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What went wrong with Gex? Why did the series die?

He always struck me as a more sophisticated character than Crash (lol he's orange and spins!), Spyro (lol he's purple and a bit sarcastic sometimes!) and many other of his contemporaries who are still around.

>> No.4279529

Nothing significant stands out about him, especially at the time, and he was the mascot of a DoA console.

Same reasoning behind the (not-retro) Jak series continuously changing genre. Gex has no real identity.

>> No.4279532

I liked the first and third games. Gex 2 was meh.

>> No.4279545
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4279545

Can you imagine how awful a modern day Gex would be? If the old ones were ripe with eye-rollingly bad TV references, a new one would probably be full of cringey internet memes.

>> No.4279548

>>4279545
Can't wait to play the Game of Thrones level.

>> No.4279553

Tropes and cheap one-liners can take a series only so far. It doesn't help that Enter the Gecko had one of the worst camera systems in the history of 3D gaming.

>> No.4279557

>>4279545
>gex gets a remote
>he dabs then he post that to his gextagram account

>> No.4280830

>>4279520
its Crystal Dynamics? the industry changed and so did genres. platformers were done to death. CD moved onto adventure shit like legacy of kain (awesome game too), and Tomb Raider

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4280853

>Why did the series die?
Gex was made during the height of television mania and the in-your-face programming. His entire premise relied on both trends to continue past the late 90's, but they ended up becoming more tame in what they aired. The Internet also had a hand in taking over the entertainment industry.

It just wouldn't be the same if we had a modern Gex game. What's he going to reference or quote? Internet memes? Kingpin from the latest season of Daredevil? There's just so few ideas that work with him well in context unless you changed his concept completely, and it's been proven time and time again that never works well with long time fans.

It's better to treat him as the passing trend he was rather than to bastardize the work the devs put into franchise.

>> No.4280876

Even if the series came back, people would say it's just a Family Guy platformer.

>> No.4281265

>>4280853
No that would be the whole point of a new Gex. He would still be making those dated 90's references, and the whole game would be him shitting on modern culture. It would be the epitome of "only 90's kids remember" cringe humor

>> No.4283472

>>4279545
Deep Cover Gecko wasn't really about TV.

Every world was more of a movie genre and one of the bosses was a movie reference outright.

>> No.4283489

>>4280853
Let's take stock of Gex's worlds.

Gex 3D had a cartoon world, a horror world, a kung fu world, a prehistoric channel with a history channel name pun, a sci fi world and two worlds that were just based on the inside of a television, a circuitry world and a static, wire filled world.

There is plenty to work with. They should just let this series die though because the writing was fucking horrible.

>> No.4283508

>>4279520
That insurance company bought out his image

>> No.4283510

I recently played the American version of this game and the voice is insufferable. What were you yanks thinking?

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>>4279520
Only played that demo taking place in the Halloween themed level. The ambiance was cool but I was only interested by this creepy theme, not the rest.

>That fucking horrific moment with the moving wall scream when you're a kid

>> No.4283649

>>4283510
You have to dumb things down for the dirty colonials.

>> No.4283659

>>4281265
You say this almost as if this would be a bad thing

That's what the new Rocko's Modern Life movie is doing and I'm A-o-kay with this.

>> No.4284886

>>4283510
>>4283649
>thread about shitty forgotten platforming series
>still salt about Americans to be found
O B S E S S E D

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>>4279520
It's almost like there's more to a "game" than how likable the character is.

>> No.4284915

>>4284897
Gameplay was mediocre too.

>> No.4284923

Doesn't Square own the IP now? I'm sure you could get some mileage out of spoofing Advent Children or Spirits Within. I don't know if it would be GOOD, but the option is there.

>> No.4284953

>>4284915
Exactly my point

>> No.4284991

>>4283489

you forgot the titanic world

>> No.4285430

I always preferred the original 2D Gex. Was a pretty fun platformer, better than Rayman IMO. Never bothered with FULLY MODELED sequels.