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sonicbrawler182 Platinum Sparx Gems: 7105	#1 Posted: 03:58:16 28/11/2018 \| Topic Creator It's now as old as the first Spyro game was when DotD came out. Feel old yet? --- *"My memories will be part of the sky."*

kardonis Platinum Sparx Gems: 6366	#2 Posted: 04:23:21 28/11/2018 It's been ten years since I got the biggest disappointment ever? (being the DS version of DotD) Damn I do feel old... --- I used to be THE Bowser, now I'm just an awkward girl

XSparxX Emerald Sparx Gems: 4752	#3 Posted: 09:42:54 28/11/2018 RIP Entranges Libellues. I wished you've got a chance to make a another Spyro game. --- "If I had any humanity left, I would have been crushed by the guilt by now."

Bifrost Prismatic Sparx

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#4 Posted: 10:33:48 28/11/2018

Not to be a but being a jerk anyway, thank god DOTD was the only big name game they were handed other than the HTTYD shovelware they made out of its remains. I have nothing against the individual EL devs, but their work at the time wasn't AAA ready, that's for sure. Not too different from Check Six that got handed Spyro 4 before they actually made a big game to begin with.

But yes I do feel old. Early X360 gen was weeeird and always feels newer than it's supposed to.

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SO I'LL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT
(What I need is never what I want)

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HeyitsHotDog Diamond Sparx Gems: 8535	#5 Posted: 13:15:46 28/11/2018 DOTD really butchered the story of LoS. --- Hey is there anything you want me to bring for the rest of the week and if so it’s so cool that you can do something and just do it like that

sonicbrawler182 Platinum Sparx

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#6 Posted: 15:05:18 28/11/2018 | Topic Creator

Quote: Bifrost

Not to be a but being a jerk anyway, thank god DOTD was the only big name game they were handed other than the HTTYD shovelware they made out of its remains. I have nothing against the individual EL devs, but their work at the time wasn't AAA ready, that's for sure. Not too different from Check Six that got handed Spyro 4 before they actually made a big game to begin with.

But yes I do feel old. Early X360 gen was weeeird and always feels newer than it's supposed to.

EL was perfectly competent, it's that their games were rushed into year long dev cycles by the publisher when they needed more time.

Just look at the concept art for DotD, there was a bunch of scrapped stuff.

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"My memories will be part of the sky."

ThunderEgg Emerald Sparx Gems: 4139	#7 Posted: 15:39:36 28/11/2018 10 years old and still beautiful. --- I AM ETERNAL! https://i.imgur.com/8H3ij0j.png (banner by skylandersfan60)

HeyitsHotDog Diamond Sparx Gems: 8535	#8 Posted: 16:13:56 28/11/2018 Quote: ThunderEgg 10 years old and still beautiful. Graphically? --- Hey is there anything you want me to bring for the rest of the week and if so it’s so cool that you can do something and just do it like that

ThunderEgg Emerald Sparx Gems: 4139	#9 Posted: 16:42:21 28/11/2018 Quote: HeyitsHotDog Quote: ThunderEgg 10 years old and still beautiful. Graphically? Yup. At least the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. --- I AM ETERNAL! https://i.imgur.com/8H3ij0j.png (banner by skylandersfan60)

parisruelz12 Diamond Sparx Gems: 7577	#10 Posted: 20:12:59 28/11/2018 Quote: ThunderEgg Quote: HeyitsHotDog Quote: ThunderEgg 10 years old and still beautiful. Graphically? Yup. At least the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. yeah i know! its on par with such great games like sonic the hedgehog 2006 --- looks like ive got some things to do...

sonicbrawler182 Platinum Sparx Gems: 7105	#11 Posted: 20:19:57 28/11/2018 \| Topic Creator The environments in DotD do actually look great. Especially in native 4K. --- *"My memories will be part of the sky."*

IsisStormDragon Platinum Sparx Gems: 7127	#12 Posted: 10:01:34 29/11/2018 Now I feel old. --- Stranger in the Desert

ThunderEgg Emerald Sparx

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#13 Posted: 18:46:12 29/11/2018

Quote: sonicbrawler182

The environments in DotD do actually look great. Especially in native 4K.

Glad to see someone agrees with me.

It's totally cool for people to think DOTD is ugly, btw. I won't argue against it.

It's nice for people (on both ends!) to have similar opinions, though.

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I AM ETERNAL! https://i.imgur.com/8H3ij0j.png (banner by skylandersfan60)

StevemacQ Platinum Sparx

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#14 Posted: 23:06:37 06/12/2018

I never played Shadow Legacy but hearing LoS was a reboot, I gave up Spyro forever but after DotD came out, nostalgia for the PS1 Spyro games kicked in, especially since there was at least one or two new Spyro games out every year until 2009 when there was suddenly none.

Funny how you're so used to a game series having a new sequel or spin-off every year or two until the cycle breaks with larger gaps, reboots and then revivals. It's happened to Spyro and it's happening to Devil May Cry.

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Needz more eh-mo-shuns.

Ice Dragoness Diamond Sparx Gems: 7896

#15 Posted: 14:37:21 07/12/2018

Quote: ThunderEgg

Quote: sonicbrawler182
The environments in DotD do actually look great. Especially in native 4K.

Glad to see someone agrees with me.

It's totally cool for people to think DOTD is ugly, btw. I won't argue against it.

It's nice for people (on both ends!) to have similar opinions, though.

Anyone who thinks Valley of Avalar and Twilight Falls are ugly is blind. And I like the in-game character models.

