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Original Spyro (all games before LOS(excluding ETD)) Or Legend of Spyro? Which would it be?

I would choose original Spyro. LOS was good, but too different. I long for the nostalgic value of what Spyro was and truely should be. Playing old games is good, but they're old and much of the novelty has worn off. Even the old character was better. Original Spyro was down to earth, in that he only had one permanent breath: Fire. Ice, Earth, and Electricity are all well and good, but Fire is the Dragon's Element. Period. Other than that old Spyro only had gliding, swimmming, climbing, and headbashing. New Spyro is such a Gary Stu, it's not even funny. He's omni powerful, and essentially a god and that, ladies and gentle men, is not Spyro. Nor is the love-sick, self pittying, wishy-washy, weepy attitude of LOS Spyro. LOS Spyro is as much like old Spyro as I am a bird. And what is with this over-dramatic story line? I miss the simplistic, straightforward plot of Spyro 1,2,3. The biggest twist you had was when Bianca saved Hunter and they fall in love. What's wrong with a good old fasioned, happy go lucky platformer with charming characters, inviting landscapes, and universally entertaining comedy? Legend of Spyro: Fun, Interesting, Attractive, but absolutely NOT Spyro.

While the Legend concept is good at heart, some poor choices were made (especially when it came to DotD) and ultimately the final product was just not all that it was cracked up to be. The originals were an unusual type of game considering the console they were released on. While they weren't big in the story or character development department Insomniac made up for that with decent gameplay. Though the idea was very simplistic (just run around a big, open level gliding between sections and searching for treasures) Insomniac managed to make things interesting by adding well placed secret areas filled with treasures that we had to search for. On top of that, there was a bit of diversity with the addition of level challenges in GTG and YotD. While some were straight forward (such as protecting a friend from a bunch of foes) some required more outside the box thinking (like the Romeo & Juliet challenge) and some were just nostalgic little tidbits (like the hockey challenges in GTG). The music was also catchy in the originals and fit the levels. The fully orchestrated soundtracks of the Legend universe went nicely with the levels, but no tracks stood out in particular as moving or riveting quite like the music tracks of the originals.

Over all, I'd say the originals. Though they didn't really introduce any new concepts to the world of 3D adventures, the gameplay was more enjoyable than that of the Legendverse.

hhhhmmmmmmm im not shure at all

I'm not choosing between the two.
They are BOTH good in their own different separate way.

At least they didn't make a series where Spyro is like a bank-robber.
"Gimme ALL your gems or DIE!"

If I had to choose I would jump off a building, get hit by a million cars then jump into the deepest part of the ocean and drown just to get away from having to choose

Good pionts. If only Insomiac and Sierra could collab on a game. I think Tom Kenny's voice suited Spyro sooo much better than Elija wood. At least it suited the personality he should have.

Legend; better story and gameplay.

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Legend; better story and gameplay.

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Legend; better story and gameplay.

DARK HAS HACKED ANOTHER ACCOUNT! XD No seriously... Is that realy you O_o...

Even as a kid I never really cared for the original.

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Legend; better story and gameplay.

DARK HAS HACKED ANOTHER ACCOUNT! No seriously... Is that realy you ...

Even as a kid I never really cared for the original.

Wow... Thats actualy quite suprising...

The origianls....

Original games are really fun, but too easy.
Legend games have got better story, but they are not so fun to play.

Both are good.

Depends. By "Original" you you mean the first three? Because I don't want them to go back unless they go bac to AHT style.

I love Dawn of the Dragon.

Oh, original Spyro, hands down. Just chuck AHT out the window and leave the Insomniac games and you have some of the best games ever made.

Unlike LoS, many people who aren't Spyro fans still remember and enjoy the Insomniac games. I don't know any non-Spyro fans who can tolerate LoS. Heck, only about half of all Spyro fans endure it, even.

