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emeraldzoroark
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#101 Posted: 17:32:13 17/12/2017
Bad story, but it was still fun.
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McMurderpaws
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#102 Posted: 17:47:41 17/12/2017
Magic items were always next-to-pointless, and they were equally useless in SuperChargers--only good for money in a game where it was ridiculously easy to come by anyway. It's just that Imaginators made the cash infusion a one-time thing rather than every time you visit the hub.
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SkyFan91
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#103 Posted: 19:35:00 17/12/2017
Quote: McMurderpaws
And that sucks. One and done feels way more useless then any other game. Even though superchargers changed it at least they gave you money every day. Imaginators....nothing. |
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#104 Posted: 22:07:12 17/12/2017
Quote: Drawdler
Oh my god, Where did you get that quote
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McMurderpaws
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#105 Posted: 05:10:49 18/12/2017
More like "Oh my god,
Why did I quote the whole thing" ![]() |
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#106 Posted: 02:38:29 19/12/2017
And the level design in Imaginator kinda sucked, not saying all levels were horrible because there were a few good ones.
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#107 Posted: 03:07:21 19/12/2017
Come to think of it, the main reason Imaginators failed was probably because they didn't repose Gill Grunt. We need to realize this.
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#108 Posted: 05:16:20 19/12/2017
Quote: AmbushFan
And Super Chargers did bad because Gill grunt wasn’t in the starter pack |
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#109 Posted: 10:27:49 19/12/2017
Actually it's because they gave Gill Grunt a new design and moveset. As it's written in the sacred scriptures:
The further thou movest from the One True Grunt, the less of thine Lord Grunt's blessing thou shalt receive..
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#110 Posted: 00:02:57 23/12/2017
IMO senseis and trap masters (at least they bother giving them "special" weapons) are the same as the giants but with bonus damage, there is realy nothing special about them.
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#111 Posted: 08:42:51 25/12/2017
SF - developer trust lost from poor-quality ports (Beenox), unbearably long loading times and almost-unskippable dialog made replay a drag
TT - trap masters don't really "do" anything unique in comparison to past "premium" characters, the yawn trap "fiasco", removal of battle mode SC - core gameplay constantly set aside for vehicle segments (like SF, faults overshadowed gameplay improvements), made variants in support of fraudulent "charity" IG - no Gill Grunt, if you never noticed the power creep idk how to help you
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#112 Posted: 11:40:25 06/01/2018
But yea, the true reason is that Skylanders just got old, expensive as hell and the overal quality of the games got lower and lower.
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#113 Posted: 17:22:12 06/01/2018
Quote: Okaps
you know swap force loading times was probably to hide how short the game was |
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#114 Posted: 13:11:51 08/01/2018
Quote: Kevin16
exactly! Quote: EmperorKaos
LOL!!!
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#115 Posted: 16:44:43 08/01/2018
>oversaturation of the TTL franchise with DI and LD
>DI's cancellation making people fear that SL would do the same, thus turning off potential buyers for imaginators >releasing the abomination that was superchargers after two stellar games, turning off potential buyers and fans for imaginators >people just getting tired of microtransactions in general >the original fans who got SSA growing out of it that's all i can think of. |
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#116 Posted: 16:47:52 08/01/2018
Quote: ZapNorris
Superchargers wasn't the abomination. Imaginators takes that role ever so perfectly |
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#117 Posted: 16:53:18 08/01/2018
i've proven multiple times that superchargers is the worst of the six games regarding gameplay, mechanics, product distribution, and plot.
you're entitled to your own opinion, matt-just not your own facts. |
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#118 Posted: 18:49:45 08/01/2018
Quote: ZapNorris
While I disagree about the plot (and I guess gameplay/mechanics? eh...) the distribution was god awful. Not to mention the prices. Where I live, we had to pay €20 per standard figure or vehicle. But long story short, stop arguing and enjoy the games you like, I don’t really care.
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#119 Posted: 18:54:43 08/01/2018
Don't forget getting the starter packs meant you were stuck with 3+ Stealth Elfs that are pretty useless compared to the original, so actually announcing double packs meant you'd have less junk to clutter the shelves that can't be resold.
