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Post by henrythegreen on Feb 21, 2009 1:55:30 GMT
Now this is my kind of thread!
When my dad bought our first Playstation back at Christmas 1999, Crash 1 was included as a bonus. I remember knocking myself out day after day on that game. It was really hard at first because we didn't have a memory card. Getting through each level was a cause for minor celebration. I still remember the day I finally made it to the second island in one go, only to get "Game Over" at the hands of Ripper Roo!
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Post by douglas on Feb 21, 2009 4:57:53 GMT
Warped was the best Crash game. The bazooka = best power EVER. And it has Fake Crash in it a few times I've also got 1, 2, Bash, CTR and Twinsanity, used to have 1 or 2 of the GBA games. Personally the hardest level to beat ever was Mad Bombers. And the relic times-man, I must have taken weeks to get the gold!
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Post by Jim522 on Feb 21, 2009 5:52:06 GMT
Crash 3 Hardest levels to get decent relic times on: The scuba levels! Tomb Wader can be a nightmare as well. If you have 3 masks, sometimes the water seems to come up randomly in a sort of glitch, either trapping you completely, or rising up just enough to slow you right down. Either way, you end up having to start again if you want a good relic! I also remember having a lot of trouble with Flaming Passion (the nighttime Arabian level). Getting even a gold I found hard. And don't get me started on some of the jetski relics...
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Post by henrythegreen on Feb 22, 2009 0:03:44 GMT
Warped was the best Crash game. The bazooka = best power EVER. And it has Fake Crash in it a few times I've also got 1, 2, Bash, CTR and Twinsanity, used to have 1 or 2 of the GBA games. Personally the hardest level to beat ever was Mad Bombers. And the relic times-man, I must have taken weeks to get the gold! FAKE CRASH???!!!! How do you get him? And I thought I knew everything about that game! Does that mean you can go past 105%? I thought that final gem you get for getting all the Platinum relics (which I got, by the way ) was as far as you can go. Yes, getting the Relics on those flying and scuba levels are challenging, but the first game was one of the most challenging game I'd played up to Jak 2. What does everyone think of the gem challenges on Crash 1? The year we got our Playstation, even after beating Dr. Cortex for the plain ending, it still took me the rest of the summer to get the rest of the gems.
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Post by Old Square Wheels on Feb 22, 2009 3:07:26 GMT
You can't play as him. IIRC, he appears in the background of several levels just standing there angrily, smashing boxes and the like. I remember seeing him on one of the islands on one of Coco's jet ski levels. Yeah used to play the Crash games a fair bit. Havent' kept up with the series for a while, although I did quite enjoy Twinsanity. CTR is definately the best though; great gameplay, great fun, and the fact that I kept beating my friends at the multiplayer races so many times
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Post by Devious Diesel on Feb 22, 2009 8:20:06 GMT
Meh...Team Racing was extremely disapointing for me. It was much too easy for me...maybe it was because I played Nitro Kart first, but I just don't like it.
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Post by OJ on Feb 22, 2009 14:58:10 GMT
Team Racing was the best of the racing games becasue all the best Crash characters are there. Nitro Kart was good but it was hard unlocking characters like Dingodile (he was my fave)
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Post by Jim522 on Feb 24, 2009 4:51:29 GMT
He is also easy to spot on what I think is the first motorbike level (you can run straight through his model, and he appears oversized when you get close up!), and if one pays close attention, see if you can spot him in the very first level. I don't really have that much trouble getting most of the gems, as I've played the levels so many times that it almost becomes second nature to get through a level without falling down a pit or whatever, even some of the more tricky ones like Sunset Vista. However, levels I STILL find very troublesome to get the gems on are Slippery Climb, Cortex Power and perhaps one of the most difficult levels in the game, Toxic Waste. Even going in with two masks still doesn't always help. Those bouncing barrels can be really tough to get past. Finding just the right spot to stand to let them pass is EXTREMELY hard to do, your best bet being to simply jump around them, but then you risk falling in the waste of course. The Cortex bonus rounds are a real test. If you fall, you have to do the whole level all over again to earn the key. Bouncing across all the boxes can get pretty manic, especially when you reach the ones at the top of the screen, neither being able to see Crash when you make him jump or use his shadow to determine where to land, having to rely completely on instinct and hope that Crash reaches the next box. Come to think of it, they're good games for hand-eye co-ordination really aren't they?
