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*sits back in chair and listens to conversation*

I don't recall Insomiac wanting to sell Spyro. If I recall correctly, didn't Universal own Spyro?

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Was that word even necessary, SupeSpyroFan??

What other word could I have put there then, and dark52 does say you can swear as long as you put the * in between. I bet you have heard it before anyway.

Yes, I have. But still...

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Was that word even necessary, SupeSpyroFan??

What other word could I have put there then, and dark52 does say you can swear as long as you put the * in between. I bet you have heard it before anyway.

Actually, he says that you have to do like, all asterisk... Like, ****

Oh my God, stop making a big deal out of stupid things.

No need to get all defensive, Super. Those "stupid things" you're probably referring to are the rules about what we say on the forums and ways to cover it up.

Meh, to get on topic. When they say 'new direction', that somehow doesn't imply returning to the Originals to me... Because that's not new... I'm starting to doubt they'll continue with LOS whole-heartedly now...

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Oh my God, stop making a big deal out of stupid things.

I'm just saying for future reference... Anyway, yes... Let us go back on topic... I don't really see why they would stop making TLoS... People might not like it, but people don't like a lot of things... Doesn't mean they should stop it...

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Meh, to get on topic. When they say 'new direction', that somehow doesn't imply returning to the Originals to me... Because that's not new... I'm starting to doubt they'll continue with LOS whole-heartedly now...

Well, they'll probably won't put their heart into the game if it is made in the LoS universe, with Activision as the publisher and all.

And they said a "different direction", not a new direction.

I didn't say they would stop making it... I was saying they might take it somewhere different than originally intended. Might be a good thing, though.

EDIT: Different direction? Oh...

If different, it could be either mean that the next game is set in the LoS universe and not have an epic feel, it could mean it will have the old Spyro in it, or another reboot.

I honestly thought they said 'new' direction... My mind hasn't been functioning properly lately...

But anyways, I really hope this different direction is something both Original and LOS fans can enjoy...

Nope, they said 'different' direction. From the response of the writer of the Spyro Movie in the news archive.

I hope it's not another reboot. Most of us know that Activision is causing the changes of the spyro series, including the next game.

If it's another reboot, it better be darn good, or else I'm gonna forget Spyro and just play the older games.

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Was that word even necessary, SupeSpyroFan??

I don't see whats so wrong about that word. At least in the UK anyway. We can say it as in 'going for a piss' or 'taking the piss' or 'its pissing me off' its just harmless.

It's still in-appropriate, dingo. Let's forget about it, and get back on topic.

Yeah, I agree. I hope they do a good job if they're doing a reboot.

If it was so inappropriate it would be censored.

Hopefully they follow up from Shadow Legacy.

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In your opinion, of course.

And only Insomniac has the effort to continue the storyline after YoTD, unlike other game companies and developers.

You don't know that. EtD and AHT were really close to the originals. IOf they had spent a lot more time on ETD it would have been great. With a few changes (ie. portals, better actors) AHT could have been brilliant. I say give Activision a chance. We may be pleasantly suprised.

A Hero's Tail was the best game in the whole series IMO but no wonder, Eurocom made it. They are gods.

Or they'll do another reboot, if they said something by the different direction.

Originals/heros is a 'different' direction from TLOS.

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I agree with this completely.

And for the remark of "Only Insomniac would be able to do a proper continuation after YotD"... you're forgetting the actual first one. (EtD came last. It was second.)

Season of Ice. Sure, it wasn't very good, but it did continue where YotD left off at. I know it's on the GBA, but that doesn't mean it could be canon to the series. After that came Season of Flame, which was a BIG improvement.

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I agree with this completely.

And for the remark of "Only Insomniac would be able to do a proper continuation after YotD"... you're forgetting the actual first one. (EtD came last. It was second.)

Season of Ice. Sure, it wasn't very good, but it did continue where YotD left off at. I know it's on the GBA, but that doesn't mean it could be canon to the series. After that came Season of Flame, which was a BIG improvement.

I've heard that Adventure was a sequel to Season of Flame too, and that was an even bigger improvement, and then along came Fusion.

Fusion was nothing like the other GBA games though, it was 2D and it was a crossover with Crash Bandicoot's universe.

Yes, I do know that, I've seen gameplay of it on YouTube, I was just stating that Fusion came afterwards in 2004 just before A Hero's Tail...I think.

Yeah it came out before A Hero's Tail and Crash Twinsanity, which meant it introduced the new characters Blink the mole (who was misspelled as 'Blinky') and Nina Cortex who were actually made to be in AHT and Twinsanity first. So it was kinda confusing.

Yeah, the handheld old Spyro games were good, but I'm looking forward to good console Spyro games with a good storyline, no rushed material...

I don't think that feel that I'm looking forward to the next Spyro game.

Why? Dissappointed after the last game? Me too...

Well, the next game will probably be better and longer than DotD.

