Spyro the Dragon thread? Spyro the Dragon thread. Let's

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>tfw just finished the trilogy marathon
Some of the finest platformers ever released.

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>>282469079

Word up, homedawg.

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Hm, been a while since I've seen a good Spyro thread.

Incoming dump

For fucks sake OP what is with that aspect ratio?

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>>282469264

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>>282469386

>>282469264

To tell you the truth, I don't have any good screenshots so I just grabbed some junk off of Google.

>>282469250
I don't remember any enemies from Bamboo Terrace looking like that.

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>>282469497

https://caitelady.imgur.com/

:3

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>>282469664

>>282469589
Ah, got ya.

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>>282469818
Well, damn. Guess there's no reason to dump these anymore since that archive seems to have all the world viewer screenies that I have.

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>>282469664

One of my favorites.

Also, have you guys ever played Enter the Dragonfly? How is it?

Heard the loading screens were atrocious, but never heard anything about the gameplay, and never got to try it myself.

>>282470120
I've played it. It's pretty bad. Not nearly as good as any of the original three.

Shame Skylanders made him an edgy little inferno demon thing.

>>282470120
I like it. My disc messed up at some point, so I never finished it.

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>>282470120
It's absolute fucking trash in the worst possible sense that I can convey. I streamed it a while back on one of these threads. The game was torture.

The only fun I got out of it was the crazy glitches.

I don't have any screenshots but here's some BGM for this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqxLW9138g

I tried to emulate this game but the analog didn't work and it looked like piss shit and farts

I might get mod my PS2 eventually and I'll just play it from there. The game's too fucking expensive now

>you will never be a spanish qt3.14 spyro speedrunner

;;

http://www.twitch.tv/beuchiism

>>282470441
This might be relevant to your interests if you haven't already heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MAF2Zk4I1w

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>this will never happen

>>282470624
Tone down the bloom and I'll say it looks amazing.

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>>282470629

>>282470624
doesn't look cartoony enough. too much muhrealismbloom.

>>282470629
Hey Ratchet, how's it going?

>>282470624

My heart can't take it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgalnC_W6P8

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>>282470320
>tfw saw a Skylanders christmas calendar back in December
>tfw saw a Skylanders bedsheets some time ago
>both had Spyro's deformed goblin head plastered all over it
It still hurts.

>tfw I still have the original three plus a PS1
Feels good man I play them from time to time.

Also, no good Spyro thread can go without mentioning how amazing the soundtracks were
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LkB4j5hYiw
I miss PS1/N64 era vidya music.

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>>282470629
>>282470731
If only I could mod the game and turn all the electrolls into Spongebob

Opinions on the legends trilogy?
I liked the second and third one even though they were pretty mediocre.
The second one for it's difficulty and the third one for it's non-linearity.

>>282470547
I have not heard this before. It did sound really nice, and I've heard enough of Stewart Copeland to recognize his style right away but it is kind of disappointing that that track wasn't entirely original for Spyro.

>>282471192
Never played them, but I've always wanted to give em a shot. They look pretty damn comfy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V67CKjYSwuM

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>>282470624
let's be honest, if it did happen we'd be like

>this game is for kids who is their target audience some fucking half-tard susie dike?

>>282471309
Well, when you have to create 30+ musical tracks for one game I'm sure you'd have trouble coming up with original stuff. I don't mind anyways. Whether the tracks are original or not, I still find the Spyro OSTs to be phenomenal.

>these threads keep popping up
>already played through 1 a couple times by now
>really want to replay 2 and 3 but my discs don't work anymore (once they get to certain levels, the game freezes)

How's emulation? I don't want to be smacked in the face with "this game is pirated."

>>282471394
There target audience was 1960s Beatles stoners.

>>282471595
The games don't seem to have any trouble running on an emulator.

Which one is the shortest?

And why is it 2?

>>282471834
There apparently was supposed to be a 4th hub world so that all 4 seasons were included. I assume it was cut for time constraints. After all, each game was made in about a year, except for maybe the first one.

So will games like Spyro 1-3 ever be made again?

Or do modern developers laugh at the idea of homeworlds filled with distinct, unique comfy levels that reward exploration? Are optional mini-games/objectives "too gamey" now?

Does everything have to be open world with sticky "Press X to climb" platforming these days?

>>282470546
Dang, is it just me or do these levels seem a lot wider and bigger than 2 & 3's? Maybe my memory of them is failing.
I need to replay these.

