Which Skylanders Game Really Killed The Franchise?

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Which Skylanders Game Really Killed The Franchise?

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Күн бұрын

This is not meant to be a negativity fest! I ove all these games to no end! I am simply trying to explain which one I believe cause the series to end, based on casual fans and consumer standards!!!
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@Meatlander 3 ай бұрын

Skylanders is great, I really enjoy the series, but saying Skylanders wasn’t about greed from the very beginning is crazy. The whole “Toys to Life” was and will always be inherently greedy. $75 for the SSA starter pack + 5 more characters being $8-$10 each is EXPENSIVE just to experience the entirety of the whole game. I agree, it got worse and worse the more games they made, but acting like Swap Force was the beginning of the greed is being stuck in denial.

@christianm7250 Ай бұрын

That’s literally the truth. The giants were $15. And then you got some people saying swap force saved you money when like bro you have to buy most swappers together if I remember correctly 😭. like I love each of these games, but at the end of the day, they were literally just made for money. The stories aren’t like peak or anything and it’s the same standard formula. People will REFUSE to believe something they like has any greed to it.

@slayer63_ 3 ай бұрын

Trap Team became more about having other stuff than the actual Skylanders, and it really downgraded with SuperChargers.

@onemoreminute0543 Ай бұрын

Yes, this is exactly my opinion as well. I've come to see Swap Force as more of a fumble specifically by Vicarious Visions as it was their first time making a Skylanders game. With Trap Team, although the story and characters were extremely fun, it did mark a shift, focusing away from the figures and more towards the accessories. For all my issues with Swap Force, it still focused on the figures, which was the main appeal of the franchise to begin with. Superchargers continued this shift to an extreme level, and then it felt as if Imaginators just threw in the towel and said 'To hell with it, just make your own character!"

@buno7089 8 күн бұрын

Exactly. I’ve played swap force-Imaginators Swap force did have swap zones but at least they made it fun such as climbing And the idea of swaping the characters such as wash buckler and magna charge to make wash charge or magna buckler

@buno7089 8 күн бұрын

Trap team made things expensive by forcing you to have to get a trap master from each element to unlock the elemental gate instead of using a regular one. The traps of each element is understandable but the elemental gates ruins it

@ajwisniewski133 3 ай бұрын

Superchargers. I like the game a lot and enjoy the car integration, but I understand that many won’t enjoy the gimmick…

@ncrativityhr7739 3 ай бұрын

OH GEEZ HMM I WONDER OH YEA 1. ITS A KNOCH OFF OF MARIO KART 2. NO ONE ASKED FOR IT 3. the darkness boss fight was cool 4. THE CORE OF LIGHT WAS “fixed” WITH AN OUTER KAYER WHICH GOT EATEN UP AND STILL SKYBLUNDERS DIDN’T GET BLASTED BACK TO EARTH FOR SOME REASON 5. TYE TRACKS ARE SO DUMB THAT A FORTNITE KZbin KID MADE THEM 6. 5 is my fav num 8. Idk what happened to 7 9. Yea I’m cooked 10. Etc

@mowskul 2 ай бұрын

Bro you could call any racing game a knock off mario kart

@angelachavez7720 3 ай бұрын

I feel the costs killed the skylanders and also Legos Dimensions and Disney Infinity. I was working at Toys R us during this era and I worked in the video game and electronics dept. I used to hear parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles fussing at their kids over these figures mainly about the expense and saying this is going to have to stop. They just couldn't afford the expense of the figures. I heard this all of the time while I was working. Kids would start crying, whippings were threatened. Just hearing the parents say they could not afford to keep buying the figures. It was going to have to stop. I was in my 20's at the time working with my own money and I was getting upset with the costs and gimmicks myself. I am only saying this when it came to the kids and parents. Which helped with the demise of the game series. Now adults with their own money, I would say the gimmicks especially with Trap Team. Money, money, money grabs and the expense of it all. My collections are complete for all 3 games except I still need a few more power discs yet for Disney Infinity. I don't have any of the Employee figures for Skylanders. I like all of the games except for Swap Force. The darn levels. Some being and hour long plus. I am a completionist so needing to replay levels over and over again to find all of the collectibles was just over the top for me with frustration. I finished Swap Force then I threw the game and case across my room out of frustration. It's the only game that I completed through frustration and determination. The game and case are perfectly fine. I will say the expense of needing to buy this and that gimmick killed all 3 games especially with the parents in Toys R us fussing at the kids and threatening spankings about the begging for figures. For all 3 game series and the costs. The parents were just angry. On a side note, why bring the kids to Toys R us if you as a parent knew you could not afford what your child wanted, why come to Toys R us to just fuss and scold the child in the store. Why do that to the child in the store. You did bring them there. I worked at Toys R us so, I heard the complaints about the costs. Parents were very upset about the expense. The parents had the money and not the kids. I am mainly talking about the kids and the parents during this era. With angry parents cutting back on purchasing the figures and gimmicks, that especially had to hurt sales.

