Poll of the Day > Holy hell, why is the Crash Team Racing remake so difficult

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I need to git gud apparently. I set it to medium/normal difficult... And it took five tries to beat the first level. And I gave up on Sewer Speedway.

But I set it to Easy and now I'm absolutely destroying everyone by 10+ seconds per race. I feel like we needed a difficulty between easy and medium.
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mariokart >> krash
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

mariokart >> krash

While I agree, I still think CTR is pretty fun...
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The game is fun though
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Is the difficulty on par with the original or did they rework it?

I remember on PS1 it was tough but I was able to complete almost everything in a few months.
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I've been QQing about it on the CTR board. The difficulties are 'Easy' (you have to stop your car or drive backwards to lose) 'Normal' (hard) and 'Hard' (you have to set a WR on the race if you don't want to come in last).

I'm getting better at Classic / Normal, but Hard is totally ridiculous.
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funbot posted...

Is the difficulty on par with the original or did they rework it?

It's most definitely more difficult than the original.

The big issue, as noted above, is the jump between Easy and Normal. On Normal I was having to do each race 5+ times before finally winning by maybe half a second. Easy I can cruise through, hit a bunch of stuff, crash a few times, and still win by 10+ seconds.

On Hard, the CPU routinely beats the time trial times, so good luck with that.
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The original was hard as shit too. I'm not surprised.
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Oh, good. It's not my imagination, then.
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Coming fresh off of MK8DX, getting stomped by normal CPUs in Adventure Mode. I dont think it was this tough back in the day.
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This just happened to me on Hard Mode after dozens upon dozens of attempts. Fuck this game.

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Dynalo posted...

I feel like we needed a difficulty between easy and medium.

Ah. I recall the cry babies crying about the Crash remake and how it hard it was. Crash games have always been a challenge. Not sure what you're expecting here.

funbot posted...

Is the difficulty on par with the original or did they rework it?

It's the same. Some folk just have difficulty remembering. Pun intended.
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I never understood the complaints with the N. Sane trilogy. The first game was challenging but fair. The sequels were a lot easier. The platinums were difficult, though (mostly the first game).

But Nitro-Fueled definitely feels tougher than the original. The AI is way more competent than before and on Hard, they are ruthless. Some tracks like Sewer Speedway were butchered to hell and back. Oxide's times in Time Trial are also faster than the original times. I haven't given up hope for getting this platinum yet but it's gonna be a rough ride for sure.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Ah. I recall the cry babies crying about the Crash remake and how it hard it was. Crash games have always been a challenge. Not sure what you're expecting here.

The Crash remake I didn't find noticeably more difficult than the originals. It was challenging, but felt fair and reasonable.

This though... I still own the original. This is quite a bit more difficult. And not having a difficulty in between "a child could probably win with their eyes closed" and "you need to perfectly understand and utilize every mechanic with no mistakes" is frustrating. Add a fourth difficulty. Make something between easy and normal, I don't even care about phrasing - move the current easy to "very easy", and call this new difficulty easy, or call it normal, and bump up Hard to N-Sane or Nitro difficulty.
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Dynalo posted...

I still own the original. This is quite a bit more difficult. .

So do I and it isn't. Not what? Get good or play the easy mode.
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