Skylanders

[deadpoolRKO]

I work at Toys R Us and we've got a demo set up of this game " Skylanders "


The concept is really neat , basically you have a figure






like that , and it goes on the " portal of power " that comes with the game.

There's 30 figures and whatever one you have on the portal is the one you use on the game.


The figure itself is like a memory card , it saves your level , what moves and powers you've learned , ect.



craziest part is , it's completely cross platform.


Say i have it for ps3 and i've got my spyro to level 13 , then I go to the video game guru himself Peanut's house and he has it for xbox 360 , it's coool cuz i can put my figure on his portal and jump right in and play co-op.


i'm sure the gameplay will be kid friendly but i still love the concept.

[The Stryker]

Originally Posted by deadpoolRKO

Say i have it for ps3 and i've got my spyro to level 13 , then I go to the video game guru himself Peanut's house and he has it for xbox 360 , it's coool cuz i can put my figure on his portal and jump right in and play co-op.

Hahahahahahahahaha. Ya ok.

Why the hell do they still make Spyro games?

[Ninjinister]

I like the concept but I hate that it was not only wasted on modern Spyro, but a "gritty reboot" Spyro.

[Peanut]

1) You're never coming to my house, especially not to play a Spyro game that uses children's toys.
2) This is a last poor attempt to get Spyro some recognition before he's buried. The fact that they think they can make some kind of huge brand out of Spyro using Skylanders, with their little collectible toys, is kind of a joke. You have to hook the kids on nonsense first, THEN you bury them in collectible merchandise.
3) As a game it looks awful.
4) Why the f*ck did they make Spyro look so stupid?

[Candy Kappa]

wow, what happened to Spyro's looks!

he looks like a chainsaw killer

[sdp]

Well this game has been getting pretty good reviews and the concept has been praised. So there goes the overreaction of most of the comments in this thread judging a book by its cover.

I never cared for Spyro and while I had heard of the game I didn't care to give it any attention until I saw the figures and the concept just looked appealing. Doing some research and wow this is amazing and just so cool.

I am very divided about this game though, apparently its a simple but fun game, I mean after all it's a kids game. My ten year old self would be all over it and I want to be all over it too but feel it's spending too much money on something for kids, then again should I deny my inner kid because it's "silly" or should I embrace that and enjoy the simple things in life. Still unsure, nonetheless this is awesome and if I cared more about the license I wouldn't even be thinking about it, I just find some of the Skylanders awesome while others too lame, and never cared for spyro like I mentioned.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by sdp

Well this game has been getting pretty good reviews and the concept has been praised. So there goes the overreaction of most of the comments in this thread judging a book by its cover.

No. I played this game about a week ago and it's not good...at all. It's a kiddie action game that's out for money at every turn. The combat is boring, the puzzles are boring, the fact that they give you more stuff for simply buying more overpriced junk is ridiculous, and the games constant prods that get kids to want more Skylanders, either by giving you gear you can't use or areas you can't get through is scummy.

A lot of very stupid people in the gaming press were impressed by it simply for the novelty of the ridiculous toys, which is totally a neat idea at the core, but after about 10 minutes its adding zero to the experience. It says something that every single review is prefaced by "It's simple and repetitive, but it's for kids anyways." but they have no idea how the game works from a kids perspective, so they should probably just shut up about it. How the f*ck do they justify having you lose progress if you don't have enough Skylanders to use? I watched a kid play a level, get stuck, run through about 6 Skylanders and was then forced to replay entire sections of the game over again because it won't let you use Skylanders who've died for like an hour or some bullsh*t. What's worse is that there seem to be constant spikes of extremely cheap deaths near the ends of levels, so that the kid I watched play got very frustrated towards the end of a stage and would constantly need to keep swapping in Skylanders.

On top of the fact that the game just isn't very good, the toys come with outrageous price tags. And as actual toys that a kid could potentially play with, they're worthless. Kids being dumb enough to buy into that kind of sh*t is understandable, they're kids. Grown men being dumb enough to buy into need to get a grip.

[sdp]

Simple =/= bad. There are tons of simple games that are just a charm to play through. The novelty is what makes the game fun, no different than say Mortal Kombat in the 90s that it really wasn't Street Fighters equal but the digitized graphics and blood/mood of the game made it seem like it was in the same league.

Of course the figures thing is brilliant marketing but it really isn't much different from overpriced plastic accessories to play music games from a few years ago. overpriced? Sure but so is DLC and the whole "physical" DLC is a neat idea, at least you have a figure you can look at. The figures are nice sure they are overpriced but so are regular $60 games and yet that's what most people end up paying. Sucks if you can't enjoy something stupid and kiddy once in a while though. Anyways I decided not to fall into it, mostly because as awesome as the concept is I just don't care about the license, if it had been a licensed I cared about or slightly more appealing I would be all over it. I'd love this to catch on and see other companies give their take on the concept though.

[Peanut]

I actually heard some stuff about the concept being used with Transformers, which seems like something that could work well.

[AquaParade]

Hopefully a more creative team takes on a concept similar to this. It's seems to have a few novel ideas.