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Starlink: Battle for Atlas - Ubisoft Take on the Toy to Life Market?
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This one took me by surprise, wasn't aware they are into this Toys-to-Life market! Passed through many Toys-to-Life games in my life due to the toys, they were neat, but game-play was always lacking. In this one I like the theme, the design is nice, prices probably won't be cheap but what I wait to see is gameplay, if it's good, I'm willing to jump in, if it's childish, maybe in two years when it's super bargain for everything. http://starlink.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/starlink p.s. Member since 2011, this is my first post, read the rules, hope I got it all right. |
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I saw this at PAX.. it has absolutely zero appeal, and Toys to Life has been more or less milked to death (as usual) and is now deader than plastic instruments!
I don't know what they were thinking. Probably some exec gave the green light during the height of the craze and they think it its cheaper now to try to get some of the money back vs scrapping it. I don't know who this is for. Unlike previous toys to life, this has no appeal to children yet it too childish for adults. |
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Me, I'm too lazy. Maybe one day when I hit 20K posts. :cool: |
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@ElektroDragon I somewhat agree with what you said, that's why I was surprised and thought "ok , benefit of the doubt, maybe they gave it an appealing twist" ... most likely not :( well it's their money :D |
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As for the game itself: I find the concept disgusting. This is pay-to-win in the most obvious form imaginable. Plus, since Ubisoft has a long-standing relationship with Nintendo, you can be sure that there will be even more trinkets (like official Amiibos) on the Switch. Then again, this might be just what their target audience craves... |
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So yeah, I'm out. I'm done with the toys to life genre. I have boxes of Lego Dimesions and Disney Infinity characters that are a constant reminder of what a money pit these types of games are. |
most of these ships are ugly. The game doesn't look that interesting. I didn't ever jump on the toys to life fad. I don't see how this doesn't flop. That 1st skylanders game looked fun as an actual game. Disney had characters people like. What does this have? The last good star fox game was like 20 years ago. Do kids today even know who star fox is?
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Wasn't sure what Toys-to-life was so looked it up on wikipedia:
"Toys-to-life is a video game feature using physical figurines or action figures to interact within the game.[1] These toys use a near field communication (NFC), radio frequency identification (RFID), or image recognition data protocol to determine the individual figurine's proximity, and save a player's progress data to a storage medium located within that piece.[2] It is one of the most lucrative branches of the video game industry, with the Skylanders franchise alone selling more than $3 billion worth over the course of four years." So that's probably why they are getting into that market. Kinda like some companies dropped PC development and started to focus on mobile. |
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The only one that seems to be getting continued support is the amiibo line, but even that is limited to around three figures per game. This could change with Smash Bros, but virtually of the stores that used to dedicate 4' to 8' feet of shelf space to them have reduced things to just a handful of pegs. I don't see 'em making much of a resurgence. I don't think this will be a successful venture for them, ultimately. |
I don't care about Toys-to-life, but the gameplay actually doesn't look all that bad
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That UI is horrendous... and why was the dialogue repeated twice (13:34 and 14:16) during that hands-on gameplay?
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