I have NO idea what you're saying

How did they engrave the supposedly indestructible Tailfeathers to print money with them anyway?

The same way the metal aged and turned into rusted junk once a tiny circuitboard was broken. Im sure Sly 5 will go into all the unnesecary details about this.

But when he kills you, he stands up on two legs and bows like he's proud of himself. I know there are both feral rats and rat-people. There are all the normal rats you can squish in the first game, but there are also the rat guards in Paris in 2, and Penelope. There's something fucky about this specific enemy.

Penelope is a mouse, not a rat, you fucking racist

Imagine they make Sly 5.

But the monkey's paw curls.

It's another multiverse plot.

But the only difference between the normal universe and the one the Cooper Gang travels to is that Carmelita is Carmelo.

and the only difference between our Sly and the one in that universe is that the Other Sly is gay for Carmelo.

This makes our Sly extremely uncomfortable, but he learns to get over it, over the course of the game.

If you knew for sure the writing would be as good as the first three games, and they'd undo the character assassination of Penelope, would you accept that?

also Bentley is black

In like, a Steve Urkel way? You can't really rule out that he already is.

Look at the rest of the thread, we both know that's not actually supposed to be a downside.

What would Sly 5 have to change for it to be of the same quality as 2?

So rats and rat people exist at the same time. But there are no mice, just mouse people?

Double down on the original crooked cartoon art style, and render it exactly like the concept art.
Bring back clue bottles.
Add new gadgets.
Don't flanderize the shit out of the characters like Thieves in Time did.
Clown the living fuck out of the Penelope thing from Thieves in Time.
Good minigames.
Take exactly one controller gimmick from the DualSense controller and make the best use of it they possibly can. Don't bother trying to cram in all of them like Astro Bot.

Oh hey, I just finished playing the PS2 games for the first time this month. Great little series, Sly 3 was my personal favorite.

Just do it, all the games are at least mechanically good, and the first three are really good on all fronts. the first game is more like Crash Bandicoot, but the other three are proto-open world games. Thieves in Time is a travesty in terms of writing, especially if you're already invested in the series, though. Play it anyway, because that pain is an intrinsic part of the experience of being a Sly Cooper fan.

Listen to You aren't one of us until you share in our pain.

Have people been replaying the trilogy since 2 and 3 were added to PS Plus in December? Noticing a trend of more Sly threads recently.

While we're at it how the hell aren't any of the Ratchet PS2 games available for download yet? They're streaming only unlike Sly and Jak which are both. Ratchet is the only one Sony still kinda cares about but his games are locked to streaming the buggy HD versions?

I'd like to sometime, it surely can't be that bad, but I don't think my computer can run RPCS3 and I'd rather not rely on streaming it.

Just use PCSX2 for the trilogy. If you have a high end CPU released in the last 7-8 years, you can most likely run the PS3 game.

They haven't rereleased the earlier Ratchet games because they're so tonally different from the weak Johnny Test-ass movie continuity.

The game itself is fine on a mechanical level, the levels are just about as good as they were in 3, and they brought back the clue bottles. But, I can't stress this enough, the story and characterization will piss you the fuck off like nothing else, especially if you waited almost a decade for it like we did.

And the final boss is just a really shitty QTE sequence.

Funny you say that, I kept getting frame drops with Sly 2 and 3 so I had to settle with the PS4 versions. Surprisingly demanding games.

YOU'RE A

3 has superior environments, level design, writing (great banter, character development, having Bentley be disables but not feel hamfisted in any way), and minor gameplay improvements from Sly 2 like smarter guards and Murray and Bentley being able to pickpocket

still mogged in every way by 2 due to removal of clue bottles and treasures meaning there's less of a reason to explore between jobs

4 bringing both back still can't salvage that game because as a trade-off it flounders in everything 3 excelled at with the exception of level design

2 really was the perfect balance even if the writing wasnt as refined as 3. There are still great moments in it regardless.

SHITPOSTIN'

SHARTY PHISHED

2 has better bosses and more memorable levels than 3, but 3 has better minigames and writing

Shame Sony wanted sequel asap , so Sucker Punch had to cut corners to finish a game within a year, if they had one more Sly 3 could be polished. Oh well, Still good three cartoony games.

that one boss fight of Carmelita growing gigantic and you have to climb on her body

based devs

what if Sly climbed inside her pussy haha

remember how demigod Maui died?

theres no cutscene of her bending her butt over looking for clues?