@bigt1574 3 ай бұрын

To me, the cost of trap team pushed a lot of people away. Plus light and dark figures being hard to find.

@T-o-o-n-hd6jq Ай бұрын

Never forget what they did to element gates in trap team

@jonvlc 3 ай бұрын

nah I think people loved swap force as a kid, I loved it too lmao (also cloud breaker saying "car bad" makes you sound like generic skytuber number 478 lol I love the vehicle sections)

@partygamers6406 2 ай бұрын

fun fact its still my favorite game of skylanders

@onemoreminute0543 Ай бұрын

My ill feelings towards it may have been influenced by the fact that I played it on the Wii. Looking back now, I think my young brain must have noticed something clearly wrong with the graphics...

@bobbynelson5849 Ай бұрын

@@onemoreminute0543I played on Wii as well and playing on ps4 is such a night and day difference that I won’t ever touch the Wii game again.

@onemoreminute0543 Ай бұрын

@@bobbynelson5849 The weird thing was that then I played Trap Team on the Wii but didn't have any problems with the graphics at all, when by all accounts it looked worse than SF.

@bobbynelson5849 Ай бұрын

@@onemoreminute0543 honestly as a kid I barely noticed the graphics, I genuinely have memories playing swap force thinking it looked the same as what I saw on KZbin. Trap team was my favorite skylanders game and I don’t even want to know what it looks like on the Wii

@jaycob1830 15 күн бұрын

Most people blame Superchargers, but it was most definitely Trap Team. The amount of money to spend on characters and especially traps is absurd, and it obviously drove a lot of parents away from buying the toys for their kids. Superchargers seemed to realize that the amount of stuff was too much, and toned it down, but it was too late. Trap Team just had too many things to offer, and it caused the series to pretty much boil over after.

@Sonic-gy7kq 10 күн бұрын

I bought trap team and liked it. I didn’t buy supercharges when it came out cuz I thought it was dumb. I actually preordered trap team and got that gear character for free. It was most definitely superchargers. For my friends and I at the time. Nobody bought superchargers.

@natrol 3 ай бұрын

personally i think swap force is a bit of a stretch. from what i know and have heard it tends to be the fan favorite in the franchise, even with some of it less cared for elements such as the removal of classic and fan favorite characters. overall as much as it hurts me to say. i really think trap team was the downfall of the franchise. so much of it came down to the greed and price increases of the figures alongside the need to have only trap masters to open gates and get bonus damage against villains making the cores almost completely useless in that game. heck i never got any of the cores for trap team apart from funny bone until i started recently recollecting figures. it honestly really hurts me to say trap team too considering it's my personal favorite game in the series.

@Skylands_Productions 3 ай бұрын

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@Cloud_Breaker 3 ай бұрын

tbf it’s all the channel members who’ve had access for over a week 😭

@Skylands_Productions 3 ай бұрын

@@Cloud_Breaker 😭

@Beanzops 3 ай бұрын

I eat eat cotton candy from my walls

@Nobody_Shroom 3 ай бұрын

Me too😊

@knuclear200x Ай бұрын

Superchargers was definitely the reason. The new Skylanders weren't that great, heavy focus on vehicle segments over various battle arena modes, AND the fact that there wasn't really reason to buy anything further because EVERYTHING unlocked randomly in gameplay anyway. You could play the same race and still get the same hats, soul gems and vehicle mods because it was random.

@gooduck9538 2 ай бұрын

You can’t blame the dual elemental gates in swap force just connect a second controller and boom easy as hell so if that’s possible they were not greedy in that sense

@mightyyoshiyt6772 3 ай бұрын

It’s not about the games, it’s about the friends we made along the way 🧌

@Cloud_Breaker 3 ай бұрын

oh that’s the fortnite quote of the day right there ☝️

@jonathanstromxmonicaddlcma6371 5 күн бұрын

After trap team, I skipped superchargers. I got Imaginators. It was a birthday gift, but I didn’t play it that much trap Team is my favorite game in the series. it was the first Skylanders game I ever played. I will always have a special place in my heart.

