But by the advent of Sony’s PlayStation console, Nintendo’s mustachioed mascot had more than met his match.
But by the advent of Sonys PlayStation console, Nintendos mustachioed mascot had more than met his match.
But by the advent of Sony’s PlayStation console, Nintendo’s mustachioed mascot had more than met his match.
By the power of making minimum wage in a first world country. I can afford to own both retro consoles and think people who still partake in console wars are moronic.
Spyro gets major credit for having dragons which are awesome but something about the way Spyro controlled just wasn't as smooth or fun to mess around with as Mario.
Anyways it's okay to like both.
Thats part of why Insomniac chose to make Ratchet bipedal. But I'm ok with Spyro's clunkier controls because he's, after all, a dragon. Its fun to control certain characters like that
Disagree Spyro's simplistic movement is what makes it so playable even today. I honestly believe the first game at least is an honest 10/10 game. SM64 as well but its a harder game with more difficult movement and camera. I guarantee a zoomer today has an easier time enjoying Spyro 1 than SM64 because of this. Spyro 1 had some god tier level design which helped it immensely.
>I guarantee a zoomer today has an easier time enjoying Spyro 1 than SM64 because of this
You're fricking delusional
Spyro games got remade and sold well. SM64's last true remake was a long time ago and gen Z really isn't going back to play a game like that. Its movement and camera is too complicated for gen Z. They would also claim the camera to be dated. Spyro suffers from none of these issues. Honestly Spyro 1 vs SM64 I take Spyro as the better game.
Literally feel the opposite of this. SM64 feels like slippery bullshit. Spyro is much tighter and easier to control in all 3 PS1 games. To this day I don't understand how and why the series went to hell. Simply Insomniac moving on I guess.
>SM64 feels like slippery bullshit. Spyro is much tighter and easier to control in all 3 PS1 games.
You might have actual brain issues
>SM64 feels like slippery bullshit.
It's literally the most precise 3D platformer of all time.
>To this day I don't understand how and why the series went to hell
A lot of comes down to exhausting all of Spyro's platforming options by the 2nd game. There's only so much a fire-breathing, quadrupedal dragon can do short of giving him unlimited flight or relying on gimmicks.
That and Insomniac never fully owned the IP in the first place.
Spyro 1 doesn't even have game play. It's just 'go over here'
I can discuss games I like without shitting on other good games in the same genre. Only moronic Gankertards turn everything into a shit flinging contest.
Only for the first game, 2 and 3 were steps in the wrong direction and Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie had long since blown the whole trilogy out the park by then
>Comes in
>3 good games
>Insomniac ditches it because they ran out of ideas for Spyro and don't want to make a fourth one
>Universal hands it to literal morons
>Fourth one sucks
>Studio dies
>Fifth one is generic
>Franchise dies
>Revived into dumb edgy reboot for autistic children
>Dies again because Sierra dies
>Activision owns franchise now
>Makes it into a dumb toy game for kids
>Spyro becomes irrelevant and dies again
>The franchise dies
>OG trilogy gets remake
>Things are looking up, Crash 4 released, logically Spyro 4 is next
>Activision sends dev team to CoD mine, killing Spyro yet again
>Activision gets into serious shit
>No good future for Spyro
Being a Spyro fan is eternal suffering.
You forgot
>microsoft buys activision for a shit load of money
I have some hope.
>Hope for a mascot platformer under microsoft
They've got more dumpster babies than a cheerleading squad on prom night.
I had a friend of a friend who had a Playstation 1 with the first Spyro game. He was so excited to get it that he ran over to my friend's house and invited us both over to see it. It was so cool and I fell in love with the first game. I got a demo disc for my Playstation a few years later and it had either Spyro 1 or 2 on it and I would play it for hours even though it stopped after 15 minutes of gameplay. I never did buy it but now I'm thinking of getting the trilogy re-release.
Childhood memory unlocked. Thank you anon
People have speedrun and beat the game with that 15 min demo
>but now I'm thinking of getting the trilogy re-release.
Just emulate the originals, you fricking idiot.
Yeah, I have all the originals but it emulates fine on retroarch with a USB PS3 controller. I was gonna get the remasters but the reviews are pretty shit. New n Tasty already poisoned the well anyway
I was gonna go with the trilogy release for convenience but I probably should play some other playstation games like Tomba 1 and 2 so I might as well get the emulator working again.
