/vr/ - Retro Games

Didn't read, stay mad.

>>7427493
Didn't read, stay mad.

>>7427483
>Everything that doesn't resemble an anime is bad

/a/ It's right there

>>7427483
One of the most overrated games of it's time.

>>7427523
> rent free
Nobody even mentioned fucking anime. You're totally missing the point, possibly on purpose

Shit board

>>7427483
Didn't even mention attacks
> We'll steal attacks from Mario and Tazmanian devil - which were generic in the first place but now they are also stolen

the biggest crime is people thinking 2 is better than 3

>>7427994
crash 2 and 3 both have their problems.

crash 2
>"what the fuck do i do" tier collectables
>fucking backtracking
>worst final boss of the entire series

crash 3
>shitty vehicle levels
>stiff swimming controls
>motorbike levels

just a few i could think of.

>>7427483
Gameplay is great. one of the best games of the fifth generation

All platformers besides the Genesis Sonic games suck.

>>7427483
You know for a mascot, Crash is very expressive, compared to something like Mario or Sonic.

I remember playing this at Christmas 1996 was such a good time

>>7427483
If you think the Crash we got is bad, look up the concept art Butch Hartman sent them. It's the most hideous character in the universe.

Character design is hard to comprehend for soulless shitlords of the shaft sucking spectrum. There are some who would say...JoJo and Final Fantasy have "good character design", these people would be wrong and and would have been utterly reamed by Walt if you catch my drift.

No, there are many things wrong with Crash but character design is not one of them. When it comes to designing a mascot, less is more. The only detail you need are subtle ones, such as his shoes shorts and gloves which break up his very orange color scheme, picked out in burgundy and blue. Speaking of which, these little details themselves say a lot about Crash. Fingerless gloves? Jean shorts that hang below the knee and mock Chuck Taylors? This is a character who's got a little bit of edge, but is also "casual cool", a slacker type "dude" of the late 90's tradition, 7/11 parking lot skateboarding and Limp Bizkit are what Crash's outfit speak of, which I feel was very much the point. You might be thinking well, where have we seen an anthro odd rodent with an attitude before? Yes I think we all know Crash was a blatant rip off Sonic, along with Bubsy. However, Crash's design went to some lengths to separate himself stylistically...Sonic was round shapes, circle based....pinballs and pinwheels, Crash is angular and triangular, doritos and cheese wedges. Sonic seems short and stout, Crash seems tall and stretched.

>>7428062
>You know for a mascot, Crash is very expressive, compared to something like Mario or Sonic.
Mario yes, Sonic no. Sonic was the most alive and most expressive character in video reality.

>>7428324
Your autism is showing.

Still my favourite game ever, fuck you OP.

>>7427483
You claim Crash is soulless and not "creative" but you'll defend every single soulless Mario game — all 700 of them.

>>7428324
Sonic is only expressive in the title screen or when you idle, or some sort of key art like a poster. Crash's entire design was created to be expressive, or even exaggerated I'd say, to be like Warner cartoons or Tom & Jerry through the entire game. One could argue that Crash is a better mascot than the other two.

>>7428553
Wrong, Sonic beautifully has so many moments of expression no other game character had, would a lifeless husk like fat guido wobble and try to balance on the edge of a platform? As Sonic runs, he goes through different stages of foot animations, when you spindash it's so good as well. Mario simply is a shit mascot and a shit character, it doesn't really matter because he's had good games and remains successful, but he was always a shit design. Crash I would say, at least originally, was better than Mario, but still inferior to Sonic. Crash is nowhere near as generic as OP makes him out to be, and good character design was put in place to make him, but he's still not touching Sonic, every little detail about Sonic is pretty perfect. His name is Sonic....why? Because he's speedy, that's his thing, simple and concise. Why is he blue? Does their need to be a reason? No, but generally we associate the color blue with "cool", it is a cool color on the spectrum, Sonic is meant to be a cool character. Even that little nuance is perfect, Sonic's trademark move is the ability to turn into a ball to attack, well, I mean he is a hedgehog after all, turning that simple animal ability into an offensive move is a great idea. Crash is named so because he crashes into things...not quite as good, but fair enough, crashing through crates is a major part of the gameplay.....but then what else about him, hmmm he's orange just...cause why not, his trademark attack is spinning around like Taz....why? Meh, it's like the opposite of Sonic see, Sonic rolls, Crash spins, but what does spinning have to do with bandicoots? See, Crash is less perfect, even though he's not bad.

>>7428553
Sonics design is more Disney, Crashs is more Warner Bros

I honestly think a lot of people hate on Crash because he's smug as fuck in artwork and they don't realise he's a slapstic goofball in the actual games. Like it's pretty obvious OP didn't play the games, he'd know Iron Crates have been a staple since day 1.

>>7427483
>>> How about the most generic fucking looking anthropomorphic animal anybody can ever imagine, with no defining features whatsoever?
Shitty bait thread, but I somewhat agree with this. They could've done so much more with a weird animal like the bandicoot.

