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Well... In that case it would be interesting.
He does seem like the kind of guy who likes to smile a lot.
Don't want to say too much without trying him out in person, since the italian voice acting might make him sound really different.

Also, I think I understood better what Autism Speaks is... Well... Guess is some of those cases in which whatever you say should be thought carefully, right?
I think I don't agree with their idea BUT I respect the fact this is still done for a good cause.

A delicate question indeed, and this is definitely not the place to discuss it.

Skylanders + Autism Speaks = Skylanders is dead

No need for hyperboles there. But man if the marketing team wasn't doing so hot,I think they need some restructuring again,stat. It's less the intention and more that someone chose the organization and thought "there's no chance there won't be a PR disaster over this!". Because seriously,just let tumblr get a hold of this, you WILL have one.

Activision confirmed that SC performed weaker than expected, also confirmation on Skylanders 6 being developed by TFB -

http://www.businesswire.com/ne...arter-Full-Year

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/...ers-guitar-hero

They're pretty much flat glass textures. Crystals in general look better in TT than here, dunno,reflective surfaces must be easily affected by small shader changes.

I'm still the most mad at the lazy whirlwind Blades has, why change it when it had perfectly good particles. If I wanted an oversized Whirlwind Diadem I'd give it to him.

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Activision confirmed that SC performed weaker than expected, also confirmation on Skylanders 6 being developed by TFB -

http://www.businesswire.com/ne...arter-Full-Year

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/...ers-guitar-hero

Pretty interesting informatión here. They say the sales not reaching expectations is due to competición from other toys to life Games and casual gamers moving to mobile devices. This makes me think they may go with a massive crossover Of a famous franchise to compete with DI and LD.who knows,maybe turtle ninja,sonic,minions or how to train your dragón will come to skylands.as you can see this is puré,personal not proof based speculation.

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Activision confirmed that SC performed weaker than expected, also confirmation on Skylanders 6 being developed by TFB -

http://www.businesswire.com/ne...arter-Full-Year

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/...ers-guitar-hero

I was about to write "great, now they finally might start to understand it wasn't a good idea, and create some proper Skylanders experiences in the future"... But then I read the article.

They really don't want to admit it was a failure because of how the idea was executed (and also because of the idea itself), don't they?
I appreciate they tried to bring us something new and fresh, even if I personally don't think it was needed but you can't expect all your usual customers to blindly buy your game when you change it so much.

Doubt these risults will affect Skylanders 6 but maybe V.V. will have the chance to learn from the mistakes made with SuperChargers, for the seventh game.

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Activision confirmed that SC performed weaker than expected, also confirmation on Skylanders 6 being developed by TFB -

http://www.businesswire.com/ne...arter-Full-Year

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/...ers-guitar-hero

I was about to write "great, now they finally might start to understand it wasn't a good idea, and create some proper Skylanders experiences in the future"... But then I read the article.

They really don't want to admit it was a failure because of how the idea was executed (and also because of the idea itself), don't they?
I appreciate they tried to bring us something new and fresh, even if I personally don't think it was needed but you can't expect all your usual customers to blindly buy your game when you change it so much.

Doubt these risults will affect Skylanders 6 but maybe V.V. will have the chance to learn from the mistakes made with SuperChargers, for the seventh game.

Actually, I think they're right this time, Drek.

Yeah,tone is very 'it's not our fault,it's just competition!' Yeah, but you need to work around that,not brute force through with new and shiny and expect it to work with franchises that are looking at where you fail.

Yep.
I understand my comment make it sound like that was the only reason for SuperChargers weaker sales and that's not what I intended to say.

Competition is indeed an important factor, but they really didn't offered much opposition against them this year, for a number of reasons.

Well, the power blues... i DID NOT see that coming. but it's a good cause, so i'm all in.

http://www.amazon.fr/Skylander...ords=skylanders
http://www.amazon.es/Skylander...ords=skylanders

both amazon spain and france show a feburary 26th release for the power blues. power blue triggs wasn't listed.

But the figures themselves look... erm.... hmm... mixed feelings on them.

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I woulnd't say Thrillipede's personality is all EXTREME-ish. Its more like he's the guy who's always in a good mood who laughs a lot. He does laugh a lot in game.

Such as when he says "The spoils of WAR!" when he collects a wishbone/big gem in the game. He laughs right after sounding way to over enthusiastic on the word war, and it's kind of creepy actually.

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Quote: HeyitsHotDog

I woulnd't say Thrillipede's personality is all EXTREME-ish. Its more like he's the guy who's always in a good mood who laughs a lot. He does laugh a lot in game.

Such as when he says "The spoils of WAR!" when he collects a wishbone/big gem in the game. He laughs right after sounding way to over enthusiastic on the word war, and it's kind of creepy actually.

genocideipede

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Quote: HeyitsHotDog

I woulnd't say Thrillipede's personality is all EXTREME-ish. Its more like he's the guy who's always in a good mood who laughs a lot. He does laugh a lot in game.