@Shrock568 Ай бұрын

I consider it a good thing that Superchargers had the least newcomers because of the sheer amount that Trap Team did before it.

@ptcspraptor1244 Күн бұрын

This might be nerdy, but the only game that actually killed the franchise was imaginators, because there wasn’t any games after it 🤷

@scottbruckner4653 10 күн бұрын

As a Skylanders Consumer, the main reason I never picked up Trap Team is because there wasn't really a set of the figures that I felt Justified my Purchase of the game. (I also was moving house at the time and that layered it on) However I basically saw that I need to buy like a fuck ton of traps. Traps I knew weren't cheap. Like the mere fact that I thought that I'd have to spend a lot of money, prevented me from getting the game. ONE THING I WILL SAY THOUGH, as a personal preference of the consumer, I would have rather seen 8 Classic Skylanders become Trap Masters, rather than them being shrunk down and pee-wee'd Crystal Horn Spyro, and Enigma. Crystal Knuckle Terrafin, and Wallop. Crystal Dagger Stealth Elf and Bushwhack Crystal Shell Wharnado and Gusto Crystal Pistol Trigger Happy, and Gearshift Crystal Blade Chop Chop and Shortcut. Crystal Anchor Gill Grunt and Snapshot. Crystal Bow Flame Slinger and Wild Fire. Like, Keep the audience coming back to buying Skylanders 1 figures with new move sets and abilities. They did it in Super Chargers, and the Trend should have started in Trap Team. Imaginators almost brought me back to the franchise.

@MarveLars 3 ай бұрын

I think the problem was that they were not available on the Wii and only on the Wii U, that killed it for me personally.

@Sonic-n6k 3 ай бұрын

Nah I agree with you cloud but dang you didn't have to roast pokémon tho.

@Cloud_Breaker 3 ай бұрын

I love pokémon, just scarlet and violet…. yeesh

@Sonic-n6k 3 ай бұрын

Agreed with you I love Pokemon but dang the bugs are weird but I'm excited for Z-A and I'm hoping there's no bugs.

@syfx09x22 2 ай бұрын

@mikeyacevedo7412 AZ will def not have the same quality as s&v that game got criticized so hard they had to officially apologize also that was during the "pokemon rush" where they rushed out 3 games within I think less then a year between each (LA BDSP SV) so it was just really rushed

@mranima748 10 күн бұрын

The bugs aren’t that bad for scarlet and violet, there are like three bugs I get commonly, but they are just minor hindrances and nothing game breaking, and the gameplay and story made up for the shortcomings imo

@djhuniverse4929 2 ай бұрын

do you think skylanders in america cost the same in over country's?

@Ayanamy-vl2pl 2 ай бұрын

Nope clearly

@superhenrybrother7359 3 ай бұрын

I hope they make a new skylanders soon I don’t believe the franchise is dead

@rune3700 3 ай бұрын

I love swapforce it was the game that got me started in skylanders. I acknowledge I have bais and swapforce started some issues, but honestly I think trap team was the real killer it took the issues of swapforce and made them worse. Swapforce encouraged people to buy extra skylanders, but you still had opitions to go around it.

@esush1man992 Ай бұрын

When I got Trap Team, I was never able to complete it because I couldn't gat passed the level with the floating head fight. It would always freeze on the start of the fight and I ultimately gave up.

@Persona5phan 3 ай бұрын

I feel like trap team got people kinda bored with skylanders then when superchargers came out it just completely killed it

@Cloud_Breaker 3 ай бұрын

this could be true

@user-tb7lx6su9c 25 күн бұрын

i mean when i was getting ready to fight golden queen my wallop stopped working for some reason i putted it on the portal, but it wasn't reading it was sad because he was my favorite one

@fulcrum2867 2 ай бұрын

I think trap team was the tipping point. The amount of figures that came out for it was far too overwhelming. Yes you could just get the trap masters and a handful of traps, but there were also a bunch of cores and reposes, eons elite, plus the minis which feels the most cash grabby. To me it feels like they tried to squeeze fans a little too hard and sales declined with that

@wyattrath6571 3 ай бұрын

What about the wii u failing killing the franchise? Because if the wii u even slightly a success then there’s not nearly as many people effected by swap force and trap team on wii u and those games are looked back on more fondly

@warnocity3633 3 ай бұрын

Trap Team is an example of a good game marred by little development time and Activision's greed. I play on the PS4 edition and have encountered only a few major glitches (something I know changes between consoles), so I haven't had any really bad experiences there, but I have had to restart every now and then because the game just locks up. And on the side of greed, the trap mechanic was really, really cool and in my opinion, worth the 4 bucks for 1 trap of each element (4 of which included in the starter/adventure packs). And it's been reported that trap master gates were added in very last minute and that they were not initially intended to require the new gimmick figures. Otherwise, I think Trap Team was a really good game and if it glcame after Giants, I think the decline would have been far less prominent.

