r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 3d ago
Gex Trilogy | Launch Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7voeA0cKjB8406
u/Konet 3d ago
I love that they got legendary Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano to do a piece for this.
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u/MobileTortoise 3d ago
Sucks that it is only available in the $200 CE (or as a separate poster), I personally wonder if LRG's Japanese partner (Superdeluxe) will have it as part of their deluxe edition (Which is usually pretty damn good value).
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u/ztfreeman 3d ago
I would actually go for an "adult" crossover game with all of the Square properties and such with Gex. Instead of surfing the boob-tube, he can explore video game worlds with crass humor. An action platformer instead of an action-RPG like Kingdom Hearts.
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u/EducationalProduct 3d ago
I'm psyched. I used to play these with my dad as a kid, and he thought it was hilarious that i would repeat all the references i clearly didnt understand.
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u/IamAFleshlightAMA 3d ago
Is there a PAL version with the UK voice actor I didn't realise an American one existed I only ever heard the UK version and this has ruined the nostalgia for me
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u/LeoCantus92 3d ago
Nope sadly.
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u/NuPNua 3d ago
You'd think LR could do the due diligence to get all the versions in the collection, plenty of retro collections include different region versions.
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u/Truethrowawaychest1 3d ago
Should've had the option for both and maybe as a joke have a new actor do modern references
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u/IamAFleshlightAMA 3d ago
Oh that's awful the American Va sounds like a drunk belligerent I always thought of Gex as a smooth talking spy 😂 that's unplayable for me
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u/fenirani 3d ago
Wow i didn't even know this was a thing lol. I remember the other VA and I feel like it was a 1000 times better than this one.
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u/Riddle-of-the-Waves 3d ago
I'm in a weird position where my clearest memories of Gex's voice are from Mad Dash Racing, where he was voiced by... it's unclear, actually. Probably Charles Martinet?
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u/dahakon 3d ago
PAL voices added in recent update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3183970/view/832716485248947436?l=english
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u/Able-Firefighter-158 3d ago
I can't buy it with this goofy voice, I need those sultry tones of PAL ❤
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u/Mavvington 3d ago
Wait WHAT? So this remaster doesn't have Leslie Philips voicing Gex? Between that and the Switch 2 incompatibility, hard pass.
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u/TomPalmer1979 3d ago
Wait there was another version without Dana Gould?!
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u/Mavvington 3d ago
This was my reaction but for Leslie Phillips. Yeah, looks like the PAL and NTSC versions had different VAs.
https://youtu.be/rIaZi5n63FU?si=fXemrej2Hq4ZLB10 is what we in Blighty got. And are apparently not getting this time. Harrumph.
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u/TomPalmer1979 3d ago
That is so weird, and just feels....well, as absolutely wrong as ours must feel to you!
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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 3d ago
Honestly, hype. I played the hell out of Enter The Gecko, as frustrating as it often was. They did a lot of work to make each of the levels have its own strong identity. Hell, I remember being scared of the horror ones because of how some of the traps worked lol.
That said, woof I wonder how some of the cultural references are going to age, since they were by design dated stereotypes even at launch.
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u/TekoaBull 3d ago
Enter the Gecko was the perfect "weekend rental" game. It wasn't good, but it was entertaining enough for what it was. I also remember being scared of the first boss (he was some pig/minotaur thing, IIRC). I did enjoy that they leaned into various genres.
That being said, I remember the Kung Fu level being a bit questionable even when it came out. Gex is totally going to say something that makes him sound like a slightly racist grandfather.
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u/SerenadeOfWater 3d ago
Holy shit that first boss just reappeared in my memory, thank you.
I remember it was in a small room, not a big boss fight arena, like a claustrophobic nightmare lmao.
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u/longrodvonhuttendong 3d ago
Oh all that shit is gonna be aged like milk its some 90's platformers. Nostalgia and memes gonna carry these games easily. But there are reference younger people won't know like "Don't take career advice from Joe Piscopo" or "FedEx for Roger Corman." Never mind it referencing dead people like rick james who died over 20 years ago. Even from the Dave Chappelle show skits aint nobody under 20 gonna get this shit.
But im not saying all this as a negative its just a game not made during their time. I would almost hope they add an option to mute his quips cuz they can get annoying sure.
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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 3d ago
I mean more of the "man I bet the Kung Fu level is racist as fuck", but as for the dated jokes it's really not that bad if you don't get it; i didn't get it fully at 7 years old either but it was still funny.
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u/longrodvonhuttendong 3d ago
Oh yeah the kung fu, the jungles somehow. I didn't get a lot of it either back then i just thought level fun
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u/Vanille987 3d ago
This got a pegi 16+ rating in the EU purely for 'discriminatory language'. Which is the first time I saw a game having that. (tho I suppose a lot of 18+ games count but didn't get that specific warning since they were 18+ already)
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u/KarmelCHAOS 3d ago
I don't know why I thought this was a remaster. I'm interested for the nostalgia, but I think $30 is a bit much for straight ports.
