What does the N on his forehead stand for?

Nintendont

Nigger

Neonazism

Normie

Nelly Furtado

>>383001769
why did they turn cortex into a le goofy retard?

>>383001769

Character is based on Charles Manson as an inside joke.

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>read all the posts about the games being too hard
>think everyone is just being babies
>realized I've died over thirty times in Crash 1 before even beating Ripper Roo

This has been a humbling day for me.

non-canon

>>383002129
Me too, i beat 2 and 3 as a child bit couldn't beat 1 . I thought that after all this years i could finally do it since i am a grown man now.
>Tfw when i've been been stuck in Native Fortress for 3 hours

>>383001769
NIGGER
I
G
G
E
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nine

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>>383001769
His head isn't supposed to be yellow. Who fucked up?

>>383002501
How the fuck? 1 was the only Crash game I ever 100%'d (or 105% whatever). It had the least hidden bullshit.

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>>383001769

Cortex

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>>383001769
canonically nerd

>>383003881
What the fuck is this lol

>>383003881
Deep lore.

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>>383002501
>native fortress
not him but eh, that wasn't that bad for me. High Road can fuck off tho. had to cheese it.

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>>383004140
Cortex's backstory. He was abuse by circus performers in his youth.
>young Neo Cortex was held down, the iron was red hot, the whole school branded on his bulbous head so he would never forget that everything just thought of him as a freakish nerd, less than human
He also did Chernobyl with Brio

>>383003881
Is that fanfiction

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>>383004830
It's from ND's original design draft.
(back when Crash was still was still called Willy Wombat)

Been referenced a few times in game guides throughout the years.

>>383005105
Its not canon then

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>>383004554
Who's the real villain here

>>383002594
It's always been yellow though.

>Platinumed all three of them in under a week
What is wrong with me? I really should have paced this, now I have to wait for Stormy Ascent to come out.

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>>383005173
>"Mimes, clowns, CLOSE ENOUGH! With their painted faces and tattoos and stupid little honker-things that just..."
from Crash Nitro Kart

>>383005173
it's not fanfiction either

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>>383005238
Abuse creates abuse.
He thought it was a good idea to do the same thing to his niece, in addition to cutting off her hands and replacing them with steel death traps that crush everything she tries to hold.

>>383005950
Wait what

>>383005950
>thought nina's robo-hands were badass as a kid
reading that now and thinking about it, yeah that's terrifying
>the wiki explanation
holy shit Cortex what the fuck

>>383005316
Not in any of the Playstation games. Ssme skin tone as Brio.

>>383001827
EVERY!
FUCKING!
TIME!

>>383005950
Who's his sibling who had her?

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>>383006206
Nina was a good-hearted girl who loved the animals her uncle experimented on. Cortex couldn't stand it, so he replaced her hands with metal gauntlets as conditioning.

Of course Radical decided to throw that out the window when they took the reigns of the franchise and retooled her into a bratty faux-goth who's nearly as bad as Cortex himself.

>>383006793
Good thing she doesn't have to exist anymore. It didn't make sense to give Cortex a niece anyway.

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>>383006556
There was no sibling; Cortex's backstory is still referenced meaning his gypsy clown family perished in a firework "accident." Twinsanity implied Nina is actually Cortex's daughter.

This means Neo got laid at least once before or after doing Chernobyl with Brio

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>play crash games as a kid
>always seen Cortex as a silly fuckup type villain rather than a real psychopath
>enter this thread
So he was abused by his clown family as a child which he later killed, had Nina's hands cut off, and caused the Chernobyl accident?
I didn't need this knowledge

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>>383007017
I like her as a concept honestly. She fills a type of cartoonish albeit slightly morbid niche that still fits into the Crash Bandicoot universe.

Weaponized innocence; A character who doesn't know their own strengths and could easily help or hinder the player. Plus it helps humanize Cortex while never totally shying away from the fact that he's a bad guy.

>>383007703
I don't see the point in it. She adds nothing substantial to gameplay or the setting, and arguably makes Cortex less entertaining.

native 4k resoultion

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stands for ______NUT_

>>383007795
>She adds nothing substantial to gameplay or the setting
She could still function as a member of Crash's rogues gallery, while not being outright antagonistic. The series is lacking in female characters, let alone female bosses.
>arguably makes Cortex less entertaining.
In what regard?

>>383008076
>The series is lacking in female characters
Oh, you're one of those.

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>>383002051

>>383007551
Yeah, the Crash world is kind of fucked up when you get past the kid-friendly surface.

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>>383008164
It's just a simple observation, the Crash franchise is pretty starved for chicks
>Tawna
>Coco
That's about it unless you count the Trophy Girls, but they hardly existed in the first place.

