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Has there been anything confirming Sakurai or his team went to the UK to work on the Banjo pack though? As far as I'm aware, Nintendo get the rights to the characters and the rest of it and then Sakurai works his magic to faithfully represent them.
I do not have that answer.
I believe his first one on COVID-19 has said that they couldn't finalize one of the 3rd party characters yet. We don't know if that issue has passed since then however.
add to this the time zones factor. Even if you manage to do work via e-mail and video chat and all that, there is a significant portion of time where the western workday won’t align with the Japanese work day.
FAKE! That's just a photoshopped Shulk.
I'm no businessman, but it kinda sounds like that's what appointments are for.
Given that the second Fighter Pass has supposedly been in the works since last year, my guess that Sakurai is referring to a character from the latter half
Yea, of course, and it’s fun when the time you have for meetings and appointments lines up with the other person being asleep.
Not gonna lie. I actually sort of like this.
I’m so happy we got Toothpaste Mac now in the roster alongside British Mac, Karate Mac, Blonde Karate Mac, Karate Mac Belmont and Blonde Trucker Karate Mac!
That's true - also, the Chain worked on a "More Pikmin alive = Longer Chain" basis, which is partly why it was awful. And yes, his Pikmin being halved from 6 to 3 in Sm4sh is a blessing overall (even as 6 Pikmin is one reason why Brawl Olimar was almost broken competitively - he could just farm purples and whites and go to town with attacks one couldn't reliably punish).*
I'm going to bet on "not just yet". Even in cases where countries have contained the virus (South Korea) people are generally being much more cautious about going to other places than before (most would rather avoid a second wave). That's likely to be the case even within Japan for the forseeable future.
This handy site has comparisions between different time zones. I chose Pacific since there are a lot of L.A / Seattle-based video game companies.
There are 24 hours in a day. Even if the person lives in the EST timezone, a timezone that's almost the exact opposite of Japan's, they should still be able to schedule a decent appointment time.
Or individual DLC like Piranha Plant.
The point isn’t that you cannot have meeting between Japan and the west. The point is that it is much more complicated to arrange and that in turn can delay work more than if you just work within Japan.
9pm isn’t normal work hours. It would be rude to assume that other parties will be available at that time.
I mean, you gotta do what ya gotta do.
But if they were putting in a Western character, would they need to have daily meetings? It seems like they could have meetings as they're finalizing the deal, then a few periodic updates, and then one to show off the product. I can't imagine that Sakurai even has daily meetings for making Nintendo characters, since that's a lot of time spent not working on the characters.
I wanted to point out that: While different time zones are a real hindrance (won't dispute that), they're not impossible to overcome or work around. Even a difference as drastic as Japan / EST if need be, as
Cosmic77
pointed out. I chose PST for my example since that's where NoA, Microsoft and many other companies are headquatered.That said, it's fully understandable if Sakurai and Nintendo agreed to prioritize the first party / Japanese third party choices because of the limitations.
That is pretty interesting, especially since Nintendo did say (IIRC) they were done with updating ARMS 1. Maybe they considered bringing ARMS into the Smash fold since it sold pretty well (2 million) but didn't have much real staying power besides the competitive base and wanted the re-injection.
I have no clue what transpires when it comes to adding a character to smash. My guess is that there's meetings to discuss the possibility, meetings for Sakurai to present his ideas and ensure they are approved, and likely other random meetings to figure out things like rights and licenses which would probably involve other people beyond sakurai (legal representatitves, publishers, etc.)
Eh, depends. There COULD be potential issues with just trying to set up those kinds of meetings.
Fair point. Though they'd still be a pretty underwhelming choice, especially after Byleth and ARMS. While it's always good to have a new IP in Smash in ARMS case, these three aren't exactly pass sellers, and there aren't a ton of people clamoring for another Splatoon rep right now.
It looks like you can drag and drop them in using the insert image button. I tend to just copy and paste them though.
I always liked the idea of Powerstone in Smash. The only real idea I had and took seriously would be stones randomly spawning on the stage to fill the gauge. I never really thought of a thematic way you could collectively reference the series in a moveset. I'm yet to actually see a moveset idea for a powerstone character in general.
I mean, while I want you to be right, I would hope that by the time they'd start making Pass 3, the time of global crisis will be long over.
Plus, like, we already know Sakurai doesn't sleep.
According to Sakurai "security". Which I assume means he's worried there will be more leaks if they just start emailing assets around.
Well that used to not be a necessary and they usually like to play hands on with the character, I believe. Now though? Yeah, Zoom or whatever is probably the best way to go about it.
Geras from MK11 is a fantastic example of this in a fighting game.
The problem with Zoom is that it is reeeally insecure. There's a video of a guy basically hacking into various School conferences and causing chaos. A "journalist" was fired for hacking into competitors conferences and leaking the conversations IIRC.
Watched some gameplay. This is definitely how I imagined it. I feel like people might get annoyed just because of how good of a recover it would be, but maybe in exchange Max could be like Yoshi and have an up B that has no recovery? That way, similar to hero, if her meter isn’t charged at all, they can’t recover. Although this would make it extremely hard to grab the ledge. I don’t know. Thanks for the example!
No lockdowns. No fines. No apps. No “test, test, test.” And yet Japan is about to lift the state of emergency with coronavirus cases now just a fraction of the peak.
— Gearoid Reidy リーディー・ガロウド (@GearoidReidy) May 23, 2020
How did Japan do it, and what lessons can we learn? From @lisadont and @xunxun365 1/https://t.co/WVM5vVpudM
Geras is probably the best example, the other two examples I can think of (Overwatch's Tracer - Recall - and Dota 2's Weaver - Time Lapse) both have very similar abilities, but tailored to their genres (FPS and MOBA respectively). Both cases reset to where they were and whatever their healths were at the time (seconds before). Tracer has a low HP pool no matter what, and the 12 seconds cooldown on her Recall is a major amount of time in an FPS. If she's focused down in a firefight or stunned, she goes down pretty fast.
You’re right. I just keep imagining easily recovering, getting out of combos, and fixing mistakes you’ve made with the greatest of ease. The thing is, it will be way different in the competitive scene of Smash. Don’t know much about Dota 2 but I know Overwatch and I know that indeed anything can happen. But in Smash’s competitive scene you are in a large area where if the single opponent is near you you can just rewind and now they’re not. You could also just camp if you use it conservatively. In Smash’s non competitive games, with items all over the place and multiple opponents, it would be fine. But I feel like people would hate her competitively. I mean i don’t play MK so Geras may just prove this point wrong but I do think there’s a big difference, given how much space you have in Smash Bros.
Considering in Overwatch most people above a certain rank of expertise can read where Tracer will recall to, I'm assuming Smash players would also have no problem reading a Tracer recall and punishing accordingly.
