New Skylanders Game To Be Called Skylanders Superchargers And Feature Vehicles

Don’t really care about Skylanders to be honest but hey it’s ok for the people who like it

I admit i love Skylanders but the prices on these Toys to Life games are getting too steap. Lego Dimensions is the most expensive so i will stick to that. I’m surprised they are still supporting Wii and 3DS even though Wii U is the far superior port

Of course it’s always slow a month before E3.

Now we wait for amiibo vehicles….

Arwing anyone?

You know, I would never actually buy one of the starter sets or the individual figures brand new, but over the past few months I have started to pick up at least the first three games preowned for Wii along with a couple of the really cheap figures (which at least for the first game they tend to be the “main” Skylander characters), and while I do agree they do go overboard with the damn things, I have to say that the series isn’t really that bad, I think most of the haters just have a knee-jerk reaction to it (which I must admit I too as first kind of did, but I was always intrigued by the games).

First of all, one can not say that amiibos are any better then Skylander figures in their basic purpose, both unlock content that is already in the game. Yes, Amiibos work across multiple games while the Skylanders only work with a specific series, but I have to say that of the two, I think the Skylanders (as well as the original use of the Amiibos for Smash Bros) do toys-to-life the best way, not as a way to unlock content already in a game, but as more or less detailed memory cards to hold character stats and data and transfer those stats between games, THAT is what all of these damn figures should be focused on, not unlocking bits and pieces of games. Unless these figures were actually designed in such a way that they literally contained game data the base game does not have and would copy from them into the game, I dont see why everyone thinks they are that great, they literally are the physical embodiment of on-disc-DLC, Amiibos just have the edge of being really popular characters that people recognize and have grown up with, while Skylanders outside of Spyro, Sparx and Cynder are all original characters no one has any form of attachment to.

But anyway that’s not really the point of my rant. I just think Skylanders get a lot of hate by people who have never actually played the games. Yes they go overboard with different versions of past characters, but at least (just like amiibos), if you have an older version of a character you have no need to get the new or variant ones unless you are a collector. The game play itself however is actually not that bad, the first two games can be very easy, but at least the third adds a “Nightmare” difficulty, which really isn’t that bad either. It would be nice if in each version they up the ante with harder difficulties for max level characters and veterans of the games. The games could really be described as sort of Diablo-lite in game play, repeated play through of the same stages with harder challenges (more so bonus objectives in Skylanders case then difficulties) with the same basic style of game play (at least when compared to Diablo 3). There is “gear” for characters, but could really only be described as about 1 or two pieces, it would be nice if they added more as it would make better use of the figures stats saving abilities. Also the characters abilities are for the most part fun, maybe not as tactical in game play and some “feel” the same between characters, but they all are fun to play. My main dislike are for areas that require a “specific” character to enter into, those are the only places that feel like they are really forcing you to buy more figures (along with a few achievements). There are a lot of changes I would make to the basic game play (especially co-op), but for the most part they are generally solid titles and most reviews of those who have played them reflected that.

Furthermore I too was skeptical about the “Spyro” part of the series, and like many just viewed it as a hype and marketing ploy to pull people in, but honestly at their core the games actually do feel like they could have been a new Spyro series, in fact that is exactly what it started as so he wasn’t just thrown in there to sell the games. The actual “lore” and world of the games fits the original series well along with the fact that the creators of the characters actually have set back stories for each character, so at least it appears they had fun with the creation of the games. Interestingly enough, in the one game it almost seems to be hinting that the Skylanders series is aware of the “REAL” Spyro in some way or another, either with the current one being the equivalent of the reincarnation of the Hero of Time in Zelda, or may literally actually be the original Spyro. I think the biggest missed opportunity from the creators is they should have added new versions of ALL of the old Spyro characters like Ripto and Sgt. Byrd, or hell, unless I am mistaken Activision I think owns the rights to Crash Bandicoot, they should have thrown those characters in as well, that would have really sold the games.

So yeah, haters gonna hate I guess, but I would say grab a copy of the original some day preowned with the portal and 1 figure and at least give it a try sometime, they really are not bad games at their core.