darkSpyro

I know they say this is a kids game, but my 7 year old son and I are playing it together and I think I might be more into it than he is. I really like how you can get Bonus XP by collecting as many Skylanders as you can and pairing them up to your PS3. We have the 200% EXP bonus because I went a little crazy and bought every last Skylander currently available, even Dark Spyro, Whirlwind, and I ordered the Drill Sergeant via Sam's Club's website.

I don't care what they say, this game is fun, it's cute, it's different, it's addictive!

I know I'm not alone out there...

You're not alone. I'm 18 years old I think this game is awesome. Me and my bf are currently trying to collect every Skylander. We have 6 of them so far.

You aren't, I'm also 27 years old, and I've been following this game for long now.

I have Dark Spyro, Spyro, Sonic Boom, Whirlwind, Stump Smash, Stealth Elf, Ghost Roaster, Terrafin, Prism Break, Flameslinger, Ignitor, Eruptor, Zap, Gill Grunt, Voodood, Drobot, Boomer and Trigger Happy.

I ordered Drill Sergeant today from the Sam's Club website, and I have a Legendary Pack of Legendary Spyro, Legendary Chop Chop, and Legendary Bash that should complete my set of everything currently available.

Tempted to get a regular Bash and Chop Chop, but I'm not sure that there is any benefit in doing so besides completing the set.

I'm gonna go buy more Skylanders tomorrow.

Out of curiosity, are the Legendary characters any different than the normal ones? Do they have different upgrades or attacks ETC?

Only in stats. Attacks and upgrades are the same.

Do they have boosted stats? I haven't plugged mine in yet, I will in a few hours and let you know.

Ok, thanks.

15 years old and excited for the game to arrive in the mail today.

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Do they have boosted stats? I haven't plugged mine in yet, I will in a few hours and let you know.

They have boosted stats.

27-15 = 12.

Assume 12 = y
Assume 15 = x
Assume 27 = z
Assume 2x (or 30) = a

12/15 = 0.8 (or 4/5)

y = 0.8x
2x = 30
z = 0.9a (or a - 0.1a)

x + y = 1.8x

According to that math, the OP is 1.8 times your age, CAV. Makes you a poor comparison.

Or... 27/15, if you wanted to get a scale factor. Besides that, what does that have to do with anything? This is where I'm gonna get the response "Oh! These people are childish if they like a kids game when they're in their late 20's!"

Because normally the influence of the hormones which impair logic and critical thinking skills wear off in the early twenties. However, that entirely depends on gender. Gender can make it be as high as fifty. Nonetheless, my inner perfectionist speaking in this standpoint. I tend to viciously attack any minute flaw in games. Insignificant polygon glitch? Your game sucks. Plothole? Your writers suck. Any minute detail that distracts or is undesirable? You suck.

Then again, that is from a purely logical standpoint, something most people don't approach.

I somehow don't think it's logical to say that a game instantly sucks because of a minute flaw. Do you not like any games then? This person may find the game enjoyable but won't sit blindly and say it's perfect because no game is perfect, they'll just have to face the fact that the game has a few flaws and deal with it, like most mature people do.

I can deal with a FEW flaws. This is not one of those cases.

Ok then, have you played the game and if so what makes this game any different than any other with a few flaws.

I implied in my last post it had many flaws, not a few.

And yet again, you ignored my question. Have you played the game?

Has no one paid attention to the five times I said I lost all my money in the stock market?

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According to that math, the OP is 1.8 times your age, CAV. Makes you a poor comparison.

I said what I did because when someone thinks of a 15 year old boy, they think of someone whom will only play FPS and call every other game (especially Skylanders) a game for little babies.

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Has no one paid attention to the five times I said I lost all my money in the stock market?

No, because we can't see every post you make on every topic. But, back to the question in hand, you've not played the game yet therefore your argument is invalid.

Yet almost every time I see people hating on games, they've never played them.

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Quote: Prysom

According to that math, the OP is 1.8 times your age, CAV. Makes you a poor comparison.

