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Well, since you guys brought it up, I think SA and Giants' graphics suited the series better.
Not that V.V.'s and Trap Team's are bad but they tend to rely roo much on lighting effects and various reflections, while the former were all about textures (and they were great textures).

For example, compare S1 Spyro in Giants to his SWAP Force model: the former is really detailed with shadings and such while the second has a beautiful lucid effect but is quite plain looking with almost no textures at all.

I still think SuperChargers' graphics are superior for the environments while Trap Team are much better for the characters though.
I would love to see Skylanders from SWAP Force on as if they were made with the old engine.

Well, in the end, they can still use the same engine. DemonWare as unique looking as it was ended up sooo prone to glitches and obvious clipping. Alchemy obviously isn't perfect,but it does a much better job at hiding it. Unfortunately duller textures seem to be unrelated unless there's some lag issue with having the complex ones.

The old graphics are really nice, however they do seem a little bit outdated for the series now. That's why I think they should be remade on Trap Team's engine.
While the older graphics were really nice, Trap Team isn't an outdated engine. (Look at me, talking about graphics. When did this happen?)

SF,SC and TT are all the same engine as far as we know.

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SF,SC and TT are all the same engine as far as we know.

We SURE? I've noticed a few differences between SSC SF and TT. TT has a lot of animations and such from Giants and SSA.

Animations and lightning aren't the same as a graphics engine. I'm no expert on this, but from what I know on other games,it's simply 'the game will alow X frames per second, have a certain limit in textures, allow these shaders, render models like this' and Alchemy's big gimmick, allow ingame rendered cutscenes at the most with better lightning. Everything else should be up to the dev team,especially animations and textures.

(disclaimer: I also do not know if you call the stuff shader mods do lightning or lighting. People use different terms a lot)

I really want to suggest a cyberspace level but it might be too anachronistic. We know there are computer systems and AIs running around like it's easy to code, but internet is a bit of a stretch.

VV's graphics are wonderful. I remember the first time I popped in SwapForce and I'm like "woah". It looked like I was playing a Dreamworks CGI animated film compared to the outdated (even back then), "cute" look of the previous two.

A remake of SSA/Giants would be not a bad idea. I always felt like Giants was more of an expansion of SA than its own game (and it was way too short) so a remake combining those two with the current HD graphics would be a decent idea.

But this game series is only 5 years old. Maybe a big ole reboot in 2021 but for now it's best they just cranked out new games even if they Are half-baked.

Honestly I would love to see a revisit to Wilikins Village but with even more usage of that shifting world stuff. It was probably the most fun in any of the Skylanders games for me. And those Wilikins are so freaky and creepy in a good way. I love them so much!

As for a new place, I would like to see Persephone's village. She's a Queen after all, so there has to be some type of realm where they all hang out at or come from. The ones we've seen are all solitary ones though, such as Marsha.

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Honestly I would love to see a revisit to Wilikins Village but with even more usage of that shifting world stuff. It was probably the most fun in any of the Skylanders games for me. And those Wilikins are so freaky and creepy in a good way. I love them so much!

As for a new place, I would like to see Persephone's village. She's a Queen after all, so there has to be some type of realm where they all hang out at or come from. The ones we've seen are all solitary ones though, such as Marsha.

I'd love to see both as well. I'd be hilarious to see other fairies too. What if the males were giant, cave men like people, while the fairies were beautiful intelligent women.

• Revisiting Shattered Island
  
• Scalos
  
• An Underwater level
  
• An ACTUAL Land of the Undead with Mortalanis (however you spell his name)
  
• Ice Level
  
• More places that feel like floating islands
  

Shattered Island is a bunch of rock and dust by now though. You see the place get smashed to smithereens quite thoroughly, same case as Know-it-all Island.

(resists the urge to bump) Oh, here's another place we've seen but not at its best: the Realm of Dreams! How's the place with the Sleep Dragon not being the most irresponsible current ruler in the series? How crazy can the levels get, not to mention the potential for truly Magic-themed levels?

