What Are You Playing (Summer 2013)?

[Yoshi]

I continue to hope that my daughter does not become interest in said game that shall not be mentioned by name.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

I loved the first skylander, thought giants was merely mediocre.
I have zero affection for the pixar IP, but this is pretty fricking good.
Each "playset" (read disney property) has its own kind of gameplay. So it is not completely doing the same thing over and over again in different skins.
The main attraction is the toybox mode. It is a minecraft/ little big planet world building kit. I wont ever do anything exceptional with it; but I know that plenty of nerds will. Seeing what other loonies spend countless hours building kinda has me excited.

[Yoshi]

We've never played Skylanders either, in part because I think my daughter inherited some of my OCD with regards to collecting things. It's one thing to have all the Nickoledeon TMNT toys. It's quite another to go after 8 million Skylander/Infinity figures.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

At this point, I would say skip skylanders. Activision.
The disney figures are much nicer sculpts and though they cost more on average ($13 per figure):
1)disney
2)walmart has the two 3 packs on sale for $15 each.
3)avalanche

The shitty part of the ocd thing will be the optional power discs. But again, TRU has a buy one get one for $1 this week. I initially bought 20 packs due to some misinformation. I opened two. Exchanged 8, and returned 10. I will use various forums to trade for what I need.
If it werent for the launch deals, I wouldnt have gone for it. But after getting everything I got for half of msrp, I am thoroughly digging it. And I have much more faith in disney maintaining quality vs activision.

[YellerDog]

The funny thing about Disney IP is that every single property/movie/whatever has their own staff of 'handlers' who have to approve everything done with that specific brand.

[No One]

ActionButton is so good. A lot of sacred cows are terrible.

Of course they are, but there's a difference between making a legitimate case for that and unfairly trashing something for the sake of pissing people off and/or being "edgy". A lot of that website reads like Jaded Hipster Gamer: Internet Edition.

[Diff-chan]

Define "unfairly."

I don't think Diablo 2 is a very good game either. Maybe not 0/4, but that's opinion.

[YellerDog]

Also they kind of make up score numbers for the fuck of it, read the article.

Diablo 2 is -5 out of 5 for me. But then again.... I don't care about Diablo.

[A Robot Bit Me]

Stay away from anything written by Samuel Kite. I say this because I care about each of you.

[Diff-chan]

Diablo 3 is great for people who hate Diablo.