darkSpyro

Anyone else notice how much lower the posting is as opposed to this time last year?

Discuss.

This time last year we knew the name of the third game and a little bit about it. Sit back and wait till news of the fourth game comes and the posting will commence once again.

There appeared to be more figure discussion as well. Maybe we're still in recoup mode.

Giants was more popular than Swap Force.

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Giants was more popular than Swap Force.

In forum activity, or an opinion?

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Giants was more popular than Swap Force.

In forum activity, or an opinion?

In forum activity. Also it hasn't sold as good.

We're also inbetween waves right now. There hasn't been much news as to when wave 4 is coming out. The beginning of April for those egg packs seems a long way off...there's gotta be something else coming between now & then.

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We're also inbetween waves right now. There hasn't been much news as to when wave 4 is coming out. The beginning of April for those egg packs seems a long way off...there's gotta be something else coming between now & then.

They might be coming out in March in the UK according to Amazon.co.uk.

AoA...great points as usual. Personally I think we should have a Tips and Tricks thread for point mode and time attack mode. Your posted time score was just sick.

I too don't find PvP as engaging this time...seriously is 4-5 levels all we have this go around. That stinks to high heaven.

I'm really new to Skylanders (December) but when I joined the forums I read through the PVP topics on each board, I found it pretty interesting, I never posted because of inexperience and not owning many figures. Perhaps this time it was harder to judge because there are tons of characters now, plus some of them swap, adding to the complexity.

I've got all my fingers crossed for online PVP. THAT would be a reason to discuss PVP in even greater detail, which I am all for.

Many people have beaten this game,

I just started playing skylanders last month. I know..I am late to the party. I really would enjoy an online pvp version. I am tired of making Spyro take a dive.

I think it was just harder to get the figures last time around which drove alot of the conversation. When a wave drops for Swap Force...within 2 weeks it's usually a flood levels...at least in NY.

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I think it was just harder to get the figures last time around which drove alot of the conversation. When a wave drops for Swap Force...within 2 weeks it's usually a flood levels...at least in NY.

Good point....chasing figures isn't a problem anymore really. Content wise though I think there's more to talk about the game.

• Swap Zone Challenges
  
• Time Attack Challenges
  
• Score Mode
  
• Bonus Missions
  
• Survival Mode
  
• Team Survival
  
• PvP
  

I for the life of me still can't determine how Gold and XP is awarded in Bonus Missions etc. I like dissecting a game once the basics are out of the way. I would like some more topics on these in the future. I'm guessing most could't be bothered after finishing story mode, claiming they have "beaten" it...if this was SSA or SG, you'd be right...but not this game.

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I for the life of me still can't determine how Gold and XP is awarded in Bonus Missions etc. I like dissecting a game once the basics are out of the way. I would like some more topics on these in the future. I'm guessing most could't be bothered after finishing story mode, claiming they have "beaten" it...if this was SSA or SG, you'd be right...but not this game.

Same here. Well, obviously the higher the score the more gold you get (I haven't noticed any extra XP beyond killing things) but it kinda sucks that it doesn't show exactly how much you get once the score is totaled!

It's the calm before the "new game announcement" storm.

In Canada, its been SO hard to get wave 3. LC whamshell and LC countdown just started showing up in larger shipments today. I saw prism break, cynder, solderdash, dune bug, and the arkeyan cross bow pack once. Ive seen none of the swappers or whirlwind, and frankly its driving me up the wall!!

I'm finding it to be longer waiting periods on figures this time around. Once they start showing up, they show up once, go away, then come back in large amounts. But I'm starting to think ill never find the rest of wave 3.

Excitement for the game is near gone. When Skylanders 4 gets revealed, expect that subforum to get lots of posts. When wave 4 comes, threads will be made like wildfire about the wave.

If I'm not mistaken, last year at this time, "Toys and Merchandise" wasn't it's own separate area. Or maybe it was and I'm just not remembering right.

I think most of the discussion has moved over to Toys and Merch since there's really nothing else about the main game we need to know about, especially now that everything (ie, bonus areas and such) is out.

I was hoping for some in depth content like we had when new Skylanders were released in Giants. I don't see it that much with Swap Force. Mainly people just talk about Swap Force characters for 10 mins now and then they move onto the new Swap Force character.

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I think it was just harder to get the figures last time around which drove alot of the conversation. When a wave drops for Swap Force...within 2 weeks it's usually a flood levels...at least in NY.

Good point....chasing figures isn't a problem anymore really. Content wise though I think there's more to talk about the game.

• Swap Zone Challenges
  
• Time Attack Challenges
  
• Score Mode
  
• Bonus Missions
  
• Survival Mode
  
• Team Survival
  
• PvP
  

I for the life of me still can't determine how Gold and XP is awarded in Bonus Missions etc. I like dissecting a game once the basics are out of the way. I would like some more topics on these in the future. I'm guessing most could't be bothered after finishing story mode, claiming they have "beaten" it...if this was SSA or SG, you'd be right...but not this game.

I can share with you my inability to get 3 stars on most of the Swap Zone Challenges.....ugh.
Right now, I've completed the story on Medium.

Next step, I'm going back and collecting all the items I have missed in the story chapters to get those to 3 stars. As I re-do a level to complete my collection, I then follow-up by doing that level on Time Mode (nice to do time mode when the layout/placement of gold clocks is fresh in my mind). Between those, I'm sprinkling in a few of the bonus mission/survival modes/swap zone challenges.

At this point, most of my Swap Force figures are at or close to level 10 -- so, I'm using these redo's of each chapter as opportunities to get my figures closer to the 13-15 range.

Because then my next goal after collecting all the story items (treasures, chests, soul gems, etc.) is to give Nightmare Mode a try.
I think as I complete chapters in Nightmare mode, I will then follow-up with doing that chapter in Score Mode (I've only done one score mode challenge so far and could tell that playing on Medium was not going to get the job done).

There is a huge lack of in depth discussion on this forum than the older games had. Like AoA said you really have to do a time vs value guess before writing out a long post about any subject.

In the old forum people would with much more frequency debate you, now if you drop an idea that takes up more than a few lines it seems to kill the thread or people just gloss over the post and go back to a "I like turtles" style of reply.

As it is I ask myself if what I am wanting to write about is for my own sake. Like when I did the PVE review, and the old upgrade path guide, and ect is something I just want to made and organized somewhere that's not a .doc file.

As for the Swap Zone Challenges I found that having a second player to hit X to clear obstacles is what is needed for 3 stars. Maybe not needed, but makes much more possible. Like on the teleport... it's pure luck if you get locked up in a spot with no where to go because the board has collapsed in a bad way. With someone to clear the whole zone you have options when that happens

I tend to agree that the debate and greatly opinionated posts are all but gone. Yes there were lulls in all games but overall the QUALITY of the posts (AoA and others here notwithstanding) have been lackluster.

Consider this thread a call to action for those that appreciate this franchise. Time to step it up a notch.

I don't talk about the actual game part of the game much because we are taking our sweet time playing it this go-round and have yet to beat it despite it being a gift back in December...Granted, we're no on Kaos' Castle level this weekend...so it will probably be finished before Sunday. Still holding back SWI and ToT for Easter basket so any Skylanders that my little one buys for himself or that are being gifted before next Christmas/next year's game will have some fresh game to play them with.