>>282472107
They just came out with a new Sly Cooper last year didn't they? Other than that I can't think of anything recent. I miss when platformers were the dominant genre so many good games came out of that

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>>282470120
It's the reason I lost hope as a Spyro fanboy when I was little. Season of Ice on the Gameboy wasn't the best, but I was still hopeful. I see the game in the store, get excited as fuck, get it as a gift, and lo and behold, it's fucking garbage.

Loading is awful, but it's not the only problem. It has several slow downs during gameplay, to the point where I get nauseous just thinking about it. The charge feels less satisfying than before, it just feels a lot slower and the sound isn't quite right. It is filled to the brim with glitches. All the models are very off putting, especially the farmer ones off the top of my memory. The various breaths aren't THAT great (bubble is only there to capture Dragonflies, Lightning is used for certain puzzles and otherwise acts the same as fire, and frost is frost). Several of the minigames just feel awful (like the minigame where you drive a tank). Voice acting is terrible. The last fight with Ripto is a joke. You can easily tell it was rushed out and not properly finished

Honestly I can't really think of anything that really stuck out that was "great," other than abusing glitches.

>>282472107
>So will games like Spyro 1-3 ever be made again?

Nope. Even if they were, they'd be new age dumbed down shit. Hell, Spyro would probably fly now without any trouble because trying to time a jump and glide would be way to hard for kids these days.

3>1=2

>>282472670
2 > 1 > 3

>>282470971
The Jak games handled the transition to HD really well and they still look great on the PS2. I still kind of wish there was a team with enough resources to make full-blown remakes of the Jak games because it's my absolute favorite platform series and I don't expect anything interesting out of Naughty Dog anymore.

>>282472405
Sly 4 had plenty of flaws but damn it still felt nice to finally get another platformer with hubworlds and open environments and actual secrets to find.

I'm getting a little tired of all the 3D platformers just being Mario and Sonic.

>>282472961
this is the only correct answer

2 is absolutely classic

1 is dated as fuck but still pretty fun

3 is a mess. still good but really spotty

Why was Hunter such a cunt?

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>>282473763
What the fuck did you just say?

>>282474208
>Hey spyro, its time for our shift at subway

>>282471309
>it is kind of disappointing that that track wasn't entirely original for Spyro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHN5WgAqZeY

>>282473763
He was so condescending during the Spyro 2 tutorial for some reason. That minigame where you had to catch the crystals that popped out of the ground made me hate him though. He's even worse than Mr. Vile from Banjo.

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>Be a kid
>Spyro is my favorite franchise
>Too scared to play the mechanical shark bits in Spyro 2
>My mum played those parts while I hid behind the corner
>Now adult playing vidya
>"Hey anon, why don't you boot up Spyro and we play together?"

>>282474725
Grow some balls.

>>282474937
No, I just find it sweet that she still remembers and cares about those days.

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>>282474725
tfw no one to play childhood favorites with.

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What is the best minigame?

>mfw getting to the icehockey game

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Best song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqxLW9138g

>>282475335
skate boarding

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>>282468862
The Spyro games were my favorite PS1 games when i was a kid.

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I have only pretty fanart, will that suffice?

>>282475335
Crystal Popcorn :^)

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>>282475953

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>>282476091

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>>282476189
>I will never play a game where the exploration feels this magical again

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legends one and two sucked, but 3 (dawn of the dragon) was pretty fucking awesome, especially with local co-op

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Are the skylanders games any good?
Are the toys necessary to play them?
I couldn't care less about the stupid skylander toys but if the games are good i might pirate them.

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>>282476350

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>>282475485
This. Hell, it could have been a stand alone game by itself.

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>>282476489

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>>282476615

>>282476613
>Tony Hawk VS Spyro the Dragon

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>>282476719

>>282476765
Ton'y Hawk's Dragon Wasteland

>>282476437
A friend of mine bought those for the family's kids and obviously had some to spare so he gave them to another pal of mine.

We've played together.

This is gonna sound cliche as ever because I know how you guys have heard this sentence before but

It's a neat game.

It's just NOT a Spyro game. Not even in the sense of "muh headcanon" and all that chickenshit bullshit.

As a different beast and all that jazz, it's alright. Not good nor great. Not subtle nor nuanced. It alright.

But what they did to Spyro's design is still unforgivable.

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http://youtu.be/DPKEecaitjA
>1 minute in

The music in this part just really made it amazing

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>>282476896
Don't know why I put a ' there.

