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Those purple "power up" icons really remind me the boingo nuts' ones from Trap Team.
They might have specific level purposes.

Or maybe they show the items only when you get near them?

^Ooh I hope so! Does anybody else think Thump Truck looks more like a cement pouring truck than an actual dump truck?

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Nice find. Now we got a better pic of Dive-Clops's toy.

ugh.... I'm starting to worry that this game is going to be just as, if not more, expensive than trap team. What I'm really hoping for is just 4 trophies (koas, golden queen, land trophy, and air trophy) and these will let you play as those villians and that the other villians shown in the video are purely for online racing. Since I dont know if they would let you play as your own skylanders in online (Incase someones comes off the portal or something) then everyone could choose different villians. Or, you can use your own, but the villians are unlockable to play as only in online.

If theres trophies for all of these villians this game is going to get stupid expensive

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What was That vehicle behind Reef Ripper? And who is that inside..... DUDHDFDUDDUDNUDNUN!

The pilot almost looks like a white Hex variant...
And the one driving Thump Truck (at least that's what I think it is) looks like a white Splat version...

Confused but indeed intrigued and curious to know more!

Now you've got me hyped. I'll give you all of my money if that's really Hex.

The Skylanders facebook page has put that they are announcing something next week

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The Skylanders facebook page has put that they are announcing something next week

DON'T DISAPPOINT, VV! I'm-a believin' in ya!

Here is what I am thinking regarding the trophies/races: it would make sense to have at least a couple of racetracks per element and each element have its own trophy. Now, when I say that I am not saying a physical trophy that you have to buy. I am sure that the game itself comes preloaded with trophies that you can play for. As you win races toward that elemental trophy, you unlock villains that you can play as in the racing mode (similar to Mario Kart). You will probably not be able to play as the villains in story mode, only in racing mode. Maybe the game comes preloaded with 6 or 7 racing trophies and their levels and you can buy 4 more to get the cups and levels for the other elements.

Can I just say that I really like the way the story is going? I enjoy "The villain wins" type things, it adds more risk and peril to the story.

What's there to announce? Online? Not much really. I think they're trying to get everyone pumped at the last minute, but I'm just meh at this point. Maybe they'll announce something else to mess with completionists....

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What's there to announce? Online? Not much really. I think they're trying to get everyone pumped at the last minute, but I'm just meh at this point. Maybe they'll announce something else to mess with completionists....

Well, even if they don't announce anything new and just show us some gameplay of something we know little about, that'd still be better than nothing. At least in my book. By the way, Gamescom is next week, right?

Asian Guy Gamer says THIS WEDNESDAY there will be an announcement...dunno when these events are. With 7+ videos. So apparently something big.

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Can I just say that I really like the way the story is going? I enjoy "The villain wins" type things, it adds more risk and peril to the story.

Just spoiler the details, as there are users not watching gameplay to not know much about that specifically.

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Can I just say that I really like the way the story is going? I enjoy "The villain wins" type things, it adds more risk and peril to the story.

Absolutely agree!
The plot promises to be really interesting this year.

I'm curious about the incoming "big announcement".
I just hope it won't be "mind-blowing" as last year's Minis...

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Can I just say that I really like the way the story is going? I enjoy "The villain wins" type things, it adds more risk and peril to the story.

Absolutely agree!
The plot promises to be really interesting this year.

I'm curious about the incoming "big announcement".
I just hope it won't be "mind-blowing" as last year's Minis...

I think it's gonna be the Villains.

Channeling my inner GameXplain, I finally got to slow down the video and try to find something new. Not MUCH out of the frames, but if we got more questions than answers here come some more.

Big picture so link so it doesn't stretch the page(and glitch it, since it always seems to be linked to embeds and pictures).

1. Eurgh, delete and redo/10 3D artist. Also, his eyes are yellow?
2.Hex doesn't seem to have anything out of the ordinary but this is footage in a new level, dunno.
3.Regular Gills seems to have more advanced graphics than the entire trailer.
4.Third set of Crypt Crusher mods, seems to be themed after bone flutes since the bones in the front and the back are full of holes.
5.Green eyes/skin, long white hair with horns almost crossing over themselves on the top.This is not Splat OR Rollerbrawl. Unless Splat gets really weird when upgraded,what?
6.Frames before that weird video of Sky Slicer leaving a purple dome. It's actually some sort of spaceship that explodes when you leave, scripted sequences ahoy.
7.Colored picture of that balloon with the top hat guy. The town it's in actually has plenty of plants, so dunno if it's Iron Jaw Gulch, unless it's in more than one track.

