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In two month we will know more. But I wished the guy from Activision would have show how it looks behind some of the crystal elemental gates. Thereby he changed to Dark Snap Shot.

But last year when all the rest of characters were revealed at once, I hope that happens again this year.

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But last year when all the rest of characters were revealed at once, I hope that happens again this year.

That happened in middle of August.

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But last year when all the rest of characters were revealed at once, I hope that happens again this year.

That happened in middle of August.

I'm still going to be patient.

News is just around the corner. I can sense it.

Lots of new goodies confirmed in this video:

• Rank will indeed be 20. (I was hoping they had changed their mind.) This removes a huge incentive for me to play with all of the skylanders. A shame.
  
• Number of levels will be 18. Not sure if that includes the adventure packs or not--seems so.
  
• Achievements
  
• Additional end-level villains. Evil Wilikins are confirmed.
  
• Kaos Mode?
  

you dont get achievements for the adventure packs... so it must be 20 levels total.

Well notice chapter 11...I see the nightmare express. Based on how Skylander Dad explains it...it sounds like they are included. Dunno.

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In two month we will know more. But I wished the guy from Activision would have show how it looks behind some of the crystal elemental gates. Thereby he changed to Dark Snap Shot.

Don't you want any surprises????????

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you dont get achievements for the adventure packs... so it must be 20 levels total.

Unless there's more than 2 Adventure Packs.

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Well notice chapter 11...I see the nightmare express. Based on how Skylander Dad explains it...it sounds like they are included. Dunno.

I don't think that's how he put it. He said maybe the train was in multiple levels. He even expressed that it didn't sound right to have the adventure packs numbered in the middle of the chapter listings.

From: http://www.xboxachievements.co...m/achievements/

Soda Saver Complete Chapter 1
Now YOU Know It All Complete Chapter 2
Chompy Champ Complete Chapter 3
Bird Buddy Complete Chapter 4
Master of Chefs Complete Chapter 5
Squid Seeker Complete Chapter 6
Swamp Survivor Complete Chapter 7
Dreamcatcher Catcher Complete Chapter 8
Lumber Liberator Complete Chapter 9
Aroma Avenger Complete Chapter 10
Krankcase Kapturer Complete Chapter 11
Clock Crusader Complete Chapter 12
Back From the Future Complete Chapter 13
Rocket Recoverer Complete Chapter 14
Squadron Star Complete Chapter 15
Desert Dominator Complete Chapter 16
Royal Flusher Complete Chapter 17
Kaos Komeuppance Complete Chapter 18

Statue Smasher Chapter 3: Destroy 4 stone Chompy heads
Preemptive Power Chapter 4: Destroy 1 Dropship
Cannon Completest Chapter 5: Destroy 8 Troll Transports during the flying sequence
Pipe Down Chapter 6: Destroy 4 stacks of pipes using the crane on Dredger's Yacht
No Coins Left Behind Chapter 7: Collect 20 coins while following Marsha through the mist
Ball Sprawler Chapter 8: Knock 12 Golden Balls off the waterfall in the Meditative Pool area
Evilikin Eliminator Chapter 9: Shoot 20 Evilikin Runner during the flying sequence
No Goo For You! Chapter 10: Travel to Splash Station without taking any damage from goo
Ride the Rails Chapter 11: Ride the train to the end of the line
Da Pinchy Defacer Chapter 12: Destroy 5 Da Pinchy statues
Just to be Safe Chapter 13: Take down every shield unit during the flying sequence
Exhaust All Possibilities Chapter 14: Complete the arena battle without getting hit by rocket exhaust
Look Ma, No Rockets! Chapter 15: Shoot down 30 Air Pirates without using rockets
Garden Gladiator Chapter 16: Destroy 10 cacti
Highwire Act Chapter 17: Complete all the tile floor puzzles without failing
Do a Barrel Roll Chapter 18: Collect 9 coins while falling down the Machine Heart
Savior of Skylands IV Complete Story Mode on any difficulty setting
Dream a Little Nightmare Complete Story Mode on the Nightmare difficulty setting
Kaos Mode Master Defeat 100 enemies in Kaos Mode
Star Star Earn 50 Stars in Kaos Mode
Arena Mogul Unlock Brock's special arena
Chairman of the Rumble Club Complete all Arena levels
Not Out of Your Element Unlock your first Elemental area
Hero Hunter Capture 10 Villains
Skystones Scavenger Collect 20 Skystones
All the Way Up! Level up any Skylander to level 20
Wow, That's Tough! Achieve Portal Master Rank 5
Road to Redemption Complete a captured Villain's quest

So far we have 4 bird villains.

