Wild Knight posted:

The only use I know for that thing is that when it shows up in a Tales game, it lets you switch the onscreen party member. So obviously this is the item version of Manaphy from Brawl and you'll momentarily switch to one of the other characters in the match.

...poo poo, I actually kinda like that idea. Surely it won't be that though. What does it do in other namco games?

DrPaper posted:

GameXplain video pointed out a piece of the Dragoon spawned during Mario and Sonic fighting on Halberd, leaving only the Fan, Cracker Launcher and Party Ball as the only items from Brawl we've yet to see return. Parasol, Barrel Canon, Cloaking Device an Flipper (already confirmed to not return by Sakurai) are the only items from Melee to not return (and didn't return in Brawl either) yet.

Excels posted:

"We have decided to stop making Smash in favor of our new project, Pokemon Stadium 2. Please understand."

Endorph posted:

DLC has been done well in several games and would allow them to add characters they had to cut due to their deadline.

Viewtiful Jew posted:

Man that just reminds me that by the time the next Smash is in development we'll have gone from kids jokingly suggest Steve from Minecraft as a newcomer to kids legitimately wondering why Steve from Minecraft isn't in Smash Bros.

Hell there's probably already young kids on Miiverse unironically suggesting him. Their logic being that if Minecraft is the biggest video game out there and Smash Bros. is a collection of some of the biggest video game characters well then why wouldn't he be in the game?

Mennonites Revenge posted:

I had considered this, as the two data points we have so far could indicate it, especially given Melee stages will inevitably be easier to port to a handheld. And if any Brawl stage was to be ported to the 3DS, Halberd would probably be my first choice, due to its relative simplicity.

However, Sakurai has been pretty forthcoming about the "pattern" of new stages: handheld-inspired stages go on the 3DS, console-inspired stages go on the Wii U. If there was such a Melee/Brawl distinction, I think we would be made aware of it, especially if it was a hard rule (the pattern mentioned previously isn't, e.g. Pilotwings Resort being represented in the Wii U version).

With the use of Jungle Japes violating the "only from immediate predecessor" rule, and with a strong desire to see more SSB 64 inclusion, I made this guess assuming both versions would pull from all three predecessors, with a distribution to roughly match the number of stages each of them had.


That's the Wii U version. To match the cel-shaded look, the 3DS version will have Fighting Take on Me Team.

DrPaper posted:

So now that Nintendo is doing the Season Pass shenanigans, do you expect a Season Pass for Smash? I know Sakurai has said he doesn't want to worry about DLC during development, but there's no telling if Nintendo will make him/do it on their own after the fact. If there was, what would you want to see in a Smash season pass?

The T posted:

Just because Mega Man is in this game doesn't mean this is a Capcom fighting game

Calaveron posted:

Huh, in what videos/trailers have we actually heard the main theme?

xanthan posted:

Didn't SSE have some bit of plot not actually shown in the game itself but only revealed on the Dojo also? I imagine cutting part of the potential plot out and thus making the rest harder to get helped give it a bad rep.

Blackheart posted:

I think I've mentioned this like a million times but that boss you fight on the Halberd's deck should have been motherfucking HEAVY LOBSTER

instead of some nobody twin headed robo dude.

TaurusOxford posted:

All 3000 of them should dress as Ridley. Give Nintendo a hint.

PantsBandit posted:

That's a bit of a leap. Sakurai strikes me as a dude that just likes to have some toys around.

Jazama posted:

Shadow Ninja 64 posted:

I wonder exactly how the draft is going to work for the characters. They showed 20 characters available to the 16 players, and the trailer made it sound like a player would be locked into one character the whole time. It'd probably be most fair to have players pick characters at random out of a hat or something, because if they did something like picking players out of a hat and letting the first player choose from everyone, that could be super unbalanced.

Dresh posted:

All right, how many other people are expecting a Pac-Man reveal tomorrow? We haven't had that argument in a while. We can probably right him out entirely if he's not shown during E3, but I'm certain Namco will get some kind of playable character.

Macaluso posted:

Your past self would never loving believe you. Even if you showed him physical proof he'd think you were tricking him