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That's why they call it a reboooooooot~

spyro 3 has skateboarding unlike spyro 1 and 2, therefore it's not really apart of the spyro franchise

yeah, it was a crappy reboot

man i remember being so bummed after I beat ANB and it was done in four levels. I was actually pissed lol

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By that logic, is Crash Team Racing not a Crash game because it doesn't play at all like the others?

That was an established spin-off with returning characters coming back to returning locals.

The new Spyro was a reboot which was meant to depart in drastic ways for a new audience.

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By that logic, is Crash Team Racing not a Crash game because it doesn't play at all like the others?

That was an established spin-off with returning characters coming back to returning locals.

The new Spyro was a reboot which was meant to depart in drastic ways for a new audience.

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By that logic, is Crash Team Racing not a Crash game because it doesn't play at all like the others?

That was an established spin-off with returning characters coming back to returning locals.

The new Spyro was a reboot which was meant to depart in drastic ways for a new audience.

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calling CTR out of the og games realm doesn't make sense

TloS does

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That was an established spin-off with returning characters coming back to returning locals.

The new Spyro was a reboot which was meant to depart in drastic ways for a new audience.

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calling CTR out of the og games realm doesn't make sense

TloS does

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TloS is literally using Spyro's name in game. It doesn't play like a Spyro game, at all.

TLoS uses many of the same mechanics that have been established in previous installments. The only thing that is different is the lore and story, in which it is a different universe. But it does play like the Spyro games of the original lore (ie. Hero's Tail).

CTR does not play like the previous Crash Bandicoot games, even if it is within the same universe and using the same characters. Yet somehow that is still Crash just because of that one reason?

Your argument doesn't make sense.

They use the same font for Spyro's name, just wanted to point that out.

So the Spyro that appears as a Skylander is a fake Spyro?

Does that mean that none of them are real?

I don't know what to believe anymore :'(

Okay, well, before the first Skylanders game was made, there was a Spyro movie that we all wanted to see in theaters, but Activision decided to turn the other way, cancelling the movie. I think I could bring that movie back. I'm in a band, and my band could team up with Rebecca Knuhbuhl and Gabriel Mann, and that could bring the attention. I don't know if this is gonna work, but you tell me if this idea does or not.

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Okay, well, before the first Skylanders game was made, there was a Spyro movie that we all wanted to see in theaters, but Activision decided to turn the other way, cancelling the movie. I think I could bring that movie back. I'm in a band, and my band could team up with Rebecca Knuhbuhl and Gabriel Mann, and that could bring the attention. I don't know if this is gonna work, but you tell me if this idea does or not.

How would that bring back a movie.

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Okay, well, before the first Skylanders game was made, there was a Spyro movie that we all wanted to see in theaters, but Activision decided to turn the other way, cancelling the movie. I think I could bring that movie back. I'm in a band, and my band could team up with Rebecca Knuhbuhl and Gabriel Mann, and that could bring the attention. I don't know if this is gonna work, but you tell me if this idea does or not.

The film industry doesn't exactly work like that

Well this topic certainly happened~

*Frolics away gracefully*

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Come on guys, you got to admit that if TLOS didn't have the 'Spyro' name and was named something different and the main character wasn't purple, people would think of it as a completley different game. People only think it's a Spyro game because the main character is purple, called Spyro and the title is 'Spyro'. Apart from those things and the fact that Sparx and Hunter are in the game, everything else in the games is completely different. **** Spyro, Sparx and Hunter aren't even the same characters, they have totally different personalities and designs in TLOS.

Just like how Skylanders isn't related to the Spyro franchise at all, and is it's own franchise with Spyro characters in it. The first game had Spyro's name in the title to gain more sales, and it worked probably.

I do believe that TLOS was overall a terrible trilogy, but I did actually like ANB. But it just got worse and worse with each game. However I do believe it had a lot of potential to be a great trilogy. It just didn't have a good combat system like most games in the action/button mashing genre. ANB was a good start, and like I said I actually like that one. Spyro was more of a fun character in that one (as seen when he teases Sparx playfully) unlike the other two where he was an unhappy boring doormat, and Cynder was a really great character in that game. But TEN ruined it by being repetitive and ruining Cynder's potential as a character and DOTD was just terrible and rushed because of the change of development during the game. :

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Just because anyone with eyes can see that it was clearly the worst of the original trilogy doesn't make it horrible...

excuse me sir, spyro 3 is my favourite spyro game and i have eyes thanks

people thinking that spyro 3 is horrible is actually news to me. i thought everyone loved that one. like come on it had bianca, playable characters and a whole lot of other fun **** and the general atmosphere of the game was really great, and spike was the first time a villain was actually hard in a spyro game. and i really loved the dragon eggs concept and the whole 'a character from each homeworld helps to create a flying platform to get to next world'. and the whale was awesome.