That said, I think Nina being a niche kid!baddy and girl!baddy would provide an interesting dynamic. She's technically another of Cortex's experiments, but at the same time also more. I don't see her as a penultimate boss like N. Gin, but it would be fun to see them mix it up.

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>>383009193
slapstick knows no gender

>>383009193
It's not a cartoon show, what you're describing is cutscene filler, it just seems like a superfluous distraction instead of coming up with something good to play. Instead of worrying about "representation" they should try to keep the few main characters fun and distinct, and add new ones that are fun to either fight or interact with in a way that changes or enhances gameplay (preferably not the too much of the latter, since pets in Warped aren't so well received). Antagonists are the most useful new characters you can make, you can attach them to a new kind of fight you've thought up and you have more freedom when designing male monsters while keeping them appealing in a way that's fun to beat up. Crash is the hero, Aku Aku is the sidekick, Cortex is the villain, Coco is the girl, Tawna was an objective, you've got common enemies, some bosses, and some power-ups. Trophy girls are more worthwhile characters than Nina because they fulfilled a simple function and didn't force in unnecessary story or distract from the game, while Nina didn't really contribute anything other than being a plot device with some story elements that don't matter. If you liked the way they did it with the later games that's fine, but I don't want Crash to go back to being like it was with Mind over Mutant and stuff like that, I want it to be good. This is a fresh start, the fat that is stuff like loads of cutscenes and tons of talkative and obtrusive friend characters is neatly trimmed and doesn't needed to be stitched back on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t_4YclrGqM

>>383009964
It does actually. There's definitely a very amusing novelty factor to giving a female hero the same amount of abuse as a male hero, and to put babes in fighting games is a must, but for bosses it's just not as funny or satisfying to beat up in over-the-top ways. Not because of any sociological issue or whiteknighting faggotry, but it's just because men are hardwired to see men as more expendable, so hurting males in over-the-top ways comes off as naturally funnier. It's the default to use male characters in slapstick because it just simply works better.

>>383011036
But I find hurting women funnier?

>>383011314
Okay.

>>383011314
And I like armpit more than pussy, what's your point

>>383011391
>>383011715
Slapstick with females is great.

>>383007551
Cortex also blew up his high school with everyone in it using munitions stolen from an abandoned US army munition storage facility.

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>>383010218
You misunderstand my point.

I'm not looking to pick up on cutscene filler or unnecessary distraction, I am only surmising how Nina could potentially be retooled if we had a return to form in the spirit of the older Crash titles.

It wouldn't be hard to do, just throw her in as an area boss using >>383007703 as a frame of reference.

>>383006402
N. Correct

>>383013460
>I'm not looking to pick up on cutscene filler or unnecessary distraction, I am only surmising how Nina could potentially be retooled if we had a return to form in the spirit of the older Crash titles.
No, that was only a small part of what you were saying. But the bottom line is Nina is an unappealing and unnecessary character that we're all better off without. Like Crunch.

>>383002129
>he hasn't played the high road or slippery ascent yet

>>383015290
That's just your opinion

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>>383015290
>hating based crunch

>>383015860
I know.

>>383016051
He's the Werehog of Crash Bandicoot, except his own character.

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>>383006402
In the first game they both look yellowish, probably due to the lighting.

In 2 and 3 he has distinctly yellow skin, especially when compared to the pink N. Gin.

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>>383015290
So what would you propose? The same bosses with their gimmicks from the original trilogy rehashed in succession?

Or would you create new characters entirely? Personally I'd much rather have the expanded cast over new characters. They can be retooled and redefined to fit any setting. If Radical broke them, VV can sure fix them.

>>383016139
>He's the Werehog of Crash Bandicoot, except his own character.
I fail to see that as a bad thing

>>383016435
New bosses with good designs that are based around a new kind of new fight. Not recycling unappealing non-canon characters just to shoehorn them in.

>>383016435
I for one would prefer using rehashing Cortex's old army in different ways over ugly ass Traveler's Tales shit.

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>>383016971
>unappealing
again, that's your opinion
>non-canon characters
now you're just being silly
>just to shoehorn them in
just like the penguin and the tiger from ctr right?

>>383001769
>forehead

You mean his hat? Foreheads aren't square and yellow.

>>383017421
>again, that's your opinion
And you're giving yours that they're worth something, bringing up the fact that we're exchanging opinions is almost as worthless as the post-CB Crash characters.
>now you're just being silly
We'll see.
>just like the penguin and the tiger from ctr right?
Yeah, pretty much. They weren't very good additions to the game, but at leas they have good designs and don't take up too much narrative space.

