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Leaderboards are garbage, I've always been glad that they completely reject the concept.
This is more important than us being able to befriend a stranger we had some good matches with. I know it sucks when you play with someone and you're like "this dude is cool, we should hang out more" but safety for kids really does come first. It's easy to forget that if you don't have a little kid to remind you.
Dragon ball Z has expanded itself into a lot of video games since it's anime ended, and Sora from Kingdom Hearts deserves to be in the next game, either him, or cloud / Sephiroth from final fantasy. I understand what you're talking about when you say they're not video game characters, but I was just looking at it from a business perspective, because if they put those characters in there would be a lot of new smash fansUgh....These types of posts greatly annoy me, so I have a lot to say. Read the bottom of the post thats in RED for the tl;dr version.
Anime characters will just ruin the series, trust me. The purpose of Super Smash Bros. is to bring elements of many popular and familiar Nintendo games together, including characters, locations, items, music, and themes. However, just because the character starred in a game on a Nintendo console certainly DOES NOT mean they are a NINENDO character. Naruto, Goku, and other anime characters do NOT belong in anyway to Nintendo. Therefore, they are not Nintendo and do not belong in the game.
You might say "Sonic and Snake aren't Nintendo and they're in the game!" Well yes, but its different. See, Sonic and Snake originated as video game characters. So placing them in a game that is basically a crossover for multiple video game (mostly Nintendo) series is quite appropriate. Did Naruto, Goku, etc. originate in a video game? I don't think so. Do they belong in Smash? Definitely NOT.
If we went by the standard that any character that has ever appeared in a video game on a Nintendo console could appear in the game, we could add pretty much any character ever invented. Anime characters, sports stars, cartoon characters, pop stars, I could go on. Save all that for a different game, let Smash keep its "Nintendo magic" that makes it so great and enjoyable. Those are my thoughts on the subject.
By the way, R.O.B. is a unique character, he's a video game character, and he's Nintendo. Why not put him in? It's an interesting surprise too. Who cares how "unkown" they are if they're in the game? Do you think many non-Japanese people knew who Marth and Roy were when Melee came out? Sure a few did, but not many. And look what happened, Fire Emblem is now popular in other parts of the world. My point proven.
TL;DR: Anime characters will only ruin the game. They are not Nintendo and therefore will never be in a Smash game. You're wrong. Also, R.O.B. rocks.
I didn't forget that, Toise.
Having something like:
Isn't the Fourside theme called Because I Love You? I might be mistaken but I'm pretty sure they are the same song. But anyway yes it is sad. Especially considering EarthBound has had a character in all 3 games, where Mother 3 has only been represented in 1 game and Mother 1 hasn't had a character in any of the Smashes.
Yes and no.
Ah, it seems I was slightly mistaken. But, I've never played a MOTHER/EarthBound game in my life. I've only watched numerous gameplay videos and read about it online. It seems like a very interesting series though, I want to get into it.
I absolutely love this song. It's hard to imagine fighting to it until it gets deeper into the song, but it's a great piece. What about this?
We shouldn't think about fighting to the music. To me, some songs should be in because of how much they have a connection with to the original series. Imagine if The Last Story gets a character in SSB4, but the theme is omitted because you can't fight to it.
Oh whoops.
That doesn't solve the child safety issue because it only covers children who don't have access to a paid account (and quite a lot would if other services are anything to go by). Also Nintendo's not big into charging people extra for basic features since it puts people off.
Other games and series have it much worse than EarthBound, musically or otherwise.
your gonna need to install hombrew and for the love of all thats good in this world dont update your wii!
Given how Lucas got into Brawl, I wouldn't say Earthbound was trolled at all, especially since its such a small and unknown series. You simply can't expect as much content as other high ranking series, yet it still came close.
You must have missed it again because I mentioned parental controls at the end of my post as a viable option. In regards to us paying or not paying, that's something I can't really say much about. Nintendo MAY charge for online services if it costs too much to run without some profit from other sources. Miyamoto did say, though, that they are considering paid services, but they never brought up how much it costs Nintendo to run their service.
I don't find this "bonus stuff" and "flab" unnecessary at all. In fact, I enjoy the direction Smash has gone. It began as a purely fighting game but through Melee and into Brawl, it has become something more. It's got a little bit of [almost] everything to keep someone occupied, or to keep you from getting bored of fighting over and over and over again.
Then you're really just dodging the fact that the gameplay hasn't had any major changes, physics not withstanding. Remember this is a fighting game first and foremost. The most important thing, the very thing that gets people to come back and play again, is the gameplay. I honestly don't care about most of the extras in the game as I never look at the trophies or stickers.
Coin Launcher sucks.
I call it flab, and I wouldn't say, with Brawl, that it's stayed centered around its fighting roots. I'm wiling to say that Brawl went for too much fanservice and not enough substance to back it up.
I know you mentioned it, but you didn't get into the details so I assumed you weren't familiar with what we have now.
I don't see how people aren't concerned with the fighting. The people who hate it won't stop complaining and the people who enjoy it only voice their opinions in opposition to the former. Around here in particular it's impossible to avoid criticism.
Thank the lordy no more Jason.
They spent more time working on Brawl's gameplay than Melee's or 64's.
I think that Masahiro Sakurai doesn't want to be involved in any more sequels to the Smash Brothers or Kirby since he wants to try something different. If the next Smash Brothers is expected for pitch-up, Nintendo can simply select someone else with enough game industry and Smash Bros experience.