But all that aside, the Insomniac games are just more fun to play. LoS, in its effort to be a movie, forgot that we play video games because they're, y'know, games. No one plays LoS for gameplay; it's always for the story, the art, the music, but never the gameplay. Insomniac Spyro, however, is a blast to play. And most people fondly remember the weird music and quirky art, too.

Ah, I miss the days of creative games...

Four words:

Insomniac for the win!!!!

Old for life.

Origanal for EtD!!!!!!!

Wow, someone who prefers EtD even over LoS? Now that should tell us something.

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Wow, someone who prefers EtD even over LoS? Now that should tell us something.

I wonder if some people think now if EtD is not as bad as it seems now these days since DotD came out

Quite agree. But both games were way too TRY-HARD FOR THE FAN BOYS/GIRLS

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I wonder if some people think now if EtD is not as bad as it seems now these days since DotD came out

Ahahaha! Oh please, please, universe, make this so! That would be epic awesome.

"Love it or hate it, you just have to admit the storyline really was very good."

No, actually. The story is part of why I now hate LoS. When it comes down to it, I think the Insomniac games did have better stories. They were simple and made the cliches they used unique. LoS is just Star Wars and LotR with all the heart gutted out (but they kept the Hobbit and Luke Skywalker in there for some reason).

But the storylines in the originals were... lets say... or better, had to much of the fantasy cliche. But you are right. I do happen to think that the storylines in the originals were way better. But I'm just saying that from a story point of view, not a gaming one. the tlos storyline was good, but not as good as the originals. Orig is still FTW

I can't choose :s. The original is funny, but TLoS has the best story, i have veer heard / seen.

LOS defenetly

Legends. Sierra is (or was) an older company with more well established traits. Besides, they tend to not follow the leader CoUgHorigianlspyroisaripoffofsoniccandbanjokazioeOuGh.

Besides, you can't shake a bad hand at a company who's made some good music and actually treats said musicians with way better respect, and besides, they were around in the 80s. =]

I pick Tlos.

Lets split it into two groups.

Aeople born before 1995

B:And people born after 1995

Say In your next post wherether you are in group A or B and what series is your favourite. I will tally it up and have some proper statistics on which side people are on. (Personally I think that people born after 1995 prefer tlos)

I'm kinda one of those new people. So I like The Legend of Spyro
What I can tell you, I'm enjoying being 16 than 15.

I was born in '93, so group A

I've been around too long it seems...

Group A certainly, 1989, and playing the Legends, yet I've known Spyro longer than some people have been around.

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Lets split it into two groups.

A: People born before 1995 <---Space between those to avoid

B: And people born after 1995

Say In your next post wherether you are in group A or B and what series is your favourite. I will tally it up and have some proper statistics on which side people are on. (Personally I think that people born after 1995 prefer tlos)

A
...and I don't prefer TLoS, they both have differences that makes them both good. Even if one is more drastic than the other.
(Like finding out Spyro doesn't even know he is a dragon till he was 12.)

Legend, Hands down.

gee BDAJ89, You make it sound like we're all old. Eeessh, I don't think the majority of the members here have ever known Sierra for making anything else.

Buzz Sherwood even tries to make the best of it. (The numbers may be wrong, but it's the concept.)

"How old am I? well let's see... I'm 18, 21, 24, 25, 29, 30, 34, 39, 40, 42, Awww, I'm 45!"~Buzz Sherwood

LOL. Statistics for the win

I'm in group A: 1982. Now get off my lawn.

I find it very amusing that people complain about the cliches in the old Spyro games (I don't actually remember any that were all that major from those and that weren't a part of older gaming as a whole because of technology limitations), when LoS is literally nothing but cliches. If you've ever read an epic or seen Star Wars, you know everything you will be seeing in LoS. The only thing that took me by surprise out of the entire trilogy was Ignitus not being totally dead, but he is Obi Wan and a great Jedi master, so it made sense.

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Lets split it into two groups.

Aeople born before 1995

B:And people born after 1995

Say In your next post wherether you are in group A or B and what series is your favourite. I will tally it up and have some proper statistics on which side people are on. (Personally I think that people born after 1995 prefer tlos)

I'm in group B. Born in 1996.