@onemoreminute0543 Ай бұрын

Yes, I've thought this as well. It's always important to keep in mind which studios developed each game. Toys for Bob made SSA, Giants, TT, and Imaginators. Vicarious Visions made SF and Superchargers. So the initial soaring success with the first two games was then disrupted by the arrival of a different developer with no experience making the games. Trap Team definitely felt like the true sequel to Giants, but it was too little too late at that point. By Imaginators they just seem to have run out of ideas.

@ChompityChest 3 ай бұрын

while I love swap force I also acknowledge that people are hesitant and resistant to change, so I respect your opinion even though I don’t really agree.

@thegamingteam. 3 ай бұрын

I believe since it was a great game franchise. But swap force killing it. I agree. But I don’t really think about the negatives I think of the positives. Such as cool new characters. And the only ones that were hard to find (at least for me) was the Amazon ones the chases and the dark editions. Other than those I saw wildstorm and ro-bow everywhere where I lived. My town didn’t have a great fan base for it. So it made my life so much easier and that’s how I got my ro-bow for 20$

@jdroidb-11 Ай бұрын

every comment is dissing trap team even though I think its the best skylanders game by FAR

@stratuvarious8547 Ай бұрын

Superchargers is actually a pretty great game, but the excessive level of greed in Trap Team combined with the lack of imagination with the concept of Superchargers was a one two punch that I think is responsible for the death of the series. Imaginators returning to the high greed levels of Trap Team didn't help either. Swap Force is by far my favorite, and yeah, you needed more to 100% it than Giants, but the vast majority of the game could be unlocked with the 8 figures you have from the SSA and the 1 Giant from Giants, and the Starter Pack with Swap Force, you miss out on a few of the Swap Traversal zones, but everything else is accessible. Also, Swap Force is the GOAT. Jumping is the most crucial addition to the game to take it from a game aimed at small children, to a slightly older fan base that had grown by 2-3 years by this point. They needed more than just running around and attacking by this point.

@Pablo-mf3je Ай бұрын

I personally think It was superchargers because at least in Trap team or Swap force they innovated with new and cool stuff while in superchargers they only putted cars. And Next we got imaginators were we clearly see that they ran out of ideas so they made ya customize our character.

@ajwisniewski133 3 ай бұрын

Idk about swap force being a decline though, the roster is great and the game is bursting with content even if you don’t wanna get lots of characters. I think sales declined after SF due to DF and Lego over saturating the market. I think all 3 franchises killed each other. SF and TT are two of the best games, but during this time too many TTL games kinda devalued each franchise because of how expensive playing each three would be. And Disney frankly had a bigger IP than Skylanders so when it launched it’s naturally going to take a lot of fans with it.

@zero3310 Ай бұрын

i loved playing as a kid but i remember playing superchargers and it really sucked, it didn’t really bring the same enjoyment i had when i played with my brother in giants or in swap force, the need for the cars to progress killed it for me and made me not want to buy imaginators

@Sonic-gy7kq 10 күн бұрын

Superchargers killed it for me. Thought it was dumb. Never bought it. Beat all the games leading up to superchargers, then I was like wtf are they doing, so I didn’t buy it cuz I thought it was dumb.

@wizzbandit 28 күн бұрын

Trap Team was the best game I played imo. Fun game, fun story, fun roster. Sure it was kinda p2w/p2p, but cmon, this is Skylanders. As for the one that killed the franchise, I think it was probably Superchargers, because it had an okay roster but was pretty p2w with a forgettable story and lost some of that “Skylanders style,” if you know what I mean. Same with Imaginators, which just didn’t really feel very “Skylanders-y.”

@MultiFIREFURY 2 ай бұрын

I think the player base ageing also played a major factor in this franchise. 2011 kids by 2014/15 were moving on from Skylanders and unless you were really dedicated there wasn’t much draw to the series when you had much cheaper and more in depth video games to drift towards.

