Is Crash Bandicoot officially dead?

With no word of a new game, or even news of remastering and porting the old games, is it safe to say it's over Crash?

I mean, wasn't Crash Bandicoot dead after 1999 when Crash Team Racing came out?

Is Crash Bandicoot dead? We can only hope so.

Naughty Dog doesn't seem to look forward to creating cartoon-ish looking games again, Uncharted has progressively lost some of that style to obtain a more realistic approach (not just visually but story-wise). I figure they're moving on to more grounded and gritty releases from now on as a whole.

Crash Team Racing was awesome!!!

Spoiler: he's actually been dead the whole time.

Remember that time they tried to revive Spyro, and we were left with Skylanders?

Some things are better left in the past.

Crash Bandicoot will forever live on in our hearts. Just go play the first three games. Can confirm they're still great. Played through them back to back like a year and a half ago.

@arbitrarywater: @blade_r:

Are you crazy? CTR is a great cart racer and dare I say one of the best.

Crash probably died with one of the PS2 releases.

Think of Crash like Sonic, another 90's mascot using his "radical" attitude to de-throne Mario. I played Crash 3 and it's really easy until the ratchet up the difficulty on the last 10 levels to a crazy degree.

Crash is dead and never coming back, its a product of the era and deserves to stay there. i mean if sony wants to remake some of the originals or port then to psn fine, but its like duke nukem or conker's bad fur day. It had it's time but it should probably stay resting forever.

There is no way a new Crash game will ever be made. If, by some crazy chance there is, it definitely won't be a platformer. And if by some other crazy chance a new game gets made and it is a platformer, it'll probably just be some crappy 20 dollar thing made by an unknown dev.

twinsanity is alright

@ericjasonwade: I absolutely love CTR as a kid lol

I think that one Sony guy was trying to pull a Phil Spencer at PSX by wearing that Crash shirt...

So expect Crash to make a random cameo appearance in some indie game.

This should be a poll.

@blade_r:

You can still play it now dude. It definitely holds up. My dad doesn't play games really and he still plays this weekly.

I would change it but I don't think I can :/

Really? That's awesome lol I wish I could but I don't have the game anymore, I think I got rid of it when I was younger when I got rid of my PS1 :/

Unless those 3D platformers come back in a big way, there isn't really any way for Sony to justify spending a bunch of money to buy that license back from Activision. Nostalgia isn't going to make that deal profitable for them.

Crash is dead as fuck. I would sooner bet on a new Darkstalkers than a new Crash game.

Goddammit...

I hope so. Loved those games growing up, but I don't need another one.

He is dead, but microsoft will buy him and bring him back for holo-lense like tupac.

Crash is owned by Activision now so unless someone is capable of turning it into a multi-billion dollar annual franchise or they sell the IP for way more money than it's worth, we're not seeing shit.

So yeah, Crash is dead.

Poll: Crash is Dead

o I agree

o You're right

I think Crash is long dead, and I'm not sure I want him coming back. Those were three real good games (and by three I mean 2, Warped, and CTR. All three of those games hold up, but the first one plays like hot garbage). Really, I think the best you could hope for is for those games to get rereleased on newer consoles, like FF7.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand here we have the exact response that came into my head as soon as I saw the thread title!

CTR isn't a bad game but it took me forever to beat it way back when and I have never really touched it since. Crash 2 and 3, though, I return to those games once every few years and finished them over and over and over again as a kid.

Ditto. And more importantly, being a good game doesn't mean it wasn't the death the character. I took the comment to mean that after that, the character was no more (which can be argued as factually accurate).

I should probably clarify that I meant everything after CTR. Crash Team Racing itself is secretly the best Kart Racer of that era (because it sure as hell isn't Mario Kart 64)

I mean, he wasn't in that Sony brawler, which is heresy unless he is actually dead and buried.

I think we'll learn something over the course of the next 6 months, maybe at E3 2016. Shawn Laydon wearing that T-shirt is such a huge troll, that it has to mean something.

