Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (June 21st, 2019)

[Guest]

 

Now we've got Coco Bandicoot with the first reveal of Coco Park!

[Jango]

Oh my God they turned Coco Park into Disneyland. And I love it, holy moly this is so colorfull!

[Your Vest Friend]

Huh, weird to think that Coco Park was the only home track from the base roster we hadn't seen anything of yet. 

[E-122-Psi]

Holy crap, an actual hero-themed egopolis.

[Jango]

Hm, I just noticed that they completely changed the finishing line. There's a big stairway with a checkered carpet and a big ass trophy on top of it instead of the bleachers like an actual raceway... Not sure about this now. Also, there's the Crash 3's medieval castle far in the background (not the blue one) for no real reason. Hm. Still lovely, but not sure about the finishing line change.

[Rowl]

Geez... looks really like Disneyland...

[8ther]

Is it ok for me to be excited for this game even though Activision are the ones behind it?

[Rowl]

The higher-ups at Activision are complete dicks. But that goes for pretty much every company on this planet. Name me one big name company that treats their employees like human beings.  

EDIT:

I was thinking of this character trailers, and when they really want to add at least 5 new characters, which many people might be the case, these characters all must get their own home tracks with them, so we kinda need to add at least 4 brand new tracks, because Oxide is already confirmed to be playable and he already has his own home track in the game.

The rest of the new characters, at least how I see it, will be:

1. Spyro - with a home track based on s setting from the Reignited Trilogy. Most likely Stone Hill, since then we can have a track with a more medieval setting.

2. Tawna - with a home track based either on an Arabian or Egyptian setting. I think it could fit her, plus it would be nice to have at least one track based on a more oriental like setting.

3. Koala Kong - with a home track based on... well, here it is kinda hard to find something new. We already have two tracks with a mine and a lava theme. We kinda need to come up with something new for him. After all, both Komodo Joe and Pinstripe got a track with a theme in CTR which were never associated with them before. For Koala Kong I can see them given him a home track based on Indiana Jones-like ruins.

4. N. Brio - his home track is also kinda tricky since N. Gin already covers the mad scientist lab theme and the toxic waste theme.  

[Your Vest Friend]

Do they? N.Tropy and Fake Crash never had official home tracks (Penta didn't either, but Blizzard Bluff is a logical assumption), and out of all the tracks Slide Coliseum, Turbo Track, Mystery Caves and Sewer Speedway were unclaimed by anyone. 

[Rowl]

True... I always thought N. Trophy had his own theme track. Okay, then the possible new characters do not need to have their own home track. Except for Spyro. He really needs one.

In that case, I personally would love to see some tracks base don the themes from Warped. I'm actually surprised, that they had none of them in the game. Stone Age, Egyptian, Orient, China etc.

[Your Vest Friend]

It is kinda surprising thinking about it, since the rest of the game was more bent around promoting Warped. 

I'm guessing it was because the game is supposed to be set on N.Sanity Island and not through time, so they went with locales you'd feasibly find there. And they have a point when my first observation of Dingo Canyon was "Wait, did Dingodile drag real estate through time with him?" since that's chosen to co-op the motorcycle theme.

That being said, if Spyro gets a track, there shouldn't be such a restriction for any other track. 

[E-122-Psi]

I could see an N Tropy track being some cool mish mash like Velo's in CNK, just frenetic warping to different time themed backdrops. Of course something like that would have had way more technical limitations in the original.

[Teoskaven]

If Tawna is in and has a dedicated track, it has to be themed after her bonus stages in crash 1, i.e. track on tree tops with giant mushrooms here and there.

[Jango]

4 hours ago, Rowl said:

The higher-ups at Activision are complete dicks. But that goes for pretty much every company on this planet. Name me one big name company that treats their employees like human beings.  

EDIT:

I was thinking of this character trailers, and when they really want to add at least 5 new characters, which many people might be the case, these characters all must get their own home tracks with them, so we kinda need to add at least 4 brand new tracks, because Oxide is already confirmed to be playable and he already has his own home track in the game.

The rest of the new characters, at least how I see it, will be:

1. Spyro - with a home track based on s setting from the Reignited Trilogy. Most likely Stone Hill, since then we can have a track with a more medieval setting.

2. Tawna - with a home track based either on an Arabian or Egyptian setting. I think it could fit her, plus it would be nice to have at least one track based on a more oriental like setting.