Oh, and I prefer the originals of course.

Hmmm, well I was born in 1991, but I like both the originals and TLOS. It all depends on what kind of mood i'm in. I play the originals when i'm relaxing, and the legends when i'm in a more bash enemies kind of mood, or a friends over in DOTD instince.

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Hmmm, well I was born in 1991, but I like both the originals and TLOS. It all depends on what kind of mood i'm in. I play the originals when i'm relaxing, and the legends when i'm in a more bash enemies kind of mood, or a friends over in DOTD instince.

I'd say thats pretty reasonable.

Old ones,they were the original Spyro. Why exclude ETD? thats a great game. i have the GC version. but the loading times dont make the game any worse,

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I'm in group A: 1982. Now get off my lawn.

I find it very amusing that people complain about the cliches in the old Spyro games (I don't actually remember any that were all that major from those and that weren't a part of older gaming as a whole because of technology limitations), when LoS is literally nothing but cliches. If you've ever read an epic or seen Star Wars, you know everything you will be seeing in LoS. The only thing that took me by surprise out of the entire trilogy was Ignitus not being totally dead, but he is Obi Wan and a great Jedi master, so it made sense.

You know what's funny? None of that bothers me because:

Right behind "A New Beginning" is the Sim City disks, which behind those is Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. Behind that, Earthbound, behind that, Starfox games, behind that, Pokemon. And we can't forget Mario. You could have thrown a Commodore 64 in the mix, but I don't have it anymore.

Of course, I got rid of my Nintendo Crappy-Four and Poopstation, because they were wastes of money (I only got 30 bucks total for the entire PSX, games, and accessories), save for two games: Super Mario 64 and Blast Corps (which Blast Corps is probably one of the very, very few good Rare games made in the 90s).

I swear, almost anything made in the 90s had to be garbage.

Spyro started in the 90s. I'm also pretty fond of little things that no one's ever heard of like, oh, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, Tomb Raider 1 and 2, Intelligent Qube... Okay, no one has heard of IQ, but you still can't buy it for less than $60 on eBay.

I think you might have just had some bad gaming experiences in the 90s.

B. Born in 1995.Now get away from my ice cream!

I actually prefer the old games more than the LOS series.....the original 3 and EtD (which is better than LOS due to their attempt at making it a movie...) are my favs....

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Spyro started in the 90s. I'm also pretty fond of little things that no one's ever heard of like, oh, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, Tomb Raider 1 and 2, Intelligent Qube... Okay, no one has heard of IQ, but you still can't buy it for less than $60 on eBay.

I think you might have just had some bad gaming experiences in the 90s.

Well, being that you were around for a least a wiff of the greatest era of gaming (the 80s), I'd figured you were actually cultured enough to know that the 90s was a total crap shoot in the gaming industry.

I love how you take people's opinions and likes and make crass judgments about them based on such. Just because you didn't like a thing doesn't mean it's crap.

It's all in comparision. What are you comparing it to?

80s being better in innovation as opposed to the 90s.

Now how about the '00?

Not as good as the 80s, but better off than the 90s because of more subtle choices in game making and that there's some good innovation out there (although a certain someone CoUgHMiyamotocOuGh is making it difficult for the third party developers to use).

I hate the new computer animation. It's so annoying. I had to watch a few episodes of Tom and Jerry Tales. Blah it looks so flat. And there is like no traditional jokes left.

Animation has came a long way. But for some reason I think It's going downhill. But remember 3d animation is a different field.

No one would by a game that is in 2d these days. Imagine the uproar if they made Modern warfare 2 in 2D

Actually, there are a lot of people out there who don't mind diving into a 16-bit game these days. Maybe it's something about the art style or the way it's set up, but there are still people out there who will say that Super Mario World is the greatest Mario game ever (heck, it's even fun for me, even though I beat it for the millionth time now, and it's 2D as anything can get).

Also, does anyone know of the Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past or Earthbound?