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...seriously needs to be consistent. Playing through the arenas, it alternates between his voice from giants, and this new voice that's clearly an actor trying to sound like him. Um...okay?

They copied the voices from giants eg voices are same in battle but at academy it's a different voice

That's my point, they sound nothing alike. Why couldn't they have either rehired the old actor or just redone all his lines? Couldn't have been that much extra for a little polish.

Yeah, it's really cheap and pathetic how they did it. I noticed right away too.

Meh u expect them to waste money on stuff like this..and fixing bugs before release you know things they never do with each game but ppl still play them.

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That's my point, they sound nothing alike. Why couldn't they have either rehired the old actor or just redone all his lines? Couldn't have been that much extra for a little polish.

Wow, that's super lame.

Well hiring the same actor isn't always an option. Or the actor might just sound different now, voices do change for various reasons (has a cold, doesn't do the inflection the same, etc.). Typically they just re-record the old lines so it sounds consistent. Sounds like they took the cheap way out.

While we're on it, Tessa sounds like a different voice actor to me as well. Hopefully they don't need to replace Kaos or it may actually be the end of Skylanders.

Though apparently I do a good Kaos impression when reading the Mask of Power books to my kids

If Kaos changed, I'd be out. Kaos' voice actor (Richard Steven Horvitz) is the reason I got into Skylanders to begin with. My husband visited family for Christmas, his nephew was playing the first game, he heard Kaos talk, and came home with "Zim is in that game with all the toys!"

I bought the game the day after Christmas.

This ruins the entire game, I'm done with Skylanders

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That's my point, they sound nothing alike. Why couldn't they have either rehired the old actor or just redone all his lines? Couldn't have been that much extra for a little polish.

Wow, that's super lame.

another slap in the face...

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This ruins the entire game, I'm done with Skylanders

I know you are being funny, but we've seen many people seem to swear off the franchise at other incredibly minor things. I think it is just burn out and some people are just looking for a justification to hop off the train. They just want a little push.

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This ruins the entire game, I'm done with Skylanders

I know you are being funny, but we've seen many people seem to swear off the franchise at other incredibly minor things. I think it is just burn out and some people are just looking for a justification to hop off the train. They just want a little push.

there is hundreds of bugs/glitches, the paywall are getting tighter, there is to much plastic to buy and less content.... it just is to much to justify using the money on this for some people. i understand it perfectly well, its nothing to kid about. one day will come when you have reached your limits too... then you will understand.

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This ruins the entire game, I'm done with Skylanders

I know you are being funny, but we've seen many people seem to swear off the franchise at other incredibly minor things. I think it is just burn out and some people are just looking for a justification to hop off the train. They just want a little push.

"Cough"MoneyBone" Coughcough"

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This ruins the entire game, I'm done with Skylanders

I know you are being funny, but we've seen many people seem to swear off the franchise at other incredibly minor things. I think it is just burn out and some people are just looking for a justification to hop off the train. They just want a little push.

"Cough"MoneyBone" Coughcough"

Yeah, they say they'll leave Skylanders and are done with it...

"There's no many glitches on my console! That's it, I'm leaving Skylanders!"
"No PvP?! Skylanders is ruined! I'll never play the games again!"

...But they come back anyways.

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there is hundreds of bugs/glitches, the paywall are getting tighter, there is to much plastic to buy and less content.... it just is to much to justify using the money on this for some people. i understand it perfectly well, its nothing to kid about. one day will come when you have reached your limits too... then you will understand.

Hundreds? Aren't you exaggerating a wee bit? Content amount is debatable, some didn't care about PvP and prefer tower defense, but it isn't for everyone. Add some new stuff, lose some old. And we have always had to buy more plastic, the complaints seem to all come from people that get a healthy selection of figures anyways, not from little Timmy who is only going to be getting 4 figures this year and would actually be affected.

I mean we have seen complaints about bugs, and then complaints about them patching bugs. The whole idea games have to ship completely bug free is a pipe dream. Comparing it to old games is silly given the vastly increased complexity of today's games. Just within THIS franchise they have gone from 32 unique characters to 132. I'm a developer (not on games) and I can tell you the vast increase in possible outcomes would be a nightmare to QA perfectly. I'll cut them some slack on this (and others should too), particularly if they have a renewed interest in patching bugs (and it seems they do). If six months from now they pull a Batman: Arkham Origins where WB Montreal pretty said "yeah, there are game breaking bugs but we're not fixing them anymore" then I'll be right alongside you.

I've reached my limits, somewhat. Previous years I would have ALOT more than I do this time. I understand just fine, but nothing I've seen is the kind of thing that would be a "deal breaker" unless your threshold is already really low. I get that. If you are already leery of all the figures and the cost, it doesn't take much to push you over. However, if you are coming in ready to go and anxious, I just don't see anything that would be justified as turning from someone from a definite YES to a definite NO. I can see a "eh, maybe" going to NO. And that's been my point.

defpally, the voice isn't even REMOTELY close. It's so distracting that I'm actually upset about this. The one from Giants is better, the one that is "stand in" sounds like someone was trying for BlackBeard's voice.

If you noticed, Wallop's in-game voice is WAY different from the voice that is used for him in the commercials.