Mario

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You folks do realize that Naughty Dog left Crash to rot after their contract with Universal was up, right? Jason Rubin outright said the reason for N. Oxid being an alien was he thought it would "jump the shark" and ruin the franchise.

I will not deny that post-PS1 Crash has been very much a mixed bag, but you can't deny that companies like Vicarious Visions and Travelers Tales gave Crash more love and devotion than its creators ever did.

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>>383017816
Whatever you say anon
whatever you say

>>383018813
Thanks

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>>383001769
Neutron

>>383002501

I game over'd on Native Fortress for the first time. Some of the jumps felt like bullshit, particularly one of the jumps where you have to attack one of those lizards and land on a pillar. Crash would immediately dart backwards into a pit after landing.

>>383018668
>you can't deny that companies like Vicarious Visions and Travelers Tales gave Crash more love and devotion than its creators ever did.
Of course I can, every Crash game they worked on was full of love and devotion, even the one where they intentionally tried to jumped the shark.
Hell, Naughty Dog couldn't even bring themselves to go with the original ending of CTR, where Oxide speeds up time to the end of the universe, killing everyone. They just had to let everyone live. Just because they let it go when they thought its era was over doesn't mean they didn't love it, because no developer since has treated it better or made better games of it. We'll see if VV delivers eventually but as of now they've just done some remasters, and though they clearly care and the remasters are not bad, they arguably don't look or play as well.

N-NANI?

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>>383007551
>>383012239
Crash Lore is some pretty fucked up shit

>>383016427
yellow'ish sure but from ps2 onwards they turned him into simpsons yellow which is dumb

>>383019447
They also did the pretty decent crash gba games. I can't guarantee that they would be good, but if anything they're the best people to make crash games now.

At the very least they had the sensibility to keep the remaster a 1:1 recreation to maybe a fault. Crash 1 still controls like shit

>>383001769
what's up everyone, nina best girl

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>>383017816
>my opinion is the right one
neck yourself

>>383001769
Niggerfaggot

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>>383020417
true fact

>>383020417
Have to agree

>>383020691
as opposed to a false fact?

>>383001769
It stands for Nerd

>>383020296
Crash 1 controls worse because of the physics that were made for all 3 instead of tweaked to each game, and because Crash's hitbox is a capsule instead of a box so he can slip and slide off of ledges and crates instead of landing/hitting on the edge.

>>383019129
it's because ledges are sloped and seem to pull crash toward pits, people have been talking about it for a couple days now since the problem was identified

Nitro

>>383020567
Who are you quoting?

>>383019801
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

From ththe Crash Bandicoot Wiki:
>Cortex almost called her his daughter in Crash Twinsanity but he corrected himself and said niece. This may show that Nina is actually Cortex's daughter
> It is stated in the BradyGames Strategy Guide for Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, that a "freak accident" blew up his whole family when he was a young child, which would've included his sibling, however, judging by Nina's age difference, the sibling, in theory, would've had to survived with little enough damage to have a child later on in his/her life. Cortex must have known that his sibling was alive after the explosion, because in Twinsanity, this is not the first time he met Nina. As previously stated above, Nina may be Cortex's daughter, and not his niece.

So Cortex (for whatever reason) is trying to hide that Nina might be his daughter. And if she is then the whole robot hand thing is even more fuckes up.

>>383022874
Didn't he call his daughter a "butterface" and on a seperate occasion admit he fantasized about marrying his mom
Can we just forget post-PS1 Crash ever happened

>>383020339
>The twins have mouths under their beaks
why

>>383002103
Twinsanity was just all around goofy. He just got flanderized from there on, including the remake, at least in animations.

Nerd.

This is Doctor Cortex. He is a dangerous man. He is wanted by every country on Earth. He is one of the greatest scientific minds of all time. He hates humanity more than anything. He has no friends left, and has no family (they died in an "accident"). He has an army of deranged mutant animals and a vast arsenal of machinery and weaponry. He is perpetually angry, and only knows how to be mean. He wants to be your ruler. Say something to cheer him up.

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>>383023271
Radical games aren't canon.
Crash ended with Twinsanity

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>>383024915

>>383024946
"Twin... Sanity"? Crash Team Racing was the last Crash game, anon.
Crash Bash didn't happen either.

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>>383024915
His "niece" is cute

>>383024915
Cortexrulestheworldium is real.
>>383025116
Lies.

>>383025154
Doesn't exist.

>>383025219
>Cortexrulestheworldium is real.
I forgot, Naughty Dog actually did give Cortex a happy ending.

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>>383025116
Lies and slander

Unrelated, which N is the best N?

>>383025116
Twinsanity felt fitting to the rest of the story. And it was the last one that felt that way.

Plus radical schmadical etc.

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>>383025393
It's fiction, anon. None of these characters exist.

