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Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled announced! (June 21, 2019. PS4/XB1/Switch)
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God, that threa
It should be getting updated to match the ones on Xbox One and Switch, no way they're gonna keep it with that one
It actually looked like the new one until the preload period started.
Huh... I wonder why. Maybe when the patch comes in that gets changed to the new one
Anyways, about the whole thing regarding handling/drifting, how the hell do some people still not understand it? Is it really that hard to grasp how it functions?
Something must be off, because in the notifications you actually see the new icon. Right now the store, the notifications thing and the actual icon are all different
You kinda have to remember a lot of these journalists are juggling between different other pre-release games in a not so comfortable environment. I don't imagine they had any time or hints on how the game works, especially if Mario Kart is what they're used to, so I'd cut em some slack.
MK8 looks great, but there's still a massive gulf in visuals between it and CNF.
Let's not pretend MK8 didn't need to hit massive concessions to hit that 60fps.
But when you're whizzing along at such a high speed, you don't get to stop to notice some of those details.
I still love the idea of putting in "blink and you'll miss it" details during a hectic race. Imagine rounding a corner badly and trying to pick up speed and then glancing up saying "Is that lion spanking a safari hunter?" before eating a missile. I expect casual fans to get a kick out of those.
60fps would have been nice though. Maybe on the PS5/ Scarlett with little loadtimes so you can jump from one race to the next.
I actually prefer both the placeholder icons to this weird looking version, but oh well, it's just an icon.
So funny that after all these years the industry makes all these crafty machinations to make more money, except sell during the summer months when kids actually have time to play them.
So since we are a week out, I guess we'll be seeing some copies out in the wild soon as some store somewhere is probably going to break market date. Few things I still want to confirm.
1. Show us the Pit Stop and the various cost for characters, karts and customization in it, is the grind going to be reasonable or obnoxious?
2. Show us the online lobby rooms, I'm concerned we're still getting the "8 Players in one room, only the host gets to pick what track everyone races one" situation that the demos are using, as E3 is using the same set-up.
3. Show us how good the netcode is.
1. Show us the Pit Stop and the various cost for characters, karts and customization in it, is the grind going to be reasonable or obnoxious?
2. Show us the online lobby rooms, I'm concerned we're still getting the "8 Players in one room, only the host gets to pick what track everyone races one" situation that the demos are using, as E3 is using the same set-up.
3. Show us how good the netcode is.
It also adds a lot for spectators to enjoy. That's part of why the wait to see new tracks/footage has been so thrilling.
Or just folks who like to explore tracks. I know when I was young I used to sometimes quit whatever it was the game wanted me to do to go explore all the low-poly mysteries I had imagined in the original game. Kind of like that virtual tourism thing they added into the recent Assassin's Creed game. Sometimes you just want to see the sights.
Or hell, all the players who aren't super skilled at the game and don't hit crazy speeds or come to grips with the mechanics for a long while, maybe never.
Either way, I suspect it's going to be a non-issue in a year and a half or so, and we'll have ended up with a better game in the long run.
I just noticed that I can play the digital edition at 9 pm on June 20!!! It keeps getting better.
Just ran through all the Oxide time trials on the original CTR. That wasn't nearly as hard as I remembered it to be, at least once I remembered I shouldn't be using Crash and his trash stats. Switched to N. Gin and beat all Oxide's times in one sitting. Makes me wonder if the new shown stats are accurate or not, looking back at the old stats there is definitely some balancing that could be done. (Like the 2/2/3 (speed/accel/turn) on Crash vs the 4/4/2 on Coco in the original definitely seems crazy unbalanced in hindsight, the 5/5/5 vs 4/7/3 shown in the Nitro-Fueled footage seems much more sensible assuming those bars aren't lies like the bars in the original)
Do we have any idea when the review embargo lifts? I really want some info on the Switch performance and I'm sure we won't get that till the reviews hit.
Do we have any idea when the review embargo lifts? I really want some info on the Switch performance and I'm sure we won't get that till the reviews hit.
Only real concern I still have is indeed the netcode (and that hopefully the matchmaking is at least somewhat decent).
