PlayStation Vita

xenos74 posted...

Honestly, you're just coming off as jaded.
Skylanders seems to be the "new" collect em fad. If they were to produce more new toys and stop producing the old ones, should they track down the old ones and completely remove them from the game and purchasers to make the game equal to old and new fans? I also realize that skylanders has the potential to be an even bigger "scam" than Pokemon due to the relatively high prices on the figures...but the point is that people like them and more importantly, they're very willing to buy them

I'm not 'coming off' as jaded, I AM jaded.

And on Skylanders? I actually TOLD a friend of mine "They'll sell this crap by the truckloads, people are stupid with stuff like this". And lo and behold... I was right.

I know the model sells. It's still no less of a scam in my opinion. That's what made me jaded. It was all fun and games when there were only 151 pokemon, then the whole thing escalated, and now...

The worst part is that a lot of Pokemon might as well be clones of each other. The few top-tier ones are clearly better, the remaining ones tend to be samething all over the place, with minor differences that aren't enough to make them stand out.

Maybe I'm just tired of the bloating of the franchise, but... can you blame me? It all feels like a ripoff... maybe I've simply seen too much over a quarter of a century of gaming.

At least with Monster Rancher you could still get them all - owning rare CDs just gave you rare monsters that had much better stats and loadouts than normal, but with patient breeding you could make monsters far better than even those over the game.

I blame you. You whine too damn much. If you dont like it them dont buy it genius and move on with your life. Its an option. Do you whine if you have to pay extra for a supersized meal or just games?

Ps when you are old enough to have kids you will realize skylanders is a great deal. Toy and dlc in one and the characters arent just copies of each other.

Psps. Please dont breed.

Yeah, did you really think he would realize that with all the blind b****in and whining he does about practically everything in the world? Added with his apparent lack of reading comprehension skills as displayed by almost every single post ITT.

Too bad 56K works just fine for connecting to the GTS for less than a minute, which is what's needed for Pokemon, as that's what we're discussing.

So that leaves people who have no internet, which yes, is unfair that they lose out on about ~25 Pokemon, given that they coincidentally also don't own any previous versions, which drops that number down to about 8, don't have any friends who play it and can never make it to an event, which I'll admit can be hard.

DaSituation posted...

Too bad 56K works just fine for connecting to the GTS for less than a minute, which is what's needed for Pokemon, as that's what we're discussing.

So that leaves people who have no internet, which yes, is unfair that they lose out on about ~25 Pokemon, given that they coincidentally also don't own any previous versions, which drops that number down to about 8, don't have any friends who play it and can never make it to an event, which I'll admit can be hard.

What? The 56k that I used to have struggled to even load up a text-only GameFAQs page. Text only. God forbid I tried to load up pages with images. That would take literally forever. I unfortunately remember all too well how horrible it was.

If it worked for you, you were likely connecting at 128k, not 56k. 56k pretty much makes anything but small text pages take forever to load with a high risk of errors to boot. Even a 100kb text doc here on GF takes a bit to load, depending on how stable the connection is and how effectively fast it is (max speed for a connection is rarely achieved).

Unless the 56k outside Europe is higher quality, which... wouldn't surprise me. Our infrastructure is that archaic.