darkSpyro

Who else here thinks that it would have been a smart idea for Activision to have released the Empire of Ice adventure pack a week or so ago?

You know, for the holidays (Empire of Ice, Slam-Bam is a Snow yeti, one of the levels hats is the Santa hat)

But knowing how crazy people can be it'll probably be released in Spring/Summer

yes that would be a better idea

that is not the dumbest.... the dumbest is not to include online play in battle mode for up to 4 player and a online co-op for the game main story.

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that is not the dumbest.... the dumbest is not to include online play in battle mode for up to 4 player and a online co-op for the game main story.

Want to know why that was a smart idea, not to include online play at all?

Imagine this.

Player gets ready to beat another person. opponent is about to play ragequitter, but instead of just quitting, they keep removing and placing their character on the portal over and over. Say the campaign was online, imagine playing with someone who decides to change characters every 3 seconds, or decides they want to select a different hat.

Funny, I just mentioned this to someone today as well. It was a very poor decision, and would have made more sense to be released in place of the Pirate one.

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that is not the dumbest.... the dumbest is not to include online play in battle mode for up to 4 player and a online co-op for the game main story.

Want to know why that was a smart idea, not to include online play at all?

Imagine this.

Player gets ready to beat another person. opponent is about to play ragequitter, but instead of just quitting, they keep removing and placing their character on the portal over and over. Say the campaign was online, imagine playing with someone who decides to change characters every 3 seconds, or decides they want to select a different hat.

Yeah that could happen. Children keeping on switching their characters and keep on doing it for the fun of it, and it's gets pretty annoying. Also, online isn't the best place for children ages 6-12 anyways.

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Quote: kappapopm

that is not the dumbest.... the dumbest is not to include online play in battle mode for up to 4 player and a online co-op for the game main story.

Want to know why that was a smart idea, not to include online play at all?

Imagine this.

Player gets ready to beat another person. opponent is about to play ragequitter, but instead of just quitting, they keep removing and placing their character on the portal over and over. Say the campaign was online, imagine playing with someone who decides to change characters every 3 seconds, or decides they want to select a different hat.

what about if the one person that replace and remove the character only see that 'no character on portal screen' and not tho other player... and the game dont pause and wait for them or they get only 3 changes and then no more.. or there is an option in the online game you host that set only one playable character for that game...

there are many possibilities...

yes i think it is dumb too because i really wanted it slam-bam is my favourite skylander and they havnt released it

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that is not the dumbest.... the dumbest is not to include online play in battle mode for up to 4 player and a online co-op for the game main story.

Want to know why that was a smart idea, not to include online play at all?

Imagine this.

Player gets ready to beat another person. opponent is about to play ragequitter, but instead of just quitting, they keep removing and placing their character on the portal over and over. Say the campaign was online, imagine playing with someone who decides to change characters every 3 seconds, or decides they want to select a different hat.

what about if the one person that replace and remove the character only see that 'no character on portal screen' and not tho other player... and the game dont pause and wait for them or they get only 3 changes and then no more.. or there is an option in the online game you host that set only one playable character for that game...

there are many possibilities...

Kids at 6-12 are not ready for online play anyways, kappa. At that age, they will easily get offended if their character gets beaten and do expected responses like ragequitting and screaming.

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Quote: kappapopm

that is not the dumbest.... the dumbest is not to include online play in battle mode for up to 4 player and a online co-op for the game main story.

Want to know why that was a smart idea, not to include online play at all?

Imagine this.

Player gets ready to beat another person. opponent is about to play ragequitter, but instead of just quitting, they keep removing and placing their character on the portal over and over. Say the campaign was online, imagine playing with someone who decides to change characters every 3 seconds, or decides they want to select a different hat.

what about if the one person that replace and remove the character only see that 'no character on portal screen' and not tho other player... and the game dont pause and wait for them or they get only 3 changes and then no more.. or there is an option in the online game you host that set only one playable character for that game...

there are many possibilities...

