Interests Skylander

[Mouth-words]

I'm going to play devil's advocate here, but not for people who cannot control their spending habits or their spoiled kids by buying all these collectable figures. To my understanding, you don't need to buy extra figures if you don't want to in order to beat the game. The game already comes with two or three figures bundled with it. You can buy others only if you want access to new areas and such.

I think if DLC is going this route, I'm all for it. Not only you get the content in the game, you also have a nifty figure of your favorite character for your shelf, desk, or whatever. So when you stop playing the game a few months down the line, it doesn't seem much of a waste of money because you still have something tangible either to keep or sell.

 

[Pickle Man]

Yeah. Like they add almost NOTHING.

For Smash you get an NPC version of that character you can train level up and customize, basically worthless and for Mario Kart you get that character's outfit for your Mii. There are other games but they're all practically as useless.

In other words Chris is about to make Nintendo a lot of money.

Speaking of Chris making Nintendo money....they just announced the Sonic Amiibo is coming in February and no it doesn't have blue arm

 

[KingofManga420]

Speaking of Chris making Nintendo money....they just announced the Sonic Amiibo is coming in February and no it doesn't have blue arm

muh dick

I wish 90% of them didn't have gigantic clear plastic stands shoved directly up their asses though...

 

[sm0t]

The SSB Amiibos at least make some sense because the characters were supposed to be toys/trophies in the game to start. [/sperg]

I always did imagine Skylanders being something Chris would like, since it appeals to his tendency to collect brightly colored things as quickly as his tugboat comes in.

 

[Marvin]

I always did imagine Skylanders being something Chris would like, since it appeals to his tendency to collect brightly colored things as quickly as his tugboat comes in.

That's exactly it. He's into skylanders. I don't know if he really went all out though, because it'd be a tug-of-war between legos and skylanders, and legos would probably win.

 

[drtoboggan]

Irate Gamer has a huge boner for them too. Wonder who's the worse player: Chris C or Chris B?

 

[Damocles_Sword]

Is Skylanders played exclusively by autistic adults on tugboats?

As a /tg/ player, I can confirm this, one of the best places in town to play 40k was run by quite the exceptional individual, had a bigass warehouse rented out, had about 10 tables plus 4 or 5 for card games/whatnot. He set up a big HD projector in the back and you could rent time on a console...except...the owner and his little inner-circle of spergs were in there 90% of the time playing skylanders. The shop closed down a while ago (allegedly) because the dude had his dog in there all the time and couldn't be assed to step away from the skylanders and clean the place up for the army of 5th graders coming in for an official Pokemon league tournament, and ended up pissing off every wizards of the coast rep in the state and he got blacklisted.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

I wish Chris could get into something less expensive he could sperg out over. Like something that really just requires an initial purchase, some interest in it, and a lot of freetime. He gets attracted to all the huge money sink hobbies.

Aside from the obvious autism factor, these are also the kind of hobbies that require little physical effort. If he got into, say, 40K, he'd have to buy and assemble the miniatures, paint them, mess around with dice and tape measures, and it would all be a lot of STRESS. Skylanders requires only that you spend money, and Chris is good at that.

 

[Honeyrabbit]

Aside from the obvious autism factor, these are also the kind of hobbies that require little physical effort. If he got into, say, 40K, he'd have to buy and assemble the miniatures, paint them, mess around with dice and tape measures, and it would all be a lot of STRESS. Skylanders requires only that you spend money, and Chris is good at that.

I don't know about that. Chris loves to construct things (although he'd probably make his own Warhammer customs out of Model Magic), and he demonstrated some interest in competitive gaming with his TCG stuff. Except, like with Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon, he'd probably get into 40k by buying the most expensive sets and mashing them all together along with some Model Magic Sonichus*.

*disclaimer: for all I know, this is how you win at 40k. I know nothing about it except that it's bloody expensive.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

In the Mimms and Lucas Q&A, it's mentioned that Chris had ridiculous themes and combinations for the decks he built, IIRC. I wonder they worked and why it would result in him usually losing (a notable exception would be the "I AM THE LEVEL UP KING" incident).