Have you ever considered that maybe Spyro's potential as a concept was already tapped out by game 3 and that's why Insomniac themselves moved on from it? I just wish Insomniac would actually make platformers again.
Their platformers after spyro were always soulless b tier mascotshit for sony to pad out its epic gaymer repertoire. They didn't hold a candle to decent games.
Nah, that just shows lack of imagination on Insomniac's part. Its one thing to say they didn't want to do Spyro anymore, another to say they couldn't do anything else.
Ironically Ratchet and Clank(and Jak and Daxter) would have the protagonists age a bit over time to let them do more in terms of gameplay and story. Spyro could've gotten that. Give Spyro new powers and abilities(like flight and different breaths) to reflect him growing.
Thats selling the Ratchet and Clank games short. the PS2 trilogy was definitely full of soul. The one thing that keeps me from replaying them is that they're more snarky and cynical compared to how easygoing Spyro is as a trilogy. There's a sereneness to the Spyro trilogy which is soothing and why its so nostalgic to people.
>Have you ever considered that maybe Spyro's potential as a concept was already tapped out by game 3
>Mario has existed for 39 years
Hmmmm...
You forgot
>butchered the art direction of the Remastered Trilogy by going with a DeviantArt furgay reimagining of the original style
Spyro 1 is one of the best games ever made
You really don't need to start a spyro thread with console war homosexualry, it's bad enough that you can barely discuss these games anymore without people dumping ugly nu-fauns until the thread 404's
>Nintendo’s mustachioed mascot had more than met his match.
lol LOL LMAO
For real though, it is kind of weird the PS1 doesn't really have an answer to SM64. Either they're too gimmick oriented or too short in span.
We already said Spyro BTFO SM64 for three games in a row.
SM64 just generated more hype because it came out first and had a massive marketing budget.
As far as exclusives, Spyro does come the closest, but the worlds aren't as fun to backtrack and Spyro himself has a gimmicky control scheme. Which works for the characters, but doesn't feel like its trying to play like Mario.
Honestly it's not really like Nintendo ever even really had a good follow up to SM64 either. Every 3D Mario afterwards just wound up being nearly as simplified as your standard PS1 Mario killer. SM64's over developed movement system really was lightning in a bottle.
>for our next console exclusive killer app, we’re going to take Mario’s plumbing role LITERALLY!
>tfw Mario still hasn't moved over
Best game on PSX
I prefer Ripto, he's cuter
Does Spyo have any real vertical platforming or is it a walking simulator?
Yes in multiple levels
The only game that's really any platforming heavy is the first one, a lot of it is about figuring out where you need to be and how much running speed you need to be able to make jumps and glide to destinations. 2 and 3 kind of lost focus and started replacing the challenge with minigames.
Soeaking of that, I love Spyro 1 but I've never played 2 or 3. In fact, I love 1 so much I 100% almost every year.
I tried playing 2 yesterday after beating 1 again and I don't really like it so far. I'm only like half an hour in but I'm not really feeling it.
Should I push ahead? Does it get better or is it all stupid dialogue, forced backtracking, and minigames from here on out?
2 was the weak point in the series for me, but has some really atmospheric levels
Well, I'll give it another try then. Thanks.
Yeah, thankfully there isn’t A LOT of backtracking like DK64 had, but I can understand the annoyance. I’m a completionist so I get annoyed at having to leave segments unfinished.
There's an atmosphere in 1 they never really recaptured. The dragon themed worlds and open fields, the emphasis on trick platforming and flying, it was all more interesting than the generic cartoon fantasy world and gimmicks of the next two.
Spyro is more akin to DK64 than a Mario game, really. As in it's a collect-a-thon piece of shit.
I'll grant you have to backtrack with new powers in Spyro 2 which is annoying similarly to DK64, but it's not true for the other entries.
You have to backtrack in Super Mario 64 to get more Stars, too. But the worlds feel more open to exploration and paths open up more organically which is why its not complained about as much.
I always thought he had a huge underbite from this cover. Still hard to unsee tbh
Spyro 2 has a cheat to give you all the abilities for free, I think it's literally just like circle circle circle circle square on the pause screen. Do that and you have no backtracking.