darkSpyro

With the water levels in Skylanders, do you we can swim in the water? I know some of the characters won't be able to, but I know Spyro and few of the other characters can swim it too.

I can't see anyone swimming.

*crosses fingers for swimming in the air glitches*

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I can't see anyone swimming.

No no, I mean it could be possibly that they'll let a swimming feature in the game with the water levels...

I can imagine Gill Grunt swimming and I would like to see Spyro swimming again he hasn't swam since the original universe(AHT?)
Only a few characters have been revealed so far.But I hope there is a swimming feature.

Look at how deep the water is in this screenshot:

I don't think there will be swimming, at least from those two screens.

Notice how the islands are organized like a linear pathway, with bridges connecting each consecutive island, especially in the second screen...

If there will be swimming, it will probably be a special level or something.

^ This.

Although I'd love to see swimming.

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Look at how deep the water is in this screenshot

That's probably just to allow the characters to drown, since drowning in shallow water is stupid....*looks at Sonic 06*

Hmm looks like there is a fish in the water in that last screenshot wonder if it's friendly?(Unless its a playable character doubt it though)
Or if its like those dudes in spooky Swamp and AHT?(Looks like it has sharp piranha(sp) like teeth where if you fall in you lose health to the critters)

I hope you can swimming in Skylanders. The water looks like you can swimming hm..

I don't think you can swim in the game. But it would be strange if Gill Grunt drowned...

What if the swimming is timed? Say, a breath system?

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*crosses fingers for swimming in the air glitches*

Oh, yeah!

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I don't think you can swim in the game. But it would be strange if Gill Grunt drowned...

Actually, it wouldn't.
Notice how he has heavy looking body armour, as well as a heavy looking harpoon.

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I don't think you can swim in the game. But it would be strange if Gill Grunt drowned...

Actually, it wouldn't.
Notice how he has heavy looking body armour, as well as a heavy looking harpoon.

But he's an aquatic creature.

The water in the FIRST image looks shallow. I'm sure there will at least be the ability to touch it.

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What if the swimming is timed? Say, a breath system?

Like Sonic games.

More like... SUPER MARIO GALAXY! >D
I'm sorry, the Sonic swimming is terrible...

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More like... SUPER MARIO GALAXY! >D
I'm sorry, the Sonic swimming is terrible...

You don't swim in Sonic, you just have funny physics while underwater. It's more like a low gravity area.

However, instead of flying when underwater, Tails swims. And in Sonic Colours, you can jump infinitely underwater.

I know, it's still quite horrible wither way... Urgh...

The reason I haven't bothered to re-finish Sonic 2...

Or...maybe your just horrible at it?

Sorry, it's just that I often hear people lay hate on a Sonic game, then when I see them play it, I'm like this.....

In any case, Sonic has little to do with the topic apart from swimming...
Or, maybe I did finish it before...

If there is swimming, I am hanging out for underwater levels...

Yeah, that would mix things up a bit.

They could use this...

Just edit it a bit, that is what they did with Soyro's design, after all- Look at old concept art nd edit it slightly.

Is this a DOTD artwork?

Yeah, it was an unused concept art for DotD.

DOTD Artworks looks very better as the game x)

WTF's up with the glowy swirly things?

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Look at how deep the water is in this screenshot:

I bet there's gonna be swimming levels and such since gill grunt is a fish xD

^ I hope so.

And, wow, looking at the character models in-game they're actually very nicely done, considering 32 characters alone need to be rendered... Not including enemies or other characters. Gill Grunt looks very nicely done in that screenshot.

Brawl has 35 characters, not including transformations....and they look better....

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^ I hope so.

And, wow, looking at the character models in-game they're actually very nicely done, considering 32 characters alone need to be rendered... Not including enemies or other characters. Gill Grunt looks very nicely done in that screenshot.

Yeah, I fell in love with gill grunt the first time i saw him lolz

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Brawl has 35 characters, not including transformations....and they look better....

Brawl was also probabley Nintendo's top game that year, so they'd spent many years developing it- and Nintendo spend alot more time and effort on their most important games. Plus, SKL is third party and aimed at kids- kiddy, third party stuff will never recieve the budget of a top-priority Ninty game, or at least spend the budget on graphics. It usually goes on voice actors, designers and writers.

