Thats fair. Like my issues are minor things that I can live without, they just stick out to me somewhat. I'll be happy playing this game regardless.
Spyro The Dragon Reignited Trilogy Trailer (PS4/XB1 November 13th 2018)
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Spyro being UE4 is odd since Crash used the Skylanders engine. I thought they'd both use the same one.
Seeing that we got the PS2 games upscaled on the PSN store makes me think that won't happen.
What they hell were they thinking with this redesign? The original design was so great and everything that Activision did with Spyro after that just got progressively worse.
When it comes to PC they can just use reshade or something else
Or just emulate the games in HD which is no problem these days and looks great
To be fair to the author though, it does feel like the Crash remaster was a lot closer artistically to the originals
I like the look of this but I think they can improve the visuals a bit more too the colours do look a little pale tbh
And whoever said global illumination this is not it
I mean, FF7R is a near complete reimagining of the game's format. It's more akin to Ratchet and Clank 2016 than it is to the Crash or Spyro trilogies.
It was repurposed from an unrelated Fire Dragon design from an early concept where Spyro was going to be an NPC. Why they didn't change it to look more like Spyro is another question though.
This is fantastic. Thank you.
While on the subject of the box art, I'm pretty sure it's a placeholder. Anyone remember this little number?
They seem pretty similar to me.
This is the first game I ever pre-ordered. I usually think that pre-ordering games makes no sense for the consumer, but I'm so ridiculously excited for this game that it just feel right having it pre-ordered. I've been waiting for this ever since they announced the Crash trilogy back in the day, and I'm so happy it's finally happening.
Crash has got some difficult levels
I know i liked spyro 1 back in the day, but maybe its more a real childrens game than crash is, it might be way too easy now, i dont know
With crash you can die a lot falling to your death in pits, its all about timing the whole game
I know i liked spyro 1 back in the day, but maybe its more a real childrens game than crash is, it might be way too easy now, i dont know
With crash you can die a lot falling to your death in pits, its all about timing the whole game
they're made by completely different teams, companies even if i understood correctly
you can but they're just the ps2 games
This is correct, but the funny thing is that the team making Spyro now is the Skylanders team, so if anything I would expect them to use the Skylanders engine.
Didn't VV also use the same engine? I recall seeing the earliest prototype running on it.
I don't know what you mean exactly. VV used the Skylanders engine for Crash Bandicoot, but was not the main studio behind Skylanders (they did work on it though), while Spyro Trilogy, developed by the core team for Skylanders, Toys for Bob, is being developed with the Unreal Engine 4.
It depends on the franchise, for me. Mass Effect 2 was a timed console exclusive on 360 as was Me1, technically. To this day I recognize ME as an Xbox franchise just like I recognize Spyro as a playstation mascot despite both IPs being 3rd party and multiplatform.
I didn't like when Rotr was a timed Xbone exclusive, the reasonings given made it worse, but if we pretend for a second that Me4 wasn't a disaster and instead was acclaimed like the trilogy and mS decided to moneyhat that game, I wouldn't think negatively of it, I would respect it and that might've even greatly incentivized me to buy an Xbone. I also realize I'm in the minority here but I just see things from a different perspective.
They are ultimately a benefit because everyone gets to play the game in the long run. Microsoft's approach is softer because they don't require you to buy a piece of hardware to play their games, since their games are on PC. The separation between forms of exclusivity is overall rather wishy-washy, and people will convince themselves one way or the other. Like, when Sony moneyhatted Tomb Raider back in the 90s, how do we draw a line there? They gave Eidos money and Tomb Raider was console exclusive to Playstation for 4 years. One can argue this money was needed to make the games, or one could argue it was essentially a bribe, and there's no real way to prove it either way.
Look at Final Fantasy VII being console exclusive to Playstation. Did Square really NEED Sony's money to make Final Fantasy VII? That's rather dubious. But they signed an exclusivity deal with Sony that basically boiled down to Sony providing a lot of marketing money in exchange for console exclusivity.
Crash used Alchemy which was retired last year.
So I'd suspect that all future Crash/Spyro games are gonna be using Unreal.
Huh? I thought they used the Alchemy Engine? That is the engine used for the Crash Trilogy, and that one would scale down well to Switch. How do we know that engine was deprecated?
Sony moneyhatted Tomb Raider yet it appear on the Saturn at the same time? Sony helped with FFVII marketing however that wasn't the reason it didn't release on other platforms (Nintendo).
