Pic of the day ‘The impact-launch effect has been powered up. The assigned color makes it clear which player will get points in the event of a KO.’
When I first saw that pic, I thought it was Din and Farore.
Challenger approaching is the best way to unlock character, fighting game-wise.
So much nostalgia, the battles were so intense and intimidating in melee.
I’d gladly have to unlock most of the by completing a random Challenge before entering a 1 v 1 Deathmatch with a character I never used or fought before.
Shit is mad hype yo.
Looking like they got some rockets shoved up the ass… nice.
Shiny.
pic of the day ‘Let’s stretch our backs.’
^^her up throw? poor DK can’t catch a break, if it isnt him getting beat up its megaman…lol
Well, that’s just canon. If you’re from an old-school 2D platformer, you will be getting your ass beaten down. Frequently and repeatedly. The beatings will continue until your player stops screwing up.
All i see is a white woman grabbing some ape ass. Confirmed. WFT has jungle fever.
I don’t even know how to respond to this…
Alright if I take a shot at it, then? Ahem…
Wait, what? Why? There’s no denying that Reggie is an incredible ‘face’ of contemporary Nintendo, and when given even decent material to work with he can generate excitement or at least avoid astounding blunders (which is more important than one may think; see E3 2013 with various interviews of microsoft staff)… but I don’t know if I am ready to call him iconic to the company’s legacy yet. If we’re going to put in real live Nintendo employees, why not go with someone demonstrably vital to their history? Miyamoto or Yokoi or so on. Fils-Aime is important to Nintendo, but I do not know if I would call him truly iconic. Maybe if his marketing were to lead Nintendo to a new golden age where they’re #1 on all the sales charts, every gaming demographic loves them again, and so on… then I could see it, perhaps. Until then, this seems like taking a meme too far.
For that matter, what would his movelist be? A Balance Board as his shield/battering ram, a Wiimote as his ‘sword’, and so on? I guess it would work, but if you’re going to make a character whose schtick is 'Nintendo hardware references" then just put Captain N in and let him wield a variety of Nintendo gear. This is about the only route I could see taking him unless they go full comedy character and make his marketing pitches work as attacks (Wright in UMVC3 shows this idea can work, I concede that). Outside of those two options, and one is covered better by mixing it with the Captain N nostalgia grab while you’re at it, I don’t see what else you can do. Reggie is not, as far as I know, a real life combat badass who could give you plenty of attacks to work with.
The dev time spent implementing Reggie could honestly be better spent on any of several better character choices. At the end of the day, some aspect of Nintendo’s history is going to go overlooked in Smash 4; they do not have unlimited resources. And in the case of Reggie Fils-Aime, I think most players could fairly ask: “So… he got in, while (insert Nintendo franchise here) doesn’t have a single representative? What the hell!?”
I like the guy, but I just don’t see who benefits (other than Reggie) from him being in Smash.
…No, wait, I can think of one acceptable way to do this. ‘Playable character’ isn’t quite right, but they could make him an Assist Trophy or something similar. I’m not totally humorless; I could see the fun in being able to bring Reggie on-screen for a brief attack. Imagine him, with his permanent natural trollface expression intact, appearing. “My body is ready,” he intones gravely, before smacking an opponent with the Balance Board. I could go for this, I guess. Playable character, though? Waste of time.
Put_reggie_in_smash
For real, though, it sounds like a sort-of funny joke gone too far. No thanks.
Ono for SSBU. Final Smash would be his Blanka toy coming to life and shocking everyone.
pic of the day ‘It’s easy to overlook town scenery while you’re battling.’
https://d3esbfg30x759i.cloudfront.net/ss/zlCfzREaf-U_y8ROv6
Edit:
damn I fucked up…I had this ready to post this morning and didn’t even finish the damn post.
Needs moar Tom Nook.
Sakurai posted a message to peeps on miiverse:
pic of the day ‘Dazed…’
Footstool jumping confirmed to be returning?
Silence, peasant! That’s obviously Tripping! Sakurai has been lyin-- …I’ve done this joke before, you say? Sorry about that. And, ah, I hope I wasn’t too out of line with that ‘peasant’ crack… </DonAdams>
The town scenery pic gives me the dumbest idea: “Man, I’d love to see Dead Rising 2 add the Animal Crossing village as a DLC location.”
Yeah, that’s how slow the news on this game has been lately. Kinda wish they’d give us something a little more substantial every so often. I can appreciate that daily journal style posts like Brawl had might be too much to hope for this time around, but still; we’re kinda just reduced to looking at a pic for five minutes, going “tee hee” at it, and moving on.
Pic of the day:
https://d3esbfg30x759i.cloudfront.net/ss/zlCfzRElfEg_d-ZAF6
“Come on out, Cragalanche! (Not really.)”
So, as was probably expected, the 3DS Kid Icarus stage will feature some kind of stage transition. Though I wonder if it will affect the stage or just the background…in terms of the platform placement and such.
So, Nintendo not shying away from showing a battlefield massacre in their next Smash Bros, that is cool but Pitt better have the Great Sacred Treasure as his final smash, as nice as it was to see a giant Palutena in the background, that HAS to be Pitt’s new Final Smash.