darkSpyro

The Title says all. When Skylanders first came out, it was a great game that brought me nostalgia (reminded me of UB Funkeys) and the Sequel was even better. But in Late Spring after going on a field trip in School, I started to play it MUCH less often than I used to and still do to this day (which explains why I've been gone for so long, for those of you who have met me before), I'm not entirely enthusiastic about SWAP Force coming up and I don't think I will be able to buy it. Now I find these great problems in Skylanders that cripple it:

1. It's Costly and Overpriced, starter pack costs more money than it should and gets only worse as you buy more figures. Its not mandatory to buy more, but still tempting considering of Flaw #3 which I will later go on to. There simply just isn't enough content to make the Starter Pack worth its cost, it should've been $20 instead of $60. If you want the whole entire games, they will cost more than $500. Damn, talk about money's worth.

2. There are too many characters and toys, more than there needs to be, which also contributes to Flaw #1. Not only are they the reason why Vampires are sucking the blood out of your Wallet, but they also eat up the other content in the game and make them not as interesting, such as the Lack of Online Play and few game Modes. The 8 New Core Skylanders were all really cool in their own ways and I have no hatred for any of them, but they were pointless and didn't need to exist.

Series 2, Series 3, Recolored Variants, and Lightcore figures make this even worse; putting far more characters in the game that could be handled. They should've given the Seires 1 Figures their heroic challenges and wow pows in Giants so you don't have to waste money buying them AGAIN, with Ligtcores being in-game power-ups.

3. Controls are basic, weak, and simplistic; comparable to Old Arcade games like the Simpsons or Final Fight. I find it absurd how you only have 3 buttons to use for combat and a fourth to talk to people or something, there should've been more use of buttons than that. The Combat System, while still entertaining, is very shallow and there isn't much feel or depth to it. This is only a Minor Problem though, since SWAP Force has jumping.

4. The game is far too easy to play and doesn't provide much of a challenge, even with Nightmare Mode. There are no Joke Characters (like Dan from Street Fighter) and only a few of the characters provide challenging gameplay (such as or ). The first game has no difficulty setting at all and in Giants, changing difficulty does not improve enemy AI or give them new moves. They just gain more HP and deal better Damage, and many of them are still too easy to beat. The Shallow Combat system makes this even worse, giving Skylanders one of the worst difficulty settings in any Video Game.

Even the Boss Battles are underwhelming, only and evil are memorably hard. The rest are easy to average at best. if you buy more figures, you're basically getting extra lives.

5. A Lack of Online Features, there are quite a number of Glitches and there are no Patches or Updates to Fix them. There is no Online Multiplayer either. Nothing else needs to be said here.

6. Heroic Challenges are extremely horrible and a waste of a game mode, a ridiculous way of boosting stats (which isn't even necessary due to under average difficulty). They are really, really fun and creative..... until you've played the same one for the hundredth ****ing time! Its retarded how you have to keep doing the same 40+ challenges with each character over and over.


7. The biggest Flaw Though, is:

Skylanders was great when it first came out, but now they are just money, money, and more money; focusing more on the toy collecting and the 48 characters rather than the rest of the gameplay. They spend less than a year to make the games and make several flaws. As a franchise, Skylanders has massive potential to be one of the greatest games of all time and much better than it is now, but fails to reach that potential due to Toys for Bob's laziness and absent minds (no offense). Recently, I switched over to Disney Infinity and found it a vastly better game with strong superiorities: including better Game Length, Sandbox Mode, Online Play, and many other features. I may get SWAP Force if my Wallet recovers from Infinity, but I won't be getting it immediately.

Not saying Skylanders is bad, its just not what it could've been.

There were a few topics made in this section about the same thing.

Some users say they're done with Skylanders since Swap Force was revealed.

I had the same issues back in the day. When I couldn't afford the Genesis, but had an SNES, I dogged and found every reason to dislike the Genesis (ie too costly, 16 color pallet compared to SNES 32,500).

People generally tell themselves they don't like something. However, if they had all the money in the world, they would still buy into what's too costly.

Honestly, I can think of far worse things to spend money spent on Skylanders on. You mention things like length, online, and such, but think of it like this.

1: Online games brings out a whole bunch of trolls who act like twerps, because they're behind a keyboard and they know they can get away with acting childish.

2: I just got done beating the storyline missions for Final Fantasy XIV. THAT SUCKER DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAGED ON FOREVER. Good story, filled with an extreme amount of needless exposition. Sometimes length doesn't equal a better game. Super Mario Bros. (yes the 8bit Nintendo game) smokes 99% of what came out in the 7th gen - and I bet the 8th gen too - but the game can be beaten in a matter of 30 minutes. A lot of us got that game the day the Nintendo came out, for - I think - 50 bucks?

I mean, it's your call. If you can't afford it, avoid it like the plague. However, 17 + 2 (Swap Force) is better than 16 and none (Giants). Online would only be good if trolls didn't come and ruin the experience, by doing dumb things.

Sure, I would like a longer Skylanders game, through the release of many Adventure Packs, but I will take what I can get in an era of endless gritty sequels that do nothing to further itself (Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty), and sports games that cost 60 bucks for glorified roster updates (Madden).

I am not done yet!

However I may not buy S2/S3 this time around but probably end buying them.

It sounds like you have just become jaded because you have gotten bored with the games. You are calling the company lazy and absent-minded, but the Skylanders project is actually cutting edge, was a huge financial risk for the company to even attempt in the first place, and certainly takes a lot of hard work to get people excited to keep buying the characters and games. It's too bad that you're taking the fact that you're bored with the game and using it to put down people who may be trying their best to make a good game. You're praising Disney Infinity which has the same financial expense and probably only exists because of Skylanders. Don't be so hard on Skylanders. :-) If you are not feeling it right now, then by all means don't buy SWAP Force. If you wait you can absolutely get a better deal someday. For example, i just got into Skylanders and got a brand new starter pack for the 3DS and Wii for only $40 total. Just wait for a while and maybe SWAP Force will be $25 in a year or two.

To add a few more thoughts here, I also think there's a lot to be said for Skylanders with regard to how it's going to get a whole new generation of kids into action role-playing games, which is a genre that I personally love and am excited to see being introduced to kids through a game like this. These games appeal tremendously to kids, and you have to realize that a huge amount of the development of the games is focused on how to make the games fun for people of all ages and families of non-gamers to play together. To that end, I think the hardcore gamers among us should be pretty happy that the company is still willing to put a harder difficulty setting in the game.

To address the lack of content: There is probably not much they could do to fix this. Would adding 10 more levels really add that much more gameplay? At some point the player has to be willing to make his own challenges. For example, can you beat nightmare difficulty starting from level 1 with no hats and no heroic bonuses? Now that would be a good challenge.

