Exclusive: Croc Remaster Gets A Release Window And A Swanky Collector's Edition

They should have included Croc 2, but I’ll gladly support this to give a little push to a second remaster.

Hahaha, I love the soundtrack's wink to Nirvana's album Nevermind! But the figurine doesn't quite do it for me. While I enjoy some Collector's Editions, this one I'll leave and I'll settle for the regular game.

How can they charge so much for something people know isn't that good?

Never heard of Rock It Games. Is this a US only release then?

I liked the game on PS1 but I'm afraid it aged poorly... at least the remaster doesn't look like a lot of fun :/

Oooh...!
PS5 version in physical release. 😃

@RainbowGazelle Online only, by the looks of things. Also the site suggests that they're catering worldwide and advertising international shipping, but a look into the shipping policy shows that they're not registering any kind of tax or customs registration so expect to be hit with a hefty import fee if you do buy one of these!

That makes the price of the collector closer to 200 Euros for us Europeans, since they will ship with FedEx, which charges insane amount of money for ***** service, including overpriced import fees with a 70% margin.

Hmm, could go for this.

Wasn’t this game considered a mediocre title even back when it came out? Don’t understand the appeal personally.

Yes. It's not so much "That was a great game!", as much as it is a recent wave of "Hey! I remember that game!"

Much as I'd like that collector's edition, I just don't have the room for it right now. I'll just opt for the standard edition.

"an 8” Croc resin statue with a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity"

The lower jaw on the 8” Croc resin statue seems to be made too long. Where did Crocs overbite go?

This game IS actually good. Played this year for the first time and had a good time. It's not Mario or Banjo, obviously, but still a fun game.

It was the birth of 3d platformers at the time so a lot of people have the nostalgia for this one. If they've figured out good modern controls this could have potential.

@coolioam yeah but it has achieved a cult status since then

@HandheldHaunter they have

@coolioam very much agree. I’m sure it was perfectly serviceable as an early 3D platformer that wasn’t on N64, but I feel that many people are viewing this game with rose-tinted glasses.
It’s not that good.

The collectors edition is good. I am sure the game will be too.

Please take your time Argonaut Games.

@PessitheMystic @coolioam
The PS1 version actually got a lot of praise at the time. It's not because you don't know about it much or because you don't like it that it's a bad/mediocre game. While the tanks controls of the PS1 version made me unable to finish it when it came out, I played a fan-made remake for PC 2-3y ago and I enjoyed it more than any Mario games and definitely a LOT more than anything Rare ever did.

@Vordus Thanks for the info. Definitely no sale then.

This should have been a full remake of croc 1 and 2, just like what they did with Spyro and crash. I loved this game on the PS one and will get the remaster just for a fun throwback to the golden days.

Seeing as the physicals are coming from another rando online storefront, I'll probably just get this digitally, but I really respect the chutzpah of that collector's edition. 🤭

And December (maybe) release, cool! Perhaps this'll end up being my Christmas holiday game.

^^^^ Edgelord in the house 😆

Coooooooool me like😀

@Dr_Lugae that didn't stop people from buying Last Of Us 2 Remastered for full price just a few years after the original release

Nearly ordered a copy until I saw the shipping fees! Hopefully a UK supplier steps in at some point, if not it looks like it'll be a digital purchase for me.

I am freaking psyched for this. I've been waiting over two decades to finally own/play the damn game!

But I'm happy without the space-hogging tat. If anything, these special editions ought to be paying rent for the amount of real estate that they occupy.

I’ve never played these games surprisingly, but now I’m excited that I can soon.

Hoping a physical will turn up for the UK as I have paid so many pre-orders this month my wife has found out how much :S

Man 29,99€ for a PS1 game with some tweaking it's certanly a bit too much for me.
I'll probably wait for a sale.

Yeah, I'm just going to wait for the standard to come to UK retail. Can't justify any of that shipping plus there's going to be VAT/customs? Yeah, no.

