I've been thinking about getting Crash Bandicoot 2 for the PS1 after I finish Rayman. Should I do it?
Yeah sure.
Arguably the best one. If you didn't like the minigame stages from 3 anyway
>>3046607
>Crash Bandicoot
>Rayman
Your taste is impeccable.
>>3046607
Crash general? Previous thread by the way:
>>2982793
So are you guys excited about the possibility of a new Crash game?
>>3046607
Also, definitely get Crash Bandicoot 2. Great game.
>>3047369
Yes, but hopefully the nostalgiafags will keep Activision somewhat in line so they don't release something like Skylanders again.
I don't want a new Crash to be exactly like the classics, but expand on that formula.
2 has the most interesting levels and has lots of little secrets to find
1 is the hardest, but is more simple as has more 2.5d levels
3 is the easiest, but the levels themselves all look beautiful and are really varied. 3 has at least 1 vehicle/gimmick level every "zone" though
4 is actually a fun game, but has shitty load times and apparently has quite a few bugs/freeze spots etc (I never noticed these when I played). It subjectively looks great but there are some frustrating areas for sure.
I'd start with 2 OP, but if you like it make sure to give them all a try
>>3047645
Skylanders are an atrocity
>>3046607
It's basically Temple Run with a bandicoot.
>>3047965
Don't listen to this retard, OP.
>>3047965
listen to this anon OP, you will see for yourself.
>>3047965
Never thought of it like that before. You're kind of right. It's a little more complex than that, but does make me wonder why Activision didn't think to whore Crash out on mobile platforms as one of those runner clones
>finish rayman
Good luck!
Especially if you're going for 100%
>>3048267
you cannot finish it less than 100%
>>3048267
i just finished all levels and then used a cheatcode to unlock the level. like i'd have the audicity to kollect all minions - such a waste of time that you could waste on good games.
If you want to play a game, just fucking play it. Why do you need a committee to vote on it? Moron.
>>3048468
> Rayman is bad
Kek
>>3048495
you don't play good games than do you?
>>3048489
/thread
>>3048501
Rayman is good
I really like Crash 1 and Rayman 2, where I 100% the game every time I play through them, since it's rewarding and doesn't take any extra effort.
I would argue it's the easiest Crash but it's much more punishing than any other entry in the series.
>>3048183
Never played Temple Run before. Yes I know I live under a rock.
>>3048489
You sure are trying hard to start a shitstorm.
>>3048630
It's a free mobile game people think is similar to Crash Bandicoot gameplay-wise, while in reality they just see the jungle/ruin theme and relatively linear levels, and think they play the same
>>3048721
They play the same. Especially the run away from something big levels.
>>3048630
Pitfall for ipad is better than temple run.
>>3046607
>Should I do it?
are you really so devoid of any personalty that this is a decision you need to consult a message board for? do you ask strangers when you should wipe your ass?
>>3048738
That's not comparable to Crash's gameplay at all. If anything, it plays more like a 3D Sonic game, and even then it's hardly comparable, because you can't even stop in Pitfall and Temple Run.
>>3048754
It's totally comparable. Don't be so hypocritical.
https://youtu.be/b8A-caevmHs
Temple Run is just the ADHD version of Crash Bandicoochie.
>>3048735
The real Pitfall on the Atari 2600 is much better.
>>3048738
What is personality? This unit does not recognize that word.
![9f97f4d5c4294791079a1e2e8a744fb1[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/D6mSulA.png "9f97f4d5c4294791079a1e2e8a744fb1[1].png")
>>3048773
>>3048773
If you take Crash Bandicoot, and give it a muddy art direction, washed out textures, bad UV mapping, take out the complex, organic environments and replace them with typical late 90's 45 degree angle flat terrain, reduce the impeccable controls with unresponsive swiping and tilting, add pointless upgrades, take away all means of free navigation and all means of fighting off enemies, put in jew microtransactions, take out all the appealing, imaginative characters, reduce the music to just some hyperactive congas, take out all cleverly hidden secrets, and make the entire game a single chase level, then you might just have Temple Run.
