Spyro The Dragon Reignited Trilogy Trailer (PS4/XB1 November 13th 2018)
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I think that the remasters (I'm just staying consistent with the marketing) are a good realization of the storybook/ fairy tale vibes that Insomniac tried with the originals - particularly Spyro 2 with its Guidebook.
We have to remember that a lot of artistic decisions are made because of hardware limitations, but the PS4 and Xbox One have more than enough power to do these games justice.
Plus the originals will always be there with their retro appeal, so there's that.
We have to remember that a lot of artistic decisions are made because of hardware limitations, but the PS4 and Xbox One have more than enough power to do these games justice.
Plus the originals will always be there with their retro appeal, so there's that.
I like the mini quests in each game. Doing favors for citizens that involved collecting and racing and stealth and beating bosses was fun.
I've heard of all kinds of complaints, but never like that.
Eh, let's wait for the game to actually come out before whining on the ugly graphics.
If it's at the same level of the Crash Bandicoot remaster it'll look great.
Honestly I don't see what business you have claiming that it was not the artist's intention to change the color of the roof. They did it because they wanted to do it. If you're saying they didn't want it to be that way but also didn't want to move the hue slider, I'm not sure what else you could be calling them if not lazy.
You certainly have the right to nitpick whatever you want, but IMO it's just depressing to see when someone reveals the result of all their hard work and they're just met with "move that rock over there and change the color of that roof".
i personally don't see an issue with the devs making differences in colour palettes, if anything i am more worried about how saturated everything appears so far and how tiring that will be on the eyes while playing.
If you want to consider that me calling the devs lazy then go ahead. You're wrong, but think it. By the way, I consider it a time saving and even a cost cutting measure because it was easy to reuse the asset since it was there.
And most people, myself included, here appreciate the hard work put into it. And most have even have said as much. So they're not just met with criticism.
Year of the Dragon is in no way better than Spyro 2.
It looks just like a UE4 game (the lighting is unmistakable). Which is great, I love that engine.
Didn't someone use UE4 to do a Spyro fan project?
EDIT: Just checked YouTube. Apparently several people used UE4 to do Spyro fan projects. -.-
EDIT: Just checked YouTube. Apparently several people used UE4 to do Spyro fan projects. -.-
I have my issues with their default lighting (mostly people never changing the dang settings) but looks like they changed it up here and it looks great
If people throw this much of a fit over Spyro I can't wait to see how the same folks react if the next Pokémon game returns to Kanto in HD. It's ridiculous and I hope the devs ignore the nitpicky complaints. The game looks fantastic.
eh, I'd put them neck in neck really. Minigames and other playable characters - your mileage may vary of course, but the core Spyro stages are stronger than ever and offer plenty of challenges for what, six eggs per world? Certainly more in depth than Spyro 2's 2 or 3 orbs per world (though Spyro 2 did have the Talismans too - always sad they got rid of those.) I liked the boss fights a lot more in 3 too - Gulp can go fuck himself.
Actually, I think I just convinced myself I like Spyro 3 more. I think it just comes down to whether you like the other playable characters or not. The minigames in 2 were more obtuse on average I'd say.
This thread is so off the scale bonkers that I feel like someone has confirmed for real that Santa's body was found washed up on a river bank.
If this is what we argue about now then I guess we've reached as close to nirvana as possible. Because let's face it, we've literally run out of things to argue about.
Oh well. At least I'll be able to use this thread to make that point.
Happy holidays everyone. God bless us all!
If this is what we argue about now then I guess we've reached as close to nirvana as possible. Because let's face it, we've literally run out of things to argue about.
Oh well. At least I'll be able to use this thread to make that point.
Happy holidays everyone. God bless us all!
I think Spyro looks great overall. I'm just confused over Sparx redesign.
Nintendo is pretty good at ignoring what people want.
The game running on UE4 explains why my first thought of the Artisans pics was that it reminded me of the fan videos where they just threw Mario or Link in a standard UE4 environment.
They might not have the resources epic has and epic knows the engine in an outs like no one else would.
