darkSpyro

I honestly don't think I'm all that qualified to evaluate DI's innovations, and innovation is highly subjective, but I'm curious to hear what others think about it.

What I know that's different about DI 2.0, compared to 1.0.
- Expanded to more consoles.
- skill trees
- toy box improvements
- some characters can play in more then 1 play set


What's in TT compared to SF
- Villain gameplay and the whole trapping mechanism
- Elite figures
- mini's.
- tablet version
- Kaos mode (not 100% sure what that is yet)

I tend to lean towards skylanders being more innovated, but perhaps I'm too subjective. We'll be getting both, but I wouldn't be surprised if we are more then ready for TT by the time it releases.

Are we really going to start a franchise war here? I really hope people aren't trying to start a franchise war here, it's the lowest point of any fandom.

Not exactly. I keep hearing that Skylanders isn't innovating. And I'm wondering where the benchmark is.

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Are we really going to start a franchise war here? I really hope people aren't trying to start a franchise war here, it's the lowest point of any fandom.

Coming in and acting like that will be a catalyst to it...

It would be better to keep the DI talk in the DI thread in the video games section, Skylanders vs DI discussion reaches religious levels in the Skylanders section.

Well, last time it became a flame war and it had to be closed. It's like trying to compare Marvel and DC Comics, never ends well and it's always going to put one side in advantage.

There was a reason why all DI vs Skylander threads were closed.

I guess I wrongly assumed that we could a rational and civil discussion. Sad. I guess we can close this down then.

Yeah it was religious last time, so many were just like: DI is junk , DI is copying everything from Skylanders. It wasn't rational and wasn't civil, which is sad.

Yeah. conversation needs to be moved. Just for the record, the toys shouldn't be the only data point. The game side needs to be included, and that's where Activision is slipping in my opinion. Feature for feature, DI is including more "new stuff" this time around, although I find their quests very tedious. Skylanders is fun to play as a straight up brawler, but hasn't really innovated in the game itself and is missing important technical features DI has (multiplayer, online, etc). That's where some of the subjectivity seeps in.

Yeah, thing about DI Characters with Skylanders is that all the Disney Infinity Characters already have a well established personality, universe, etc. prior being to Disney Infinity. Skylanders however just makes these characters up as it goes, so once a new Skylander is released, it has to make a 1st impression on the portal master of who it is. It isn't like Jet-Vac was in a game before Skylander Giants.

Amiibos beat all of them so this debate is kinda pointless! :V