I'd really like to see an Evil Skylanders Academy that's in the Outlands. There, those evil clones of the Skylanders that Kaos uses in SSA are trained to become Outlanders.

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Honestly I would love to see a revisit to Wilikins Village but with even more usage of that shifting world stuff. It was probably the most fun in any of the Skylanders games for me. And those Wilikins are so freaky and creepy in a good way. I love them so much!

As for a new place, I would like to see Persephone's village. She's a Queen after all, so there has to be some type of realm where they all hang out at or come from. The ones we've seen are all solitary ones though, such as Marsha.

I'd love to see both as well. I'd be hilarious to see other fairies too. What if the males were giant, cave men like people, while the fairies were beautiful intelligent women.

I agree! The fairies in Skylanders (at least to console version) don't get much love. Though we did have Marsha in STT, two fairies is sorely lacking. But an entire fairy world/level would be amazing!

I would also like worlds of other Skylander races. We got the Cloud Kingdom in SSC, but I would love to see elf forest (Stealth Elf) or maybe a dragon (Drobot, Echo, Zap or any other dragon) level.

-Rov

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What if the males were giant, cave men like people, while the fairies were beautiful intelligent women.

Then they'd be making social commentary.

MINI LAND ! THE PLACE WHERE MINIS CAME FROM ! THAT WOULD BE AWESOME !

No need for caps, we're right above/under your posts :U

Miniverse is exactly the same as Skylands but smaller though. If the Minis needed training to take on even normal Chompies, a Giant would take a step and raze a small town.

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Honestly I would love to see a revisit to Wilikins Village but with even more usage of that shifting world stuff. It was probably the most fun in any of the Skylanders games for me. And those Wilikins are so freaky and creepy in a good way. I love them so much!

As for a new place, I would like to see Persephone's village. She's a Queen after all, so there has to be some type of realm where they all hang out at or come from. The ones we've seen are all solitary ones though, such as Marsha.

I'd love to see both as well. I'd be hilarious to see other fairies too. What if the males were giant, cave men like people, while the fairies were beautiful intelligent women.

I agree! The fairies in Skylanders (at least to console version) don't get much love. Though we did have Marsha in STT, two fairies is sorely lacking. But an entire fairy world/level would be amazing!

I would also like worlds of other Skylander races. We got the Cloud Kingdom in SSC, but I would love to see elf forest (Stealth Elf) or maybe a dragon (Drobot, Echo, Zap or any other dragon) level.

-Rov

a fairy level would be awesome! and since Stealth Elf is my favorite character, her home would be in my top 10 most wanted stages ( along with saving Chill's queen.... )

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a fairy level would be awesome! and since Stealth Elf is my favorite character, her home would be in my top 10 most wanted stages ( along with saving Chill's queen.... )

Saving Chill's queen would be an amazing level! Though they would have to make it different than the Frost Elves snowy world. But that would be awesome!

-Rov

We had fairy levels in SF3DS.

Playable fairies would also be cool (both male and female), and more levels of the "dark" element would also be welcome.

Huh,here's an interesting discovery while replaying Giants. Never noticed Hugo say that Ermit lives in the Outlands,meaning Rumbletown and the lush field he was on are part of it! Maybe the Drow alter the landscape because of their love of nature or something; but this means a game could definately take place in there for an extended period of time because the levels could have variety.

I'd love one where your defending the Skylanders Academy from hoards of monsters. It would be so cool to wander through the darkened halls of the Academy while taking out Trolls and other monsters. You could stumble upon some new, unknown rooms of the Academy, and use some of its gun towers to take out the invading bad guys.

A jungle level that's all really

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A jungle level that's all really

...That's all really what?
...THAT'S ALL REALLY WHAT, SNAP SHOT!?
DON'T DIE ON ME! I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THIS JUNGLE IS ALL REALLY!!!

