darkSpyro

Welcome to the first edition of:

This time, we will be taking a look at the health bars. A major difference is the characters that appear above the health bars. In SWAP Force, they show a 3D character. In Trap Team, they show the character or villain artwork. I personally think that the SWAP Force health bar is much more polished than Trap Team. Here's a comparison:

What's strange about the Trap Team health bar is that when the game was first revealed, the bar was completely different.
So, which one do you think looks best?
I'm going to put my vote on SWAP Force, for the reason that I'm not a fan of the art, the SWAP Force bar is more polished, and the 3D characters look amazing.
VOTES
Skylanders SWAP Force- 15 Votes
Skylanders Trap Team- 3 Votes

Voting ends on October 31st!

SSF has my vote

I'll have to agree with you on that. I like the Swap Force health bar better!

I really did like the original Trap Team health bar, it looked just like SWAP Force. Just check out some videos from YouTube when the game was launched to check it out.

I feel like its because Swap Force has a more compact health bar, where every one part touches another. While the Trap Team health bar has this sort of loose and comfortable feel to it.


Either way, Swap Force has my vote as well

I like the TT one better. I don't know why, I think it just looks better.

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I agree with the other guy. The original TT health bar looked way cooler. I am happy that they finally use that little pic of the Skylanders on their card though

Too bad Trap Team doesn't allow hats to increase health anymore.

Sawp Force. It's more edgy.

SWAP Force, because they're more CGI looking.

I said the same thing a long time ago. Swap Force had my favorite health bars with unique 3d models of characters and not just recycling the same art of the character in the health bars.

Swap Force has a better bar and is a better game.

I really liked the 3d character on the Swap Force bar, in Trap Team you only get the artwork like in Giants which you already saw before (card, packaging, pictures, posters etc.)

i like to see that i get the 'COMBO' & 'POWERUP' text animation in the the corner where the health bar is.. both pictures are stills of painted and 3d model, that dont really matter both looks good.

I'm not sure if it's because you've taken it from a different version than what I've seen, but isn't the swap-type hex icon supposed to be gold and directly below the elemental icon, rather than black and offset to the right?

The SF one seems clearer and easier to read. So I guess it gets my vote. Although I don't remember looking at it all that much while playing. What I miss is the sound it made in SA and G when health got low. Did that feature return in TT?

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The SF one seems clearer and easier to read. So I guess it gets my vote. Although I don't remember looking at it all that much while playing. What I miss is the sound it made in SA and G when health got low. Did that feature return in TT?

The clarity of the bars are due to the picture quality of the original pictures he cut them out from. Here's a better quality screenshot.



From this, it's also clear that the one in the original post removed the... not sure what to call it, but the "fading background", I guess? Starting out solid close to the element, then turns more transparent further away. Quite a neat effect, IMO.

As you've seen in my two posts, I have gripes with the choices made in the original post regarding both health bars, but my vote goes to Trap Team.

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Swap Force has a better bar and is a better game.

Haven't played TT yet. but based on what I'm seeing I feel SF is edging out in terms of polish and content.

SSF is better.

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Swap Force has a better bar and is a better game.

Haven't played TT yet. but based on what I'm seeing I feel SF is edging out in terms of polish and content.

Swap Force has more content, better balancing and better gameplay.

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SSF is better.

i think both are good but the trap team's text animation for combos and power ups are just awesome, i hope vv will use that in their game...

Swap Force.

I'm gonna say swap force

Swap Force

Just wondering... How do you take screenshots of your game?

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Just wondering... How do you take screenshots of your game?

Well, you could:
Take a screenshot of the tablet version
Take a screenshot of a YouTube let's play video
Or, use a capture card

How do you take a screen shot on Wii U?

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How do you take a screen shot on Wii U?

You would have to use a capture card.

i mean that the trap team's text animation for combos and level ups are awesome.

Just like the game, the SWAP Force bar is cool, but doesn't suit the Skylanders style.

My vote goes to Trap Team. It's great to have artworks back on it.

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How do you take a screen shot on Wii U?

You would have to use a capture card.

Or you could just pause the game, make a post to Miiverse, and press the screenshot button, but of course, you cant really post that picture anywhere but Miiverse, so the capture card method may be the only way. Just thought I'd share the Miiverse thingy

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SSF is better.

i think both are good but the trap team's text animation for combos and power ups are just awesome, i hope vv will use that in their game...

I just meant the health bars. Personally I think Trap Team may ba the best game yet.

Swap Force. Mostly because the "fun" fonts that TFB insist on using make their huds and menus look goofy.

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I'm not sure if it's because you've taken it from a different version than what I've seen, but isn't the swap-type hex icon supposed to be gold and directly below the elemental icon, rather than black and offset to the right?

Yeah probably. The picture I used was from the game reveal. But right now we're not focusing on that, mainly the design and the 3D character vs art of the character. But thanks for pointing it out, I might have time to change it.

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How do you take a screen shot on Wii U?

You would have to use a capture card.

Or you could just pause the game, make a post to Miiverse, and press the screenshot button, but of course, you cant really post that picture anywhere but Miiverse, so the capture card method may be the only way. Just thought I'd share the Miiverse thingy

Yeah, you cannot get the miiverse photos onto your phone or computer, which sucks.

I prefer Swap Force's. It looks more professional and mature; not to mention the different artwork.

Swap force

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I prefer Swap Force's. It looks more professional and mature; not to mention the different artwork.

Yeah, even for variants they used a different character pose, which I found awesome.

trap team is still awesome.

I think they each have advantages. If you had never played the games before, I think the Swap Force one is the clear winner, but the Trap Team one has nostalgia on it's side since it matches the style of the first two games. The entire UI for Swap Force was very slick but also very different from the other games. I hated how different it felt at first, but then I grew to like it. TFB has their own style defined for the UI and it was their creation originally. Yes, it is very plain and simple but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Personally, I don't think they can go wrong by sticking with that same style even though the Swap Force / VV UI style is perhaps a bit cooler.

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And I will put my vote in for the Swap Force one because I do think it is the more visually appealing (but at the same time, I have no problem with the Trap Team one because it matches the style of the first two games which my daughter and I originally fell in love with).

Trap team. I love how SF had 3D models, but some of them just looked REALLY ugly. (I'm looking at you Zoo Lou)

Swap force

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Trap team. I love how SF had 3D models, but some of them just looked REALLY ugly. (I'm looking at you Zoo Lou)

Oh, yes. Some of them were awkward.
Better stick with the artworks.