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It sounds like you have just become jaded because you have gotten bored with the games. You are calling the company lazy and absent-minded, but the Skylanders project is actually cutting edge, was a huge financial risk for the company to even attempt in the first place, and certainly takes a lot of hard work to get people excited to keep buying the characters and games. It's too bad that you're taking the fact that you're bored with the game and using it to put down people who may be trying their best to make a good game. You're praising Disney Infinity which has the same financial expense and probably only exists because of Skylanders. Don't be so hard on Skylanders. :-) If you are not feeling it right now, then by all means don't buy SWAP Force. If you wait you can absolutely get a better deal someday. For example, i just got into Skylanders and got a brand new starter pack for the 3DS and Wii for only $40 total. Just wait for a while and maybe SWAP Force will be $25 in a year or two.

Correction:

1. Disney Infinity and Skylanders were both announced in 2010. Disney spent like 3 years and approximately $100 million on their game before releasing it (which makes it better IMO), where Toys for Bob rushed Skylanders and released it the next year. So technically, it doesn't even need Skylanders to exist, plus they don't even play the same at all. Skylanders wasn't even the first video game to use a toy peripheral, UB Funkeys came before both of them. They are both Scams to take your money, but at least Infinity actually focuses on the game and not entirely on the characters.

2. While that is true to a degree, it should be noted that the Average current gen Video game takes at least 2 years or more to develop which is real hard work. I'm no game designer, but even though the first Skylanders game has not even been a year old, they already announced a sequel to be released in 11 3/4 months, under average time to develop the game, focusing more on the toys and scams to rip you off rather than the actual gameplay. Making 48 characters and very little content in 11 months isn't the best use of your time, they just rushed it since they were burnt out from making all the characters; when they obviously could've either been doing better things, or they could've delayed the release and spent more time on the game. So no, I'm not putting TFB down for hard work they've done just because I was bored, I'm saying they could've been doing better things with their time; focusing too much on taking your money (which is the point of the game obviously) and spending less than average time on the game.

I even admitted that the game wasn't bad, I still think of it as a Semi-Good game. It could've been MEGA AWESOME, but just isn't. If they're gonna spend little time making the game, the least they could do is stop making too many toys and characters, especially the series 2/3s and lightcores, which weren't even needed in the first place. You should know this.

3. I already said that I won't be getting SWAP Force immediately when it comes out. I may get it if my cash recovers from Infinity and if My Parents don't explode at me again, but I'm still too skeptical about it considering how the first 2 games were, especially considering how they're pretty identical (which is another flaw).

4. Don't double post, its against the site rules. Instead of posting 2 comments a row, you should've just used the edit button to expand your comment. (Dang.... why do I sound like a Forum Police Officer? I'm starting to turn into Aura....)

5. No, I want a challenging mode where I can still be put to the test even with Fully Upgraded Skylanders, not Cheap Baby tricks like that. If you do that, then your Imaginational Ideas are what should be getting the positive reviews and high sales, not the game itself. I get that the game is targeted towards kids, but that does not mean it has to be so simplistic with limited controls. Lots of E games have more buttons than it.

6. There lots of things they can do to add more content:

- Delay the Games and don't release them within one year (no matter how high people demand for it early), hold off on releasing them and add more content until it is finished
- ENOUGH WITH THE NEW CHARACTERS!!! There are far too many and they're eating up time for the other content. There should only be like 8 new unique characters like Swap Force or Giants. No Series 4, No New Core Skylanders, No Lightcores, and No Variants.

If they must, they could even remove some characters from the roster (although I know people would be angry with me if I did it), just to make sure they don't bite off more than they can chew.

- Have someone else test the games finished before releasing them, someone who is an honest gamer who won't show mercy (like myself, I wouldn't just say only positive things on camera) like people do in game interviews all the time, especially not a hardcore biased Skylander fan who would praise almost everything. Maybe even someone who hasn't played it before.

As more Skylanders games are made, there are bound to be new characters added to the mix, and chances that some old characters will not be reposed and be "forgotten".

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4. Don't double post, its against the site rules. Instead of posting 2 comments a row, you should've just used the edit button to expand your comment. (Dang.... why do I sound like a Forum Police Officer? I'm starting to turn into a mod....)

Fixed~

You've now called the game a scam and my idea a "cheap baby trick". Is this just a troll post? You are willing to praise Infinity's sandbox mode, but not willing to make up your own challenges in Skylanders? I don't understand that.

Skylanders was in development since 2009. It's generally a pretty well-liked game and has sold well. Would you really tell the company they should have waited longer to release it when so many people enjoy it and it's selling well? I don't understand the point. Just because you have gotten bored with the game does not mean that something is wrong with it.

I believe the games now have a two year development cycle, as the developers for each game are alternating.

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Ugh, seriously?
I've seen multiple of this topic, and I have to say, it really gets on my nerves.

It seems to me like you're just trying to get reactions and attention. Honestly you really should think before you post..

A lot of people here love Skylanders (This is a Spyro and Skylander fansite after all..), so don't expect many to agree with you. If you don't like the game, go away, and let other people enjoy it. You're just ruining the fun..
I, for one, don't like Disney Infinity. But, I'm not going to list hundreds (Exaggeration right thar) of bad aspects to the game in a bunch of posts and topics, no. You see, I don't want to give any given person who likes DI a reason to hate on it. Because they like it, and it would be very rude and selfish if I came along and spoiled their fun, just because I don't like the damn game.

There are no need for these topics. Respect people's likes/opinions and be on your merry way, I say. So do or don't take this advice next time.
My words to you; GET OFF THE STAGE! *Throws tomato*

*facepalm* Fool, can you read or what?

1. If you were paying any attention to what I said, you would then know that I said I do not think the game is bad and I still think of it as a (semi)Good Game. I'm gonna say this again: "Not saying its a bad game, its just not the game it could've been."

2. I have not been here in a long time so I wouldn't know that there were several topics about this. More importantly, you are not the boss of me and I can still post a topic like this (as long as I list reasons on Negative things, which I did). You are not a moderator and you cannot tell me what to do. If you are so irritated by these kinds of topics, then just ignore them and don't read them, no one will miss you (or at least not me). I didn't invite you here to begin with, you chose to come here.

3. I didn't say anyone had to agree with me nor was I trying to justify anyone playing Skylanders, play whatever you want. I was just curious if anyone is skeptical about SWAP Force coming up or if they could do anything to improve the franchise like myself. Again, if you aren't interested, you shouldn't have even come here in the first place, no need to be a dick about it either. You don't like DI, good for you then.

