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Personally, I'd like if at least the boss-only stages were playable normally.
Actually, what if this does happen?
I do wish we had a more natural feeling Pokémon stage. Spear pillar/silph Co are neat but the Pokémon built into the stage are little more than glorified pokeball spawns. I wanna see Pokémon interact with the stage in a more natural environment, maybe occasionally turning into stage hazards if you landed in the middle of something
They have something similar with Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2. Just add the next name in the overall "series" of games, Pokemon Colosseum, but mostly based it upon XD: Gale of Darkness. Lots of Shadow Pokemon fighting with each other here and there. A nice classic reference, and lots of locations to cycle through.
The fact Harry Potter on PS1 sold more than Ocarina of Time shocks me.
The more I think about it the worse it gets. Like, you'd think Metroid was a huge franchise but even during it's golden age from 2002 to 2007, it actually wasn't as big as it's made out to be, as if Dread sells over a million, only a third of the franchise would habe achieved over a million sales or how Bloodstained RotN selling over a million makes it more successful than the game it took the most inspiration from. ****'s wild
The takeaway from this is that one person that's nostalgic for a game can rewrite history, making it's impact seem far bigger than it actually is.
But you're going to miss out on people arguing over nothing but Crash and Pokemon, using only the subjective interpretations of "disappointing last reveals" non-stop for months.
Wholesome take. I'm happy for you.
At the very least, I'd put Crash a few pegs above Banjo, a character who ended up being an E3 reveal.
God, I am so excited to have a Tekken character in Smash. I love the series so much and it’s inclusion is well deserved. It fells like we have all the really big Japanese game series well represented in Smash… well aside from Resident Evil, which I can see why the would be hesitant on adding a fighter from that series.
Most of the 3rd party series in Smash have sold less than the Crash Bandicoot series. The sales numbers for Nitro Fueled and Crash 4 are currently unknown, and the amount those games sold most likely puts the series above God of War, Tekken and possibly Mario Party in sales. The first 3 Crash Bandicoot games are among the top 10 best selling PS1 games. Crash N. Sane Trilogy sold over 10 million copies. Crash and Sonic are the only series to have been serious competition to Mario, and many saw Crash as the mascot of the PlayStation.
one day Sol, one day....
I think I may know why.
I'm a little annoyed he didn't get the Akira AT in there...
I have a few problems with this, firstly Wikipedia isn’t exactly the most trustworthy of sites, secondly this is assuming 0 people bought the Xbox Arcade version and 0 people bought Rare Replay which are simply not true. But hey let’s assume that only the N64 version was ever released for the continuity of this post. Add that with the fact that the N64 sold around 34 million and the PlayStation sold around 100 million and it’s easy to see, if the numbers are correct, why Croc sold as much as Banjo. A LOT of people who owned a 64 owned Banjo AND Banjo Tooie because what the poster seemed to ignore was that Banjo-Tooie was 4 spaces down with 3 million units as well.
I had a conversation a while back where someone thought Death Battle invented the idea of "Pokémon VS Digimon". The young have not experienced as much of history as you or I.
I'm still shocked myself we don't have a Mario Party stage or Bowser's Castle.
Oh, for sure. The stages that we have make sense for the times they were chosen, but a series that's about travelling through regions is as overdue to have a good travelling stage as Mario is to have a Bowser's Castle.
It's not hard to see where the "E3 or bust" mentality for Crash came from, but it clearly doesn't hold any water. There was some level of strategy in revealing both Hero and B&K at the same event, but in general they're just going to reveal them when they're ready.
I think you're too focused on the example given in the specific tweet, again, it's a thread and it brings up CastleVania not being in the top 70 best selling NES games yet despite that people will act like CastleVania was a must have on the NES whereas games like Hydlide, Ice Climber, Kid Icarus all having done better than the NES games yet being seen as significantly more obscure. Those were all on the same system too so attachment rates among consoles aren't a factor
I looked over the sourcing the Wikipedia articles use, and the Croc numbers are substantiated mainly through articles: the 3 million number comes from this article. While the article doesn't cite anything, there's a previous press release from THQ / Fox Interactive - Croc's publisher (2000) that mentions 2.4 million copies. I do find the 3 million mark believable in this context*, and we're not counting the PC version (which anecdotally I had as a kid and played, I think I still have the CD somewhere.). The Banjo-Kazooie numbers come from a CESA report (the link to the N64 report was a bit difficult to find, so I linked to the organization's name) and I believe those numbers because CESA is deeply connected with the industry.
Not to mention, it uses only sales as a metric while failing to take target audience into account. Banjo-Kazooie is still among the top 20 best selling games on the N64 - people often forget how poor the third party support was compared to the PS1. No, really, search how many licensed PS1 games there are compared to the N64. Meanwhile, Croc is closer to the top 40 on the PS1 - and that's from a Wikipedia chart.
If I can’t get Elma, a Noctilum/Sylvalum stage with X music would be dope
This feels like case of putting the cart before the horse, assuming that Banjo-Kazooie’s legacy was created by content creators and not that the impact it left on them is why they made videos about the series to begin with. I’m reminded a bit of the narrative I’ve seen from certain Sonic fans that no one disliked the Adventure titles until the Game Grumps, ignoring the fact that criticism against them could be found as early as the SA1 DX release if not earlier.
"Hype" characters don't have to be shown at E3, but you have to pay attention to how the finales always appeal to a different audience than earlier reveals. And we already got two PS1 characters.
I don't think it's that strange or hypocritical that many of the classic games we celebrate today were not massive financial successes back in the day. Now that these games are competing in the retro market rather than the mainstream one, the consumers for these kinds of games have largely changed. Namely, the people who are playing these games are now adults consciously picking them, not parents buying games on behalf of their children. Because of this demographic shift, there's a larger focus on quality over marketability or mass appeal, which is giving some games a great second life and leading others into obscurity quicker than they would have otherwise arrived.
this was pretty much my reaction when I got Sephiroth