Razz Platinum Sparx Gems: 6124	#16 Posted: 04:55:33 08/12/2018 ^ I beg your pardon! Twilight Falls was gorgeous and I wish it hadn't been so short. Valley of Avalar would have been nice but the bloom effect was way too high and it gave me a migraine. --- Sunny Flight, a Spyro charity zine!

Bifrost Prismatic Sparx Gems: 10396	#17 Posted: 13:58:56 08/12/2018 Avalar is just too bright, yeah. It also aged really badly considering it's JUST a riverside forest with rocks and hills and has very little of the fantasy world the other games had. Twilight Falls was MUCH more because it felt overworldly all around. --- SO I'LL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT (What I need is never what I want)

ThunderEgg Emerald Sparx Gems: 4139	#18 Posted: 20:41:37 09/12/2018 JUST a riverside forest??? --- I AM ETERNAL! https://i.imgur.com/8H3ij0j.png (banner by skylandersfan60)

Bifrost Prismatic Sparx Gems: 10396	#19 Posted: 20:55:58 09/12/2018 //www.darkspyro.net/dawn/gallery047.jpg Well, uh... Yeah? Unless you count perfectly square plataforms a fantastical addition. --- SO I'LL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT (What I need is never what I want)
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HeyitsHotDog Diamond Sparx Gems: 8535	#20 Posted: 21:31:14 09/12/2018 Quote: Bifrost //www.darkspyro.net/dawn/gallery047.jpg Well, uh... Yeah? Unless you count perfectly square plataforms a fantastical addition. It's more so a valley than a Forest --- Hey is there anything you want me to bring for the rest of the week and if so it’s so cool that you can do something and just do it like that

Razz Platinum Sparx

Gems: 6124

#21 Posted: 08:47:17 11/12/2018

Honestly, I'd say Valley of Avalar was better than most environments in the game (eye gouging pain notwithstanding) but it didn't impress me like Twilight Falls, the Floating Isles, and the Catacombs. Those places all had some personality and world feel to them. Valley of Avalar was just a place I honestly didn't think about after I left it, nor do I think of it when I remember the game. It's just a river in a valley with too much bloom turned on.

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Sunny Flight, a Spyro charity zine!

Fireball Emerald Sparx

Gems: 3163

#22 Posted: 03:23:36 12/12/2018

I would've liked to see how Sierra handled DotD rather than Activision. I know a lot of people weren't fans of the first two game's fighting mechanics, but I would've liked to see them continue this but fix up the things people didn't like.

I liked the fact that the game was originally called "The Darkest Hour", I hated "Dawn of the Dragon". The fan-made posters were also super awesome.

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But we got Activision's version of LoS. It wasn't bad, but definitely my least played of the three. Oh well.

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OblivionSkull21, up and coming indie developer

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XSparxX Emerald Sparx Gems: 4752	#23 Posted: 14:39:02 12/12/2018 DOTD was handled by Sierra, it's just through the fusion of Vivendi Games and Activision that Activion had its logo on the American boxarts for DotD. European versions of DOTD still had the Sierra logo. --- "If I had any humanity left, I would have been crushed by the guilt by now."
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Bifrost Prismatic Sparx Gems: 10396	#24 Posted: 14:52:59 12/12/2018 Sierra but Étranges Libellules. The main developer of ANB and TEN was Krome. --- SO I'LL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT (What I need is never what I want)

XSparxX Emerald Sparx Gems: 4752	#25 Posted: 15:28:30 12/12/2018 Yeah Sierra was the publisher ~ --- "If I had any humanity left, I would have been crushed by the guilt by now."

ThunderEgg Emerald Sparx

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#26 Posted: 15:38:43 12/12/2018

Quote: Fireball

I would've liked to see how Sierra handled DotD rather than Activision. I know a lot of people weren't fans of the first two game's fighting mechanics, but I would've liked to see them continue this but fix up the things people didn't like.

I liked the fact that the game was originally called "The Darkest Hour", I hated "Dawn of the Dragon". The fan-made posters were also super awesome.

But we got Activision's version of LoS. It wasn't bad, but definitely my least played of the three. Oh well.

Where'd that cover art come from? I've never seen it before, but I have a sinking suspicion it's fanmade.

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I AM ETERNAL! https://i.imgur.com/8H3ij0j.png (banner by skylandersfan60)

Fireball Emerald Sparx

Gems: 3163

#27 Posted: 07:20:27 14/12/2018

Quote: ThunderEgg

Quote: Fireball
I would've liked to see how Sierra handled DotD rather than Activision. I know a lot of people weren't fans of the first two game's fighting mechanics, but I would've liked to see them continue this but fix up the things people didn't like.

I liked the fact that the game was originally called "The Darkest Hour", I hated "Dawn of the Dragon". The fan-made posters were also super awesome.

But we got Activision's version of LoS. It wasn't bad, but definitely my least played of the three. Oh well.

Where'd that cover art come from? I've never seen it before, but I have a sinking suspicion it's fanmade.

It is, hence why I said it was a fan-made poster. And it's been around since the game's announcement in 2007-2008. There's a bunch of other ones too

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OblivionSkull21, up and coming indie developer

ThunderEgg Emerald Sparx Gems: 4139	#28 Posted: 15:29:59 14/12/2018 Oh, herp a derp. I was skimming the comments and didn't see that part. --- I AM ETERNAL! https://i.imgur.com/8H3ij0j.png (banner by skylandersfan60)

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