> Bandicoochie
Go figure, you just came here to post top kek Simpsons maymays. No need to double wrap your extremely vague comparisons. Just shitpost, like any normal person would do.
>>3048942
>extreme nostalgia feelings
Did it hurt so much?
>imaginative characters
I kek'd. You mean these mumbled voices that say something in between boring monotonous levels that repeat themselves nandodemo.
crash 1 is way fucking better no lie
>>3048992
no one here denied that.
>>3048992
>input lag
>long, unskippable death animation
>>3049056
>input lag
THANK YOU, SO IT ISN'T JUST ME GOING CRAZY
>>3048754
>not comparable to Crash's gameplay at all
>>3049268
>you can't even stop in Pitfall and Temple Run
>>3049268
>memefilters
If anything Pepsiman is more comparable to Temple Run
>>3049301
no bandicoot is comparable to temple run/pitfall
>>3046607
Yeah. Great game. Crash 2 or 3, good ways to get into the series. Don't start with Crash 1 though. It's a frustrating game.
>>3049317
See, now you're shitposting. Keep at it, and add an XD and a (You).
>>3047656
The graphics in 4 are such a mixed bag. It has some nice water, lighting, even refractions iirc, and some of the environment looks and runs very smooth. But the colors are really washed out, many objects and characterd are poorly modeled and animated. And the particle effects are awful.
>>3049767
no you're just butthurt that your game is like a mobile game.
>>3050014
Saying some of Crash's levels are like today's mobile games is like bitching Half-Life is "cancerous" because FPS games today took a page out out of Half-Life years later.
>>3050451
This exactly. I hate the Crash games, but that guy is full on retarded.
>>3050458
"hate" is a strong word anon, where did Crash exactly touch you?
>>3050943
There are exceptions to that rule, anon. Not all well selling PlayStation games are Gran Turismo.
>>3050943
>Hello? It's one of the best selling PS games. The best selling PS1,PS2 and PS3 games are always the worst kind.
>>3046607
Go for it, Crash is a pretty good 2d - 2.5d platforming series.
if they rape crash like they raped spyro i will kill myself
>>3049139
The input lag is horrible on HDTV, but hardly noticeable on any proper monitor.
>>3054739
Nah dude the game is rigged no matter what monitor or TV you use. I can only feel it in the first game.
>>3054739
It's common that people suspect it's a HDTV lag, but people who actually played Crash games know the first one had a weird input lag. Just play Crash 1 and 2 back to back on a PSP.
>>3055542
I have played them more extensively than most people, and there is a very slight lag. But after playing games with horrendous, intentional input lag, like Dark Souls (doesn't matter if it's a pre-attack animation, it feels exactly like input lag), Crash 1's input lag is negligible.
>>3055547
Yes, people will get used to it and adapt, but the fact is that game has input lag built in. I've played shoot 'em ups before that have the same build in input lag. Fucking why? You have to understand that it's not an animation wind up kind of lag, which I would expect in a Souls game.
>>3055570
you can actually clear out bad games from good gamers like that. bad gamers can't adapt to input lag very well. this is why a lot of older player +30 insist on playing on a CRT because at that age you're reflexes become rusty and you can't adapt to changes that well anymore like young people for example age 6 to 12.
>>3055814
Why CRT monitor, though? Aren't there LCD screens with 1ms lag?
>>3050782
He touched my heart ;_;
>>3046635
I mean it really is just what most people were playing back then... I kinda miss those times.
>>3060494
Not if you ask the majority of /vr/. They shit all over Crash Bandicoot, as if he's the anti-Christ of gaming.
>>3061324
/vr/ just doesn't like Crash bring retconned into a 'true classic' by nostalgic millennials
aside from that it's a good platformer
>>3061347
How is it not a true classic?
>>3061486
Because ultimately it's a cynical 3D rehash of Donkey Kong Country.
It's saved by good graphics and competently designed levels though (though not in the same league as DKC2).
>>3061528
I won't say 'cynical' since it did experiment stuff a little.