It looks like there's multiple flying sequences...nothing like sucking the value out of your landers with character agnostic sequences. Anyone else thinking the themes are TOO reminiscent of Giants?

I have a feeling I won't enjoy this game as much swap force. I love having heaps of achievements and modes.

Hey, you joined the forum in anticipation of this game, right, Trap Master? (I know I did!) I'm sure that it will have plenty in store for us.

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It looks like there's multiple flying sequences...nothing like sucking the value out of your landers with character agnostic sequences. Anyone else thinking the themes are TOO reminiscent of Giants?

i hope that if there are more flying sequences, they are more than the "aiming the cannon" ones that were the only ones in swap force.
i'd prefer to be able to control the vehicle a bit more, even if it is still mostly on rails, just more than just the cannon sight.

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It looks like there's multiple flying sequences...nothing like sucking the value out of your landers with character agnostic sequences. Anyone else thinking the themes are TOO reminiscent of Giants?

i hope that if there are more flying sequences, they are more than the "aiming the cannon" ones that were the only ones in swap force.
i'd prefer to be able to control the vehicle a bit more, even if it is still mostly on rails, just more than just the cannon sight.

The little side bar things in Swap Force I haven't really counted. I'm just re-living Autogyro Adventure and realizing it had too much of that kind of stuff in there. If they better balance it, I'm ok.

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I have a feeling I won't enjoy this game as much swap force. I love having heaps of achievements and modes.

That is one area I think Swap Force did much better than TfB's games. It seems we are reverting back to a more minimalistic version, which I'm not as happy with, as you are.

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I have a feeling I won't enjoy this game as much swap force. I love having heaps of achievements and modes.

from what we have of little info, things not gonna improve. we need a miracle to happen before things change...

I've made the parallel once I'll do it again.

Watch 'any' of the MBay directed Transformer movies. Pretty bad right? Now watch them again, and fast forward past ANY scene revolves around a human. Much better movie isn't? Even if you liked Sam's parents, the movie is just more enjoyable as a whole without humans.

When I went through Swap Force the first time, the levels felt incredibly long, like ridiculously long and it drained me, byt hte time I finished a single level I was ready to save and go do something else. Recently, I started playing again on a different console. I only had a couple characters 'near' the console, so I literally only played as Jade fire kraken for more than half the game (so far my PS3 says I only have 7 figures when my 360 says I have pretty much everything but a couple variants). This means the only element gates I could do were fire, and the only swap gate I could do were the jump ones.

The game is so much better now. There is a 'pace' to it. the levels don't take what seems like 45 minutes to an hour to complete.

So while I PERFECTLY understand those who like the content - and I'm not defecating on the content either, but I'd MUCH rather for the storyline they trim most of that 'fat', and leave it to be accessible independently in the hub (like after you've beaten it in SF)...thus not forcing you to do so much for 3 Stars, but leaving the content there for those who do like it. I mean come on, there are several levels in SF where there is an elemental gate right NEXT to a Swap gate, meaning upwards of 10-15 minutes that could have been spent going through the level is consumed trying to beat those two areas.
- Unreall

Unreall, that's a pretty good point. I had a very similar experience playing through in full the first time. I wouldn't want content cut, just "relocated" to put it simply. Having more to do after completing the main campaign is great in any game and definitely this franchise. I always save team arenas, bonus missions, and such until after I've mopped up the campaign levels.