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>>282476997

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>>282477132

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>>282477248

>>282476997
To make it TOTALLY RADICAL DOOD

>>282476993
I fucking hate the character designs in these games.

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>>282477360

>>282477396
At least it isn't as bad as what Skylanders did.

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>>282477470

Just realised I have a folder full of SKIES. Gimme a sec.

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>>282477572

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>>282477690

>>282476993
That looks nice. My only voyage into that version of Spyro was New Beggining.

It was so generic.

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>For the longest time assume that no backwards compatibility on PS3 means no PS1 or PS2
>My face when someone told me I actually can play old PS1 games because they're just CD-ROMs

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>>282478030

I want to replay Year of the Dragon. Any suggestions for the best emulator to or settings to use? I'm playing on PCSXR and it doesn't run very well. Is there anyway to play at 60fps or is it locked at 30?

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>>282478143

>>282468862

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>>282478239
Is anyone even saving these? Getting bored of image dumping already

>>282478194
use ePSXe

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>>282478397

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>>282478526

>>282478525
Not him, but I heard ePSXe was kind of shit and overrated

>>282469250
>>282469264
>>282469386

God damn you! I'm trying to finish up another game.. Now I have to go replay all three games.

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>>282478643

>>282474725
>tfw I was terrified of Crush
>had my dad beat him for me

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>>282478758

>>282470971
Pumping Station looks great in the Crysis engine, probably since their environments look so similar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hITNR8N7Vq0

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>>282478883
Last one unless anyone wants me to continue

dem skies are beautiful

WHY MUST THE GOOD DIE YOUNG

>>282479560
Because they SHOOT NIGGAS

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>>282479560
Because otherwise they're forced to go on life support.

>wake up
>check steam
>no spyro
>go back to sleep

>>282479048
These were so damn crazy to me as a kid

>>282468862
You know, I played this for the first time ever a few weeks ago and having been an N64 babby growing up, I can really say I didn't miss out on much with Spyro. Crash on the other hand was a joy to play .

>>282480437
Strange, with most N64babbys I see on /v/ hate Crash for being a dated generic platformer that added nothing to the genre, but tend to enjoy Spyro.

>>282470382
You should do it again.

>>282475953

>winter tundra

my nigga

>>282476906
I just don't understand it as a concept? Is there ingame content for each toy you buy? Or can you "complete" the game with just one character?

>>282477396
I think Spyro is pretty qt, although casting David Spade and Elijah Wood as voice actors was pretty stupid

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>>282474428

>>282481668
Each one of the little fuckers has an elemental affinity and its own HP.

If your lil fucker runs out of HP, it needs to "rest" and you have to scan another one of those fuckers if you wanna continue without restarting the level.

The more fuckers you have, the more continues you have, basically.

Some areas only open up if you have a fucker of a certain elemental affinity. The more fuckers you have, the bigger chance you have of stumbling upon areas you can open.

Fuckers.

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The first game is something magical.

>>282481862
Eh, I don't think Elijah Wood did too bad. His voice isn't too much of a stretch from Spyro's voice in 2/3/EtDF. Of all the things I could complain about the LoS games for, Wood's voice acting isn't one of them.

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>>282482125
It's literally a perfect game. Flawless from beginning to end, expertly crafted, totally refined, 3D platforming at it's absolute peak.
2 and 3 are okay I guess

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>>282482528
>Spyro 2
>Simply "okay I guess"

>>282482826
Ignore the shitposters

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>399/400 gems

>>282482528
>2/3
>Worse then the first
>The 2/3 literally built on the first game in every possible way and added more options and real boss fights.

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>>282482826
I really, really don't care for a lot of the levels. It distracted from the platforming to waste time and resources to make an area to knock monkeys out of trees, or escort some brainless AI, or be escorted by some brainless AI.
But when it is good, like Aquaria Towers or Metropolis, it's really good.
It's just that the complete focus on a mission structure diluted what I consider to the the perfect 3D platformer formula that the first one had.
If the did improve on one thing constantly it was the Speedways, which got better and better each game

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>>282483092
>learning to double jump
>getting to Autumn Plains with all those 0/400

>First gen
>Awkward 3D transition
>We get Mario 64, Crash and Spyro
>Muh next gen
>Not one single good platformer ever again

Gnasty Gnorc is objectively the best villain of the original trilogy.