That's true of the whole series.

all those newspaper articles after each chapter which are just "HOT COP WITH COOL BOOBS CAPTURES BAD GUYS"

I wish devs were allowed to be blatantly horny again.

No, but levels like HWTTIH where she's patrolling allow you to get up close and watch that Prime PS2 booty saunter around

N-WORD!

ARR, YOU'VE ALREADY USED THAT INSULT

Cooper did you have to steal my clothes?

Do you think Cooper did her in the pooper?

Please, just talk about the video games for once. I know you care at least a little bit.

Maaaan, are the Anon Babble archives ever coming back? There's so many ancient memes and such I never saved and might never see again
Can't the dude just wipe the no-no pics from the server and put them back up

"I am solely going to focus on this risque posts and act like that's all the talk about in this thread because I am a huge fragile queer how gets tremendously upset everytime such a thing comes up"

Sly 1 = 2 > 3 >>> 4

It's back. Just replace the tld with.dev instead.

oh fug, thanks

Thieves in Time was a travesty that is not canon to the Trilogy

The only way we'll know that for sure is if they make a real Sly 4. Which Astro Bot massively increased the chances of.

So, what exactly does vid related imply?

Is it a normal primate living among primate-men?
An especially retarded primate-man they keep on a leash?
Some hazing ritual?
Is it a fetish thing?

I don't trust anyone but SuckerPunch to make it
My opinions might change after Yōtei gets released tho sdaxs

If this thing kills you, is it going to do a Fortnite dance over your faceless corpse?

I have no reason to believe Ghost of Yotei won't be good.

So far, their first sequel games have been fantastic
Sly 2? great, Infamous 2? One of my all time favorites
But Second Son was such a step back in just about every way that I can't fully put my faith in them

I recently platinumed both Sly 2 and 3 on PS5, fantastic games.

The only way you can have more Sly games without affecting the characterizations is by rebooting the franchise.

Troon protag

Why? At worst, you can do a soft reboot where you play as Sly and Carmelita's son.

That's still a reboot, one that changes the roles of all the main characters of the series up to this point.

where you play as Sly and Carmelita's son

please no

I mean, I'd argue that's more of a sequel than a reboot. A reboot would be starting everything over from scratch — new origins, new lore, etc. Having Sly and Carmelita’s kid take over is more like a next-generation kind of thing, like how Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart teases Rivet and Kit. It keeps the old stuff intact while expanding the story.

You're making me want to replay it again...

A jump and hit the circle button wall run move could be cool to see in the future
What other gimmicks would you include?

What if the story is About Sly's son being raised totally unaware of his Cooper heritage and the Thevious Raccoonus as Sly and Carmelita both work for Interpol.

Sly's son has a natural thieving tendency born into him that Sly and Carmelita can't quite tamp down, and this inevitably leads to his learning the truth.

He feels betrayed, discovering an original Sylvester Cooper in the Thevious Raccoonus and a Sylvester Cooper II, and realizes that his father is Sly Cooper III.

Sly tries to get his son to reject the Cooper name, but the ever present weakness of the law and corruption within Interpol mean that they're all swept up in a new conspiracy with another colorful new gang of criminals, and Sly and Carmelita are powerless to do much about it at all. While Sly's son follows in his silent footsteps to take down the new threat from the other side of the law, forming his own new Cooper Gang in the process.

At every juncture, Sly is desperately trying to talk his son out of it. Having a harder and harder time maintaining his cover each time.

Then at the climax of the story, Sly's true identity is revealed as he steps out of line to sacrifice himself to protect the people he cares about. Sly dies a hero, and his son adopts his rightful name as Sly Cooper IV.

the "twist"

The more you think about it, the less sense it makes.
What were they thinking?

what a good view. but only 3 again because of the open areas with upgrades are fun to fight in

well, maybe they resist repeated usage but can be engraved, kinda like how diamonds are hard as fuck but can be refined and cut with the proper tools

The only established "thing" Penelope had to flanderize her with was the fact that she was a villain in disguise in 3. So they made her one again.

Spoiler

Absolute Kino, anon.

Too bad they'd never do it

I'd assume it's the same as humans and chimps, one harnessed fire so the others get put in cages and experimented on for ealrly drug trials

i mean maybe it's like us and monkeys

I'd take it without hesitation. I refuse to settle for Sly 4 being the end of the series.