There are, but what would be the point of playing if all of your opponents just kept switching for the 'lulz'? Just listing it as 'no character change' won't stop some bratty kid removing it in a temper. And then there's the whole portal running out of power issue. You don't get a warning, it just flat out conks out.

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that is not the dumbest.... the dumbest is not to include online play in battle mode for up to 4 player and a online co-op for the game main story.

Want to know why that was a smart idea, not to include online play at all?

Imagine this.

Player gets ready to beat another person. opponent is about to play ragequitter, but instead of just quitting, they keep removing and placing their character on the portal over and over. Say the campaign was online, imagine playing with someone who decides to change characters every 3 seconds, or decides they want to select a different hat.

Yeah that could happen. Children keeping on switching their characters and keep on doing it for the fun of it, and it's gets pretty annoying. Also, online isn't the best place for children ages 6-12 anyways.

they could set option for the game play, you remove it you lose... then the replacing fun wouldn't be that fun anymore... when it comes to online play there is more 6-12 years old playing mw3 than skylanders...

Must you add that picture that stretches the topic...? <.<

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Must you add that picture that stretches the topic...? <.<

better now?....

Yes, that's better thank you.

kid's play that stuff all the time my friend knows every cheat in grand theft auto liberty city gay tony

Then again, it isn't snowing everywhere, but I see your point.

A lack of online play at least means a lack of voice chat, which means nobody will be screaming the F word at little kids or trying to coax them into the back of a van. While the game would benefit from limited, anonymous online battling, full XBL or PSN support has its drawbacks, and would certainly need to omit a chat function.

you should see my friends cousin he has the biggest mouth in the world his favorite word is **** so he is addicted to call duty of course and he has playstation network

I think a game like this would lag terribly online. Plus, there's just something brilliant about playing it with people sat right next to you! I initially was disappointed about the lack of online, and maybe for the PvP it could have worked, but definitely not for the story.

Even though this online subject is really off topic...

I'd be all for the idea of couch play, it's a bit hard when you're a college student living on your own. None of my friends have much interest in getting their own Skylanders due to the same fact. However, online play and perhaps adding 2v2 to battle mode (since you could do so online) would probably get quite a few of my friends interested in the game.

Online play is the key to making even more money on this product. There is absolutely no reason not to include online play with the right implementation.

Online play may not be very appropriate for kid's 5-8 but by then kid's 9-13 should be able to dicide if it's appropriate or not ,with gamestop going on about no m games to kids under 17 but if you go other places they will let you, mainly people play call duty online and the rated m rating left a handful of under ages out,finnaly I say online playwith skylanders is not so appropriate.

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Want to know why that was a smart idea, not to include online play at all?

Imagine this.

Player gets ready to beat another person. opponent is about to play ragequitter, but instead of just quitting, they keep removing and placing their character on the portal over and over. Say the campaign was online, imagine playing with someone who decides to change characters every 3 seconds, or decides they want to select a different hat.

Yeah that could happen. Children keeping on switching their characters and keep on doing it for the fun of it, and it's gets pretty annoying. Also, online isn't the best place for children ages 6-12 anyways.

they could set option for the game play, you remove it you lose... then the replacing fun wouldn't be that fun anymore... when it comes to online play there is more 6-12 years old playing mw3 than skylanders...

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, i want that kids hat so bad i can't find a perry the platypus hat anywhere -__-

a kid at school has a perry the platapus hat

Leave it to Activision to have a good idea and fail to run with it properly.

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that is not the dumbest.... the dumbest is not to include online play in battle mode for up to 4 player and a online co-op for the game main story.

Want to know why that was a smart idea, not to include online play at all?

Imagine this.

Player gets ready to beat another person. opponent is about to play ragequitter, but instead of just quitting, they keep removing and placing their character on the portal over and over. Say the campaign was online, imagine playing with someone who decides to change characters every 3 seconds, or decides they want to select a different hat.

To make it a playble function, they could make it to where only the player's screen changed. The others couldn't move from the screen, but they could still fight while the character was being changed. Also, put a time limit between character changes. That way the on off on of on off thing couldn't happen.