Spyroforum`s First Impressions of Skylanders

riverhippo · Jun 09, 2011 6:27 AM

Stormy wrote:

OK, yeah, I had no idea what I was talking about with Super Mario Bros. 2. Probably just shouldn't have said anything. XD
And I agree we'd never get anything on the level of the original three games and it would probably be something like A Hero's Tail again, but I liked A Hero's Tail, so that would be fine with me. I'm more indifferent to this anyway since I've pretty much given up on Spyro games, but I just wanted to throw some opinions in there.

This is one of the things I don't understand about "neigh-sayers".

It's cool if someone doesn't like the new Spyro games compared to the original trilogy. We can still be friends! big_smile But the "there will never" statements are so deeply negative. The originals were always the best, but I never want to limit what game developers (and fans) can do in the future. Where's the optimism people?

And if I can put a pony spin on it, I would say that MLP purist fans thought the same thing about their favorite ponies, and how G1 was a smash hit and that nothing since has ever been better and how G3.5 was a total disaster. But then Lauren Faust came and saved the day.

Sometimes, I see Spyro as just a video game franchise that needs its own Lauren Faust to come and spin the series into something no one could ever imagine it would be. Whether Toys for Bob is that has yet to be determined. Months before MLPFiM premiered, concept art from Faust and Co. was released and MLP's new toy line with the new characters was introduced. The overall reaction was "Oh, no, not another crappy pony cartoon. Why can't Hasbro just make it the way it was in the 1980s?"

Stormy · Jun 09, 2011 6:16 PM

You're right; there could be something better. After so many years of following the Spyro fandom on forums and spending money on all the games, though, I think it's reasonable that some would start to lose faith in the IP.

Shiruba · Jun 17, 2011 5:10 PM

In Activisions hands, I don't know if we can expect a Spyro game that classic fans can enjoy.

THEKIDWITHAKNIFE. · Jun 24, 2011 9:50 AM

Okay ...let the ranting begin.
So I literally just found out this game involved spyro. like just a few minutes ago. a few days ago i noticed the word spyro in some game on youtube and casually checked out what it was. All i saw was some tree guy with stumps for hands running around... I dropped it and said this has nothing to do with spyro. Today, upon further investigation i have found that yes, spyro is in it. ....I am officially TICKED OFF!!!

Not that this game dose not sound cool it's just I can't figure out where they get off calling it "spyro's adventure" this game has literally nothing to do with spyro!!! Sparx isn't even in it! It follows no previous story line from ANY spyro game and it barely even looks like him. not that looks are all that much of a problem it's just that it seems to me that the only reason spyro is involved at all is so that activision can get the attention of a few extra people for some better rateings... this game has ab-so-friken-loutly nothen to do with spyro!!!!! WHATSOEVER! they just added a random purple dragon into the cast of hundreds of other characters and felt like naming him spyro. the ONLY thing that makes him even relateable to spyro is the fact that he's purple! and oh ya... they put his name into the title for an extra measure... this just burns me!!!

Don't get me wrong... this sounds like a step forward in the advancement of gaming. it might hold some value on perhaps a collectable and tradeing aspect for kids which is new. good for them, not like it's really that special. I can't help but to feel the vibe that they may be a little too proud of themselves. it's really not that special. all it is, is an individualized memory card for a character with a plastic face. and also it occurs to me that this might just be a hinderence to the game. it could have multiple negative affects. like are these action figures fickle/ i mean like cd's will the slightest scratch in the wrong place make them unuseable and therefore a waste of money? i mean all this really sounds like to me is just another scam to scratch a few more bucks out of people. will these toys get out of hand if more games do this? if this is a kids game and kids are ment to also be able to play with these things, just how well will they be taken care of? what if your dog gets ahold of them... i'm just saying I doubt they will make very good toys for kids.

Whatever man. This game might have some potential but i seriously doubt that this game will be anything more than a kids game. as for spyro ...well spyro isn't really involved so what am i talking about... this game isn't spyro to me. i'm not even sure if it really belongs on the forms. personally i think we should just ignore it all together. but of course i'm just mad. ...whatever dude.....five bucks says that this game is gonna suck.

pancakes · Jun 26, 2011 1:16 AM

^ Rumor is that if the game is successful, Spyro will get his own games again (pressumably based on his Skylanders character) while Skylanders continues as it's own franchise.

Spash the Bandragon · Jun 26, 2011 5:28 PM

I don't see why people are so appauled at Skylanders having nothing to do with classic Spyro when we just got through 3-4 years of Legend of Spyro.

