NintenZone Social Thread: Shovel Knight Amiibo Hype Catastrophe (feat. Swamp)

[Das Koopa]

So, serious post now.

I was under the assumption prior to today that the characters would be released over an extended period of time as a part of marketing. It's been my guess that they developed all the DLC characters at once and just decided to spread releases out until the ballot content was released, where the ballot content would be the "end".

Now it seems like they actually are going to be releasing "Packs" and that Mewtwo was just the initial bonus character for buying both versions. I wouldn't be surprised if he was intended to be in the game from the start but wasn't finished in time: This might explain why he apparently may have had custom moves at one point.

So my best guess is that we're going to have at least one more "Pack" with 2-3 characters before ballot DLC comes. Beyond the hopeful expectations, I don't think it's believable that we'd go a year without Smash content. Additionally, I expect absolutely no Smash news at E3: I'm pretty sure Sunday's presentation was timed so they can have more room at their E3 direct for non-Smash content but still get out Smash content near E3 time.

I expect 1-2 veterans and 1-2 newcomers in some combination that amounts to 2-3. Lower expectations? Wolf and *insert newcomer here*. Higher? Wolf, Pichu, and *insert newcomer here*.

 

[Solfiner]

Sorry, I was busy picking up my brain from the floor.

 

[Yoshi-Thomas]

If we are lucky, we may have one more character for the digital event, making us reach five DLC characters.
However, I suppose we'll get Roy tomorrow and Ryu on Tuesday.

 

[The Stoopid Unikorn]

If we are lucky, we may have one more character for the digital event, making us reach five DLC characters.
However, I suppose we'll get Roy tomorrow and Ryu on Tuesday.

I see what you did there

 

[Deleted member]

A bit of a jump, but look at Pokemon? Volcanion still hasn't been released and it's been what, two years?

GameFreak is also a second or third party studio that develops a first party game for Nintendo, They are not necessarily required to follow Nintendo's release schedules or methods

 

[Yoshi-Thomas]

So, serious post now.

I was under the assumption prior to today that the characters would be released over an extended period of time as a part of marketing. It's been my guess that they developed all the DLC characters at once and just decided to spread releases out until the ballot content was released, where the ballot content would be the "end".

Now it seems like they actually are going to be releasing "Packs" and that Mewtwo was just the initial bonus character for buying both versions. I wouldn't be surprised if he was intended to be in the game from the start but wasn't finished in time: This might explain why he apparently may have had custom moves at one point.

So my best guess is that we're going to have at least one more "Pack" with 2-3 characters before ballot DLC comes. Beyond the hopeful expectations, I don't think it's believable that we'd go a year without Smash content. Additionally, I expect absolutely no Smash news at E3: I'm pretty sure Sunday's presentation was timed so they can have more room at their E3 direct for non-Smash content but still get out Smash content near E3 time.

I expect 1-2 veterans and 1-2 newcomers in some combination that amounts to 2-3. Lower expectations? Wolf and *insert newcomer here*. Higher? Wolf, Pichu, and *insert newcomer here*.

If there is in fact a pack of three characters, then that would be kind of awesome, especially if they follow the formula of one Melee vet, one brawl vet and one newcomer. But what about the six Mario's in the data ?

 

[DaybreakHorizon]

In other news, Transformers Brawler.

http://kotaku.com/e3-leak-or-not-these-are-some-cool-transformers-screen-1711104795

 

[SkywardStriker16]

If there is in fact a pack of three characters, then that would be kind of awesome, especially if they follow the formula of one Melee vet, one brawl vet and one newcomer. But what about the six Mario's in the data ?

Paper Mario
Baby Mario
Metal Mario
Gold Mario
Float Mario
Mario Mario

 

[Yoshi-Thomas]

Paper Mario
Baby Mario
Metal Mario
Gold Mario
Float Mario
Mario Mario

Never mind, keep going.