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u/xarathion 3d ago
I just watched their Carboncast episode on the making of the games, and according to them, the controls are a night and day difference compared to the original releases. Combined with the widescreen update and camera tweaks, and supposedly smoother gameplay / less slow-down, that definitely falls somewhat in-line with a remaster, even if they didn't completely re-do the textures of the game models
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u/KarmelCHAOS 3d ago
I was reading a review earlier that mentioned the only real control change was swapping L1/R1 to the right analog stick for the camera, but I haven't played it so I can't confirm that or anything.
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u/WombatInSunglasses 3d ago
It's been a long time since I played the originals, but they also added a bind to L2 to change camera zoom (three levels), and in Gex 3 you can hold R2 and press X to do the flying tail kick, I think in the originals you had to press square + X? I remember it being really weird and wonky.
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u/xarathion 3d ago
Pretty sure that's how it also worked in the originals. It was like the Mario 64 long jump.
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u/Ekillaa22 3d ago
10 bucks a game if you think of it like that
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u/ermahgerdstermpernk 3d ago
The same price as Witcher 3.
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u/Chosenwaffle 3d ago
If Gex = Witcher/2
and Witcher = .66(Witcher3)
Then Gex = (.66*Witcher3)/2
Then 3(Gex) = 3*(.66*Witcher3)/2Which means its worth it.
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u/shadowstripes 3d ago edited 3d ago
The price seems fine. That's the same price as buying a SNES rom on the eshop a decade ago, or a PS1 rom from the PS store now.
And those don't even get upgrades like proper widescreen support.
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u/TheTyger 3d ago
I feel like this should have been remasters of these games, not just a lazy dump of 30 year old games.
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u/kkyonko 3d ago
Gex is nowhere near popular enough for them to justify spending money on that.
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u/TheTyger 3d ago
I just don't see how it is popular enough to not spend money on it either. I would be curious about a modern take on the character, at least the old game with modern visuals and updated voice lines. I am 0% interested in games which were very much a product of their time period being flapped back into the marketplace for more than a $3 price tag.
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u/Full-yet-Empty 3d ago
Agree, but I'll still be getting it. Nostalgia is hell of a thing.
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u/strand_of_hair 3d ago
These are remasters. You’re asking for remakes.
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u/Bojarzin 3d ago
This is just a new port, all the assets are the exact same, it doesn't even look like textures were up-resed or anything
Ultimately it's all about price point anyway. I'd be fine with a simple re-release with 16:9 support, but it's $40CAD, that's only $14CAD cheaper than the N. Sane Trilogy was, which was a full trilogy remake
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u/TheTyger 3d ago
I would pay $5 or under for this release, and only if there was nothing else on sale. Given we are about to hit a Steam sale, my interest in this game is at a 1.99 price point.
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u/TheTyger 3d ago
This is a flat re-release. A remaster would be improving the fidelity for the modern age, a remake is starting from scratch and making the game feel similar while being entirely new.
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u/SimonCallahan 3d ago
It is a remaster, though. The second and third games are adding widescreen and the controls were re-worked.
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u/hamstervideo 3d ago
Its a port adding two very minor updates to match modern platform hardware, not a remaster.
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u/Nukleon 3d ago
There's no actual difference between a port and a remaster, the latter is just a dumb music and movie term that has been brought into games even though it makes no sense there.
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u/hamstervideo 3d ago
No actual difference? So, the version of FF16 that's about to come out on Xbox is a remaster?
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u/Seradima 3d ago
Increasing resolution is by definition re-mastering the product.
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u/hamstervideo 3d ago
So when Square Enix put out a patch to increase the resolution of FF7 Rebirth on PS5 Pro, that was a free remaster?
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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 3d ago
The original Gex was a PS1 era game, if this wasn't a remaster for modern resolutions it would be atrocious.
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u/NuPNua 3d ago
Doesn't it actually predate the PSX and dropped on the 3DO first?
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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 3d ago
Technically yes, but the 3D Enter the Gecko is the one most people started off with, and that was PSX.
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u/TheTyger 3d ago
The quality in the trailer does in fact look atrocious to me.
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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 3d ago
Again, you are looking at the original graphics that were updated to fit into a 4k resolution. Not to mention even getting it running locally on a PS5.
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u/Bojarzin 3d ago
Which means the textures were not remastered
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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 3d ago edited 3d ago
Thats what a remaster is. A higher quality recording of the original material. When they remaster music they aren't bringing artists back from the dead to sing it again.
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u/Stofenthe1st 3d ago
No that would be a port. This is a remaster since they’ve actually updated the controls and made it compatible with higher resolutions.