Stormy · Jun 26, 2011 7:35 PM

Agreed, especially when it's the Legend of Spyro fans saying it. =/ That's what they know as Spyro, I guess, but lots of people don't seem to realize what they're saying about Skylanders is exactly what classic fans were saying when LoS came out.

Aura24 · Jun 26, 2011 9:46 PM

History is repeating itself...

Mr. John · Jun 27, 2011 12:33 AM

Indeed I mean I'm not saying that everyone needs to change their minds about the game people that don't like it. That is understandable.

But at least give it a chance.

Stormy · Jun 27, 2011 1:06 AM

No offense intended here, but I've heard "just give it a chance" a ton of times about this game and I'm getting kind of tired of hearing it.

I think of it like this. Nothing about this game interests me enough to even consider spending that much money on it. Even if it were priced like any other game I wouldn't be particularly interested in this sort of game. Some people might say I should give it a chance because it's a Spyro game, but, as others have said, it has nothing to do with any other Spyro games, and I doubt we'd even be having this discussion if the game didn't have "Spyro" in the title. I learned this the hard way after buying disappointing Spyro title after disappointing Spyro title. The fact that a product carries a brand name you've liked in the past does not guarantee you'll like every single thing with that brand name.

As far as I'm concerned, I've given it more than enough of a chance by just watching all the trailers and reading all the articles and watching all the videos of people talking about how innovative it is. For any other game that's usually enough to decide if something interests you, but if it's a "Spyro" game, you apparently have to play it before you decide whether or not it appeals to you. This has never made much sense to me.

Mr. John · Jun 27, 2011 1:32 AM

I understand Stormy and that is fine.

wolfiemon · Jul 05, 2011 3:23 AM

Hello, first post here.

I have loved Spyro since the first game came out , and I'm always excited to see new Spyro stuff (but doesn't mean I always like it haha...). I am not too sure how to feel. I do think Spyro is kind of cute, in an ugly sort of way. And I like the Gryphon character...

But some complaints that I have are:

The gameplay. It just looks... unexciting. Like, I would be totally bored playing it. It really is a step down from LoS and especially the first three games. Of course I've said this about some games before and ended up liking them so I will give it a try first.

The character design. I mean... really? These are some of the most unappealing characters (with some exceptions) I've seen in a while. What is the obsession with making bland and/or ugly characters in games these days.

But mostly what I don't understand. Why are the game designers and developers against giving us what we really want? I am not in any way against changing game series as they go on, but why so drastically? The Legend of Spyro changed the forumla for the series but it was at least still recognizable as a Spyro game. This game doesn't even have Sparx. Spyro really doesn't even really look much like himself.

After waiting and waiting for some Spyro news I got this... I was both excited and incredibly disappointed.

I'm not even saying this out of nostalgia. As a kid, if this were the first Spyro game that had ever been released, I would have hated it. As I said, the characters are not appealing to me, and the gameplay is bland. Bleh.

Spash the Bandragon · Jul 05, 2011 2:35 PM

This might just be me, but I don't consider LoS to have anything to do with Classic Spyro. At all. Sure it had Sparx and Hunter, but they looked and acted completely different. I mean, if Trigger Happy was named "Agent 9," would Skylanders be more of a "Spyro" game?

As for gameplay, as far as I can tell, Skylanders at least hasn't just made big, medium, and small apes, copy-and-pasted them thirty gazillion times and called it a level.

(Although LoS at least had jumping. The lack of it is one thing I dislike about Skylanders.)

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Jul 05, 2011 5:34 PM

wait. i've got to be misunderstanding you.

you can't JUMP in this game?

Spash the Bandragon · Jul 05, 2011 5:49 PM

36IStillLikeSpyro36 wrote:

wait. i've got to be misunderstanding you.
you can't JUMP in this game?

Some characters can't, and some can fly, so maybe it'll balance out. For example, Gill Grunt has a water jetpack, Spyro can glide, and presumably other winged characters can fly, too. Characters like Eruptor and Chop Chop can't jump.

pancakes · Jul 06, 2011 1:37 AM

None of the characters can jump.

Spash the Bandragon · Jul 06, 2011 3:08 AM

pancakes wrote:

None of the characters can jump.

Okay, my mistake, I was just remembering off the top of my head. Although I think they can all jump in the 3DS version.

Aura24 · Jul 06, 2011 6:18 AM

They will jump only in the 3DS version.

riverhippo · Jul 12, 2011 10:56 AM

I'm curious to find out exactly what it means if Spyro can fly, but he can't jump.