 

[Shroob]

GameFreak is also a second or third party studio that develops a first party game for Nintendo, They are not necessarily required to follow Nintendo's release schedules or methods

There's also the possibility that they'd simply just stretch out the releases to keep hype building.

If they dump all the characters tomorrow, that basically means we won't be getting content for awhile after this. If there's still two dlc slots left in the data that do not have characters assigned to them yet, I feel like Nintendo would stretch out the releases to better pad the time in between.

 

[AreJay25]

http://www.twitch.tv/crediar

What the actual ****. Someone's playing Ryu on stream.

 

[Starlight_Lily]

A bit of a jump, but look at Pokemon? Volcanion still hasn't been released and it's been what, two years?

Well, difference is event Poemon aren't lockde behind a pay wall, like Capcom DLC.

 

[Shroob]

http://www.twitch.tv/crediar

What the actual ****. Someone's playing Ryu on stream.

Ryu's fully on the disc, they hacked it to swap Mario with Ryu.

 

[AreJay25]

Using Lucas now. Probably switch to Roy later.

 

[Deleted member]

I am really pleased with Roy's redesign. It's as good as his Awakening design and I had a feeling we'd be seeing some element of it in Roy's Smash 3DS & Wii U design. I'm also hoping Roy and Ryu releases tomorrow.

I'm also really liking some of these costumes. I might change my mind on Mii costumes after all.

Oh, wait, there were two more things I was gonna show. Ryu's stage and series icon! pic.twitter.com/zj5WrhGelH

— Random Talking Bush (@RandomTBush) June 13, 2015

Apparently the SF Logo and Ryu's stage.

I have to admit this looks very good. I look forward to playing on this stage.

Ugh, how am I supposed to go through my day and get anything done with all this hype?

I know. I was planning on cleaning my room today but now it looks like I'll be on here all day getting hyped over what we're likely getting tomorrow.

Why does Ryu sound like he's having a problem taking a ****?

Well to go even further the inklings are the only ones to not co-exist with their Amiibo box art they are two different poses.
And speaking of Amiibo.

I NEED LUCAS SOOOOO BADLY! I NEED MY BOY TO COME HOME WITH ME!!!

Plz don't do pre-order on Sunday or Monday PLZ. I need my boy so much.

Awww yeah!

I will admit, this picture is awesome. Should be saved for an eternity.

Okay this picture is just beautiful:

OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!!

This picture is simply too good for words to describe.

You ever get those moments were you just have to appreciate the little things in life.
Yeah I do. :')

What's that stage on the back ground? I don't recall seeing it before. Still, that picture is magnificent.

So if Roy/Ryu are coming this quickly, is it a safer bet that we're getting more characters than initially expected?

I find it very hard to believe that this'll be the last Smash character update for a year.

We might. I didn't see Roy and Ryu coming this soon so who knows we might get multiple ballot characters (not counting Wolf) after all.

 

[A Distant Demon]

PK startorm doesnt work like brawl

I expected it but I still prefer it.

 

[Yoshi-Thomas]

But it's Mario.

 

[AreJay25]

So, basically, this means they're coming out tomorrow.

Edit: ROY IS A SEMI CLONE CONFIRMED

 

[Yoshi-Thomas]

Sakurai - "Bruh it takes time to make a character"
Iwata - "Saku you on acid you makin' four of d'em in six months"
Sakurai "Bruh"

 

[Shroob]

ROY GOT THE WOLF TREATMENT! OH BABY!

 

[A Distant Demon]

ROY FINAL SMASH IS UNIQUE

he does the binding blade wind up and slams down. Hallelujah

 

[Shroob]

ROY FINAL SMASH IS UNIQUE

he does the binding blade wind up and slams down. Hallelujah

It's still Critical Hit, but his A moves are different.

This is amazing news.

 

[SkywardStriker16]

But it's Mario.

Mario Batali
Mario Segale
Mario Andretti
Mario Lopez

you clearly don't know who you're dealing with do you

 

[AreJay25]

Roy actually looks good.