>MGS credits
>like dis if u cry every tyme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKxGXz0DQnI#t=5389

>yfw there are people still TASing the fuck out of this game as we speak

http://www twitch tv/nitrofski

>>282483581
Because games stopped being for kiddies and became popular for the mature audience.

Fuck that shit though, I want more 3D platformers

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>>282483726
>mfw possibly new WR

http://www.twitch.tv/superiorwarbringer/

will he choke it away?

>>282470120
It's Sonic 2006 bad.

>Be a kid
>Getting a PS2 for chrimas, ask for Kingdom Hearts and Spyro ETD
>KH is the hypest shit (FF fan)
>Spyro is.....
>....holy shit...
> chugs fucking everywhere
> 10 MINUTE LOAD TIMES
> stupid breath mechanic
> rehashed levels
> small levels

Returned it for The Two Towers.

>>282483870
Aside from pure 3d platforming games, why are there no games that incorporate platforming into the gameplay well?

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>>282468862
Aw yeah nigga.

Fantastic games.

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hero's tail was bretty gud

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>>282483092
>playing the first one
>Sparx doesn't have the ability to point to the closest gem
>395/400 gems
>finally see a spark
>it's a single red gem

>at the end of the first game Spyro is asked what he plans to do next. He doesn't know but mentions that "the sky's the limit"
>years pass SKYlanders releases and kills any chance for a new Spryo game.
the sky truly was the limit

>>282483581
Platformers were fucking everywhere, it was time for something else to move up to the scene. Still kind of a shame that the platformer quality dramatically decreased after a certain point. Even something like Jak went from platformer to a semi-GTA clone.

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>>282484531
>It's in that one spot that you've passed over 50 times that you thought you already went to

>>282483959

When I watch this shit and remember I was able to do it, I think it's true gaming skills fade as age kicks in.

>>282484326
Hero's tail was the only alright game after the original 3.

I remember playing the shit out of it when I got sick and stayed home from school

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>>282470624
>Post this in a Skype chat
>Guy asks if they just announced a new game
>Mfw

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>>282484531
>Not being able to get all gems in one go
>Not having Spyro 1 memorized
You fucking casuals get out
Posting best level btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sbZZzDoSPo

>>282484326
>>282484978
Ye, it was a good game. I feel it would've been recieved better if Enter the Dragonfly hadn't such a total fuckup to the point where fans had the "all post-ps1 Spyrah games are shit" gag-reflex.

>>282472107
It would need to be linear and railroaded because how else would kids know where to go if they're given options?

>>282482528
1 easily had the best atmosphere, world, music etc
2/3 improved upon the actual gameplay in every way.
Name ONE game with better swimming than spyro.

>>282485281
Fuck you asshole Lofty Castle is best.

Icy Cavern is still great though

>>282482528
Don't forget the first game had the best music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lECEDKzA7a0

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>>282485423
Rayman Legends.
Or if we're just going by 3D, well that would have to be
um
I remember Mario Galaxy being pretty good when you grabbed a shell and got going. Other than that, Spyro is pretty much the best, pic fucking related

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>>282484326
I had a lot of fun with it, but besides from the GBA games it was my first Spyro game after the original trilogy.

And I remember every time I played it, I couldn't shake the feeling that something was just plain wrong. Unlimited gems, no portals, and Spyro's voice. It just...it just felt like some kind of betrayal.

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>>282485235

>>282483959

He actually got it, by 20 seconds, looked a DUD when missed the flame on the plane the first time.

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>>282471032
>dark hollow

anon i'm sexually attracted to you

>>282471834
2 felt like it was supposed to have 4 worlds like >>282471980

>>282486946

I can't believe he still got the world record for 120% with a fuckup like that

Why did the villains in Spyro 3 have to be so bland? The only one worth mentioning is the Sorceress and even her boss battle was forgettable.

>>282487931
To be fair, he set the previous speed record so he knows his shit.

>>282488031
Ripto was the only spyro villain that wasn't completely bland and forgettable.

>>282488031
The mini boss fight against two chinese dragons in flight was good and memorable though.

>>282488031
I guess when you have 5 characters to play as, and one of the best Waifus of all time, the boss monsters don't really seem to matter

>>282488435
Man I forgot how much I loved those. I loved the atmosphere in that level!

>1 had best atmosphere
>2 was the perfect balance of old and new
>3 had a lot of variety but was less focused

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>>282490925
this is correct.

