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True, but they still all mostly have the same body structure as each other. I think the reasons I like characters like Dreamcatcher, Nightfall, and Head Rush are because they don't conform to the conventional style of beauty most humanoid female Skylanders usually do. And yes I know Dreamcatcher doesn't technically have a body, still doesn't conform to it.

I am, at the very least, glad they are trying a different body type after Head Rush become the worst selling Skylander in 2014.

EDIT: I guess what I'm trying to say is that we need more weird female characters.

We all need more weird characters period. But if VV is backing down because their kid testers say it's not realistic(on Stormblade and Splat), doesn't feel like they want to, even if Dave does some amazing absurd body types when he streams.

I-Wei is hard to tell. He hasn't posted in a while about Skylanders, and iirc the other devs do say he keeps to himself a bit. Jeff Murchie does the villains but it's no surprise he's all about weird bodies and birds.

stormblade could've been great
if it wasn't for those meddling kids

Maybe we already got confimations of this, but I think it would be cool if Doomlanders had the prototype Battle Class names.

Here's how it could work:
Knight: Cavalier;
Bowslinger: Archer;
Smasher: Barbarian;
Ninja: Thief or Rogue (or Assassin, but it might be a bit too dark);
Swashbuckler: Djinni;
Quickshot: Gunslinger;
Sentinel: Dervish;
Bazooker: Bombardier;
Brawler: Brute;
Sorcerer: Warlock;

I think only four of those names were confirmed, correct me if I'm wrong.

Knight could probably stay the same, it's a common RPG class name.

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Maybe we already got confimations of this, but I think it would be cool if Doomlanders had the prototype Battle Class names.

Here's how it could work:
Knight: Cavalier;
Bowslinger: Archer;
Smasher: Barbarian;
Ninja: Thief or Rogue (or Assassin, but it might be a bit too dark);
Swashbuckler: Djinni;
Quickshot: Gunslinger;
Sentinel: Dervish;
Bazooker: Bombardier;
Brawler: Brute;
Sorcerer: Warlock;

I think only four of those names were confirmed, correct me if I'm wrong.

Actually, funny you should mention that. I remember one of the leg pieces in one of the customization videos (I forget which one), we see one pair titled "Doomlander Barbarian Legs" or something.

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Knight could probably stay the same, it's a common RPG class name.

True, but I wanted to give each "Doom" Class a unique name.
The only other one I found for a similar Class is the Paladin but I don't think it suits the theme of an evil counterpart at all.

They could also give them proper names, don't know if the E3 Doomlander had one.

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Confirmation bias is what you're looking for.

VV hasn't even had humanlike characters outside of sketches, where they only differ from I-Wei's females because of dreamworks griiiin.

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So a lot of Skylanders have no pupils. Most of the Skylanders do have pupils, so are all Skylander designs technically lazy just because of their eyes?

Just, to me, this is like saying "Every Skylander is a lazy design because they all have a face."

Hashtag enigma lives matter

I'll show myself out.

This is hilarious
Most Skylanders do have a lot of similarities, but there are some differences like Stealth Elf being the shortest, Star Strike having thicker arms, Hex having a bit of a smaller head, Bat Spin's face they're all diverse and I could tell them apart even if we only had silhouettes without clothing and hair.

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True, but they still all mostly have the same body structure as each other. I think the reasons I like characters like Dreamcatcher, Nightfall, and Head Rush are because they don't conform to the conventional style of beauty most humanoid female Skylanders usually do. And yes I know Dreamcatcher doesn't technically have a body, still doesn't conform to it.

I am, at the very least, glad they are trying a different body type after Head Rush become the worst selling Skylander in 2014.

EDIT: I guess what I'm trying to say is that we need more weird female characters.

They need more badonkadonk. Nuffsaid

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They need more badonkadonk. Nuffsaid

Also, looking at the blog again, the leak showed up in June 12th. Could you guys imagine the sheer panic and yelling in this forum if we had that ON TOP OF E3's reveals?

