Disney Infinity available for preorder @ Amazon

Quote from halzeimers : Not buying a set of figures again......next it will be Pokemon and Bakugan. Consumers are crazy, not really doing anything with my Skylanders set after beating the game. - sent by iPhone App Deals & Steals 3.5.8 -

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/...-footsteps

Quote from urbach : That leads to my question: what replay value is this? (I guess I'm asking about Skylanders, but figure the Disney thing will be similar) There seem to be a lot of kids (and some adults) that continue to buy these figures long after they probably beat the game. What does that add? And what is the general type of gameplay? I haven't found anything that says. Is it a sidescroller, 1st person, fighter (like Street Fighter, etc)? I was really confused by Skylanders, and now am confused by this Disney thing. I guess I'm getting old. One of you dang kids 'splain this all to me!

It's an action platformer, with some slight RPG elements (characters can level and learn new skills, use hats to increase stats, etc). You place your physical character on the Portal provided with the Starter Pack, and it reads a chip in the bottom of the character to load the Skylander, along with whatever skills, levels, etc. it has earned.

I'd say replay value depends on the person. Some people finish a game and never pick it up again, some like to level all of their characters to max, achievement hunters, etc. I'd say the variety of characters gives it a lot more replay, although you play through the same game each character gives it a slightly unique experience and more to do.

My 8 year-old plays with her Skylanders without the game at this point, she has a few castle playsets and they make pretty cool toys, although they don't have any moving parts (pretty much little plastic statues).

The starter packs are the same price for pre-order and f/s @ Toys R Us

This Mama is not buying any game that requires this kind of investment to make it playable properly. It's nothing but a money grab. No thank you!

I remember when I first heard of this Skylanders business and asked a store employee what it was, I immediately thought... what a ripoff... I'm surprised Disney isn't doing this yet, so lo and behold here it is!

The way the store employee explained the Skylanders figures to me, he said there is this USB base you plug into a console where you put a character on it and it detects that character (probably some magnetic induction code reader) which then allows the game to play that character. This means that instead of having a large set of unlocked characters at the outset when you buy a game like Super Street Fighter IV, Activision chose to restrict the number of characters (and probably game options) by forcing you to buy these overpriced coded characters to do what you should (and normally could) do using a game controller to select your characters from a roster.

So basically, the game is purposefully crippled and a totally unnecessary and expensive peripheral and character selection system is introduced to rip off parents when their kids beg them for these "cool looking" overpriced figures to play characters and parts of the game that should've been unlocked in the game from the beginning.

Yes, if I understand it right, it's definitely right up The Walt Disney Company's ally and my gut instinct was right. Since I don't buy games over $20, especially purposefully crippled ones, it's unlikely I'll ever buy this Disney Infinity. Of course in a (still mostly) free market, parents are free to cave into their kids and pay greedy Activision and Disney whatever they want. Other parents are free to say no way on principle in spite of their kids' begging.

also for preorder at Target and Walmart. No go at Best Buy yet (I'm pissed!) called Corporate and no one knows wth Disney Infinity is or when it's coming out for preorder. RUKM????

Disney is so damn fervent about IP protection as well as scarcity control that this is going to make people's skylanders habits look like 'recreational use' compared to the hardcore, 'I just need one more, then I'll quit' this is going to turn into.

What I don't get is why they didn't do it the most obvious-win way and re-issue the Kingdom Hearts collections in High-Def this way . . . probably didn't want to share the money. It's a great, well-established franchise that would be great to re-boot the old titles with cross-platform availability.

Quote from interbronze : also for preorder at Target and Walmart. No go at Best Buy yet (I'm pissed!) called Corporate and no one knows wth Disney Infinity is or when it's coming out for preorder. RUKM????

Why would that get you pissed enough that you called corporate and wasted some employee's time? The game doesn't come out until August, what difference does it make if they start pre-orders in March or a week before release?

Honestly looks boring. Not to mention, but has there been even one non-craptastic Disney game other than the Kingdom Hearts series, which was a Disney license but developed entirely by Squaresoft?

I'm way more excited by Pokemon Rumble U, which should blow the pants off of both Disney Infinity and Skylanders. Solid gameplay, long pedigree, actual gameplay balance, $2 figures, potentially hundreds of figures....

Does it make I feel better if I buy this overpriced toy?

Quote from gh188 : I'm way more excited by Pokemon Rumble U, which should blow the pants off of both Disney Infinity and Skylanders. Solid gameplay, long pedigree, actual gameplay balance, $2 figures, potentially hundreds of figures....

... only on the Wii U, so 17 people will play it...

Quote from dxhdeals : http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/...-footsteps

Don't see the harm if the prices are kept down and they aren't sold in packs where you have no clue what figure is in there. Doubles would not be cool.

The skylanders giants are overpriced. I think I dished out $200 to play this game.

Quote from hillean : ... only on the Wii U, so 17 people will play it...

I play Skylanders with my son. That's it. I don't care if a game is on one platform or more than one platform. I only care if it's a good game. Pokemon has only been on Nintendo, and it's not just survived, but thrived for 17 years already. There would be no Skylanders without Pokemon. Not worried that the game will lack for players.

Quote from croqoa : Why would that get you pissed enough that you called corporate and wasted some employee's time? The game doesn't come out until August, what difference does it make if they start pre-orders in March or a week before release?

They changed the release date now? Was supposed to come out June 28th. My daughter's bday is in June. Was supposed to be a birthday present that's why. Yep, just googled it, they changed it to August! What crap!!!