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(I wasn't really sure what section to put this topic in since it's about 2 games :/)
In the 'Top Games' section of this website the two games 'Spyro: Year of the Dragon' and 'Skylanders: Giants' are both rated the exact same with a 92.8% being both rated higher than any other 'Spyro' game. No offense to those who like 'Giants' but seriously? Is this game really that great to be considered the best 'Spyro' game ever created? (Correct me if you think otherwise) True I haven't played 'Skylanders Giants', but I have fully played through 'Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure' and according to both fans and critcs alike 'Giants' really is barely any different to it's predecessor, it's been said many, many times that it isn't even as good as 'Spyro's Adventure' let alone better, it's also scored average scores of 60/100(ONM). Whereas 'Spyro: Year of the Dragon' is universally adored by fans and critics alike (including myself), claiming a score average of around 9/10 AT LOWEST, some fans have even said that it's one of the greatest games ever created! So then this raises the question... How comes these games are rated the same!? I could be wrong, 'Skylanders: Giants' could be better than games like 'Super Mario Galaxy' and 'Majora's Mask' but viewing its average fan praise and average critic ratings, I just don't see how this could be.

i dont know i love them both!

YOTD is no way my favourite of the original trilogy - GTG would get that. But, I personally don't think that Skylanders is better than GTG either. What you're forgetting is that the ratings are based on average. YOTD could have mostly 4 or 5 stars where as Giants could have more 5 stars than YOTD, but also have a lot of 2 or 3 stars ratings; in a way that makes them equal on average.

In that case, YOTD would technically be the higher rated - but we can't tell.

yeah I was kinda wondering about that..... anyway, YOTD is way better.

Year of the Dragon.

Classic Spyro Fan at Heart <3

Well for some people, Giants is their favorite game. We have to keep in mind the periphery demographic here. Both YotD and Giants are relatively simple games at their cores. But the Insomniac Spyro games existed at a time when the standard for kid games often included a certain degree of frustration, whereas nowadays many games for younger kids are relatively easy to get through the Story Mode. Skylanders: Giants isn't really designed to be criticized from the perspective of older gamers, like many professional reviewers. If it does a sufficient job entertaining a kid, he's going to like it and give it a "good" rating.

Now I'm not saying I think Giants is better than Year of the Dragon. YotD isn't my favorite game in the Insomniac trilogy (that's Ripto's Rage), but I do think it's a very fun game and is a more enjoyable experience than Giants... <.<

Well it IS just a Top Games section on a site. It's not that bad if you have a different opinion from it.

I haven't played Giants yet, but I do still like YotD more than SSA (though I still love SSA).

Year of the Dragon. I played a little of S:G last night and thought it was actually pretty cool but cant compare to the Classics

It's a complicated one, because probably the majority of fans for Giants, have only just gotten into Skylanders, and therefore don't really know nothing about the older Spyro games, so in that case; they're not going to know any different; whereas the older gamers do know different, and therefore have differed opinions.

And by the way, Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer is my favourite one; I think the additional playable characters sort of spolied the experience for me in Spyro: Year of the Dragon. It's like you've got to get used to a new character all over again, and the controls, and responses of these characters aren't exactly all that great. The best one, would probably be between Sgt. Byrd, and Sheila the Kangaroo.

It's a tough one to understand, but I think it's mainly because Skylanders: Giants is relatively new, so that's why it's getting high ratings? Just think back to the days of when Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon came out,

^It's not so much the constantly switching characters that bugged me in YotD, I just honestly don't believe the other characters handled particularly well. For example, Agent 9's jump was extremely stiff. <.<;

YotD it's better in these case, because Skylander Giants it's a very new game and obviously will get high scores in this web site (the first ones rating that game should be the Skylanders fans if I'm right), but I read it's not good as SSA in other sites.

Anyway, YotD should be the number 1 because it's an old and extremely fun game from the series and it has an excellent score in other web sites.

If I have to choose another game, it will be Spyro 2 Ripto's Rage/Gateway to Glimmer (My first Spyro game >.< )

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^It's not so much the constantly switching characters that bugged me in YotD, I just honestly don't believe the other characters handled particularly well. For example, Agent 9's jump was extremely stiff. <.<;

Agent 9 was my least favourite character to play as, many levels seemed rushed, and I hear they kinda were.

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^It's not so much the constantly switching characters that bugged me in YotD, I just honestly don't believe the other characters handled particularly well. For example, Agent 9's jump was extremely stiff. <.<;

Agent 9 was my least favourite character to play as, many levels seemed rushed, and I hear they kinda were.

Yeah, Insomniac really couldn't get the 3rd person shooting thing down for him. Thankfully, they of course made a 180 a few years later when they did Ratchet & Clank. <.<;

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Some people are just crazy. jk lol

Skylanders Giants isn't a Spyro game, btw. Neither is Skylanders Spyro's Adventure (despite the very misleading title). Even though I haven't played Skylanders Giants, I already know that it isn't in the same league as Spyro Year of The Dragon. It's not even in the same league as Spyro Enter The Dragonfly or even Spyro Orange The Cortex Conspiracy.