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#120 Posted: 19:02:16 08/01/2018
Quote: ZapNorris
Sure sure the game that has the best plot in the series (and was the closest to having dark moments) is totally the worst and the embarrassment of a plot known as imaginators is toootally better /s |
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#121 Posted: 19:10:22 08/01/2018
i'd rather have a game with an average plot and good gameplay mechanics than a game with good plot and god-awful vehicle zone gameplay.
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#122 Posted: 19:12:02 08/01/2018
Quote: ZapNorris
Then why mention the plot of Superchargers was a problem or was bad earlier? |
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#123 Posted: 19:13:24 08/01/2018
Quote: SkyFan91
it had it's good moments, but the glumshanks arc and the overall edgyness killed it. |
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#124 Posted: 21:00:23 08/01/2018
Quote: SkyFan91
Translation:You're opinion is different than mine, so suck it
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#125 Posted: 21:01:54 08/01/2018
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Ah, another one for the guestbook!
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#126 Posted: 00:34:59 09/01/2018
Having a strong vehicle focused game in Skylanders was a stupid idea and moved too far away from what the series had been about. It was a stupid idea made worse by how badly it was handled.
But I don't put the demise of the franchise down to that ridiculous brain fart. Instead I suggest it was the size of the roster vs the amount of content. There were so many characters and so few 'adventures' that they could be used in. As good as some of the early games were it became very repetitive very quickly. I believe it was Take Your Lemons under his previous profile who a few years ago suggested random ambush generators in games. Something as simple as that would have added a lot more interest and made the game more interesting to play through again. But as it stands you have an enormous number of characters and only a handful of chapters they can be played in. Of course Activision could rightly argue that they were making hay while the sun was shining with DI and LD eating into their market, and they're probably justified in arguing that. But to me that was always the problem with this series. Trap Team being the worst in that regard. By the time they got to SC they had clearly given up trying to hide their grab for cash by producing less actual characters but making so many variant versions of them. Shame because Imaginators is such a great game. It's a shame that it never sold enough copies to warrant future patches and expansion packs. |
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#127 Posted: 00:46:45 09/01/2018
I find it ironic that having racing as a gimmick was wanted for so long, but when we finally got it, we hated it. I can understand why though. Because when people said they wanted racing, I doubt what they meant was this. It was so terribly implemented compared to what many of us (presumably) hoped for - instead, all our Skylanders became useless for half the game, the gimmick toys costed as much as a regular Skylander (which themselves were more expensive than before with no good reason for it), vehicle combat sections, etc..
There were so many better ways it could have been done. Like, for example, just make racing a side mode instead of being forced into almost every level. And not making them cost as much as a regular Skylander.
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#128 Posted: 02:26:09 09/01/2018
Quote: AmbushFan
Just so we're clear I always hated the idea, never wanted any sort of racing, wanted Skylanders to remain a dungeon crawler etc, etc. But you make some good points about how poorly it was executed. |
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#129 Posted: 02:57:39 09/01/2018
I never wanted racing either, but I can see why others did. Racing is a pretty big genre, especially for spin-offs and sidegames, so it seemed like a good choice to allow Skylanders to deviate from the regular norm of gimmicklanders unlocking special gates and not much else.
However, it didn't go anywhere near as well as it potentially could have, deviating way too much from the norm in this case. It focused too much on the vehicles rather than making them (mostly) optional like the Trap Masters and Giants. As I said, it's a pretty big genre for spin-offs and sidegames - so maybe that's what they should have done instead. Jusy keep it at Racing, and make the vehicle's role smaller in the main version. And, of course, my other main complaint. Vehicles should not cost as much as a gimmicklander. Heck, even when they were giving Superchargers/Vehicles for free (kind of, part of an offer or something) at my local GAME, I still got the figures instead of the vehicles. At least High Volt didn't become totally useless after his debut.
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#130 Posted: 00:07:22 10/01/2018
Regarding vehicles, I absolutely agree about them working better with spin-offs and sidegames.
Looking at famous and less famous “karting” spin-offs, such as Mario Kart or LittleBigPlanet Karting, it immediately becomes clear that they revolve around that concept because they aren’t main titles. I purposedly choose those examples because both series aren’t abstracted from the idea of vehicles: the latter encourages all forms of creativity and the former sure has moments were a “vehicle” or racing of some kind is required. But they are exactly that; moments, different mechanics which offer a more varied gameplay. They are not the core of the experience. Even the original Spyro games had vehicles here and there, and even then they weren’t exactly the best part of the run. Guess SuperChargers compares better to Nuts and Bolts (though I’m not entirely sure if was a main Banjo-Kazooie title). If only they offered us vast open areas where we could use our favorite vehicle freely but were’t forced to if we preferred to keep using the Skylander. And if only the Skylanders, and I mean all of them, actually still mattered while driving. What a blast it could have been...