UE4 =/= auto optimization, its all up to how the developers make the game.
The people who made Fortnite and UE4 are Epic and Epic showing in depth on how they optimised their latest title with UE4 on PC and Consoles in those videos from GDC few weeks ago
Devs using UE4 can learn alot from this by creators of Unreal Engine 4
It honestly depends on how late into dev they are too though. Like I do hope they can hit the 60FPS target but I wont hold my breath either.
Lol there are UE4 fan projects for damn near every PS1/N64 era game
With this and the next DEATH BATTLE, it's a good time to be a Spyro fan
https://twitter.com/BenBSinger/status/982303162819203073
https://twitter.com/BenBSinger/status/982303162819203073
Hmmm.
No PC or Switch version and the two consoles are at 30fps. Looks like I'll skip this and see if any other versions come up. Graphics look great though. Never played any of these games but I'd like to.
No PC or Switch version and the two consoles are at 30fps. Looks like I'll skip this and see if any other versions come up. Graphics look great though. Never played any of these games but I'd like to.
Switch version popped up on Nintendo UKs site, was taken down after an hour though.
Were the original games at 60 fps? I honestly have no idea
They're gonna be 30fps on both consoles - just like Crash. One reason they gave for keeping Crash at 30 was to stay consistent with the originals - I think that was a PR answer and they just had no plans to optimize for 60.
Meanwhile, if the framerate is smooth like Crash, then I don't care if they optimize for 60 or not. You don't need 60fps to play a platformer.
Meanwhile, if the framerate is smooth like Crash, then I don't care if they optimize for 60 or not. You don't need 60fps to play a platformer.
No worries, and you make a good point. I guess that I mean that when we're children, our critical eye is less finely tuned, and our limited experience of video games can mean that we're more easily impressed, or conversely that we dislike games which don't give us instant gratification.
Nostalgia and memory is very powerful, and can absolutely effect our objectivity, and anyway, tastes mature- how many people love the same music that they did when they were a kid or a young teen? I mean, I'm pretty glad that I'm not still under the impression that Good Charlotte and Linkin Park are great bands.
When I was 9 and 10 I loved games like Lego Racers and Toy Story 2, but playing them now it's pretty clear that they're not very good games. With stuff like Mario 64 or Tomba! or Tony Hawk Pro Skater or whatever, those games have all those nostalgic feelings too, but also left a much deeper impression which transcends the context I originally played them in, as the gameplay itself is what takes priority when I think of those games.
With Spyro specifically it's more difficult to tell, as I haven't played those games at all since I was about 10, and only really played them at friend's houses/borrowed the games from friends. This might be why they didn't leave that deep impression that truly great games leave on you, or it might be because they were just kinda throwaway kids games- I guess I'll find out in September.
I'm currently studying "Political and Public communications" in my local university, i'm from Italy (Ciao ragazzi). One of the courses of this semester is called "Social media analysis" and we are learning how to "inspect" social media in order to extract some interesting data about sentiment, reactions and the mood of people on social networks. Every single data that you can extract from Social Networks with these tools are public data.
I wanted to use my, basic, knowledge to study reactions on video game announcements to improve my skills using the Twitter's and Facebook's API. This is not in any means a scientific study, it's a little exercise for me and maybe a fun read for everybody else.
The Spyro Reignited Trilogy Announcement got me inspired. I decided to inspect the reaction of the gaming community first on Twitter then on Facebook. In order to do so i've used a program called "R Studio", which is a language,R is kinda like C++, as well as an ecosystem in which you can use some "libraries" that let you do interesting thing.
First, you'll need to retrieve data, public data of course, from the social network, then you need to prepare your "corpus", in this case the "text" in the tweets that i've selected, by eliminating stop words and such, and after that, we can proceed in doing the "sentiment analysis".