"Honestly you should think before you speak" "Go away and be on your merry way" I can say the same to you pal, on both counts.

I admit I got a bit bored with Giants and did find the figures a bit expensive. But in the end I stuck with it and towards the end of the game really got into again. Plus in regards to cost all I buy is the new characters. I don't buy reposed figures (except Spyro) as they are in my eyes a waste of money. Now am looking forward to Swap Force. Am buying it on a new console Wii U, the new graphics engine looks great and some of the new characters look awesome.

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Ugh, seriously?
I've seen multiple of this topic, and I have to say, it really gets on my nerves.

It seems to me like you're just trying to get reactions and attention. Honestly you really should think before you post..

A lot of people here love Skylanders (This is a Spyro and Skylander fansite after all..), so don't expect many to agree with you. If you don't like the game, go away, and let other people enjoy it. You're just ruining the fun..
I, for one, don't like Disney Infinity. But, I'm not going to list hundreds (Exaggeration right thar) of bad aspects to the game in a bunch of posts and topics, no. You see, I don't want to give any given person who likes DI a reason to hate on it. Because they like it, and it would be very rude and selfish if I came along and spoiled their fun, just because I don't like the damn game.

There are no need for these topics. Respect people's likes/opinions and be on your merry way, I say. So do or don't take this advice next time.
My words to you; GET OFF THE STAGE! *Throws tomato*

I find it exceedingly ironic that you're telling him to respect other options while you trash his. If anyone needs to learn how to deal with opposing opinions, it's you.

Wow, some hot tempers around here.

I do share some of LightSpyro13's criticism on Skylanders.
My biggest gripe is the short story mode and it was a big disappointment that Giants was even shorter than SSA.

We played SSA story mode four times over and are now playing Giants story mode for the third time.

We have all Skylanders from SSA and even after 4 times story mode they were not all fully upgraded. The XP bonus you get for having more Skylanders is to low to compensate for the sheer number of Skylanders compared to the available XP in story mode.

The wow-pow features and switchable paths for S2 Skylanders in Giants also irritates me, I know it's done on purpose to sell the S2 SKylanders but it feels like getting punished for having heavily invested in SSA characters.


I'm still getting Swap Force though and not Disney Infinity.
For one because of the investment in Skylanders toys and secondly because the Disney characters are not of one 'realm' so it feels strange to me to have jack sparrow in the same game with mickey.

I do hope the Swap Force story mode will be longer.
And online capabilities should definitely be added to Skylanders. Things as simple as online PvP at minimum.

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Wow, some hot tempers around here.

I do share some of LightSpyro13's criticism on Skylanders.
My biggest gripe is the short story mode and it was a big disappointment that Giants was even shorter than SSA.

We played SSA story mode four times over and are now playing Giants story mode for the third time.

We have all Skylanders from SSA and even after 4 times story mode they were not all fully upgraded. The XP bonus you get for having more Skylanders is to low to compensate for the sheer number of Skylanders compared to the available XP in story mode.

The wow-pow features and switchable paths for S2 Skylanders in Giants also irritates me, I know it's done on purpose to sell the S2 SKylanders but it feels like getting punished for having heavily invested in SSA characters.


I'm still getting Swap Force though and not Disney Infinity.
For one because of the investment in Skylanders toys and secondly because the Disney characters are not of one 'realm' so it feels strange to me to have jack sparrow in the same game with mickey.

I do hope the Swap Force story mode will be longer.
And online capabilities should definitely be added to Skylanders. Things as simple as online PvP at minimum.

This is what irks me the most. You can hit the max level easily but there is only ever enough gold to fully upgrade a handful of Skylanders per playthrough (Unless you want to grind). I really thought they'd do something about it in Giants but they ultimately only ended up making it worse with an even shorter game.

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This is what irks me the most. You can hit the max level easily but there is only ever enough gold to fully upgrade a handful of Skylanders per playthrough (Unless you want to grind). I really thought they'd do something about it in Giants but they ultimately only ended up making it worse with an even shorter game.

Well they actually DID do something about it in Giants but not in story mode.
Where SSA had elemental totems that were available only once after each chapter, in Giants you can open the elemental safe on Flynn's airship over and over again just by leaving the room and reentering.
It's a hassle because you need 8 Skylanders (one for every element) to open it and it only contains 9 (I think) gems each worth 90 coins.
But it's probably quicker than playing chapters over and over only for gold.

It's still grinding though, like you said, more gold in story mode would be preferable and it should be dynamic, if you own more Skylanders there should be more gold.

With XP I have the same problem, we still don't have any Skylanders at max level at the moment in Giants. We did get quite a few at max level 10 in SSA after 4 play-troughs.

LightSpyro, if you don't want to buy the game, why don't you leave the forum, and join Infinity Guru or Infinity Fans instead?

He is entitled to his opinion, guys. I agree that the game gets expensive for the little amount of content in the game, but I personally still have fun playing the game and collecting figures. It is disapointing that Giants only has 16 levels, while Swap Force will only have 17 (not counting the adventure packs).

He is entitled to his opinion about the game itself. However, I don't think anybody should be saying anything negative about one another as human beings. That goes for calling the game designers lazy to asking someone if they can read. i also don't think it helps the conversation when you imply that these games are rushed to market when it's well documented that Skylanders was being worked on since at least 2009, if not earlier.

If you find it to easy.
I dare you to do my drillocke challenge

Must go through the game with a drill seargent that has NO upgrades
Cant Die at ALL (Die and you need to restart over)
And you must start at level 1 (Reset after each level)
Did I mention that you must do this on Nightmare mode?

Just saying
If you find something too easy, do something to make it MUCH harder.

Just saying special walkthrough challenges will keep the fun going if you find the game boring after beating the game

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He is entitled to his opinion, guys. I agree that the game gets expensive for the little amount of content in the game, but I personally still have fun playing the game and collecting figures. It is disapointing that Giants only has 16 levels, while Swap Force will only have 17 (not counting the adventure packs).

Swap Force will have much longer levels, and 180 hats (granted, most of those will probably just be buyable). Plus, Swappers have double the upgrades. So I think this'll easily last a lot longer than Giants.

Yeh i'm kinda done with Skylanders its a fun game and stuff but idk i just lost my interests maybe i will still get Swap force...

Light, I hope you aren't thinking Infinity came first, but since Skylanders came out in 2011, it was the first to market, thus they're technically first when they really weren't.

TFB started making Skylanders in 2009, while Disney spent 3 years, starting in 2010, making Infinity.

Another bit of proof we all have, in the fact Skylanders was first, was Disney's failed attempt at hiding the fact they were using Skylanders figures in order to develop their toys. The video's on Youtube, look for yourself, if you haven't already seen it.

