Current Events > Played the Spyro trilogy, and the Spyro series is... just okay I guess.

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I was aware of Spyro back then but never got a chance to play it or, only Crash.

Now that I've played the Spyro trilogy, I made it all the way to the 3rd game before just getting bored. They're ok games for kids but kinda tiresome after a while with not much to them.

The second game starts to delve into minigames which are barely tolerable and the 3rd game is just exasperating with its damn minigames. Even the Sly trilogy's annoying minigames were less of a hassle.

Also the flying levels are just plain awful.

Overall as far as 90s open world collectathon platformers go it's just okay.
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saspa posted...

Even the Sly trilogy's annoying minigames were less of a hassle.

Nope. The 3rd Sly was minigame after minigame when all I wanted was some cool Sly platforming.

The 3rd Spyro is still Spyro platforming with minigames whenever you feel like doing them and they're actually fun. Playing as anyone but Sly was awful, but playing as the other characters in Spyro 3 was a welcome change of pace
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Always thought Spyro was just kind of average.

Love me some Crash though
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Reignited version? Either way I think it's one of those series where it was highly revered when it came out and was Sony's answer to Mario 64 and Rare's 3D platformers. Not to say it's bad, but it's not as amazing as I remembered it.
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Banjo2553 posted...

Reignited version? Either way I think it's one of those series where it was highly revered when it came out and was Sony's answer to Mario 64 and Rare's 3D platformers. Not to say it's bad, but it's not as amazing as I remembered it.

IMO none of these collectathons are as good as you remember
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Yeah the ps4 version. Just trying out Insomniac's first playstation trilogy was enough for me, I can see their roots and now appreciate the references they put in their later games like ratchet and clank (the sheep gun comes to mind). The actual playstation 1 games are downright unplayable with the dated game mechanics, reversed camera control, etc.

It's funny that Insomniac just went for shooters after that and didn't do more platformers, though I actually like ratchet and clank a lot for its silliness and tend to play it less like a shooter and more like a platformer with shooting elements. And I like the series more than Spyro. Even if Insomniac are forced to milk it to death (I just make sure not to play the games back to back lest I suffer from immediate fatigue)
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Balrog0 posted...

Banjo2553 posted...

Reignited version? Either way I think it's one of those series where it was highly revered when it came out and was Sony's answer to Mario 64 and Rare's 3D platformers. Not to say it's bad, but it's not as amazing as I remembered it.

IMO none of these collectathons are as good as you remember

I'd argue Mario 64 is still pretty good, same with the Banjo games.
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Balrog0 posted...

Banjo2553 posted...

Reignited version? Either way I think it's one of those series where it was highly revered when it came out and was Sony's answer to Mario 64 and Rare's 3D platformers. Not to say it's bad, but it's not as amazing as I remembered it.

IMO none of these collectathons are as good as you remember

I don't really subscribe to the whole "not as good as it was" and "dated" mindset, for me a game was either good from the very beginning or it wasn't. For example I played Banjo back in the day and disliked it immediately, wasn't my cup of tea. Meanwhile I liked Mario 64 and still like it to this day, having played the DS and virtual console version (yes, some worlds like the magic carpet one and adjustable water world with the spider things are meh, but again they were always meh)

So I guess it really depends.
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saspa posted...

Balrog0 posted...

Banjo2553 posted...

Reignited version? Either way I think it's one of those series where it was highly revered when it came out and was Sony's answer to Mario 64 and Rare's 3D platformers. Not to say it's bad, but it's not as amazing as I remembered it.

IMO none of these collectathons are as good as you remember

I don't really subscribe to the whole "not as good as it was" and "dated" mindset, for me a game was either good from the very beginning or it wasn't. For example I played Banjo back in the day and disliked it immediately, wasn't my cup of tea. Meanwhile I liked Mario 64 and still like it to this day, having played the DS and virtual console version (yes, some worlds like the magic carpet one and adjustable water world with the spider things are meh, but again they were always meh)

So I guess it really depends.

Well, I didn't like SM64 even as a child lol.

But I think it's kind of ahistorical to say that a game is either good or it isn't, personally. The whole collectathon genre was sort of a midway point between 2D platformers and the current open world 3D games that are (or were for a long time) in vogue. It isn't that they're necessarily bad, it's just that they were the product of technological constraints so the format has moved past them.

jmo though
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It may have been more enjoyable 20 years ago.