I agree that we need more diversified females. At least we have Bad Juju, and hoping that the one with Eon's helmet is also a girl, she seems to have a broader nose than other Skylands women. I'd love a game with all the "Gimmick" characters as girls.

I know we've already seen this level as a background in a character screenshot, but I believe we've never seen it properly:



Is that Da Pinchy, or simply another medieval-dressed Mabu?

I actually thought that guy was a Yeti the first time this was found, though looking now I have no idea how I reached that conclusion.

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I know we've already seen this level as a background in a character screenshot, but I believe we've never seen it properly:



Is that Da Pinchy, or simply another medieval-dressed Mabu?

I have said it before and I'll say it again, but damn this looks like a VV game. They're using the same engine I assume. I know people say TT was made on the VV engine, but it was ported to it, from what it seemed.

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I'm hoping it's not Da Pinchy 'cause I could never stand him.

But hold up, doesn't that look kind of like that gillwoman elder from Woodburrow in the second story of the house? The heck would she be doing in this game?

It is the same dress, but I don't think it's her, probably just some random gillwoman.

It's Gill Grunt in disguise.

I have question...

do we know if Flynn, Cali, Hugo, Sharpfin, Mags, and Tessa are back? It's beginning to worry me...

Because they'd be at the Academy to begin with, and we don't have screenshots of that. With the Storyteller gimmick they'll probably be there more often than in levels, like in TT where most of the time Flynn just dropped you somewhere and left.

Something is telling me they removed them altogether because of the Skylander NPC's...

Well, that something would be really foolish to pass on reusing models they have sitting around for more characters.

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I know we've already seen this level as a background in a character screenshot, but I believe we've never seen it properly:



Is that Da Pinchy, or simply another medieval-dressed Mabu?

I have said it before and I'll say it again, but damn this looks like a VV game. They're using the same engine I assume. I know people say TT was made on the VV engine, but it was ported to it, from what it seemed.

Yeah, definitely.

The design of the levels is incredibly V.V.-inspired, with over-the-top cartoony architecture and details, and I bet the lighting and metal shader are taken directly from SuperChargers (hope it won't ruin Traptanium weapons again).
The gimmick itself, or at least how it's handled, also seems like something V.V. would do.
But then the design of characters, the animations and the gameplay itself is definitely TfB, particularly Trap Team but more polished.

I'm surprisingly satisfied of this mix.
Back in SWAP Force times I would have said that gameplay was perfect, because it had more depth with knock mechanics and everything but after playing another V.V. game I'm sincerely tired of that extremely quick moment where an attack animation stops after hitting an enemy; it just ruins the action.
Here, it looks like they removed that while keeping knock mechanics and making enemies less OP and aimbot-ish.

This is probably the closest they ever got to have the best of both teams, and that's precisely why I have high hopes for Imaginators!

That moment is known as 'hitstop', Drek. Mostly used in fighting games to help the player's reaction time notice that their attack actually landed and they can keep on going; but I'd REALLY like to go say some words to the programmer that puts this on so many characters and for so many frames to the point some melee are almost unplayable in SC since the same restriction doesn't apply to the enemies. I complained a lot about TT's all-seeing AI but at least you still had a chance as long as you cancelled your attack in time.

I just hope Gearshift won't look like she's made out of plastic.

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I know we've already seen this level as a background in a character screenshot, but I believe we've never seen it properly:



Is that Da Pinchy, or simply another medieval-dressed Mabu?

This really reminds me of the towns in the very first level of Skylanders:Spyros adventure

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I know we've already seen this level as a background in a character screenshot, but I believe we've never seen it properly:



Is that Da Pinchy, or simply another medieval-dressed Mabu?

this looks an awful lot like Time Town...

It's really similar but Time town got a slightly different style of infrastructure.

House from Shattered islands in level 1 SA

If it weren't for the dragon ships and those weird swashbuckler gremlin enemies I would've assumed that's just a screenshot from Trap Team.