Tomb Raider was released on Saturn originally. Then Tomb Raider was ported to PS1. (And later PC.) Between Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider 2, Eidos signed a contract with Sony that resulted in the games being console exclusive to Playstation until 2000, when they appeared on Dreamcast with Tomb Raider 4. It's rather glaring that Tomb Raider 2 and 3 are missing from Dreamcast. And Tomb Raider N64, which was in development around the time Toby Gard left the company in protest of the sexualization of Lara Croft, mysteriously disappeared without a trace.
In exchange for Sony's money, Square were legally barred from releasing games on Nintendo home console platforms. (But as with the Eidos contract, there was no issue releasing games on PC.)
This is why Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles was published by "The Game Designers Studio", a shell corporation designed to wriggle out of their exclusivity contract with Sony by only owning 49% of said shell corporation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_Designers_Studio
They are easy but not so braindead there isn't an element of fun.
An employee from VV wore this shirt depicting that Alchemy was on its way out during the production of the Crash trilogy:
https://instagram.com/p/BLHVSHGAsTT/
Okay, so something along the lines of the recent Mario games then. Sounds great.
getting to the end of most levels isnt that tough, it wasnt meant to be.
Finding the secrets, challenges and doing the side quests takes a lot more time than just going to the end of the level.
You can run to the end of the level in 15 mins, or get sidetracked by a skateboarding minigame for 2 hours
Do people really have trouble with this mingame? It's not hard, it's just long. It certainly isn't Molten Crater snowflake challenge or Fracture Hills Hunter/Alchemist challenge annoying.
I think Spyro 2 certainly has the hardest minigames, Yeti boxing aside.
Crash sold at least 2.5m copies from launch to September. There's either an enormous market for nostalgia (there is) or the market for Crash and Spyro is actually quite wide.
Not to mention that both franchises appeal greatly to kids and other audiences that missed the originals.
That's one of the great things about these remasters.
i'm pretty certain games like these also sell great towards children; when parents see they can buy three games for $40 with simple gameplay and cute bright graphics i can definitely imagine them buying it soon as a gift for their child.
N.Sane Trilogy just got another update...
EDIT: No demo still. I don't know what the update was for.
EDIT: No demo still. I don't know what the update was for.
Yea it's very unsaturated and pale compared to originals and even ps2 games.
I prefer the more saturated colours, not over saturated, but closer to the originals probably.
I can see a demo being added later, the game probably isn't ready for one yet.
They could drop one during E3 in a few months.
Any PS4Pro enhancements? HDR?
In case anyone is having issues preordering the PS4 version on the US Amazon website:
For some reason only the XB1 version shows up when you search. However, when you click on it from the main search page, you will have the option to select the PS4 version from the 'Versions' tab.
In case anyone is having issues preordering the PS4 version on the US Amazon website:
For some reason only the XB1 version shows up when you search. However, when you click on it from the main search page, you will have the option to select the PS4 version from the 'Versions' tab.
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I never played Spyro so I played Spyro 1 up to the Beast Makers realm. I think this is pretty boring. I know it's an old game but the level design just doesn't do it for me. The worlds are too flat instead of tall, so you have very little platforming but a lot of running around and headbutting (or fire spraying) things. The bosses are not good.
So is Spyro 2 better?
So is Spyro 2 better?
Absolutely. Spyro 2 and 3 give you more to do whether it be powerups, mini games, or skating rings. :D
At it's core it's the same gameplay, but Spyro 2 adds powerups, challenges/minigames, more story and the levels don't follow a theme like the first game and are all unique. There are even background story plots between some levels you might not notice at first. Spyro 2 is often the favourite of the three. Spyro 3 is basically the same a 2 but with extra characters to play as (and skateboarding LOL). If it's the level design that bores you i think 2/3 are a step up from that, but if it's the core gameplay (flame enemies, headbutt metal enemies) that's pretty much the same in all three.
I hate that bird.
It was the first time, with repeated playthroughs, it's no big deal now... I still hate that bird though.
Also, *fuck* that snowflake challenge and that Alchemist challenge AND the Skelos Badlands dinosaur eggs.
I swear Yeti Boxing has some RNG to it...
Yeah, you have to go through a really-not-intuitive long-ass Supercharge chain and glide all the way to a hidden dragon.
When Spyro finally gets there, he's like "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GET STUCK WAY OUT HERE!?"
so the devs know what pain you would go through to reach that dragon.
Haunted Towers has a similar dragon IIRC.
Oh god, i forgot about the Skelos Badlands one. Gonna be some frustration 100%ing this. I usually skip all those on replays.
Yeti boxing is just "spam jab; you may or may not win" LOL
Tree Tops and Haunted Towers have the best dragons. Also love the perma-super flame.