At least it's not Limited Run Games

@roe "Best 6/10 game" is such a mood. I feel like the PS1 was so good for these. Games that weren't necessarily the greatest of all time, but the vibe of them was so good that you couldn't help but play them 100 times over anyway.

@Astropez wild assumption buddy. I still have my original PS1 copy from when I was a kid, so I do know quite a lot about it yeah. And what I do know is that I even preferred Mario 64 back when I didn’t know s**t about games.
And well done, you basically admitted that you couldn’t complete the original version because it wasn’t great and had to mod it to enjoy it. Good job 😂

Congrats to NL for getting the exclusive scoop on this. I'm glad we won't have to wait too long.

But 30 bucks is a big ask for this sort of game. As a 3D platformer buff who never played this back in the day, I've been looking forward to trying this piece of gaming history, whether it's mediocre or not. But $20 is the most they should have charged for this, and frankly, I think $10 is about as high as I'm willing to go. Will wait for a sale.

@Zeebor15 Thank the gaming gods, no Limited Run involvement!

So PS4 version is digital only? Well that sucks but understandable since Sony is not offering PS4 disc for distribution anymore.

@PinderSchloss Give them time, and the sales will pick up enough to lead to demand for Croc 2. I never played THAT one.

$30 is way too much for a digital remaster of the first game alone. If it was a bundle with 1 and 2, $30 would be more reasonable. The Spyro and Crash collections had 3 games each, and launched at $40 if I'm remembering correctly.

I'm going to be waiting on a sale for this one.

@PessitheMystic I think what people remember so fondly about Croc was the atmosphere. Something was just so well captured in each of the regions you visited, largely through the audio I’d maintain. I sometimes even felt a sense of loneliness while playing, a kind of introspective sadness which few games up until today have done for me. It leaves a mark on you!

Could absolutely be rose-tinted glasses, the game is flawed after all. But even without being a Mario, Banjo, Crash, etc., it has something unique about it which some of us cherish today, which is just how much the game makes you feel while playing it. I personally cannot wait maybe you’ll come around to trying it again too!

Are there that many fans of Croc that would actually pay $130 for a Collector's Edition?

I vaguely remember this game when it was new back in the 90s, but it did not interest me in the slightest. Looks really mid.. There's already so many great classic(and modern) 3D platformers on the Switch..we just got Banjo Tooie last week.(rejoice!) Like why waste your time on this? I suppose if it was on sale for dirt cheap on the eShop I might bite..

Tempted for $30... I hope this does well enough for Croc 2 to get a remaster. I'd seriously adore a 3rd entry but I'm getting ahead of myself! I grew up with an N64 and Banjo in particular, but I loved playing Croc whenever I had the chance.

Kinda lame that they're a UK development studio, but haven't announced plans for a UK physical edition yet...

@SillyG You can legally get Croc 1 to play now if you wanted from from the internet archive because it was abandonware and declared public domain.

https://archive.org/details/croc-legend-of-the-gobbos-win-en-definitive-edition-version-130

Not too sure how long for though with this new release lol/

@Dr_Lugae : "Abandonware" is not public domain. It's just a term that media enthusiasts/preservationists have given to software that is no longer readily available. And while I strongly doubt that anyone has ever been prosecuted for distributing "abandonware", that term won't save them in court. 😅

With that said though, I have no moral qualms about it if the rights holders aren't going to make the games available to us, but I'd like to play it on more modern hardware, if given the option. In any case, it seems that my patience has paid off.

@jojobar The one aspect that could have definitely aged poorly was the tank controls but it seems they added a modern non-tank control option.

Rockit games has put up preorders for three other games since early this year and has released NONE of them. People need to stop supporting these garbage companies, and companies like Nintendolife need to stop promoting them.

I loved Croc on the Sega Saturn and I am sure I will love it on the Switch!

@PessitheMystic Guess I should apologise for being 7 at the time and sucking at video games and not owning a PS1 myself to play it later?

I swear, some people...

@Astropez I finished it when I was 3. Nae mods.

@PessitheMystic good for you

Never heard of it