I don't know if anyone has said this theory, but what if there are no Light and Dark villains, but theres three ALL NEW Light and Dark Characters. 3 New Dark, 3 New Light. I would actually be decently ok with that... although I still want Luminous.

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I don't know if anyone has said this theory, but what if there are no Light and Dark villains, but theres three ALL NEW Light and Dark Characters. 3 New Dark, 3 New Light. I would actually be decently ok with that... although I still want Luminous.

But what about Hood Sickle? And then we would be missing at least one Battle Class.

I was at an overnight camp for two days. What did I miss besides that huge leak?

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I was at an overnight camp for two days. What did I miss besides that huge leak?

nothing much besides that

As much as I would like to keep playing as Luminous and maybe also Nightshade (well... We could, if traps worked as they should) I would be all for three brand new Skylanders for each Element.

Light and Dark are still very young and it might be to early to choose a titular villain, just yet, but this could be a nice chance to start enlarging their rosters.

Who's gonna send the Pope a copy of Skylanders Imaginators when it comes out

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Who's gonna send the Pope a copy of Skylanders Imaginators when it comes out

As a symbol of what?

I'm not bothering to read through the 230 new responses...so in case someone came up with this theory, I'm sorry.

What if Hood Sickle is the eleventh Villain? One Villain Sensei from each element and then Hood Sickle? Fair bet that the elements might be uneven. After all, they did do that in Trap Team with the reposes.

A symbol of Memes

Not sure if this is worth posting bur would you look at that

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I'm not bothering to read through the 230 new responses...so in case someone came up with this theory, I'm sorry.

What if Hood Sickle is the eleventh Villain? One Villain Sensei from each element and then Hood Sickle? Fair bet that the elements might be uneven. After all, they did do that in Trap Team with the reposes.

It has been speculated that he could have switched to Dark.
Also, this all comes from a very early version of the game (the "Skylanders 2016" one, if you remember it.

I don't think we should take everything for granted, especially those two villains.

I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have put them there if they weren't at least in progress.

Yroc, did you scroll through any locked pieces while you were at E3?

I'm now predicting that Chill Bill will be the Water villain - a Bazooker. I mean, he replaced Gulper in Battlecast and he's far more popular than him. Also, with regular villains now having a chance to get figures, I think Chill Bill will take the role from Gulper. The only thing that might hold him back is the fact that he's on the Troll Radio but I don't really think that should stop anything.

So what was that about only Doom Raiders getting figures being confirmed, Luminous?

Why do you keep being a jerk to people who are just speculating dude?

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Who's gonna send the Pope a copy of Skylanders Imaginators when it comes out

As a symbol of what?

Game Theory reference.

I shouldn't even know about that. Someone got super buttmad at the thumbnail of the video and people in KnowYourMeme had a field day.

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Quote: Bionichute

Who's gonna send the Pope a copy of Skylanders Imaginators when it comes out

As a symbol of what?

Game Theory reference.

I shouldn't even know about that. Someone got super buttmad at the thumbnail of the video and people in KnowYourMeme had a field day.

No, I get the reference, I was just wondering what symbolic meaning Imaginators would have to give to Pope Francis.

Creativity in people?

The desire to be our own hero?

Foxy Grandpa. Foxy Grandpa is the meaning.

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As a symbol of what?

Game Theory reference.

I shouldn't even know about that. Someone got super buttmad at the thumbnail of the video and people in KnowYourMeme had a field day.

No, I get the reference, I was just wondering what symbolic meaning Imaginators would have to give to Pope Francis.

Creativity in people?

The desire to be our own hero?

A symbol of memes and being a massive idiot. That wasn't aimed at you, that was aimed at MatPat.

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Foxy Grandpa. Foxy Grandpa is the meaning.

Game Theory: Why FOXY GRANDPA is JESUS!

(i follow an account dedicated to poking fun at matpat, so this was easy)