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Come on guys, you got to admit that if YoTD didn't have the 'Spyro' name and was named something different and the main character wasn't purple, people would think of it as a completley different game.

omg wut

spyro is the exact same character in yotd, the comat is the same, the game has the same gooffy and light hearted atmosphere, etc, so your argument is invalid

tlos and every other spyro game are part of the spyro franchise. but tlos is different to the other spyro games, since it's a reboot. it's like mario's games, since that franchise has so many different games, but in the end it's still a mario game. some elements from the original spyro are still there in tlos, but it's still very different to the point that if the title and main character had a different name and colour, people wouldn't compare it to spyro. spyro himself and the general atmosphere in tlos and original spyro are the complete opposite, and there are a lot of other elements in the games that are total opposites, like the combat system for instance. i can't believe that people actually think original spyro and tlos are similar, when they're not. they're both spyro games, but very different.

Heck A Hero's Tail and Shadow Legacy are different to the first trilogy. Not the same degree as TLOS, but the differences are still there. Enter the Dragonfly was the closet Spyro game to the first trilogy that wasn't made by Insomniac, which is why I respect that game unlike a lot of people. Every single company after Insomniac who tried to make a Spyro game failed to make it like the first trilogy and hence making it 'different'. It's not bad, but just different. There is nothing wrong with 'different'. I loved A Hero's Tail when I played it for the first time and it was the Spyro game I enjoyed playing the most on my first playthrough. I still prefer the first trilogy, but A Hero's Tail was definitely a great game (it's my next favourite after the trilogy) and doesn't deserve the hate it gets. To me AHT to Spyro is like TP is to Zelda: they're different games to their respective franchise due to having a different atmosphere, but are still good games in their own right and are good for the franchise.

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spyro is the exact same character in yotd, the comat is the same, the game has the same gooffy and light hearted atmosphere, etc, so your argument is invalid

YotD is way different from its preceding games. It's mini-games with a small collectathon on the side, and the mini-games are all disconnected from their levels rather than integrated in. Half the time you aren't even Spyro.

you're complaining about yotd being different, yet gtg/rr was a massive change to std and introduced many new things such as characters in homeworlds, new friends for spyro to have so he isn't a loner throughout his journey, moneybags, etc. the second spyro game was really different to the first, and yotd simply took on the mechanics introduced in gtg/rr and tweaked a few things and tried to improve upon the things already existing in gtg, as well as adding in something new with the playable characters and skateboarding.

i don't see how having the opportunity to play as different characters makes it different from a spyro game. that was just a new gimmick to make the game enjoyable, just like how in gtg introduced a whole pile of awesome stuff into the game along with new moves. i thought that playing as different characters was the best part of the game and was what made the game amazing to me. i like it when games give the player an opportunity to play as other characters apart from the main character all the time (that's why AHT was pretty cool since you could play as Hunter). also the game was a lot harder compare to the others; remember spike? :D

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you're complaining

No, I'm not. I'm just pointing out your hypocrisy.

^ well i don't see what's so hypocritical about my post considering yotd isn't different to the other spyro games in the trilogy. it's not hypocritical in a sense, since if yotd is different like you claim, it's nowhere near different to the degree that TLOS is to the original spyro series.

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yotd isn't different to the other spyro games in the trilogy.

I suppose I'll elaborate on this one last time.

Ripto's Rage is "different" from Spyro the Dragon- it has to be, it's another game. But Ripto's Rage is different in the sense that it took the natural progression of things and expanded based on what fits for the game.

First off, characters being in homeworlds and new friends for Spyro is not really a change, as those were both taken care of by the dragons in the first game, the only difference being that in Ripto's Rage talking to characters in-and-of-itself is no longer a part of the collectathon, even if it is required for the orbs that are. The new abilities in Ripto's Rage are things that fit into this genre of game: swimming and climbing to be able to explore more areas and headbash because- new attack, why not? Even the feel of the game is very similar while still being expanded on; everything is integrated in its level and has some kind of justification for why Spyro is doing it, and everything is done with the same type of gameplay. This gives the feeling that you are actually helping the inhabitants of each individual level in addition to saving the whole realm.

In contrast, Year of the Dragon is different from its preceding games. Spyro gains the ability to... skateboard. And have the player not play as himself at arbitrary points. Only half the time are you even action-adventure platforming. And the game has a huge mini-gamey feel to it, because a lot of things have really weak or non-existent justification as to why doing this is helpful, why you get an egg for it. Most, if not all levels, have some kind of gameplay change that just feels jarring in a platformer. The game just does not feel cohesive.

You cannot deride TLoS for being different and then ignore that for YotD. If YotD had different characters, the only similarities with its preceding games would be the collectathon nature.

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You actually want to try and control this chaos?

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You actually want to try and control this chaos?

No, I'd just close it and delete it and never speak of it again.

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You actually want to try and control this chaos?

No, I'd just close it and delete it and never speak of it again.

I would not blame you.

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You actually want to try and control this chaos?

No, I'd just close it and delete it and never speak of it again.

You're scary :'(

Ohmehgawd how I used to argue with people who thought this...