Such as when he says "The spoils of WAR!" when he collects a wishbone/big gem in the game. He laughs right after sounding way to over enthusiastic on the word war, and it's kind of creepy actually.

genocideipede

No, Zap.

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HOLY FRICK YOU GUYS




AMAZON.COM LEAKED SATAN

SATAN IS HERE

Dude what the heck was VV thinking while making this.

Five Nights at Thrillipede's confirmed anyone?

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HOLY FRICK YOU GUYS




AMAZON.COM LEAKED SATAN

SATAN IS HERE

Dude what the heck was VV thinking while making this.

Five Nights at Thrillipede's confirmed anyone?

Yep. Satan.

The investor response was as anemic as the sales they conjured. Mobile has NOTHING to do with this---where's that silly mobile card game, Activision (Battlecast) or is it DUMPED?

Bottom line--people are getting tired of it all, and they are simply reheating the experience. add to that the fact that the gimmick itself was weak should help direct future initiatives. the gimmick has to COMPLEMENT the skylanders expierence, not destroy it. and it wouldn't hurt to ADD features into the game, instead of ripping out fan favorites like pvp, heroics etc. they've also taken out the idea of customization beyond the core powers. less depth, less use of past figures, less post game features, and too many variants most of which look very weak from a manufacturing perspective.

There's all my dissatisfaction with this game in a nut. and oddly, a lot of it has been a pile on of previous years. except more people are finally in alignment.

Battlecast is coming out in March, not dumped yet. Seems like the NZ/Sweden launch was just testing,because now the game got updated to look MILES better than the half-baked UI it used to have on January. These used to be all text placeholders on some cheap font.

But it's incredibly silly to blame a TTL doing bad on mobile games. People who buy them are never going to quit over Candy Crush,they're going to quit for other console games because they're looking for action-focused gameplay. It's like blaming 3D plataformers being dead on FPS... YES,it happened that way,but it was incredibly dumb and now people are piling up on all the upcoming games coming out since they were pretty much starved of them all these years. No one suddenly decided collecting is for babies and they want to shoot the thing, they just got tired of so many from the same genre the same year.

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The investor response was as anemic as the sales they conjured. Mobile has NOTHING to do with this---where's that silly mobile card game, Activision (Battlecast) or is it DUMPED?

Bottom line--people are getting tired of it all, and they are simply reheating the experience. add to that the fact that the gimmick itself was weak should help direct future initiatives. the gimmick has to COMPLEMENT the skylanders expierence, not destroy it. and it wouldn't hurt to ADD features into the game, instead of ripping out fan favorites like pvp, heroics etc. they've also taken out the idea of customization beyond the core powers. less depth, less use of past figures, less post game features, and too many variants most of which look very weak from a manufacturing perspective.

There's all my dissatisfaction with this game in a nut. and oddly, a lot of it has been a pile on of previous years. except more people are finally in alignment.

Nailed it!

They made a Valentine's Day video pff

I'm not going to lie. The video angles and the usage of Supercharged With Love makes it sound like the characters are infatuated with their cars. There's a list of things that are not okay,this is in it.

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I'm not going to lie. The video angles and the usage of Supercharged With Love makes it sound like the characters are infatuated with their cars. There's a list of things that are not okay,this is in it.

I think that's exactly what they meant.
But it's okay, it's simply part of a certain team's obsession.
All is normal.

Could have used someone else instead of Eruptor (maybe Stormblade or even Stealth Elf) but Splat and Bone Bash Roller Brawl fit the theme perfectly.

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Quote: Bifrost

I'm not going to lie. The video angles and the usage of Supercharged With Love makes it sound like the characters are infatuated with their cars. There's a list of things that are not okay,this is in it.

I think that's exactly what they meant.
But it's okay, it's simply part of a certain team's obsession.
All is normal.

Could have used someone else instead of Eruptor (maybe Stormblade or even Stealth Elf) but Splat and Bone Bash Roller Brawl fit the theme perfectly.

What are you saying? Eruptor is hot as lava. He's so handsome!

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I'm not going to lie. The video angles and the usage of Supercharged With Love makes it sound like the characters are infatuated with their cars. There's a list of things that are not okay,this is in it.

Well Vicarious Visions is already probably in love with Hot Streak or any other mascot vehicles... I wonder if they'll all get married to their favorite vehicles once Sky6 is announced.

From that point of view, yeah,
Skylands' girls need their part as well.

But he's not the first SuperCharger that comes in my mind when I think about Valentine's Day.
Big Bubble Pop Fizz, maybe?

I cannot continue the conversation without getting into not safe for kid territory, but I'll just say that the guy that edited this is either the biggest troll in the office, or someone who'd be at home in a booru.

The ones that come to mind in Valentines' day is Love Potion Pop Fizz. With that backstory, he has a mysterious person he's looking after, why not continue that story here?

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I cannot continue the conversation without getting into not safe for kid territory, but I'll just say that the guy that edited this is either the biggest troll in the office, or someone who'd be at home in a booru.

The ones that come to mind in Valentines' day is Love Potion Pop Fizz. With that backstory, he has a mysterious person he's looking after, why not continue that story here?