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#131 Posted: 00:28:43 10/01/2018
Yes as side games they would have made more sense. It is a shame too, because if you take out the stupid vehicles and compulsory vehicle sections SC was actually a really good story with some really clever chapter designs. It could have been such a sensational game.
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#132 Posted: 00:38:05 10/01/2018
Vault of The Ancients was awesome. Also the only time when I found the vehicle sections tolerable, I think they were actually used pretty well here.
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#133 Posted: 13:12:11 11/01/2018
instead of looking at the closure of skylanders in an negative way, you could also look at it as positive. it was good it ended when it ended... after the star wars loot boxes scandal we can see clearly what direction the skylanders game would have ended up if it was still going on today. it already had to much figures as dlc and to little content, then the microtransactions was added after the game supercharged was released. it continues with chests for skins and also sold as digital as microtransactions. coming next is pretty clear, loot boxes..
then you have.. game characters sold as physical dlc game level sold as physical dlc chest sold as skin for characters as physical dlc chest sold as skin for characters as digital then there was also mobile version of trap team and superchargers where they sold digital characters etc... greed pretty much killed this game, no doubt and had it continued it would have become even worse.
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emeraldzoroark
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#134 Posted: 19:10:35 11/01/2018
Quote: CountMoneyBone
But we have lootboxes. ![]()
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Muffin Man
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#135 Posted: 00:34:27 12/01/2018
But you can unlock everything in that chest just by playing the game regularly, so they are more of a convenience than a necessity. The reason loot boxes are so bad is because they prey on gambling addiction by offering exclusive content that you can only aquire by paying for a small random chance of aquiring that content.
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#136 Posted: 06:50:04 12/01/2018
Quote: Drek95
I find it a bit insulting to compare Superchargers to Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts...at least Superchargers still mostly felt like a Skylanders game ( plus, going of your comments about the concept of vehicles working best as a spin-off game I have to say that the actual Racing game on 3DS is pretty freaking good ), Nuts & Bolts is just utter trash that didn't feel like Banjo-Kazooie in the slightest. Sure it had notes & Jiggies & some of the franchise's core characters but they changed most if not all of them in dumb ways ( why the heck did they turn Humba Wumba from a hot & awesome Native American shaman into a weird almost loli characiture of her former self? ) and focused entirely on the terrible vehicle building & driving. In fact, while some of the vehicle sections in Superchargers were irritating I still mostly enjoyed them ( just not the constant forced use of a vehicle on the pad at all times, or the vehicle boss fights outside the demo derby stage ). I'd love to see a new game make better use of them for some fun missions rather than just shoehorning in the lackluster racing mode from Superchargers & Imaginators. |
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#137 Posted: 11:02:18 12/01/2018
Yeah, Nuts and Bolts was an alright game while not being a good BK game. SC feels more like it had a good hack-and-slash trapped inside a vehicle game, considering some of the great setpieces it had.
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#138 Posted: 05:44:18 14/01/2018
Wait, the Superchargers servers were shut down already? Damn, that was fast.
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#139 Posted: 21:22:23 22/01/2018
well at least they did 1 thing right in this game, skylanders no longer walk like snails
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#140 Posted: 08:16:22 23/01/2018
Well the problem with the series in general in my eyes is just the focus of the balance between the story, the gameplay and the gimmick.