Skylanders and Giants are not Spyro games at all. They are games with Spyro in them, calling them Spyro games would be like calling 'Crash Twinsanity' a Spyro game. And I would say I enjoyed 'Enter the Dragonfly' more than Skylanders 1 (I know Im wierd) but its DEFINITLY better than 'Orange'

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Some people are just crazy. jk lol

Skylanders Giants isn't a Spyro game, btw. Neither is Skylanders Spyro's Adventure (despite the very misleading title). Even though I haven't played Skylanders Giants, I already know that it isn't in the same league as Spyro Year of The Dragon. It's not even in the same league as Spyro Enter The Dragonfly or even Spyro Orange The Cortex Conspiracy. XD

Skylanders and Giants are not Spyro games at all. They are games with Spyro in them, calling them Spyro games would be like calling 'Crash Twinsanity' a Spyro game. And I would say I enjoyed 'Enter the Dragonfly' more than Skylanders 1 (I know Im wierd) but its DEFINITLY better than 'Orange'

Yes, it's pretty much been established Skylanders is its own franchise, although it does make a lot of nods to the two Spyro universes. Whether the developers are doing this to bring in older fans or not, I can't really say for certain.

You know what i find weird? Most, if not all of the people who voted against spyro had 600+ gems. They joined here for spyro, of course they'd vote for him. I bet 3/4 have never even played 'landers. I cannot vote, as i havent played spyro.

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^It's not so much the constantly switching characters that bugged me in YotD, I just honestly don't believe the other characters handled particularly well. For example, Agent 9's jump was extremely stiff. <.<;

Bentley had quite a small jump too; I believe that's why he never had that many jumping areas. Also Agent 9's first person shooter challenges were incredulously difficult the first few times around. I didn't like how slow the other characters moved about either. However, YOTD was the first one I remember ever playing after I took over my older sister's file. Skylanders, however, seem quite expensive (even though the technology behind it is pretty advanced) and their abilities aren't as amazing as you would expect from the first commercial. Also, each Skylander doesn't look as colorful and friendly as the characters from the original trilogy. So, this is just my opinion, but I'll stick with YOTD, thank you (once Skylanders becomes a platformer/combat game with actual jumping at any time and Skylanders that are acknowledged by their actual names instead of just "Skylander", I might lean more in that direction).

I don't even know if I ever bothered giving ratings. *shrug*

Can't say for sure as I've never played YOTD, but if I did, I'm pretty sure I would pick that, because I love retro games, loved GTG/RR and ect.
Plus, this is one topic where you can kinda tell who's going to win anyway. But I guess this is all for fun.

LOL, i just 1-starred Giants to see what will happen, and suddenly YotD is first place on main page! (I 1-starred just to see what'd happen. I didn't knew I can't change rating now. I'm going to change it ASAP. Sorry, Giants fans )

Giants is GOOD, but not AMAZING like YotD.

I gave Giants 1 star and YOTD 5. Now its top!!!

Are we really going to turn this into some type of competition? <.<;

I honestly prefer RR. However,

You said Giants could be better than Majora's Mask or Galaxy? This shall not do.

booo hooo

One-voting games you don't play on purpose just to get your favorite game on top? What nice actions and things that make me wonder why I'm still trying to find a place where there're no fandom wars.

Skylanders Giants is good,as someone said,but it's not a great game.Now,YotD is in the same boat, no matter what nostalgia says,for completely different reasons.It's like saying Pokémon Red is better than B2W2 or vice versa. You're comparing two things that shouldn't be compared simply because you hate a title and/or praises another.

Year of The Dragon without a doubt.

Year of the dragon

Tough question. I love classic spyro and have very fond memories of playing the games when I was quite young. On the other hand, I also like skylanders giants a lot too. If I had the chance, I would get the 3 classic games again. I'm honestly going to say year of the dragon. I like skylanders, but prefer the classic series just a bit more.

Year of the Dragon, not doubt about it.. I'm a classic fan and will always will be, and YOTD is my favourite out of the three. I've played the Skylanders series, and I thought they're just okay. It's a good series, but I got bored half way through Spyro's Adventures and haven't played it for a long time. I haven't even bothered with Giants.

I know I shouldn't judge when I haven't played Giants yet, but Giants is said to be similar to Spyro's Adventure. If I thought the first one was just 'meh', then the second game will give me the same reaction.

come on people, rate YOTD!! the rating's dropped! D:

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come on people, rate YOTD!! the rating's dropped! D:

What's the point? It will mean that people would be doing it for the sake of it, without actually meaning it.

^Forget about the rating, YotD is much better than Giants =)

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^Forget about the rating, YotD is much better than Giants =)

agreed.

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^Forget about the rating, YotD is much better than Giants =)

agreed.

agreed

Well I certainly had more fun when I played YotD than I did with Giants... of course, there's about a 12 year age gap coming with that. I still enjoy YotD today, but that could be attributed to nostalgia, too...

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^Forget about the rating, YotD is much better than Giants =)

agreed.

agreed

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YotD HANDS DOWN! At least tere was sparx in it and you didn't have to pay anoher $200 to complete it.

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YotD HANDS DOWN! At least tere was sparx in it and you didn't have to pay anoher $200 to complete it.

....Sparx is in Skylanders....

And you only need the starter/booster pack to complete the story, meng.

I think he meant 100% it.

My descision is to choose Year of The Dragon over Skylanders Giants. I beleive that the first Skylanders was better then the second therefore Year of The Dragon is better.

half the people havent played both games.


me? i didnt play spyro, so no votes.

The other day I kept clicking on the Home button and each time I did, S:G and YOTD switched places from top to second