/v/ - Video Games

>>15798995

The Insomniac studios that made Spyro is dead, just as the Naughty Dog that made Crash is dead.

Now with that out of the way, I played some GBA spyro games and even the GBA spyro/crash crossover games and they were pretty decent for the hardware limitations they worked with.

enter the dragonfly is horrendous and is irredeemably buggy. I don't know if any of the post-insomniac games are any good.

Specifically, I played the Spyro GBA trilogy made by Digital Eclipse, which I'd give a 3/5. I can't speak for the other guys.

SUBWAY

SANDWICH

>>15798995

Enter the Dragonfly was horribly rushed and buggy as fuck. Hero's Tail was more competent and has a surprisingly good OST despite not being made by Copeland, but is more than a bit different. Still have a bit of a soft spot for it. All I can really speak on though.

>>15798995

>is it any good?

Buggy and A Hero Tail is a bit better. The legends serie are just awful God of War rip-off.

The skylanders games are just paywalled games, don't try them.

we already have a spyro thread, you could have asked there.

anyway, Hero's tail is pretty good, its the insomniac analogue to Twinsanity. so its like, different, but good.

Enter the Dragonfly is the analogue to crash 4, which is overall agreed to be garbage.

>>15799029

This is bullshit I have to pay $6 for a ham sandwich now

>>15799119

He was already in the field you bozo

>>15799140

Solemn Warning negates the summoning, so his effect never resolved.

>>15799170

Fuck off, retard. You weren't even in the thread before that.

>>15799175

This game has rules, friend. Don't make me call a judge on your ass.

>>15799193

Reported to Konami.

>>15799194

What was the point of this thread again?

>>15799011

>Irredeemably buggy

I thought that was because I left my GameCube on for weeks because my mom wouldn't buy us a memory card

>>15799431

I have very vague memories of it from my youth, but I can still remember clipping through the geometry, lighting spazzing out, the framerate dropping to a crawl and certain effects not displaying. It wasn't a good game.

>>15799431

>>15799448

It's so buggy, you can immediately take on the final boss clipping through the closed door to him. The gates that are supposed to lock off sections of the hub world can be phased through just by rubbing Spyro's face hard enough on them.

>>15799150

No, that's the price of inflation. Prices of almost every food item have tripled in price since I was a kid 20 years ago. The only thing still inexpensive is fast-food dollar menus; and since the cost of the ingredients THEY buy are the same that you buy, you have to wonder how many corners they're cutting to make shit that cheap.

>>15799475

>The gates that are supposed to lock off sections of the hub world can be phased through just by rubbing Spyro's face hard enough on them

If Spyro rubbed his face hard enough on you, you'd open up, too~

>>15799170

>it was already on the field

1. That’s not how Exodia works

2. Since you decided that’s how it worked, then anyone could play Raigeki or Dark Hole and wipe it out.

>>15799556

He's talking about Jinzo, you doofus. Anon played Card Destruction to keep Exodia from being played. Anon B played activated Solemn Judgement to negate Card Destruction. Anon C then posted Jinzo. Anon D activated Solemn Warning, which negates summons. However, Anon C claimed Jinzo was already on the field for a time, and wasn't being summoned at the time of posting it, so Solemn Warning didn't apply. Learn to follow a thread.

i played the gba one

i cant remember if it was good or not

ust rmember ome plant level i kept falling off the edge by getting hit by missiles when trying to light fire pits on fire or omething

>>15798995

>>15799008

>The Insomniac studios that made Spyro is dead, just as the Naughty Dog that made Crash is dead.

This.

Brands are meaningless. Let go of whatever attachments you had for those studios/companies. The individual, talented and skilled people working in a project are what makes a good product.

What we have now are simply soulless corporate suits designing low quality products for brain dead masses to consume.

Never fall for the brand name. Currently, it is just an empty shell.

>>15799431

A memory card wouldn't have done much good anyway; it took weeks to load a single level.

>>15799747

probably because you're playing the PAL version

>>15799764

is it really that big of a difference? I'll try to find a different version just to see but I have an original copy and they both always felt slow with movement. Kinda used to the early 00s animations and their awkwardness though

>>15799784

Yeah, PAL's 50hz was often not as it should have been, missing frames and identical timing but slowing down the game to get the full number of frames in the same window of time. It's not 12% less data, it's 12% slower which I'm sure you can see and hear for yourself

>>15799907

Shit, that's a bigger difference than I thought. Thanks for the vid

>>15799868

>When you make a homemade veggie beef stew for maybe $19 (two packs of beef, an onion, several veggies that can go into two stews) and get over a week's worth

>>15798995

Enter the Dragonfly is the closest you'll get to the gameplay of the original trilogy. Unfortunately, it's more unfinished than Sonic '06. It's a huge mess, as your picture indicates. That said, I would play it over any of the ones after it. I mean, I beat it when I was a kid. The graphics are shit and it's too short, but it's not like the glitches are so bad they inhibit you from beating the game. It's just not that good.

The GBA games are actually pretty good as far as translating Spyro to a GBA. The isometric views work fairly well and everything. If you're itching for more Spyro, these are actually decent. They're the only non-Insomniac ones that would ever come close to even "decent" but that's considering that they're scaled down for GBA. Note, I just mean the three main ones, not Spyro Orange, which is completely different and also shit.

A Hero's Tail is the next and last PS2 game and is more functional than Enter the Dragonfly, but fucks up simple but core things, like gems respawn so you can use them on consumable items, which defeats the entire collection aspect. Square is Flame and Circle is Charge, showing just how little they gave a fuck about the original games, that they couldn't even be bothered to map the controls properly. While Enter the Dragonfly was bad on a technical level but fine on a conceptual level, A Hero's Tail is fine technically but bad conceptually. Basically, this is where they lost sight of what the series originally was. This trend would continue.

The last game in the original series is Shadow Legacy, on DS, but despite being the same universe, it's still completely different gameplay. It's not like the GBA games that tried to mimic the PS1 gameplay. After this, the series would completely reboot and just go for fully different gameplay, story, and tone (which Shadow Legacy already seemed to want to do, except for story). It's so disconnected that I would just consider it its own thing. Maybe if you try not to think of them as Spyro you can enjoy them. I couldn't.

Fuck Skylanders.

>>15799097

Twinsanity still fundamentally played like Crash, just with the levels being connected and not using (many) warps. Also, Wrath of Cortex has shit load times and the graphics are bad like in Enter the Dragonfly, but it's not as buggy and unfinished. Wrath of Cortex is functional.