Skylanders fatigue

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Yup I m tired of it...... but let analyze it the whole event....

SKYLANDERS SPYRO ADVENTURE circa 2011
When the first skylanders game was announced, we all laughed at it for being a overly expensive money grabbing scheme (You can't complete the game 100% without buying all the 32 and more figures and you need one of each element to unlock every area) and spyro looked like he was just shoe horned in it... ALSO YOU CAN'T JUMP(even if the gameplay is more a good dungeon crawler it still a insult to all the other game who where platformer or have platforming element)
But all it weirdness ans shameless rip off, is what attracted my curiosity to it. Shortly after that I registered on the spyro forum swallowed all the new religiously and recreated THE WHOLE CHARACTER ROSTER after all the character are announced. 
When I saw people doing skylanders avatar I did some too, people saw those as well asking more request. So I did those. Even someone did throw a temper tantrum over them but that another story....
This game did inspire me for a story. So I was able to create 3, 4 pages of a skylanders comic. The story parodies this game. Bobby Kotick did actually other character from obscure game, they must overcome the danger with the power of friendship

SKYLANDERS GIANTS circa 2012

The sequel, just a year after it, was announced. Same stuff but WITH GIANTS. The giant were able to grab large object and throw stuff at the enemies (just like Super mario bros 2). The E3? gameplay was quite a bit interesting... But this is when the hype started to lose it value, I remember doing some avatar again but those where the last I did. Imagined how my story will go after that (the second generation skylanders where in fact evil and worked for activi$ion CEO and tree bark was more like a dumb animal, didn't note the story so it all I remember with some vague trace of a ''evil machine'') But like I said only 3,4 page where finished so the story never did get that far, those page could be classified as the intro. So technically the idea died in the egg
 I wanted to reupdate the elemental roster with the giants (only the magic is done and it unfinished, I think fire is here too but I'm unsure)They still sit in my computer untouched
I was still watching the gameplay and the new but with less cheerness and curiosity with the first one...

Also it was the last year of skylanders universe before they replaced with minigames. Not bad but it just as money grabbing as the real game(want good stuff? buy the figure)

SKYLANDERS SWAP FORCE SHIT GOT REAL circa 2013

Swap force was done by Vicarious vision rather than toys for bob. It also when we saw a real evolution, better graphic, you can jump and actual gameplay change in the form of swap zone(mini game that you can play depending on the character leg type)
GG VV... GG VV... VV>TfB...
This game instead of the other one really make me want to play it rather than rent it. So I look at the new parsly and didn't watch gameplay(BECAUSE SPOILER)
What make me deviate at this was zelda. Because even if it evolved it can't beat zelda richness.
This is when I stopped my story because probably lack of idea and the comic was stopped 2 year ago. I thought about avatar of the new game but never did those. 
Did some comic about this gore concept of decapite them to resewn them latter also did another pic that show how this concept can be better(the toys have magnet at the midsection so you can snap them it affect the gameplay and character so it good. It break the 4th wall witch skylanders is all about) I did the character roster more chearfully than the last one with the title on it.
Also we did found stuff and early concept that explain lot of stuff giving me more empathy to this saga

SKYLANDERS TRAP TEAM AKA why VV is better than TfB circa 2014

trap team didn't evolve that much. It was still the same graphic and I don't think it did have swap room. TfB is better at gimmick than actual gameplay so this year it was candy crystal that let you capture enemies in the game(will breaking the 4th wall quota) It's cheap, I already seen that in other game and those did it even better( You play the enemies during a short amount of time it no more different than any skylanders. Will other game that use this gimmick: Scaler, Crash bandicoot the titans saga and even pokémon, the enemis have it own and useful power also you don't have to buy more shit) Didn't looked at the gameplay more because of boredom and disinterest than anything. Also I think I stopped doing fanart except for the character roster and the parody that will tell how the skylanders franchise will die....

SKYLANDERS OVERDRIVE WHEN THE FANDOM DIED circa 2015

With overdrive we now know who is the most innovative of the 2 dev. This one is a racing hybrid(some fan expected a racing game in the near future) What make me really interested is you CAN PLAY MOTHER FUCKING BOWSER in the nintendo version., but look like it only come with the wii version wich it just a mere racing game. This is when I stopped caring for this game with the exception of it announcement. Because I'm alway curious of the new gimmick. I also stopped doing fanart all together...
So I will probably not doing a character roster for this game 
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SonicTheSkylander100's avatar
Aww cmon please do superchargers.