darkSpyro

Look I welcome Skymibos but I can understand the frustration from other console players.

I think console exclusive features are more than welcomed as long as they aren't tied to actual figures.
Think about the Wii U pad which let you see your trapped villains while playing.

Funny extra feature which other consoles didn't had an which didn't affected the overall gameplay at all.
Not like, you know, cutting out a rather big percentage of your fans by creating two console exclusive characters.
It just doesn't seem very in line with the general idea of the series... Granted they are still following it of course...

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Awesome....people begging for content limited to one console that will sap production time from all consoles.

Have we learned nothing?

nobody cares about your opinion. it will happen again.

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I think console exclusive features are more than welcomed as long as they aren't tied to actual figures.
Think about the Wii U pad which let you see your trapped villains while playing.

Funny extra feature which other consoles didn't had an which didn't affected the overall gameplay at all.
Not like, you know, cutting out a rather big percentage of your fans by creating two console exclusive characters.
It just doesn't seem very in line with the general idea of the series... Granted they are still following it of course...

So to you, would have alt costumes been better? Like say put an amiibo on the portal with a certain Skylander and it'll give it a costume (like an actual costume) of the amiibo character?

I wonder if there won't be any Skymiibos next year? Wasn't the Skymiibo's here because of racing? If racing isn't next years gimmick, will they still have skymiibos? I know it's still likely they will return, but it's just a guess.

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Awesome....people begging for content limited to one console that will sap production time from all consoles.

Have we learned nothing?

nobody cares about your opinion. it will happen again.

Good to know you're here to support us.

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I wonder if there won't be any Skymiibos next year? Wasn't the Skymiibo's here because of racing? If racing isn't next years gimmick, will they still have skymiibos? I know it's still likely they will return, but it's just a guess.

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Awesome....people begging for content limited to one console that will sap production time from all consoles.

Have we learned nothing?

nobody cares about your opinion. it will happen again.

Good to know you're here to support us.

They came to Skylands by coming through one of Kaos's rifts created by the Sky Eater, but that doesn't mean we should stop hoping!

Even though it is nice to see Nintendo-natives in the Skylands universe, Personally, I'd rather Skylanders stay it's own thing instead of crossing over with other games. Even though, crossovers will most likely get the game more popularity with younger kids, people who haven't played Skylanders, and Nintendo fans.

I'm excited to see what Sky 6 will be like, since Tfb like to stay conservative.

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Even though it is nice to see Nintendo-natives in the Skylands universe, Personally, I'd rather Skylanders stay it's own thing instead of crossing over with other games. Even though, crossovers will most likely get the game more popularity with younger kids, people who haven't played Skylanders, and Nintendo fans.

I'm excited to see what Sky 6 will be like, since Tfb like to stay conservative.

I swear... if vehicles have a "special" ability like traps, I'm leaving this franchise.

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Even though it is nice to see Nintendo-natives in the Skylands universe, Personally, I'd rather Skylanders stay it's own thing instead of crossing over with other games. Even though, crossovers will most likely get the game more popularity with younger kids, people who haven't played Skylanders, and Nintendo fans.

I'm excited to see what Sky 6 will be like, since Tfb like to stay conservative.

I swear... if vehicles have a "special" ability like traps, I'm leaving this franchise.

It would be rather disappointing, and would possibly make me mad if the $15 vehicles are reduced to magic items like the traps.

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Even though it is nice to see Nintendo-natives in the Skylands universe, Personally, I'd rather Skylanders stay it's own thing instead of crossing over with other games. Even though, crossovers will most likely get the game more popularity with younger kids, people who haven't played Skylanders, and Nintendo fans.

I'm excited to see what Sky 6 will be like, since Tfb like to stay conservative.

I swear... if vehicles have a "special" ability like traps, I'm leaving this franchise.

It would be rather disappointing, and would possibly make me mad if the $15 vehicles are reduced to magic items like the traps.

That makes me wonder, what will they do with the trophies?