Look, if you're tired, sell all of your stuff right now. No use visiting the Skylanders sections of Darkspyro anymore, either. However, I see you being a bit mad at other people's opinions, when they're opinions just like yours.

Are you really tired of it, or were you looking for a means to start an argument/debate?

If I am tired of something, I am done with it in full.

Be done with Skylanders, sell your collection, and avoid anything Skylanders related like the plague. Then flock to another franchise that has been done to death. You know, any game from the 7th gen, or Nintendo franchise like Mario and Zelda... oh, and Pokemon.

No use in arguing your hate and dislikes about Skylanders with others anymore. You're done. Show us you're done.

LoL @ the OP in this thread.

If you want to stop playing and/or buying Skylanders, then simply do just that.
No one cares about your "reasons for quitting". If you need to blog about it, go do that, just not here.

If you need a support group for "quitters", go find one. This ain't it.

What a waste of digital space!

Unless Skylanders 4 looks epic, I'm not getting it. I just can't afford it. Swap Force will probably be my last run with Skylanders

We will all lose interest in Skylanders eventually. Knowing Activision, they will go about two or three games past where they should stop simply because they wring everything they can out of a franchise. I'm really feeling the number of get 'em all collectors will drop drastically for this game and the new thing will be to simply get the new guys. There is simply a limit to the number of figures the average person will feel the need to have. Everyone's limit is different, but we are currently sitting on around 110 figures for Giants. We have 56 new ones plus (guess on my part) another 10-15 variants. Next game will probably add a similar amount.

When I was young I had an impressive collection of Star Wars figures. I more than filled my Darth Vader collector case. Had every one up to the end of Empire Strikes Back. I got older, and more and more figures came out - but I simply moved on to other things. We now have more Skylanders than I ever had Star Wars figures. I'm really looking forward to Swap Force, but I'm definitely not looking to get them all. I'll try and get the newlanders/swappers, preferably variants over regular. Down the road I might get more if they go on sale really low (like this year). Game four, who knows - but I already see an end from here. So I do get being tired of it.

But, what doesn't compute is the need to belittle it in comparison to Infinity. Skylanders is a very good game, and it can co-exist with Infinity. You don't have to like one or the other. They are very different games. The only risk they pose to one another is competing for dollars since they both rely on figure sales. Play both and simply tell yourself you don't have to have every figure to enjoy the games. I can't see a good reason that people that loved Skylanders up until now would not get Swap Force - if you buy nothing but the starter, you have a very nice selection of content just using the figures you already have - no one says you have to go all in to enjoy it - that's a limitation people place upon themselves.

Gamemaster's comparison is very apt, this is very much a fanboy thing. Fanboys see competing games/systems (even if they are different) as threats to the choice they made - particularly if they can't have both. They try to ally themselves with the game to reinforce the correctness of their own choice/limitation. But, I will assure you that both games have ample consumer dollars to go around. People who like Skylanders are not a threat to your choice, nor are you to theirs. Both games will see further sequels/support. And the existence of other options drives innovation and improvements much faster than simply being the only game in town. Would Activision have been comfortable releasing Giants which is a more refined game, but had few innovations over the previous game and less content to a market with a valid competitor? They know they have to step up their game now.

don't have to much munny for it but still playing it! I have 35 figures and I love to play with them! But I hate them cuz they removed the online game!!!

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Ugh, seriously?
I've seen multiple of this topic, and I have to say, it really gets on my nerves.

It seems to me like you're just trying to get reactions and attention. Honestly you really should think before you post..

A lot of people here love Skylanders (This is a Spyro and Skylander fansite after all..), so don't expect many to agree with you. If you don't like the game, go away, and let other people enjoy it. You're just ruining the fun..
I, for one, don't like Disney Infinity. But, I'm not going to list hundreds (Exaggeration right thar) of bad aspects to the game in a bunch of posts and topics, no. You see, I don't want to give any given person who likes DI a reason to hate on it. Because they like it, and it would be very rude and selfish if I came along and spoiled their fun, just because I don't like the damn game.

There are no need for these topics. Respect people's likes/opinions and be on your merry way, I say. So do or don't take this advice next time.
My words to you; GET OFF THE STAGE! *Throws tomato*

*facepalm* Fool, can you read or what?

1. If you were paying any attention to what I said, you would then know that I said I do not think the game is bad and I still think of it as a (semi)Good Game. I'm gonna say this again: "Not saying its a bad game, its just not the game it could've been."

2. I have not been here in a long time so I wouldn't know that there were several topics about this. More importantly, you are not the boss of me and I can still post a topic like this (as long as I list reasons on Negative things, which I did). You are not a moderator and you cannot tell me what to do. If you are so irritated by these kinds of topics, then just ignore them and don't read them, no one will miss you (or at least not me). I didn't invite you here to begin with, you chose to come here.

3. I didn't say anyone had to agree with me nor was I trying to justify anyone playing Skylanders, play whatever you want. I was just curious if anyone is skeptical about SWAP Force coming up or if they could do anything to improve the franchise like myself. Again, if you aren't interested, you shouldn't have even come here in the first place, no need to be a dick about it either. You don't like DI, good for you then.

"Honestly you should think before you speak" "Go away and be on your merry way" I can say the same to you pal, on both counts.

look, if your going to be a complete JERK about this, then dont make a topic! your going to start a FLAME WAR!!!!!!! so be smart, and KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!!!! or DELETE this topic. i dislike complainers like you who tear websites apart! its not cool! *also throws tomato*

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We will all lose interest in Skylanders eventually. Knowing Activision, they will go about two or three games past where they should stop simply because they wring everything they can out of a franchise. I'm really feeling the number of get 'em all collectors will drop drastically for this game and the new thing will be to simply get the new guys. There is simply a limit to the number of figures the average person will feel the need to have. Everyone's limit is different, but we are currently sitting on around 110 figures for Giants. We have 56 new ones plus (guess on my part) another 10-15 variants. Next game will probably add a similar amount.

When I was young I had an impressive collection of Star Wars figures. I more than filled my Darth Vader collector case. Had every one up to the end of Empire Strikes Back. I got older, and more and more figures came out - but I simply moved on to other things. We now have more Skylanders than I ever had Star Wars figures. I'm really looking forward to Swap Force, but I'm definitely not looking to get them all. I'll try and get the newlanders/swappers, preferably variants over regular. Down the road I might get more if they go on sale really low (like this year). Game four, who knows - but I already see an end from here. So I do get being tired of it.

