Ultimate comfy spyro thread
>where is the mass public outcry for a remaster like crash?
Excuse my potentially unpopular opinion but i think spyro was the better series of the two. By all means, crash was awesome but there really is something special about the open world environment and atmosphere the first 3 spyros created. You cant really explore and roam around in crash which makes it a bit less intriguing.
Anyway, post comfy spyro topics/pictures/music/discussions.
I love all three spyro games but something was definitely lost from the first game to the second. Spyro 1 had some thick as hell atmosphere that is nearly unrivaled and 2 and 3 had some fucking bullshit minigames and focused too much on story while barely fleshing out the mechanincs.
>>343825502
I think the story element brought it together nicely in the 2nd spyro. I absolutely loved the inclusion of the individual world cutscenes that would play after completing a level. It brought a lot of life and character to the game.
>>343825205
It just comes down to Sony caring more for Crash than Spyro. That doesn't mean that Spyro isn't fantastic but rather Crash put them on the map right next to Mario and Sonic in the mid-to-late 90's.
Plus I don't see Spyro coming anytime soon considering Skylanders is still making Activision boatloads of money
>>343825205
What makes spyros art style so great is its old techniques like vertex lighting and things in the distance having no texture
An update to the graphics would completely lose the art style
It's because he got latched onto the Skylander bullshit. I'd love a Spyro remake or even a remastery but damn if it doesn't look bleak.
>>343826610
Well crash is owned by activision too so it really doesnt mean much besides a completely new game being more improbable. My guess is that a remaster like crash would be in the works. Theres even chance that they stick in a demo into crash 3's start menu like the original
>>343827052
You speak the truth, but so was I. Like I said, Sony just cares more for Crash and was willing to jump through more hoops for him than Spyro as of now. Plus if it's any indicator, Sony has been working to get a Crash game for at least 2 or so years since they've been teasing him for the past few E3's
>Spyro demo in Crash 3's menu
fuck that'd be amazing honestly
No need for a remake, emulation works well for it.
Even upscaled to 1080p the first 3 games still look pretty decent.
>>343827602
>ps1 emulation
>good
>crash trilogy gets remaster
>crash 3 had spyro demo in it
guys...
>>343827857
All the Spyro games play perfectly
>>343827857
good enough
>>343827602
ITS NOT THE SAME... but yea its still pretty ok i guess
>>343825205
Best case scenario would have been that Insomniac eventually buys back the IP from Activision, had he not been arbitrarily slapped onto an unrelated skylanders dragon to milk some dollars from him in the laziest way possible
now that he's associated with a cash cow franchise like skylanders he is trapped there. there's no longer any reason for activision to give the rights out. he makes more money as a toy.
>>343827602
>emulation works well for it
Anon usually im all for emulation. Hell you can emulate most nintendo games (bar the GC) and itll look and play 100x better than the original. But currently emulation is nowhere near a replacement for most games. Hell there still isnt an emulator for the OG Xbox. As for PS game, close to 95% of all emulated games (which isnt a vast enough list to begin with) either suffer from massive screen tearing or audio glitches. Are emulator necessary, fuck yes.
Is it anywhere near a good enough replacement? Fuck no
>>343828550
>massive screen tearing or audio glitches
Never had any problems like that when I went through Spyro 1 and 2 using Mednafen, you just have to configure it properly and it'll work fine.
>>343825205
Crash got the remaster because it's his 20th anniversary.
Depending on how it sells, we could end up seeing one for Spyro as well
>>343825205
>spyro was the better series of the two
And you are right. I was a massive fanboy of Spyro and Crash as a kid, but the Spyro games definitely aged better in terms of gameplay and appeal
>>343825205
>You will never collect delicious HD gems
why live
>>343825205
Imagine collecting all those gems, seeing all the 25s float around. I still remember how good it feels.
Spyro 1>Crash 2>Crash>spyro 2=crash 3>spyro 3
Imo
>>343829063
Although i would be very interested in seeing a spyro game with the level of difficulty of a crash game. But like, treetops style difficult or even haunted towers secret dragon difficult.
>>343829435
>liking spyro 1 over 2
>>343830005
>Playing shitty minigames instead of super tight platforming
I shiggy diggy doo
>>343830250
>ignoring 3's awesome skateboard levels
>>343830987
>ignoring 3's terrible other characters
>>343831727
One of the reasons 3 is below 1 in my opinion.
If they just got rid of those shitty alternate character stages the game would be pretty perfect.
>>343825438
>>343825553
These fan remakes always fail to recapture the charm of the originals for me.
>>343827972
>>343827409
>>343827052
>inb4 they ask about Spyro demo and they reply either saying
>The demo has been removed OR the demo is there, but has not been changed at all
>>343833076
It's the use of realistic textures and shaders when they should be using more stylized, cartoony ones.
>>343833386
>Spyro code unlocks farting dragons video
>>343833647
>>343833386
>unlocks demo for Skylanders, or a Skylanders skin for Crash
>>343833647
>>343826146
Not that guy but I prefer 1 over 3.
1 was just weird as hell in a good way and 2 and 3 just threw that out the window. It's the only game where you're basically all alone throughout the entire game and you only ever get an idea of what you're doing when you talk to other dragons after you rescue them.