On the other hand,how much time they'd have to waste to keep it on new stuff? I think that it'd be fine if they brought the racing back,maybe altered some existing levels into new tracks like it happened with The Clock Rock and Calamity Canyon, but having them fully on the game like right now would just eat too much out of the new gimmick and people would complain the new one is nigh-useless.

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On the other hand,how much time they'd have to waste to keep it on new stuff? I think that it'd be fine if they brought the racing back,maybe altered some existing levels into new tracks like it happened with The Clock Rock and Calamity Canyon, but having them fully on the game like right now would just eat too much out of the new gimmick and people would complain the new one is nigh-useless.

I agree. Racing is such a big part of SSC, I would expect it to carry over into Sky6. But if it doesn't, more focus will be on the new gimmick. I would like racing to return, but if it returns once.. how many more times? Who's to say a lot of other gimmicks won't be as big as racing was? Are they going to keep carrying over every gimmick every game? It seems like that would be a problem.

They could also put the Test Tracks back since it's just a matter of a rift that leads someplace cool. Not sure WHAT to do with it though, maybe randomly generated toolboxes, daily quests like we have now, that kind of simple stuff.

While I know it wasn't the best execution, the Skymiibos are an absolute stroke of brilliance buisness wise for both Acti and Nintendo.

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Why does everyone haze TFB. I honestly like them more than V.V. They know that we don't want those overreposed characters, they have better character designs and also care about the background characters (as showed in TT) I can't wait to see what they will do and hope that it's able to top Superchargers. I hope the gimmick has something to do with the elements (after all, they introduced Light & Dark to us), as it was one of the main reasons why I adore Skylanders so much.

I feel like that to. TFB honestly knows how to handle the series better. They made the first game after all. I feel like Stories, gimmicks, characters and levels are handled better when TFB takes the wheel. They honestly feel like the Skylanders series owners. When I play a VV Skylanders game I just don't feel as excited. the stories are darker when they don't need to be, gimmicks are good but they feel very "in your face" and it dosnt work (Honestly Traptanium and Giants were the only gimmicks that felt like they needed to be like that) The characters all feel boring and ginaric looking (All the freaking humanoids!) with the same copy paste back stories and the levels are all long, boring and tidious and alway have the FREAKING loading screens (I'm looking at you SSC's stupidity long loading times) and unskippable dialogue (caugh caugh SSF caugh). Overall I feel VV games feel like dumbed down version of TFB Skylanders games. I still like VV Skylanders games at the end of the day but I'll greatly take TFB to make Skylanders games.

Well, I disagree with you about VV's stories being darker than TFB's. Look at Swap-Force. There, I never felt threatened at all, it felt like the easiest game simply because the story felt easy to beat. While with Giants, Spyro's Adventure, and even with Trap Team, Kaos nearly succeeded with his plan. He was only stopped by the Skylanders.

Superchargers takes it another direction with the story. Spoilers for people who haven't played the game.



VV outdid themselves with SSC, better than SSF in my opinion. And the story was FAR better than Swap-Force, and maybe even better than Giants and Trap Team as well. And with it having a dark feeling I like it when I feel like the villain is close to winning or already has won. SSF did neither. It just felt like a lesson about how NOT to do a Skylanders game plot.

Well personally I like AS-wait what? Oh...sorry wrong forum

But, I do prefer TFB to VV. SSC was phenomenal but as or gimmick and graphics I prefer TFB.

I wonder if each team likes reading feedback/complaints on the other team's games and be like "yeah we did that better!"

About the compatibility, I think that this should be the best direction, but I feel that this is not happening:

• All the Magic Items work as Magic Items.
  
• Location Pieces unlock new levels based on the older counterparts. You need the Gimmick Skylanders of the game to 100% complete the Adventure Pack stage.
  
• Battle Mode back, with online.
  
• If the Villains are not playable in the Story for some reason, they unlock Skystones and do a Elemental Boost to the Skylander. The Villains are playable in additional modes, and function the same way as TT, as helpers of the Skylander.
  
• Vehicles, when used in Story/Battle/Arena/KDC, just SuperCharge the Skylander. There will be a Vehicle Combat mode under the Battle Mode, and also, a Racing Mode with the same tracks form SC, plus a few new ones.
  