Here's hoping.

Instead of hanging onto the "disappointment" of DotD, I'll look forward to the next game, whatever universe it may be in.

Yeah, I'm excited too.
Also, you weren't always speaking that way, talking about how bad Activision is.
I'm just saying, don't try to make it sound like I'm being all negative when you have your own negative thinking.

I meant about Activision sticking their noses into the Spyro Team's ideas of the next game, and adding their own ideas into it and replacing the producer's original ideas to make it "better".

Alright then.

Allow the artist, coders, and story writers to handle the fun aspects of next game and keep the rest of the people out of their business. What makes a game good is not its graphics, gameplay, or story, but a hidden factor that is extremely violate and hard to hit. . . FUN.

The developers are going to have to dig deep in order to bring in new life while trudging through on this Different Direction. The three groups of people I listed are the ones really working in the game, they should get some representatives (Leads, Seniors, and or Directors) of each group to brainstorm on how to make the game FUN; and then have meetings and bounce off of one another to try to make a really FUN game.

Epic, I can care less about,

features - will mean nothing if the game isn't FUN,

Voice Talent - could be ear piercing exasperating if the story / dialogue / dialect, isn't tolerable (← look an opinion!),

and Gameplay - can be boring and monotonous if all the player is doing is the exact same thing over and over and over (I'm looking at you TLOS and other games )

All in all, we're going to have to wait and see what Spyro Team and Activision are going to do when this Game comes out.

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Allow the artist, coders, and story writers to handle the fun aspects of next game and keep the rest of the people out of their business. What makes a game good is not its graphics, gameplay, or story, but a hidden factor that is extremely violate and hard to hit. . . FUN.

The developers are going to have to dig deep in order to bring in new life while trudging through on this Different Direction. The three groups of people I listed are the ones really working in the game, they should get some representatives (Leads, Seniors, and or Directors) of each group to brainstorm on how to make the game FUN; and then have meetings and bounce off of one another to try to make a really FUN game.

Epic, I can care less about,

features - will mean nothing if the game isn't FUN,

Voice Talent - could be ear piercing exasperating if the story / dialogue / dialect, isn't tolerable (← look an opinion!),

and Gameplay - can be boring and monotonous if all the player is doing is the exact same thing over and over and over (I'm looking at you TLOS and other games )

All in all, we're going to have to wait and see what Spyro Team and Activision are going to do when this Game comes out.

Nicely said.

I totally agree with Zackieo.. So many of the best games are, on the surface, nothing special but many people still adore them, for reasons many of them often can't explain.

The next game will obviously have next-generation graphics, like the 360.

And didn't the old Spyro have the same gameplay? You charge, walk, double jump, glide, and breathe fire or other elements.

Same as LOS? Very similar, but LOS had a multi hit attack system. I wouldn't mind a multi hit system, as long as they don't pelt you with wave after wave of enemies. Anyway, like I said, unoriginal gameplay isn't such a big deal as long as the game is FUN! Agree?

In the original Spyro games you only had a fire element and back then they didn't even call it an element, it was just breathing fire and that was it. Nice and simple.

You also had weapons, vehicles and power ups. God I'd like to see those things again.

Eh, back then it was fine. But now...well...a dragon riding a tank to get through challenges?

You didn't have them in Spyro the Dragon apart from power-ups and that was it, and you didn't get them that many times in the first one aswell.

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Eh, back then it was fine. But now...well...a dragon riding a tank to get through challenges?

That was in Enter the Dragonfly, to me, the ones on the PS are the Classics. You don't ride in vechiles in the classics.

I don't mind what different direction they take but my one wish..... Is that it gets rid of the TLoS gameplay. I would have liked TLoS a bit more if it wasn't just 'bash bash bash CUTSCENE bash bash bash etc'.

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I don't mind what different direction they take but my one wish..... Is that it gets rid of the TLoS gameplay. I would have liked TLoS a bit more if it wasn't just 'bash bash bash CUTSCENE bash bash bash etc'.

Brilliant point! : )

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Eh, back then it was fine. But now...well...a dragon riding a tank to get through challenges?

It seems it wouldn't work in LOS. But with this different direction, who knows? Even if they change the LOS universe a bit it may be a great fit. Seriously, all we can do to know for sure is wait for official info.

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Eh, back then it was fine. But now...well...a dragon riding a tank to get through challenges?

It seems it wouldn't work in LOS. But with this different direction, who knows? Even if they change the LOS universe a bit it may be a great fit. Seriously, all we can do to know for sure is wait for official info.

You know I said I wasn't looking forward to the new Spyro game? Well...I am! I will look forward to it because I still love Spyro so much and that is what a fan should do. Thanks for helping me realise this SpyroLUVA.

Awww, you two became friends. That's sweet. :3

Charging, breathing fire or other elements, glide or free-fly can make a comeback in the next game, unless they use different gameplay.