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Spyro The Dragon Reignited Trilogy Trailer (PS4/XB1 November 13th 2018)
- Thread starter AAMARMO
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*hub world
The gnorcs with the cannons are only in the hub world IIRC.
Bit of a shame they never made it into any of the actual levels. =/
Toys for Bob already have you covered...
(This does all look great, but I still wish VV was in charge. The pic above says all you need to know about Toys for Bobs vision for Spyro :/ hope they continue to prove me wrong, but I remain sceptical)
Yea, the hubs in Gateway to Glimmer and Year of the Dragon are generally much better than Spyro 1, but exploring Peacekeepers after first getting off the balloon blew my 9 year old mind
Toys for Bob already have you covered...
(This does all look great, but I still wish VV was in charge. The pic above says all you need to know about Toys for Bobs vision for Spyro :/ hope they continue to prove me wrong, but I remain sceptical)
What... is this? Why? Why did they do this to poor Spyro? :(
His face... Among other things.
Can't remember if I mentioned it here or elsewhere but I'm curious as to how they'll handle Spyro 2's final boss theme. It's probably going to be the US version but part of me hopes it's the PAL version instead.
US Version
PAL Version
US Version
PAL Version
I wonder is the remake trilogy does well we'll see more classic Spyro rather than that... abomination.
Your classmate is a jerk :(
Your classmate is a jerk :(
Have they shown the egg thieves any? I can't wait to have that annoying ass laugh drilled into my head for another few years.
Jesus this is tempting. Is this the same one as you get on the EU store?
US Version sounds like Deadly Premonition's final boss theme. I hope they'll give us the option to choose between them and if they don't, I hope they'll use PAL Version (which was what I heard when I was a child).
Oh I can feel the migraines already.Yeah, check the spoiler.
Thats not the point?
I meant I dislike his face design and feel it could be better.
I think they tried to give him too much of a realistic design and I dont think it looks too good.
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Oh, well, we still got 5 months to release, so maybe they'll change it.
Gnorcs and the environment look great but not a huge fan of that skybox. It's less illustrative and offsets the style of everything else. Plus, Peace Keepers' skybox was kinda yellowish brown from what I remember.
They sold 3-5 million copies each. The original was the seventeenth best-selling game on PS1. Pretty decent.
Yea, what Toys for Bob did to Spyro was awful.
But who knows? Maybe when they talk about really understanding why people love the original Spyro they actually mean it.
Though this continues to suggest otherwise....
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I pre-ordered it and got nothing. Moaned about this to Playstation UK on twitter last night and they said UK accounts get the theme when the game launches
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The shits. I really want that theme and if they're saying we'll get it when it launches, I can't even be sure it's the same theme.
Yep, went through the same thing and got the same reply. I heard it's like that because we can cancel pre-orders in the EU whereas the US can't, so they give us the pre-order bonuses when the game comes out to prevent us from pre-ordering the game for the theme and then cancelling it.
http://wiki.c2.com/?ComplainingAboutComplaining
Yea, what Toys for Bob did to Spyro was awful.
But who knows? Maybe when they talk about really understanding why people lov the original Spyro they actually mean it.
Though this continues to suggest otherwise....
So how does the script for this read?
Spyro smiles and takes a picture of his own asshole
I can't even describe in words how horrendous I think their Skylanders Spyro design is. It's a travesty. He looks monstrously disfigured, or mutated. I can't even understand the thought process behind doing that to him. I REALLY hope that Toys for Bob don't make any similar "artistic" changes in the original trilogy. I want the game to be amazing. I'm trying to stay positive and avoid any nit picking. I don't expect it to be exactly the same, I just hope it's still magical.
Were they highly regarded at the time? As much nostalgia as I have for Year of the Dragon and can't wait to play through it again it always seemed to me even back then like a B-tier platformer compared to Nintendo/Rare with its awkward gameplay and laughably bad/childish writing and story. 1 and 2 looked much worse offenders in that department. Despite that once again I can't wait to get this
I'm a fan of the material they're putting out, but I'm also a fan of not treating people who have objections like shit, to be ostracised and mocked into submission. When you insist on pretending a ground-up remake approximating the original is a remaster, you'll going to get feedback from people seeking a remaster. It is what it is from both perspectives.
