Spyro the Dragon: Treasure Trilogy

Retr0gamer wrote: »

They were a poor man's Mario 64 and going back to them there's a lot of exposition in the games that really bogs them down. Still they are fun and if it's the same bargain price as Crash then I can't really complain.

Genuinely have never heard anyone compare them; its not really comparable to Mario either. You are a dragon that can fly over short distances, breath's fire, have a running charging move and rescue dragons trapped in stone.

Greyfox wrote:

I think a poor man's Mario 64 is very accurate, it was a 3d platformer at a time when there was very few 3d platformers is all thats needed for comparison.

That gen had Croc, Crash, Banjo, DK64, Gex, Rayman, Ape Escape, Glover, Bubsy & every kids movie was a 3D platformer. Many of those had sequels, there was not very few, too many if any.

ERG89 wrote: »

That gen had Croc, Crash, Banjo, DK64, Gex, Rayman, Ape Escape, Glover, Bubsy & every kids movie was a 3D platformer. Many of those had sequels, there was not very few, too many if any.

Both Spyro and Mario had that open plan sort of level design to them though.

Gex was really low rent so it's hard to bring it in. Spyro was well polished in comparison.

Honestly I really like the weird LOD techniques in the old Spyros. It's mostly hardware dictated that they had to do it like that but it gives it a real surreal beauty missing in these extremely high-quality remakes.

Combined with the soundtrack from that guy from The Police it was a cool thing, the first 2 anyway.