...Oh yeah. And I decided to listen audio only. I think I got something from the wording that they let go without noticing. BIG spoilers I think, look for it with caution.

That mystery girl in the Burn-Cycle looks like Splat to me, even though the coloration is weird she has those same purple-crystal horns as Splat and those on the Splatter Splasher

And she looked like she had hooves

Yes, but it could just be the same species. We've seen her artwork, Splat is entirely purple and pink, except maybe for some gold gauntlets there and there. I think she actually shows up in another part but the hair is flowing too freely, but it's just as purple, on the second Tomb Buggy footage.

Also added what might be a big spoiler on the other post.

Looks like Activision didn't want this to go public yet. They seem to have taken them down.

If that wording's what it sounds like,they have VERY good reason to.Though it's pretty dumb to put what might be plot twist dialogue in an ad to begin with.

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Looks like Activision didn't want this to go public yet. They seem to have taken them down.

I wonder what they'll try to do about the youtube videos.

Spoiled for anyone who hasn't the trailer.

Remember some people are avoiding any and all story spoilers, and it's very easy to put two and two together.

Though I wonder if this trailer is just taken from the Gamescon footage or VV just sent the noodle company whatever. If you see it super slow, some of the videos repeat by themselves before the transition, so it's definately very hastly put together.

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Remember some people are avoiding any and all story spoilers, and it's very easy to put two and two together.

Though I wonder if this trailer is just taken from the Gamescon footage or VV just sent the noodle company whatever. If you see it super slow, some of the videos repeat by themselves before the transition, so it's definately very hastly put together.

The gameplay audio also sounds very badly polished

Yup, it goes between 3 different ones while Kaos is talking. It might be 3 different sentences but it doesn't justify different sound levels.

Maybe the video is just really badly edited.

And because of it, Acti now lost its great surprise because of a random partnership who couldn't keep their videos on private or edit them properly. Guess some things are more important than forcing youtubers to stick to the same gameplay over and over to stop a leak, am I right.
(but sarcasm aside I am kinda hyped, especially for the races on PS4/WiiU/Xbone graphics)

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(but sarcasm aside I am kinda hyped, especially for the races on PS4/WiiU/Xbone graphics)

I don't think WiiU graphics looks better as PS3/XBOX360 ...

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(but sarcasm aside I am kinda hyped, especially for the races on PS4/WiiU/Xbone graphics)

I don't think WiiU graphics looks better as PS3/XBOX360 ...

Why not? Last I checked, the Wii U versions of the previous Skylanders games all looked better than the PS3/360 versions. Not quite as good as the PS4/One versions, of course, but still noticeably better.

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(but sarcasm aside I am kinda hyped, especially for the races on PS4/WiiU/Xbone graphics)

I don't think WiiU graphics looks better as PS3/XBOX360 ...

Why not? Last I checked, the Wii U versions of the previous Skylanders games all looked better than the PS3/360 versions. Not quite as good as the PS4/One versions, of course, but still noticeably better.

He pretty obviously does not like Nintendo

After a certain level I don't really care about graphics, which is why I said all at once. It can be between Amazing and Awesome, as long as it's HD and actually done well I can't tell it apart anyway.
(Also because the 'saving up for WiiU before SC' plan isn't going well now that I need to buy some expensive art supplies and I might need to stick to X360 if I want the game at all,so seeing next-gen footage fills the void for pretty, but that's personal issues)

I don't get why everyone thinks the TT graphics are lower quality or have more obvious polys/flat items.

I actually prefer the VV style slightly, because I think the TT shading doesn't have enough colour, but some of the polys in SF were awful (some tree branches that were meant to be curly have sharp edges sticking out like a sore thumb). It has less obviously flat items than TT, though, I'll give it that.

I didn't notice any really bad jaggies in TT and some of the models there look more polished than any in SF. And like others have said, the textures are much better. I also think TT's animation is mostly superior and VV don't make theirs as exagerrated as they should.

SC's graphics... Eh, think most of this game looks like a step down from SF, but I actually think the graphics are a bit of an improvement. Seem to be a lot more obvious flat items and maybe a couple more jaggies, but the textures seem somewhat better. I can't notice a major difference, though.

Off-topic, but Mario Kart 8 is still the best-looking game I've played. There are some times you can notice problems during replays, but for a racing game (which don't need much detail, you'll be going by everything fast), very impressive. Not really bothered by graphics (just search for some screenshots of my favourite video game), but since it was bought up...