I'm guessing with Buylanders, all you pretty much have to do is buy certain figures to "be the very best."

 

[Marvin]

Chris isn't really good at stuff. He's maybe persistent and has money to piss away. I don't think he's good at video games, for example.

 

[Lalala]

My young cousin with autism has outgrown Skylanders. Kid isn't even in high school yet.
But I see why it appeals to OPL; easy as mud gameplay, semi-anthro animal characters with 'kewl' personalities, the 'gotta buy em all' shtick, the fact that expansion upon expansion keeps coming out so he'll always have more to get, it really is Pokeymans meets Sanic in all the worst ways (except of course the way HE did it, that takes the top spot)

 

[Space_Dandy]

My young cousin with autism has outgrown Skylanders. Kid isn't even in high school yet.
But I see why it appeals to OPL; easy as mud gameplay, semi-anthro animal characters with 'kewl' personalities, the 'gotta buy em all' shtick, the fact that expansion upon expansion keeps coming out so he'll always have more to get, it really is Pokeymans meets Sanic in all the worst ways (except of course the way HE did it, that takes the top spot)

You hit the nail on the head.

Whats odd about Skylanders is that it apparently spawned from Spyro the Dragon.. Who would have known back in 1999 when Spyro PS1 games were popular that 15 years later we would have this garbage?

 

[Lalala]

You hit the nail on the head.

Whats odd about Skylanders is that it apparently spawned from Spyro the Dragon.. Who would have known back in 1999 when Spyro PS1 games were popular that 15 years later we would have this garbage?

I have a Skylanders plushie but only cos I loved Spyro as a kid and it was for nostalgia, all the new ones look like failed pokemon designs to me....which is probably another reason Chris loves it so much.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

I wish Chris could get into something less expensive he could sperg out over. Like something that really just requires an initial purchase, some interest in it, and a lot of freetime. He gets attracted to all the huge money sink hobbies.

Skyrim Legendary Edition?

 

[Doge]

I can't imagine kids convincing their parents to shell out hundreds in order to match Chris's unstoppable tugboat army of plastic shite.

A few of my friends who have children have admitted to me that they've put down over 600 bucks on these things.

EDIT: And one of them said the joy in their child's face made it worth every cent.

 

[Meowthkip]

As much as I love accumulating useless plastic crap, none of these gimmicky games appeal to me in the slightest. That's probably for the best.

Chris being into at least one of these collectible toy video game things was pretty much an inevitability.

 

[Damocles_Sword]

Aside from the obvious autism factor, these are also the kind of hobbies that require little physical effort. If he got into, say, 40K, he'd have to buy and assemble the miniatures, paint them, mess around with dice and tape measures, and it would all be a lot of STRESS. Skylanders requires only that you spend money, and Chris is good at that.

He'd buy a bag of bases and tape pieces of paper with scribbles of tyranids on them.

 

[Stud2Stud]

He'd buy a bag of bases and tape pieces of paper with scribbles of tyranids on them.

... then go to an official GW tournament, where they send him away, cause he does not fulfill their requirements for the army. He would then proceed to make angry facebook rants about GW being bullies and discriminating him.
Or alternatively, he goes to some place where he can just do some combat and lose instantly due to his entirely fucked up army composition.

 

[EI 873]

I don't know about that. Chris loves to construct things (although he'd probably make his own Warhammer customs out of Model Magic), and he demonstrated some interest in competitive gaming with his TCG stuff. Except, like with Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon, he'd probably get into 40k by buying the most expensive sets and mashing them all together along with some Model Magic Sonichus*.

*disclaimer: for all I know, this is how you win at 40k. I know nothing about it except that it's bloody expensive.

Yeah, basically this. If his past behaviour with TCGs is any indication, I could kinda see Chris go for the Sisters of Battle (because of course he would), make a few really shitty and ill-balanced custom units, and insist on being allowed to play these at official events.

I wonder if he's going to try to make custom Skylanders figurines. Hey, he did it with The Eye of Judgment, and it made just as much sense there.