I said what I did because when someone thinks of a 15 year old boy, they think of someone whom will only play FPS and call every other game (especially Skylanders) a game for little babies.

I don't.

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Yet almost every time I see people hating on games, they've never played them.

And everyone who does that is just as bad as each other, just because everyone else does it doesn't mean that you can too.

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Quote: Prysom

According to that math, the OP is 1.8 times your age, CAV. Makes you a poor comparison.

I said what I did because when someone thinks of a 15 year old boy, they think of someone whom will only play FPS and call every other game (especially Skylanders) a game for little babies.

I don't.

Thank you for breaking the norm.

This may be one time I agree with the norm... Puzzling.

Really, its more about mentality. When I look at the electronics department of a store and see a group of people acting a certain way, I'm not looking at how old they are, I'm looking at how old they act. I've seen 30-somes act like kids, and I've seen some junior high kids act like adults with full time jobs. FPS type people puts a picture in my mind of someone who is either obsessed with guns and military type stuff and/or has a narrow minded viewpoint of the quality in today's video games. I am not, however, picturing someone at a particular age. I've seen grown men argue with kids during online play, and it sickens me.

For me and FPS, I don't care unless it has a melee weapon. I like slashing stuff. I have an obsession with blades and various deadly melee weapons, and I'm proud of it.

I'm 28 and I'm totally addicted......and I was never a Spyro fan before

From what I've seen as far as reaction from people online and in real life, people who aren't familiar with Spyro warm up to the game faster than people who have mixed feelings about their favorite purple dragon being portrayed the way he is.

I haven't tried it yet... I don't know. THis game just doesn't seem so...Spyro-ey to me.
You might as well put another character with wings. I don't really see the real 'spyro element' coming back.
but who am I to judge.
might give it a go some time.

I'm 17. And I can still play it.

Picked it up yesterday, and both me and the GF really liked it - picked up whirlwind and Stealth elf outside the core 3. We ended up playing it way into the night. (we're both 26)

And yeah, they should have just called it Skylanders - just because Spyro is in it, doesn't make it a Spyro game, imho

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Really, its more about mentality. When I look at the electronics department of a store and see a group of people acting a certain way, I'm not looking at how old they are, I'm looking at how old they act. I've seen 30-somes act like kids, and I've seen some junior high kids act like adults with full time jobs. FPS type people puts a picture in my mind of someone who is either obsessed with guns and military type stuff and/or has a narrow minded viewpoint of the quality in today's video games. I am not, however, picturing someone at a particular age. I've seen grown men argue with kids during online play, and it sickens me.

For once I fully agree with you.

Quote: Hindsight

I know they say this is a kids game, but my 7 year old son and I are playing it together and I think I might be more into it than he is. I really like how you can get Bonus XP by collecting as many Skylanders as you can and pairing them up to your PS3. We have the 200% EXP bonus because I went a little crazy and bought every last Skylander currently available, even Dark Spyro, Whirlwind, and I ordered the Drill Sergeant via Sam's Club's website.

I don't care what they say, this game is fun, it's cute, it's different, it's addictive!

I know I'm not alone out there...

I'm a 19 year old guy and I love the game!!

Im 13 and I am probably one of the only two in my school that would even look at it in a store for longer than 4 seconds. Everybody else is a call of duty obsessed idiot or dosn't play video games

I'm in my early/mid 20's and I'm crazy excited about this game!

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Or... 27/15, if you wanted to get a scale factor. Besides that, what does that have to do with anything? This is where I'm gonna get the response "Oh! These people are childish if they like a kids game when they're in their late 20's!"

You could further simplify that fraction to 9/5

30 years old here, and only joined this forum as a result of Skylanders.

My son and myself are enjoying it immensely so far!

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Or... 27/15, if you wanted to get a scale factor. Besides that, what does that have to do with anything? This is where I'm gonna get the response "Oh! These people are childish if they like a kids game when they're in their late 20's!"

You could further simplify that fraction to 9/5

It wasn't meant to be a fraction, just a divide symbol because the / is used as divide.

...I swear, hearing all this about the game is making me have second thoughts about waiting 'til Christmas.

