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Thank you Thunderdragon.

No prob xD

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.........Do you think they will release more figures after the release of the game? Kinda like how a game would get DLC.

This has been confirmed. Half of the characters will be available at release, and the remaining half will be released in 2012.

....I hope the remaining half are old characters!:3
*still holding out for Moneybags....*

It'd be cool if the other half is old characters.

Who is that anyway? lol

Skylanders is a bit meh

I like Spyro's look better than his LOS look.
Don't kill me.

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I like Spyro's look better than his LOS look.
Don't kill me.

That's okay. It's the haters who needs to accept that it's your opinion that you like Skylanders Spyro. :3

Yeah, everything's normal now. Time to get back on-topic!

He doesn't beat the original design, but looks cute. :3

His design seemed to be based off of Classic Spyro's concept art.

http://spyro-skylanders.devian...639425#/d39bx7s

I think that by making a new game for Spyro that they should have a different look for him too, which they did. He doesn't look bad, it just takes a little while to get used to.

^This

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I like Spyro's look better than his LOS look.
Don't kill me.

I like it better too.

I rather prefer LoS design over SSA, but I'm not trying to start something.

I think the concept art is amazing, minus Spyro. Spyro looks even uglier (lol).

I don't really care about Skylanders, and I'm not going to buy it.
The new look of Spyro is awful, I guess he got hit by a car. Darn, that just makes me miss the good old Spyro games even more. He looks okay in the concept art, but the 3D model is really bad. Activision probably wanted to give Spyro a bit more realistic look, but they failed at it. The design of the classic Spyro was cartoonish and not so realistic, and that's why I loved it. Thank you very much, Activision for raping my childhood memories.
I wish Spyro would go back to Insomniac. At least they know how to design Spyro correctly.

As much as I want to see Insomniac go back to making more Spyro games, they won't. They lost the rights to the series after YOTD and they said it themselves that they don't have anymore ideas for the series. As they say, things change.

No video game character stays the same, you know.

Insomniac never truly had the rights to the series in the first place. It was a three game contract.

Yeah, Insomniacn never owned the rights in the first place, they just developed the games while Universal Interactive kept the rights.

@GNinefy

Design doesn't make a game.

I do often wonder though that if Insomniac has more ideas for Spyro and still had the rights, what would the games be like today?

Insomniac never had the rights, Super.

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Insomniac never had the rights, Super.

Well you get what I mean.

If Insomniac was a game publisher, then the Spyro games would be a little different after YotD.

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If Insomniac was a game publisher, then the Spyro games would be a little different after YotD.

Don't you ever get curious to know what they would have been like?

Well yeah. They would think of new adventures for Spyro. Possibly would've had both Ripto and Gnasty Gnorc appear in the fourth game after YotD as they left it off in the epilogue.

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Well yeah. They would think of new adventures for Spyro. Possibly would've had both Ripto and Gnasty Gnorc appear in the fourth game after YotD as they left it off in the epilogue.

That would have been interesting.

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I do often wonder though that if Insomniac has more ideas for Spyro and still had the rights, what would the games be like today?

We can only dream.

My guess is that the fanbase would be so much bigger, and probably less perverted too, since LoS and Cynder would've never happened.

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I do often wonder though that if Insomniac has more ideas for Spyro and still had the rights, what would the games be like today?

We can only dream.

My guess is that the fanbase would be so much bigger, and probably less perverted too, since LoS and Cynder would've never happened.

Who knows?

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I do often wonder though that if Insomniac has more ideas for Spyro and still had the rights, what would the games be like today?

We can only dream.

My guess is that the fanbase would be so much bigger, and probably less perverted too, since LoS and Cynder would've never happened.

But then we would of got HD Elora and Bianca...

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I do often wonder though that if Insomniac has more ideas for Spyro and still had the rights, what would the games be like today?

We can only dream.

My guess is that the fanbase would be so much bigger, and probably less perverted too, since LoS and Cynder would've never happened.

But then we would of got HD Elora and Bianca...

Oh no, trust the man with the American-ness about him to think of that one.

I thought of it...

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I thought of it...

You thought of it in Switzerland whilst being in France. What an achievement, awesome.

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I do often wonder though that if Insomniac has more ideas for Spyro and still had the rights, what would the games be like today?

We can only dream.

My guess is that the fanbase would be so much bigger, and probably less perverted too, since LoS and Cynder would've never happened.

But then we would of got HD Elora and Bianca...

You just had to ruin the moment, didn't you?

And something tells me that wouldn't happen. At least not to the scale that Cynder did.

..............Did you see Bianca in ETD?

I mean, at least Cynder didn't actually have...you know...

Damn, I hope Cynder is one of those "extra" characters...probably wishful thinking though.

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..............Did you see Bianca in ETD?

I mean, at least Cynder didn't actually have...you know...

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I like Spyro's look better than his LOS look.
Don't kill me.

I like it better too.

