Banjo-Kazooie is better. At least the humor in Banjo felt natural. Spyro's humor was so forced it was unbelievable. None of the characters were funny in any way and just painfully annoying. I've played the original series. First one, decent attempt, not great. Second, okay at first but started to become annoying. Third, boring as sin. Enter the Dragonfly, insanely glitchy, lame worlds, unlikeable characters, bland storyline. Hero's Tail...I don't even remember much about it. I also tried one of the "new" Spyro games, I think it was "The Eternal Night" or something like that. Played for maybe ten minutes, started to get bored, took it out of my Wii and played something else.
So why was it that I continued to try these games, even though I didn't like them? Simple: I love dragons! A game that has to do with dragons should be awesome! Unfortunately, every time I decided "Okay. I'm going to give Spyro a chance. Maybe this Spyro game will be better than the last one I played.", I just ended up being severely disappointed.