ToT is at least quite competent gameplay wise and has good ideas. i liked the ancestors and in a twisted way it made me appreciate the trilogy more. sucker punch has deceptively good writing in all of their games, infamous is also incredibly good

I'm not a furry, but I will be upset if the ending doesnt involve Sly and Carmelita PLAPPing until the heatdeath of the universe destroys everything

My favorite one is this one from the first game

Latin hottie busts big bad voodoo mama!

I'd be inclined to agree with you, but when that enemy kills you, he stands up on two legs and takes a bow like he's proud of himself.

well they can be trained like monkeys too
joke answers aside i always just thought the characters are meant to be humans, they are animals as an artistic choice

not a fortnite dance but they bow

well she was pretty wicked as the black baron
it was still stupid to have her turn for something as petty as "we've got to have money". and penelope should be smart enough to not let leparadox boss her around like that

It's a shame the franchise wasn't super mega popular... but some things come to an end.

i mean they could bring it back with a release on pc

Carmelita Fox should have toes and they should be in my mouth.

Black Baron seems to be a human but of course that's just a costume so it doesn't clear things up

Yeah, it's bittersweet. Part of me is glad Sly didn't get run into the ground with endless sequels like some other franchises, but I still feel like he deserved at least one proper send-off game done right. Maybe someday they'll bring him back with the care he deserves.

i always just thought the characters are meant to be humans, they are animals as an artistic choice

Here's a non-exhaustive list of all the reasons you should have realized that's not the case.

Bentley refers to Sly as a "Master Raccoon Thief" within the first 30 seconds of gameplay.

Carmelita calls Sly both "Raccoon" and "Ringtail"

Raleigh is directly referred to as "Sir Raleigh The Frog"

Sly intuits Muggshot's hideout by saying "Given that he's a Bulldog, it's seems only reasonable to assume that he'd choose to live in a... giant fire hydrant"

Murray refers to the gangsters who challenge him to a race at the hot dog stand as "Gangster Dogs"

Mz. Ruby refers to the turtle Sly rides on in her boss fight as her servant, named Chumley.

She also refers to Sly as a Raccoon when you defeat her

Bentley refers to "Owl Dialect" when talking about the safe you can't open until after you beat Clockwerk

Clockwerk in general

The only one you can even try to identify as figurative is the Panda King, and considering everything else in the game isn't figurative in nature, there's no reason to believe he's the only one who's actually a human being portrayed as an animal out of all the other characters who can't possibly be such.

Sly 3 is the proper send-off for the series. Sly achieves his goal of living up to his familial legacy, realizes it's more of a burden than a blessing, and he lets it end, passing the spoils on to the people he cares most about, as consolation for leaving them behind to be with the woman he loves.

The Black Baron persona was a lie that got out of hand. She basically set Bentley and the Gang up to give her a chance to get away from it. She never wanted to be a criminal, she just wanted to be part of the boys-only dogfighting club because she liked flying planes and wanted to prove herself. She bit off more than she could chew, and was looking for a clean break from it.

I can't believe Sly 4 says he'd give this up just to steal shit again.

The worst part is that there was no need for the game to make Sly "want to do another robbery" when Bentley arrives with the plot like 1 minute later.

I mean, having to live a lie you can never slip up from would get tiring, no matter how good the pussy was.
Imagine being Sly in that situation. Carmelita probably mentions things he was present for or aware of on an extremely regular basis given their rapport and history together. If he displays any recognition, or volunteers information he's not supposed to know, the whole thing gets blown.
How could he not end up getting sick of that?

At best, he could confess the truth to Carmelita and to her alone, who I'm sure would be totally fine with it, right? Even then, they'd just both have to be delicate about it instead of just Sly.

rocket needs a comeback

this except I want Sly to do heinous unspeakable things to me

He really doesn't. Unironically, Astro Bot is exactly what you want already. A cool 3D platformer with interesting gameplay gimmicks.

Imagine curing Sly of his ill-advised oneitis with the power of your dick, and replacing it with just as intense oneitis for (you).
Imagine ending your bloodlines together, yours much less prestigious than his, dumped uselessly into each others' guts.
Imagine being happier than either of you would ever be "fulfilling your duty."

I haven't played 4. Does Sly ever create a cool move to put in the Thievious Racoonus? That moment when he pieces together his dad created a laser slide move and learns and uses it immediately was kino. I think Sly deserves a cool move of his own.

No, that's asking for something good writing wise to come from Sly 4.