>>383025432
Gin > Cortex > Brio > Tropy >>> Oxide

Why are all Crash 2 levels so fucking bullshit?

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>those 2/3 fags that keep spamming Tt shit in every thread

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>>383025432
Gin > Tropy = Brio > Cortex > Trance

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>>383025557
Gin > Brio = Cortex > Tropy > Oxide

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>>383025816
Twinsanity was fun.
Bite me, faker

>>383025432
Brio>Nina>rest

>>383025432
Tropy didn't go to school with the others, he's a friend of Uka Uka's

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>>383025869
>>383025865
>>383025557
so much love for best N
>top of his class
>government job
>turned disfigurement into lifeline
>built a space station, improved cortex vortex, countless mechs
>all in the course of one year
>lets his bro neo have the limelight
>best boss battles

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>>383026284
Tropy could be from the distant future or even the past for all we know. Dude is a walking paradox

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>>383025432
Cortex > Gin > Tropy > Brio > Oxide > Trance

I like N. Cortex more as a villain and character in 2 and 3 but I really like Gin too. I usually play as N. Gin in CTR.

>>383026491
>I usually play as N. Gin in CTR.
my nigga

THIS IS FROM TINY

>>383026623
THIS IS FROM DINGODILE

>>383026701
RIPPER ROO YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE

>>383026759
PINSTRIPE HOW THOUGHTFUL
>tfw no pinstripe boss in twinsanity

>>383026974
OH DEAR TWO OF THE SAME
>tfw twinsanity could have everyone as bosses if they finished it

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>>383025432

>>383027363
Why are you reposting all of this?

>>383001769
I hate his redesign and new voice

>>383002112
I can see it. The big N instead of a Swastika

>>383026293
Certainly the one they put the most work into. Everything else was basically a regular map, but the time warped NGin fight was totally out of left field and awesome.

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>>383027680
>why are you reposting cortex
>in a cortex thread

>>383015778
That's nothing, just wait for Stormy Ascent

niggedicklover.
He likes bbc.

>>383003881
Where the FUCK can I find the rest of this?

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>>383028426
his remaster fight was a disappointment though
they couldn't even give him his lines

>>383029104
Crashmania, probably

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>Uka Uka was always there
Deepest lore

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>>383031458
Actually, Uka Uka's temple was on the second island. The one with the big tree.

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>>383032000
you can actually see part of the vortex smashed into it here

>>383031458
WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THIS

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>instead of reissue of these figures theyre going to make shitty POP bobble head instead.
whats is with millenials and their unarticulated crap.

>>383032668
to be fair those toys are rather rubbish. I had Tropy and he fell apart first day out of the box. The only part left I have is Uka's mask, and he's sitting on my shelf

Original Trilogy
2 > 3 > 1

N-Sane Trilogy
2> 1 > 3

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>>383005950
>>383006793
>>383020691
>ywn hold hands with Nina
>it's physically impossible; she'd probably crush every bone in your hand

>>383032668
Literally the only person I've ever met who buys POP shite was some douchebag Murrican tourist who was telling us he didn't like Warhammer because the guys at the store expected him to actually assemble & paint (!) miniatures & were sick of him using his dumb fucking bobbleheads all the time. God I hated that guy

>>383025432
Gin > Cortex = Tropy > Brio > Nina > Trance > Oxide

>>383031458
it was in sunset vista, there are stairs on top of the temple leasing to the mouth, no stairs on third island.

>>383018668
What is Mario-Grant waiting to upload this to his tumblr? Did I miss more?

>>383026424
He is a pharaoh from the future.

>>383027173
WII GAME

>>383032668
nice 5 oclock shadow on Coco

>>383041282
ALL OF THE DAY BRO

>>383040305
Where

>>383042078
check the overworld map

>>383001769
nord

>>383001769
Neo-cortex pun amirite?

>>383026424
He's a jew

Nigger

>>383001827
>>383002562
>>383020675
>>383046806

Whoa so edgy xdd I said nigger on da internet look how edgy I am, mommy!

>>>/pol/

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>>383045948
>jews with time travel

>>383001769
Nazi

>>383046967
Nigger

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>>383046967

>>383046967
>XD

>>383001769

Plat'd all three games. Crash 1 was not as difficult as people were saying. I guess if you don't win without dying every time then the game is difficult.

>>383001827
>>383002562
>>383003419
>>383020471
>>383046806
>>383048171
Comedy genius

neo

>tfw you finish all 3 games at 102/105%

When's the DLC coming? I crave more.

>>383048458
>>>/vp/

>>383001769
how do people hate this redesign? looks pretty damn good.

Nigger

are you supposed to jump on the ropes in high rode or is that really just a glitchy shortcut