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...I swear, hearing all this about the game is making me have second thoughts about waiting 'til Christmas.

If you have the money and want the game, why not get it, and get something else for Christmas?

I had a similar dilemma in regards to the Sonic Generations Collectors Edition. I was going to wait until Christmas to get it, but seeing as I now have the money, I'm getting it on release, and getting something else for Christmas instead.

This other thing was actually going the PS3 or 3DS version of Skylanders, but I found something I wanted more. I was only going to get Skylanders because I couldn't think of anything else.

I'm 37, so's my wife, and we love this game. Also, my 4 year old daughter can play the first few levels which is nice. Her first video game.

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30 years old here, and only joined this forum as a result of Skylanders.

My son and myself are enjoying it immensely so far!

Ditto, I'm 36 and my 8 year old son loves the game. It's been great fun to play together. I have totally caved and we have gotten all of the currently released Skylanders.

It's great we are getting new members because of skylanders

We got hooked! I am 33 years old and I have a 10 year old daughter who totally loves the game! We only planned to have the starter set but we went totally crazy after learning the 200 XP bonus when you enter 16 figures. We ended up with all of the figures except the one from the pirate set. Once we've figured out the game play then just the curiosity of what each figure can do is enough excuse to buy all the figures.

The concept of the game is not really new (anyone remember or even heard of UB funkeys?) but some key features have hit the mark in making it an awesome game. Coming from someone who has collected table top toys and trading cards and who has a passion for video games (FPS and MMOG), this was a no-brainer! I totally love the variety of figures plus the uniqueness of each them. The quality of the figures are pretty good and the wireless portal is a huge convenience. My daughter loved the elf characters and I fell in love with Trigger Happy. Toys for BOB did a good job of putting key elements that make a very addicting game. Customizable head gear, upgradable and customizable skills, levels, co-op are just some features that will keep you playing...and playing...and playing.

We've put in almost 10 hours into this game and Im sure this game has a good life span with all the different figures.

I do hope that activision will not treat and limit the figures to this current game only even if they plan to release future skylander titles. If these figures can be "carried over" to a new game then it will certainly be a good reason to collect all of the figures.

36? Wow... (Five bucks says it was originally for their kids)

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We got hooked! I am 33 years old and I have a 10 year old daughter who totally loves the game! We only planned to have the starter set but we went totally crazy after learning the 200 XP bonus when you enter 16 figures. We ended up with all of the figures except the one from the pirate set. Once we've figured out the game play then just the curiosity of what each figure can do is enough excuse to buy all the figures.

The concept of the game is not really new (anyone remember or even heard of UB funkeys?) but some key features have hit the mark in making it an awesome game. Coming from someone who has collected table top toys and trading cards and who has a passion for video games (FPS and MMOG), this was a no-brainer! I totally love the variety of figures plus the uniqueness of each them. The quality of the figures are pretty good and the wireless portal is a huge convenience. My daughter loved the elf characters and I fell in love with Trigger Happy. Toys for BOB did a good job of putting key elements that make a very addicting game. Customizable head gear, upgradable and customizable skills, levels, co-op are just some features that will keep you playing...and playing...and playing.

We've put in almost 10 hours into this game and Im sure this game has a good life span with all the different figures.

I do hope that activision will not treat and limit the figures to this current game only even if they plan to release future skylander titles. If these figures can be "carried over" to a new game then it will certainly be a good reason to collect all of the figures.

Oh yeah, I had UB Funkeys

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Quote: kurttkrueger

30 years old here, and only joined this forum as a result of Skylanders.

My son and myself are enjoying it immensely so far!

Ditto, I'm 36 and my 8 year old son loves the game. It's been great fun to play together. I have totally caved and we have gotten all of the currently released Skylanders.

Not quite got that far yet, but I've picked up Stump Smash and Prism Break since buying the starter pack. I've got Whirlwind coming to me later in the week, and I'll be heading to the local retail park tonight to see if I can score a few more!

Something scares me about the fact we have a huge influx of new members, and NONE are younger than 25.