But, what doesn't compute is the need to belittle it in comparison to Infinity. Skylanders is a very good game, and it can co-exist with Infinity. You don't have to like one or the other. They are very different games. The only risk they pose to one another is competing for dollars since they both rely on figure sales. Play both and simply tell yourself you don't have to have every figure to enjoy the games. I can't see a good reason that people that loved Skylanders up until now would not get Swap Force - if you buy nothing but the starter, you have a very nice selection of content just using the figures you already have - no one says you have to go all in to enjoy it - that's a limitation people place upon themselves.

Gamemaster's comparison is very apt, this is very much a fanboy thing. Fanboys see competing games/systems (even if they are different) as threats to the choice they made - particularly if they can't have both. They try to ally themselves with the game to reinforce the correctness of their own choice/limitation. But, I will assure you that both games have ample consumer dollars to go around. People who like Skylanders are not a threat to your choice, nor are you to theirs. Both games will see further sequels/support. And the existence of other options drives innovation and improvements much faster than simply being the only game in town. Would Activision have been comfortable releasing Giants which is a more refined game, but had few innovations over the previous game and less content to a market with a valid competitor? They know they have to step up their game now.

I don't know, Def. You mention people always losing interest in time, one would like to think that's true. I bet if I went back in time and told someone in the early 90's that the Simpsons was still on the air in 2013, with no end in sight, they would call me a liar, due to thinking that interest would cease.

Pokemon and Madden are good examples as well. Why hasn't Madden failed with its annual releases? Why can Pokemon get away with telling a different story, while the games play out the same with every core release?

The way I see Skylanders is this. I am seeing kids at school with Skylanders backpacks. When I went to buy milk yesterday, I saw a kid in Walmart wearing Skylanders jammies as normal wear.

What I see, is current kids and fans growing up, still playing Skylanders, while new kids will spot other kids playing it, and want them to. A lot of people compare this to things like Furbies and whatnot, but people forget one thing. Furbies did nothing more than look cute and sit on shelves as decoration. They didn't level to 10-15-20-25-30 etc, build up stats, and play across a number of games. They were simply stuffed animals. Lifeless and useless by all accounts.

How many new customers does Pokemon attract? Why does it? It's the new Pokemon, that's why. Gotta catch them all. Skylanders is the same. Gotta catch them all. This is no Guitar Hero, where you're rocking out to five button presses in certain combinations. Each Skylanders game provides characters that people will latch onto, while also telling a new story, unlike a franchise like Pokemon, which always falls on the same standards, which is -

- Wannabe trainer goes out
- Happens upon an instance and gets to use a starter pokemon
- Talks to a professor who asks him to fill out the Pokedex
- Learn your rival is a twerp, arrogant fool, who tries to be a member of the elite four
- Fight Gym leaders 8 times
- Battle and catch the game's Legendary Pokemon
- Battle the Elite Four
- Get the national dex
- Collect all the Pokemon you can

If that franchise can change scenarios but have them play out the same every couple of years, Skylanders can be successful.

I honestly don't see Skylanders going anywhere, especially when it's making 1.5 billion dollars and the series hasn't even hit the 2 years on the market mark yet.

Are you my long lost evil twin brother? Cause you sound just like me!

I'm boycotting by cutting down my purchases 50%. Less toys, more mindful content will make me reconsider my position.

defpally: 118 if you count variants that don't add to the inventory due to Activision's flawed inventory system. I'm feeling kinda ridculous seeing 3+ copies of the same character in my inventory...it feels so....excessive. (well duh!---rake it in, Acti!)

GM: Don't be proud of this new technological terror you've been playing. The ability to destroy Kaos is insignificant next to the power of Activision marketing! And it seems you're drinking the Kool Aid, my friend.

I seriously considered dropping Swap Force last night. It'll set me and my siblings back $150 ($100 at very least, with the Darkstarter), and there are several other videogames coming out at that time I'd like.
But I suppose I'll still get it. Or more my brother will, for his birthday.

I told myself I wasn't done, but now the thought of so many characters and variants and new series have just filled my head with a sense of exhaustion. The mere thought of trying to collect like I have in the past makes my head and wallet ache. I am not done yet but I will definitely not put in the same amount of effort at I have in the past in collecting everything. I used to think it was fun, the rush of finding something I didn't have or walking into a store and running into a character I did not know was being released was such a big thrill. But deep down I am a collector and it is supposed to be my hobby not my job to be running around looking for an exponentially growing list of characters. My strength of will is sapped and I have no where to go, so we will see if in the future I can put up with any more of this.

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He is entitled to his opinion, guys. I agree that the game gets expensive for the little amount of content in the game, but I personally still have fun playing the game and collecting figures. It is disapointing that Giants only has 16 levels, while Swap Force will only have 17 (not counting the adventure packs).

Thank you for your maturity man, thank you for not ranting about flame wars, leaving, and all that other stuff.

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Light, I hope you aren't thinking Infinity came first, but since Skylanders came out in 2011, it was the first to market, thus they're technically first when they really weren't.

TFB started making Skylanders in 2009, while Disney spent 3 years, starting in 2010, making Infinity.

Another bit of proof we all have, in the fact Skylanders was first, was Disney's failed attempt at hiding the fact they were using Skylanders figures in order to develop their toys. The video's on Youtube, look for yourself, if you haven't already seen it.

Look, if you're tired, sell all of your stuff right now. No use visiting the Skylanders sections of Darkspyro anymore, either. However, I see you being a bit mad at other people's opinions, when they're opinions just like yours.

Are you really tired of it, or were you looking for a means to start an argument/debate?

If I am tired of something, I am done with it in full.

Be done with Skylanders, sell your collection, and avoid anything Skylanders related like the plague. Then flock to another franchise that has been done to death. You know, any game from the 7th gen, or Nintendo franchise like Mario and Zelda... oh, and Pokemon.

No use in arguing your hate and dislikes about Skylanders with others anymore. You're done. Show us you're done.

Man, I don't even know why I bother. Damn wrong I wasn't trying to start an argument, you people just immediately got mad at me for posting this and started it yourselves. I said it before I'll say it again: Skylanders is NOT a bad game! There is a very good game in there, its just struggling to come out of its egg shell. Furthermore, I didn't say I was completely done with it, I even admitted that I might buy it if my wallet recovers (depending on Review Scores and changes from previous games). Even if I don't buy it, I'll still play Giants and the first game from time to time.

So no man, just get away from me and stay away, you're only getting my nerves and giving me a reason to hate people like you. Besides, the point of that was to show that both games were officially announced (Spyro's Kingdom doesn't count) around the same time, and that it isn't a full-on copy of Skylanders. Skylanders wasn't even the first video game to bring toys to life, it and DI were already preceded by UB Funkeys as mentioned before.

