Okay, Now I'm Wishing this Game Never Existed

LocoGuy107 · Jun 25, 2014 6:14 PM

Because Skylanders.

Stormy · Jun 25, 2014 6:32 PM

What does this game have to do with Skylanders? It was the Legend of Spyro series that came right before, so it was likely the failure of that series that caused the Skylanders reboot.

LocoGuy107 · Jun 25, 2014 6:39 PM

Stormy wrote:

What does this game have to do with Skylanders? It was the Legend of Spyro series that came right before, so it was likely the failure of that series that caused the Skylanders reboot.

The failure of this game was the cause of the TLoS series, too.

By the time I realized the connections, it was too late. Too *bleep*ing late. Too *bleep*ing ducking late.

Stormy · Jun 25, 2014 6:46 PM

I suppose, but LoS is still more directly responsible for the reboot than Shadow Legacy. LoS had three entire games over three entire years to build up interest in the Spyro franchise. It clearly didn't succeed, or there would be more Legend of Spyro style games now.

Also... too late for what? You couldn't have done anything about it, anyway. tongue

LocoGuy107 · Jun 25, 2014 7:15 PM

Well, not alone. We must band together.

Stormy · Jun 25, 2014 7:22 PM

And do what, though? A few Spyro fans signing a petition or something would never have stopped Skylanders from being made. Only huge numbers of sales for the Legend of Spyro series would have done that, and there just weren't enough people who cared about the series.

(I'm not trying to tell you to go try to "convert" people to be Spyro fans, by the way; that would be extremely annoying and make us all look really bad. tongue )

LocoGuy107 · Jun 25, 2014 7:32 PM

We have to be clever on this. Somehow talk about Spyro symbolically, just so enough people can boycott Activision.

Stormy · Jun 25, 2014 7:40 PM

Just try to look at this realistically. There are probably more Skylanders fans now than there ever were Legend of Spyro fans. It's a huge success. Activision wouldn't give a *bleep* if you could somehow come up with hundreds of Spyro fans to "boycott" them.

"Talking about Spyro symbolically" doesn't make any sense as a plan, anyway. o.O

LocoGuy107 · Jun 25, 2014 7:57 PM

Those ----heads don't know what they're suffering.

...

Do you have special skills?

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Stormy · Jun 25, 2014 7:58 PM

What? I have no idea what you're talking about anymore....

LocoGuy107 · Jun 25, 2014 7:59 PM

Just answer the question.

Stormy · Jun 25, 2014 8:00 PM

I can't, because your question doesn't make any sense. What does it have to do with anything?

LocoGuy107 · Jun 25, 2014 8:00 PM

Crafting. What can you make?

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Stormy · Jun 25, 2014 8:02 PM

See, that still doesn't make sense. I have no idea how that's supposed to be related to the original topic.

Please stick to one topic instead of trying to have a random conversation or I'm going to have to lock this....

NeoReaper · Jun 25, 2014 8:48 PM

C'mon Stormy! Lighten up a little! big_smile

Stormy · Jun 25, 2014 9:13 PM

Hey, it's my job to keep things on topic... and that post isn't really helping. tongue

...Yeah, I don't think this is going anywhere. Locked. On second thought, meh, I'll give it another chance.

LocoGuy107 · Jun 26, 2014 3:41 AM

Sometimes I wonder why this game existed...I mean, the concept wasn't bad, but then the game...

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Jun 26, 2014 4:37 AM

LocoGuy107 wrote:

Somehow talk about Spyro symbolically, just so enough people can boycott Activision.

we are not subconsciously leading people towards the Spyro series, if that's what you're thinking.

also, i've never played this game: what's so bad about it?

Flapjacks · Jun 26, 2014 7:33 AM

LocoGuy107 wrote:

We have to be clever on this. Somehow talk about Spyro symbolically, just so enough people can boycott Activision.

I boycotted EA and Blizzard. Have you heard anything about EA or Blizzard going bankrupt lately? No. I boycotted them because of horrible customer support in both cases, and, well, bad games, in EA's case. Blizzard makes good games (excluding Diablo 3,) but they have awful customer support. Took me a very long time to get my account back after a hack, when all the person on the live chat did was brute-force the account, anyway. I'm ranting, but my point is, how many times have enough people boycotted a corporation to an extent where said corporation actually changed their mind about something? I can't recall any, because if a corporation is big enough to the point where people will boycott it, it's likely that they are so large that they 100% do not care about any of their customers. Activision is one of these companies, and there are MANY more people who are willing to buy Skylanders every year than there are people who are actively not buying Skylanders because of the sole reason that it exists, which seems to be a popular reason to bash it these days. Sure, Skylanders is, at least in my opinion, a sub-par game. However, claiming that it is so bad that you should make it clear to the developers that you are not buying it, and then going to a small forum of about 15 - 25 regulars to tell them to do the same is not going to get you anywhere.

RangerOfIthilien · Jun 26, 2014 12:41 PM

LocoGuy107 wrote:

Those ----heads don't know what they're suffering.

Or they just like a game that you don't like.

NeoReaper · Jun 26, 2014 4:57 PM

EA are terrible, rushing unfinished games and have a completely disgraceful "customer service" and "bug report" team.

Stormy · Jun 26, 2014 5:06 PM

36IStillLikeSpyro36 wrote:

LocoGuy107 wrote:
Somehow talk about Spyro symbolically, just so enough people can boycott Activision.
we are not subconsciously leading people towards the Spyro series, if that's what you're thinking.
also, i've never played this game: what's so bad about it?

The only thing I really disliked about it was how unpolished it was. There were a lot of parts that were probably not tested very thoroughly, like challenges that could be completed for a reward multiple times, or depth looking different than what it actually was.

A lot of people probably don't like it because they would have preferred it not be an RPG, but I didn't mind that.

RadSpyro · Jun 26, 2014 8:01 PM

The only things I didn't like about this game is that

a) It felt 'choppy' at times
and
b) It was far too short.

Had they gone through with this as a console game, I can see it getting much more attention. I remember playing through and wondering why on earth it wasn't a PS2 game.

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Dec 28, 2018 3:58 AM

Stormy wrote:

The only thing I really disliked about it was how unpolished it was. There were a lot of parts that were probably not tested very thoroughly, like challenges that could be completed for a reward multiple times, or depth looking different than what it actually was.

i am realizing this more and more since i got this for Christmas. my biggest problem is easily the platforming. things look like ledges that aren't ledges; things look like you should be able to jump/glide onto them but you can't; i swear i've just fallen through ledges a few times; it's bizarre. this is especially bad in that area with the wizards. there's an area. you go onto one of those purple... basically whirlwinds. and then you're supposed to jump/glide onto a platform directly to the left. i still can't get onto that far-left platform*. i managed to get onto it a few times by accident, but i have no idea what i did differently. it's like there's an invisible wall, but there isn't. there's also a little "platform" right above it, but apparently it's not actually a platform, because i just fall through it.

i also got stuck between a palm tree and a bush in the Shadow Realm in Dragon Shores. thankfully i still had some MP, i had to teleport to get unstuck.

don't get me wrong, i'm REALLY enjoying the game overall so far, but it really is unpolished.

*political commentary not intended

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