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Post by henrythegreen on Feb 26, 2009 1:08:55 GMT
Come to think of it, they're good games for hand-eye co-ordination really aren't they? That was my dad's reasoning for letting us play it. I never had a big problem with Slippery Climb. I agree, I've only gotten the gem on Toxic Waste once, and I still don't know to this day what I did right! Even after I got the gem on Toxic Waste though, the level for me that proved the toughest was Fumbling in the Dark. I tried for probably a month to beat that one. It got so bad my parents nearly took it away, I was getting so frustrated. I still remember the night I did it. My parents were out for the evening, and my grandmother was babysitting and banging on the floor as I screamed with frustration downstairs! And finally, I did it, and it was on to Crash Bandicoot 2! Who says video games don't make good memories?
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Post by Sean on Feb 26, 2009 12:09:34 GMT
I see Crash Bandicoot as a prime example of how something great can be run into the ground when game companies just don't know when to stop.
Crash one and two are classics. It all went downhill after that IMO
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Post by danparker on Mar 1, 2009 0:20:30 GMT
Crash Bandicoot was the first playstation game I ever played. I used to play it when I was young and when I was at my cousin's house in Hampton. I liked how Crash keeps going "Woah!" when an enemy hits him or when he falls in water. I liked the music in Ripper Roo. And I liked the level Toxic Waste. However, the last time I played it was back in 2002. They no longer have the game after that and I never played Crash 2 or any of the other Crash games. But I still like Crash Bandicoot.
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Post by Captain Punjab on Mar 16, 2009 12:44:18 GMT
I loved the Crash Bandicoot series. The first one I played was Warped, at my cousin's house, and that's still probably my favourite in the series. Unfortunately, every single copy (and I've tried many different copies!) of the game screws up when I try playing it on my PS2. It's clearly a unique problem with my system, but it somehow only affects this game. The game might start fine, but then after a while Crash starts spinning and jumping uncontrollably without any input from me, and the game starts pausing by itself. It's frustrating, because I enjoy the game so much otherwise.
Anyway, I got Crash Bandicoot 2 next as a gift, and really loved it too, although I was disappointed it didn't have quite the variety of Warped (understandable though as it came first). For years I wanted the first game but could never find it, until a couple of years ago I happened upon it in a video game store in a mall. I got it and thoroughly enjoyed it, despite its difficulty.
I also got the Wrath of Cortex, and enjoyed the Crash levels somewhat, but in this game I felt there were actually too many 'different' levels like the roll-cage ones, the driving, flying, etc. Only about 1/5 of the game was actually normal Crash levels! And the load times! Oooh, those horrible horrible load times! ...Yeah, that's not exactly my favourite Crash game.
I think the series sort of fell apart after Warped... Crash Team Racing is supposedly a good kart racing game, but I'm not really interested in that, and so I never played anything more than a demo of it. Crash Bash is supposedly horrible, and I've lost track of all the other games by other developers, since the Wrath of Cortex. The Naughty Dog games were good, but the other ones just don't look that good. I've heard the series has gotten a bit back on track lately though.
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Post by Jim522 on Mar 31, 2009 4:08:58 GMT
If you're a fan of the classic style games, CP, I'd highly recommend playing Crash Twinsanity for PS2. The developer did a really good job of capturing the Crash spirit.
Rather short game at 16 levels (even though they're often broken up into sub-levels, although still short in comparison to previous titles) but that wasn't their fault. But what's in the game is really good.
