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

@onemoreminute0543

2 күн 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!"

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.

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

4 сағат бұрын

Never forget what they did to element gates in trap team

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

@ncrativityhr7739

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 KZread KID MADE THEM 6. 5 is my fav num 8. Idk what happened to 7 9. Yea I’m cooked 10. Etc

@mowskul

Ай бұрын

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

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.

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

Ай бұрын

fun fact its still my favorite game of skylanders

@onemoreminute0543

2 күн 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...

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.

1 minute ago and there’s 16 comments. Proud of you bro, you’ve come a long way 🫡

@Cloud_Breaker

Ай бұрын

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

@Skylands_Productions

Ай бұрын

@@Cloud_Breaker 😭

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

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

@Cloud_Breaker

Ай бұрын

I love pokémon, just scarlet and violet…. yeesh

@mikeyacevedo7412

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

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

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.

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

@Cloud_Breaker

Ай бұрын

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

I eat eat cotton candy from my walls

@AutumnLeaf06

Ай бұрын

Me too😊

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

@Cloud_Breaker

Ай бұрын

this could be true

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

@Ayanamy-vl2pl

15 күн бұрын

Nope clearly

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

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

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.

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.

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

2 күн 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.

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

Nice video and I completely understand what your saying I love the series the series help me to be better even though the series have it pros and cons I still enjoy skylanders it was part of my childhood and I never forget the fun times that I had with the series

I know this games so well and I love them all so much. It hurt my feelings when you were talking like that. But I did had problems with the 9. level in Trap Team because it would crash my wii and make beeeee sounds.

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$

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

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

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.

Imaginators all the levels besides the golden arcade call all an inspiring besides the final level golden arcade is my favorite level because it's unique and stuff but there is a floor because it ends in a cliffhanger.

Great video

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

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

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.

your my favourite youtuber amazing video as always

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.

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.

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

Also swap force is the best in the franchise.

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

When is next streem

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.

your videos are awesome and i like skylanders games too.

I think it was either trap team or superchargers

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

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

After watching the video I 100% agree with this

Giants: i think the shortness left way too much to be desired in my opinion. And the giants are too slow and too big a hit box.

@phorchybug3286

Ай бұрын

Swap Force: personally my most favorite. Yeah, it has a couple of weird issues but it's still my number 1.

@phorchybug3286

Ай бұрын

Trap Team: yeah that one is stupid. It be fine if the Trap Masters just broke crystals but they had to make more dumb excuses like YOU NEED TRAP MASTERS TO OPEN GATES.

@phorchybug3286

Ай бұрын

Superchargers: the actual racing feels decent. It's just the vehicles feel gross during battle arenas.

@phorchybug3286

Ай бұрын

Imaginators: It's a nice return to form in my opinion. Yeah, they forgot a decent bit of content from older games but on the bright side, it's got everybody. And technically revived my boy, Crash Bandicoot.

I think superchargers was fun and fair in terms of selling stuff.

@regularphill

Ай бұрын

Imaginators was the only game I did not like.

I agree that swap force ruined Skylanders

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.

Trap team definitely killed it I love Superchargers, yes the gimick is trash, but stop dragging my baby through the mud

Nah stop hating swap force

bro i get you like this franchise and all but it doesnt seem like it

Superchargers 1000000%

For me, Skylanders lost me with Superchargers and its Cars...wtf? This is Skylanders, not a racing Game. For me, the car stuff does not fit in the world of skylands. And I actually enjoyed Trap Team a lot! For me, it was Wayyyyy better than Swapforce. For me, Swapforce was the weakest of all 4 games I played. I replayed the first Skylanders and Giants 3 times. And I also started Trap Team again. But Swapforce? I didn't even thought I could touch it again 😅😅😂. Right now, I play Superchargers and Imaginators on an emulator...with no cost. And for this, just to enjoy the game without the need to pay for the figures, both games are okay 😅😊

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

Ok

Oh boo hoo, they added vehicles to a universe that almost exclusively requires them for island-to-island travel. People always point at Superchargers’ racing mode and go “game bad, gimmick bad, they copied Mario kart,” and never stop to look at the vehicle gameplay outside of the racing. I can understand why some people don’t really like racing boss fights or how sea and sky stars basically replaced elemental gates, but don’t treat it like it’s a flat concept that you can do nothing with. Look at giants, where the entire gimmick was “we made it again but bigger this time.” It seems like a bland, uninspired concept but it’s enjoyable if you add depth to it. Yes, superchargers does copy other racing games and seem pretty uninspired, but at least see all it has to offer before knocking it. Although I agree that it probably killed the franchise.

Skylanders is still good tho

Little tip for making better videos. Cut out the fluff, you don't need to say people bought Swap Force because they liked Giants 8 times

Superchargers 100% killed the franchise

Is super chargers killed the franchise

69th like, :P

No, you're wrong, the first three games were awesome and flawless. It was Trap Team's greed and Superchargers' lack of ideas that killed the franchise. And then barely anyone bought Imaginators.