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Ugh, seriously?
I've seen multiple of this topic, and I have to say, it really gets on my nerves.

It seems to me like you're just trying to get reactions and attention. Honestly you really should think before you post..

A lot of people here love Skylanders (This is a Spyro and Skylander fansite after all..), so don't expect many to agree with you. If you don't like the game, go away, and let other people enjoy it. You're just ruining the fun..
I, for one, don't like Disney Infinity. But, I'm not going to list hundreds (Exaggeration right thar) of bad aspects to the game in a bunch of posts and topics, no. You see, I don't want to give any given person who likes DI a reason to hate on it. Because they like it, and it would be very rude and selfish if I came along and spoiled their fun, just because I don't like the damn game.

There are no need for these topics. Respect people's likes/opinions and be on your merry way, I say. So do or don't take this advice next time.
My words to you; GET OFF THE STAGE! *Throws tomato*

*facepalm* Fool, can you read or what?

1. If you were paying any attention to what I said, you would then know that I said I do not think the game is bad and I still think of it as a (semi)Good Game. I'm gonna say this again: "Not saying its a bad game, its just not the game it could've been."

2. I have not been here in a long time so I wouldn't know that there were several topics about this. More importantly, you are not the boss of me and I can still post a topic like this (as long as I list reasons on Negative things, which I did). You are not a moderator and you cannot tell me what to do. If you are so irritated by these kinds of topics, then just ignore them and don't read them, no one will miss you (or at least not me). I didn't invite you here to begin with, you chose to come here.

3. I didn't say anyone had to agree with me nor was I trying to justify anyone playing Skylanders, play whatever you want. I was just curious if anyone is skeptical about SWAP Force coming up or if they could do anything to improve the franchise like myself. Again, if you aren't interested, you shouldn't have even come here in the first place, no need to be a dick about it either. You don't like DI, good for you then.

"Honestly you should think before you speak" "Go away and be on your merry way" I can say the same to you pal, on both counts.

look, if your going to be a complete JERK about this, then dont make a topic! your going to start a FLAME WAR!!!!!!! so be smart, and KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!!!! or DELETE this topic. i dislike complainers like you who tear websites apart! its not cool! *also throws tomato*

Well maybe if he didn't include that last sentence with the tomato, I wouldn't have been a jerk to begin with. And again, If you people have no interest in the topic, you don't even need to read it considering how I didn't ask you to in the first place. You could've just ignored the topic and carry on, but instead chose to come here anyway and rage. Its not my fault that you're the ones who started being rude in the first place.

Once i get my LC this October, im done with Skylanders. I'll be selling the Swap Force Starter Pack on CL for $60, i only pre-ordered just to get LC . Once i get a PS4 and XOne this holiday, i'll be busy playing other new games that we all haven't heard. You know the saying "Gone With The Old, In With The New".

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Man, I don't even know why I bother. Damn wrong I wasn't trying to start an argument, you people just immediately got mad at me for posting this and started it yourselves. I said it before I'll say it again: Skylanders is NOT a bad game! There is a very good game in there, its just struggling to come out of its egg shell. Furthermore, I didn't say I was completely done with it, I even admitted that I might buy it if my wallet recovers (depending on Review Scores and changes from previous games). Even if I don't buy it, I'll still play Giants and the first game from time to time.

But you're the one who began the argument about Infinity. You took issue with my comment about how Skylanders was a pioneering game by saying that the game was rushed to market and that the project began at the same time as Disney's. I do not understand why you said that to me if you were not looking for an argument, because it's very difficult to just let it lie; the information was false.

If you had simply made a post saying you're bored with Skylanders because it's too easy and there isn't enough variety of different skills, I would understand where you're coming from completely. I love the games but I do wish there were an even harder mode, and that each character had maybe one more ability.

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Man, I don't even know why I bother. Damn wrong I wasn't trying to start an argument, you people just immediately got mad at me for posting this and started it yourselves. I said it before I'll say it again: Skylanders is NOT a bad game! There is a very good game in there, its just struggling to come out of its egg shell. Furthermore, I didn't say I was completely done with it, I even admitted that I might buy it if my wallet recovers (depending on Review Scores and changes from previous games). Even if I don't buy it, I'll still play Giants and the first game from time to time.

But you're the one who began the argument about Infinity. You took issue with my comment about how Skylanders was a pioneering game by saying that the game was rushed to market and that the project began at the same time as Disney's. I do not understand why you said that to me if you were not looking for an argument, because it's very difficult to just let it lie; the information was false.

If you had simply made a post saying you're bored with Skylanders because it's too easy and there isn't enough variety of different skills, I would understand where you're coming from completely. I love the games but I do wish there were an even harder mode, and that each character had maybe one more ability.

You, sir, took the words right out of my mouth.

There are times when you know when one is giving a simple opinion, or falsely throwing out info for whatever reason.

I look at it like this. The more people quit Skylanders, the more chances I have to find them at stores without worry. I make up for 3 lost customers each game, since I buy 4 of each object, minus triple packs after wave 1.

I hate to remind myself of how much I spend on Skylanders every year, or I'd throw out a magical number of what I spend on this franchise each year. While small in the overall coffer of 1.5 billion dollars in 20 months on the market, but I'd like to think I make up for at least 3 lost customers each game.

People come and go to each game, but I don't think that will ever hurt Bobby and the Activision/TFB crew. It paints a picture of franchises as a whole. Some will leave Assassin's Creed, while others join. Same with Madden, Mario, Pokemon, Call of Duty, Zelda, Skylanders, and other properties that come out more often than other franchises. Thing is, you don't see these franchises dying out.

Skylanders is here to say. I say this as a gamer, not a fanboy (though someone WILL come in here and say that's not the case) #crystalball.

If a glorified roster update can sell for 60 bucks each year, a game that actually throws characters in that look different can to.

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I'd like to carry on with the skylanders franchise, but after swap force, I'm gonna need a whole bunch of willpower to not get any other skylanders games after that. I like the game's concept as well as most of the characters, but as it has been said before, the game has low replayability and it is a bit short. It does also cost far too much for my liking. I preferred it when the first game was released and the figures were only £6.99, but now, with Giants (and soon swap force too) costing £15 each, It's getting annoying to save up for all the figures. The only thing that really got me to get all of the S2 figures for giants (except lightcores) was my completionist sense, which started to kick in when I found out I had to buy new figures to unlock all heroic challenges, as I really wanted to max out the stats for all of my characters. I haven't played the game in a while, but that's mostly because going through levels again and again gets far too tedious, especially heroics.

I really do hope that activision stop being too much more greedy with money. There really are better things that money could be spent on, so if only the figures were less expensive.