God, I thought I was the only one who noticed this. No idea how they could make such a big oversight.
I know right. If only the lighting/color palette in the whole game were fixed up then that talon on the back foot would look better. Don't worry man. We've got your back.
http://wiki.c2.com/?ComplainingAboutComplaining
Yooooooooo I didn't remember it being that lewd
There is also (less well known) mooning in Year of the Dragon go to 3.44
Speaking of which, I wonder if the European version will keep the European title for the second game.
Yeah, I noticed that. But not all companies put together localised variants of their trailers, so who knows? But I'm expecting it to be called Ripto's Rage even if I prefer Gateway to Glimmer.
Spyro is a much more casual experience than Mario 64 or Banjo (and definitely Crash), so you really have to look at it in an almost completely different light. On a technical level it's more polished control-wise and presentation-wise than Mario 64, but it rarely asks for some of the more outlandish feats of platforming that Mario does either. It's basically a pure collectathon at its core, with occasional flight levels and unmarked jump/charge challenges inside of levels to test your handle of the controls. Outside of how some of its gems are hidden, the game's other big strength is the atmosphere it sets for each stage through its visuals, music, and enemy designs.
The second a third games shake up the formula a lot with more mission-based structures to getting their story collectibles (Talismans/Eggs), as well as the introduction of citizens in each level giving each stage a little storyline behind it There's an added difficulty with certain missions as they give a lot of variety with time-based, escort, memory, flight, character-based, sport, or other types of challenges. The main objectives in these stages still play out like Spyro 1 but there's a bit more meat in how much there is to accomplish in any one level outside of getting the main plot macguffins.
Personally I still think Spyro trounces Mario 64 soundly when it comes to presentation and overall pacing and flow, but you're really getting two different things when deciding to play one or the other in terms of gameplay. If you're not a fan of the aesthetic or collecting for collecting's sake then you may find at least Spyro 1 boring or dull, while on the same token I think it's easy for people to see Mario 64 as clumsy in a lot of respects and a big time-waster in how it separated missions (a problem that admittedly and unfortunately persisted through Galaxy 2).
Thanks for the reply guys, very insightful. Especially from you Allen, super in depth. I'm gonna give it a go when it comes out. I don't mind collecting games, so long as it challenges you in how you collect said collectibles. So this sounds right up my alley. Another game to add to my switch selection!
If you like platformers, then Mario, Crash, and Spyro are all kings. Its a gaming blessing that everyone is alive in 2018 TBH
Moment of silence for the bear and bird that are no longer with us.
I don't know how true it is but this video refers to a developer interview that Toys for Bob had with... someone where they said they were turning to Insomniac Games on just about everything in this remaster to make sure that it stays as true as possible to the original games.
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While I would be happy if they were doing that, I also don't know how many of the people who worked on the original Spyro games still work there today. Its like with Naughty Dog and Crash (and possibly Jak and Daxter), IIRC there is basically no one there currently who worked on the original Crash games.
Can we stop calling this and Crash remasters? They're clearly remakes, regardless of what the devs call it. If you remake a game from scratch, even if your intention is to stay as close to the original game as possible, it's a bloody remake.
Yeah, that's just it, the only person I know for a fact that still works there from the Spyro days is Ted Price and he's the CEO so of course he's still there.
For what it's worth though, the music(the one track of Dark Hollow that's out there) sounds great and very close to Stewart Copeland's original tracks(or rather track, since again, the only song out there is Dark Hollow at the moment).
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Yeah, this annoyed me with Crash, even if they had the original level layouts, they still remade everything else from the ground up, it's not a "remaster" or a "remaster plus", it's a faithful remake.
Brian Allgeier was a level designer on Spyro 2 and 3. Brian Hastings has been a programmer since Spyro, and Alex Hastings VP of technology since the same. Oliver Wade was an animator and animation director since Spyro. It's not just Ted.