>>3046607
Lovely game. Also, Crash Bandicoot 3 is awesome too ^^
>>3061592
Mostly technical, though. It used some heavy streaming and LoD. Flexible joints on characters was pretty uncommon back then too.
>>3063995
Only Crash 3 uses LoD actually and it was released a little bit after Spyro 1
The first 3 Crash Bandicoot games are awesome.
This is coming from a HUGE Rarefag. Fight me nerds.
>>3063998
You sure? Distant objects lose noticeable detail in Crash 1 when playing on emulator with high resolution.
>>3064030
The Rare platformers on the N64 are so sluggish, and David Wise's charming and moody music is way better than Grant Kirkhope's stock kek cartoon music.
>>3064379
I suppose you're right, but doesn't it just revert to a single stage of low quality?
>>3064385
>if it doesn't rehash DKC it's shit!
>>3064015
>Being this butthurt
>Baiting this hard
You go home after a long day of work. You fix yourself some take-out from the night before, settle down for the evening news and cry softly to yourself because the magic of your childhood is gone. You turn on your N64, crusted with cum, knowing that for a brief moment, you'll get to relive some of the most saccharine times of your life. After a long session of Donkey Kong 64, you turn off the system and stare at the wall, wondering where it all went wrong. The only way you can validate your wretched existence is by telling others how refined you are in your tastes. If you died tomorrow, would anybody notice? How long would your body rot before anyone came to do a well-being check? Until then, just keep shitposting, it's not like you have much of purpose anyway.
Not saying that I'm any better than you, but I just wanted to make you feel like shit for a second.
>>3064418
Yes, there seems to be just one low quality version and one high quality version, and changes way before it would be noticeable in the native resolution.
>>3064429
Look, the exact same thing happened to Crash Bandicoot, with the top kek cheap, forced cartoon horseshit. It's called Crash Twinsanity.
>>3064015
>be white
>have parents with disposable income that are familiar with consumer electronics
>get playstation after its been out for several months; enough time to make an informed purchase
>dad uses it as a HiFi CD player and is awed by the fact that the CD player plays games now
>be subhuman
>parents are too busy beating their dozen out of wedlock children to pay attention to brand names
>only familiar with names like Pioneer and Alpine because thats what gets mentioned in NWA lyrics
>only own electronics looted from K Mat during the Rodney King riots
>spend entire tax return to buy an N64 in 1999 because your fuck kids broke the old one
>buy a 'nintendo' because that means 'videogames' like 'glock' means 'handgun'
>beatings reduced by 50% due to 4 controller slots and promptly raised by 100% when fights over the 1 controller out of 3 that has a working analog stick
>You missed out.
>>3065304
This is pretty much what I experienced with the host families that had an N64 in the basement. The console could take a lot of abuse, though.
>>3048942
rekt
>>3046607
Yes. Crash 2 is the best designed game in the series. Crash 1 is almost as good but the controls aren't as polished and the difficulty is a lot harder. Crash 3 is the worst of the original trilogy due to all the gimmicky stages which aged terribly and occupy like 40% of the game.
>>3066032
The graphics in Crash 3 didn't age well either, even the fixed camera levels take a hit, as you can see rough 2D objects in the medieval stages, the ugly green gradient background in the Tiger riding stages, and how you can see glitched up rooftops in the Arabian stages
The only time I saw this in Crash 2 was in Bear Down, I think, where you can see above the top of the glaciers right at the start of the level.
>>3048468
Absolutely disgusting. You should just stop playing.
>>3046607
Do you always have to consult total strangers on the Internet before making any kind of decision at all instead of just looking shit up yourself?
>>3070817 # #
He was just checking if Crash Bandicoot, particularly 2, has any lolfedora nerd credit, which it doesn't. Despite its high quality production values and addicting gameplay, it's deemed abysmal by gaming scholars because it didn't reinvent the wheel, tame fire and end world hunger.
>>3065304
This is the dumbest thing I've ever read.