I'd love a level set in an apocalyptic Skylands, possibly part of an alternate reality where the Skylanders are defeated and Kaos has won. Basically a Weirdmaggedon set in Skylands.

Would love to visit what's behind some elemental gates. Overall, though, I'd like to visit a game that doesn't suck and crams a car down your throat.

That made no sense. We had elemental themed levels since the start of the series and we could open the elemental gates, unless the purpose was to just criticize SC somewhere that's about another subject entirely.

Well, since discussion kinda stopped, a small bump for an idea - since people suggested levels from characters' backstories more, and we haven't had a straight up lava level since SSA, how about Munitions Forge/Mount Boyzitbig? It'd be the perfect opportunity to not only show off Ka-boom's homeland, but also shove in as many references to LOS in one neat gritty lava/mine mix.

It'd only get cooler if we had a remix of the original as the theme, but the original composers might still have the rights over this.

It's hard to have straight up Spyro levels since it's another dimension,but this one is a very easy to pull homage level, unless there's another one I missed.

I'd love a haunted shipyard, where there are lots of ghost pirate ships and skeleton pirates. It would also be really foggy, so it would be hard for the player to see in incoming attack of skeleton pirates.

Not that I remember, though there were levels with lava in a few select spots.

What about Spyro's home? I get that it's not in Skylands, but what if there was a glitch in the portal...

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What about Spyro's home? I get that it's not in Skylands, but what if there was a glitch in the portal...

Avalar(or straight up Dragon Realms since the book that mentions Summer Forest is mostly noncanon now) works by different rules,but dunno, at least David seemed interested in exploring that.

Player vs Player

That's not a place, that's a feature.

I though of some interesting ideas:

It would be funny to see a Las Vegas/Cassino style stage. It could be visually pretty and it could use the random nature of cassinos to make some interesting features, like changing the Treasure Chests for a money roulette and even Elemental Gates that are in fixed places, but change elements each time you play the stage.

Also, since Skylands has different levels of technology, a stage set in a big city would be interesting too. Maybe the Skylanders could travel in the upper part of the constructions.

Also, a water temple stage along the lines of Sunken Ruins from Spyro: A Hero's Tail would be good. Mixing very linear with very open areas, while also having big focus on elements like Water Vehicle Zones.

While a sports-based gimmick is not a good idea, a sports-based stage could be. It could work as a mission-based stage, where you need to complete a certain quantity of events to continue. Maybe it would even give interesting uses to some gimmicks, like a marathon as a Speed Swap Zone.

For last, a food-themed stage would also be fun. It would give funny results to see how they transport some of the elements into food, like enemies or obstacles.

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It would be funny to see a Las Vegas/Cassino style stage. It could be visually pretty and it could use the random nature of cassinos to make some interesting features, like changing the Treasure Chests for a money roulette and even Elemental Gates that are in fixed places, but change elements each time you play the stage.

Sonic has Casino Night Zones for every mascot franchise at this point, we can probably borrow one.Jokes aside, treasure chests in Monstrous Isles are actually casino buildings, it's a start.

Not sure about modern city settings. When it takes one Earth elemental character to raise walls of stone and several races of stonemasons, concrete might've never been invented in Skylands for just being pointless.

Oooh, the sports theme place actually is a nice one. I know we already had a Storm Giant area last game,but they could drag in the Storm Giant Games from Lightning Rod Faces the Cyclops Queen since that's pretty much the replacement for the Olympics. And I don't want them to have TWO Skylanders themed after Brazilian sports events,buuuut *pushes a Lightning Rod near Kickoff Countdown*

I'd like to dig a lil deeper into the World of Giants. You know more Arkeyan locations/ruins, stuff like that. Maybe get a lil more IN-DEPTH into the distant past when the ancients were creating the CORES! That would be interesting to see!

That's before the Time of the Giants. The Arkeyans were pretty much the guys that took over as precursor group after the Ancients disappeared, that didn't even show up in Spell Punk Library since there was immediately a timeskip.