Skylanders SWAP Force have a different developer and while the art style of the game looks completely different (but only in a few areas) Skylanders still have the same formula and also added a few things that are essential to every game like Jumping and the Purpose of Giant characters. It also have it's flaws too with the casuals since there are achievements that need the acquirements of the entire set of SSA and SG and there are areas that are locked behind ability gates that only Swap Force characters can go in. But even with those, this is not a terrible game. Infact, it's in the same tier as the next one. Skylanders Trap Team is sort of the start of the fatigue for casual players because they've been shown with paywalls and been boycotted from the Light and Dark Element content until the player gets one of the Skylander, Trap or Adventure pack of those elements (Not from Superchargers and Imaginators). I never find this game terrible for some people and even the fans but I can see why Trap Team didn't get so much of it's players that just want to play the game for the story (and it's also kind of the motivated one in my opinion). There is also that one thing that fans of the franchise missed and that would be the use of old skylanders on gates and battle mode so I can understand why this game has little bit of a sales decline but it's still a great game regardless of it's flaws and paywalls. However Skylanders Superchargers seems to be every panned this one down for being as a Generic Kart Racer. Even though they go for the Apocalyptic theme of a giant machine eats the entirety of Skylands in the story that could be a great improve, the one thing this game struggles is the execution of the gimmick and the game play balance. Most of the bosses are all vehicles exclusive because the balance between the classic plat former of Skylanders and the racing aspects goes down to 50/50 which causes many problems with some fans thinking this one is the worst of the series. For me, this is not the case for anyone who like racing games. I've played them myself and seeing Skylanders taking on a similar path is kind of interesting. However it does lack of anything special that can help out the gameplay of Skylanders Superchargers. It's not great as Trap Team nor it is worst than the next but it is possibly the start of it's fall. Skylanders Imaginators even though they've executed the gimmick better (for better or for worst), the story of the game is lackluster which is ashamed since their strongest points in the series is the gimmick and the story and Trap Team imo is the only game that put the gimmick as part of the story. Imaginators to many people seemed to be as a Character Creation game but unlike Superchargers, they do tend to have fun making it. However this game can be prove to be the worst than Trap Team by their own Paywalls. In the game, there's only 25 levels. That's cool right? but take 15 of them, put 5 of them as Adventure Packs and make the rest of the 10 only for ELEMENTAL SENSAIS TO UNLOCK IT. since they already made old Skylanders useless since the enemies are broken to be destroyed by Sensais and Imaginators, the paywalls are especially unacceptable and it can weighed down the casuals and ESPECIALLY the fans. |
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#141 Posted: 21:44:47 27/01/2018
I don't know about other families, but the reason we stopped buying the games was because of the price. We only got up to Giants until we stopped because we just didn't want to pay for the games + all the figures you need. I personally got tired of the games after Giants because I just found them boring and tedious, but my family won't buy the games for my little siblings anymore soley because of the cost. I think it scares a lot of parents away because ultimately they are the ones who make the decision whether or not to buy the games, not the kids, and they don't want to be spending thousands on a game series that comes out every year (or used to).
Speaking of, I'm not too involved in the Skylanders side of the fandom so I have no idea, but are we going to be getting another game at all? |
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#142 Posted: 06:53:26 28/01/2018
Quote: Bolt
yeah, that's why the whole annualization aspect of it was a bad idea from the get-go. Activision assumed everyone into it would have a crapload of money to get the game ( or games if you get multiple editions or even just both a console version & the 3DS game ) plus 20+ new toys every year...nevermind the difficulty many of us have had simply FINDING the toys... |
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#143 Posted: 11:48:07 29/01/2018
Quote: ChillStealthElf
but then again they have no problem using crapload on microtransaction for the kiddos on the ipads smurf berry games. so activision said to them self, lets give them something real, like figures for a game... when it comes to it, it looks like people are more at ease throwing away their money on microtransactions. because they dont have to look at a closet full of figurines to remind them of their money thrown away. so as long they dont have to be reminded of how much money they use, its easier to spend a crapload of money. but with that said, have you heard guys, toy ur us is shutting down. so even if skylanders survived the 7th game it would have been doomed anyway...
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Muffin Man
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#144 Posted: 13:25:27 29/01/2018
I thought Toysrus had gotten bailed out by someone? Are they still shutting down after all? That sucks.
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#145 Posted: 14:08:10 29/01/2018
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They are closing 180 stores. Not all of them. Watch for store closing sales!
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#146 Posted: 19:10:13 29/01/2018
Quote: ViDeOmAnCiNi
That's ironic, considering how they normally have excessively high prices. I once did not buy a LEGO set there because it was priced 17% higher than MSRP.
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#147 Posted: 12:55:54 30/01/2018
Quote: Xjmmjbn
Agreed. Probably why Amazon and Walmart/Target are killing it with lower prices. TRU just did not get it and you cannot live on high priced "exclusives"...
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