PSX was way more popular with non whites than N64, Nintendo was Disney and Sony and Sega were Warner Bros
>>3071364
>Nintendo was Disney and Sony and Sega were Warner Bros
Holy shit this is so true. In fact now I feel like I can freely admit I like the competition over Nintendo.
>>3064015
Well that explains that. Let me guess; every single one of the best games ever made came out on nintendo or sega game systems, and all other consoles only created subpar knock offs.
Crash is a fantastic game in its own right. And not everything needs to be viewed in reference to your personal favourite games. Opinions man.
And just to be salty, i didnt like dkc. I thought it was pretty fucking lame and i dont really like the graphic style.
But thats just my opinion. At least i can recognise that
>>3071364
Agreed, that thing was so fucked up. Guy has mental problems and also is completely the exact opposite of what it actually was.
I don't know if he thought it would be funny to invert the truth, maybe by switching up some copypasta, but Nintendo was always the choice of the upper class while Sega/Sony was minorities.
>>3071364
no way all my black friends had n64 because it had the most sports games which they liked
>>3071935
It's not a reflection of overall trends though. N64 wrestling/fighting games also did that.
>>3064015
Crash Bandicoot is NOT for kids. It's a well balanced game that suits EVERY age group, unlike the N64's lineup, which heavily markets itself towards kids.
>>3071952
Nah it definitely is for kids, more so than the N64 games. How else do you explain this recent resurgence in nostalgia for Crash? On the other hand people were having nostalgia for Mario 64 on 4chan for over 5 years.
>>3072342
Mario is a longer established franchise. By the time 4chan came into existence, there were already nostalgic manchildren who pretend they liked Mario for any other reason than it was the best thing in their 6 year old lives.
>All this elitism about what is and isn't true retro
>You have to be in your mid 30s before your nostalgia is legitimate and not fake
>pretending the entire of retro hobby isn't just 75% nostalgia, 20% the fact modern games suck, and 5% true timeless classics.
>>3064015
Idk, I just played Banjo Kazooie for the first time and found it to be pretty lame. Rare seemed to have been targeting the kiddie demographic with that game far more than Crash did.
>>3064015
>Being this retarded
>>3072342
I don't remember Crash going "WAHOO!" "YEHEE!" every time he made a fucking jump, or the even lighting and bright colors, or the permanent and soulless smile on his face.
>>3072436
We know from things like COD that kids are more into edginess than light hearted cartoon stuff. Kids are always trying to prove that they are more 'mature' than they really are.
With the fall of Sonic in 5th gen, kids needed another Poochy to attach themselves to.
It's pretty amusing that you think a dark corridor is edgy in itself though. Also amusing that you are suggesting Crash's face is less soulless than Mario. There was actually a famous review of Crash 2 where the reviewer lamented the soulless void of design-by-committee present in Crash's face on the game's box art.
>>3072485
>We know from things like COD that kids are more into edginess than light hearted cartoon stuff
No that's just you refusing accept reality
>With the fall of Sonic in 5th gen, kids needed another Poochy to attach themselves to.
No one ever mentioned sonic to begin with, also that "poochy" meme you like is useless since The Simpsons already had a Crash reference (see pic related)
>It's pretty amusing that you think a dark corridor is edgy in itself though
I never said it was "edgy" or whatever buzzword you kids like to use these days.
>There was actually a famous review of Crash 2 where the reviewer lamented the soulless void of design-by-committee present in Crash's face on the game's box art.
So just because some pussy got triggered by the game's box art it means the character lacks soul? I don't see where you're trying to go with this silly argument.
Please refrain from posting low quality turd like this in the near future.
>>3072525
From your posting style I am almost completely sure you were born in the mid 90s. Which proves my point about Crash being holy to your generation.
>>3072536
>I have no argument left so I'll just call him names
heh
>>3072485
> Crash Bandicoot
> Edgy
> Not light hearted cartoon stuff, with taste
God, some people on this board. Surely you'd get more meme creds over at 9gag.
>>3052496but anon, you are already dead.
>>3075682
JUST