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I don't really care about Skylanders, and I'm not going to buy it.
The new look of Spyro is awful, I guess he got hit by a car. Darn, that just makes me miss the good old Spyro games even more. He looks okay in the concept art, but the 3D model is really bad. Activision probably wanted to give Spyro a bit more realistic look, but they failed at it. The design of the classic Spyro was cartoonish and not so realistic, and that's why I loved it. Thank you very much, Activision for raping my childhood memories.
I wish Spyro would go back to Insomniac. At least they know how to design Spyro correctly.

You gave no reason to hate tha game, you just moaned about the Design.

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You gave no reason to hate tha game, you just moaned about the Design.

Yea, I know that. That comment was rushed, but for me design sometimes just comes first, because I do alot of character designs for my cartoon and comic projects...
I don't hate any game before it comes out, but I'm not interested in this game. That's all.

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Yea, I know that. That comment was rushed, but for me design sometimes just comes first, because I do alot of character designs for my cartoon and comic projects...
I don't hate any game before it comes out, but I'm not interested in this game. That's all.

Design should never come first. Gameplay should, since a game could be fantastic in design, graphics, story, music, etc, and then have broken gameplay that ruins the entire game.

That's fine.

^ . . Uhh, I think you have that backwards. Design is a balancing act before any sort of development goes underway (Graphics, Music, story etc). Design is, in a nutshell, the blueprints / ideas of the game. Without any sort of outline or design, one will have a huge mess when developing any type of software (in this case, video games).

Think of Design as an outline to a reserach paper, you lay everything out. You what to discuss this first, which will transition into this one, and so on and so forth. Same thing with the game, you want the player to be introduce to this, surprising them here, and then hit them softly with this scene, and introduce the final boss, etc. Design discusses: what kind of music to use, what kind graphics to dish out (2D, 3D, HD?) how much processing power it will take, is it modular (Can adapt to either console, and or, can the code be used in other games without compile errors?), can it be modded, etc.

All that is in Design. . . however I think you mean, it shouldn't matter what the cover looks like if the contents\quality of the game itself is poor. . . right?

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..............Did you see Bianca in ETD?

I mean, at least Cynder didn't actually have...you know...

......................This conversation is over.

Too be fair Evil Cynder was a pretty good Villain, ANB-TEN was decent but it's more of trashing DOTD.

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^ . . Uhh, I think you have that backwards. Design is a balancing act before any sort of development goes underway (Graphics, Music, story etc). Design is, in a nutshell, the blueprints / ideas of the game. Without any sort of outline or design, one will have a huge mess when developing any type of software (in this case, video games).

All that is in Design. . . however I think you mean, it shouldn't matter what the cover looks like if the contents\quality of the game itself is poor. . . right?

You are aware I was talking about when playing a game, not making one, right? Obviously design comes first when making the game. But when someone is playing it, the core gameplay is what really matters.

And yes, that's what I mean. The game could have pretty graphics, design, music, story, and the likes, and then have broken gameplay that ruins the entire experience.

Ah. . . during gameplay. Well, its not like the player can interact with the Design of the game through the interface, that's left to the mechanics of the game. However, TECHNICALLY, yes - Design of a game still effects on how the game flows and how one plays it. We can do something that's called Black Box Testing, but nothing else.

To back up my reasoning, there is a game called Starcraft 2, its an RTS game which spouts three different army races that you can play. Each Race has its own mechanics, design, features, etc, but is "supposedly" balance throughout each race. Each race has its ups and downs that makes them balance. However, the players of this game, including myself, would say otherwise. One of the Races, Terran, seems to be designed better than the other races. There's not much the player needs to do in order to keep the basic mechanics of the game and for that race in order. This is a lot harder to cope with than the another race called, Zerg. It's apparent to the players that favor this race, that this race has gotten the short end of the stick. Their basic mechanics makes them dull and predictable, and becoming unique is more on the lines of a risk / hard to control, rather than being an asset.

All in all: Depending on how well the game is designed and developed, well depend on how well the game flows and how the player interacts with it. Keep in mind though, I think I have a good idea of what you are talking about. Its not everyday a gamer would play game to analyze the design of the game to see if the game was actually playing fair or not. Come to think of it, I'm sure all of us here have run into a design flaw in a game that makes the game just unbearable at times or super easy. Superman 64 apparently is one such game .


However, just a side note here. . . Gameplay is a suggestive term. Truth be told, I never found one concrete definition for it. . . Also I could be totally wrong about all this. It's 6:45 AM, yeah I'm probably wrong.

Well i would like the game if they even stated that Any other Character to the series then Spyro would appear....COME ON EVEN SPARX

Not one of you again.

We are not one, we are many the time of our return is near and our trolling will darken the sky

lolno

It might not work. In my opinion, The model used for Spyro looks like an AHT Spyro hit several times with a hammer. And who are they to take away poor Sparx? Without him he's hardly Spyro anymore, not that I'm stating to be a huge fan of Sparx. This might not actually be Spyro, that's... er.. I dunno.

To SOME fans, Spyro isn't Spyro anymore without Sparx. Skylanders is a Spyro game spin-off.