Geez with Ryu, Roy and Lucas I might have to drop one of my one billion mains.

 

[Yoshi-Thomas]

Mario Batali
Mario Segale
Mario Andretti
Mario Lopez

you clearly don't know who you're dealing with do you

Mario I guess.

 

[Solfiner]

YES

ROY

RYU

LUCAS MY BOY

 

[Starlight_Lily]

If there is in fact a pack of three characters, then that would be kind of awesome, especially if they follow the formula of one Melee vet, one brawl vet and one newcomer. But what about the six Mario's in the data ?

There are currently 6 cut vets, now if only those Mario place holders are for them

And The Poemon Trainer would get his own moveset based around HM Moves. So then we'd have all vets back

Edit: Whoops I missed calculated, theres actually 8 cut vets including Snake and the Pokemon Trainer

 

[Shroob]

There are currently 6 cut vets, now if only those Mario place holders are for them

And The Poemon Trainer would get his own moveset based around HM Moves. So then we'd have all vets back

Ryu took one of the placeholder spots, so no.

After this patch, there's two spots left. One is most likely for Wolf, the other I dunno.

 

[Kenith]

How are you guys playing the characters?

 

[Shroob]

How are you guys playing the characters?

Someone got the update early and hacked the game to replace Mario with any character.

 

[AreJay25]

How are you guys playing the characters?

Someone on Twitch hacked the game to play as Ryu, Roy and Lucas over Mario. Looks like it got Nintendo'd, though.

 

[Soul.]

oh my god they changed roy
tybg

 

[Yoshi-Thomas]

lol Nintendo police came and destroyed the stream.

 

[IceBreakerXY]

http://www.twitch.tv/crediar/v/6139915 bruh guys got that replay ryu looks awesome

 

[OurBraveHero]

Wait so what is Ryu's final smash? (the stream died before I could see Ryu) I'm asking because the trophy shows Shin Shoryuken, but he totally says "Shinku" and "Shin" in his audio files; which makes it sound like he has Shinku Hadouken and Shin Shoryuken. The only thing I can think of with him having both is if his Final Smash is Hado Kakusei which allows him to use powered-up versions of his moves. And then like... he can either do the input for Hadoken which does Shinku Hadouken or Shoryuken input to do Shin Shoryuken.

 

[Shroob]

Wait so what is Ryu's final smash? (the stream died before I could see Ryu) I'm asking because the trophy shows Shin Shoryuken, but he totally says "Shinku" and "Shin" in his audio files; which makes it sound like he has Shinku Hadouken and Shin Shoryuken. The only thing I can think of with him having both is if his Final Smash is Hado Kakusei which allows him to use powered-up versions of his moves. And then like... he can either do the input for Hadoken which does Shinku Hadouken or Shoryuken input to do Shin Shoryuken.

Last I heard, it's a combo. You have to hit the first part before it goes into Shin Shoryuken.

 

[Starlight_Lily]

Ryu took one of the placeholder spots, so no.

After this patch, there's two spots left. One is most likely for Wolf, the other I dunno.

Okay, I say let those spots go to Pichu and Wolf. Their the only 2 clone missing vets.

Please, No Wolf isn't a clone comments, his moveset is clearly based around Fox's, its just changed so he's more like a Luigi to Fox then a straight clone like Lucina

 

[Chrono.]

Told y'all Roy would get de-cloned at least to Falco-level.

 

[Shroob]

Okay, I say let those spots go to Pichu and Wolf. Their the only 2 clone missing vets.

Please, No Wolf isn't a clone comments, his moveset is clearly based around Fox's, its just changed so he's more like a Luigi to Fox then a straight clone like Lucina

Wolf is more likely than not getting one of the spots. The other one I dunno. It may be the ballot character, or it may be another newcomer.

Pichu I don't see very likely as getting in.

 

[Kenith]

So...Roy isn't a clone anymore? He got Wolf/Lucas-fied?
That would mean we got four unique characters in sixth months...damn dude.