Yeah, or, to stick with SuperChargers, Deep Dive Gill Grunt.
After all, he has joined the Skylanders to look for his true love (as well as help protecting the Skylands of course), right?

Yup, in fact his quest mentions that even after 5 years and for Eon knows how long he's been working, they have yet to find her. It IS pretty much love if it's been long enough for the mermaid to have given up on him,if she isn't dead at this point, but he keeps on looking.(which they would never confirm,but who knows)

Thanks Bifrost, now I have the image of Eruptor spanking it over the Burn-Cycle stuck in my head...
If he even has an "it"...

But anyway, nothing really of interest in the video to me. Just a typical Skylanders holiday video.

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so to anyone who has the power blues, is ddth's gameplay actually good

Pretty good. His primary is still to shoot coins, which act no differently than the past forms. Is you hold the first attack button, he shoots a ring of fire that you have to jump through (or use his third attack to launch through it). His second attack, he summons a ring of coins on the ground around him, and they do a little bit of damage. On the bottom path, these summon money that's on the screen, but it has such short range, you might as well just run over to it. His third attack, he summons a giant cannon, shoots out a little ways, and as he recovers he is immobile, so he's easily open to attack.

On his bottom path, his first upgrade is that if you press the second attack while using the third attack, he shoots up into the air for a couple seconds, then lands and does 70 damage. And like with the normal third attack, he has to recover. However, this one might have significant knock back, but I haven't actually tested this on enemies yet, because you seemingly have to have very precise timing. His second upgrade is just to summon food and gold when you use attack two. His final upgrade on this path is to hold the first attack when you jump, and he shoots tons of coins down on the enemies, but they don't do more than his normal coins.

His Soul Gem is that when he's defeated, he comes back once, just like Astroblast's. I haven't tried his top path yet, but I'll probably edit this when I do.

No, just because it's hilarious to think of inappropriate jokes in Skylanders doesn't mean I'll keep going after I'm done finding it funny.

On DDTH, sounds like a riskier Astroblast in general,really.

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They made a Valentine's Day video pff

VV Right now

ALL HAIL VEHICLES

So, you know the news running around of some Sony guy teasing Crash?

It was on Toy Fair,and he's apparently from the company Activision outsources the Skylanders figures to(because if you haven't noticed they don't do crap themselves). Which, apparently too, Sony owns. This is all one guy speculating in Gematsu so it could be horribly wrong.

But,if Guest Star Crash is closer to being a thing and the internet is clamoring for him to stay out of it...

I'll take note to stock up on popcorn.

^No one would believe that Crash Bandicoot is coming back after so many years. It's Sony what we are talking about, they don't have the rights anymore, they consider to get the rights back and since then we haven't heard nothing since that news.

The interview says otherwise. Won't link to source since it's grossly biased towards 'totally happening', but it was said by someone affiliated with them.

oh crap

If Crash does become a Skylander next game, I say we call the thousands of people that will obviously complain about how "they killed Crash too" the "Crashocalypse". Who's with me?

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If Crash does become a Skylander next game, I say we call the thousands of people that will obviously complain about how "they killed Crash too" the "Crashocalypse". Who's with me?

Crashmageddon

As I discussed with a friend, it would be incredibly stupid if Acti made the series absorb Crash too, and would feel straight up out of spite - having an excuse to kill his series too, and many years down the road whoever actually tries to use the IPs will have one heck of a legal disaster to have them separate.

Which is why I'm hoping for Guest Star. Can hand it over to Sony if they want it so much,but he can be playable for the joy of whoever isn't living in 2011 anymore.

Crash should be separated from the Skylanders series. It's a different IP that it sort did relate with Spyro in the past. But, it doesn't mean they should stick together. But it's for the sake of the 20th Aniversary, i don't know what they are going to do with that IP.

Regardless if I like it or not, I'm expecting some cross over moves from Activision which go beyong a few skymiibos. If they truly believe the low sales are due to DI and LD competition, they may think about adding famous characters in order to boost the popularity (and sales) of the franchise. In this context addind crash doesn't seem that crazy to me.

They could also go with other characters like TNMT, minions or how to train your dragon. I wouldn't be surprised if this happens in sky 6 or 7.

Small video showing the rigging tools used for Superchargers and a few examples. You can see here too the original version of the intro where Kaos still had the purple outfit, which we saw in the Maggi ad.

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Thanks Bifrost, now I have the image of Eruptor spanking it over the Burn-Cycle stuck in my head...
If he even has an "it"...

But anyway, nothing really of interest in the video to me. Just a typical Skylanders holiday video.

Funniest thing I've read all day.

Friggin wow. If you think you can get your Quests and challenge cash's worth using the variants or loose for Triggs,Gill Grunt and Astroblast,think again.

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Friggin wow. If you think you can get your Quests and challenge cash's worth using the variants or loose for Triggs,Gill Grunt and Astroblast,think again.

Oh, double pay-walls!
Nice!

And I thought we could freely decide to get them or not, since it seemed they only unlocked tracks.
How stupid!
Another great idea to add to the greedy decisions Activision took this year...