S0crat3s
Smash Apprentice
Oh no! S0CRAT3S used Counter again!You know it's not really even about "high expectations" but rather just being a bad and lazy developer IMO. When you consider the amount of delays this tittle has had, is it really so out of line to expect 50 or so characters or to expect a good online mode. Not to mention Sak isn't even aware of his own product or what's best for the series. The guys removed the universal sub systems without even considering the competitive scene, and his way of making it up to the fans is with a dull story mode and gimmicky Final smashes. Oh and lets not forget midis tracks...what the hell happen to fully orchestrated tracks.
-NO. Your expectations are near impossible to reach in a game today, much less in the time the developers had...
Bad and lazy developer? Do you know how hard it is to make a good game? Especially one with This amount of content?!
Yes, it is out of line to expect 50 characters...You obviously don't know how difficult it is to create a little thing called "balance," something that gets harder and harder to obtain when the number of characters increases...It also takes an excruciatingly painful amount of time, effort and skill to make working character models...
Online mode is fine...In Melee there was none, and you can even send videos/stages/pictures to fellow Brawlers...And headsets really aren't needed in Smash--in games with 3D movement, large maps, and teamwork demanding gameplay, I can understand, but in Brawl? Virtually no need for one...
He isn't aware of his own production? Have you read his interview with Iwata? Do you read the Dojo, which is updated by him? I really can't think of anyone else that could've made a Smash REMOTELY as good...
Dull story mode? Have you played it? It's a goddess' step up from Adventure Mode, cinematics are beautiful, fun to watch, and epic, and the gameplay is what you'd expect from HAL, the creators of the Kirby series (a side-scroller whose tactics focus more on avoiding attacks than figuring out an opponent's weakness)...
Final Smashes? Gimmicky? Please explain...
MIDI sounds perfectly fine to me, and some of the tracks are orchestrated (Mushroomy Kingdom 1-1 is a prime example)...And I really can't complain about Brawl's staggering track, which has 314 songs total, where the record prior to this feat didn't even break 100...Orchestrate WarioWare? Please...