• Trophies unlocks special Skystones of the Villains trapped, and also the tracks from SC.
  
• There will be a Online and Local Co-Op, and the Portal have 2 Trap Slots, one for each player, so the 2 players have access to Villains at the same time.
  
• Have some type of optional mode were you need ALL types of Skylanders to complete. Not just all elements, but also all gimmicks.
  

These are just ideas that I have.

Here's my list

Bring back PVP. And have a Villain exclusive mode.

Make some villains figures.

More Skymiibo but have some guest stars for all. (Sonic,and Rayman would be good starts)

Repose some of the superchargers.

Amp up the reposes! 5 per element 1 per game! (But give the water ones to Wham Shell,Chill,Punk Shock,Echo,and Dive-Clops)

Lightcores

Have a RPG like mode.

Sky Goals?

Keep the original bases.

Make light and dark equal to others.

Bring back Brock Areas and Kaos doom challenges.

Auric's shop again.

And finally keep racing.

A competitive game like
Pvp
Racing
Arenas
Doom challenges
Long story mode
And more in just one game

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Awesome....people begging for content limited to one console that will sap production time from all consoles.

Have we learned nothing?

nobody cares about your opinion. it will happen again.

I know it's your opinion, but a bit rude?

I hope we never see anymore Skymiibos, or any other exclusive.

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I think console exclusive features are more than welcomed as long as they aren't tied to actual figures.
Think about the Wii U pad which let you see your trapped villains while playing.

Funny extra feature which other consoles didn't had an which didn't affected the overall gameplay at all.
Not like, you know, cutting out a rather big percentage of your fans by creating two console exclusive characters.
It just doesn't seem very in line with the general idea of the series... Granted they are still following it of course...

So to you, would have alt costumes been better? Like say put an amiibo on the portal with a certain Skylander and it'll give it a costume (like an actual costume) of the amiibo character?

Absolutely!

That would be 100 times better than having even one single console exclusive figure.

im looking forward to see what tfb bring to the table with their skylanders6 now after the disappointment that was ssc.

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Well personally I like AS-wait what? Oh...sorry wrong forum

But, I do prefer TFB to VV. SSC was phenomenal but as or gimmick and graphics I prefer TFB.

What? Maybe you like the look of the TFB games, but the graphics are inferior. There is no getting around that.

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I think console exclusive features are more than welcomed as long as they aren't tied to actual figures.
Think about the Wii U pad which let you see your trapped villains while playing.

Funny extra feature which other consoles didn't had an which didn't affected the overall gameplay at all.
Not like, you know, cutting out a rather big percentage of your fans by creating two console exclusive characters.
It just doesn't seem very in line with the general idea of the series... Granted they are still following it of course...

So to you, would have alt costumes been better? Like say put an amiibo on the portal with a certain Skylander and it'll give it a costume (like an actual costume) of the amiibo character?

Absolutely!

That would be 100 times better than having even one single console exclusive figure.

To anyone at TFB, take notes of this.

POKEMON SKYMIIBOS

Never mind about Kirby or Fox...they WERE about to be SuperCharger Amiibos...but they had issues.
Same as Peach.

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POKEMON SKYMIIBOS

Never mind about Kirby or Fox...they WERE about to be SuperCharger Amiibos...but they had issues.
Same as Peach.

Pokemon is in the same situation as Kirby. Isn't fully owned by Nintendo, but even more so.

I was thinking that the gimmick of Sky 6 will be sports. The more I think about it, the more I think is gonna happen. Only my opinion.

Dunno, people were always speculating the second option from kart would be interchangeable weapons, sports seems too much risky of a bandwagon to ride on for TFB. If they'd take up on another hobby like VV did,they'd try movies or books.

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I was thinking that the gimmick of Sky 6 will be sports. The more I think about it, the more I think is gonna happen. Only my opinion.

skylanders tennis... like mario tennis, lol

I know a few folks from Activision and the developers swing by now and again, so I would like to throw a simple idea out.

A very slight way to make the older magic items/location pieces useful without making them OP auto-kill bombs - HATS! Like the UFO card, have each magic item scanned in unlock an exclusive hat that is themed from the item (like a sheep hat or a treasure chest hat).