What about a dungeon level? Like, where your character literally gets knocked out and locked in a dungeon cell. You have to look around in it for a secret switch/passage to get out in some way. And maybe when you go through the secret tunnel/passage/whatever, you'll have a choice of different paths and if you choose a certain one, it'll either lead you to another set of tunnels or a dead end with hoards of enemies. Eh, it may sound tedious, but it would be fun for me. :U

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What about a dungeon level? Like, where your character literally gets knocked out and locked in a dungeon cell. You have to look around in it for a secret switch/passage to get out in some way. And maybe when you go through the secret tunnel/passage/whatever, you'll have a choice of different paths and if you choose a certain one, it'll either lead you to another set of tunnels or a dead end with hoards of enemies. Eh, it may sound tedious, but it would be fun for me. :U

I know that I'd LOVE that!

Since the underground levels of the first game I has wished me that it would go deeper and deeper, like Jules Verne's Journey to the center of the earth. So that we would have dungeons, sunken citys, dinosaurs, etc.

What's UNDER Skylands? Is it in fact the planet Spyro saved in DotD as some have speculated, meaning you can go right through to the islands opposite the one you're on?

What is the underworld exactly? It's mentioned in Hex's and Cynder's Bios as well as in the Return of the Dragon King comic. Is that what's under Skylands?

Other than that some space related levels would be cool. Some references to older games would be sweet too, like Avalar, the Dragon Realms, The Forgotten World, The Celestial Caves, things like that. Also more of the Skylanders' homelands.

Generally I'd like to see Skylands as a whole fleshed out, with more insight into the lore, the inhabitants and the history of the place, stuff like that.

Skylands has no bottom or top. It has an end to its atmosphere and the Underworld seems to be most of the lower area, but it keeps on going after that forever. The Underworld is pretty much Hades from greek mythology turned world-spanning archipelago - everyone goes there when they die, most aren't coming back. Don't think about the metaphysics of it too hard though, we're in a series they can't really explicitly show people dying and going to the afterlife.

TFB definately has stuff written on Skylands' geography because it's hinted at in Giants and Trap Team a lot, but doesn't seem like they have much interest in revealing it quite yet.

A level with lots of Dinosaurs. Actually more so unexplored places where Skylanders come from. A shrine similar to Whirlwind in Swap Force would do. Heck even a level with a giant Gill Grunt would make me happy.

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Skylands has no bottom or top. It has an end to its atmosphere and the Underworld seems to be most of the lower area, but it keeps on going after that forever. The Underworld is pretty much Hades from greek mythology turned world-spanning archipelago - everyone goes there when they die, most aren't coming back. Don't think about the metaphysics of it too hard though, we're in a series they can't really explicitly show people dying and going to the afterlife.

TFB definately has stuff written on Skylands' geography because it's hinted at in Giants and Trap Team a lot, but doesn't seem like they have much interest in revealing it quite yet.

Has that been explicitly said somewhere, or did you put it together with hints from here and there? Can you show me some links to your info?

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Skylands has no bottom or top. It has an end to its atmosphere and the Underworld seems to be most of the lower area, but it keeps on going after that forever. The Underworld is pretty much Hades from greek mythology turned world-spanning archipelago - everyone goes there when they die, most aren't coming back. Don't think about the metaphysics of it too hard though, we're in a series they can't really explicitly show people dying and going to the afterlife.

TFB definately has stuff written on Skylands' geography because it's hinted at in Giants and Trap Team a lot, but doesn't seem like they have much interest in revealing it quite yet.

Has that been explicitly said somewhere, or did you put it together with hints from here and there? Can you show me some links to your info?

Can you show some links to your info about how the place under Skylands in the world LoS Spyro saved in DOTD? You say its a fact. I've never seen anything said about it and I'm big follower of the Skylanders lore.

Skylanders Wiki. Everything from official sources, even when not explicitly said.
Skylands is also an entire dimension with zero relation to the previous series; Skyro is from another one and moved to Skylands.