One thing I don't get....

Skylanders was apparantly in development for two years and a half, and people say this is an unheard of amount of time for a kid's game...

Spyro: A Hero's Tail took two years....
Crash Twinsanity took three...
Sonic Unleashed(Next-Gen) took 3-4 years...

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One thing I don't get....

Skylanders was apparantly in development for two years and a half, and people say this is an unheard of amount of time for a kid's game...

Spyro: A Hero's Tail took two years....
Crash Twinsanity took three...
Sonic Unleashed(Next-Gen) took 3-4 years...

More time means better the game might be I guess...

No, I mean, people say Skylanders has an unheard of amount of development time for a kids game, yet I just listed ones that took longer(I listed AHT as it is a Spyro game that comes close).

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One thing I don't get....

Skylanders was apparantly in development for two years and a half, and people say this is an unheard of amount of time for a kid's game...

Spyro: A Hero's Tail took two years....
Crash Twinsanity took three...
Sonic Unleashed(Next-Gen) took 3-4 years...

ANB began being concepted while AHT was being developed.

Offcially, this game has only been worked on for one year.

Yeah, I bet they counted the manufacturing of toys as development.

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One thing I don't get....

Skylanders was apparantly in development for two years and a half, and people say this is an unheard of amount of time for a kid's game...

Spyro: A Hero's Tail took two years....
Crash Twinsanity took three...
Sonic Unleashed(Next-Gen) took 3-4 years...

ANB began being concepted while AHT was being developed.

Offcially, this game has only been worked on for one year.

Actually they started working on it since 2009. If you listened to the video of Activision unveiling SKylanders.

But the unheard of amount of development time is still a false claim.

And if they started in 2009, that means it has only been one year and a half, not two years and a half....

Time doesn't always mean quality- HTTYD and Bolt were made in approximately a year, yet they still regained positive reviews. Longer time periods could also mean the developers can't think of any ideas for it, or plain laziness. Though it does show, sometimes- Bambi's realism for an early animated film is astounding and ground-breaking, for example.

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Time doesn't always mean quality- HTTYD and Bolt were made in approximately a year, yet they still regained positive reviews. Longer time periods could also mean the developers can't think of any ideas for it, or plain laziness. Though it does show, sometimes- Bambi's realism for an early animated film is astounding and ground-breaking, for example.

This. I've played plenty of games that were in development for a short period of time, yet they've been a huge amount of fun.

NO! You are missing my point!

I was saying Activision and the previewers are making a false claim....I wasn't saying anything about the game's quality!

Heck, Spyro 3 took ten months to make....

And I love DotD, and all the Legend games, and they took a year...

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But the unheard of amount of development time is still a false claim.

And if they started in 2009, that means it has only been one year and a half, not two years and a half....

They started 2009, you do not know what month they have started. They can beginn with this game in Feburary or March...or early/later...

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One thing I don't get....

Skylanders was apparantly in development for two years and a half, and people say this is an unheard of amount of time for a kid's game...

Spyro: A Hero's Tail took two years....
Crash Twinsanity took three...
Sonic Unleashed(Next-Gen) took 3-4 years...

ANB began being concepted while AHT was being developed.

Offcially, this game has only been worked on for one year.

Actually they started working on it since 2009. If you listened to the video of Activision unveiling SKylanders.

Thinking back, I think what I got it from was talking about how long Toys for Bob has been working on the game. Of course, it could have been wrong.

Actually, they started in June or July of 2009....I remember from the leaked info before the game was announced....

I think the water characters + a few of the others will be able to swim.

All this talk of swimming is makin' me want to swim. Really badly.

And yeah, hopefully there will be some levels where you can swim? Maybe some secret levels or something for certain characters, or something.

Water levels for Gill Grunt and that water dragon that I keep hearin' people talk about.

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ANB began being concepted while AHT was being developed.

Offcially, this game has only been worked on for one year.

Actually they started working on it since 2009. If you listened to the video of Activision unveiling SKylanders.

Thinking back, I think what I got it from was talking about how long Toys for Bob has been working on the game. Of course, it could have been wrong.

Toys for Bob says two and a half year.