His innovation is revealed in 3 as "actually being friends with his crew" Doctor M's bitterness implies it was a theme for the Cooper Clan to treat their closest associates like shit and abandon them with absolutely nothing while they fuck off into retirement in a stately manor, grooming the next heir to do the same.
The Fiendish Five are actually the reason Sly turned out as a good guy.

it hurt playing thieves in time... it hurt even worse seeing the movie trailer where Kevin Miller isn't the voice of Sly and instead is on a podcast with Bentley and Murray saying

please watch the movie, maybe Sly Cooper will get another sequel

also the best part of thieves for me was Steve Blum's racist japanese accent

BENTUREY SAN

haha I love sushi

The absolute dogshit character designs for the movie were worse than the recasting. I was actually scared that shit or something like it would end up seeing the light of day and killing the franchise for good.

Arguably, the charge attacks.

Don't you get a charge attack from one of the safes in Sly 1?
And I kind of get the impression that anything you buy on ThiefNet has to be something someone else came up with first. Maybe it's a technique manual, or a blueprint for a doohickey Bentley builds for you, but Sly didn't come up with it.

Play it anyway, because that pain is an intrinsic part of the experience of being a Sly Cooper fan.

FUCKING WHYYYYYYY?

Hell, there wasn't any real criminal acts going on either. The worst thing Penelope does as the Baron is trying to cheat in the last dogfight. Every bad thing that happens to the gang in that chapter is Mugshot's doing.

None of the Sly 1 powerups are charge attacks.

No, the closest you get is a one-hit attack buff from one of the safes in 2. And in 2 you start with a charged spin attack.

I was under the impression she was also running a kind of criminal empire as the Black Baron, which explains all the connections to the criminal underworld. And I'm sure the dogfighting itself is massively illegal, too.

No, A.C.E.S. is completely legit and everything. Carmelita's there purely because she's hunting down Sly (and Muggshot incidentally), but apart from that the dogfighting competition is all good.

TFW no make out scene between Neyla and Carmelita

Yep, and again, the Baron (Penelope) even tried to keep things fair by 1) Keeping who was fighting who a secret and 2) laying down the rule that no one was to be out past sunset. Again, aside from her cheating gun ships, this was all clean.

youtube.com/watch?v=g_3PCAJEXOg

You're telling me the Dutch government sanctions live fire deathmatches in rickety old planes over inhabited locations?

Wasn't Neyla supposed to be Rajan's daughter? Why the fuck was Carmelita still working with Interpol after at least two high ranking officials held in high esteem were proven to be Klaww Gang?

Cartoons, bro. This is the setting with a giant robot owl holding the world hostage with a huge death ray.

You're telling me the Dutch government sanctions live fire deathmatches in rickety old planes over inhabited locations?

...Yes. Also, they were fighting over open fields anon.
youtu.be/wDzLLB8eY8k?si=2HI19hYmAZ-3RpvP&t=13768
As for Neyla being Rejan's daughter, that WAS a thing during development but was dropped.

"Rajan was originally designed to be Neyla's father, though this had to be changed to simplify the story.[1] This also explains why they are the same species of tiger." - September 2004 issue of Play Magazine, page 42

That was my first thought when playing as a kid. It'd made sense since she betrays the team in his spice temple, and he has purple stripes which could've hinted their connection

you've always wanted to get closer to her. well, here's your chance

you know what's funny is her voice actor from sly 2 actually appeared on shark tank
she was selling like 3D printed super hero action figures you customize it online then she prints it... but they looked like shit and she didn't get a deal

This era mogs

She can always fall back to running daddy's carpet business...

Not really
There's no evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever from competition organizers excluding her using the blimps to cheat (and being shockingly good at fisticuffs). Every guard out at night was there because every other team also tries to cheat and raid each other's hangers. The whole thing was above board except for the hooligans, adrenalin junkies, and overall ne'er-do-wells who participated. It was almost like a hunting lodge type thing and i'm sure it pulled in tons of tourism bucks wherever they held it.

BLACK CLOUDS AND THUNDERBOLTS SOMEONE'S SPILLED COFFEE ON THE RUG

The art for the Sly 2 and 3 scenes is beautiful, they should adapt those comics that came out before the second game.

what's ratchet looking at?

Sly Cooper has never had good game play. The first game in the series comes the closest to anything resembling a fun, challenging game, but the other two might as well be an interactive movie. It took me years to realize how much the story and overall presentation carries this series.

Don't get me wrong, still love the original trilogy to death and will always be down for a binge of the series. But I will no longer try to defend its game play.

I'M THE ANGRIEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED!!!

What makes Thieves in Time.

*cute spunky daughter