Still, what was wrong with the old design? It certainly appealed to kids. I was a kid and it appealed to me, so...

It still also appeals to me, now and I agree about what the series had going for it being good enough. Each level was always so unique and memorable. I loved that about Spyro so much that I'm basically able to simply replay a Spyro game for the twentieth time and still be entertained. As a matter of fact, I think I'm going to go dig up Ripto's Revenge and pop it into my PS3.

Anyway, does Activision have no soul (in gaming terms) or care for their products? I know they're a huge company, but that's just not right, damnit! Instead of screwing up a good character, they should just make their own toy/doll/mutated thing and put that in the purple thing's place.

The only satisfactory answer I can come up with is this: In general, kids these days svck at liking things.


Also, Activision made this monstrosity and also disbanded the team that made the Jedi Knight games (except Dark Forces II), I think it's been well established they have no souls. :cryvaultboy:

No. Activision doesn't care at all about what they make. In fact, their CEO doesn't even like video games.

Activision's priorities are, in order:

Shareholders > Sales Figures > Business Partnerships > Consumers > Employees > Fans > Quality Products

Seems about right.

Crash Bandicoot. I adored those games when I was younger.

Now it seems that the series is owned by Activision, so I guess it's only a matter of time until they ruin this as well. :dry:

Now that's just... wrong.

IMO it already has been. Not to the extent that Spyro has been butchered, but the recent releases definitely don't hold a candle to the classics by Naughty Dog.

Yet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick is good at making money. As long as the shareholders are happy, he keeps his job. It doesn't change the fact that he's a terrible, terrible person who really has no place in an industry he cares nothing about. Activision wouldn't even contribute to the ESA's campaign to fight the bill in California.

Blizzard, on the other hand, although owned by Activision, acts more like a second head and still places a little more care in their community than every other studio Activision buys and destroys. But Blizzard has been going slowly downhill ever since the merge with Activision. Just about every bad thing that happened to WoW can be blamed on Activision.

It's also somewhat hilarious that Kotick is going to be acting in a movie soon. His role is a "blood-svcking CEO president, completely obsessed with getting money."

Naughty Dog... I just got Uncharted today. I don't remember much about Crash beyond that PS1 racing game, but Naughty Dog knows what they're doing when it comes to rich games and I wonder how they would handle a modern Crash game.

So he's acting as himself then?

pokemon... I love those games... I took pokemon Yellow and Blue with me everywhere. When I played baseball, when I went on trips, at school (secretly of course), when i was supposed to be sleeping (again secret), everywhere! I started playing red version while I went on a 9 hour trip to oregon last month, and almost beat it. I remember those games being way harder then it was.. weird. every time I play them, I start missing the past, and start thinking I am still in junior high again... Which made me realize that I should stop playing them.

Yes, exactly! It's sort of depressing to me that I am trying to find the 40th Anniversary DVD just for the classic, old school Sesame Street I know and love.

I'll admit there are a couple of the shows on Disney Junior that are cute, like Handy Manny (though the anthropomorphic tools are...weird), Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs (encourages imaginative play), Franny's Feet (another with the imaginative play). You'll notice none of these shows have any kind of emphasis on "interaction" or a dance sequence at its conclusion.

Otherwise...I also heard that Thomas the Tank Engine is 100% computer animated now.

Oh Disney, what has happened to you? :shakehead:

Here's hoping they're starting to get back on track now... Tangled was pretty promising. :happy: I suppose it's too much to ask for them to go back to hand-drawn animation, but there were a lot of old-school Disney movie elements in Tangled. Computer animations just aren't as nice.

I have many of the good old cartoons on DVD, so if I ever have a toddler I will be able to show what Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes and so on were all about, instead of showing whatever will be on TV in the future


Never seen that, but the original http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Dodgers_in_the_24%C2%BDth_Century cartoon from 1953 is one of my favorite Looney Tunes cartoons of all time.

Yeah, that one is pretty funny. But I'd say my favorite of the Daffy Duck cartoons, maybe even the Looney Toons in general, would have to be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O71_N3sWsRc. Can't... not... laugh...

Screwball flag gets me every time. :lmao:

I feel the same way about a lot of things.

Pokemon for one, I remember all the good times I had watching it and talking with friends about it.

Then there was WoW when I was 15, I remember all those nice people I knew there but now everyone's changed and it's not worth talking to them anymore.

Life just svcks I guess.

It is! the irst time I saw the new animation I freaked out and went all :ahhh: and said it scared me. The wee ones still razz me abou it

:ahhh: My eyes! Kill it! Kill it with Fire! :flamethrower:

What ?

I gave up on pokemon, ruby and saphire werent that great. I think gold and silver was the best.

I feel you man. My only hope is that the Looney Tunes Show gets cancelled and everyone involved with it's creation has an untimely end.

I hate that Michael Bay destroyed Transformers. I hate the new Smurfs movie. I couldn't even watch 2 minutes of the new Voltron cartoon without wanting to destroy my TV. The new GI Joe is't that good either. The new Transformers show is ok..but the whole Zombie angle needs to stop.

I'm curious on what the Thundercats reboot is going to look like. The commercials don't look half bad as they kept with the hand drawn cells for the most part. But they really don't tell you much so I'm probably going to be disappointed.

Ah, Gold. I have fond memories of that. Many an after school hour was spent on Pokemon Gold.

Honestly though, these new games are just getting weird. They're running out of Pokemon ideas, and it shows. If you've noticed, some of the "New" Pokemon are a lot like some of the preexisting ones.

Elmo annoys the [censored] out of me. Why the [censored] does he refer to himself in the third person? "Can you tell Elmo how to get to Seasame (sp?) Street?" Kripes, I just want to tear his little red head off. My daughter has an Elmo book with the same title. I've read it to her more time than I can count. She loves the book. I want to burn it.

I do however like Ni Hao Kai Lan or however you spell it. But only because it's not Dora or Handy Manny. Two shows I want to disappear. The only reason Bob the Builder isn't on anymore is because Manny could do it cheaper with 400 of his cousins.

*Shrug* V.

Yeah, the first iteration was cheesy, often bad acted, horribly dated special effect, but that's what made it awesome. Watched that as a kid, as much as I could - the concept of airing a series regularly and in order is an extremely recent one, in France.

Anyhoo. That new one, sure it's well done, in a cold, clinical way. *sulks*

I miss Michael Ironside.

It's being animated by a quality Japanese studio, I know that much. At the very least, it will look better than the other shows on Cartoon Network. But it can either be very successful, or go downhill as fast as the He-Man reboot Cartoon Network also did several years back.

Though the new Loony Tunes show isn't that great, they've started showing episodes of the original Loony Tunes again. Watching it right now. Fond memories.