No doubt there will be some microtransaction shenanigans ect. that will spark some conversation but I'm more than fine with it. They went above and beyond what I expected and hoped for this game (except give me N.Brio you cowards!). Hell, I'll gladly support the team and Acti for bringing Crash back in a big way. I'll buy a stupid hat for Cortex.
No doubt there will be some microtransaction shenanigans ect. that will spark some conversation but I'm more than fine with it. They went above and beyond what I expected and hoped for this game (except give me N.Brio you cowards!). Hell, I'll gladly support the team and Acti for bringing Crash back in a big way. I'll buy a stupid hat for Cortex.
Honestly, as long as things can be bought at a reasonable price with the in-game currency I wouldn't mind being able to buy things with real money.
Nope, it's 30 fps on all consoles including pro and X
Unfortunately I don't think we would get any direct footage until release since they seem to only demo the game on the PS4. I'm going to wait on some handheld impressions before I buy this game.
I miss it half the time :D
This track is just the best one from CTR imo, I love it. Do we have any gameplay video on it btw ?
It was one of the first tracks we got gameplay off, but I don't think we got any skilled gameplay on it.
Good effort here from CrystalFissure
I am sorry but you should know by know answer of that. How could that even be a reality when multiplayer have to run both consoles.
Unless they artificially speed up base consoles frame count that was never going to be case.
Yes! Docked gameplay, I assume, but Nintendo published the Electron Skins Trailer in their channel with the game running on Switch. There's little compromise on graphics, imo (other than the fur shading gone, like in N. Sane Trilogy)
I'd suck N. Tropy's dick for a time twister right about now.
And a good player to boot. Fantastic. Thank you Gamespot for bringing out your best.
And a good player to boot. Fantastic. Thank you Gamespot for bringing out your best.
Well, also to see if he's really that blue all over. And no other reasons. None. None whatsoever probably.
82 and we'll look back and go wow that deserved better oh well
I'm going to lose it if/when the game gets low scores over video footage of the reviewer trying to drift like in Mario Kart.
I think what's keeping me from being excited about the game is the characters. Like. I'm not trying to shit on the game here, but games like a kart racer are usually sold on the personality of the supporting cast, and I've always struggled to see the appeal of anyone in Crash that isn't Crash himself, Coco, or Cortex. So I'm curious as to what you guys see in them?
Again, not trying to start anything, I just wanna get some perspective.
Again, not trying to start anything, I just wanna get some perspective.
This is not a valid excuse to not have 60fps. If it were, all games on PC would be tuned for the lowest common denominator, which would be utterly stupid.
There's some great characters other than Coco, Cortex and Crash, but yeah there's plenty of filler. Doubt anyone's excited to play as N.Gin
But Oxide, Dingodile, Tiny, N.Tropy and Riper Roo are pretty cool. Have you played the trilogy? I can see them not seeming very appealing if you haven't.
I'm gonna speak from the perspective of CTR and the trilogy, its memorable boss characters (Tiny Tiger, Dingodile, and N. Gin from my experience) and characters that you get to ride on (Baby T, Pura, and Polar Bear) where they've been given personality and character from previous games that makes it appealing to me to play
I'm already bracing for the inevitable "...but in a lot of ways, it still feels like the game is stuck in 1999..."
BITCH YOU WISH MORE KART RACERS HAD ITEM/DRIFT/ROSTER BALANCE AS GOOD AS CTR DID IN 99
Frankly, despite already loving most of the characters, one of Nitro-Fueled's greatest appeals to me as a Crash fan is that it is *establishing* good personalities for characters who were less defined before. The same reason I loved the Radical (Titans/MoM) era of Crash. They fleshed the existing characters out.
Hey! N.Gin was my main in CTR and he likely will be again if acceleration characters remain strong.
In PC low fps users just get laggy game if you ever played that(or skips frames to keep up game actual frame rate) . All multiplayer games have "base actual run fps". In fighting games its usually 60 fps. If this was 30 fps on ps4 and 60 fps on ps4 pro there would be no way to not fuck PS4 players if they were able to play against ps4 pro users. Or they would restrict and do ps4 pro only lobbies , and with ps4 lobbies game would be 30 fps
which is utterly pointless amount of work
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