Skylanders Swap Force

Skylanders is fucking genius. Make an addictive diablo-lite video game, and make buying hundreds of dollars worth of action figures a part of the game if you want to play as different characters and see all of the content.

It's like a goddamn license to print money...I wish I would have thought of it.

Nintendo should do this with Pokemon, make it to where you have to actually own the card from the trading card game, or even own a figurine of the Pokemon in order to possess it in the video game.

joeboo_sl said:

Skylanders is fucking genius. Make an addictive diablo-lite video game, and make buying hundreds of dollars worth of action figures a part of the game if you want to play as different characters and see all of the content.

It's like a goddamn license to print money...I wish I would have thought of it.

Nintendo should do this with Pokemon, make it to where you have to actually own the card from the trading card game, or even own a figurine of the Pokemon in order to possess it in the video game.

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They do do this; it's called Pokemon Rumble, though it's not nearly as well marketed, and I don't think the game is exactly like skylanders/infinity, which is more action-y. Unsure though in total.

If they made a pokemon game like Pokemon Conquest with characters I would never have anything left after a paycheck.

It's actually a pretty good game. At it's core, its an action RPG, like Diablo or Torchlight. Kill monsters, get experience, collect gold, level up. It's a little bit slower paced than those games since it's aimed at younger kids, but the game is also multiplayer co-op, which seems to be a rarity anymore.

Great game to play with your kids if you have any. I don't know that I would play it by myself as an adult(it's not nearly as deep as Diablo, Torchlight, or Path of Exile), but I have a blast playing it with my 9 year old nephew, and my good friend has a 6 year old that loves it too, they play it a lot.

It does have an element of basic puzzle solving and logic as well, as you may need different types of skylanders to get through different areas of a level. You might need a fire-based guy to burn down a barrier to a side part of a level, or an ice-based guy to freeze some water so you can walk across it, etc. You can swap characters on the fly, mid-level.

I enjoy min/maxing so it is hard for me to get into this with my kiddos. We have the first two games and bought the majority of the figures on Black Friday sales or just other sales.

While the game play is not that in depth there is a lot of stuff included in these games, especially stuff kids would not understand. It doesn't hurt game play for them and adds a little more for the adults.

Could you imagine the outrage if Blizzard released Diablo 4 with one playable character, and the other playable characters/classes all required and addtional $10-$15 purchase, and were all available at launch(i.e. not expansion packs a year later)

So apparently they launched the game with some elements not represented in the Swap Force combinations and are thus releasing a new wave of figures this week which include the missing elements? Holy cow this thing is like printing money. I feel sorry for anyone who gets wrapped into this game.

I feel sorry for anyone who gets wrapped into this game.

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Like parents?? haha

Especially parents as I know this is the sort of game I would have a very hard time denying to my kid hah.