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Wario Wario Wario · Jul 18, 2022

Wait, hold on...

The full upcoming slate for HB Studios Europe!

- Untitled Gumball Movie AND new series!!
- A Wacky Races Stop-Motion series
- The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Preschool Reboot
- The PowerPuff Girls Reboot pic.twitter.com/JgbUOk07aw
— TRAFON(s Backup Account) (@RiseFallNickBck) July 18, 2022

WB just announced STOP MOTION WACKY RACES??? That's a matchup made in heaven right there. I'm a huge stop motion fan and ol' Richard Detestable was a childhood favourite of mine thanks to DVDs and Boomerang.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 18, 2022

I find it funny to intentionally misinterpret the "live slug reaction" meme as being not "a live reaction from a slug" but "the reaction from the Live Slug", as if that's his name.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 18, 2022

oh my god... Cartoon Network are actually... doing something with their old IPs for once? And getting the guys who worked on them and properly understand the concept back?

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 18, 2022

Wonder how long it'll take for someone to twist me saying "McDonald's touch screens are video games" into "I want Ronald McDonald in Smash" on Infinite...

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 18, 2022

TBH, in the context of Smash I don't really care about getting my favourite characters and series in anymore - what I really want currently is Sony; Atari; homegrown Microsoft; and 80s microcomputer rep, with no specific characters in mind (even if I obviously have preferance to PaRappa in Sony's case) which are things I only have passing interest in (none in the case of Xbox if you exclude Windows) but feel are crucial steps in becoming a real gaming museum.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 18, 2022

I unironically admire how the lost media community could be looking for extremely significant milestones from the early days of TV or highly influential literature, but instead choose to look for tie-in flash games to mediocre 2000s Canadian cartoons and stuff like that. This isn't even sarcasm, I really appreciate how these guys are using their talents to find things important and significant to them and their own niche little bubble rather than the world at large.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 18, 2022

I kinda feel modern Smash games' takes on third parties aren't made with longevity in mind - Minecraft is a good example, having all the biomes in fun as DLC, but it's gonna really slim down the options if they ever want a second Minecraft stage (though I will admit that a mine or the Nether would probably be the first choice even with the other biomes on the table.)

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 18, 2022

I've been going down the rabbit hole of Japanese "westaboo" Twitter, and honestly "VeggieTales is the Bible version of Pop Team Epic" is not a sentence I ever expected to read. Probably mistranslated but still.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 18, 2022

I don't get why, of all the cancelled games, EarthBound 64 is the one people are so interested in and are willing to spend hundreds of dollars to research. Just comes off to me as an uglier and darker version of a released game that basically had the perfect level of dark for the story it wanted to tell - not to mention that the Mother franchise's history wouldn't really be changed by it in the slightest, the fandom probably but not the series as a whole considering it'd end with M3 either way. To me something like Swordquest Airworld; Twelve Tales Conker 64; or Sonic X-Treme is more interesting for that sort of butterfly effect "how would this series, its developer, or gaming as a whole have changed if this released?" theorising.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 18, 2022

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 17, 2022

It's kinda weird that we don't really talk about the Emoji Movie anymore, even in emoji-specific discussions, considering that for a few brief months it was the only thing on anybody's lips.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 17, 2022

One thing I'm seeing a lot with the NASB "Smash killer" BS and "dead game" aftermath is YouTubers saying "oh, my thumbnail maker did it" and like... OK, I kinda get that, but 1. why do you need a specialised thumbnail editor when most of these thumbnails could be done on Kapwing in 20 seconds? and 2. how do you have so little communication with any member of your team that they actively promote mentalities you are against on your channel with your face?

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 17, 2022

I still can't believe this is a real box art and not a placeholder

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 17, 2022

We are submitting our final newcomer of base game!

SmashBoards has created: Super Mario Smash Bros!

Trampoline Time This stage is vertically shaped - trampolines will be added in random places with random lengths at random times, trampolines are soft platforms and can be stood on, you can jump off them for extra height of course

smashboards.com

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 17, 2022

Ford logo: exists
Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes:

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 16, 2022

I don't get why Smash fans, despite their obsession with source accuracy, never complain about Smash entirely retconning the ROB lore.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 16, 2022

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 15, 2022

It annoys me when people who prefer easier; casual; or more variety-based games just refer to those qualities as "fun" as if the alternatives inherently aren't

I see it a lot with Smash fans talking about NASB and Crash 3/WoC fans talking about Crash 4 specifically.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 15, 2022

jokes aside, they did a way better job of making the car fit in the Cuphead universe than other real car-and-cartoon style character promos... but that isn't saying much.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 15, 2022

I feel the best solution for Sonic now that there's such a fractured fandom over what tone it should take is to go back to the sort of "AoStH and SatAM" dynamic - release a 2D or boost game with a light tone one year, release an edgier Adventure or open world game that takes itself seriously the next, and then just alternate rather than sticking to "eras"

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 15, 2022

If Multiversus caves into the memes and adds Walter White, I feel the best route for his moveset would be to base it on the ironic memes specifically, like the "human face magnet" as a down smash (I don't know the MVS terminology LMAO) for example - passing off his cooking as generic chemistry to pass the ESRB feels like a "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" to me (especially given that he may as well just be Dexter at that point, and retro CN reps seem to be in really high demand from the outside looking in,)

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 15, 2022

10 days

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 15, 2022

What was it with the early Mario Kart games and ambient 3 second loops?

