FuturisticEggThief wrote:

36IStillLikeSpyro36 wrote:

.............. then what do you consider "Spyro 4" to be?

A brand new game. With new characters, levels, collectibles, etc. Also because the chance of the Machinists and the Aquifers making it into the Reignited Trilogy is almost 0%, they could appear in Spyro 4.

I would say their appearance is more than 0%, but a small chance.  But larger chance of that than TfB making a new Spyro game and putting in scrapped elements from 20 years ago.  If they are going to put hypothetical Spyro stuff from yesteryear in, it'll be now with Reignited Trilogy.  And if they make a Spyro 4, I want a brand new story and game with only the foundation of reignited trilogy's muse and TfB devs imagination being the launching point.

What I like about the Spyro worlds in all three games is the lore of making them connect.  And if they do connect, there are questions we are allowed to ask about the world, things like 'do dragons use engineering to their advantage?', 'Are there principalities in the dragon realms where they don't live, but reserve for recreation or something else?' and of course my favorite 'where do the dragons do their taxes?'  Those questions spark the imagination and creativity of making Spyro games so great and wonderful.  But what I wouldn't want, is to assumed they'll use scrapped dev material from the 90's proved that it exists.  The way I look at it is this:  What we got in the Spyro games is canon.  If an idea or concept isn't included in the game that shipped, then it's not canon.  Reignited Trilogy may expand that canon, or re-imagine the canon, maybe even dare to retcon things. But I think it's a little closed-minded to assume that the only acceptable route of making new Spyro content for the remastered trilogy and beyond is to rummage through Insomniac's notepads to recreate everything that could have been.  This is why i don't think a lot of people are reasonable about the possibility of Cynder being in Reignited Trilogy, because they think Cynder means dark emo Legend Cynder when they could totally rewrite her story to be adaptive to the original trilogy.  These examples and others are the reason I think people need to think more outside the box.  If a hypothetical Spyro 4 exists, I don't want it to be only based on fan expectations of the characters and the worlds.

I agree with this. Seeing the Machinists as a fully realized world would be cool but I can see you are coming from.

36IStillLikeSpyro36 wrote:

.............. then what do you consider "Spyro 4" to be?

A brand new game. With new characters, levels, collectibles, etc. Also because the chance of the Machinists and the Aquifers making it into the Reignited Trilogy is almost 0%, they could appear in Spyro 4.

I would say their appearance is more than 0%, but a small chance.  But larger chance of that than TfB making a new Spyro game and putting in scrapped elements from 20 years ago.  If they are going to put hypothetical Spyro stuff from yesteryear in, it'll be now with Reignited Trilogy.  And if they make a Spyro 4, I want a brand new story and game with only the foundation of reignited trilogy's muse and TfB devs imagination being the launching point.

What I like about the Spyro worlds in all three games is the lore of making them connect.  And if they do connect, there are questions we are allowed to ask about the world, things like 'do dragons use engineering to their advantage?', 'Are there principalities in the dragon realms where they don't live, but reserve for recreation or something else?' and of course my favorite 'where do the dragons do their taxes?'  Those questions spark the imagination and creativity of making Spyro games so great and wonderful.  But what I wouldn't want, is to assumed they'll use scrapped dev material from the 90's proved that it exists.  The way I look at it is this:  What we got in the Spyro games is canon.  If an idea or concept isn't included in the game that shipped, then it's not canon.  Reignited Trilogy may expand that canon, or re-imagine the canon, maybe even dare to retcon things. But I think it's a little closed-minded to assume that the only acceptable route of making new Spyro content for the remastered trilogy and beyond is to rummage through Insomniac's notepads to recreate everything that could have been.  This is why i don't think a lot of people are reasonable about the possibility of Cynder being in Reignited Trilogy, because they think Cynder means dark emo Legend Cynder when they could totally rewrite her story to be adaptive to the original trilogy.  These examples and others are the reason I think people need to think more outside the box.  If a hypothetical Spyro 4 exists, I don't want it to be only based on fan expectations of the characters and the worlds.

.............. then what do you consider "Spyro 4" to be?

A brand new game. With new characters, levels, collectibles, etc. Also because the chance of the Machinists and the Aquifers making it into the Reignited Trilogy is almost 0%, they could appear in Spyro 4.

Nothing is going to sound iconic like Copeland, but I think they'll try to balance that epic feel with the light-hearted cartoony adventure style of the original trilogy.

you'd be surprised. there's this guy i found (thanks to Gekoncze!) and i think a lot of the stuff he makes would fit well in a Spyro game there are probably others, too. overall it'd be neat to see one of these lesser-known artists get a big role like that.

And after i hurdle that train of hypotheticals, I would say that it might be more similar to Skylanders style music instead of Stewart Copeland's style, hypothetically.

And before you judge Skylanders and think its a *bleep* shame that Copeland wouldn't be involved directly, I just want you to understand that as much as I love Copeland, I would take Lorne Balfe and a possible Hans Zimmer over Copeland in a new Spyro adventure game anytime anywhere anyway...      ...hypothetically speaking of course.  (And yes, I know Zimmer only did the first Skylanders)

Chances are though, they would probably go with a completely different composer for future titles, but I think the uplifting element will continue for Spyro.  Nothing is going to sound iconic like Copeland, but I think they'll try to balance that epic feel with the light-hearted cartoony adventure style of the original trilogy.

i just assumed if they redid "Spyro 4", it'd be Enter the Dragonfly.

They will never remake EtD because TfB knows that most fans hate EtD.