3. Koala Kong - with a home track based on... well, here it is kinda hard to find something new. We already have two tracks with a mine and a lava theme. We kinda need to come up with something new for him. After all, both Komodo Joe and Pinstripe got a track with a theme in CTR which were never associated with them before. For Koala Kong I can see them given him a home track based on Indiana Jones-like ruins.

4. N. Brio - his home track is also kinda tricky since N. Gin already covers the mad scientist lab theme and the toxic waste theme.  

Sony I guess? Never heard anything about Sony rushing their first party studios, they always let them work free. Coincidentally, the original CTR was published by Sony and everybody on Naughty Dog seemed to agree it was miles better working to them than... Universal. But yeah, Activision are huge assholes. Sigh. Sometimes I wish Sony could buy Crash and Spyro from Activision. 

52 minutes ago, Teoskaven said:

If Tawna is in and has a dedicated track, it has to be themed after her bonus stages in crash 1, i.e. track on tree tops with giant mushrooms here and there.

Tawna Tops. Oh. Wait. Hehehe.

[Jovahexeon Jax Joranvexeon]

3 hours ago, Jango said:

Sigh. Sometimes I wish Sony could buy Crash and Spyro from Activision. 

Err. I think THQ Nordic would be a better company to obtain those two. Instead of the company that let them go in the first place. Sony isn't all the best themselves. Besides,  we're still waiting on that Medevil Remake which we've heard barely a peep out of. 

Also, more chances for passion, a Twinsanity remake and multi-platform releases. 

[Jango]

Wasn't THQ's president the former Naughty Dog co-founder Jason Rubin? And didn't THQ ended?

[Meta77]

This is going to be the best racer this year. Looks amazing.

[Guest]

New Screenshot for Coco Park

 

 

[Meta77]

This game is going to be flipping amazing. They made the track look amazing. Amazed at how bland it is all these years later.

[Jovahexeon Jax Joranvexeon]

On 2/17/2019 at 9:12 PM, Jango said:

Wasn't THQ's president the former Naughty Dog co-founder Jason Rubin? And didn't THQ ended?

That's THQ you're thinking of. THQ Nordic is different.... and actually alive. 

[Ryannumber1gamer]

On 2/17/2019 at 6:32 PM, Jovahexeon Fitzroy said:

Err. I think THQ Nordic would be a better company to obtain those two. Instead of the company that let them go in the first place. Sony isn't all the best themselves. Besides,  we're still waiting on that Medevil Remake which we've heard barely a peep out of. 

Also, more chances for passion, a Twinsanity remake and multi-platform releases. 

Sony never let the two go. Universal had the rights to both Crash Bandicoot and Spyro from Day 1, and Naughty Dog/Insomniac both worked under them. That's how their studios grew together so strongly, they worked next to each other in Universal's studio.

Naughty Dog later got sick of Universal's shit, especially with Universal's multiple attempts to cut Naughty Dog's credit from the creation of Crash - right to removing their company name at E3 for the original marketing push of Crash 1 and they eventually left, with intents ironically of bombing the series with Team Racing, their own specific words being that an alien in Crash Bandicoot would be jumping the shark and cause people to lose faith in the series. Insomniac just moved on feeling they exhausted what they could do with Spyro, which led to them creating Jak and Ratchet retrospectively.

Universal then proceeded to bomb both series by giving rushed development periods, bad focuses, eventually Universal's game branch became Vivendi Games - who was then bought up by Activision, automatically transferring the rights of both to them. 

Sony couldn't have let them go because they were never theirs to own in the first place.

[Jango]

14 hours ago, Motwera said:

New Screenshot for Coco Park

 

 

I like the colors, but I just don't understand the need to add a fairy tale castle in the BG. Or the statues. If anything, the statues should be in hologram form, since Coco is more of a tech gal, not princess gal.

[Plasme]

This is ths problem with remakes though. Low poly is always ambiguous, especially in backgrounds. In a way I think that's part of the charm.

When adding details to something like Coco Park, you are always going to have to embellish and you are almost certainly going to offend someone.

[Guest]

Okay, this is a bit weird but kinda cool. If you preorder the game from GameStop, you will be able to get a Dashboard Bobble ft. Crash wearing a green skirt for some reason...

 

 

[Your Vest Friend]

I think it's a parody of the traditional dashboard bobble, since it's typically depicted as a hula dancer.