It's simple, it fits with the lore of the game, it's not just a plain decoration on your digital shelf.

Although - something not worth the time to develop, but would be super neat a menu in the collection screen that takes you to a scene that shows your ENTIRE SCANNED-IN COLLECTION in one shot. When you start out, it's like a small town-hall meeting room. As you scan more and more in, it grows until it's a huge stadium. There could be a trophy shelf that holds the magic items, a Trap Locker where each individual trap is stored, a parking lot for the vehicles. You could sort the characters in their seats alphabetically, by series, by game, by element, etc. Just a really neat way to interact with your entire collection at once. Universe had something like this (but, obviously, much smaller at the time). Expand that - then, if we're friends on-line, we can go and look at each other's collections. :D

That's an amazing idea,considering there were weirder things glued into a hat already like miniature Jet Stream.

About the sports, the only thing that makes it realistic is the fact that 2016 will have new Olympic games, but even with that, a sports themed game sounds ridiculous even for Skylanders. After SuperChargers, gimmick ideas are hard to predict, so who knows?

About UncleBob's idea, it sounds good, but I prefer the full Magic Item use. If they maintain the files in Cloud, it's not necessary to use space from the game and time for development.

Really like both your ideas UncleBob, especially the second!

Collection screens have been cool so far (SWAP Force's takes bonus points for including backstories) but a full fledged 3D collection screen, with either statues or animated models and backstories would be great!
Would also love the possibility to also sort Skylanders, traps, vehicles, items, location pieces and so on using different criteria.

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About the sports, the only thing that makes it realistic is the fact that 2016 will have new Olympic games, but even with that, a sports themed game sounds ridiculous even for Skylanders. After SuperChargers, gimmick ideas are hard to predict, so who knows?

About UncleBob's idea, it sounds good, but I prefer the full Magic Item use. If they maintain the files in Cloud, it's not necessary to use space from the game and time for development.

If they try to use sports as a gimmick, I'm out. That's definitely jumping the shark unless they pull a miracle and execute it nicely into the lore.

I wouldn't jump ship, but I'd probably skip. The prices are starting to dig into my savings hard without a serious job, so I really need to pick what I want to save up for the start of the year,can't repeat what I did with Superchargers. Some would probably see this as a good thing since I'd be able to look for spoilery content without much care once it's close to coming out; didn't say I'd stop seeing things about the game.

Quite frankly I think a sport focused game is out of question, at least for Skylanders 6.
Only V.V. could have brought up a gimmick so "game-changing" yet so dangerous.

No way TfB would venture in something so different from the basic core of the series but I do hope they'll try and be less safe this time.
Giants 3.0 won't work, not after SuperChargers.

Ever since Giants, we've been getting hints as to what the next game's gimmick will be through the figures. Eye-Brawl hinted at Swap Force, Trap Shadow hinted at Trap Team, and Tread Head hinted at Superchargers. So, going by this logic... The only ones I can think of would be Splat hinting at a color-based gimmick (which could be lame, depending on how well they implement it) or the Skymiibos with either a full-fledged crossover or transformations.

But anyway, if Activision/Toys for Bob employees do come on these forums every now and then, and if one of them manage to see this, I'd like to just throw out a suggestion myself: Give the Skylanders special abilities depending on their elements.

Examples? Earth Skylanders can dig up buried treasures, Air Skylanders can glide for easier platforming, Life Skylanders can grow plants, and Water Skylanders can swim. It'd be a great way to help differentiate the elements from each other aside from character designs.

Also, maybe can we see some of Trap Team's villains become Skylanders and get their own figures? I'd buy like twenty Golden Queen figures.

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So, going by this logic... The only ones I can think of would be Splat hinting at a color-based gimmick

Isn't it obvious? The next game will be:

Absolutely agree!
Elemental-exclusive features are the way to go.

While Eye Brawl's nod to SWAP Force is a bit "forced", maybe also because TfB and V.V. weren't that much in contact back then, Trap Shadow (and Zoo Lou) and Tread Head do suspiciously hint at their following game's gimmick.