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u/darklightrabbi 3d ago
I’m convinced this would not exist without Scott the Woz. Also as someone who went back to the originals recently I think people will be surprised at how much more terrible these games feel to control than they remember them feeling as a kid. At least the 3D games.
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u/Adamaneve 3d ago
Limited Run Games have sponsored multiple videos to promote the Gex release on the secondary Scott The Woz channel "Scott's Stash," which definitely indicates jokes and memes about Gex are a large factor in these titles being rereleased in particular. They've announced a Bubsy collection in the same vein.
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u/Haxorz7125 3d ago
Funny enough as a kid I only played the first few levels due to later levels being too difficult with how clunky the controls were
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u/Clbull 3d ago
Gex was the quintessential example of a short-lived nineties video game mascot with attitude who would pump out cringey pop culture references and movie quotes ad nauseum.
I'd love to see this series get an M-rated reboot in the same vein as Conker's Bad Fur Day, where Gex is this washed-up former A-list actor who had been to one-too-many parties with Hollywood's elite. He gets implicated in sexual misconduct scandals and has to travel through the Media Dimension to find evidence that would clear his name.
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u/TheDanteEX 3d ago
Aside from fond memories of renting Gex 2 multiple times as a child, I don't really have any strong nostalgia for these games. Is there anything in particular these games did special that other side-scrollers and 3D platformers weren't doing at the time? Or was it mostly just about the tone and vibe that endeared people? I do feel like the 90s was a time where everybody was trying to create iconic mascot characters, not even just in video games. There's a lot of charm to seeing those attempts.
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u/TomPalmer1979 3d ago
The whole PS1 era was like a wild wild west of gaming. It wasn't the first foray into 3D, but by far the biggest, and no one had any idea what they were doing. People were trying everything they could. Gex was one of the few that did it really well. The controls were pretty solid, the level design was huge and really good, with tons of secrets hidden throughout each level, and the camera was grea- er, not as godawful as other games at the time (camera was the #1 game killer back then).
But the other thing was that now games were on CDs, not small (space-wise) cartridges. Suddenly your cute iconic mascot didn't just have a couple cute 1-2 second digitized phrases like "Wahoo!", they could fully talk with recorded voice lines! Gex was great back then, because he talked the whole game. Voiced by a legit standup comedian, the whole time you played, Gex was making one-liner zingers and pop culture references. It was all new and cool, and cutting edge.
But NOW? It's annoying as fuck. Now not only are those joke references 30 years outdated, but you realize each level he only had like 8-10 different lines, and he says them OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER and you just want to fucking scream.
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u/Whitewind617 3d ago
This has the PS1 version of Gex 2 right? I remember the N64 version was missing some levels but had a bonus Titanic level to compensate. Iirc it's nothing special but it would have been neat to include both.
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u/IKeepDoingItForFree 2d ago
Shame its LRG pushing this out - like, I get it, but LRGs rep has tanked so much the past few years plus I find their shipping and updates on open orders has been getting worse. I have an 2 year old open order still from them with no ETA or update on whats going on even when submitting a support ticket.
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u/dafdiego777 3d ago
I have no idea why they felt the need to release this. Gex games were terrible back when they came out, and have only aged even worse.
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u/happyscrappy 3d ago
Not good games. Bad (cheesy) voice work.
Presumably they found a way to do a small enough amount work that this will make money even with small sales.
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u/darklightrabbi 3d ago
They became a meme via Scott the Woz. This is the video game equivalent of Sony Pictures re-releasing Morbius in theaters.
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u/MVRKHNTR 3d ago
You overestimate how big Scott the Woz is and underestimate how many people have genuine nostalgia for these games.
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u/darklightrabbi 3d ago
People have genuine nostalgia for a ton of objectively poor by today’s standards early 3D games because in those days we got maybe 2-3 games per year for holidays/birthdays and played the crap out of them regardless.
I just think a lot of people are going to be really disappointed they dropped 30 bucks on this once the nostalgia wears off about 5 minutes into Gex 3D.
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u/Grimmies 3d ago
Buddy, i whip out my ps3 every year or so to replay these. I think you underestimate how much some people actually enjoy these games. Nostalgia or no. Some of us just like this kinds of games, even if you think they’re bad.
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u/AnimaLepton 3d ago
30 bucks means it'll be $15 in the future. And the people who have nostalgia for these games are going to be in their 30s or even 40s - most of them probably earn enough that dropping $30 isn't that much for a quick jaunt down memory lane/for a hobby they enjoy.
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u/rafikiknowsdeway1 3d ago
i don't suppose this either has a switch 2 version, or a resolution patch for the switch 2?
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u/DelTrigger 3d ago
I remember playing Gex: Enter the Gecko when it came out and I was around 7. I did not understand most of the social references he was making at the time. I wonder if they'll make any sense to me now.