Pacing is an important point. One thing Activision needs to understand is that content can be delivered differently than simply saying "more level for your buck". I've ranted on continuously how they can do that. The pace of this game will be on par to the general audience's liking, which is better in my mind. But I say again...they need to innovate WITHIN the game to make the character purchases OUT OF THE GAME more worthy. Folks are now finally agreeing with others in that "less is more" within the game AND at the store when making figure purchases. They either solve how to deliver inobtrusive content or gameplay to support more characters (but doesn't detract from the core experience) OR they start decreasing the toys. One or the other.

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Hey, you joined the forum in anticipation of this game, right, Trap Master? (I know I did!) I'm sure that it will have plenty in store for us.

No doubt I am excited but I just hope the game has heaps to do. The revealed achievements seem to indicate there may not be.

Ok gang, just a few more hours for our next hunger-starved update!

Quote: GhostRoaster

Ok gang, just a few more hours for our next hunger-starved update!

How long exactly? I am in Australia.

9 and a half hours

stt is going to tablets now. so we will have to deal with the limits of the tablets. taking advantages of new powerful ps4,xbone,wiiu etc.. is out the windows i guess. also next step is to have only tablet digital characters and god knows what other things they will sell you. activision is really going out there this time to ruin skylanders...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJPKPh82nbE

Spyro's Adventure was on tablets/phones...
- Unreall

No it wasn't. It was released on Windows and OS X.

'outfits' as i thought the nickel and dime have just started...

I will just hope that the outfits will fits better then the hats .

I'm just going to wait for the message, "Transfer all your character alts from Skylanders: Lost Islands over to your copy of Skylanders: Trap Team as outfits for only 500 Gems."

Ho hum, outfits don't do much for me, just more stuff to bury behind the trap master pay gates. Although hats had kind of gone as far as they could, it's nice there might be more ways to boost your stats. I hardly think this is game changing news that would sway anyone to climb aboard the STT hype train.

Tablets, eh? That's one way to get out of the Nintendo shadow so the figure base can keep selling strong. Not surprised about this, but not excited about it either.

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No it wasn't. It was released on Windows and OS X.

I guess I'm wrong, I swore up and down that the first one had an iOS release, I remember looking at it SEVERAL times at Target with buttons showing it was playable for iOS, but doing an internet search I'm not finding anything right now. I know I'm not crazy though.
- Unreall

The IOS starter pack just had Battlegrounds in it. The bluetooth portal was nice.

At this point, I'm honestly most worried about wether the extra modes (especially Survival/Time Attack) are coming back. I wasn't thinking much about it before, but they aren't on the achievement list... It would be a big step back in replay variety, if they go. I'd be sad if the extra modes went, since I enjoyed several for different reasons. I've silently been hoping that they'd expand on them, but as far as I know, they haven't been mentioned at all.

... Wait, I forgot Brock is back. There's hope, and notable evidence, for Survival's return! I'm hoping that it inherits some of the charm it did in Giants, though with a few more levels where your only objective is to kill everything like SF (I haven't played Giants Survival in a long time, but when I did, it felt like there were too many stages slowed down from having to knock enemies into blades or go after particular ones or similar; prefer SF's design for those stages, though I do miss seeing the crowd in it and wish it still offered a couple "slower" stages).

I'll keep an eye out for tomorrow's reveal, but I've been waiting so long to see wether they've fixed problems I had with the last games, and I'm so tired of checking for news. Maybe I should just take a break from the franchise entirely so that TT would feel fresh, but if I didn't play the older Skylander games for months, they'd feel fresh again too.
I think at this point a lot of my disinterest is coming from having played the games so much already. I'm just not excited for TT right now. I've seen so much gameplay, and it looks neither different nor improved upon enough from the others, for me. I hope I'm excited with today's reveal, but expectations are low, since none of the recent news has made me excited (not even the full character poster). Honestly, I think the only thing I'm particularly excited to see are the reviews for the game...

^A0A: I still patiently await GAMEPLAY modes and features reveals. It makes a difference to me. I don't expect all to be revealed until a bit later, if at all. I guess I'll wait for the fans here to chime in after they buy it.

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Ho hum, outfits don't do much for me, just more stuff to bury behind the trap master pay gates. Although hats had kind of gone as far as they could, it's nice there might be more ways to boost your stats. I hardly think this is game changing news that would sway anyone to climb aboard the STT hype train.

