darkSpyro

It feels like a waste because I have a ton of Skylanders and never play the games (SSA and Giants because I've beaten them many times and Swap Force cause it was boring after one playthrough). Any fun ways to shake up gameplay?

Story mode is just one aspect of the game. Gotten every star? time attack and score mode all 3 starred? 3 stars on Swap Force challenges on Nightmare mode? 3 starred all of the co-operative survival sessions? Outside of that...yeah...you're stuck. Hope they have something to provide more incremental value / replayability in #4. As it stands now not sure why I need to buy another plastic toy.

For characters who don't have the ability to switch paths it can be strangely satisfying to reset a character and play some survival with their other upgrade path. The Sky Diamond makes it feel like way less of a grind, and I found a few characters whose other path I enjoyed way more, and likely would have never tried otherwise. Bumble Blast in particular comes to mind.

For me, I don't have everything 3 starred (on purpose - was waiting for the rest of the figures and then I just didn't have time to play), but I'll go to my 'Landers stand, grab one of each element, and then switch eleemnts everytime the 'this element is strong here' thing pops up. Sometimes the 8 are randoms, sometimes thematic, but I can only play with those 8 so long as I'm playing.
- Unreall

I like this idea of this. I probably wouldn't reset my Skylanders but I could choose my least favourites and go through the story on Nightmare mode.

I'd probably go for...

Hoot Loop. Decent.
Sprocket. Decent.
Slam Bam. Decent but attacks are too slow.
Eruptor. Decent.
Grim Creeper. Weak.
Terrafin. Decent.
Stink Bomb. Very Weak.
Jet-Vac. Decent.

I like the idea, but I struggle to play Swap Force...without Swap characters heh. For me though...taking Swap characters ou the equation...

Air - JetVac - no QUESTION. Long runner up is the nigh worthless Warnado wo I have yet to find a way to actually use even semi-effectively. He just looks cool.
Earth - tough one, while some of my favs are earth, some of the ones I loathe are earth. Flashwing is one of the most useless characters to me, but I can say the exact same thing for Slobbertooth and Scorp isn't too far behind either of them.
Fire - Easy, Sunburn. I like the rest of fire...except Sunburn. Feels like a watered down GhostRoaster where the best use is to spam phoenix ability.
Life - Stump Smash. Shroomboom feels like he should be it, but I find that when I actually DO play with him - he's like a weaker version of Zook - so it's NOT a bad thing.
Magic - we have a tie between Spyro - the most 'Ryu' (ha) figure of them all - and Ninjini, the hard hitting and 'nothing else' Giant. Wrecking Ball is very close to making it a thre way.
Tech - this one is hard, the lower characters for me are 'close to being fun' - Drill Sergeant is fun when I'm just going fast, Sprocket just needs to be faster, and Trigger Happy is just to overdone I'll point to Sprocket just because like am indless sheep I bought her S3 variant despite feeling she sucked in Giants.
Undead - I wsa going to say too easy - Cynder, then forgot the horror that is Grim Creeper. Just add him to the forgotten list.
Water - Slam bam. He's got potential, but is way too hard to make even semi-useful.

I think I'm going to do this heh.
- Unreall