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>>282491347
oops, accidentally namefagging from a netplay thread. plz ignore

Has a game ever done playing as a dragon better than Spyro? You get to fly, breathe fire, kill weaklings, and amass treasure and gems.

>>282491852
of course not spyro is one of the best games of all time

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>>282491852
Lair

>>282491852
Drakan almost but you don't always control the dragon.

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>>282483092
>>282484531
>see a large chasm
>"this'll be easy"
>jump
>glide
>press Triangle
>realize it's the first Spyro

Nothing here was triggering any nostalgia until >>282482125

Also,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkkD3TLaOfA&index=1&list=RDlkkD3TLaOfA

>>282491852
Not better than spyro but wasn't dragon commander pretty on point as far as being a dragon went?

I also remember this really really old PS2 game my older brother used to play where you sometimes flew a dragon around between foot segments.
Don't remember what it was called though, it was a straight action RPG, pretty sure it was western made.

>>282493668
Drakengard.

>>282494023
It was definitely not drakengard.

>>282494113
Adding to this, also going into the menus didn't pause the game and it did a closeup of your character looking into your eyes, there was a lot of inventory management going on too with plenty of potion drinking.

I know it's super vague but I was really young at the time so I don't remember much.

>>282491852
dawn of the dragon did it the best

>>282468862
complications with the automated train system?

>>282468862
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgarYatIcnQ

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>>282468862
TROUBLE WITH THE TROLLEY EH?

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>>282494959
>mfw trolley minigame

But during the stone age... No, seriously, those dinosaur eggs can go suck a dick

>>282468862
fully completed 1 a while ago, been playing 2 stopped for a while because of the escort mission in fractured hills, can't be fucked doing it again just so I can do the mission after.
Also fuck the skateboard and races in 3

>>282495363
that mission was fucking easy

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>>282495621
>fuck the skateboard

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anyone else get creeped the fuck out by these things as a kid?

>>282496329
Nope but those cupid devils things in the dream weavers creeped me out

>>282496329
I thought they made hilarious sounds and ran into them purposefully.

The enemies with machineguns and grenades scared me.

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Why does the original Spyro trilogy have such a consistent, coherent and vibrant aesthetic, bros?

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>graphics have progressed to where video games can literally be controllable cartoons
>colorful imaginative 3D platformers are dead
but why

>>282496329
Annoying fuckers. That and those attack frogs.

And then that fucking cave with thousands of frogs. Fuck that place.

I would say "fuck that level", but...

But its music is the one that they chose for the credits. For the entire trilogy. I can't say fuck to that.

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I really liked 2 and 3
however I didn't like 1 at all
discuss

>>282497156
I could see where you're coming from. 1 lacked a lot of gameplay elements from 2 and 3 like swimming. I'd still say 1 is better than 3 but 2 is GOAT. Spyro 2 is my second favorite game of the PS1 era behind Ape Escape

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>>282497015
This is why.
But I would say only spyro 1 was consistent and coherent.

Some of the levels in 2 and 3 were in WTF territory like for example the robot farm in 2

>>282497156
I LOVE Spyro 2 and 3. I liked 1 a lot, but my love for the series came from Spyro 2.

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>>282497126
Because kids want to shoot things or play minecraft.
Mascot platformers aren't profitable enough by modern publisher standards and indies don't have the imagination or raw skill required to make them.

>>282497360
The desert war themed last world was very out of place in 1.

>>282497360
>robot farm in 2
Worst level in the game.

>>282497596
Worst level in the trilogy.

>>282497574
Twilight Harbour? But that's not a desert?

>>282493607
>narrow path
>try to center the camera
>realize it's the first Spyro
>roll right and into the bottomless pit

>Watched Let's Plays of Spyro 1-3 years ago>Still as charming as I remember
>Don't want to play in because am scared the game might be ruined for me
Most PS1 games aged like shit.

>>282497596
levels in Winter Tundra feel pretty shit

>>282497935
Spyro 1 has very loose controls (otherwise it's an excellent game), but 2 and 3 aged like fine wine.

The only awkward thing you need to get used to is using L2/R2 for the camera

>>282498062
>not using the right analog stick

>>282498000
True, autumn plains GOAT

>>282498134
It doesn't work anon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kc2gGycBXc

>>282481668
Game is similar to Diablo or Gauntlet.
The toy is the character you play as, they gain experience and upgrades as you progress, and their info is saved to the toy.