Looking at the characters... Mmmmh... The most "gimmicky" one could be... Ok, Astroblast.
His design is heavily space-oriented and it could hint at Skylanders exploring other worlds.

But then again, Rip Tide could have hinted at weapon switching and Star Strike herself could have been a nod to space.
I do remember a talking Greeble during SWAP Force's first level which could have been a way stronger nod to Trap Team than any playable character, just like SA's Elder Elementals could have hinted at Giants (and or Light and Dark).

Maybe we should pay more attention to what's in the game rather than the roster, which is also quite small this year.
Open vehicle areas make me hope about an open-world game... Fingers crossed!

Dragon Hunter seems to be some kind of hint. He's no where in Superchargers yet is a fully fledged character with description and all. Male for (or some kind ' f Dragon gimmick) anyone?

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Ever since Giants, we've been getting hints as to what the next game's gimmick will be through the figures. Eye-Brawl hinted at Swap Force, Trap Shadow hinted at Trap Team, and Tread Head hinted at Superchargers. So, going by this logic... The only ones I can think of would be Splat hinting at a color-based gimmick (which could be lame, depending on how well they implement it) or the Skymiibos with either a full-fledged crossover or transformations.

But anyway, if Activision/Toys for Bob employees do come on these forums every now and then, and if one of them manage to see this, I'd like to just throw out a suggestion myself: Give the Skylanders special abilities depending on their elements.

Examples? Earth Skylanders can dig up buried treasures, Air Skylanders can glide for easier platforming, Life Skylanders can grow plants, and Water Skylanders can swim. It'd be a great way to help differentiate the elements from each other aside from character designs.

Also, maybe can we see some of Trap Team's villains become Skylanders and get their own figures? I'd buy like twenty Golden Queen figures.

I love that idea! Especially if the elemental abilities are retroactive with previous figures ( I'd love to see Chill swimming or Ninja Stealth Elf using the Life ability ).

One thing I really hope the next game does ( aside from obvious things like Auric's shop and Brock's arena ) is the return of character bios in the collection menu. That's one of my favorite features of Swap Force, and I was sad to see it gone in Trap Team and Superchargers.

Incidentally, all the ideas and hopes I've seen in this thread bring me back to my free to play idea. Imagine a Skylanders game where all the gimmicks have their required areas, magic items are magic items, and the whole game can be played with just instant Skylanders even if you don't have a portal Those of us who collect the toys can scan our figures in using our portals, but then use them without the portal similar to the 3DS versions of SF, TT & Superchargers Racing....but those who might want to play but not into collecting the toys can buy instant versions of every character for a small fee via IAPs. Maybe the adventure pack level items could also unlock new stages based around their themes too....probably too much work, but it would still be cool IMO.

Regardless if they're fun(in which they are, I'll give them that)it's still a horrible and frankly insulting concept that shouldn't have been implemented.

Though I wonder if the Skymiibo will work in Nintendo versions of Sky6.

Shovel Knight should guest star. but only for Nintendo he is a Skymiibo. For others he is not.

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Dragon Hunter seems to be some kind of hint. He's no where in Superchargers yet is a fully fledged character with description and all. Male for (or some kind ' f Dragon gimmick) anyone?

Wait... Did I miss something...?
Which character are you talking about?
An unused enemy/villain or a Sklylander which wasn't implemented in the final version? :/

Dragon Hunter is in the final version,but he's a Land villain. Someone did some datamining iirc and found out he was supposed to be in the story at some point, so I'm not sure TFB will be allowed to give him a proper appearance.

I would also hate sports being implemented as the focus of the next game. However, it seems like a possible choice, seeing that now they are exploring other genres in order to keep the franchise fresh.

Other possibilities includes massive crossovers, weapons/armors/customizations of skylanders.

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Dragon Hunter is in the final version,but he's a Land villain. Someone did some datamining iirc and found out he was supposed to be in the story at some point, so I'm not sure TFB will be allowed to give him a proper appearance.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was set to be a villain for the Cloudbreather's Crag level, since it is about a dragon.