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He is entitled to his opinion, guys. I agree that the game gets expensive for the little amount of content in the game, but I personally still have fun playing the game and collecting figures. It is disapointing that Giants only has 16 levels, while Swap Force will only have 17 (not counting the adventure packs).

Thank you for your maturity man, thank you for not ranting about flame wars, leaving, and all that other stuff.

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Light, I hope you aren't thinking Infinity came first, but since Skylanders came out in 2011, it was the first to market, thus they're technically first when they really weren't.

TFB started making Skylanders in 2009, while Disney spent 3 years, starting in 2010, making Infinity.

Another bit of proof we all have, in the fact Skylanders was first, was Disney's failed attempt at hiding the fact they were using Skylanders figures in order to develop their toys. The video's on Youtube, look for yourself, if you haven't already seen it.

Look, if you're tired, sell all of your stuff right now. No use visiting the Skylanders sections of Darkspyro anymore, either. However, I see you being a bit mad at other people's opinions, when they're opinions just like yours.

Are you really tired of it, or were you looking for a means to start an argument/debate?

If I am tired of something, I am done with it in full.

Be done with Skylanders, sell your collection, and avoid anything Skylanders related like the plague. Then flock to another franchise that has been done to death. You know, any game from the 7th gen, or Nintendo franchise like Mario and Zelda... oh, and Pokemon.

No use in arguing your hate and dislikes about Skylanders with others anymore. You're done. Show us you're done.

Man, I don't even know why I bother. Damn wrong I wasn't trying to start an argument, you people just immediately got mad at me for posting this and started it yourselves. I said it before I'll say it again: Skylanders is NOT a bad game! There is a very good game in there, its just struggling to come out of its egg shell. Furthermore, I didn't say I was completely done with it, I even admitted that I might buy it if my wallet recovers (depending on Review Scores and changes from previous games). Even if I don't buy it, I'll still play Giants and the first game from time to time.

So no man, just get away from me and stay away, you're only getting my nerves and giving me a reason to hate people like you. Besides, the point of that was to show that both games were officially announced (Spyro's Kingdom doesn't count) around the same time, and that it isn't a full-on copy of Skylanders. Skylanders wasn't even the first video game to bring toys to life, it and DI were already preceded by UB Funkeys as mentioned before.

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*facepalm* Fool, can you read or what?

1. If you were paying any attention to what I said, you would then know that I said I do not think the game is bad and I still think of it as a (semi)Good Game. I'm gonna say this again: "Not saying its a bad game, its just not the game it could've been."

2. I have not been here in a long time so I wouldn't know that there were several topics about this. More importantly, you are not the boss of me and I can still post a topic like this (as long as I list reasons on Negative things, which I did). You are not a moderator and you cannot tell me what to do. If you are so irritated by these kinds of topics, then just ignore them and don't read them, no one will miss you (or at least not me). I didn't invite you here to begin with, you chose to come here.

3. I didn't say anyone had to agree with me nor was I trying to justify anyone playing Skylanders, play whatever you want. I was just curious if anyone is skeptical about SWAP Force coming up or if they could do anything to improve the franchise like myself. Again, if you aren't interested, you shouldn't have even come here in the first place, no need to be a dick about it either. You don't like DI, good for you then.

"Honestly you should think before you speak" "Go away and be on your merry way" I can say the same to you pal, on both counts.

look, if your going to be a complete JERK about this, then dont make a topic! your going to start a FLAME WAR!!!!!!! so be smart, and KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!!!! or DELETE this topic. i dislike complainers like you who tear websites apart! its not cool! *also throws tomato*

Well maybe if he didn't include that last sentence with the tomato, I wouldn't have been a jerk to begin with. And again, If you people have no interest in the topic, you don't even need to read it considering how I didn't ask you to in the first place. You could've just ignored the topic and carry on, but instead chose to come here anyway and rage. Its not my fault that you're the ones who started being rude in the first place.

*throws another tomato* you shouldent of even TYPED THIS!!!!!!! belive me, im nice, but when somebody ticks me off (you), i get nasty. look, i came here to see whats going on; not to type this, but if you offend me, im not just going to sit down and pout like a 3-year old, im gonna say what i want. look, im going to put this in the nicest way: the best thing you can do is close this and put it on the disney infinity blog, not on a skylanders/spyro blog. please, please, PLEASE; just stop! next thing you know: darks going to come and sort this out himself, and when he sees this flame war/mess/argument; hes gonna suspend us all. so how about another tomato every time you have a comeback; hmmm? *throws 3 tomatos in a row* GET OFF THE STAGE!!!!

Please just close this. I'm not taking anyone's side, I just think this should be closed before it sparks anymore trouble...

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Man, I don't even know why I bother. Damn wrong I wasn't trying to start an argument, you people just immediately got mad at me for posting this and started it yourselves. I said it before I'll say it again: Skylanders is NOT a bad game! There is a very good game in there, its just struggling to come out of its egg shell. Furthermore, I didn't say I was completely done with it, I even admitted that I might buy it if my wallet recovers (depending on Review Scores and changes from previous games). Even if I don't buy it, I'll still play Giants and the first game from time to time.

But you're the one who began the argument about Infinity. You took issue with my comment about how Skylanders was a pioneering game by saying that the game was rushed to market and that the project began at the same time as Disney's. I do not understand why you said that to me if you were not looking for an argument, because it's very difficult to just let it lie; the information was false.

If you had simply made a post saying you're bored with Skylanders because it's too easy and there isn't enough variety of different skills, I would understand where you're coming from completely. I love the games but I do wish there were an even harder mode, and that each character had maybe one more ability.

No I didn't, you did *snickers*! Just because I was comparing them doesn't mean I was trying to start an argument, I did so because while they have very similar toys to life concepts, the game has so much more content in it than Skylanders does (not gonna argue about this part, don't bother).

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He is entitled to his opinion, guys. I agree that the game gets expensive for the little amount of content in the game, but I personally still have fun playing the game and collecting figures. It is disapointing that Giants only has 16 levels, while Swap Force will only have 17 (not counting the adventure packs).

Thank you for your maturity man, thank you for not ranting about flame wars, leaving, and all that other stuff.

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Light, I hope you aren't thinking Infinity came first, but since Skylanders came out in 2011, it was the first to market, thus they're technically first when they really weren't.

TFB started making Skylanders in 2009, while Disney spent 3 years, starting in 2010, making Infinity.

Another bit of proof we all have, in the fact Skylanders was first, was Disney's failed attempt at hiding the fact they were using Skylanders figures in order to develop their toys. The video's on Youtube, look for yourself, if you haven't already seen it.