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 13, 2022

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS AREN'T A REAL SPORTS TEAM

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 13, 2022

If I was designing a Smash story mode, I think what I'd do is:

Worlds from the games, almost all stages' models would be reused to make multiplayer stages, and all the others would be reused from veteran stages. Only grassy plains stage is world 1: Green Hill Zone
Music, however, is original - not remixes - though they may sample motifs from the source. Those songs are considered part of that series' songlist despite being original
Extremely lighthearted and borderline non-existant story, probably just "hands bad, stop them"
Bosses are all nightmarish "Giga" equivalents of playable fighters. These are not playable in any form (at least at launch), but are primarily original and reuse all their animations and moves so no major loss there.
Gameplay leans more "fighter" than "platform". Plays a lot like a beat em up with absolutely no precision platforming and pits serving more as a hazard for enemies to throw you into, and you'll often be stopped in place to fight a hoard of enemies.
Even weaker enemies can tank a lot of hits. You can't just stomp on a Goomba or throw a Koopa shell to deal with an enemy, they're resillient regardless of source material.
8 player co op, as many characters as you've unlocked can be played as.
Items spawn in gameplay, but only a select few. Poké Balls and Assist Trophies are not among that selection.
Each character has a unique ending, though it's really just a 4th victory animation better suited for the context of saving the world(s) instead of some wish-granted scenario.
No leveling system, but Smash Run upgrades are back - albeit reseting after every stage clear
Some stages revolve around racing instead of fighting

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 13, 2022

I don't get why people dislike gross-out being one of Wario's defining character traits - personally it's the main reason I enjoy him. Any other game can let you play as a macho treasure hunter, only Wario games let you play as a lazy, repugnant slob.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 13, 2022

I feel Yoshi is kind of a weird series in the realm of Smash because, wheras other series suffer from one or two early games being given priority over later releases, Yoshi suffers from his representation being too diverse and as a result Yoshi's Island - which is often considered the best Yoshi game by quite a landslide, and to many people may as well be the only Yoshi game - not getting as much content as the likes of Story or Woolly World.

Same goes for Sonic I'd argue, but at least the modern games do have a large fandom within the Sonic fanbase even if not the general public.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 13, 2022

This commercial features the protagonist of Soccer Kid (AKA Kid Kleets), an Amiga game, which therefore makes it a better celebration of gaming history than Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 12, 2022

I actually really appreciate the new Kirby game being a rather blatant Fall Guys clone, IMO Nintendo's constant pursuit of originality has often held their game libraries back.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 12, 2022

Smash fans when the Leisure Suit Larry DLC doesn't require you to correctly identify the corporate sponsors of I Love Lucy circa 1956 and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas' middle name every time you select him on the CSS

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 12, 2022

Glad Nintendo are back to shadowdropping games. Hope that becomes the standard and not directs. Not gonna happen of course, but still

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 12, 2022

i tried to read the original rover boys books the dover boys was based on to see if theres any references in the short that have been lost to the sands of time and oh my god its boring

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 12, 2022

wikipedia for the game boy advance

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 12, 2022

I love how in the Smash Infinite universe, one of the fighters in Smash is an insane suburban man who wears a pot on his head while fighting zombies from a game made by a company that used to be called "Sexy Action Cool"

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 12, 2022

Granny! I got the job!

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 12, 2022

I love the old YouTube Poop "cliche" sources because there's like... a consistency to them, but also a randomness to them if that makes sense? Kitschy low-budget kids' media, usually edutainment or video game tie ins, are the usual digestion, but they're also intersperced like little peanuts with bottled water commercials; beloved but pre-vulgarised adult cartoons; and legitimately talented poets. Some of them are really obvious and recognisably nostalgic, others are really obscure and were only discovered out of loose relations to an existing more popular source, and a lot of material you'd expect to be seen as a goldmine (for example: the DKC cartoon; the Mortal Kombat cartoon; the live action Mario movie; English version Ronald McDonald adverts; Captain N; the already memetic Filmation catalog) are completely glossed over - some sources were literally just used for one scene! You'd see a whole lot of "Stu making pudding" but not much else from Rugrats for example.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 11, 2022

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 11, 2022

Sometimes I feel American pop culture and British pop culture have become completely intertwined - then I find out some utterly incomprehensible fact like "Americans don't know who the Mr. Men are" or "Americans think Rareware are a British national treasure" and I sigh in relief.

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 11, 2022

I love the brazenness of Teen Titans Go! literally naming an episode "Video Game References"

Wario Wario Wario · Jul 11, 2022

There are many reasons, mostly very sad, I feel my childhood was unfulfilling - however, one I'm more comfortable to share is that I didn't know what updog or ICUP were until I discovered them through hyper ironic memes in my late teens.

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