Did anyone get Skylanders Spyro's Adventure for Christmas?

[Ezekiel Zane]

Skylanders Spyro's Adventure:

So I bought this game for my kids on the Wii. Holy crap! Some guy in marketing is probably getting a really amazing bonus for the idea to sell all characters separate as toys.

I've never heard of a single player, non-mmo type game that could generate $300 or more, if you want to buy all the characters.

Anyways, I noticed that the perspective is similar to UO. Anyone else think so?

 

[kelmo]

I dunno. My girls (adults... barely) seem to love the game. Some of the characters are rare already. I am gonna have to check it out. I mean have the girls bring the stuff over to play on our Wii.

 

[Ezekiel Zane]

Some of the characters are rare already..

Yeah, the Target and Walmart exclusives are impossible to buy now except on eBay for exorbitant prices. Whirlwind is going for between $75 and $95. Drill Sergeant a bit less.

Supposedly, supposedly, they'll re-release those to a wider market soon. The next three and an Adventure Pack are due out after January 15th.

I seen one guy on eBay had 10 Whirlwinds and 10 Drill Sergeants. They were all originally $7.99. It's a shame people are able to profiteer so much on stuff like that. Now people that want those characters are stuck paying ridiculous prices. I sure hope that re-release rumors are true.

 

[Ezekiel Zane]

Overall the game is a lot of fun. The characters level up fast. Not like what we're used to in most MMOs today.

The combat is simple enough, especially with a couple of level 10 characters co-op.

I like that some of the levels are quite difficult to find everything. So you have to do them over again and again to get all the checks 100%.

Once you've done a good number of the Heroic quests the characters are even more powerful. You get STAT increases for completing these quests.