Originally Posted by
Milady
There are three dragons that clue you in about Sparx... [ explanation ]
Another thing that I wanted to mention earlier was the treasure. I think the basic idea behind your wanting to collect it all (and why enemies drop it) is that Gnasty Gnorc actually created all of the enemies using the dragon's gems, sort of like how you free a cute little animal every time you kill an enemy in a Sonic game. The intro explains this, I believe, but it's also why one of the Peace Keeper dragons tells you that the treasure has been turned against them. But I can certainly understand why someone might not think the voice acting is the best.
I cannot, however, explain the lack of female dragons. The origins of the young purple dragon and pink polka-dotted dragon egg collectibles are mysterious. On that note, I can't think of a single female dragon in the Spyro series that appears until the reboot on the PS2/3. Even then there's only one.
I feel kind of bad that Spyro the Dragon is the only game I can make lengthy posts about, when everyone else's wall-o-text posts are about RPG with an insane amount of depth, or something.
Don't feel bad. The amount of useless trivia that I have on facts that no one really cares about is astounding. And quite honestly, it is a fun game -- I wasn't expecting to get into it as much as I have been, not after I saw how simplistic the first couple of worlds were. But it's a lot more involving than I thought it was going to be -- they did a great job of building it up, making it slightly more difficult as you progress, which I think is the way a game should be made. I don't like to feel like a tool at the beginning of a game, but I shouldn't be a master by the end of my first playthrough, either.
As for the female dragon thing... yeah. I'm perplexed as well. Unless they couldn't find any good female voice actors. But, then again... they couldn't really find any good male ones. And I wasn't intuitive enough to pick up on the relationship between Sparx and my health. In hindsight, and after reading the transcript of what was said to me, it makes perfect sense... but at the time, I wouldn't have gotten it for the life of me. It probably would have taken a couple more playthroughs before I picked up on that fact on my own.
Originally Posted by
Colamisu
You also need all the gems and/or eggs for something at the very end. If I'm not mistaken, there was a door in the room before Gnasty Gnorc that requires all of one or the other to open.
Clearly the female dragons know their place: in the kitchen. Also, out of sight, out of mind. Alternatively, they're like the entwives. The male dragons just kind of "lost them."
Don't feel bad, Sypro is actually an excellent series with... loads... of depth? I mean, it has a story. More than SHOOTAN anyways.
Clearly the female dragons are my kind of dragons.
Anyways. Since I'm not going for 100% completion, I'm not all that concerned with getting everything. Even if the secret area is going to be missed, it's not like I got all of the flight areas either, so it's not that big of a deal. I just want to play through and see how much I can enjoy it, and to get some practice at doing an LP without sounding depressed (which, in a later video that hasn't been uploaded yet, I totally do).
Originally Posted by
Milady
I don't really feel all that bad, I love Spyro. And I'm glad that Drag seems to be enjoying it, because it's sort of hard to explain to someone without making it sound like the most boring thing in the world.
If you had said to me, "Oh my God, I found the coolest game in the world! It's Spyro the Dragon! You play as this little purple dragon, and go around collecting gems, and trying to free dragons that are frozen in gems, in hopes of beating some big baddie named 'Gnasty Gnorc'!" I probably would have stared at you in disgust, drank a beer, and played some Call of Duty. Or something equally as "manly." But, then again, I would have looked at myself -- a skinny motherfucker with five tattoos who likes to think that he looks badass, but inside is basically a child who never grew up with too much of a romantic side for his own good, and a few too many neurotic tendencies to make him worth hanging around with -- then told myself, "Well, fuck it. I've got nothing better to do this evening."
And quite honestly, the only reason that I started playing this game was because I wanted to try something simple for my first LP, and I remembered seeing commercials for it back when it first came out, and it seemed fairly easy. And you made an off-hand comment about how much you loved it, so I figured I'd give it a shot.
Turns out you've got pretty good taste in games.
Also. Post 11,000. w00t. I went around the site and posted two random posts so that I could make this my 11,000th one. It just seemed appropriate.