Look, if you're tired, sell all of your stuff right now. No use visiting the Skylanders sections of Darkspyro anymore, either. However, I see you being a bit mad at other people's opinions, when they're opinions just like yours.

Are you really tired of it, or were you looking for a means to start an argument/debate?

If I am tired of something, I am done with it in full.

Be done with Skylanders, sell your collection, and avoid anything Skylanders related like the plague. Then flock to another franchise that has been done to death. You know, any game from the 7th gen, or Nintendo franchise like Mario and Zelda... oh, and Pokemon.

No use in arguing your hate and dislikes about Skylanders with others anymore. You're done. Show us you're done.

Man, I don't even know why I bother. Damn wrong I wasn't trying to start an argument, you people just immediately got mad at me for posting this and started it yourselves. I said it before I'll say it again: Skylanders is NOT a bad game! There is a very good game in there, its just struggling to come out of its egg shell. Furthermore, I didn't say I was completely done with it, I even admitted that I might buy it if my wallet recovers (depending on Review Scores and changes from previous games). Even if I don't buy it, I'll still play Giants and the first game from time to time.

So no man, just get away from me and stay away, you're only getting my nerves and giving me a reason to hate people like you. Besides, the point of that was to show that both games were officially announced (Spyro's Kingdom doesn't count) around the same time, and that it isn't a full-on copy of Skylanders. Skylanders wasn't even the first video game to bring toys to life, it and DI were already preceded by UB Funkeys as mentioned before.

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look, if your going to be a complete JERK about this, then dont make a topic! your going to start a FLAME WAR!!!!!!! so be smart, and KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!!!! or DELETE this topic. i dislike complainers like you who tear websites apart! its not cool! *also throws tomato*

Well maybe if he didn't include that last sentence with the tomato, I wouldn't have been a jerk to begin with. And again, If you people have no interest in the topic, you don't even need to read it considering how I didn't ask you to in the first place. You could've just ignored the topic and carry on, but instead chose to come here anyway and rage. Its not my fault that you're the ones who started being rude in the first place.

*throws another tomato* you shouldent of even TYPED THIS!!!!!!! belive me, im nice, but when somebody ticks me off (you), i get nasty. look, i came here to see whats going on; not to type this, but if you offend me, im not just going to sit down and pout like a 3-year old, im gonna say what i want. look, im going to put this in the nicest way: the best thing you can do is close this and put it on the disney infinity blog, not on a skylanders/spyro blog. please, please, PLEASE; just stop! next thing you know: darks going to come and sort this out himself, and when he sees this flame war/mess/argument; hes gonna suspend us all. so how about another tomato every time you have a comeback; hmmm? *throws 3 tomatos in a row* GET OFF THE STAGE!!!!

You're flaming at me for being offensive to another offender, yet you were just being offensive yourself ( especially when I don't even know you, nor did I say anything to you). You're a real pussy if you blame me for making you nasty.

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the best thing you can do is close this and put it on the disney infinity blog, not on a skylanders/spyro blog. please, please, PLEASE; just stop! so how about another tomato every time you have a comeback; hmmm? *throws 3 tomatos in a row* GET OFF THE STAGE!!!!

Yeah and your tomatoes can get me in real life probably far, far away? No, I have a much better idea: Know that you brought this fight upon yourself and you're the one who chose to come here, not to mention that there is no forum rule that says I can't do this. Read this Forum Rule:

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Be constructive with criticism. If you're going to post negatively in regards to any of the Spyro games (or other series) then give a reason as to why you dislike it. Merely stating the fact you don't like it is pointless and doesn't contribute anything.

Doesn't say I can't post negative stuff at all. Therefore you have no right to kick out me out of here.

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thank you. *throws tomato* BOOOOO! lightspyro BAD!!!!

Looks to me like you, camo master, and some of the other users are the trolls, not LightSpyro. I know that there has been a few topics like this, but you don't have to go ballistic about it and LightSpyro's current opposition to Skylanders.

Sometimes you just can't argue with a brick wall.

If this guy is done with Skylanders, let him be done. Don't glorify his topic with counter opinions. Let it go in one ear and out the other. I stated my case as well, but I sincerely thought he was just giving his opinions, so I gave mine. Once he started calling people names and going awall on everyone who counters his opinions, that's when I saw something else.

I agree, close the topic. The guy is done, so there is nothing more he needs to say, and there's nothing more we need to say to egg it on.

Man, sorry LightSpyro that so many people are acting childish in this thread and attacking you. People get defensive about their obsessions and become blind to any criticism of it. I'm not done with Skylanders yet but I'm of the opinion that the games could be so much better and waste a lot of potential. Being force to release a game every year obviously hurts it a lot. There are so many ways to improve and yet they don't. I'm not planning on playing Disney Infinity, at least not until they release more figures that pertain to my interest, so I can't really compare it with Skylanders. It is amazing how defensive Skylander fans get when it's brought up though. Reminds me of the Pokemon/Digimon wars of my childhood. I just sat there and enjoyed both.

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I do not see any need for this topic. If you are done with skylanders lightspyro, that is fine. You do not need to explain that it is really terrible and continue to stay on this topic. If you do not care for skylanders then it is fine. Stay only if you like spyro and/or skylanders. If you do not like them then leave. Close this topic. I was fine when you announced your opinion, but throughout this topic and other topics you have called skylanders cheap, terrible, underwhelming, and a waste of money. If you do not have anything good to say, don't say anything. I respect your opinion, just do not bash on other people's opinions.

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"It's a trap"

Quote: GameMaster78

Sometimes you just can't argue with a brick wall.

If this guy is done with Skylanders, let him be done. Don't glorify his topic with counter opinions. Let it go in one ear and out the other. I stated my case as well, but I sincerely thought he was just giving his opinions, so I gave mine. Once he started calling people names and going awall on everyone who counters his opinions, that's when I saw something else.

I agree, close the topic. The guy is done, so there is nothing more he needs to say, and there's nothing more we need to say to egg it on.

He's been pretty darn reasonable in everything he's said, especially considering everyone's coming out of the woodwork to bash him. Comparing him to Camo, who's been exceedingly childish all through this thread, he's practically gentlemanly. You on the other hand are coming off as a fanboy who can't take any criticism towards your hobby. Skylanders are not perfect and there is plenty of room for improvement. 'He's giving legit criticism of the game! He's giving reasons why he doesn't want to collect anymore! Boo! Hiss! Close this topic! He mentioned Infinity! BURN THE WITCH!'. I agree with him on many of his points about the game, but like I said, I haven't touched Infinity yet so I can't compare with him on those points about that though.

Man, having to be on the counter end of this circlejerk really sucks.