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>>282497746
I mean this one.

>>282498350
based

>>282498648
Nigga thats the second world, and the tents keep it coherent with the fantasy fairytale look the rest of the game has.

>>282498648
>>282498772
The worlds were centered around the type of Dragon that lived there. That was peacekeepers it was where Dragons that protected the rest were from so a military vibe fit. I think my favorite was Beast Makers.

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>>282498969
>Not magic crafters

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I feel like Spyro Ape Escape and Crash were like the holy trinity of Playstation platformers. Then PS2 came around and you had Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, and Sly Cooper. And then PS3 came and we got nothing, and now the genre is dead and all they care about pumping out are shooters over and over again. At least sidescrolling platformers are seeing a resurgence I guess.

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>>282498969
But anon, Dream Weavers was best.

>>282499949
This is irrelevant because Spyro 2 had the best hub worlds anyway. Autumn Plains GOAT

>>282499909
PS3 had some mainline ratchet games that were excellent, especially crack in time.

I want sidescrolling games to die, sidescrollers and top downs have reached maximum oversaturation.

>>282499949
Dream weavers was cool but it wasn't ultra comfy like magic crafters

>>282500040
Autumn Plains is nice if you want comfy, but I believe the hubs in 1 were something else. They were stimulating, ya know?

And I stand by my word, Dream Weavers was best.

Midnight Mountain better than Autumn plains too.

I wish I still had the original Ripto's Rage manual with the shiny cover.

I'm bored of all these Spyro threads. Everything that could be said has been said already 100 times over.

When will we transition to PS2 Ratchet & Clanks?

>>282500546
I liked spyro more
Not that I didn't like R&C

Is this the best sound ever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ivdML1Xes

>>282496329
Nah, but I was terrified of the frogs. They attacked you so ruthlessly.

>>282470460
>Failing this hard at emulation in this day and age for a fucking PS1 game.
>Expecting to successfully mod your PS2 and make everything work there.

Yeah, good luck with that shit.

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>>282471032
god damn i fucking miss these games, my childhood all over again, music is so good. Based anon for posting the best music outta the first world.

>>282476993
>>282477878
I've never given the Legend of Spyro games a shot even though I've thought about doing so. They just seemed to me like they were trying too hard to be big and grand epics and bore little resemblance to previous Spyro games, and everything I've heard about those games has done nothing to dispel that image from my mind.

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>>282470120
All I remember was this weird glitch if you go back to talk to a specific npc after he gives you a quest. Spyro would just say "what" and the npc would say "what" with Spyro's voice. This would continue until the npc finally got his voice back and all he'd say was "exactly!", as if the entire script was bypassed.

The only reason this stuck out to me so much was because I remember the mission he gives is really unclear. I would go back so he could reiterate the task, and all I got was that fucking loop every single time.

>>282503219
as I mentioned, the first two were awful button mashing games; both games had the same enemy recolored for every single level and just threw waves after waves at you.

The third was amazing in comparison, it definitely had a very epic and grand feeling to it. The gameplay was flying platforming and pretty fun combat, with local-co-op.

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>>282503031
SCREW YOU ALCHEMISTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
WHY ARE YOU SO SHIT AT MOVING FROM POINT A TO B

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>>282503489
>local co-op
Shit but I don't have a PS2
Is it on the PSN store?

>>282471834
I actually feel like the first game is the shortest. Spyro 2 and 3 had all those mini-games that pad out those games quite a bit. In recent years whenever I play the games I feel like I can just breeze through levels in the first game since I know where nearly all the gems, dragons, and eggs are and all but perfected some of the trickier platformer stuff like the super charges in Tree Tops. Even though I hardly ever find any of the mini-games in the second or third games challenging anymore I still feel a number of the mini-games still eat up time regardless.

>>282504191

Pretty sure it's a PS3 game.

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>>282504948
Thanks anon, i'm gonna hunt it down then.

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>>282468862
this is now a Crash Bandicoot thread Faggots.

>>282504191
It's still a button-mashing game.
Billy West was the best Sparx

>>282505035

What the fuck why is it so expensive everywhere I look

>>282504191
>>282504948
It's on both PS2 and PS3.

I'd say it's the best Spyro game after the first three.

>>282505253
Don't hurt me like this.
Give me my hope dammit!

>>282505372
Should I play the ones before it so i know what the fuck is going on?

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>>282505148

Crash "Poochie" Bandicoot has always been complete fucking shit.