As for the series getting back on track recently, it's a debatable subject. I'm not sure if I would say the series has found itself again, but I will say Mutant is better than Titans.
If the say on Activision is correct (they're in control of the next title), the next Crash game may be more focused on platforming again, as apparently they recently hired a Head Designer or someone who is experienced in platforming level design.
I'm tired of fighting through hordes of enemies (that goes for the Spyro series as of late too). The fighting mechanic was fun for the likes of Crash Bash, but this whole mutant thing I am hoping is now a passed fad.
To perhaps have a few fighting challenge sections here and there thoughout a platformer is okay, but to suddenly change the whole formula into purely that just takes away what the series was.
There seems to be this obsession lately with making fighting based games. There's nothing wrong with a bit of good old platforming now is there?
At least there's always the classics to play though.
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Post by Jim522 on Jun 8, 2009 1:07:14 GMT
Seems like more stuff has been found on just what "Wrath of Cortex" was originally going to be like, particularly the Crash 'N Burn level. There was even going to be a second race course set around a volcano, as opposed to just the desert one we got. Pretty cool stuff. crashmania.net/?menu=woc&page=mysteries-4-1
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Post by Eisenheim on Jun 30, 2009 0:56:48 GMT
Crash!! Along with the Spyro games, it was one of the best made videogames ever, with an unforgettable soundtrack and magnificent sound effects.
I think the best ones were the second and the third, and Crash Team Racing was the best racing game I have ever played. The saga went down, like the Spyro ones, after Crash Bash and Crash Bandicoot 4. They tried to make CTR-like games, but it wasn 't the same. Naughty Dog made a good work with Jak and Daxter but I wish they could make another a real proper Crash Bandicoot videogame.
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Post by CabForward on Sept 16, 2009 1:44:43 GMT
I was thinking, the other day, about Crash Bandicoot 2. I've completed Crash 2 and 3, but have never had the chance to finish Crash 1 (I no longer own any of the games, unfortunately.)
I have to say, Crash 2 is possibly the best platformer I've ever played. It had an interesting plot without getting too bogged down in the details, as well as a very consistent level of demand from the player. Many of the 3-D platformers I've played in years since, (such as Mario 64 and Sunshine) have large areas of space where you aren't doing a hell of alot except running. Crash 2 was always throwing an enemy, or a pit, or some other trap at me.
And the cutscenes! A common gripe about videogames back in the days of the PS1 was cutscenes alienating the player by giving the Player Character different attributes to the way the play actually played, but Crash avoided any cross-over between potential gameplay and cutscenes.
Maybe I'm just being nostalgic...
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Post by Knuckles on Sept 17, 2009 12:12:39 GMT
The 1st crash I have completed ,crash 2 and 3 I've got far in but not completed, and I have to say.
As brilliant as Crash one is, is is UBER hard! Nostalgic defo, still nice graphics and music.
That level on the long bridge with the falling planks, the later one - ouch.
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Post by edwardisahero on Jan 12, 2010 21:56:52 GMT
I've always loved these games, they're just so Lolz. Crash 1,2,3 and Twinsanity and definatly the best. WOC just plain sucked and CTTR onward just changed everything way too much IMO.
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Post by Churchy on Aug 25, 2010 14:29:08 GMT
Crash Team Racing is amazing, having broken my disc many years ago, I bought a new copy from Ebay. best thing I've got recently. Nothing like going round as Ripper Roo and tearing up my favorite track, Hot Air Skyway. I was looking through the newer crash games and it seems they have all had big redesigns, especially the main characters. I don't see why they needed to do that, as they were fine the way they were. Same goes for Spyro, even though the latest three games in the mini trilogy aren't bad, just an alternate timeline I guess. One thing that annoyed me about those three was they released the first 2 on PS2, then put the third on the PS3 in Europe, meaning I had to get mine from America! Wasn't too pleased.
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