Super Smash Bros. U/3D

Aye that was announced a bit a go, mas.

Only just updated the smash site about it though with more details on how it works.

Also a GameStop manager has been telling people the game comes with 1 ammibo and will launch on November 21st.

Not to bring this up again, but Sakurai has explained why Chrom didn't make it into SSB4.  Too similar to the other FE characters, apparently.  "Of course, it would be really easy to make a game by churning out a ton of similar characters, but that's not how I produce games."

He does go on to explain the obvious irony where Lucina is concerned.  It's sounding a bit like she was this close (indicates with thumb and index finger) to being an alternate costume, which hopefully means not too much time and budget have gone into her.  Makes me more hopeful.

It also amuses me that Athrun's new main is essentially "Marth for newbs". 

Now now, no need for the personal insults just because you're so highly upset over the roster.    Besides I'm hardly limited to one main, I frequently switched between roy and marth in melee while focusing on marth the most, there's no reason to believe it won't be the same now.

It's not personal - it's what he says in the article!  And it serves you right anyway for dismissing my fully justified complaints as "whinin".  No offence meant, anyway.

I don't main at all - I believe that having fun with all the characters, and learning all of their intricacies, is more interesting than mastering a small selection.

Athrun888 wrote:

Besides I'm hardly limited to one main, I frequently switched between roy and marth in melee while focusing on marth the most, there's no reason to believe it won't be the same now.  

That's what I'm seeing it as - clone characters have been part and parcel of Smash Bros forever. I hope it's more like the clones in Brawl who were at least slightly different as opposed to the Melee clones.

I will main one most likely lucina if she is quicker but weaker then marth, but will play the arcade mode or whatever with all the characters and one I might like that I didn't think I would.

Balladeer wrote:

It's not personal - it's what he says in the article!  And it serves you right anyway for dismissing my fully justified complaints as "whinin".  No offence meant, anyway.

I don't main at all - I believe that having fun with all the characters, and learning all of their intricacies, is more interesting than mastering a small selection.

Fair enough. As far as maining goes, I tend to like trying out most of the cast as well but eventually I just get to the point where a few characters end up fitting my style, and from there I tend to stick with them.


All this talk of marth and mains is making me wonder if they'll have him unlocked from the start finally.

On which subject, is anyone else worried that all the characters are going to be revealed from the start, like with MK8, and that there won't be any secret characters? Nintendo have revealed an awful lot of them...

Random is the best character.

........but he's such a clone of Random.   

Balladeer wrote:

 "Of course, it would be really easy to make a game by churning out a ton of similar characters, but that's not how I produce games."

Hahaha. Did anyone else read this as an insult to Fire Emblem?

That is the   -est of   -s if true.  (Imagine that the second emoticon has had too much sun.)

andyman949 wrote:

Random is the best character.

I forgot - I do have a main!

Balladeer wrote:

That is the   -est of   -s if true.  (Imagine that the second emtocion has had too much sun.)

The sickest of sunstrokes?

Not quite.

Monday (Returning Character):

Tuesday ("New" Character):

Wednesday (New Character):

Thursday (Stage Details):

Friday (Visual Touches):

Woo the mark is there, as I was seeing loads of posts it was missing.

Speaking of roy yesterday made me realize something: I'd rather have roy back and have lucina as an alt.  And while all that talk of heights is nice and all it means nothing when you bring up pikachu and charizard's sizes.  In pokemon pikachu doesn't even reach the knee when standing upright, meanwhile charizard is as tall as a typical person.  Yet in smash pikachu is almost as large as charizard.  So I'm afraid I'm no longer buying the need for lucina taking a slot, would rather roy back and lucina as an alt costume thanks sakurai. And while you're at it give us ridley too.

Yessssssss. Join me in my seething annoyance.  

I'm all good   

Zero Suit Samus is her own thing so   

I can only imagine the reaction had Melee received this same treatment - Young Link and Falco are far far worse clones than Lucina.

Agreed, but it was a first time. It helps (or doesn't help, depending on your viewpoint) that Brawl made most of the clones - only Toon Link (and to some extent Ganondorf) really felt similar to their originals. I was deeply disappointed in TL being re-revealed, but without the same build-up to his announcement, perhaps y'all didn't notice.  

You's not tired of this discussion yet?       

balla wrote:

Now that's a great touch of detail, always liked when you KO a fighter towards the screen.

Nah, there's always an interesting new angle to shoot down.  

This game looks really good and fun. Some of those characters I probably won't play as but I'm sure other people will so I am okay.

Drunkalilly wrote:

This game looks really good and fun. Some of those characters I probably won't play as but I'm sure other people will so I am okay.

Bingo! I am honestly okay with every character announced so far - probably won't play as some as Drunka said, but seeing them pop up in multiplayer won't get me riled up.