70% of the hats are useless. It's an awesome inventory, but let's face it. No one REALLY used all of those old SSA and SG hats, did they? All I did was wear the new stuff. They have to support old because it's like supporting the characters. But in general, I don't think MORE hats are needed.

Oh a different note, and I know the issue of character gender isnt a major factor to some people... But given it was part of a major press release quoting Paul Reiche about the amount of female characters increasing this go round

I know several of the characters in the poster are hard to see. It makes determining things like gender rather impossible. However I seriously hope that the claimed higher female character ratio wasn't based on a few villains and rehashing sidekicks. As it stands right now on confirmed female characters: Torch, Deja Vu , Gearshift, Frightengale, & Head Rush. We're at the same ratio of new Sky-lady characters as we were in Swap Force. The sidekicks might equal things out compared to the reposes we got for girls. Which leaves the few unknowns and the villains to up the ratio? Lame.

A bit off topic, but have we found out who won the frito lay name contest yet? I haven't been following it lately.

All three are in the game, but we do not know who won.

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Oh a different note, and I know the issue of character gender isnt a major factor to some people... But given it was part of a major press release quoting Paul Reiche about the amount of female characters increasing this go round

I know several of the characters in the poster are hard to see. It makes determining things like gender rather impossible. However I seriously hope that the claimed higher female character ratio wasn't based on a few villains and rehashing sidekicks. As it stands right now on confirmed female characters: Torch, Deja Vu , Gearshift, Frightengale, & Head Rush. We're at the same ratio of new Sky-lady characters as we were in Swap Force. The sidekicks might equal things out compared to the reposes we got for girls. Which leaves the few unknowns and the villains to up the ratio? Lame.

I definitely don't need Razz in here on a three page rant about genders, but it does look like the mix is still better than last name (swapping and all).

S2 Ghost Roaster for Series 2 as one of the ? skylanders confirmed?

No one needs a three page rant about ANY topic. Just hoping at least 2-3 more of the unknowns end up as ladies. I think using the sidekicks as an excuse to up the claimed total is a rather disappointing cop-out. I dont really need to go more in depth on the subject.

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S2 Ghost Roaster for Series 2 as one of the ? skylanders confirmed?

This confirms that digital images get extremely blurry and kind of hurts the eyes when you zoom in like this.

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This confirms that digital images get extremely blurry and kind of hurts the eyes when you zoom in like this.

*presses the non-existent like button*

That isn't Ghost Roaster. News flash; that red ball is Dark Food Fight's tomato.

I'd love for it to be GR, but my money is on DFF.

It looks like today's announcement might be the character roster. I'd also expect clarification on the role of Sidekicks, since having them on the poster while people don't know what they do could confuse people.

If it's just the poster and no new Sidekick info... Colour me whatever represents cancelling preorders. I really wanted to vent so I actually wrote a rant about it in a notepad. I'd be happy to see them reveal it after the demand, and I think the roster looks good and better than SF's, though it doesn't relate to my biggest concerns and wouldn't hype me. Since I've felt iffy about the franchise lately, I decided I wouldn't get it at launch if the reveal was the roster, because I don't care enough now and want to dedicate more free time to other games again.

If they do give details about what Sidekicks do, my reaction would depend on what they do.

If they reveal the roster and post gameplay videos of every Skylander, I'll have a look at the videos to see if anyone seems particularly cool, although it wouldn't sway me into a launch-day buy.

Re: Outfits- I don't care for the cosmetic changes, and the games are never so difficult you need the stat boosts. I never keep Hats on, except (recently) Speed ones, which I remove once the Skylander is maxed.

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A bit off topic, but have we found out who won the frito lay name contest yet? I haven't been following it lately.

(Decided to switch it up from the usual Hotel Mario- No. )

Here's the official mobile trailer.


Here, you can see some extremely short official gameplay of Chef Pepper Jack. He attacks with two huge whisks.

We also see a nice cinematic of a few Trap Masters (Lob Star, surprisingly, made an appearance) and some villains (including Pepper Jack and "Dreamcatcher").