@dspace4514 2 ай бұрын

So you needed both a Trap Crystal and also a Trap Master of each element to complete the game 100% and even tjen you couldnt because you needed a Kaos Crystal. With Giants you only needed one new Skylander and for Swap Force, you at least had one more than Trap Team.

@ncrativityhr7739 3 ай бұрын

Superchargers AKA Knock-off maro kart. Also the graphics for the Wii from S-F, TT, the one we shall not name and the last one I can’t spell. A L S O the tv show on Netflix

@bizzaroblake2519 Ай бұрын

To me: I played each of the six skylanders games and have revisted most of them. I didn't really have an issue with swap force to start of the monster designs were too goofy or felt foreign. I mean they tried making kaos look cuter for a while. There were some interesting ideas and although some had an idsue of needing more figures: I never saw that as an issue as i was a collector of figures for these games so i had to save up money, christmas or my birthday. For Trap Team it sucked you needed trap master characters of each elements and the new element masters were harder to find for me. But again as a collector i eventually found my way around it and the glitches never gave me issues. Trap team is my personal favorite and second best story for the series. Now if i was to say what killed the franchise was Superchargers. Alot of what you said about superchargers i agree with as I wasnt a fan of vehicles and alot of the content and roster was butchered. Theres also the introduction of microtransactions for this and the final game i also didn'tlike that they wouldn't allow you to use your trapped villians as they are charactersof their own in future games. Though i do think superchargers has the best storyline of the games. For Imaginators, I liked the gimmicks but Now there are microtransactions and some of the line up are incredibly rare to 100 percent the game. The elemental gates feel even less impactful and the story feels like its falling apart. Clearly they all knew they were running dry so they had to go out with a bang.

@funkx-zotex9612 Ай бұрын

its been over 7 years since the last game me waiting and hoping for a new skylander game so i can go skylander hunting again like the old days instead of choosing wich i want i wanna take em all got the whole roster variant levels traps yes yawns robow wildstorm green chompy mage too and now collecting all chases and i really wanna keep collecting and playing the games i dont want it to stop

@Pan-Pafel 2 ай бұрын

The downfall started at swap force, that's for sure, trap team if it wasn't so expensive it would be the best game but now it's giants, and superchargers and imaginators are obviously the worst it was going just downwards from superchargers

@klaw-rp6ji Ай бұрын

its kind of weird since swap force had one of the best gimmicks of the games but yeah they flipped everything up it felt weird. as a kid playing swap force i felt like this wasnt really the skylanders i knew and that it became its own thing. i feel like after swap force trap team brought back the older style of the older games a bit and had a lot more fun levels as you said though it was buggy. everything after that was like swap force but less fun. had fun until trap team really

@rafaelrafaelromero337 2 ай бұрын

It needs to revive skylanders and guitar hero franchise because skylanders website is gone because of them. We want skylanders 7 the video game will come out.

@user-fz1rc3nq4u 3 ай бұрын

I got the dark version of swap and the swap thing was ok, but the new looks, and the story made me quit the franchise. I thought I got too old for this (I was 12), and now It's for little children.

@AlexMartinez-gv7hy 2 ай бұрын

I feel it's more likely Trap Team. Especially when you need the more expensive figures and then need the traps.

@thsxi 2 ай бұрын

Trap team on ps4 disc? Bro that goes for $100+

@YourDM64 3 ай бұрын

I’d have to say Swapforce was the start of it with the long grindy game and killing off your old collection unless if you open the elemental gates with player two have the other element skylander for the duel elemental gates but still needed the challenge eggs like climbing and flying swappers. The other games buried this need to spend with trap team having a lot of things to buy, supercharges had a lot to buy, and imaginators had figures, crystals, blind bags, in app purchases, and so on. That along with competitors and a oversaturation of the genre is what killed it. Eventually nobody really did anything different.

@Playrex12345 Ай бұрын

I swear it was trap team cuz you needed to buy fricking traps and trap masters

@Sam-e4n4b 20 күн бұрын

I miss skylanders so much

@gooduck9538 2 ай бұрын

Also swap force is the best in the franchise.

@OlleBacon Ай бұрын

i didint encounter any glitches at all when playing trap team

@Elgi72 3 ай бұрын

An KZbinr called Ulti once said that Super Chargers would be the lowest point in the series, do you agree with that opinion. (Not my opinion)

@Nathan-so2wy 3 ай бұрын

When is next streem

@Thadthemadbradipad 3 ай бұрын

after watching this I think your right! Swap force was a HUGE change form giants and ssa.