Mr. John wrote:

Spyro with fun and calm gameplay is how it should be. A mature one that just gives me nightmares thinking about it.

Aye. The last Spyro game, well, haven't included A LOT of violence, but it still could stick to the Origin. It would be shame if it was a 18+ or something like that game, But I mostly stick to the story more than the game itself.

But it wasn't over the top. None of us want a dark mature too. Bad Spyro game. Calm, fun sometimes a little bit violent in LOS's case works.

Actually I heard they had a boxed up game of Spyro's Kingdom where it went to building your own place and making your own dragon, which didn't involve Spyro. And well that would have been a far worse idea. I saw some videos of the trailers that were planned out. With custom lairs and a lot of not so fun flight. I mean it did not look or sound like a Spyro game. It would have been better off as a whole different series without Spyro in the name. I kind of glad they went with the Skylanders project, because at least Spyro is a playable character of the game.

This cheers me up very little. I mean, they could have at LEAST considered all that they did and put it all aside for a multiplayer mode in an RPG Spyro game, which is something I've wanted ever since I played that DS game. Cut the humans out, introduce a world that's bigger than that Zelda U world, bring back platforming that gives players a feel of ever 3D platformer known to man, mash it up with Final Fantasy, cut the blood, put damage sparks, let us make custom deathmatch maps.

You could have done so much, A-wall-vision, but NO!

Stormy wrote:

New IP = no preconceived notions about what that IP should be = no disappointment when it doesn't live up to previously set expectations.

Yes, but Old IP = preconceived notions about how good the game will be based off of the older installments = moneymoneymoneymoney

Right, which is why they used Spyro for both TLoS and Skylanders. Easier for them, but (arguably, in some cases) worse for us.

New IP = no preconceived notions about what that IP should be = no disappointment when it doesn't live up to previously set expectations.

Yes, but Old IP = preconceived notions about how good the game will be based off of the older installments = moneymoneymoneymoney

Spyro with fun and calm gameplay is how it should be. A mature one that just gives me nightmares thinking about it.

Aye. The last Spyro game, well, haven't included A LOT of violence, but it still could stick to the Origin. It would be shame if it was a 18+ or something like that game, But I mostly stick to the story more than the game itself.

I at least wouldn't object to it calling it that any more than I would object to calling TLoS or Skylanders a Spyro game. I've been saying from the beginning that TLoS should've just come up with a new dragon character rather than rebooting the Spyro franchise, though, which was always a little controversial back when TLoS was more popular around here. Doesn't really matter all that much what it's labeled as, in any case.

I do agree that the concept of Spyro's Kingdom would've been better off as a completely new IP, though. To be honest, if it had actually been released without the "Spyro" label, I probably would have been much more excited to give it a try. New IP = no preconceived notions about what that IP should be = no disappointment when it doesn't live up to previously set expectations.