I loved Sonic, Crash, Mario, and Spyro for what they are. You are taking kid video games too seriously man.

mario 64 sucks, the most overrated game of all time

>>7427483
>>7427493
It's kinda true isnt it. A wall of text starting with stupid bullshit complaint. Didn't read either.

>>7427483
I believe the same team is also responsible for Gecko which tells you everything since he's another soulless mascot nobody could give a hoot about.

>>7429630
Nobody cares

>>7429630
Not Gecko, Gex. Impossible name to remember

>>7427994
Crash 2 will always be best

>>7429157
Bandicoots aren't that weird looking though . Except for the long snout they're pretty "generic mammal", and Crash has a big nose so it works out ok. Not the best, but I'd take a super-cartoony sort-of-bandicoot over another cat/dog/fox/bear mascot any day.

>>7427483
With that in mind though, I just tried the game and it's fun as fuck.

>>7427483
Reductionism is for children

OFFICIAL LIST OF SCOTFORMER TIERS:

S: Sonic
A: Mario, Kid Chameleon, Gimmick
B: Donkey Kong, Knuckles, Psycho Fox, Bubsy, Sparkster
C: Crash, Bonk, Ristar, Rayman, Alex Kidd, Aero the Acro-Bat, Spyro, Wonder Boy
D: Dynamite Headdy, Cool Spot, Gex
Z: Earthworm Jim

Don't @ me btw

>>7430360
Put Jim in A and it'll actually be a subtle bait

>>7427483
isn't this cunt an unlicensed taz devil?

>>7430360
>scotformer
talk white, when you are too ADHD for words, you should introspect and look at where you went wrong

>>7430437
Killer rap dude. are you on soundcloud?

>>7430476
god I wish america would sink into the sea

>>7430421
Next time I'll put Alex Kidd in A and Mario in B desu

Crash sucks ass

>>7430360
2/3 of those are total no-names not even worthy of AVGN episode

>>7430728
>zoom zoom of those are total no-zooms not even zoomy of zoom zoom episode

They were not no-names in the 90s, zoomie

>>7430360
Are you using this thread to hone your bait?

>>7430130
>I'd take a super-cartoony sort-of-bandicoot over another cat/dog/fox/bear mascot any day.
Agreed.
Anyway, here's a better bandicoot picture. This is the species Crash is based on. The Eastern barred bandicoot.

>>7427483
Jasper is my favorite scotformer

>>7431178
What the fuck is scotformer? I know it's a forced meme but based on what?

>>7431210
he longs for his former gay lover, scot.

>>7427483
you're not wrong but the environments are interesting enough and the game plays well.

watchout anons
a real patrician game coming through

obviously anon didn't play crash bash with his siblings when it was a snow day at school while drinking coco and pressing his pogo colors onto the grid to rack the most numbers or suck all the pinballs and releasing them into the enemy pits for a epic win lel

>>7428481
>Being passionate about character design in a medium that neccesitates it to be successful is "autism"

You can go fuck yourself, okay? Do it right now.

>>7431687
Based. It only took ND one attempt to take a shit in Nintendo's mouth.

>>7431691
i fell for all those online rumors about unlocking different characters so hard

>>7428990
I like how nervous he looks when he runs towards the camera, he looks way too confident in the new game

>>7431687
The only kart racing game that matters

>>7431687
Did they actually sell PSX games in cardboard inserts? Did this version originate in a pack-in? I thought inserts were limited to magazine cover-discs...

>>7431146
Yes, and it's not even bait lol

>>7430360
>putting Jim that low just because you're a disgusting tranny that hates his creator

Shame on you, lad.

>>7431210
mascot + platformer

>>7433962
What a retarded fucking name.

>>7432269
I don't know what a "PSX game" is, but there were definitely some PS1 games that were sold in cardboard boxes. However, the post you're replying to seems to just be the cover insert for the game taken out of the jewel case.

>>7434216
my copy of diehard trilogy was in a cardboard sleeve like that as the manual was too thick for a normal jewel case or something, it had to be the manual for 3 games and as im PAL, every translation of those manuals into the other continental languages, I have seen a normal jewel case version though

>>7434216
> those fucking covers
I'm sorry is this PLAYSTATION? It's only written three fucking times, so I'm not sure

>>7434349
they are very uncommon case types, you only tend to see the jewel cases, we never had american style longboxes here for psx, but we did for saturn, those longboxes are so dumb, half the case is empty

>>7434216
Love that MK3 cover

>>7434353
They are called DVD boxes. At least where I live

>>7434216
A PSX game is just the proper name for what a PS1 game is-- as the term "PS1" didn't exist until the PS2 was made.

>>7434360
> proper
No. Kill yourself now

>>7434360
edge was always the most fucking pretentious fart-huffing mag but their print quality was stellar, I still prefer the dozens of unofficial psx mags we had as the letters sections were always crude and there were jokes all over the reviews

>>7434359
a longbox is nothing like a dvd case

>>7434376

zoomer identified

>>7433983
hence why it was forced and "caught on", people hate seeing it

>>7427483
>Apples