Yes Trap Team Graphics were better than SWAP Force. SF was way too clayee (that's not even a word but you'll get it), that's what has stopped me getting into disney infinity. It just makes the game look unfinished in my opinion. I hope they bring back some cool textures like Trigger Happy's fur and what not.

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Legendary returning from Giants!

They have been around in every game.

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Legendary returning from Giants!

They have been around in every game.

They were even around before giants.

The graphics in Swap Force were very high quality compared to the graphics of TT. I'm going based off the ps4 version which is very crisp and clear. Where characters like Wallop have square legs when viewing him on the stat screen, you got characters who were perfectly round and had a clay like look that made the hd on SF look a lot better.

Let's use a character like Slam Bam and Trigger Happy. In SF, both had for that looked like fur. In TT, they try to replicate the effect but it looks lower quality and when viewing Slam on the character stat screen on TT, blue dots appear while he's in his animation. When I get home I'll take a small video comparison of both and show everyone how SF even did things like fur better.

Also I love that in SF you can view the models of each character in 3D. TT couldn't even offer that.

Just a question since now were on the topic of Graphics, How good is the Wii graphics? Cause that is what I'm getting these year. I just wish all the graphics are the saame, Cause In trap team i didn't get the wii version since i new the graphics would be terrible since Swap Force's was.

We don't really know. But I think up to around 720p ? Is the most the wii can support with the crashes. Honestly I think they should drop the wii. It's better to have a playable game and not a broken one. Just look at wii's Swap Force.

Slam Bam looked like a walking ball of fur in SF, blocky fur in TT isn't realistic but way less goofy. And this series isn't claynimation, so where's the point of having half look normal and half be living Play-doh? It's just lazy, and makes the artist doing textures look like they wanted to cheapen themselves out of half the work.

But ok, we can wait another day before going more offtopic, I shouldn't have brought up graphics. However, a reminder guys, no need to create one topic per news that shows up. It's ok if it's major, but if you noticed a teeny tiny detail or just a sentence that might be useful, it's better to put it here.

@GM I was looking at the XBox 360 graphics, but most of your examples seem to be problems with the character models. IMO, those aren't a big problem. The camera angle is often so zoomed out I usually don't notice character model problems and I almost never check the stat screens. It's environment model problems that I notice more, and I think SF has more of those than TT.

IMO, the only major problem with TT's graphics is the shading (there are a few flat items too, but they're not that common and it's not like SF didn't have any). It really needs more colour, shadows shouldn't be pure black all the time like that.

Oh yeah and speaking of news, Microsoft has already started on Gamescon news. Keep an eye out for leaks, two if you will.

Looking forward to games con !

when is activision and skylanders gonna happen on gamescom?...

i dont see them on this the gamescom conference time guide...
http://www.eurogamer.net/artic...ouncements-4014

I found a poster which has a very blurry image of Smash hit, Shield Striker, Thump Truck, DD Trigger Happy's Vehicle, and Astroblast's supercharged vehicle!


Oh heres the other side too! Nothing too interesting here. The other side with Smash Hit is probably more excited

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I don't get why everyone thinks the TT graphics are lower quality or have more obvious polys/flat items.

I actually prefer the VV style slightly, because I think the TT shading doesn't have enough colour, but some of the polys in SF were awful (some tree branches that were meant to be curly have sharp edges sticking out like a sore thumb). It has less obviously flat items than TT, though, I'll give it that.

I didn't notice any really bad jaggies in TT and some of the models there look more polished than any in SF. And like others have said, the textures are much better. I also think TT's animation is mostly superior and VV don't make theirs as exagerrated as they should.

SC's graphics... Eh, think most of this game looks like a step down from SF, but I actually think the graphics are a bit of an improvement. Seem to be a lot more obvious flat items and maybe a couple more jaggies, but the textures seem somewhat better. I can't notice a major difference, though.

Off-topic, but Mario Kart 8 is still the best-looking game I've played. There are some times you can notice problems during replays, but for a racing game (which don't need much detail, you'll be going by everything fast), very impressive. Not really bothered by graphics (just search for some screenshots of my favourite video game), but since it was bought up...

That's the thing then. Swap Force on 360 compared to the PS4 version is like night and day. The graphics are so clean and crisp on the newer consoles. Trap Team is equally as clean on PS4, which is why it's easier to see the lower quality character models.

Wait look closely at the Smash Hit image, Doesn't he look like a arkeyan? I don't know it might just be me but i've look closely and he looks like a arkeyan type thing like, He looks kinda like Chop Chop.