I agree with absolutely and everything here, as well as none of the above. Why? Because I like paradoxes!! But seriously, I don't see how SSB4 can be a revolution like Brawl is but I can see how it can become another revolution.
I concur. This is indeed our Smash 4 really. Why? Because nothing new can really be added to make the Smash game franchise really become an entirely new game. The only ways I can see it is if they decide to do what other fighting games have and those are: (1) a Create-A-Character mode; (2) a costume/accessory mode where we can unlock new attires and additional jewerly and hats to give to characters; and (3) a completely solid RPG adventure sidescroller.
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But these are not likely. Why you ask? Simple really. They would corrupt the familiar and unique feel we have with our favorite franchise. Those implications would be cool, but making our own new characters, and new costumes is not what Smash Bros. is about. Smash Bros. is playing as the characters we have come to love, thanks to the staff who work or are associated with Nintendo. Even though we have color swaps, we are still playing classic characters of Nintendo history. Making brand new characters with movelists we choose is kind of...what's the right word...unbalanced and all so gaudy. Leave that in the fighting games on Sony.
But then again, it would prove a milestone with what we can indeed do to fit our liking, such as choosing the speed and power of the characters we mold, as well as what weaknesses we do want them to have. We can choose what type of fighter they are, such as if we want a ranged killer or a full fist user or even possibly something in the middle. We can choose if we want these custom characters to use shields for defending, as well as weapons, or if we want them to have special abilities like shoot ice out of nowhere or possible bursts of fire. We might even want these ones we make to be based on a particular theme such as magic user, a sword paladin, an intergalactic racer, a bounty hunter, a musical elf, or even a human hero. Heck, we might also want to play as a particular gender, just because we can do that and we want to play as that gender. The options are in the air. As you can see, its not easy creating a custom creator, but this would definitely shift the tides of how balance and consistency works with our favorite franchise.
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In addition, we have our Stage Creator. Although the people who developed this game made around 41 stages, we have been given the opportunity to play more than that. Nintendo has developed a program for us gamers not to really pay more money to go play outside our comfort zones. By having new stages everyday and also online, nothing can get tedious and tiresome. Something exciting means there is no reason why we really want a new Smash, since every time we turn on the game each day, we aren't going to see the same exact thing. Something fresh is always upon us every stroke of the midnight hour (or morning or whatever time Nintendo decides as its official time to change the global settings of Brawl).
But then again, this concept won't seem new because all we are really getting is how to use a few given parts to incorporate into a new stage. Nothing new. Just a new display and/or a new condition. But thats about it. People, because its our nature, are greedy for more. So we look to manifest destiny and want even more things to be added to our play, whether its weather effects or monsters that come at some particular time to come get our foes (and ourselves if we aren't careful) away or even more gimmicks I can't say right now. The shift of this mode is cool, but how it become an upset, a great change, a revolution. All I see is an upgrade, but then again, I'm not a programmer and I can't think of a full extent as to what can be put into a single match.
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Moreover, I do want more characters, but programming new characters isn't easy. Even with the amount of staff that worked on Brawl, we only got 39 playables. The key word here is indeed balance, because not one character is greater than another on some extent. Each one has its strengths and its weaknesses. Only us players made tier lists, because we like making fun of others who play the lesser "popular" characters and we like playing with the "best of the best." If Nintendo is keeping this game alive, then it will indeed work on downloadable content to be transfered online. After all, so many characters aren't put as assists and playables. It wouldn't be much surprising in a few years, when people get kind of tired playing with the 39 characters Sakurai and his team made, there might be new ones to be added for fun. Heck, that character selection screen can be moved around even more, and of course be zoomed out if Sakurai was smart enough to put that code into the finished Brawl product. If not, well...this game sure is balanced, because 39 is indeed a HUGE amount for any multi-fighter game.
But then again, 39. Thats all we are getting?! Well sure, but its a lot considering the options. But if downloadable content was a sure fire, why, new strategies can be explored and playing new characters is cool just because I like them and its sure going to be awesome. But what if assists become playable? How will they work. I guess that means those not in the game already, will never be a playable in Brawl but we can sure look forward to those who make no physical appearance in our matches right now. But how will that deploy? I like it, but I guess we can kiss balance goodbye. But I can play as a character I like!! It all depends on what side you want to take.
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Costumes and accessories? Optional weapons and selectable defense tactics? How will that work? Sounds absolutely wonderful. I can finally play as a character who looks the way I want. But that is still pointless, because they lost the feel of how they were played in their games. They don't look how they were meant to be. The atmosphere will be unusual.
But then again, Pit and the Ice Climbers look different. Why can't I make them how I want? After all, Nintendo characters go through different incarnations. Why can't I choose how I want this character to appear? As you can see, I like it, but I'm scared at it becoming reality, I wonder if I will despise it but then again, I don't have to give what I want to play anything new to utilize. See how this goes on and on?
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OMG!! SSE!! Awesome. How can they top that? Really they can't. Its a full out game of its own, kind of like Soul Calibur Legends, except we still can do brawls and fight opponents. Good money, considering the 10 more we pay for Brawl, ordinarily of course if we didn't want it right on the first day. Anyway, yeah. We can play stories out with grand cinematics and play it like any other game we come across. But if they rewrite the plot, its just recycled material.
But how can you say that. Maybe they will get even more creative and develop a better plot, a revised way of fighting, the ability to select whomever we desire just for a simple part of the adventure? But won't this corrupt balance and the sake to learn how to utilize every character they made? But what if we don't want to play like this and we are selfish and like our own characters to do it all the way? See what I'm saying?!
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More modes and more stickers and more of everything!! But thats cool!! But its still the same idea. I'm going to get over it after I'm done and be satisfied with this and I will soon want more. But it can be incredible and super fresh!! But it will soon be the same tiresome ploy. How about online? But then...
See. Super Smash Brothers Brawl is a complete upset and a new start. Its not an upgrade at all. But what the future holds...well, don't see how it would feel the same with these new plans. But after all, America and Europe's consumers didn't have such a big voice when making Brawl. It can indeed be more futuristic where to the point, we can become the fighters via simulation items. But that would take years!! We can wait!! But then again, we might not!! But how will it truely be unique when all of it is rehashed the same way into a fresh way of being entertained. I guess I don't know. But others like you can decide for yourself. Thank you!! And please don't be drooling after you get to this point. Appreciate it and have a good one!! :D
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