Wait 10 more years, and pray in blind faith he'll show up at E3, Paris Games Week, Tokyo Game Show, or PSX every year. But realistically, I just see him and the other Crash characters show up as action figures you can buy for Skylanders for $15 a pop, some day. He already has the car.

is this the end of ghost crash bandicoot?

yes.

Yup! Legitimately hilarious and has a superb soundtrack. Still doesn't begin to compare to Crash 2 & Warped, but it's easily the best of the post-Naughty Dog era of Crash.

It's been safe to say that Crash Bandicoot has already been dead for a long, long time. Maybe if we're lucky, he'll end up as a Skylander.

Who knows Activision might create a mobile game starring Crash, but I really don't see a proper 3D platformer on consoles happening.

Who needs Crash when the world has Knack.

I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Crash ODed on heroin in a motel in Reno back '04.

RIP Crash

I thought that was what you meant. And I heartily agree.

I mean, I liked the crash games but it was for the gameplay, and I'm not left with a connection to any part of the crash IP. The characters, story, nothing makes me want the franchise to return.

Someone else in this forum suggested that Jak & Daxter is a rebuilding of the Crash franchise and I agree. The gameplay is near identical with the characters, setting, lore swapped out.

I don't want Crash back but I would love for Naughty Dog to take on the genre again, whether that be Crash or Jak (personally I want Jak) or a brand new IP.

The first one maybe, but the second and third prioritises their crappy shooting and driving gameplay than they do platforming.

2nd one was an evolution of the franchise rather than just making the same thing over. It was welcome adaptation of the game. I didn't care for the third one but that's just my personal taste. You can't keep making the same game over.

Just because something hasn't been released in a while doesn't mean it's "dead". I can absolutely confirm to you that if some of these new 3d Platformers in development, like Yuka-Laylee, do well, we will see more of people like Crash.

Personally I got a little irritated during the bombcast when everyone kept saying Crash was outdated. That game is AMAZING and isn't outdated unless you are a trendy gamer who only plays what the "cool kids" are playing. For the rest of us, it's just as good as ever and I would buy a copy Day 1 if they made a new one. No "modernizing" needed, other than graphics.

Who says?

That's never made any sense to me. If the thing is still fun, then you can ABSOLUTELY keep making the same thing over and over again. In fact, more games get ruined by "changing the formula" to something nobody wants than get ruined by over saturation.

If you are a gaming tourist and you just play games to see them, then yes. You need something new, beause the new is all you care about. but if you are a challenge gamer, then as long as there are new challenges, that's pretty much all you need to keep the game interesting.

Iteration doesn't automatically mean bad. And besides, for all of the new stuff they expanded with in Jak 2 the majority of it all is terrible.

However and whenever Crash died, I'm sure it was a hilarious bit of slapstick.

Seriously though, I don't need another one of these.

The third game has the best fucking car ever, the Dune Hopper, though, so it makes the oversaturation of gimmicks, upgrades and mini-games almost worth it.

@yummylee: @bananasfoster: Poor choice of words using "can't," but I personally wouldn't want them too. After all the crash games and the first Jak game, why keep going, though? The Crash games were becoming uninteresting and the first Jak game was a spin on it. They gave their platformer games more depth and went with a new IP. You can only do so much with the Crash formula so they introduced new mechanics and changed the name. Then they kept going with the theme of change rather than returning to the OG Crash formula or continuing off of the OG Jak mechanics.

And what I'm saying is that if they're going to revisit the Platformer genre, I would be happier with a new IP than Crash because I personally found it stale.

Crash has been dead since Crash of the Titans, which came out in 2007. (8 years dead)

If Activision or even Sony somehow decided to reboot Crash Bandicoot, they shouldn't make one in the vein of the first 3 games, but make it into an open world game where you play as the guy in the Crash Bandicoot outfit from those old PS1 commercials. Have missions involve Crash invading Nintendo of America and trash talking Mario, D-Generation X style or demand Pizza Hut customers to eat Cheesy stuffed bread crust pizza backwards.

@jacksukeru: Lmaooooo the deaths in Crash was always so hilarious, the og TNT deaths still make me laugh the hardest

@blade_r: CTR is the best Mario Kart game.