Sentiment analysis assign a "score" at every word in a corpus according to an algorithm . I'm currently using "EmoLex", by Saif Mohammad, who is a Researcher in Computational Linguistics at the National Research Council Canada (NRC). You can find how Emolex Works in this link: http://saifmohammad.com/WebPages/NRC-Emotion-Lexicon.html
Twitter API's let me retrieve a max of 18000 tweet per call, searching in all the tweet sent in the last 6-9 days.
In the Switch case i was able to retrieve a little under 3000 tweets that contains the word "Spyro" and "Switch". For PlayStation 4 i was able to retrieve 6292 tweets that contains the words "Spyro" and "Ps4". For Xbox One, i've retrieves 3049 Tweets.
In the first graphs you can see the recurrent words in the "corpus" made by the tweets that i've considered for Switch (>150), Ps4(>200) and Xbox One (>150).
Over there you can see instead the sentiment Analysis.
Over there you can see the most recurrent words in the comments on the official Facebook Spyro Pages (6218 comments).
Consider that the Lexicon is not specifically tuned for video games and such, but it's interesting to see how the community reacted.
The Analysis it's far from perfect and i've made some mistake for sure, gut overall it was fun, hope you'll enjoy my work. Sorry for the bad English :P
I wanted to use my, basic, knowledge to study reactions on video game announcements to improve my skills using the Twitter's and Facebook's API. This is not in any means a scientific study, it's a little exercise for me and maybe a fun read for everybody else.
The Spyro Reignited Trilogy Announcement got me inspired. I decided to inspect the reaction of the gaming community first on Twitter then on Facebook. In order to do so i've used a program called "R Studio", which is a language,R is kinda like C++, as well as an ecosystem in which you can use some "libraries" that let you do interesting thing.
First, you'll need to retrieve data, public data of course, from the social network, then you need to prepare your "corpus", in this case the "text" in the tweets that i've selected, by eliminating stop words and such, and after that, we can proceed in doing the "sentiment analysis".
Sentiment analysis assign a "score" at every word in a corpus according to an algorithm . I'm currently using "EmoLex", by Saif Mohammad, who is a Researcher in Computational Linguistics at the National Research Council Canada (NRC). You can find how Emolex Works in this link: http://saifmohammad.com/WebPages/NRC-Emotion-Lexicon.html
Twitter API's let me retrieve a max of 18000 tweet per call, searching in all the tweet sent in the last 6-9 days.
In the Switch case i was able to retrieve a little under 3000 tweets that contains the word "Spyro" and "Switch". For PlayStation 4 i was able to retrieve 6292 tweets that contains the words "Spyro" and "Ps4". For Xbox One, i've retrieves 3049 Tweets.
In the first graphs you can see the recurrent words in the "corpus" made by the tweets that i've considered for Switch (>150), Ps4(>200) and Xbox One (>150).
Over there you can see the most recurrent words in the comments on the official Facebook Spyro Pages (6218 comments).
Consider that the Lexicon is not specifically tuned for video games and such, but it's interesting to see how the community reacted.
The Analysis it's far from perfect and i've made some mistake for sure, gut overall it was fun, hope you'll enjoy my work. Sorry for the bad English :P
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Very interesting indeed. -.-In the Switch case i was able to retrieve a little under 3000 tweets that contains the word "Spyro" and "Switch". For PlayStation 4 i was able to retrieve 6292 tweets that contains the words "Spyro" and "Ps4". For Xbox One, i've retrieves 3049 Tweets.
I mean, Crash Bandicoot's final graphics were changed to closer match the originals because of constructive criticism like this pre-release. That's when the bulk of development takes place, after all. I don't see the point in keeping silent about what we've been shown.
The problem is that you can't keep everyone happy. If they change the artstyle now, that may make people who were happy with how it already looked, unhappy.
True, but the purpose is for a remake/remaster of the original. Getting closer imo should be the end goal. Which is why VV made some changes after it was shown off.
A remake/remaster doesn't necessarily need to be close to the original. I doubt FF7R will look much like the original for example. Where I do agree, however, is that I believe that the devs did say that they wanted to keep true to the original so I guess you are right that their end goal should be to get it looking closer to the original. Either way I'll be happy.
