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Ganoncrotch said:
JRPGfan said:

Disney Infinity canceled = meh, who cares?

However:

Im not ashamed to say I played Disney Epic Mickey I & II on the Wii.
Them saying they wont do video games anymore... awwww... guess we ll never see a Epic Mickey III.

 

Is Epic Mickey 2 good? I see it on Sale for the vita, it's like... 6.99 or so, very tempted to buy it, loved the Castle of Illusion game on the Megadrive but I've not played a Mickey mouse game in some decades.

Its nothing special really... but I liked it.

There are so many other games out there right now or right around the corner, not even sure I could recamend it.

But if you got like 18-20hours to spare, and are bored, yeah grab it and give it a go.

Theres a certain charm to it.



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JRPGfan said:
Ganoncrotch said:

Is Epic Mickey 2 good? I see it on Sale for the vita, it's like... 6.99 or so, very tempted to buy it, loved the Castle of Illusion game on the Megadrive but I've not played a Mickey mouse game in some decades.

Its nothing special really... but I liked it.

There are so many other games out there right now or right around the corner, not even sure I could recamend it.

But if you got like 18-20hours to spare, and are bored, yeah grab it and give it a go.

Theres a certain charm to it.

I'm up to my neck in Cyber Sleuth right now which is amazing, but was considering just buying it now since it's so cheap and getting back to it down the line, I mean... it's the price of a Costa Coffee lol, for a 20 hour game you say?



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JetSetter said:
Given this info it's no surprise but man, they were making money off of this in it's early days weren't they?

Too much competition in the toys-to-life genre and Disney didn't help with locking characters to not only specific games but to specific playsets which hurt the Marvel centered second game which will fixing it a bit potential customers had already had enough after the mess of the first game.

Activision looks to be the only one who will be releasing a new toys-to-life game this year I wonder if the regain sales or if this year will mark the end of the toys-to-life genre.



Ganoncrotch said:

I seen both of those in our local game store, they look very loyal to the characters from the Movie, even without the game as figures for your shelf if you could find them cheap I would recommend.

I'm going to be picking up a few of the infinity figures for that reason even though I've no intention to buy any of the games again (had the first one, got it cheap sold it at a profit near xmas) Stitch is getting bought though I think!

I was thinking the same, I mean the game never once interested me but I always did like the quality of detail and how close the characters were to their respective films. I just nabbed the last two Stitch figures from one vendor on Amazon UK (one for me and Mother who adores the little guy) and I plan on buying a Judy and Nick tomorrow. THe reason I want to buy these is primarily because they aren't going to be manufactured ever again which makes them part of those Disney colectibles that will eventually become rare (especially seeing as how the game hasn't sold as well as they hoped).



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shikamaru317 said:
KLAMarine said:
The movie biz is probably more profitable. Don't quote me on that though.

Considering they made like $1.7b from Star Wars 7, $800m from Zootopia, $600m from The Jungle Book, and $500m (so far) from Captain America in the past 5 months, I'm sure movies are much more profitable for Disney right now.

Those are box office gross figure theater chains take 50% plus (China takes 75%) and that's before cost of making the films.

Disney's big money makes are

1. Cable channels (55% of Disney's profit)

2. Theme parks

3. Films

4. Merchandise licensing and games

5. Broadcast channels (ABC)



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KLAMarine said:
Darwinianevolution said:
If Disney are not going to do anything as a videogame publisher anymore, it's just a matter of time before all publishers ask for the licenses of their IPs.

I hope not. Licensed games are usually mediocre.

Mobile don't care about mediocre.



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On one hand, good. These type of games irritate me to no end.

However, this is also just pure laziness on Disney part. They make so much money on their movies its inexcusable for them to just ignore the video game market.

Never been too much of a Disney fan, I like some of the classics, but certainly nothing in recent memory, be it CGI, Star Wars or Marvel stuff. This is just another reason for my to dislike this company.



Chazore said:
Ganoncrotch said:

I seen both of those in our local game store, they look very loyal to the characters from the Movie, even without the game as figures for your shelf if you could find them cheap I would recommend.

I'm going to be picking up a few of the infinity figures for that reason even though I've no intention to buy any of the games again (had the first one, got it cheap sold it at a profit near xmas) Stitch is getting bought though I think!

I was thinking the same, I mean the game never once interested me but I always did like the quality of detail and how close the characters were to their respective films. I just nabbed the last two Stitch figures from one vendor on Amazon UK (one for me and Mother who adores the little guy) and I plan on buying a Judy and Nick tomorrow. THe reason I want to buy these is primarily because they aren't going to be manufactured ever again which makes them part of those Disney colectibles that will eventually become rare (especially seeing as how the game hasn't sold as well as they hoped).

Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind.... or forgotten! :) How could anyone not love Stitch. The base of his Infinity figure is awesome (at the top of page 2 here) just the detail on it and how it makes him even more... Stitch-Like.



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Ganoncrotch said:

Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind.... or forgotten! :) How could anyone not love Stitch. The base of his Infinity figure is awesome (at the top of page 2 here) just the detail on it and how it makes him even more... Stitch-Like.

Also he's not insanely expensive like some that are shown at Hollywood studios (I know because I cry each time I go there and find something really well sculpted of Stitch that costs $400+). Disney should just make those Infinity figures as is, just really well clean and sculpted figures for display, I mean most of their toyline basically does that, it wouldn't hurt to just merge the Infinity Toyline and make whatever they could from it.



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Chazore said:
Ganoncrotch said:

Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind.... or forgotten! :) How could anyone not love Stitch. The base of his Infinity figure is awesome (at the top of page 2 here) just the detail on it and how it makes him even more... Stitch-Like.

Also he's not insanely expensive like some that are shown at Hollywood studios (I know because I cry each time I go there and find something really well sculpted of Stitch that costs $400+). Disney should just make those Infinity figures as is, just really well clean and sculpted figures for display, I mean most of their toyline basically does that, it wouldn't hurt to just merge the Infinity Toyline and make whatever they could from it.

Hmmm, dunno about selling the whole range though... some of the figures they picked really don't suit the solid plastic look that all the infinity toys have been molded to, say Sulley from Monsters Inc, I think he is one that just plain doesn't work in terms of looking like the movie figure and sadly he was the toy which shiped with the first version of the game.

Did he shave?



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