065351
I guess but still the design choices are so strange.
And then slapping $70 pricetag on top of that...
I dunno. I don't wanna personally defend devs with "It's all Actiblizz fault!!!" because they had their part playing in it with gameplay stuff, but I will believe Activision didn't make it any easier.

>>724051780
This is the main answer. WoC/Twinsanityfags need not respond. The moment ND left, everyone else missed the point completely, either rehashing Warped, making a fucking comedy show or didn't know what the fuck to do period.

Crash 4 was simply a bad game. I usually find the "This is like what X would be if deigned by AI" to be a bit trite as criticism, but its hard to argue against it here.

Crash 4 did nothing to innovate, nothing to sell a random new gamer on its premise besides "Hey Crash is back!", that is not how you sell a game. Even Mario usually goes to the effort of some token gimmick for why players should try their new game.

What is the selling point of Crash 4?? Nothing. And then it has to contend with controversial and unpopular design changes on top of that.
Crash 4 needed to do something to evolve the gameplay to make players interested. Twinsanity was a terrible game, but at least it tried by doing an semi-open world.

>>724065351
I would say they were given free pass to do whatever they wanted and that the game has pretty high production values, especially compared to the spyro reshatted trilogy. It just so happens that those production values were used to make a bad game nobody liked.

>>724062012
And then you decide to not 100% it. And then you realise that there is no reason to ever break a single crate or collect a single wumpa. Because there are no lifes anymore. Even entering bonus stages is waste of time.

>>724065351
Problems with crash 4 have nothing to do with budget. Quite opposite, the game would be better if you removed a lot of things. They could even remove half of each level because they were to long.

>>724067459
Gimmick of crash 4 are new masks but they are awful to play and I couldn't wait for gimmick segment to be over.

>>724068323
Oh yeah. I completely forgot they existed. In my head the only "new" editions where bad cutscenes and mid-level scripted set-pieces that halted the gameplay. And those terrible alternate levels.

Games are all mid

>>724065351
it is clearly a conscious design choice. They bought into the DIFFICULTY LOL idea and just pushed it to what they thought Difficult is and what they believed people wanted some of the most well received platformers and games in the recent decade have been punishing and perfect run shit made for speedrunners.

>>724070893

so they tried to forcibly make it better but ended up killing the franchise?