Seems to define itself.

And a little joke I think anti-Skylanders will appreciate. If Spyro can fly but not jump, it would be like what they say about babies that learn to walk before they crawl are more likely to be autistic or have severe learning disabilities.

Spash the Bandragon · Jul 12, 2011 3:26 PM

riverhippo wrote:

I'm curious to find out exactly what it means if Spyro can fly, but he can't jump.

I'm guessing flying substitutes for Spyro's no-jumping (as in, he can fly over bottomless pits whereas other characters would have to walk around them). It's probably the same deal with the footage we've already seen of Gill Grunt's water jetpack.

OhWellIfYouSaySo · Jul 31, 2011 9:14 AM

The game serves only to mooch of off Spyro's dead corpse, trying to squeeze the last drop of money they can. Pure meh.

I know they need to earn for a living, but the least they could of done is to give Spyro the treatment he deserves, not beat him to death with a 10 foot pole and then throw him to the fans saying " Here's your *bleep* childhood icon, have fun, now give me money ".

That's my opinion as a veteran Spyro fan. New fans will respond to this differently, so i really don't care.

JakBandiFan · Jul 31, 2011 7:11 PM

OhWellIfYouSaySo wrote:

The game serves only to mooch of off Spyro's dead corpse, trying to squeeze the last drop of money they can. Pure meh.
I know they need to earn for a living, but the least they could of done is to give Spyro the treatment he deserves, not beat him to death with a 10 foot pole and then throw him to the fans saying " Here's your *bleep* childhood icon, have fun, now give me money ".
That's my opinion as a veteran Spyro fan. New fans will respond to this differently, so i really don't care.

Rayman went through the same thing, though. He was thought to be "dying" when the third game came out. He was put in the awful Raving Rabbids series which is just a way to squeeze money from Rayman, just because Rayman 2 was successful. Now, he's back in his own series. Finally.

Spyro is not dead. This will re-introduce Spyro back into the mainstream. No-one who I know at school have even heard of LOS. Soon, they'll say "ZOMG! Spyro's back!".
Chances are two or three games and Spyro will be out of Skylanders forever. I'm very nostalgic and looking at those screenies, I see tons of inspiration from past Spyro games - even the GBA ones and ETD.

Activision said that Spyro will have his own series again after Skylanders. Just like Rayman. Deja vu, eh?

OhWellIfYouSaySo · Aug 01, 2011 5:43 AM

JakBandiFan wrote:

Activision said that Spyro will have his own series again after Skylanders. Just like Rayman. Deja vu, eh?

Well then, maybe there is hope for a good Spyro game.... or not, should they keep the Skylanders design...brrrrrr.

It's all a matter about for whom the games will be made. The new audience, or us, the old fans of the original classics and of TLoS series.

I already told what my perfect Spyro game would be, so you already know what i wish for, but i won't keep my hopes up smile

JakBandiFan · Aug 01, 2011 11:12 AM

It's all a matter about for whom the games will be made. The new audience, or us, the old fans of the original classics and of TLoS series.

Sega's catering for both the old and new audiences with Sonic by having two seperate series. I don't see why Activision wouldn't do that, to be honest. It would bring so much money in and both sides will benefit.

Spyro is being milked, yes. But the "cash cow" has a hidden udder which is yet to be used (sorry for the silly metaphor tongue ). If you know what I mean. Spyro's very much alive and he never died. He did collapse during the time of ETD but he recovered from that in AHT onwards to now.

Now, Crash Bandicoot is a different story. No news yet of a console title since 2008 and I want a Crash Bandicoot PS3 game already. mad
Are you also a Crash Bandicoot fan, OhWellIfYouSaySo, by any chance?

OhWellIfYouSaySo · Aug 01, 2011 4:27 PM

JakBandiFan wrote:

Spyro is being milked, yes. But the "cash cow" has a hidden udder which is yet to be used (sorry for the silly metaphor ). If you know what I mean. Spyro's very much alive and he never died. He did collapse during the time of ETD but he recovered from that in AHT onwards to now.

We just have to wait and hope for the best smile

JakBandiFan wrote:

Are you also a Crash Bandicoot fan, OhWellIfYouSaySo, by any chance?

Of course i am! I had the first three games on the PS1, and still occasionaly play Crash: Team Racing on the PS2. However my favorite was Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. I would laugh soooo hard on that part when you rode that little polar bear, and as a kid when i heard that Spyro and Crash would team up in a game i was astounded that two of my childhood icons would be in the same game. Never played those games though....

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