>>343834428
This. The original Spyro kind of gave your exposition at the start, threw you into the world, and you only got tidbits of lore from rescuing Dragons (aside from ones such as the THANK YOU FOR RESCUING ME crowd). Don't know if it was the extra voice acting, having to help people of other worlds, or what, but it just doesn't feel as magical as the first one does.
That being said, 2 and 3 are still fantastic games.
>>343834796
>>343834428
Spyro 1 is a really different game.
I didn't like how lonely it felt, almost spooky at times.
2 and 3 are a lot more adventure fun like.
>>343825205
>my game series is better than yours
Stop being 5. We are mature adults here, we can like several things at once.
>>343838636
>liking things
>on /v/
>>343839837
Fucking hell....... wrong thread. Sorry guys and gals!
probably gonna buy a psp 2000 and start emulating a bunch of games, starting with spyro desu.
>>343840037
If you get the black label Spyro 3 you're an idiot.
>>343840097
what? you mean the greatest hits version or somethin?
>>343825205
Cute
>>343836785
Definitely. Something about the first game is more foreboding, I don't really know why, but even some of the most benign levels have that strange feeling of loneliness about them. I honestly think it's an unintended side-effect of early Playstation development, devs didn't really know how to work with the hardware very well yet, but it gave the game a really unique atmosphere nonetheless.
>>343840195
ONLY get the GH version. That is common knowledge.
>>343842054
Why's that?
>>343843083
Original version had 8 missing music tracks, one game breaking bug, and several minor glitches throughout the game. The release date was too early, and Insomniac had to ship SOMETHING.
This should be known by every "fan". Fucking common knowledge.
>>343843330
Which soundtracks?
>>343827857
>ps1 emulation
>not good
Sorry your PC is shit.
>>343840195
>>343842054
>>343843330
I think I bought Spyro 3 right when it came out.
So no green label with me.
I don't think I'd like the new songs as much.
If it had 8 missing tracks, does that mean they were reusing tracks for some levels?
>>343844887
yup.
Sunrise Springs and Evening Lakes use the same music in the original release instead of it's own theme song (which was present in the GH re-release)
>>343844453
Mushroom Speedway
Country Speedway
Honey Speedway
Dino Mines
Spyro-only parts of Enchanted Towers
The vanilla european version even has Sunrise Spring as the final boss theme.
Chrystal Islands
Lost Fleet
Haunted Tomb
>they paid copeland to do this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY0ejrZk2e0
>>343845092
(and Evening Lake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPSLRvfgypM
... I guess that would make 9?
>the Elijah Wood Spyro games
My brother got really into them. They looked tedious. How is bashing the same enemy a thousand times the same way fun? And why make Spyro a button masher? What's next, making Ico into a racing game?
>>343845092
Don't forget the Final Boss theme is also missing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7YO8hyyll8&index=32&list=PLBA0F6FE67842D916
>>343845517
The biggest crime of all
>>343843330
what was the game breaking bug?
also yeah the game never got enough bug testing and quality assurance done. They had to get the game out in 2000 and they were running out of time to finish polishing it up. It was already october when the game hit gold
>>343845748
I did not know this track was missing originally.
>>343845775
If you leave a speedway without getting everything, one of the eggs there becomes unobtainable.
>>343845808
Yupp in some versions of the game, Sunny Villa I believe plays in place of this song. Funny enough the same glitch found its way into R&C1 a couple years later.
>>343843330
>they revised quite a bit for GH version
>but even then they failed to patch in a way to get to the island on Midnight Mountain.
>>343845748
What song did they use instead for he final boss fight?
>>343845978
>>343846076
Sorry it wasn't Sunny Villa it was first Homeworlds theme that would play.
>>343843330
>Original version had 8 missing music tracks, one game breaking bug, and several minor glitches throughout the game. The release date was too early, and Insomniac had to ship SOMETHING.
I thought this only applied to the EU versions?
>>343845775
I remember reading that they had to do a LOT of bug testing to make sure that the anti-piracy wouldn't give false positives in a legitimate copy.
I imagine that ate up a lot of time that would have otherwise been spent on actual game polishing
>>343836785
I agree with this. I enjoyed the games in the order I played them, 2>3>1
>>343846627
Once again DRM only hurts the consumer.
>>343845994
That part was cut for good. Probably because that could have broken the level.
>worried about a remaster not coming out
kek. now I've seen it all. people have been begging for a remaster of both for a long ass time. your opinon isn't potentially unpopular but rather just unpopular.
both great series but Crash was praised much more. not to mention the 3rd Crash Bandicoot game was coming out just months after the first Spyro game. another fun fact the first 3 crash games sold better than the first Spyro game which was the highest selling Spyro.
also Spyro seems more kiddy given how vibrant everything is and how cutsey things are. crash had a lot of creepy as fuck atmosphere especially in the first one. had no trouble beating all the Spyro games as a child but could never beat the first Crash. did beat 2 and 3 and it felt way more rewarding than any of the Spyros.
Rate the last thing Stewart put on CD on a scale of 1 to gud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLeuWypCmsU
>>343847774
>also Spyro seems more kiddy given how vibrant everything is and how cutsey things are. crash had a lot of creepy as fuck atmosphere
>my favorite series is aimed at 7 year olds
>your favorite series is aimed at 6 year olds
>my favorite series is more mature than yours
>>343825205
Bump
This existed? What the fuck?
>>343850057
Kids like both, why not make a crossover! What could PAWsibly go wrong?