You know why? It's because they make one game per year. They don't have enought time to think about what we want. They're removing each year an option now. Maybe we'll have Eon mode next year but no Arena battle They're thinking about quantity before the quality which is sad because they killed an awesome game Giants was the best, swap force was O.K but trap team is unnaceptable thinking about lemongrab right now...

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You know why? It's because they make one game per year. They don't have enought time to think about what we want. They're removing each year an option now. Maybe we'll have Eon mode next year but no Arena battle They're thinking about quantity before the quality which is sad because they killed an awesome game Giants was the best, swap force was O.K but trap team is unnaceptable thinking about lemongrab right now...

i 100% agree with this

I just paid an ex acti sculptor (also worked on a great many other companies toys) 800$ to commission me the doom raiders as toys that I can play. Mind you they'll just be a random skylander not the actual villain. But come on. Wolfgang and golden queen as toys? Worth it.

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defpally, the voice isn't even REMOTELY close. It's so distracting that I'm actually upset about this. The one from Giants is better, the one that is "stand in" sounds like someone was trying for BlackBeard's voice.

Yeah, I won't hear it for a couple more months. They should have just re-recorded all the lines and gone with the new voice. That's better than recycling old stuff that doesn't sound the same as the new stuff. World of Warcraft had to do this with Naxxramas, the original version had voices that weren't available anymore (I guess) and they needed to add lines for those characters for the second expansion. So they just redid ALL of their voices and replaced those in the old raid as well. The old Kel'thuzad sounded much better, but consistency should be a priority.

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You know why? It's because they make one game per year. They don't have enought time to think about what we want. They're removing each year an option now. Maybe we'll have Eon mode next year but no Arena battle They're thinking about quantity before the quality which is sad because they killed an awesome game Giants was the best, swap force was O.K but trap team is unnaceptable thinking about lemongrab right now...

i 100% agree with this

They had 2 years. They cut corners.

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You know why? It's because they make one game per year. They don't have enought time to think about what we want. They're removing each year an option now. Maybe we'll have Eon mode next year but no Arena battle They're thinking about quantity before the quality which is sad because they killed an awesome game Giants was the best, swap force was O.K but trap team is unnaceptable thinking about lemongrab right now...

i 100% agree with this

Overexaggerating a bit there again.

Seeing as most of the original voice actors returned for the main NPC characters, there's probably a reason why Brock has a different voice actor, or his voice has a different pitch. They've had the voice actor differences in game and commercials since Spyro's Adventure.

My reason as well, Invader Zim is awesome, awesome I tell you!!!

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You know why? It's because they make one game per year. They don't have enought time to think about what we want. They're removing each year an option now. Maybe we'll have Eon mode next year but no Arena battle They're thinking about quantity before the quality which is sad because they killed an awesome game Giants was the best, swap force was O.K but trap team is unnaceptable thinking about lemongrab right now...

i 100% agree with this

Overexaggerating a bit there again.

Seeing as most of the original voice actors returned for the main NPC characters, there's probably a reason why Brock has a different voice actor, or his voice has a different pitch. They've had the voice actor differences in game and commercials since Spyro's Adventure.

It's more than a different pitch...it's different in terms of pitch, tone, attitude, everything. I could've stomached it better if they at least kept the SAME voice throughout.

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You know why? It's because they make one game per year. They don't have enought time to think about what we want. They're removing each year an option now. Maybe we'll have Eon mode next year but no Arena battle They're thinking about quantity before the quality which is sad because they killed an awesome game Giants was the best, swap force was O.K but trap team is unnaceptable thinking about lemongrab right now...

i 100% agree with this

They had 2 years. They cut corners.

yeah they love to cut corners on this $800 game... everything reeks of half arsed done and short cuts...

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I just paid an ex acti sculptor (also worked on a great many other companies toys) 800$ to commission me the doom raiders as toys that I can play. Mind you they'll just be a random skylander not the actual villain. But come on. Wolfgang and golden queen as toys? Worth it.

You could cut the top off a trap and glue the remainder onto the bottom of the figure, so when it was placed in the portal the figure sat on top of the trap section? That way they would be the right figure (assuming you trapped them!).

It also might be possible to remove the chip and connect to a normal antenna to embed in the figure so it sat on the portal as normal (this needs more technical looking into).

Also, Please provide photos! What are the rights with these? Does he retain copyright? Can you duplicate them etc?

There are a couple of people here (me included) that have dabbled with casting our own figures and would be interested in making our own villain figures!

I thought it is COMPLETELY moronic NOT to have sculpts of some of the villains -- at LEAST the Doom Raiders should have been considered. Lifeless plastic traps don't give me the same connection--cheaper mind you, but not cooler.

Blades, although not a returning character, also suffers from poor continuity with his audio. The guy sounds like he delivers each line different accent! Is it just me? I can hear Australian, English and Scottish coming from him!

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Blades, although not a returning character, also suffers from poor continuity with his audio. The guy sounds like he delivers each line different accent! Is it just me? I can hear Australian, English and Scottish coming from him!

Mentioned in the bug thread. It's speculated they got the lines mixed up or whomever QA'd this character vocals did a poor job.